Urban Studies & Social Policy
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UK and world-leading centre for research on #cities #planning #socialpolicy #data #analytics #realestate #publicpolicy
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Fantastic news 🎉
Our own Dr Ross Beveridge has been appointed Associate Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Dialogues in Urban Research: journals.sagepub.com/home/DUS 👏
Ross will be leading the development of Article Forums & Series, helping to push the field forward in exciting new ways 💪
Our own Dr Ross Beveridge has been appointed Associate Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Dialogues in Urban Research: journals.sagepub.com/home/DUS 👏
Ross will be leading the development of Article Forums & Series, helping to push the field forward in exciting new ways 💪
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Fantastic news 🎉
Our own Dr Ross Beveridge has been appointed Associate Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Dialogues in Urban Research: journals.sagepub.com/home/DUS 👏
Ross will be leading the development of Article Forums & Series, helping to push the field forward in exciting new ways 💪
Our own Dr Ross Beveridge has been appointed Associate Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Dialogues in Urban Research: journals.sagepub.com/home/DUS 👏
Ross will be leading the development of Article Forums & Series, helping to push the field forward in exciting new ways 💪
USSP’s Alison Heppenstall, Yahya Gamal, Tatsuya Mitomi & Daniel Konioukhov joined the AI4CI Hub event, AI and the City, at the @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social
Yahya presented Hub work and Alison joined a panel exploring AI’s role in future cities. @ai4cihub.bsky.social @yahyagamal.bsky.social
Yahya presented Hub work and Alison joined a panel exploring AI’s role in future cities. @ai4cihub.bsky.social @yahyagamal.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
USSP’s Alison Heppenstall, Yahya Gamal, Tatsuya Mitomi & Daniel Konioukhov joined the AI4CI Hub event, AI and the City, at the @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social
Yahya presented Hub work and Alison joined a panel exploring AI’s role in future cities. @ai4cihub.bsky.social @yahyagamal.bsky.social
Yahya presented Hub work and Alison joined a panel exploring AI’s role in future cities. @ai4cihub.bsky.social @yahyagamal.bsky.social
📣 USSP Seminar alert!
Prof Stavros Stavrides, National Technical University of Athens 🇬🇷, will give a paper on the emancipatory power of commoning.
🗓️ 10 Dec 2025
🕒 3:30-5:00pm
📍 Adam Smith Building - Room 386AB
More info: www.gla.ac.uk/events/listi...
Join us for the last seminar of 2025 😀
Prof Stavros Stavrides, National Technical University of Athens 🇬🇷, will give a paper on the emancipatory power of commoning.
🗓️ 10 Dec 2025
🕒 3:30-5:00pm
📍 Adam Smith Building - Room 386AB
More info: www.gla.ac.uk/events/listi...
Join us for the last seminar of 2025 😀
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
📣 USSP Seminar alert!
Prof Stavros Stavrides, National Technical University of Athens 🇬🇷, will give a paper on the emancipatory power of commoning.
🗓️ 10 Dec 2025
🕒 3:30-5:00pm
📍 Adam Smith Building - Room 386AB
More info: www.gla.ac.uk/events/listi...
Join us for the last seminar of 2025 😀
Prof Stavros Stavrides, National Technical University of Athens 🇬🇷, will give a paper on the emancipatory power of commoning.
🗓️ 10 Dec 2025
🕒 3:30-5:00pm
📍 Adam Smith Building - Room 386AB
More info: www.gla.ac.uk/events/listi...
