Congrats to our own Prof Porto de Albuquerque who was recently awarded a £2.5m grant from @wellcometrust.bsky.social for the 3️⃣-year project PACHA: Participatory Analytics for Climate-Health Adaptation in Disadvantaged Urban Communities in Brazil 🎉 🤓 More info 👉 www.gla.ac.uk/explore/glas...

🚨 Hot off the press! New article on urban leadership & climate change from our own @davidwglasgow.bsky.social & @unistrathclyde.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk-based @gjallan.bsky.social & @graemeroy.bsky.social 🤓 Read #OpenAccess in @regionalstudies.bsky.social 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Further speakers announced! Register now: lnkd.in/eQ3cUPfh Join us for the launch of The 2026 Scottish Election: Housing Evidence Priorities for a New Government, a new report by Prof @kengibb.bsky.social and Dr Gareth James from CaCHE and the University of Glasgow.

Thrilled to see our own @moragtreanor.bsky.social's latest report with @aberlourcharity.bsky.social published 🙌 Already picked up by The Independent, The Herald, The London Evening Standard, Third Force News, The Morning Star & media in 🇮🇳 🇲🇾 Read: www.aberlour.org.uk/publications...

I've been working with @aberlourcharity.bsky.social for 6 years in total and this is our latest report on public debt and gender.

📣 Article alert! New, excellent piece on Adam Smith & realism from our very own @davidwglasgow.bsky.social & a University of Stirling colleague Sheila Dow 👏💪 Read #OpenAccess in Cambridge Journal of Economics: academic.oup.com/cje/advance-...

Clear skies and crisp air in Glasgow 💙 The perfect opportunity for a wander around campus to admire our iconic tower from many angles!

Fantastic news 🎉 Our own Dr Ross Beveridge has been appointed Associate Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Dialogues in Urban Research: journals.sagepub.com/home/DUS 👏 Ross will be leading the development of Article Forums & Series, helping to push the field forward in exciting new ways 💪

📣 Job opportunity! Contribute to the Participatory Harm Auditing Workbenches & Methodologies project as Research Assistant (Training Development & Engagement) 🤓 0.5 FTE, up to 18mts 🗓️ Closing 6 Jan 2026 Contact @markwong.bsky.social for enquiries about the role www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN699/r...

USSP’s Alison Heppenstall, Yahya Gamal, Tatsuya Mitomi & Daniel Konioukhov joined the AI4CI Hub event, AI and the City, at the @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social Yahya presented Hub work and Alison joined a panel exploring AI’s role in future cities. @ai4cihub.bsky.social @yahyagamal.bsky.social

The fight to end child poverty goes on. But today we must celebrate. It will make a real, lasting difference to families the breadth of the UK and I’m so grateful to everyone in @changingrealities.bsky.social & @cpaguk.bsky.social who have advocated tirelessly for its full abolition

"The lifting of the two-child limit will help to relieve the situation of so many families like mine. Winter is here and I’m having to budget on heating..." (Ashley, Changing Realities parent affected by 2-child limit) 🧵1/4 #Budget #2CL

“Designing healthier cities begins with listening, to data, to place, and to people” Congrats to Mingyu Zhu @ubdc.bsky.social and @northumbriauni.bsky.social partners, who won the Design Research for Healthy Cities Award at the Healthy City Design 2025 International Congress 🎉 bit.ly/49AWab6

📣 USSP Seminar alert! Prof Stavros Stavrides, National Technical University of Athens 🇬🇷, will give a paper on the emancipatory power of commoning. 🗓️ 10 Dec 2025 🕒 3:30-5:00pm 📍 Adam Smith Building - Room 386AB More info: www.gla.ac.uk/events/listi... Join us for the last seminar of 2025 😀

USSP's @drewankerr.bsky.social was delighted to present at the 'Can Digital Workers Switch Off?' event at Stirling's ESRC Festival of Ideas last week. Drawn from previous research on trade union and social movement activism during COVID-19, read the full article in Scottish Affairs: bit.ly/3K3QR9N

Sam, a mother of one child, coherently explains why the two child benefit cap must be lifted as part of the upcoming child poverty strategy. Read her opinion piece @bigissue.com @uofgussp.bsky.social www.bigissue.com/opinion/two-...

