Urban Studies & Social Policy

Article alert 📣

New, brillinat piece on how home/hybrid working has reshaped the housing market value of public transport accessibility from our own Michail Georgiou, @nickbailey37.bsky.social @rafa-vdz.bsky.social & a colleague Annamaria Nizi 👏

#OpenAccess in EPB now 👉 doi.org/10.1177/2399...

@uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

📢USSP Seminar alert

@gabriel-silvestre.bsky.social from @newcastleuni.bsky.social will join us for a screening of his debut film 'A Place in the City' & discussion with Ross Beveridge.

📆Wed 4th March
🕰️3.30 to 5.00pm
📍Room 210, 42 Bute Gardens

All welcome.
View trailer 🎬https://bit.ly/470xcjb

An image of the title of The Conversation article: From Minneapolis to Toronto and Bogota, cities showcase new ways to address crises

📢Our colleagues Ross Beveridge and @drewankerr.bsky.social have contributed to an article in @theconversation.com that reports provisional findings from the SSHRC–ESRC funded project: Multi-Level Crisis Governance in Canada and the UK: Seeing Crisis Governance Like a City 🌇▶️https://bit.ly/4ce553v

Great news for our USSP colleagues 👏

🚨 Job opportunity at USSP 🚨

Work across 2️⃣ grants - nine months with @profellenstu.bsky.social & @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social on their work package of Policy Modelling for Health, followed by nine months with @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social's @changingrealities.bsky.social team.

👇 For details 👇

New edited collection from our own @drewankerr.bsky.social & colleagues 👏

COVID-19 didn’t just disrupt daily life - it reshaped state-society relations. This explores how crisis governance transformed the dynamics between governments, civil society & social movements.

👉 brill.com/display/titl...

A new way of classifying building energy efficiency that could benefit households and address the global net-zero carbon agenda has been developed by @glasgow.ac.uk and
@cam.ac.uk

Prof Qunshan Zhao @ubdc.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social
led the research.

www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

🎉 Changing Realities has been celebrated as a 2026 @bigissue.com changemaker for our work in the politics and activism category 🎉 @uofgussp.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk www.bigissue.com/news/activis...

Huge congrats to our own Dr Mingyu Zhu on being awarded the Smart Data Research Fellowship 🎉💪

Mingyu's project will use smart meter, housing & weather data to identify unhealthy indoor conditions - helping reduce illness, fuel poverty & health inequality.

Brilliant, impactful work 👏

The UK Government’s AI Skills Programme Betrays UK Workers And Our Digital Sovereignty | Computer Weekly - World Of Software Last month, the UK government announced the AI Skills Boost programme, promising “free AI training for all” and claiming that the courses will give people the

The UK government’s AI skills programme betrays UK workers and our digital sovereignty - Dr Mark Wong @uofgussp.bsky.social is co-author of this article critiquing the UK government's AI Skills Boost programme for its reliance on US tech platforms.

worldofsoftware.org/the-uk-gover...

@uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

Research note: exploring the decolonization of the housing studies curriculum Decolonizing the curriculum has risen as a political and pedagogical concern in the past ten to twenty years, particularly in the wake of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Significant attention has b...

Congratulations to USSP’s Dr @madhusatsangi.bsky.social on having his research, exploring the decolonization of the housing studies curriculum, published in Housing and Society recently. Read the full article here 👇https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08882746.2026.2620132

🚍🪴Cities becoming less sustainable with more home/hybrid working?

WTP for PT access has fallen, especially in smaller cities & costlier housing markets.

📜 Blog: rebrand.ly/n9frpcg

📰 Paper: rebrand.ly/dcj3xjk

@uofgussp.bsky.social @ubdc.bsky.social @nickbailey37.bsky.social @rafa-vdz.bsky.social

Living With Rain: Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow, with Andrew Hoolachan and Bobby Jewell How does rain impact how and when people get around, whether on foot, on public transport, or in private vehicles? How does it affect how we use outdoor and public spaces, from parks to streets and sh

Congrats to our own @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social whose work on ‘Living with Rain’, has been featured in a podcast, by the Thinking Through Infrastructure Network. You can listen to Andrew on the podcast here: soundcloud.com/ttinfrastruc... @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

The main building and tower at the University of Glasgow surrounded by trees.

Historic places are vital for mental health, according to research by @uofgussp.bsky.social, @imadgination03.bsky.social and Historic England.

Familiar historic places provide emotional stability – helping people to function and thrive in everyday life.

