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Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power – a Global History (Bloomsbury, 2021) is a major work that provides the first comprehensive history of one of modernism's most defining and controversial architectural legacies: the 20th-century drive to provide 'homes for the people'. Vast programs of mass housing – high-rise, low-rise, state-funded, and built in the modernist style – became a truly global phenomenon, leaving a legacy which has suffered waves of disillusionment in the West but which is now seeing a dramatic, 21st-century renaissance in the booming, crowded cities of East Asia. Exploring the relationship between built form, ideology, and political intervention, it shows how mass housing not only reflected the transnational ideals of the Modernist project, but also became a central legitimizing pillar of nation-states worldwide. In a compelling narrative which likens the spread of mass housing to a 'Hundred Years War' of successive campaigns and retreats, it traces the history around the globe from Europe via the USA, Soviet Union and a network of international outposts, to its ultimate, optimistic resurgence in China and East Asia. Miles Glendinning is a Professor of Architectural Conservation at the University of Edinburgh and the Director of the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies. This interview was conducted by Timi Koyejo, a graduate student in urban studies at the University of Vienna. He has worked professionally as a researcher at the University of Chicago and as an urban policy advisor to the City of Chicago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power – a Global History (Bloomsbury, 2021) is a major work that provides the first comprehensive history of one of modernism's most defining and controversial architectural legacies: the 20th-century drive to provide 'homes for the people'. Vast programs of mass housing – high-rise, low-rise, state-funded, and built in the modernist style – became a truly global phenomenon, leaving a legacy which has suffered waves of disillusionment in the West but which is now seeing a dramatic, 21st-century renaissance in the booming, crowded cities of East Asia. Exploring the relationship between built form, ideology, and political intervention, it shows how mass housing not only reflected the transnational ideals of the Modernist project, but also became a central legitimizing pillar of nation-states worldwide. In a compelling narrative which likens the spread of mass housing to a 'Hundred Years War' of successive campaigns and retreats, it traces the history around the globe from Europe via the USA, Soviet Union and a network of international outposts, to its ultimate, optimistic resurgence in China and East Asia. Miles Glendinning is a Professor of Architectural Conservation at the University of Edinburgh and the Director of the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies. This interview was conducted by Timi Koyejo, a graduate student in urban studies at the University of Vienna. He has worked professionally as a researcher at the University of Chicago and as an urban policy advisor to the City of Chicago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power – a Global History (Bloomsbury, 2021) is a major work that provides the first comprehensive history of one of modernism's most defining and controversial architectural legacies: the 20th-century drive to provide 'homes for the people'. Vast programs of mass housing – high-rise, low-rise, state-funded, and built in the modernist style – became a truly global phenomenon, leaving a legacy which has suffered waves of disillusionment in the West but which is now seeing a dramatic, 21st-century renaissance in the booming, crowded cities of East Asia. Exploring the relationship between built form, ideology, and political intervention, it shows how mass housing not only reflected the transnational ideals of the Modernist project, but also became a central legitimizing pillar of nation-states worldwide. In a compelling narrative which likens the spread of mass housing to a 'Hundred Years War' of successive campaigns and retreats, it traces the history around the globe from Europe via the USA, Soviet Union and a network of international outposts, to its ultimate, optimistic resurgence in China and East Asia. Miles Glendinning is a Professor of Architectural Conservation at the University of Edinburgh and the Director of the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies. This interview was conducted by Timi Koyejo, a graduate student in urban studies at the University of Vienna. He has worked professionally as a researcher at the University of Chicago and as an urban policy advisor to the City of Chicago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/architecture

Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power – a Global History (Bloomsbury, 2021) is a major work that provides the first comprehensive history of one of modernism's most defining and controversial architectural legacies: the 20th-century drive to provide 'homes for the people'. Vast programs of mass housing – high-rise, low-rise, state-funded, and built in the modernist style – became a truly global phenomenon, leaving a legacy which has suffered waves of disillusionment in the West but which is now seeing a dramatic, 21st-century renaissance in the booming, crowded cities of East Asia. Exploring the relationship between built form, ideology, and political intervention, it shows how mass housing not only reflected the transnational ideals of the Modernist project, but also became a central legitimizing pillar of nation-states worldwide. In a compelling narrative which likens the spread of mass housing to a 'Hundred Years War' of successive campaigns and retreats, it traces the history around the globe from Europe via the USA, Soviet Union and a network of international outposts, to its ultimate, optimistic resurgence in China and East Asia. Miles Glendinning is a Professor of Architectural Conservation at the University of Edinburgh and the Director of the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies. This interview was conducted by Timi Koyejo, a graduate student in urban studies at the University of Vienna. He has worked professionally as a researcher at the University of Chicago and as an urban policy advisor to the City of Chicago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/public-policy

Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power – a Global History (Bloomsbury, 2021) is a major work that provides the first comprehensive history of one of modernism's most defining and controversial architectural legacies: the 20th-century drive to provide 'homes for the people'. Vast programs of mass housing – high-rise, low-rise, state-funded, and built in the modernist style – became a truly global phenomenon, leaving a legacy which has suffered waves of disillusionment in the West but which is now seeing a dramatic, 21st-century renaissance in the booming, crowded cities of East Asia. Exploring the relationship between built form, ideology, and political intervention, it shows how mass housing not only reflected the transnational ideals of the Modernist project, but also became a central legitimizing pillar of nation-states worldwide. In a compelling narrative which likens the spread of mass housing to a 'Hundred Years War' of successive campaigns and retreats, it traces the history around the globe from Europe via the USA, Soviet Union and a network of international outposts, to its ultimate, optimistic resurgence in China and East Asia. Miles Glendinning is a Professor of Architectural Conservation at the University of Edinburgh and the Director of the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies. This interview was conducted by Timi Koyejo, a graduate student in urban studies at the University of Vienna. He has worked professionally as a researcher at the University of Chicago and as an urban policy advisor to the City of Chicago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are joined by FTRE, The BuzzPodcast, The Watford Way and VOTV to talk to our Scottish Centre back about his time at Watford and his career in and for Scotland.COYH!!!This Podcast has been created and uploaded by Do Not Scratch Your Eyes. The views in this Podcast are not necessarily the views of talkSPORT.Huge thanks to all our Patreons:Chris Giannone,RichWFC2,Steve Holliman,Paul Fiander Turner,Sean Gourley,Lee Anselmo,John Parslow,Mark von Herkomer,Neil Silverstein,Steve Brown,Dave Lavender,Kasey Brown,Nipper Harrison,Boyd Mayover,Colin Payne,Paul Riley,Gary Wood,Karl Campion,Kevin Kremen,The Big Le – Bofski,Greg Theaker,Malcolm Williams,Bryan Edwards,Peter Ryan,Luka,John Thekanady - Ambassador of Dubai!!Jack Foster,Jason Rose,Michael Abrahams,Ian Bacon,Ken Green,Nick Nieuwland,Colin SmithAnt!!!!!Westlie WheelerStephen AtkinsonRyan D!Dave Mullins,James McNamaraJim Cuthbert& PDF Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From April, 2.7 million workers will get one of the biggest pay rises in UK history as the National Living Wage rises to £11.44 an hour. But will they feel better off?It's 25 years since the National Minimum Wage was introduced. During that time it's credited with putting billions of extra pounds in the pockets of low-paid workers. But, despite that, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, two thirds of households living in poverty have at least one adult in work. And, according to the Institute for Fiscal studies, far from cutting the annual benefits bill, the cost of benefits paid to working families has ballooned since 1999 to about 50 billion pounds a year. So what's behind this low pay puzzle? And what can employers, governments and workers do to ensure that work pays? Pauline Mason investigates.Presenter: Pauline Mason Producer: Ravi Naik Editor: Clare Fordham.Contributors: Kate Bell, TUC Assistant General Secretary and former low pay commissioner Damian Grimshaw, Professor of Employment Studies, Kings College London and London & South Forum Co-Lead at the Productivity Institute Patricia Findlay, Distinguished Professor of Work and Employment Relations, University of Strathclyde, and Director of the Scottish Centre for Employment Research Matthew Fell, Low Pay Commissioner and Director of Competitiveness at BusinessLDN Nye Cominetti, Principal Economist, the Resolution Foundation James Cockett, Labour Market Economist, CIPD Margaret Esapa, Managing Director and owner, Cherry Care Services, Oxfordshire Conor Taylor, Director, Foresso

"It's not rocket science... you investigate the suspect, not the victim," – Harriet Wistrich.In this episode, Suzy Angus and Emma Bryson, survivors of sexual violence and founders of Speak Out Survivors, meet Dr Oona Brooks-Hay (Reader in Criminology at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at the University of Glasgow) and Harriet Wistrich (Director of the Centre for Women's Justice) to discuss the difficulties in Scotland for victims and survivors to access justice. In particular, related to the outdated legal requirement for 'corroboration', which under Scots law means that only very specific types of evidence are admissible for the purposes of a criminal prosecution.Speak Out Survivors was founded in 2018 by survivors of sexual violence who all sought justice through the Scottish criminal justice system but were told it was not possible for a prosecution to go ahead. Although in each of our cases, there was evidence available, that evidence did not meet the very stringent requirements of corroboration. 

How can employers in all sectors of the UK economy get the best out of their workers, retain experienced staff, improve productivity and increase profits at the same time? The principles of "Job Design" seem to promise all of these benefits. It's a process of work innovation which focuses on people, their skills, their knowledge and how they interact with each other and technology, in every workplace, in every sector of the economy. Proponents claim it gives workers a voice in their workplace, allows them to balance their work and home lives, stops burnout and could get more of the economically inactive back in employment. But what evidence is there that it works - and how difficult would it be to implement changes in the workplace? Presenter: Pauline Mason Producer: Ravi Naik Editor: Clare Fordham Contributors: Patricia Findlay, Professor of Work and Employment Relations, University of Strathclyde and Director of the Scottish Centre for Employment Research. Kate Bennett, Labour ward coordinator at Liverpool Women's Hospital. Damian Grimshaw, Professor of Employment Studies, King's College London, and former head of research at the International Labour Organisation. Dame Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor, University of Cambridge and a director of the Productivity Institute. Rachel London, Deputy Chief People Officer at Liverpool Women's Hospital. Jenna Brimble. Midwife in the continuity of care team at Liverpool Women's Hospital. Heejung Chung, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Kent. Emma Stewart, Flexible working consultant and co-founder, Timewise. Dr Charlotte Gascoine independent researcher and consultant on flexible and part-time working Paul Dennett, Mayor of the City of Salford Jim Liptrot, Managing director, Howorth Air Tech. Stacey Bridge, Financial accounting assistant, Howorth Air Tech.

How can employers in all sectors of the UK economy get the best out of their workers, retain experienced staff, improve productivity and increase profits at the same time? The principles of "Job Design" seem to promise all of these benefits. It's a process of work innovation which focuses on people, their skills, their knowledge and how they interact with each other and technology, in every workplace, in every sector of the economy. Proponents claim it gives workers a voice in their workplace, allows them to balance their work and home lives, stops burnout and could get more of the economically inactive back in employment. But what evidence is there that it works - and how difficult would it be to implement changes in the workplace? Presenter: Pauline Mason Producer: Ravi Naik Editor: Clare Fordham Contributors: Patricia Findlay, Professor of Work and Employment Relations, University of Strathclyde and Director of the Scottish Centre for Employment Research. Kate Bennett, Labour ward coordinator at Liverpool Women's Hospital. Damian Grimshaw, Professor of Employment Studies, King's College London, and former head of research at the International Labour Organisation. Dame Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor, University of Cambridge and a director of the Productivity Institute. Rachel London, Deputy Chief People Officer at Liverpool Women's Hospital. Jenna Brimble. Midwife in the continuity of care team at Liverpool Women's Hospital. Heejung Chung, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Kent. Emma Stewart, Flexible working consultant and co-founder, Timewise. Dr Charlotte Gascoine independent researcher and consultant on flexible and part-time working Paul Dennett, Mayor of the City of Salford Jim Liptrot, Managing director, Howorth Air Tech. Stacey Bridge, Financial accounting assistant, Howorth Air Tech.