Join us for the last seminar of 2025 😀
USSP's @drewankerr.bsky.social was delighted to present at the 'Can Digital Workers Switch Off?' event at Stirling's ESRC Festival of Ideas last week. Drawn from previous research on trade union and social movement activism during COVID-19, read the full article in Scottish Affairs: bit.ly/3K3QR9N
November 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
USSP's @drewankerr.bsky.social was delighted to present at the 'Can Digital Workers Switch Off?' event at Stirling's ESRC Festival of Ideas last week. Drawn from previous research on trade union and social movement activism during COVID-19, read the full article in Scottish Affairs: bit.ly/3K3QR9N
👏 Shoutout to our own Dr Alison McCandlish @crenellatedarts.bsky.social for delivering 2 engaging sessions on social sciences for Primary 6 pupils as part of the Focus Week at IntoUniversity centre based in Maryhill Burgh Halls ➕ 1 for parents/carers/guardians at the Adult & Family Learning event 🌟
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
👏 Shoutout to our own Dr Alison McCandlish @crenellatedarts.bsky.social for delivering 2 engaging sessions on social sciences for Primary 6 pupils as part of the Focus Week at IntoUniversity centre based in Maryhill Burgh Halls ➕ 1 for parents/carers/guardians at the Adult & Family Learning event 🌟
📚 New book 📚
Brilliant, new work on emotion, place & heritage from our very own Prof Rebecca Madgin @imadgination03.bsky.social 🙌
Read #OpenAccess: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Brilliant, new work on emotion, place & heritage from our very own Prof Rebecca Madgin @imadgination03.bsky.social 🙌
Read #OpenAccess: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
📚 New book 📚
Brilliant, new work on emotion, place & heritage from our very own Prof Rebecca Madgin @imadgination03.bsky.social 🙌
Read #OpenAccess: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Brilliant, new work on emotion, place & heritage from our very own Prof Rebecca Madgin @imadgination03.bsky.social 🙌
Read #OpenAccess: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
🎉 Shoutout to Prof Charlotte Pearson @charlp.bsky.social & Dr Anna Gawlewicz @annagawlewicz.bsky.social who have been invited to join the ESRC Assessor College!
They’ll be serving on grant review/assessment panels in the next 2️⃣ yrs - an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of the field 🤓
They’ll be serving on grant review/assessment panels in the next 2️⃣ yrs - an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of the field 🤓
October 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
🎉 Shoutout to Prof Charlotte Pearson @charlp.bsky.social & Dr Anna Gawlewicz @annagawlewicz.bsky.social who have been invited to join the ESRC Assessor College!
They’ll be serving on grant review/assessment panels in the next 2️⃣ yrs - an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of the field 🤓
They’ll be serving on grant review/assessment panels in the next 2️⃣ yrs - an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of the field 🤓
Don't miss 'Women’s Work - The Juggling Act of Multiple Jobs' 🚨
Based on Nuffield Foundation-funded research & led by our own Dr Louise Lawson 🙌
📍JMS Learning Hub (foyer), UoG main campus
🗓️ 1-15 Nov
More info: festivalofsocialscience.com/events/women...
Based on Nuffield Foundation-funded research & led by our own Dr Louise Lawson 🙌
📍JMS Learning Hub (foyer), UoG main campus
🗓️ 1-15 Nov
More info: festivalofsocialscience.com/events/women...
October 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Don't miss 'Women’s Work - The Juggling Act of Multiple Jobs' 🚨
Based on Nuffield Foundation-funded research & led by our own Dr Louise Lawson 🙌
📍JMS Learning Hub (foyer), UoG main campus
🗓️ 1-15 Nov
More info: festivalofsocialscience.com/events/women...
Based on Nuffield Foundation-funded research & led by our own Dr Louise Lawson 🙌
📍JMS Learning Hub (foyer), UoG main campus
🗓️ 1-15 Nov
More info: festivalofsocialscience.com/events/women...
Last call! ⏰
Only one day left to catch '52 Squares: Diversity in Everyday Life' - proudly led by our own Dr Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social 🤗
📍JMS Learning Hub (foyer), UoG main campus
🗓️ Open till 31 Oct
More info: festivalofsocialscience.com/events/52-sq...
Only one day left to catch '52 Squares: Diversity in Everyday Life' - proudly led by our own Dr Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social 🤗
📍JMS Learning Hub (foyer), UoG main campus
🗓️ Open till 31 Oct
More info: festivalofsocialscience.com/events/52-sq...
October 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Last call! ⏰
Only one day left to catch '52 Squares: Diversity in Everyday Life' - proudly led by our own Dr Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social 🤗
📍JMS Learning Hub (foyer), UoG main campus
🗓️ Open till 31 Oct
More info: festivalofsocialscience.com/events/52-sq...
