Future of Research at Glasgow

Going forward, we aim to generate income from diverse sources, expand our research with academic and non-academic partners and continue our work in response to COVID, including paying close attention to minimising the burden of research participants and researchers.   

Building capacity is important for our future research and a key objective remains to recruit more staff to bring different forms of research expertise. We will also invest in capacity development, supporting our PGRs and early career staff, focusing on activities that make Glasgow a great place to develop a career.  

Production of theoretically informed and impactful research on pressing policy issues is important to our future research. Through collaborative and interdisciplinary research, we aim to address urgent social policy challenges: 

  • Health and Wellbeing aims to investigate and instigate changes in public health and health services, giving continued prioritisation to addressing health inequalities, ‘what works’ to improve health outcomes, and the embodied experiences of wellbeing.  
  • Crime and Justice theme will focus on crime and inequalities; gender-based violence; alternatives to prison; justice and health, and; global harms and social justice, whilst expanding the use of forms of creative practice, working with communities, policymakers and practitioner to inform policy and practice and collaboratively build just societies.  
  • Migration, Racism and Citizenship will interrogate the multifarious ways in which migration and ethnicity are racialized by the State and other actors and support the struggles of migrants and ethic and sexual minorities seeking social justice and substantive citizenship, whilst also directly informing policy at local and national levels.  
  • Key objectives for Social and Digital Transformations are to identify and mitigate mechanisms of social and cultural exclusion in the light of digital transformations. Research will foster and deploy more exploratory or data-driven approaches to address questions around the impacts of new technologies on social and economic lives, and address ethical challenges brought by new forms of data and associated analytics.