Our guest today is the dapper, copiously quaffed, and brilliant Ian Andrew Isherwood. Ian is Associate Professor of War and Memory Studies in the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Gettysburg College. He previously served as the Assistant Director of the Civil War Institute and chair of the Civil War Era Studies program. He is currently the Harold Keith Johnson Chair of Military History at the US Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Ian earned his BA at Gettysburg College, his MA at Dartmouth College, and his PhD from the University of Glasgow's Scottish Centre for War Studies.  Ian is the author of Remembering the Great War  (Bloomsbury) and the co-editor, with Steve Trout, of  Serpents of War: An American Officer's Story of World War I Combat and Captivity (forthcoming, University Press of Kansas). His articles have been published in War and Society, First World War Studies, War, Literature and the Arts, The Journal of Military History, and War in History. He is currently working on a book titled The Battalion: Citizen Soldiers on the Western Front, which is a history of a Kitchener volunteer battalion in the Great War. Ian is a member of the International Society for First World War Studies and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is also the creator and co-lead of The First World War Letters of H.J.C. Peirs, a centennial First World War digital history project. Ian is beyond dedicated to his students. In 2019, he was recognized as the outstanding faculty mentor of undergraduate research in the humanities at Gettysburg, and he has taken his students to Europe for field research on several occasions.  Join us for a really fun and interesting chat with Ian Isherwood. We'll talk beer can collections, First World War memoirs and diaries, teaching at a liberal arts college and a major PME institution, life writing, Tom Waits, C. S. Lewis, and wearing t-shirts in public - that's a lot of ground! Shoutout to Chubby's BBQ! Rec.: 05/04/2023

Bonus Tuesday episode! Our guest on the Mibbes Aye show this week is Dr Kirsty Hughes, writer, political commentator and former Director of the Scottish Centre for European Relations.  We put some key questions about EO/EFTA membership to Kirsty, including:  what is the process for applying to join? how long does it take? what support and benefits do we get through the accession process and many more.   There are shareable versions of each of the main questions on our Indylive Extra Youtube channel - please feel free to share them around anyone you think would be interested!  

In August 1941, one of the greatest poets India has ever produced died. Known as the "Bard of Bengal", Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize for Literature. Farhana Haider spoke to Professor Bashabi Fraser, Director of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies, in 2017. Photo: June 1921, Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore in London. Credit: Getty Images

Marguerite Schinkel is a criminologist at the University of Glasgow and the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research. Her research has focused on the meaning of sentences for those who serve them, focusing on long-term and persistent short-term prison sentences. She is also involved in another project funded by Community Justice Scotland, along with two colleagues, Cyrus Tata and Beth Weaver at Strathclyde University. The Meaning of Sentences is a pilot project which looks at the meanings given to the sentence imposed by the different actors in the courtroom. What meaning does the judge want to communicate, what meaning does the person sentenced perceive and what role does the defence lawyer play in these processes of meaning making?   More recently she has explored the impact of Covid-19 and the lockdown on penal experiences in Scotland and she is hoping to explore local ways out of harm in her next project. She is the co-founder of the Coalition Against Punishment, which aims to disrupt the punishment system in Scotland: https://capscotland.com/

Networks: Dr Ben Collier, University of Edinburgh We used to say look at the stars to feel how small you are, today we need just look at our phones. As we type into them the network pulses and our secrets are hoarded by the algorithm. We must ask, are we human or are we data?  Dr Ben Collier, Lecturer in Digital Methods at the University of Edinburgh, has spent the last couple of years looking intently at how our governments and police are using online tactics to nudge and influence us as we surf the internet.  From sophisticated fire safety messages being targeted at smart speakers in people's homes, to online adverts warning would-be teenage hackers that the DDoS attack they are planning is illegal, the creeping influence of these institutions is giving rising cause for concern.  Who is scrutinising these campaigns and could they unintentionally be doing more harm than good?  These are all questions our guest Ben and host Ali Fraser delve into in this episode of Just Humans.  Here's Ben's paper which he co-wrote with Dr Gemma Flynn, Dr James Stewart and Dr Daniel R. Thomas. https://bit.ly/31WPlQl Ben and Daniel also presented this SCCJR Seminar on the paper which you can watch on SCCJR's YouTube.  The Home Office audio clip featured in this episode came from the Digital Campaigning Essentials podcast published in May 2020. Hosted by Dr Alistair Fraser, Director of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR).  Produced & Edited by Rachelle Cobain, Communications Officer at SCCJR. Music: ‘Rewind' by Donna Maciocia and Sean H available to download from the Distant Voices EP ‘Looking at Colours Again'. Visit our website: www.sccjr.ac.uk or follow us on Twitter @TheSCCJR

