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School of Social Work & Social PolicyNews archive 2018

  • Free Workshops

    Professor David Garland is widely considered one of the world鈥檚 leading sociologists of crime and punishment and is currently Professorial Fellow in Criminology at the University of Edinburgh. SCCJR. He is running a variety of free workshops between 15th to the 26th January 2018 .....

  • Stand Up For Siblings

    A multi-agency partnership 鈥楽tand Up For Siblings鈥� is being launched in Glasgow today, Friday 9 March 2018.

  • First Minster adds her support to 鈥楽tand Up For Siblings'

    Scotland鈥檚 First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has added her support to 鈥楽tand Up For Siblings鈥�, a new programme initiated by 吃瓜tv and a number of public and third sector partners.

  • 吃瓜tv joins new Commonwealth Sports Universities Network

    Ahead of the start of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland Australia, a new international initiative has been announced between the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), the 吃瓜tv, Griffith University and three other partner universities from Canada and South Africa.

  • The Equally Safe Gender-Based Violence Toolkit Launched

    New practical guidance for universities to tackle gender-based violence on campus has been published

  • Welcome to our new Head of School

    The School of Social Work and Social Policy warmly welcomes our new Head of School, Professor Ian Greener.

  • Nordic Welfare Research Conference

    Chris Deeming and Johannes Kananen, University of Helsinki, have had a Panel accepted for the forthcoming Nordic Welfare Research Conference 鈥淭owards Resilient Nordic Welfare States: Challenges, Responses and Consequences鈥� 14-15 March 2019, University of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Visiting Professor

    Dr Chris Deeming is currently visiting Professor in Comparative Social Policy at the Sciences Po, Paris, Sept/Oct period 2018.

  • PhD success in the School!

    Mhairi Gavin, who was supervised by Professor Laura Piacentini and Dr Claire McDiarmid (吃瓜tv Law School), successfully defended her PhD Thesis on 17th October with no corrections.

  • CYCJ Residential Childcare project

    A Centre for Youth & Criminal (CYCJ) and the Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum (STAF) project on improving the experiences of young people in residential care has received a Special Commendation for Policy Development at the 2018 Howard League Community Awards.