Only one day left to catch '52 Squares: Diversity in Everyday Life' - proudly led by our own Dr Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social 🤗
📍JMS Learning Hub (foyer), UoG main campus
🗓️ Open till 31 Oct
More info: festivalofsocialscience.com/events/52-sq...
Double the creativity! ✨
2️⃣ exhibitions led by our colleagues Dr Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social & Dr Louise Lawson are open to the public as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences - come & explore! 📷 🎨
WHERE: James McCune Smith Learning Hub (foyer), UoG main campus
Do pop in - details 👇
2️⃣ exhibitions led by our colleagues Dr Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social & Dr Louise Lawson are open to the public as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences - come & explore! 📷 🎨
WHERE: James McCune Smith Learning Hub (foyer), UoG main campus
Do pop in - details 👇
October 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Double the creativity! ✨
2️⃣ exhibitions led by our colleagues Dr Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social & Dr Louise Lawson are open to the public as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences - come & explore! 📷 🎨
WHERE: James McCune Smith Learning Hub (foyer), UoG main campus
Do pop in - details 👇
2️⃣ exhibitions led by our colleagues Dr Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social & Dr Louise Lawson are open to the public as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences - come & explore! 📷 🎨
WHERE: James McCune Smith Learning Hub (foyer), UoG main campus
Do pop in - details 👇
📻Are you interested in hearing about good practice in learning, teaching & assessment? USSP's Alison McCandish is one of four @uofglasgow.bsky.social colleagues editing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning podcast. Listen to SoTL Journeys now 👇
October 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📻Are you interested in hearing about good practice in learning, teaching & assessment? USSP's Alison McCandish is one of four @uofglasgow.bsky.social colleagues editing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning podcast. Listen to SoTL Journeys now 👇
Ross Beveridge of USSP has contributed to an @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social special collection celebrating the life and work of the late political theorist and scholar of cities, Warren Magnusson.
Wonderfully edited by @rkeil.bsky.social & Zack Taylor. Link below 👇
Wonderfully edited by @rkeil.bsky.social & Zack Taylor. Link below 👇
October 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Ross Beveridge of USSP has contributed to an @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social special collection celebrating the life and work of the late political theorist and scholar of cities, Warren Magnusson.
Wonderfully edited by @rkeil.bsky.social & Zack Taylor. Link below 👇
Wonderfully edited by @rkeil.bsky.social & Zack Taylor. Link below 👇
📣 New report on gambling now out!
Led by our very own Sarah Tipping, this excellent report explores gambling activities, frequency & harms 🎲🃏
You can read it here: 👉 www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/report/gambl...
Led by our very own Sarah Tipping, this excellent report explores gambling activities, frequency & harms 🎲🃏
You can read it here: 👉 www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/report/gambl...
October 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
📣 New report on gambling now out!
Led by our very own Sarah Tipping, this excellent report explores gambling activities, frequency & harms 🎲🃏
You can read it here: 👉 www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/report/gambl...
Led by our very own Sarah Tipping, this excellent report explores gambling activities, frequency & harms 🎲🃏
You can read it here: 👉 www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/report/gambl...
Congrats to our own Jingyi Zhu, together with Matthew Carmona & Wendy Clarke, whose project 'Tacking Inequality in Housing Design Quality' has received the 2025 RTPI's @rtpiplanners.bsky.social Sir Peter Hall Award for Wider Engagement! 🎉
About the project 👉 placealliance.org.uk/from-inequal...
About the project 👉 placealliance.org.uk/from-inequal...
October 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Congrats to our own Jingyi Zhu, together with Matthew Carmona & Wendy Clarke, whose project 'Tacking Inequality in Housing Design Quality' has received the 2025 RTPI's @rtpiplanners.bsky.social Sir Peter Hall Award for Wider Engagement! 🎉
About the project 👉 placealliance.org.uk/from-inequal...
About the project 👉 placealliance.org.uk/from-inequal...