Work: Dr Hannah Graham Some of us have started to return to the office and in doing so we are relearning how to connect with our colleagues and professional networks.  The art of the office and how to share our work with the outside world is always a challenge and nevermore so than in these strange Covid times.  To help guide us we have gathered round the watercooler with our long-time friend and colleague, Dr Hannah Graham, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Stirling.  Hannah has established herself as a prominent public scholar who is never shy of raising her voice and speaking out about issues of crime and justice that are close to her heart.  In this episode we learn more about how Hannah has developed her public voice, how she (and others) can connect and support colleagues and why it's important to show up!  Hosted by Dr Alistair Fraser, Director of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR).  Produced & Edited by Rachelle Cobain, Communications Officer at SCCJR. Music: ‘Rewind' by Donna Maciocia and Sean H available to download from the Distant Voices EP ‘Looking at Colours Again'. Visit our website: www.sccjr.ac.uk or follow us on Twitter @TheSCCJR

Friends: Dr Lisa Bradley and Dr Nughmana Mirza SCCJR besties Lisa and Nughmana first met when doing their PhD's at the University of Glasgow and soon found they had a lot in common; their research interests, having busy home lives with young kids, wanting to do academia differently and a shared love of chatting over cake and coffee. Soon their conversation sparked deep connection and collaboration.  In this episode of Just Humans we look at how friendship can be viewed as a radical act within the academy and examine the ways in which it may enrich research and the people who make it.  Since recording Dr Lisa Bradley is now a Lecturer in Creative and Interdisciplinary Studies in Education and Dr Nughmana Mirza is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Glasgow.  Researchers Don't Cry?! https://researchersdontcry.wordpress.com Diversifying Justice https://diversifyingjustice.com Hosted by Dr Alistair Fraser, Director of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR).  Produced & Edited by Rachelle Cobain, Communications Officer at SCCJR. Music: ‘Rewind' by Donna Maciocia and Sean H available to download from the Distant Voices EP ‘Looking at Colours Again'. Visit our website: www.sccjr.ac.uk or follow us on Twitter @TheSCCJR

Clare crosses the famous ‘Bridge over the Atlantic' for a ramble on the island of Seil. Her guide is the writer, educator, and director of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, Norrie Bissell. Geopoetics is described as “creatively expressing the earth” and is critical of the western way of thinking which separates humans from the rest of the natural world. Norrie has also published a novel, ‘Barnhill', about George Orwell's final years on the relatively nearby Island of Jura where he wrote 1984. Approximately twelve miles south of Oban, Seil is a small island separated from the mainland by the narrowest of sea channels. It became known as one of the ‘slate islands' thanks to its slate rock deposits which were quarried and used to ‘roof the world'. Norrie and Clare begin their walk on the mainland side of the bridge, at Grid Ref NM 785 196. Please scroll down to the 'related links' box on the Ramblings webpage for more info. Presenter: Clare Balding Producer for BBC Audio in Bristol: Karen Gregor

This webinar features Roly Megaw and was recorded on Thursday 23 September 2021. Roly does reference slides in his presentation but the content is easy to follow without the slides. Roly Megaw is a clinician scientist. He is a Wellcome Trust funded clinical lecturer at the MRC Human Genetics Unit at the University of Edinburgh and a consultant ophthalmologist in NHS Lothian. Roly undertook his PhD with Charles ffrench-Constant at the Scottish Centre for Regenerative medicine, using induced pluripotent stem cells to model x-linked retinitis pigmentosa, prior to undertaking his clinical fellowship with Graeme Black in Manchester. The webinar is also available on the Retina UK YouTube channel where it includes the slides: https://youtu.be/msbH6QseSBk. There are a number of webinars and online information evenings being held by Retina UK in the autumn of 2021. For more information, visit: https://retinauk.org.uk/info-events.

Following the fifth anniversary of the Brexit referendum, Brian and his guests tackle all things referendum, both past and possible future. In a heated discussion, former shadow secretary of state for Scotland Peter Duncan, former Conservative MSP and current leader of Reform UK Scotland Michelle Ballantyne, founder and director of Scottish Centre on European Relations Dr Kirsty Hughes and former constitution secretary Mike Russell raise questions of the benefits of Brexit and the path Scotland should take now. ________________________________________________Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/curiosityLicense code: SFVY2IZ7ELOZLWMR See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Scotland could once again seek to move towards independence and EU membership. Esme Nicholson discusses resulting challenges for Scotland, Westminster and the EU with Kirsty Hughes (Scottish Centre on European Relations), Nicolai von Ondarza (SWP), and Jess Sargeant (Institute for Government). Talk guests: Dr Kirsty Hughes is Director and founder of the Scottish Centre on European Relations, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She is a researcher, writer and commentator on European politics and policy. Dr Nicolai von Ondarza is Head of the Research Division EU / Europe of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). His research interests include Brexit and future EU-UK relations. Jess Sargeant is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Government. Her research focuses on devolution and Brexit, with particular interests in referendums, the UK internal market, and the Northern Ireland protocol. Host: Esme Nicholson

This episode is on medical education, focussing mainly on simulation training. Dr Vicky Tallentire discusses her career in medical education and explains how medical trainees can get involved in simulation training and research. She reflects on her time as an education fellow, an education coordinator at the Scottish Centre for Simulation and Clinical Human Factors (SCSChf) and her other roles. Feedback on this episode: https://bit.ly/CCRCPEFeedback Dr Tallentire is a Consultant in Acute Medicine, an Associate Postgraduate Dean and a simulation enthusiast and facilitator at SCSChf. She is a passionate believer in being able to admit, understand and learn from mistakes in all aspects of life. Resources: https://www.asme.org.uk https://scschf.org/courses/ https://www.scotlanddeanery.nhs.scot/trainee-information/internal-medicine-training-imt-simulation-programme/ https://www.ed.ac.uk/medicine-vet-medicine/postgraduate/clinical-education

