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University of Glasgow College of Social Sciences @uofgsocsci.bsky.social · 5d
This week’s #SocSciHub bulletin is out now!

Explore a new energy efficiency framework supporting the global net zero agenda, and a report on what recent UK Supreme Court decisions mean for devolved law-making.

Read more: tinyurl.com/5cz64jpc
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Huge congrats to our own Dr Mingyu Zhu on being awarded the Smart Data Research Fellowship 🎉💪

Mingyu's project will use smart meter, housing & weather data to identify unhealthy indoor conditions - helping reduce illness, fuel poverty & health inequality.

Brilliant, impactful work 👏
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We’re delighted that two of our academics have been awarded @sdruk.bsky.social Fellowships.

Bartolomeo Meletti @uofglaw.bsky.social and Dr Mingyu Zhu @uofgussp.bsky.social will use their Fellowships to address some of the UK's most pressing challenges.

More: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
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February 17, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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NEW Policy Insights: Access to Justice and the need for Civil Legal Aid Reform in Scotland 💡⚖️

Read recommendations from @glasgow.ac.uk experts @johynes.bsky.social, Fiona McPhail, and Jack Smith on how legal aid should be reformed to strengthen access to justice.

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Access to Justice and the need for civil legal aid reform in Scotland, Policy Insights, University of Glasgow, Centre for Public Policy, Dr jo Hynes, Fiona McPhail, Jack Smith
February 17, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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Two @uofgsocsci.bsky.social academics have been awarded @sdruk.bsky.social Fellowships.

Bartolomeo Meletti @uofglaw.bsky.social and Dr Mingyu Zhu @uofgsocsci.bsky.social will use their Fellowships to address some of the UK's most pressing challenges.

More: gla.ac/46UZDyW
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February 17, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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"Changing Realities has shown me I am valuable and my voice can drive change"

Child poverty action group @changingrealities.bsky.social has been named as a Big Issue Change Maker for 2026, under the Politics and Activism category.

More: gla.ac/4alIOj2
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February 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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New research from the @glasgow.ac.uk explores how recent UK Supreme Court rulings are reshaping the limits of devolved law-making in Scotland and beyond, and what this means for parliamentary powers and cooperation.

Read more on the #SocSciHub: tinyurl.com/yj4fz7my
Centre for Public policy new report condition power devolved law-making after the supreme court's s.28(7) rulings.
February 17, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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We’re delighted that two of our academics have been awarded @sdruk.bsky.social Fellowships.

Bartolomeo Meletti @uofglaw.bsky.social and Dr Mingyu Zhu @uofgussp.bsky.social will use their Fellowships to address some of the UK's most pressing challenges.

More: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
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February 16, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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The students on our #UKYouthPoll course at @glasgow.ac.uk have been getting stuck in writing questions for the 2026 poll this week 📊

We can't wait to see what they come up with! 🌟

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UofG students get to work on the UK Youth Poll 2026 – for young people, by young people 📊
The students on our #UKYouthPoll course at @UofGlasgow have been getting stuck in writing questions for the 2026 poll this week 📊 We can't wait to see what they come up with!…
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February 12, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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✨️ Over the past couple of weeks, the John Smith Centre has been busy delivering the second element of our schools programme, a bespoke visit to @parliament.scot for 100 pupils in areas of high deprivation.

Find out what we got up to in our latest blog! 👇

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"IT WAS REALLY NICE TO SEE IT IN REAL LIFE": PUPILS FROM DEPRIVED AREAS VISIT THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT - John Smith Centre
Over the past couple of weeks, we have been busy delivering the second element of our brand-new schools programme, a bespoke visit to the Scottish Parliament. One hundred pupils across the three…
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February 13, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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This week’s #SocSciHub bulletin is out now!

Explore a new energy efficiency framework supporting the global net zero agenda, and a report on what recent UK Supreme Court decisions mean for devolved law-making.

Read more: tinyurl.com/5cz64jpc
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February 12, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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The JUST Tour seminar is now live.

This seminar will explore the conceptual, practical and governance foundations of Community Led Tourism in Scotland.

Watch via YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAbJ...
JUST Tour Webinar 5: Tourism Justice through Community Led-Tourism
Community led tourism (CLT) is re-emerging as a salient approach to ‘just’ tourism development. Rising tourism numbers and community exclusion from growth centred economic policies are driving…
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February 12, 2026 at 9:50 AM
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❗️ ICYMI: read Dr Elisabeth Loose's latest research blog exploring if the UK is in fact as polarised as it is perceived to be.

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HOW POLARISED ARE WE REALLY? - John Smith Centre
Public discourse and political debate increasingly reference polarisation — not as a possibility, but as something that has very much arrived in UK society. Recent polling by Ipsos found that four in…
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February 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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A new way of classifying building energy efficiency that could benefit households and address the global net-zero carbon agenda has been developed by @glasgow.ac.uk and
@cam.ac.uk

Prof Qunshan Zhao @ubdc.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social
led the research.