Our own Prof Andy Inch’s book (co-authored with Malcolm Tait, Ben Clifford, Susannah Gunn, Abigail Schoneboom, Geoff Vigar & Jason Slade) 'The Future for Planners' is the winner of the 2025 RTPI's @rtpiplanners.bsky.social Patsy Healey Award for Academic Excellence 💪 www.rtpi.org.uk/events-train...
October 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Our own Prof Andy Inch’s book (co-authored with Malcolm Tait, Ben Clifford, Susannah Gunn, Abigail Schoneboom, Geoff Vigar & Jason Slade) 'The Future for Planners' is the winner of the 2025 RTPI's @rtpiplanners.bsky.social Patsy Healey Award for Academic Excellence 💪 www.rtpi.org.uk/events-train...
Big impact at the Trades Union Congress! 👏
The Alternative Defence Review, co-written & edited by our own Prof. Karen Bell, influenced the “Wages Not Weapons” motion - advocating to redirect military spending toward public services & sustainable employment 👏
Read ADR: cnduk.org/wp-content/u...
The Alternative Defence Review, co-written & edited by our own Prof. Karen Bell, influenced the “Wages Not Weapons” motion - advocating to redirect military spending toward public services & sustainable employment 👏
Read ADR: cnduk.org/wp-content/u...
October 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Big impact at the Trades Union Congress! 👏
The Alternative Defence Review, co-written & edited by our own Prof. Karen Bell, influenced the “Wages Not Weapons” motion - advocating to redirect military spending toward public services & sustainable employment 👏
Read ADR: cnduk.org/wp-content/u...
The Alternative Defence Review, co-written & edited by our own Prof. Karen Bell, influenced the “Wages Not Weapons” motion - advocating to redirect military spending toward public services & sustainable employment 👏
Read ADR: cnduk.org/wp-content/u...
Big shoutout to our own Emma Russel & @silviab.bsky.social who recently presented their analysis of linked administrative data & the 'Growing Up in Scotland' cohort study at conferences in Fribourg 🇨🇭 & Cardiff 🏴
This work is led by @moragtreanor.bsky.social & is part of @scadrdata.bsky.social 💪
This work is led by @moragtreanor.bsky.social & is part of @scadrdata.bsky.social 💪
October 9, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Big shoutout to our own Emma Russel & @silviab.bsky.social who recently presented their analysis of linked administrative data & the 'Growing Up in Scotland' cohort study at conferences in Fribourg 🇨🇭 & Cardiff 🏴
This work is led by @moragtreanor.bsky.social & is part of @scadrdata.bsky.social 💪
This work is led by @moragtreanor.bsky.social & is part of @scadrdata.bsky.social 💪
Huge congrats to USSP’s Liyuan Zhuang & Karen Bell 🎉 Winners of the @uofgsps.bsky.social Best Scholarship Publication Award 2025!
🌍📖Their paper explores how to improve the learning experience of Chinese Masters’ students in UK HE. Link below 👇
🌍📖Their paper explores how to improve the learning experience of Chinese Masters’ students in UK HE. Link below 👇
October 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Huge congrats to USSP’s Liyuan Zhuang & Karen Bell 🎉 Winners of the @uofgsps.bsky.social Best Scholarship Publication Award 2025!
🌍📖Their paper explores how to improve the learning experience of Chinese Masters’ students in UK HE. Link below 👇
🌍📖Their paper explores how to improve the learning experience of Chinese Masters’ students in UK HE. Link below 👇
🎉Congratulations to Professor Sotiria Grek who has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences! Sotiria is one of five @uofgsocsci.bsky.social colleagues elected, reflecting the quality and scale of social sciences at the University and the impact of our research and teaching🎉
October 2, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🎉Congratulations to Professor Sotiria Grek who has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences! Sotiria is one of five @uofgsocsci.bsky.social colleagues elected, reflecting the quality and scale of social sciences at the University and the impact of our research and teaching🎉
USSP's Professor of Social and Public Policy @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social will deliver this year's Challenge Poverty Week Lecture 🎤
🗓️ Thu 9 October | 6pm | Glasgow Caledonian University
Hosted by @povertyalliance.org + @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social | Register now: www.tfaforms.com/5196599
🗓️ Thu 9 October | 6pm | Glasgow Caledonian University
Hosted by @povertyalliance.org + @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social | Register now: www.tfaforms.com/5196599
September 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
USSP's Professor of Social and Public Policy @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social will deliver this year's Challenge Poverty Week Lecture 🎤
🗓️ Thu 9 October | 6pm | Glasgow Caledonian University
Hosted by @povertyalliance.org + @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social | Register now: www.tfaforms.com/5196599
🗓️ Thu 9 October | 6pm | Glasgow Caledonian University
Hosted by @povertyalliance.org + @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social | Register now: www.tfaforms.com/5196599
🎒Parents & carers from @changingrealities.bsky.social - led by our own @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social - met with the Secretary of State for Education @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social to share hopes & fears about the Schools White Paper & reforms for children with SEND.
