By Brendan Nevin, Director of North Housing Consulting On Friday 24th January 2014 Brendan was the guest speaker at a seminar as part of the Urban Studies Seminar Series. Abstract During the thirty years 1970-2000 many inner urban areas in older ex industrial towns and cities in the North and Midlands of England experienced significant…
call for papers for The Glasgow Human Rights Network presents: Human Rights in Uncertain Times: Global Lessons for and from Scotland.
Why learning is central to city futures: Bringing worldwide perspectives to local possibilities A policy briefing from PASCAL International Observatory by John Tibbitt, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow Cities in the world economy Over half of the world’s population now live in cities, and cities account for by the largest share of…
A programme of screenings and talks presents a close glimpse into the state of LGBT cinema and culture in Russia and Lithuania today.
The Sociology subject area at the University of Glasgow are pleased to announce that this year Professor Nancy Fraser will be giving our annual Frisby Memorial Lecture. Speaker: Professor Nancy Fraser (University of Cambridge and New School for Social Research) on “Behind Marx’s ‘Hidden Abode’: Toward and Expanded Conception of Capitalism” Wednesday 12 February 2014,…
By Professor Philip Schlesinger and Dr Alex Benchimol In the run-up to the independence referendum on 18 September, Scotland’s newspaper press is facing a double challenge. First, can print journalism adapt to the digital revolution, given a continuing decline in newspaper sales? Second, can the press perform its civic role in contributing to an increasingly…
The Gender and Sexualities Forum, in association with Central and East European Studies and the Glasgow Human Rights Network, has announced the event: ‘LGBT equality and the geopolitics of human rights: insights from Russia’.
By Professor Lauren McLaren (Politics) Since the end of World War Two, the UK has grappled with the potentially conflicting aims of using cheap immigrant labour and maintaining social cohesion. Recent decades have witnessed persistent public concern about immigration, despite government attempts to assuage public opinion by trying to restrict new immigration and introducing citizenship…
By Dr Emma Jackson, Journal Research Fellow (Urban Studies) On December 19th 2013, the Scottish Parliament debated the Home Office’s ‘Go Home’ poster campaign in the UK Border Agency’s Brand Street reporting centre. The posters at Brand Street reading ‘Is life here hard, why not go home?’ were part of a high profile Government pilot scheme launched…