Welcome to the QI Guy in conversation with...podcast. On this episode I have a conversation with Dr Lesley Anne Smith. Lesley Anne is a Health Foundation/Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Quality Improvement Fellow 2010-11, is a doctor and chartered accountant. She has held several senior roles in the NHS including Head of Quality, NHS Highland and Quality Improvement Programme Director, NHS Education for Scotland. In her most recent role as the NHS Lanarkshire Director of Quality Lesley Anne was responsible for leading the development and implementation of the Lanarkshire Quality Approach ensuring a connected infrastructure is in place that supports NHS Lanarkshire to deliver on its ambition of putting quality at the heart of the organisation. This included providing direct advice and support to the NHS Board and the Corporate Management Team on quality management, including specifically quality assurance, quality improvement and quality evidence, including knowledge services. She led on the development of the NHS Lanarkshire Quality Strategy 2018-23 and supporting Quality Plans to ensure delivery of the organisation's quality priorities. During her fellowship year at IHI Lesley Anne explored ways in which organisations can improve quality while at the same time saving money, with a focus on leadership for whole system improvement. She is currently a Trustee of the Scottish Centre for Children with Motor Impairment at Craighalbert. Learn more about the Essentials of Safe Care from the Scottish Patient Safety Programme by visiting: https://ihub.scot/improvement-programmes/scottish-patient-safety-programme-spsp/essentials-of-safe-care/ Creative approaches to problems solving tool kit: https://q.health.org.uk/resource/creative-approaches-to-problem-solving/ Check out the Twitter @TheQI_Guy

Son of the Manse  The news that the German government and the EU is in dispute with AstraZeneca about supplies of the Covid vaccine is our first topic...this issue has legs so expect more on it… We roast the UKGov’s invisible Scottish Secretary for his article in the Irish Times… We disagree with a well written London Times piece by Hugo Rifkind...and recall the friendly and excited atmosphere of Indyref1 and the AUOB marches… The new owners of the Scotsman and Evening News may have abandoned the previous strong unionist support...we ruminate… We offer our support to Craig Murray who faces political charges in an Edinburgh court this week… We recommend an article ( England’s Scotland Panic – What is to be done & why a mature UK debate on the union & on Scottish independence is not on the horizon ) by Kirsty Hughes of the Scottish Centre on European Relations...more to follow. (link below). https://www.scer.scot/database/ident-13005

You might think that COVID-19 has slowed everything to a near halt. That's not the case with the looting of archaeological sites and proliferating sales of stolen objects online. For insight we turn to Tess Davis, Executive Director of The Antiquities Coalition, which battles cultural racketeering and the illicit trade in ancient art and artifacts. Founded by Deborah Lehr, who serves as Chairman of its Board of Directors, The Antiquities Coalition also seeks to improve law and policy, foster diplomatic cooperation, and advance proven solutions with public and private partners internationally. Tess Davis is a lawyer and archaeologist by training, and has been affiliated with the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, at the University of Glasgow, and previously worked for the nongovernmental organization Heritage Watch in Cambodia, first as Project Coordinator, and finally Assistant Director. We cover a lot of ground: How looters are taking advantage of sites left unmonitored during the pandemic, the illicit trade's use of Facebook to fence stolen art, how U.S. law actually protects criminal conduct in the art market, the degree to which terrorist networks sponsor the looting and sale of artifacts, and a new program highlighting the “Ten Most Wanted Antiquities” worldwide.

You might think that COVID-19 has slowed everything to a near halt. That’s not the case with the looting of archaeological sites and proliferating sale of stolen objects online. For insight we turn to Tess Davis, Executive Director of The Antiquities Coalition, which battles cultural racketeering and the illicit trade in ancient art and artifacts. Founded by Deborah Lehr, who serves as Chairman of its Board of Directors, The Antiquities Coalition also seeks to improve law and policy, foster diplomatic cooperation, and advance proven solutions with public and private partners internationally. Tess Davis is a lawyer and archaeologist by training, and has been affiliated with the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, at the University of Glasgow, and previously worked for the nongovernmental organization Heritage Watch in Cambodia, first as Project Coordinator, and finally Assistant Director. We cover a lot of ground: How looters are taking advantage of sites left unmonitored during the pandemic, the illicit trade’s use of Facebook to fence stolen art, how U.S. law actually protects criminal conduct in the art market, the degree to which terrorist networks sponsor the looting and sale of artifacts, and a new program highlighting the “Ten Most Wanted Antiquities” worldwide.

Hello, Friends! I'm Ali Fraser, Director of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research - a community critical, curious and creative researchers based in Scotland. Dedicated to rethinking crime and justice.  In this podcast series, I'll be introducing you to the people that make the Centre, their lives and work, what inspires them and makes them tick. To pique your interest, perk up your ears, and probe your thinking. In each episode we'll look at a different topic, turning it over and holding it up to the light. We'll hear stories of justice and injustice, darkness and light, laughter and hope. Stories of justice from the people who make it. Welcome to the Just Humans Podcast. 

Scottish Centre for Personal Safety provides accessible personal safety, practical self-defence and first aid courses throughout Scotland.   They’ve just been awarded Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service and are also RNIB’s See Differently Award Winners for ‘Team of the Year’ in 2019.   RNIB Connect Radio's Paulina Kuchorew spoke with founder of the charity Alan Bell to find out more about their work.    For more information visit: https://scotcps.org.uk/ 

Dr Hannah Graham is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Stirling. She talks with Omar about 'pracademia' and being close to both the practitioner and academic worlds. Hannah talks about her book: ‘Rehabilitation Work: Supporting Desistance and Recovery', and as an expert in electronic monitoring, she gives her take on the use of technology in reaction to covid about the time she wore a tag herself! Dr Hannah Graham: @DrHannahGraham | University Profile Omar Phoenix Khan: @OmarPKhan | @Justice_Focus | https://www.justicefocus.org/

