Thursday Video: Leanne Mattu – Farm Visits and the Curriculum
Video discussing the role of farm visits and how we can make better use of this resource in the Scottish school curriculum.
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Thursday Video: Ruth McKenna
The Friday Video has been rebranded as the Thursday video. It’s still the same exciting tasters of the ground-breaking research taking place at the University of Glasgow – just the day earlier. This week’s video is from Ruth McKenna who discusses the impact of perceptions of Russia on Russian-speaking immigrants in Scotland. Ruth also wrote…
Recruitment crisis at the NHS frontline? Why we should be concerned for deprived areas.
By Breannon Babbel Findings from a recent British Medical Association (BMA) poll [1] have alarm bells ringing for general practice as a whole in the UK, and particularly for general practice in deprived areas. While the poll of 15,560 GPs doesn’t warn of a mass exodus out of general practice, it does indicate that over…
Podcast: Professor Sylvia Walby, UNESCO Chair of Gender Research, on the financial crisis in Europe
Professor Sylvia Walby, UNESCO Chair of Gender Research, University of Lancaster This podcast was recorded at the 2015 David Frisby Memorial Lecture held at the University of Glasgow. In this lecture, hosted by the Department of Sociology, Professor Walby, UNESCO Chair of Gender Research, University of Lancaster, discusses the financial crisis in Europe and its democratic,…
Investors versus the State: can the TTIP be fair?
A review of the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States and role of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS).
In or out? The European Union in the parties’ manifestos
By Dr Marco Goldoni, Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Glasgow As it was predictable, most of the electoral campaign and the parties’ manifestos have focussed on one EU-related topic: the in/out referendum. This is not to say that other topics were completely absent, but one would have expected a wider debate, for…
Thursday Video Election Special – Gender and the 2015 General Election Podcast
This is the last Friday before what is sure to be an historic UK General Election on 7 May 2015. To celebrate, Policy Scotland are replacing this week’s Friday Video with a special podcast from our interns, Sarah Hamlin and Amy Watson. In this podcast, Sarah and Amy have a look at issues relating to…
Gender and the General Election 2015
In this podcast, Sarah Hamlin and Amy Watson discuss some of the ideas about gender and ‘women’s issues’ present in the manifestos of the Conservative Party, Green Party, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, SNP and UKIP. This podcast was recorded live on 21st April 2015, and reflects information current at the time of recording. We will be…