Policy Scotland's Duncan Maclennan reflects on Brexit and British towns, in the light of the publication of the report New Powers, New Deals - Remaking British Towns After Brexit, a Policy Scotland report for the Carnegie Trust.
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A new report by the Carnegie Trust shows that the Brexit referendum's Leave voters were more likely to live in towns that have been neglected by policy makers.
Publication: New Powers, New Deals – Remaking British Towns after ...
A new report examines the relationship between pressured housing markets in Sydney and economic growth.
Publication: Making Better Economic Cases for Housing Policies
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This paper sets out the issues that researchers and policymakers will be confronted with when considering the parallels and possible links between the inclusive growth agenda and the deal-based […]
Issues Paper on City Deals and Inclusive Growth
biketrouble/Flickr CC BY-NC-SA Kenneth Gibb, Policy Scotland, University of Glasgow When the council tax was first introduced in 1993, it was viewed as a politically clever fix after the catastrophe of […]
Council tax reform is long overdue – so how do ...
URBAN LAND REFORM IN SCOTLAND – updated 03/11 – new Briefing Paper: response to Scottish Government Report to Sounding Board In May 2014, the Land Reform Review Group submitted its […]
Urban Land Reform
By Professor Ken Gibb, University of Glasgow Earlier today I was part of a report launch jamboree in Edinburgh. This was the official presentation of the Commission on Housing and […]
Housing and Wellbeing – blueprints and more
Yesterday the final report from the Commission on Housing and Wellbeing that Shelter Scotland set up back in 2013 was launched. Chaired by the former Auditor General, Robert Black the […]
Commission on Housing and Wellbeing
In the first of our Friday Video series, we talk to Urban Studies postgraduate researcher, Kainde Manji, about her work on welfare reforms and people living with disabilities in Scotland.
Thursday Video: Kainde Manji discusses welfare and disabilities in Scotland
This podcast is the second in a series of three podcasts on Welfare Reform, recorded at the Launch of the Welfare Reform Network. In this episode, Dr Sharon Wright of the University of […]
Podcast: Dr. Sharon Wright – ‘Sanctions in policy and practice’
On 19 February 2015 the Welfare Reform Network held its launch event at the University of Glasgow. Thank you to all who came along and made it such a wonderful […]
Video: Welfare Reform Network launch event
by Josef Konvitz Honorary Professor, University of Glasgow; Visiting Professor, Cities Group, Geography, King’s London; Former Head, Urban Affairs, Regulatory Policy Divisions, OECD, Paris The prospect of a recovery gives the false […]