Read: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Read: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
September 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🎒Parents & carers from @changingrealities.bsky.social - led by our own @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social - met with the Secretary of State for Education @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social to share hopes & fears about the Schools White Paper & reforms for children with SEND.
Read: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Read: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
What's the impact of the Scotland's third sector? What's the role & impact of researchers doing work in the sector?
Check out this new, brilliant blog from our very own Jane Cullingworth 😀
www.vssn.org.uk/2025/08/29/p...
Check out this new, brilliant blog from our very own Jane Cullingworth 😀
www.vssn.org.uk/2025/08/29/p...
September 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
What's the impact of the Scotland's third sector? What's the role & impact of researchers doing work in the sector?
Check out this new, brilliant blog from our very own Jane Cullingworth 😀
www.vssn.org.uk/2025/08/29/p...
Check out this new, brilliant blog from our very own Jane Cullingworth 😀
www.vssn.org.uk/2025/08/29/p...
What does urban retrofit mean & why does it matter?
Fantastic to see this excellent report by our very own @urbanretrofit.bsky.social colleagues out! 👏🤓
Read 👉 urbanretrofit.housingevidence.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
Fantastic to see this excellent report by our very own @urbanretrofit.bsky.social colleagues out! 👏🤓
Read 👉 urbanretrofit.housingevidence.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
September 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
What does urban retrofit mean & why does it matter?
Fantastic to see this excellent report by our very own @urbanretrofit.bsky.social colleagues out! 👏🤓
Read 👉 urbanretrofit.housingevidence.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
Fantastic to see this excellent report by our very own @urbanretrofit.bsky.social colleagues out! 👏🤓
Read 👉 urbanretrofit.housingevidence.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
📚 Book alert!
Hot off the press: a brilliant new study on the theatrical works of Tristan Tzara by our very own Erica O’Neill 👏
A fantastic addition to our ever-diversifying collective portfolio 💪
For info: www.peterlang.com/document/132...
Hot off the press: a brilliant new study on the theatrical works of Tristan Tzara by our very own Erica O’Neill 👏
A fantastic addition to our ever-diversifying collective portfolio 💪
For info: www.peterlang.com/document/132...
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
📚 Book alert!
Hot off the press: a brilliant new study on the theatrical works of Tristan Tzara by our very own Erica O’Neill 👏
A fantastic addition to our ever-diversifying collective portfolio 💪
For info: www.peterlang.com/document/132...
Hot off the press: a brilliant new study on the theatrical works of Tristan Tzara by our very own Erica O’Neill 👏
A fantastic addition to our ever-diversifying collective portfolio 💪
For info: www.peterlang.com/document/132...
Parents from @changingrealities.bsky.social - led by our very own @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social - met with @johnswinney.bsky.social & @sa4dunfermline.bsky.social to discuss the Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan 👏
Their voices are key to ending child poverty in 🏴
More www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Their voices are key to ending child poverty in 🏴
More www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
September 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Parents from @changingrealities.bsky.social - led by our very own @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social - met with @johnswinney.bsky.social & @sa4dunfermline.bsky.social to discuss the Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan 👏
Their voices are key to ending child poverty in 🏴
More www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Their voices are key to ending child poverty in 🏴
More www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...