In this Policy Scotland podcast, we talk to Urban Studies postgraduate researcher, Kainde Manji, about her work on welfare reforms and people living with disabilities in Scotland.

 

This podcast was recorded at the 2015 David Frisby Memorial Lecture held at the University of Glasgow. In this lecture, hosted by the Department of Sociology, Professor Walby, UNESCO Chair of Gender Research, University of Lancaster, discusses the financial crisis in Europe and its democratic, social and gender-related outcomes.

This episode of the Policy Scotland Podcast features Breannon Babbel, Urban Studies researcher at the University of Glasgow. This is an extended version of last week’s Friday Video which you can view at http://policyscotland.gla.ac.uk/category/video/

Breannon talks to us about her research and fieldwork with General Practitioners in deprived areas of Glasgow, and how their experiences can help shape policies that address health inequality across Scotland and the UK.

https://policyscotland.gla.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Breannon-Babbel-Podcast.mp3

In this podcast, Sarah Hamlin and Amy Watson discuss some of the ideas about gender and ‘women’s issues’ present in the manifestos of the Conservative Party, Green Party, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, SNP and UKIP. This podcast was recorded live on 21st April 2015, and reflects information current at the time of recording. We will be recording another podcast on gender and the General Election 2015 before May 7th – this will cover new announcements made since 21st April 2015.

In this podcast which corresponds to the first of our Friday Video series, we talk to Urban Studies postgraduate researcher, Kainde Manji, about her work on welfare reforms and people living with disabilities in Scotland. For the video and other great material, visit policyscotland.gla.ac.uk.

This podcast is the first in a series of three podcasts on Welfare Reform, recorded at the Launch of the Welfare Reform Network. In this episode, Carla McCormack of the Poverty Alliance speaks on “The Impact of Sanctions in Scotland”.

This podcast is the second in a series of three podcasts on Welfare Reform, recorded at the Launch of the Welfare Reform Network. In this episode, Dr Sharon Wright of the University of Glasgow speaks on “Sanctions in policy and practice”.

Introduced by Principal Anton Muscatelli, head of the Glasgow City Council, Gordon Matheson, delivers a speech for Policy Scotland on the new  Glasgow and Clyde Valley City Deal – the largest in the UK and the first of its kind in Scotland.

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Audio from Murdo Frasers speech for Policy Scotland & Reform Scotland – 26/06/2014

https://policyscotland.gla.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Murdo_Fraser.mp3