More: gla.ac/4qQ0CIZ

I am delighted to announce that we have been awarded funding by the ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council for a substantial new research project titled: ‘From Housing Beneficiaries to Urban… | Pa... I am delighted to announce that we have been awarded funding by the ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council for a substantial new research project titled: ‘From Housing Beneficiaries to Urban Citiz...

Massive congrats to our very own @paulameth.bsky.social & colleagues for winning a hugely competetive #ESRC grant to study state-supported housing in 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 & 🇿🇦

Brilliant achievement 💪 We're very proud to host the project 🤓

For more details: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

📣 USSP Seminar alert!

Get ready for an intellectual feast 🧠

6️⃣ brilliant 🇮🇹🇬🇧 speakers dive into how civic, academic & institutional roles shape places, power & collaborative development.

Don't miss it!

🗓️ 28 Jan 2026
🕒 3:30-5:00pm
📍 Advanced Research Centre

Info: www.eventbrite.com/e/civic-inte...

Interpreting moments of housing precarity along migrants’ biographies: the case of Romanians residing in post-Brexit Britain Precarity, a now established concept and an increasingly prevalent life condition, has been usefully employed to scrutinise mostly the non-housing challenges faced by migrants, particularly of the ...

Happy to share my new article, offering a more dynamic view on how migrant housing precarity fluctuates along shorter or longer “moments” of darker or lighter intensity. Bringing precarity & precariousness; De-homogenising the migrant & the precarious www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted to share this super line-up of speakers, thinkers and doers at our seminar exploring civic intermediaries and urban change in the UK and Italy.

📅 January 28, 3.30-5pm
🧭 U of G Advanced Research Centre

Sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/civic-inte...

I will be discussing some of this work in the upcoming event hosted by Citizens Advice Scotland. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/forecast-p...

CaCHE's 2025 Wrap Up - UK Collaborative Centre For Housing Evidence As we reach the end of 2025, I take this opportunity to revisit what has been going on in CaCHE in the last 12 months and what we might expect […]

To sum up 2025 from CaCHE, Centre Director Prof Ken Gibb has reflected back on the previous year and looks forward to 2026 in a new blog post published on our website.

You can read the blog here: housingevidence.ac.uk/caches-2025-...

Great to see our own @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social and the @changingrealities.bsky.social team, along with the families involved, being welcomed into Number 10 to be thanked for all their efforts! Thanks to the partners for helping to make this happen 🎉🎄

How the Scottish child payment has made a real difference – and not discouraged parents from working More than 70,000 Scottish children who would otherwise live in food insecurity or material deprivation do not – because of the Scottish Child Payment

Excellent read in @thescotsman.bsky.social on research by @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social and partners that shows how the Scottish child payment has reduced deprivation and not discouraged parents from working.

www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Women in multiple low-paid employment: pathways between work, care and health - Nuffield Foundation This project will be the first to study the nature and extent of women’s...

Proud moment 👏 Our own Louise Lawson joined a discussion on the review of the parental leave & pay system - led by the Department for Business & Trade and the Department for Work & Pensions.

Findings from Louise's study informed the review 👇 www.nuffieldfoundation.org/project/wome...

Scottish Child Payment | Food Insecurity | Deprivation New analysis shows the Scottish child payment sharply reduces child deprivation and food insecurity, with no evidence of work disincentives. Discover the findings.

New study from LSE, York & Glasgow universities shows the Scottish Child Payment is transforming lives.

Without it, 70,000 more children would face deprivation and food insecurity.

We will keep investing in families and lifting children out of poverty.

2️⃣ excellent working papers on how Scottish Child Payment 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 is making a difference from our very own @ilonapin.bsky.social @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social & the University of York, CASE/LSE & @cpagscotland.bsky.social colleagues Kate Andersen, Suzanna Nesom, Kitty Stewart & Emma Tominey 💪

More detail 👇

Great to see USSP's @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social and the @changingrealities.bsky.social team with the UK Prime Minister when he visited Glasgow last week to launch the Child Poverty Strategy.

‼️ The last USSP seminar of the year is TODAY ‼️

Don't miss it 🤓

In case you missed it! We discussed all things UK Budget on our #UofGSpotlight podcast last week with @graemeroy.bsky.social, @davidwglasgow.bsky.social, @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social 🎙️💡

What does it mean for Scotland, taxes, child poverty, economic growth?

Tune in www.uofgspotlight.com