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📢 We’re Hiring: Lecturer in Public Policy, Data & AI
Full-time (Fixed-term, 3 years) | £41,064–£46,049 (Grade 7)
Come join us to deliver cutting-edge teaching at the intersection of public policy, data, and artificial intelligence.
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
We’re incredibly proud that our very own @shwardle.bsky.social is leading this important new initiative in collaboration with universities in 🏴 & 🏴
The Centre will unite researchers & partners to advance evidence-based research into gambling harms.
A landmark achievement for the field 🌟
Last Friday, USSP colleagues brought together 40+ participants from academia, planning, civil society and community organisations for Reimagining the City: How can people really make Glasgow? 🏙️
The workshop explored democratic, community-led approaches to shaping Glasgow's future!
📢USSP Seminar📢
Professor Claire Colomb from Cambridge will present on "Social conflicts in the ‘short-term city’. Platform capitalism and the contentious politics of short-term rental housing regulation."
📆Wednesday 20 May
🕰️3.30-5.00pm
📍Room 210 (Planning Studio) 42 Bute Gdns
All welcome!
📣 Abstract submissions for the @housingevidence.bsky.social conference are *closing* this Fri, 5 Jun!
🏘️ Housing scholars, policymakers & practitioners are invited to submit abstracts (250 words)
ℹ️ For info on how to submit & the themes abstracts may address: housingevidence.ac.uk/call-for-sub...
Members from the Safety Nets project, led by @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social will present highlights from new research on social security across the four nations. Join in-person or online next Thursday 21 May with @resolutionfoundation.org. Find out more: www.resolutionfoundation.org/events/the-w...
📣 Article alert!
New, excellent piece by our own @uiscejordan.bsky.social & a colleague Marian Peacock uses psycho-social methods to highlight the central role of women, particularly mothers & partners, in the lives of men experiencing mental illness.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1332/1478...
📣 Hot off the press!
New article on housing experiences among the 🇬🇧-based 🇵🇱 migrant essential workers during Brexit & Covid-19 🤗
It reveals *housing precarity* as the missing link in understanding systemic resilience during times of polycrisis.
Read #OpenAccess 👇 doi.org/10.1080/1949...
One of our projects, @changingrealities.bsky.social is hosting an online event on Thurs 4 June to celebrate the launch of their Zine, highlighting the importance of creative methods in amplifying the lived experience of participants. Book your place 👉 tinyurl.com/379573fa
📣NEW BLOG: What do Home Office asylum & refugee reforms mean for children growing up in poverty? Sarah, a parent from our Family Finances study, shares how these reforms are already having an impact on her family
@uofgussp.bsky.social @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social
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This article presents a psychosocial study of men unable to work due to mental illness and their encounters with the UK’s social security system, using the Free Association Narrative Interview (FANI) ...
The reforms to asylum and refugee policy anounced by the Home Office are already having a negative impact on assylum seekrs and their children.
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Dr Anna Gawlewicz
Ilona Pinter 🧡
The postholder will be based in the Division of Urban Studies and Social Policy in the School of Social and Political Sciences. The Division wishes to appoint an applicant to this role with experti...
This conference aims to bring together housing researchers, policymakers and practitioners to consider the current state of play in housing studies, policy and practice in 2026.
Social security has been undergoing a quiet revolution across the UK. While attention has focused on the roll-out of Universal Credit, many other aspects of the benefits system are devolved, allowing ...
Health and socio-political crises combined during the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit (the UK’s exit from the European Union) impacting the housing experiences of migrant essential workers. Major new ...
The Universities of Glasgow, Sheffield, Swansea and King’s College London will lead the UK’s largest independent gambling harms research centre, a @ukri.org investment funded through the government's Gambling Levy.
Read more: gla.ac/3RFKblq
