Professor Isaac Taber, Senior Lecturer in Finance, Stirling Management School There are still many things we do not yet know about coronavirus, including the mortality rate. We also do not know the ultimate economic effect of measures that governments across the world have implemented to slow the spread of the virus. Nonetheless, it’s safe to
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Professor Leigh Sparks, Professor of Retail Studies, Institute for Retail Studies, Stirling Management School On the 31st March, Kantar released their data on the last four weeks of grocery sales and the figures were eye-watering, outperforming Christmas sales and periods. March was the biggest month of grocery sales in the UK ever recorded. In the
Professor Rachel Norman, Chair in Food Security & Sustainability, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling In a mini lecture, Professor Rachel Normal discuses how COVID-19 is impacting food security. The virtual lecture is available to watch online, and a transcript is provided below. Hello. My name’s Rachel Norman, and I’m Chair of Food Security
Eric Shaw, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Faculty of Arts and Humanities Party leaders matter more than ever in today’s politics. They embody their parties in the public’s mind and, for many voters, assessing a leader is a cognitive shortcut simplifying the process of electoral choice. So, Keir Starmer’s election as the UK’s Labour party leader,
Professor Andrew Watterson, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport Andrew Watterson argues that failures in worker health and public health planning have collided with devastating effect. This blog draws upon a research report, available here. Occupational health and safety, a reserved matter, has been a Cinderella in the funding and staffing policies and
Dr Kim McKee, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stirling Dr Jenny Preece, Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield Recent research commissioned by the National Housing Federation (2019) shows 8.4 million people in England are directly affected by the housing crisis, with one in seven now living in unaffordable, insecure, overcrowded and unsuitable homes.
Dr Maria Fotopoulou, Lecturer in Criminology, Faculty of Social Sciences Dr Tessa Parkes, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences Dundee, the city with the highest rate of drug deaths in Europe, is the first place in Scotland to deliver the Pause intervention to 20 women from some of the city’s poorest areas. The programme, which
Professor Leigh Sparks, Professor of Retail Studies, Institute for Retail Studies, Stirling Management School In my last post, I considered some of the best and worst behaviours we have seen in food retailing during the COVID-19 crisis to date. Now we have the Government lockdown and the splitting of retailing into essential and non-essential shops,
Paul Cairney, Professor of Politics, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Stirling Adam M. Wellstead, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Social Sciences, Michigan Tech Trust is essential during a crisis. It is necessary for cooperation. Cooperation helps people coordinate action, to reduce the need for imposition. It helps reduce uncertainty in a complex world.
Professor Leigh Sparks, Professor of Retail Studies, Institute for Retail Studies, Stirling Management School A couple of weeks ago we were delighted to have Helen Dickenson, Chief Executive of the British Retail Consortium deliver our Retail Futures lecture. Her title, Retail Armageddon or Reinvention? and her presentation were about the retail restructuring underway. Three weeks