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Podcast: Truths, Damn Truths, and Government Statistics – 19th century data collection

Data and statistics, PodcastBy Social Sciences CommunicationsOctober 20, 2021

First in a podcast series by Professor Tomas J Scotto on government statistics, featuring an interview with a historian and genealogist on 19th centiry data collection.

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The COVID-19 Crisis and Universal Credit in Glasgow: January 2021

City economies, Commentary, Community Resilience and Addressing Disadvantage, Dr Sarah Weakley, Glasgow, Poverty, Welfare & social security, Working paperBy Social Sciences CommunicationsJanuary 19, 2021

Third working paper that uses publicly available Department for Work and Pensions data on Universal Credit in Glasgow and Scotland to investigate the income crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 Transmission Mechanism within the UK

Assistant Professor Xuan Zhang, City economies, Commentary, Coronavirus / COVID-19, Professor Joseph Byrne, Professor Mario Cerrato, Research project - outputsBy Social Sciences CommunicationsOctober 16, 2020

The first empirical results from an ongoing project on COVID-19 in UK and its economic impact.

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The COVID-19 Crisis and Universal Credit in Glasgow: September 2020

City economies, Commentary, Community Resilience and Addressing Disadvantage, Dr Sarah Weakley, Glasgow, Poverty, Welfare & social security, Working paperBy Social Sciences CommunicationsSeptember 10, 2020

The scale of the challenges faced by people on low incomes in the COVID-19 crisis is becoming clearer This paper updates Universal Credit figures to July 2020 and highlights new areas of concern.

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The Scottish Government’s Tech Review is an important first step – but more is needed to create world scale companies

Adam Smith Business School, Economy, Nasira BradleyBy Social Sciences CommunicationsSeptember 8, 2020

Does the Scottish Technology Ecosystem Review published by the Scottish Government fall short in understanding the total ecosystem that drives scale-up?

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New Policy Scotland working paper: The COVID-19 Crisis and Universal Credit in Glasgow

City economies, Commentary, Community Resilience and Addressing Disadvantage, Dr David Waite, Dr Sarah Weakley, Glasgow, Poverty, Welfare & social security, Working paperBy Social Sciences CommunicationsJuly 15, 20202 Comments

This working paper looks at the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on unemployment and the labour market in Glasgow, illustrated with a focus on Universal Credit data.

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Understanding the impacts of COVID-19 on the Glasgow City Region economy – gauging impacts through big data?

City economies, Dr David McArthur, Dr David Waite, Glasgow Commission for Economic Growth, Urban Big Data CentreBy Social Sciences CommunicationsMay 6, 2020

Using data that demonstrates the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown, this article argues that Glasgow city-region economy is an important lens to consider both these impacts and the routes to recovery.

Who feels Scottish? National identities and ethnicity in Scotland

Briefing, Culture, Dr Andrew Smith, Human rights, Independence, ScotlandBy Social Sciences CommunicationsAugust 4, 20141 Comment

New research on the Scottish Census data with information about the Scottish identity in Scotland.

Big data in the social sciences Workshop

media, School of Social and Political Sciences, Glasgow UniversityBy Social Sciences CommunicationsJune 18, 2014

A one-day workshop to bring together prominent scholars from a number of institutions to discuss the theoretical and methodological challenges associated with the use of Big Data.

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Twitter and the independence referendum

Commentary, Digital, Independence, Michael ComerfordBy Social Sciences CommunicationsJanuary 7, 20143 Comments

First of a series of visualisation snapshots using data from Twitter showing the connections between users and hashtags for tweets about the independence referendum.

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