I HAD to get a special guest for episode 100 so who else could I get other than Brian Costello, founder of Headstrong NLP and co-founder of The Scottish Centre of NLP. We chat about what it's like to be a fixer, the common threads seen in therapy, working with a variety of people, coaching, perfectionism, mental health, finding a better way to deal with your problems Follow Jen www.iamjenwilson.com www.instagram.com/iam.jenwilson YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9K0WFwrPB22R2b-ZO4W8mA Follow Brian www.headstrongnlp.com www.instagram.com/headstrong_minds www.instagram.com/brian_headstrong https://www.facebook.com/HeadStrongNLP Brians Books Breakthrough: A Breakthrough for Your Mind https://amzn.to/2LisPFO Cracking the Teen Code https://amzn.to/2Lrtx41

ChairProfessor Graeme Roy, Director of the Fraser of Allander InstituteGuestProfessor Tricia Findlay, Director of the Scottish Centre for Employment Research (SCER) and Co-Chair of Scotland's Fair Work ConventionSource

Roger Alcock discusses with Ben Watts the importance of non-technical skills for providing excellent patient care. A veteran of the 2014 UK response to the West Africa ebola crisis, Roger shares his experience of working in full PPE in the hot zone and subsequent experience as a patient in isolation and on the receiving end. How can we communicate effectively with one another and our patients, when we are in full PPE? What top tips will help us to improve practice during the pandemic? This is a not-to-be-missed episode offering unique insights into current challenges. Follow this series on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram via#paracpd Roger is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine & Paediatric Emergency Medicine, a Scottish Patient Safety Fellow (c5), and Emergency Medicine educational coordinator at the Scottish Centre for Simulation and Clinical Human Factors. https://scschf.org Ben is a Critical Care Paramedic with the Thames Valley Air Ambulance. https://www.tvairambulance.org.uk Podcast produced by the College of Paramedics https://collegeofparamedics.co.uk Introductory music by Rob Giles and The Stretch Report.

10 - Criminology Matters - In this conversation, Shadd Maruna and Fergus McNeill reflect on what they learned from collaborating in making the documentary film ‘The Road from Crime' and from the associated Desistance Knowledge Exchange project. They also stray into wider discussions about creative, sensory and public criminologies, musing on how researchers can and should engage with others in pursuit of justice. Fergus McNeill is Professor of Criminology & Social Work in the University of Glasgow where he works in the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research and in Sociology, and his work can be found here: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/fergusmcneill/ Shadd Maruna is Professor of Criminology in the Department of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, QUB. You can find out more about Shadd's work here:https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/shadd-maruna See the docuementary 'the Road from Crime' here: https://vimeo.com/45631057

Comics Jam - Preserving British Comics History was an event organised by the Cartoon Museum, The Scottish Centre for Comics Studies (University of Dundee), and the Comics Research Hub (University of the Arts London), in conjunction with comics collector and historian Peter Hansen. It brings together prominent comics scholars, artists and celebrities to discuss the importance of preserving British comics heritage. Hosted at the Cartoon Museum, London, Saturday 2nd November 2019. Panel 1 Chaired by Phillip Vaughan. Audio recordings by Alex Fitch, John Freeman and Phillip Vaughan. Art: Garry Mac

Comics Jam - Preserving British Comics History was an event organised by the Cartoon Museum, The Scottish Centre for Comics Studies (University of Dundee), and the Comics Research Hub (University of the Arts London), in conjunction with comics collector and historian Peter Hansen. It brings together prominent comics scholars, artists and celebrities to discuss the importance of preserving British comics heritage. Hosted at the Cartoon Museum, London, Saturday 2nd November 2019. Panel 2 Chaired by Steve Holland. Audio recordings by Alex Fitch, John Freeman and Phillip Vaughan. Art: Garry Mac

Comics Jam - Preserving British Comics History was an event organised by the Cartoon Museum, The Scottish Centre for Comics Studies (University of Dundee), and the Comics Research Hub (University of the Arts London), in conjunction with comics collector and historian Peter Hansen. It brings together prominent comics scholars, artists and celebrities to discuss the importance of preserving British comics heritage. Hosted at the Cartoon Museum, London, Saturday 2nd November 2019. Audio recordings by Alex Fitch, John Freeman and Phillip Vaughan. Art: Garry Mac

hosted by the The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy at the University of Dundee, Scotland

Our Festival of Politics 2019 panel examined what's happening with Brexit; the challenges, soundbites and negotiations. The event was chaired by Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, Anniversary Chair in Law, Queen Mary University of London and includes: Professor Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at Kings College Alex Massie, columnist with The Times and Sunday Times and Scotland Editor of The Spectator Dr Kirsty Hughes, Director of the Scottish Centre on European Relations Tim Martin, Chairman of J. D. Wetherspoon PLC You can find out more about the Festival on the Festival of Politics website.

New Generation Thinker Alistair Fraser on the fates and fortunes of Glaswegian tough guys. Recorded with an audience at the York Festival of Ideas. To hear audience questions download the Essay as an episode of the BBC Arts&Ideas podcast. The image of the hard man runs like an electric current through Glasgow's history. Unafraid, unabashed, with outlaw swagger, he stalks the pages of countless crime novels and TV dramas. The unpredictable tough guy, schooled in both fist and knife, a symbol of the city's industrial past. But what does being a hard man mean in the Glasgow of today, now call-centre capital of Europe? And what lessons can be drawn from his changing fates and fortunes to understand masculinity and violence elsewhere? Alistair Fraser is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Glasgow and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. He has spent the last fifteen years studying youth gangs and street culture around the world, and is author of two academic books, Urban Legends: Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City (2015, Oxford University Press), and Gangs & Crime: Critical Alternatives (2017, Sage). He makes regular contributions to public debate on gangs and youth violence, and has appeared on BBC Radio 3 and 4 on Thinking Allowed, More or Less, and Free Thinking. Alistair Fraser in a Free Thinking Festival debate about gangs https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09w7qqg Alistair Fraser looks at Doing Nothing https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09v66bh Audience questions of this Essay are found here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrvk3/episodes/downloads Producer; Jacqueline Smith

