Kicking off our session at @scvo.scot #SCVOTheGathering 🎤 With @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social @kezdugdale.bsky.social @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social Great to see so many people in the room for what is a very timely discussion on the coming election here in Scotland.

My latest thoughts on the new National School for Government and Public Services, how it can help to 'fix things', and what it will take to 'move fast'!

Listen to a new episode of the @uofgpolicy.bsky.social #UofGSpotlight podcast. Host @kezdugdale.bsky.social challenges Scotland's political leaders on public service reform, whether politicians can work together, the fiscal challenge in Scotland, devolution, the NHS, and more. 🎧 uofgspotlight.com

New LIVE #UofGSpotlight podcast episode! 🚨🎧 Host @kezdugdale.bsky.social challenges Scotland’s political leaders on public service reform, the fiscal challenge facing Scotland, whether politicians can work together, devolution, the NHS, and more. Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/3XQz...

🎉 Breaking News! A new national housing agency announced today by FM John Swinney will accelerate affordable homebuilding in Scotland. Our research & campaigns helped push for this bold step. We now need ambition to be matched by the money needed to make it a reality. 🗨️ shelterscotland.org/MHSR

Huge thanks to all who joined us yesterday for our event #StopStart: Making Public Service Reform Stick in Scotland🚦 Lots of reflections to come, but leaving you with photos from our brilliant live #UofGSpotlight recording closing the day, a political panel chaired by Prof @kezdugdale.bsky.social💡🎙️

...a jam-packed afternoon! We've hosted our two sets of lightning talks and response panels 🎙️⚡ We've heard from leading voices across the research and policy communities advocating for what they think Scotland should stop and start doing in public services. #StopStart @glasgow.ac.uk

We're delighted to welcome colleagues from across Scotland’s public policy and research communities to @glasgow.ac.uk today for our #StopStart event📍🚦 We've kicked off this morning hearing from Jim McCormick @therobertsontrust.bsky.social and Permanent Secretary Joe Griffin.

Catch up on our fascinating & informative discussion about Scottish & Welsh devolution in partnership with @policywise.bsky.social. Our panel included Adam Price MS, @kezdugdale.bsky.social, Lee Waters MS, and Paul McLennan MSP. Chaired by @chrisdeerin.bsky.social www.enlighten.scot/event/online...

We've got the Chair of the Fiscal Commission, the Permanent Secretary of the Scottish Government, a political panel of six and no less than 16 further brilliant speakers all coming together in the aftermath of the Scottish budget to ask - What next for public service reform? Join us.

Catch our Associate Director @kezdugdale.bsky.social next week talking about the upcoming elections across the UK and how they might reshape British politics. Register online to watch the conference from home: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/govern... 🔗

Then at 13:45 we will turn our attention to the 2026 elections and how votes in England, Scotland and Wales could reshape British politics. With @kezdugdale.bsky.social, Guto Harri, @akashpaun.bsky.social @luketryl.bsky.social @cathhaddon.bsky.social

New Podcast episode! 🚨 Trump’s Second Act: Leadership, Tariffs, and Tensions As 2025 draws to a close, we take a deep dive into a year of American politics and its global impact. With @mkblyth.bsky.social and @jkaarbo.bsky.social. 🎧 Listen now: uofgspotlight.com #UofGSpotlight

Elections 2026: How could votes in England, Scotland and Wales reshape British politics? Join us at Government 2026 on Tuesday 13 January when we will discuss with @kezdugdale.bsky.social, Guto Harri, @akashpaun.bsky.social @luketryl.bsky.social www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/govern...

On the psychology of Leadership and Trump economics.....

NEW insights from @sergipardos.bsky.social Sponsoring immigrant care workers in Scotland: Politics vs. policy📝 Prof Sergi Pardos-Prado shares his perspective on the recent announcement from the Scottish Government on migrant social care workers. Read: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Next up in our #CPPUnwrapped is our event at the 2025 #SCVOGathering 🗣️🌟 The Centre's @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social and @kezdugdale.bsky.social talked about the money behind Scotland's public policy landscape, with 260 voluntary sector colleagues. Find out more: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Labour are down seven points on the constituency vote and four points on the list vote, with declines in net satisfaction with both Keir Starmer and Anas Sarwar.

Listen to our Associate Director @kezdugdale.bsky.social on the latest episode of the #BBCScotcast podcast! 🎧🌟 Tune in to the discussion, from the #UKBudget to trust in politics and more ⬇️

Some thoughts and reflections from me www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Welfare spending is currently 1.2% of GDP *lower* than in 2012-13. Abolition of two-child cap is best viewed as a correction than an increase.

Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division

Why does Legal Aid matter, is it there for you when you need it and what will it take to make it better? All covered in this stellar podcast 🎙️👇

Reports yesterday that the Government is considering scrapping the two-child limit on benefits in full. This would be a welcome step - fully repealing the two-child limit is by far the best way to ensure fewer children are growing up in poverty.

If they don't implement significant policy changes, this Government will preside over the sharpest increase in child poverty by any Labour Government in the last 60 years ⤵️ Read 'No half measures' 👉 buff.ly/04eBps0

Great to have everyone join us this morning for our second #ESRCFestival event, with Pregnant Then Screwed, Working 9-5: How does childcare fit? 💬 📸 Our @drcmacrae.bsky.social and Carole Erskine from Pregnant Then Screwed kicking us off with insights from recent research.

