School of Social & Political Sciences

New staff member: Evgeny Postnikov

Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:22:00 BST

Joining Politics in September 2014

New staff member: Anna Gawlewicz

Fri, 07 Nov 2014 14:46:00 GMT

Research Associate in Sociology from January 2015

LGBTI Human Rights in the Commonwealth conference, 18 July

Tue, 08 Jul 2014 15:36:00 BST

The conference took place on Nelson Mandela International Day, 18 July, and passed a groundbreaking Statement which will form a basis of future LGBTI Human Rights activism in relation to the Commonwealth

New staff member: Brian Fogarty

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:00:00 GMT

Lecturer in Quantitative Social Sciences from January 2015

Call for Papers: Racism and Anti-Racism: from the labour movement to the far-right

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:24:00 BST

A Two-Day Conference to be held at the University of Glasgow, 5-6 September 2014

Politics student interviews former Prime Minister of Bulgaria

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:55:00 GMT

Ferdinand von Goetzen interviews Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last King and former Prime Minister of Bulgaria

Glasgow-led Project wins ESRC Impact Award

Mon, 06 Oct 2014 16:35:00 BST

The Desistance Knowledge Exchange Project recently won the ESRC award for Outstanding Impact in Public Policy. The project is based in the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research and led by Professor Fergus McNeill.

New book: Informal Power in the Greater Middle East - Hidden Geographies

Mon, 03 Mar 2014 11:38:00 GMT

Edited by Luca Anceschi (CEES, University of Glasgow) with Andrea Teti (University of Aberdeen) & Gennaro Gervasio (BUE, Cairo), this book maps out the hidden geographies of power in the Greater Middle East, a region that spans from Morocco to Pakistan.

New staff member: Andrew Hom

Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:46:00 GMT

Research Associate in Politics from November 2014

New staff member: Ellie Conway

Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:22:00 BST

Researcher in Urban Studies from May 2014

New staff member: Niccole Pamphilis

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 16:46:00 BST

Lecturer in Quantitative Social Sciences from September 2014

New Book: Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider

Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:34:00 BST

Professor Satnam Virdee's new book offers an original perspective on the significance of both racism and anti-racism in the making of the English working class.

Evaluation of the Links Worker Programme in ‘Deep End’ General Practices in Glasgow

Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:21:00 GMT

The Links Worker Programme is a Scottish Government funded programme which aims to explore how the primary care team can support people to live well in their community. It is being delivered as a partnership between the Health and Social Care Alliance (The ALLIANCE) and General Practitioners at the Deep End (The Deep End), and delivery partners include SAMH and the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP).

Call for papers: Evolving understandings of racism and resistance

Fri, 05 Dec 2014 12:21:00 GMT

One-day ESRC/BSA conference at the Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging, University of East London in conjunction with the BSA Race and Ethnicity Study Group

Watch LGBTI Human Rights in the Commonwealth conference on video

Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:50:00 GMT

Videos of the LGBTI Human Rights in the Commonwealth conference, held on International Nelson Mandela Day 18 July 2014, have been published by the University on Youtube - and can be accessed on the Glasgow Human Rights Network website

Explaining and Mitigating Electoral Violence

Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:15:00 BST

In recent decades many elections have been beset by the use of force, which undermines states’ core economic, social and political functions. This new project led by Prof Sarah Birch in Politics will develop the conceptual, practical and methodological tools needed to understand electoral violence, and strategies to prevent it.