Dr Kim Barker, Lecturer in Law, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Stirling Dr Olga Jurasz, Lecturer in Law, The Open University Social media, and online presences are increasingly available to facilitate the participation of women in politics, and political movements. Without such interactive platforms, equality of representation would be an unachievable goal, and
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Professor David Bell, Stirling Management School The UK economy is facing a precipitous drop in demand. This fall is likely to be short-lived and is specific to a range of customer-facing industries. Social distancing is already having a hugely detrimental effect on transport, tourism, sport and hospitality. What is the appropriate policy response? To avoid
Dr David Comerford, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Stirling Management School Coronavirus has disrupted everyday life throughout the world through travel bans, flight restrictions and the cancellation of sporting and cultural events. More than 10 million Italians have been banned from travelling, and all public events cancelled. In China, 30 million people are still under lockdown,
Professor Leigh Sparks, Professor of Retail Studies, Institute for Retail Studies, Stirling Management School Over the last seven or so years, for a variety of personal reasons, I have seen more of the insides of hospitals than I have wanted to. I am not alone in this at my life stage of course. Those visits
Dr David Comerford, Program Director, MSc Behavioural Science, University of Stirling When we talk about innovations to deal with the climate crisis, we tend to think of new technologies developed by physical scientists. Although a real sense of climate emergency now seems to be permeating the global consciousness thanks to recent high-profile campaigning, many of us
Dr Kim Barker, Lecturer in Law, Stirling Law School Dr Olga Jurasz, Senior Lecturer in Law, The Open University Law School The Scottish Government is currently considering reforms to the hate crime framework in Scotland. This law reform agenda is something of a pressing priority given the increase in hate incidents, and the upsurge in
Tony Robertson, Lecturer in Social Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Stirling Sandra Engstrom, Lecturer, Social Work, University of Stirling The world has watched in sympathy as Australia has come to terms with the ravages of the worst bush fires on record. Communities have been devastated by this crisis, but many have shown incredible resilience in
Dr Steve Rolfe, Research Fellow, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stirling, and Dr Lisa Garnham, Public Health Research Specialist, Glasgow Centre for Population Health While tenant participation and engagement in social housing is well researched, the same cannot be said for the private rented sector (PRS). We recently completed a literature review on tenant
Eric Shaw, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Faculty of Arts and Humanities Labour entered the UK general election with a double handicap. Brexit was peeling away many of its 2017 voters, especially among the working class in the north of England and West Midlands. Jeremy Corbyn was also hugely unpopular – and perceptions of which leader will make the best prime minister are
Professor David Bell, Stirling Management School On December 10th, two days before an election precipitated by a government willing to accept crashing out of the EU on “WTO rules”, the court which enforces WTO rules, will collapse. Without any enforcement mechanism and no trade deals in place, UK industry will have no way to remedy