The Scottish Women’s Convention (SWC) was set up by the Scottish Executive in 2003 in recognition of the need to ensure women’s voices reach policy makers. We work to give women throughout Scotland the opportunity to be involved in our activities and events. Our events include conferences on a range of topics, roadshows, roundtables and…
The Scottish Women’s Convention (SWC) was set up by the Scottish Executive in 2003 in recognition of the need to ensure women’s voices reach policy makers. We work to give women throughout Scotland the opportunity to be involved in our activities and events. Our events include conferences on a range of topics, roadshows, roundtables and…
Join Professor Juliet Kaarbo at 7PM today in School 5! Dr. Kaarbo co-founded and works with the Scottish Council on Global Affairs, and her research focuses on leader personality, foreign policy decision making, group dynamics, parliaments and parties, and national roles.
Join Professor Juliet Kaarbo at 7PM today in School 5! Dr. Kaarbo co-founded and works with the Scottish Council on Global Affairs, and her research focuses on leader personality, foreign policy decision making, group dynamics, parliaments and parties, and national roles.
Join Professor Juliet Kaarbo at 7PM today in School 5! Dr. Kaarbo co-founded and works with the Scottish Council on Global Affairs, and her research focuses on leader personality, foreign policy decision making, group dynamics, parliaments and parties, and national roles.
Jen McCall, Senior Commissioning Editor, Lynne Rienner Publishers: Please email your attendance David at by Friday 28 March. Excellent opportunity to learn more of what publishers seek and how book proposals work.
The School of History is delighted to welcome you to the Inaugural Furgol Lecture, followed by a drinks reception in Lower College Hall. Professor Julia Barrow (Leeds) will deliver the lecture ‘Training young clerics: school experiences in north-western Europe c.1050-c.1150’. Education was essential for young clerics, who were expected to be literate, and schools formed…
Hosted by Sunniva Davies-Rommetveit Since the late 2010s, climate protest groups have used a variety of tactics to demand an acceleration to the green energy transition, ranging from normative (e.g. legal marches), to non-normative (e.g. blocking roads). Contemporaneously, climate activists in western democracies have been confronted with repressive new laws criminalising disruptive protests. Meanwhile, the…
Structural violence leads to a disproportionate burden of trauma among marginalized communities. There are few multilevel interventions to promote resilience after trauma that are informed by the input of these impacted communities. Over the past decade, Dr. Woods-Jaeger and her team have been partnering with youth and adults exposed to structural violence to develop an…
The implementation of Net Zero strategies is urgent, but a complex undertaken. Energy researchers play a fundamental role in shaping our future energy landscape, in paving the pathways for just transitions. But how can we make sure that our findings reach policymakers? How can we share our understandings of challenges and potentials, so it is…