New Generation Thinker Alistair Fraser on the fates and fortunes of Glaswegian tough guys. Recorded with an audience at the York Festival of Ideas. To hear audience questions, download the Essay as an episode of the BBC Arts&Ideas podcast. The image of the hard man runs like an electric current through Glasgow's history. Unafraid, unabashed, with outlaw swagger, he stalks the pages of countless crime novels and TV dramas. The unpredictable tough guy, schooled in both fist and knife, a symbol of the city's industrial past. But what does being a hard man mean in the Glasgow of today, now call-centre capital of Europe? And what lessons can be drawn from his changing fates and fortunes to understand masculinity and violence elsewhere? Alistair Fraser is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Glasgow and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. He has spent the last fifteen years studying youth gangs and street culture around the world, and is author of two academic books, Urban Legends: Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City (2015, Oxford University Press), and Gangs & Crime: Critical Alternatives (2017, Sage). He makes regular contributions to public debate on gangs and youth violence, and has appeared on BBC Radio 3 and 4 on Thinking Allowed, More or Less, and Free Thinking. Alistair Fraser in a Free Thinking Festival debate about gangs https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09w7qqg Alistair Fraser looks at Doing Nothing https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09v66bh Audience questions of this Essay are found here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrvk3/episodes/downloads Producer; Jacqueline Smith

Bashabi Fraser - author of “Rabindranath Tagore (Critical Lives)" - in conversation with Lakshya Datta - Founder of Launchora. Bashabi Fraser is a Tagore and post colonial scholar and poet. A Professor of English and Creative Writing and Founder Director of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies at Edinburgh Napier University, she is also the Editor-in-Chief of the e-journal Gitanjali and Beyond. She is the author of several publications, including the recent critical biography of Rabindranath Tagore. An award-winning poet, Fraser has received the 2015 Outstanding Woman of Scotland Award, the 2019 Kavi Salam from Poetry Paradigm, the Word Masala Foundation Award for Excellence in Poetry in 2017, the 2010 Women Empowered: Arts and Culture Award and the AIO Prize for Literary Services in Scotland in 2009.

As this week's Kitchen Café is all about taste, Simon Preston visits the Scottish Centre for Food Development and Innovation at Queen Margaret University to find out about food tasting and testing. In a nutshell who decides what food appears on our supermarket shelves and whether we're likely to like it. Also, we'll be telling you all about a really simple test you can do at home to see if you're one of Scotland's elite supertasters. When it comes to marrying sweet, sour, bitter, salty or umami, Thai food has it all. So Ghillie Basan and her daughter Yazzie are set to make your mouth water with one of their favourite Thai dishes...

This is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference, the Future of Phenomenology. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk Ashley Woodward is lecturer in philosophy at the University of Dundee. He obtained a B.A. (Hons) at LaTrobe University and a PhD in philosophy at the University of Queensland. He is a founding member of the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy and is an on-going editor of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy. He is also a member of the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy: http://scotcont-phil.org/ He has published three monographs: Lyotard: The Inhuman Condition. Reflections on Nihilism, Information, and Art. ( Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016); Understanding Nietzscheanism (Chesham: Acumen, 2011); Nihilism in Postmodernity: Lyotard, Baudrillard, Vattimo (Aurora, Colorado: The Davies Group, 2009). His most recent publication is an edited collection, Acinemas: Lyotard’s Philosophy of Film, ed. with Graham Jones (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017). Lesson of Darkness: Phenomenology and Lyotard’s Aesthetics This paper examines the relationship of Jean-François Lyotard’s aesthetics to phenomenology, especially the works of Mikel Dufrenne and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It argues that Lyotard invents what could be called a postphenomenological aesthetics, which critiques and moves beyond key aspects of phenomenology, but nevertheless continues to be governed by problems of this tradition. Lyotard cites Merleau-Ponty as opening the problem of difference in the aesthetic field, yet believes that the phenomenological approach can never adequately account for it. Lyotard critiques Dufrenne and Merleau-Ponty on what he calls a ‘metaphysics of continuity’ which governs their works: the continuity is between silence and signification, or the dark ground of Being or Nature and the light of linguistic meaning. For both, the continuity is given through the mediation of expression, the immanence of the sensory in the poetic, and is grounded in a unitary ontology. Lyotard argues that these approaches cannot do justice to the radical alterity of aesthetic experience, and seeks to accentuate the differences between the sensory and language, and to locate difference in the transgressive and deconstructive effects between these two heterogenous orders. For Lyotard this is not simply an abstract theoretical matter, but one which concerns the capacity of art to be engaged in critical, political practice. After outlining Lyotard’s critiques of Dufrenne and Merleau-Ponty, the paper will demonstrate how his late aesthetics, which have received little critical attention, can be seen to return to phenomenological themes but in the form of a reversal. The last section will then clarify the notion of a postphenomenological aesthetics by noting the parallel between Lyotard’s work and some recent attempts to develop a Speculative Realist aesthetics: the suggestion that Kant’s third Critique outlines an access to the real beyond conceptual categories imposed by a subject is a path which Lyotard also explored. Lyotard’s ‘lesson of darkness’ is that the secret power of art can never be brought out into the light of phenomenal appearance, or be subordinated to a stratum of meaning continuous with knowledge, but can only be registered negatively as the mark of a deconstitution. Artworks do not testify to the birth of perception, but to its resurrection.

As Theresa May prepared her latest Brexit speech in the bizarrely chosen venue of Florence, Newsnet took time to record a fresh analysis of the European situation. This latest podcast features Kirsty Hughes, head of a new think-tank, The Scottish Centre on European Relations (SCRE), taking a broad view of the UK government’s lack of progress on Brexit, and how the EU nations might respond. Kirsty joined regular host Derek Bateman and journalist and producer Maurice Smith. So what happens next with Brexit? How will May’s speech go down in the EU capitals? What about trade? Scotland? The trio also discuss the ongoing situation in Catalunya, where the Spanish government has sent in federal police in an attempt to block an independence referendum scheduled for October.