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February 11, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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There is still time to register for Thursday’s JUST Tour Seminar.

This will explore Tourism Justice through Community-Led Tourism (CLT), offering a critical discussion of its potential as a tool for community development.

Register here: tinyurl.com/448kspju
JUST Tour seminar series poster for Thursday, 12th February at 10 am. On the right are 5 faces of the speakers at the event.
February 10, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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As a confirmed aunty and former girl playing folk music this is incredibly important and I am glad it is being looked into.

Anecdotally, some young folk men are ahead of the curve and exercise a zero tolerance policy if a female colleague/friend is harassed, but it took a lot of us speaking out.
uofgsocsci.bsky.social University of Glasgow College of Social Sciences @uofgsocsci.bsky.social · 11d
New research reveals that four in five women musicians in the Scottish folk scene have experienced sexual violence or harassment and calls for stronger safeguarding, accountability and cultural change within the music community.

More on the #SocSciHub: tinyurl.com/tszdj4mz
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February 7, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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New research reveals that four in five women musicians in the Scottish folk scene have experienced sexual violence or harassment and calls for stronger safeguarding, accountability and cultural change within the music community.

More on the #SocSciHub: tinyurl.com/tszdj4mz
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February 7, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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We had a brilliant time at the Scottish Parliament on Monday for the second of our schools programme visits - thanks again to the @parliament.scot Education Service for working with us in partnership to make these visits happen 🙌

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February 6, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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Congratulations to USSP’s Dr @madhusatsangi.bsky.social on having his research, exploring the decolonization of the housing studies curriculum, published in Housing and Society recently. Read the full article here 👇https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08882746.2026.2620132
Research note: exploring the decolonization of the housing studies curriculum
Decolonizing the curriculum has risen as a political and pedagogical concern in the past ten to twenty years, particularly in the wake of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Significant attention has b...
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February 5, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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📰 The John Smith Centre ran a focus group of young people on Wednesday evening, a few hours after the full details of Peter Mandelson's dealings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were revealed.

Read @eddiebarnes.bsky.social's blog to find out what they thought 👇

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MANDELSON: WHAT DO YOUNG PEOPLE THINK? - John Smith Centre
By Eddie Barnes THE John Smith Centre ran a focus group of young people on Wednesday evening, a few hours after the full details of Peter Mandelson’s dealings with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey E...
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February 6, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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The John Smith Centre has launched the UK’s first polling course, giving students practical skills in survey design and the chance to shape the UK Youth Poll. This hands-on approach helps amplify young people’s voices in public policy discussions.

Read more on the #SocSciHub: tinyurl.com/4yhhuxy7
John Smith Centre Youth Poll poster.
February 5, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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NEW insights from @anandmenon.bsky.social on the promised UK/EU reset 📝💡

Anand, Director of @ukandeu.bsky.social, explores progress so far and what we might see in 2026, particularly with elections approaching in May and the potential 'wildcard' of US President Trump.

www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
The promised UK/EU 'reset', Professor Anand Menon. Centre for Public Policy and University of Glasgow logo, photo of a person holding an EU flag in London. Photo of Professor Anand Menon.
February 4, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Centre Director Eddie Barnes on STV's Scotland Tonight last night reflecting on the impact of the Peter Mandelson scandal 📺

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Eddie Barnes on STV's Scotland Tonight reflecting on the impact of the Peter Mandelson scandal
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February 5, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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📢 NEW REPORT 📢

📝 Conditioning Power: Devolved Law-Making after the Supreme Court’s s.28(7) Rulings

Recent decisions by the UK Supreme Court have introduced unexpected constraints on devolved law-making.

Learn more – read the report: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

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New report, Conditioning Power: Devolved Law-Making after the Supreme Court's s.28(7) Rulings. University of Glasgow, Centre for Public Policy. Image of the report cover. Parter logos - Durham University, Cardiff University, University of Strathclyde
February 5, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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Thank you to everyone who came to last night's Stevenson Trust event.

We were joined by Professor Graeme Roy, who highlighted the financial challenges facing the next Scottish Government ahead of the election.

Watch the full recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cvr...
February 4, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Thank you to all who attended #SurvivingPolitics with Kate Forbes MSP & Fraser Nelson on Monday evening! 🙌

Our Director Eddie Barnes shares his takeaways from the event in our latest blog post 📰

📹️ You can also watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzS1...

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“AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE JUST NEED GOOD PEOPLE TO STEP FORWARD AND STAND" - KATE FORBES MSP AND FRASER NELSON IN CONVERSATION AT “SURVIVING POLITICS" EVENT - John Smith Centre
by Eddie Barnes THE John Smith Centre held its second “Surviving Politics” event in a packed Bute Hall at the University of Glasgow on Monday night. Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes and Times…
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February 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Join us live for the next Stevenson Trust lecture.

As Scotland enters the Holyrood election, Professor Graeme Roy discusses the tight fiscal backdrop and the significant financial choices ahead for the next Scottish Government.

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cvr...
February 3, 2026 at 5:55 PM