With talks at #COP30 focusing on sustainable cooling, research by @qunshanzhao.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social has found a new way of detecting indoor mini-heatwaves - and what can be done to avoid further suffering as a result of extreme heat. www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Employment alone won’t turn the tide on child poverty, unless it is backed by the removal of the controversial two-child limit and the benefit cap, analysis by @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social and the University of Cambridge warns. More: gla.ac/3JTq2F3

Great article on the spread and impact of gambling in the USA in @psychologytoday.com. Thanks for inviting me to contribute. www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/... @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social @psychologytoday.com

As Brazil prepares to welcome global leaders for COP30, research led by Prof Joao Porto de Albequerque @uofgussp.bsky.social is aiming to reduce climate change impacts on health and wellbeing in the country’s favela urban communities. More: gla.ac/3LJDhbW

📣 New Blog! In this blog, Mhairi Mackenzie @uofgussp.bsky.social describes Fundamental Cause Theory and presents an important framework on how to mitigate rather than exacerbate inequalities, and how to actively work to undo fundamental causes of health inequalities www.gcph.co.uk/latest/news-...

👏 Shoutout to our own Dr Alison McCandlish @crenellatedarts.bsky.social for delivering 2 engaging sessions on social sciences for Primary 6 pupils as part of the Focus Week at IntoUniversity centre based in Maryhill Burgh Halls ➕ 1 for parents/carers/guardians at the Adult & Family Learning event 🌟

Article alert! 📣 Excellent, new article on why we need a redistribution of income & wealth to achieve sustainability 🌱 from our very own Prof. Karen Bell 👏 Read #OpenAccess in The Economic & Labour Relations Review: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📚 New book 📚 Brilliant, new work on emotion, place & heritage from our very own Prof Rebecca Madgin @imadgination03.bsky.social 🙌 Read #OpenAccess: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

📝Our Centre director Prof @kengibb.bsky.social also discusses the study in a recent blog: housingevidence.ac.uk/housing-supp...

Nine recommendations to help Scotland achieve a shared understanding of housing affordability are proposed in a new report, based on findings from @scotgov Short Life Working Group 2022-2024 - chaired by @kengibb.bsky.social of @housingevidence.bsky.social More: gla.ac/49sSuYM

CaCHE Director Prof @kengibb.bsky.social spoke with the BBC last night about the newly published report based on findings from the Short Life Working Group 2022-24 (chaired by Prof Gibb) about a shared understanding of housing affordability in Scotland. Watch here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

🎉 Shoutout to Prof Charlotte Pearson @charlp.bsky.social & Dr Anna Gawlewicz @annagawlewicz.bsky.social who have been invited to join the ESRC Assessor College! They’ll be serving on grant review/assessment panels in the next 2️⃣ yrs - an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of the field 🤓

Event alert! 📣 Guest lecture: Prof John Tomaney (UCL) on Mayors & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Discussants: Dr Caroline Brown @drcarolinebrown.bsky.social (RTPI) & Prof Iain Docherty (Stirling University) 🗓️ Wed, 26 Nov, 4-6pm 📍 Clarice Pears Bld, 90 Byres Road, Glasgow Come & join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/mayors-exp...

Massive congrats to our 2️⃣ new Doctors in USSP - Dr Jocelyne Marie Fleming & Dr Yue Li 🎓💪 Both successfully defended their PhD theses recently - richly deserved recognition of their hard work 🤓 Huge thanks to the supervisors, examiners & viva conveners who made it happen 👏

Double the creativity! ✨ 2️⃣ exhibitions led by our colleagues Dr Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social & Dr Louise Lawson are open to the public as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences - come & explore! 📷 🎨 WHERE: James McCune Smith Learning Hub (foyer), UoG main campus Do pop in - details 👇

Read USSP's @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social timely post on Comment is Freed's Substack channel exploring the impact of the two-child limit, as the UK Government prepares to publish their long-awaited Child Poverty Strategy next month. #socialpolicy @uofgsps.bsky.social samf.substack.com/p/the-worst-...

