Oona Brooks wins Corinna Seith Prize
Oona Brooks has been awarded the Corinna Seith Prize for a paper she published in the British Journal of Criminology. Oona will present her paper and receive her award at the Women Against Violence Europe annual conference in Sofia, Bulgaria in October 2013.
Young voters should be required to vote first time round
A report co-authored by Sarah Birch, Professor of Politics, suggests that compulsory first-time voting could tackle political inequality and empower young voters.
Professor Jane Duckett awarded Guest Professorship at Nankai University, China
Professor Jane Duckett, Edward Caird Chair of Politics, is Director of the Scottish Centre for China research and the Confucius Institute at the University of Glasgow. The Institute is a partnership with Nankai University and the Chinese Ministry of Education’s Office for Chinese (Hanban).
Success in Europe: EuroFIT
Sally Wyke and Cindy Gray have been awarded over €5m to develop a programme to help men become more active and less sedentary in their lives.
Politics student to speak on England vs. Germany in international football
2013 graduate David Childs has been invited to speak at a conference celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Football Association.
Glasgow’s Suzie Thomas heading up a new journal
School researcher Dr Suzie Thomas is one of the founding editors of a brand new peer review journal: the Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage.
Sociology success in Guardian University Guide
Glasgow's Sociology teaching was ranked first in Scotland and second in the UK out of 88 sociology programmes.
Andrea Thomson wins Teaching Excellence Award
Economic & Social History graduate and Graduate Teaching Assistant recognised by the University Teaching Excellence Awards Panel.
Grant Success: The Redress of the Past
Mark Freeman and collaborators have been awarded Arts and Humanities Research Council funding of over £project examining historical pageants in modern Britain.
Grant success: A Sociology of the Transnational Constitution
Chris Thornhill has been awarded a European Research Council Advanced Research Grant for over 1,200,000 EUROS for a project examining the societal pressures that shape the changing patterns of contemporary constitutionalism.
Grant success: exploring the place of sedentary behaviour
Older adults who are more physically active and less sedentary generally live longer and have higher quality of life. Cindy Gray and Sally Wyke have been awarded £78,210 to explore the place of sedentary behaviour in older people's lives and identify potential opportunities for improvement.
New Book: Imaging and Imagining the Fetus: The Development of Obstetric Ultrasound
The story of the development of obstetric ultrasound in Glasgow, from the earliest experiments with industrial flaw detectors to the diffusion of the technology throughout the British hospital system and beyond, and the impact that ultrasound imaging had on the concepts of the fetus, both clinically and culturally.
European Funding for University of Glasgow-led Masters Programme (Russian, Central & East European Studies)
The University of Glasgow is calling for students to apply for its first-ever course to be supported by the European Commission’s prestigious Erasmus Mundus programme.
Ralph Gomory prize for Business History
Congratulations to Mark Freeman and co-authors on winning the 2013 prize for their book 'Shareholder Democracies: corporate governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850'.
New staff member: Professor Jeffrey Fear
Professor of International Business History from mid-April 2013
SRC Teaching Awards 2012-13
Congratulations to School staff recognised by the Student Representative Council for their teaching excellence.
Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey 2012: first UK and Scottish results
Survey results featured in ITV documentary "Tonight: Breadline Britain".
Political Song Online Database
From 8 March 2013 the Janey Buchan Political Song Collection will be available online through the University of Glasgow.
Public Policy Secondment Competition 2013-14
Applications are invited from academic staff wishing to play a part in driving the University’s public policy research and knowledge exchange agenda forward.
The David Frisby Memorial Lecture 2013
We are glad to welcome Professor Erik Olin Wright, one of the world's leading analysts of contemporary class formation, to reflect on his work in his address: 'Transforming Capitalism through Real Utopias'. Friday 1 March.
Opportunities to Learn Lithuanian and More
Summer courses available to students in the School of Social & Political Sciences to study Lithuanian, in Lithuania, in 2013 and 2014.
Land Reform Review Group appointment
David Adams, Ian Mactaggart Chair of Property and Urban Studies, has been appointed as one of twelve expert advisers to the Scottish Government’s Land Reform Review Group.
In Memoriam: John Hiden 1940-2012
The School was shocked and saddened to learn of the untimely death of Professor John Hiden, Senior Honorary Research Fellow in Central and East European Studies since 2003 and one of the leading figures in Baltic Studies since the 1980s. David Smith of CEES writes in memoriam.