In August 1941 one of the greatest poets India has ever produced died. Known as the "Bard of Bengal" Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize for Literature and has been called one of the outstanding thinkers of the 20th century. Farhana Haider and has been listening to material from the BBC archives and hearing from Professor Bashabi Fraser, Director of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies.Photo June 1921, Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore in London. Credit: Getty Images

In August 1941 one of the greatest poets India has ever produced died. Known as the "Bard of Bengal" Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize for Literature and has been called one of the outstanding thinkers of the 20th century. Farhana Haider and has been listening to material from the BBC archives and hearing from Professor Bashabi Fraser, Director of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies. Photo June 1921, Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore in London. Credit: Getty Images

George Crooks, Medical Director for NHS24 and Director of the Scottish Centre for Tele-health and Telecare. President of the European Telematics Association (EHTEL) & leader of the Integrated Care Action Group of the European Innovation Partnership for active and healthy ageing for the European Commission George Crooks responds to our questions on whether Scotland has a published eHealth Strategy and what are its core objectives. Also, how does compliance with the European Interoperability Framework(EIF) help a National health system’s sustainability?

This month, our Book Talk panel turns its attention to the popular autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis, by French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi.With a title that references the ancient capital of the Persian empire, Persepolis is a coming-of-age tale that spans some of the most unsettled years in Iran's recent history. The first volume tells the story of Satrapi's life in Tehran from the ages of six to fourteen, during which time she experiences the Islamic Revolution and the devastating Iran-Iraq war. The second volume marks her adolescence in Vienna, and her struggle to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she is becoming. Joining Sasha de Buyl are Damon Herd, PhD researcher at the Scottish Centre for Comic Studies, and Mona Vaghefian, Communications Coordinator for the Edinburgh Iranian Festival.The panel discusses the graphic novel's popularity with a wider audience, the new insights that the book offers on the history of Iran and the outsider perspective that Satrapi seems to experience in both Iran and Austria. Through the podcast, they explore their reactions to the honesty with which Satrapi writes about her childhood self, the dual existence of citizens during the Revolution and the book's place within the genre of autobiographical comic books, alongside such titles as Art Spiegelman's Maus and Joe Sacco's Palestine.If you're reading, or have read, the book, what did you think? How do you think it contributes to the wider graphic novel community? Have you seen the animated film that was released in 2007 - and if so, does the story carry over from the book?Book Talk is produced by Colin Fraser of Culture Laser Productions.

Find out how America's going to deal with Islamic State and is Britain likely to join in? It's one week until Scotland votes Yes or No, Sitrep answers YOUR questions about the big day. Plus: the latest phase in the British Army's First World War commemorations And it's Game On for Invictus  .PRESENTER: Kate Gerbeau STUDIO GUEST: BFBS defence analyst Christopher Lee  OTHER INTERVIEWS:   Director General of the Royal United Services Institute, Professor Michael Clarke discussing IS and Scotland. Dr Colin Fleming, who's a Research Fellow at the Scottish Centre on Constitutional Change at the University of Edinburgh BFBS reporter Steve Britton with the British Army in France as they continue to commemorate the First World War. Royal Marine Cassidy Little at the Invictus Games. ………………………………………………………………………………………………THURSDAYS at 4:30 UK TIME on BFBS RADIO 2and at 6:30 UK TIME on BFBS & UK BasesYou can listen on BFBS Radio 2 at 1630 (UK time) and at 1830 (UK time) on BFBS (via webb, App & DAB in the UK and on FM in Scotland, Colchester, Salisbury Plain, Aldershot, Catterick & Blandford Forum)

Find out how America’s going to deal with Islamic State and is Britain likely to join in? It’s one week until Scotland votes Yes or No, Sitrep answers YOUR questions about the big day. Plus: the latest phase in the British Army’s First World War commemorations And it’s Game On for Invictus  .PRESENTER: Kate Gerbeau STUDIO GUEST: BFBS defence analyst Christopher Lee  OTHER INTERVIEWS:   Director General of the Royal United Services Institute, Professor Michael Clarke discussing IS and Scotland. Dr Colin Fleming, who’s a Research Fellow at the Scottish Centre on Constitutional Change at the University of Edinburgh BFBS reporter Steve Britton with the British Army in France as they continue to commemorate the First World War. Royal Marine Cassidy Little at the Invictus Games. ………………………………………………………………………………………………THURSDAYS at 4:30 UK TIME on BFBS RADIO 2and at 6:30 UK TIME on BFBS & UK BasesYou can listen on BFBS Radio 2 at 1630 (UK time) and at 1830 (UK time) on BFBS (via webb, App & DAB in the UK and on FM in Scotland, Colchester, Salisbury Plain, Aldershot, Catterick & Blandford Forum)

Professor Tom Devine, Senior Research Professor in History and Director of the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies, delivers his lecture entitled "In bed with an elephant: why has the Union survived for over three centuries?". The lecture is followed by a debate, on the subject "Is the UK falling apart? Scotland and the future of the Union". Professor Charlie Jeffery, Director of the University’s Academy of Government, chairs a panel debate on the future of the Union. Recorded on 22 June 2013 at the University of Edinburgh's McEwan Hall.

The General Council Lecture, presented by Professor Tom Devine on Saturday 12 June in Hong Kong.The lecture explores the historical links between Scotland and China.Tom Devine is Director of the Scottish Centre of Diaspora Studies and the Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography.He is considered the pre-eminent authority on the history of modern Scotland.

Professor Tom Devine and panel held a public discussion to celebrate the launch of the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies. Recorded at McEwan Hall, The University of Edinburgh on Thursday 30 October 2008.