🍽️ New publication from USSP's @ellenlaurab.bsky.social as co-author when at @wlvuni.bsky.social, exploring the sensory and emotional history of the UK School Meals Service since 1944 👉https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0046760X.2025.2564358 @uofgsps.bsky.social

Scrapping stamp duty may sound like a quick fix to Britain’s housing crisis, but there’s reason to believe it would barely move the needle on affordability. USSP's @yahyagamal.bsky.social is one of four authors reflecting on a stamp duty land tax policy proposal 🏠 theconversation.com/the-real-rea...

📻Are you interested in hearing about good practice in learning, teaching & assessment? USSP's Alison McCandish is one of four @uofglasgow.bsky.social colleagues editing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning podcast. Listen to SoTL Journeys now 👇

Join us for the opening of the '52 Squares: Diversity in Everyday Life' exhibition on Monday at 1 pm in James McCune Smith Learning Hub (JMS) foyer 👇

Ross Beveridge of USSP has contributed to an @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social special collection celebrating the life and work of the late political theorist and scholar of cities, Warren Magnusson. Wonderfully edited by @rkeil.bsky.social & Zack Taylor. Link below 👇

Kemi Badenoch has proposed abolishing stamp duty as a remedy for the UK’s housing affordability crisis - but Prof Alison Heppenstall @uofgussp.bsky.social has collaborated on research that finds this won't tackle the deeper structural challenges of home ownership affordability. bit.ly/3LkK9MI

📣 New report on gambling now out! Led by our very own Sarah Tipping, this excellent report explores gambling activities, frequency & harms 🎲🃏 You can read it here: 👉 www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/report/gambl...

Fantastic to see the @changingrealities.bsky.social work led by our own @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social cited in this piece 💪

A great intro to @uofgussp.bsky.social's Dr Jane Cullingworth's new @evidencepolicy.bsky.social article.

📣 Article alert! New, excellent piece on a non-normative approach to public space from our own Jingyi Zhu 👏 In the article, Jingyi builds a heuristic “space-order” publicness model & uses Shanghai 🇨🇳 as a case study. #OpenAccess in Journal of Urbanism now 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Interesting read on gaps in land-based gambling supervision - citing our work on gambling product risk. www.bbc.com/news/article... @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social

Wonderful to see this published! Excellent work from Scott. @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social

Congrats to our own Jingyi Zhu, together with Matthew Carmona & Wendy Clarke, whose project 'Tacking Inequality in Housing Design Quality' has received the 2025 RTPI's @rtpiplanners.bsky.social Sir Peter Hall Award for Wider Engagement! 🎉 About the project 👉 placealliance.org.uk/from-inequal...

Our own Prof Andy Inch’s book (co-authored with Malcolm Tait, Ben Clifford, Susannah Gunn, Abigail Schoneboom, Geoff Vigar & Jason Slade) 'The Future for Planners' is the winner of the 2025 RTPI's @rtpiplanners.bsky.social Patsy Healey Award for Academic Excellence 💪 www.rtpi.org.uk/events-train...

Big impact at the Trades Union Congress! 👏 The Alternative Defence Review, co-written & edited by our own Prof. Karen Bell, influenced the “Wages Not Weapons” motion - advocating to redirect military spending toward public services & sustainable employment 👏 Read ADR: cnduk.org/wp-content/u...

Thrilled to have risen to 84th in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. We have improved our position by three places globally, while maintaining the position of 10th in the UK. Read more: gla.ac/4mXXUy2 #THEUniRankings

Big shoutout to our own Emma Russel & @silviab.bsky.social who recently presented their analysis of linked administrative data & the 'Growing Up in Scotland' cohort study at conferences in Fribourg 🇨🇭 & Cardiff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 This work is led by @moragtreanor.bsky.social & is part of @scadrdata.bsky.social 💪