Join us for a public event with #PregnantThenScrewed on challenges and opportunities in early learning and childcare provision 🗓️ 💡Working 9-5: How does childcare fit? Friday 7 October, 10.30am In person at @uofgarc.bsky.social Book your place 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-9-... 1/4

You know that Trump doesn't care about climate change. But did you know that his tariffs may also prevent *other* countries from taking climate action? New by me for @uofgpolicy.bsky.social on the Trumpian shadow over COP30: tinyurl.com/mpf7thee

Calling students! 📣 Don’t miss the first @uofgcareers.bsky.social Cabinet Office Conversations event of the year. With Vincent Devine, UK Government’s Chief Security Officer, in conversation with our Prof @kezdugdale.bsky.social 🗓️ Tues 11 Nov, 1pm More info and book: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Excellent piece by @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social on government discussions about binning the two child limit, which is driving more families into poverty. Ruth leads @changingrealities.bsky.social - a collaboration between over UK parents and carers on a low-income. samf.substack.com/p/the-worst-...

If they don't implement significant policy changes, this Government will preside over the sharpest increase in child poverty by any Labour Government in the last 60 years ⤵️ Read 'No half measures' 👉 buff.ly/qVc9CWs

Some professional news! I'll be joining the University of Glasgow's Centre for Public Policy @uofgpolicy.bsky.social in December as a Research Associate for the Holyrood election campaign, producing research on long-term political attitude trends in Scotland and how they have shaped our politics.

NEW blog from @jsijstermans.bsky.social 🚨 📝 Beyond the protests: Tracing Scotland’s far right activism Dr Judith Sijstermans looks at the evolving picture of far right activism in Scotland and the locally-rooted activity and networks that underpin it. 🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/... 1/2

A busy morning at the Centre for Public Policy today as our Early Career Researchers' Network hosts their event on housing and energy policy, with @uofgenergy.bsky.social 🏠💡 Looking forward to the important conversations ahead with experts from across academia, engineering, and the third sector 💬

My husband and I just celebrated 22 years together, which is longer than both of Nigel Farage's mixed-sex marriages combined.

Today @beyondsrebrenica.bsky.social hosts an event with the Scottish Government to mark the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide. We were honoured to have Sabina Kadić-Mackenzie share her story and the charity's mission to ensure remembrance. 🎧 Learn more: open.spotify.com/episode/5TED...

As it's in the news again - this is the post I wrote a few months ago on why the disability benefits bill has been going up. Essentially, you can't remove need by removing support - it just pops up as a cost somewhere else. open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

🗞️ In a new blog, Dr David Bell explains how changes to the UK Treasury’s Green Book could shift investment away from the South-East by focusing more on regional needs. This could impact how projects are funded across the UK, including in Scotland. www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Bit of a special one this, to end our current season of Spotlight. Super proud of how this podcast has grown in popularity in recent times. Are you one of the thousands who tune in each episode? 🕵🏻‍♂️

Here’s @uofgvc.bsky.social reflecting on some of Chancellor’s recent choices…

NEW: The 2025 Spending Review Big Picture: A Difficult Macroeconomic Balancing Act Prof. Sir Anton Muscatelli @uofgvc.bsky.social unpacks the review - not a return to austerity but tough choices ahead. Political, economic, and global pressures shape UK’s fiscal future www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

The debacle of the winter fuel payment is a fascinating case study of devolution. In making this promise today, the FM will need to spend more than he’s got for this devolved benefit and therefore have to take from elsewhere to meet the commitment…

Our Director, Professor Nicola McEwen, joins the panel on BBC Debate Night this evening. 📺 Watch from 9pm on BBC Scotland, 10:40pm on BBC One Scotland, or catch up on BBC iPlayer.

A warm welcome to those joining us for the Rethinking Health Inequalities conference, with co-hosts @uofgmvls.bsky.social and Glasgow Changing Futures. We look forward to a full day of keynotes, expert panels, and innovative workshops exploring ways to #RethinkHealthInequality in Scotland. 🤩

Great read if you want to understand the link between flamingos and democratic health! …Consistently raised by @patrickharvie.bsky.social and @ross-greer.bsky.social

Last chance to register for 'Rethinking Health Inequalities'⌛ Mon 2 June, a deep dive into: 🔹 Primary care & community action 🔹Creating evidence-based policy 🔹 Health priorities ahead of #Holyrood2026 🏥 Clarice Pears | 10am–4pm | Lunch included Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/rethinking...

READ: Could Pakistan renew nuclear testing in South Asia?🌏❓ With Balochistan declaring independence from Pakistan amid geopolitical tensions in the region, Prof Jay Sarkar @uofgsps.bsky.social examines whether this might spur Pakistan to renew nuclear weapons testing. www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Scotland's set for one of the world's most disproportionate legislatures thanks to the constitutional divide, fragmenting party system, and lopsided electoral system that fails to incentivise good governance. Is it time for Holyrood electoral reform? My latest for @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Well worth a listen. Nasar is PI for the Governance and Local Integration of Migrants and Europe's Refugees project, and Sergi is a member of the UK's Migration Advisory Committee.

NEW: How do lived experience perspectives impact decisions in the Scottish Parliamentary process?💡🗣️ @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social writes about her research which aims to better understand how this evidence is used and how it influences policy decision making. www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/... 1/2