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Understanding Third Sector Evidence and Need: Policy Scotland and SPIRU event

Review and slides from this event which brought together third sector staff and academics ...

Photo showing a road though a Scottish village with a fee buildings, streetlights, a bus stop sign and hills in a background, lit with autumn sunlight

Rural poverty: under the radar?

Issues of poverty and disadvantage are a policy focus in Scotland but national poverty ...

Quote saying "you have to appear to be completely dependent on someone…If you are disabled and you say you can cook and you can manage reasonably well on your own, then they would invariably say, ‘well you don’t need PIP’."

Disability and social insecurity: Exploring the impact of benefit changes on the ...

Changes to social security over the past decade have – in the vast majority of ...

White cardboard box with baby books and clothes inside — Policy Scotland has created a easy-to-access collection of its research and resources focused on tackling child poverty including reports on the Child Poverty Strategy and local contributions to tackling poverty and inequality in Scotland, and analysis of models of scenarios and policies to reduce child poverty.

Poverty research and evidence from Policy Scotland

A public lecture by Professor John Goddard OBE which explored the challenge of building bridges between place, higher education and research and innovation policy.

The Civic University and the City

The European Union flag with the Union Jack showing through it — Comment by Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli, Principal and Vice Chancellor University of Glasgow, on what the Augar Review of higher education funding could mean for Scotland in a post-Brexit landscape.

University finance reforms must be planned carefully

View of the lights of a city at sunset — The second Policy Scotland lunchtime seminar focused on urban economic growth. See a brief summary and get the presentation.

Urban economic growth focus for Policy Scotland lunchtime seminar

Image showing connections between microscopic particles — Policy Scotland Director Professor Chris Chapman gave a presentation at the East Renfrewshire Council headteacher conference in March 2019 on creating an effective learning system.

Creating an effective learning system – East Renfrewshire headteacher conference

Logos for CaCHE, the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence and Policy Scotland, part of University of Glasgow — Catch up with some of the discussions at the Scottish Housing Policy Conference 2019, where the theme was 'Housing and Inclusive Growth: Revitalising Connections'. Watch video interviews with keynote speaker, Professor Duncan Maclennan; Professor Ken Gibb, Director of CaCHE; and Des McNulty, Deputy Director, Policy Scotland.

Scottish Housing Policy Conference 2019: Interviews with speakers

Graphic of little star-shaped people arranged in circles — Making sense of education reform: Where next for Scottish education?, a thinkpiece by Policy Scotland Director Chris Chapman has been published by the Association of Directors of Education Scotland.

Making sense of education reform: Where next for Scottish education?

Graphic with the name Regional Inclusive Groweth resreach Netwiork with two logos: oenf roer POPlicty Scotland one for SCRIG, the Scotland's Centre for Regional Inclusive Growth — The first meeting of the Regional Inclusive Growth Research Network (RIGRN) focused on agreeing a set of objectives to help identify inclusive growth research domains, priorities, and challenges to support the development of a regional inclusive growth (IG) related research agenda in Scotland over the next year.

Regional Inclusive Growth Research Network: priorities, challenges and objectives

The summary report from the Shaping Futures project is now published, following a launch in Australia. The report contains ten principles for housing policy and tax reform intended to provide a coherent framework for reforming housing policies.

Changing the Housing Story – report published

slide from Dr Bynner's presentation showing change from Representative Democracy: Electoral dynamics, Party politics and Delegating to representatives + bureaucrats/technocrats; to Participatory Democracy in 1960s onwards where ‘invited’ or ‘uninvited’ publics participate; to Deliberative Democracy, from 1990s onwards awith Emphasis on (i) communication + (ii) new ways of ‘making publics’ — Policy Scotland's first lunchtime seminar series was led by Dr Claire Bynner, research team leader at Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland, speaking on Closing the participation gap: developing the mindsets and skills for participatory governance in Scotland.

Participatory governance launches the Policy Scotland lunchtime seminar series