22nd November 2022
Writing for Times Higher Education, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Rachel Sandison, has discussed the role of reputation management in higher education. Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, Rachel Sandison, has written an article in The Times Higher Education on reputation management for universities. The article was written as part of a series of “comment pieces on ...
22nd November 2022
The Glasgow Guardian speaks to Glasgow University’s Men’s Rugby Club about the progress being made in breaking down the stigmas surrounding men’s mental health in sport. Movember is all about changing the face of men’s health. Men’s health is in crisis. Mental health, suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer – are all largely preventable, ...
21st November 2022
Eve explores the notion that the increase of the influence of social media over politics has trivialised important conversations and disillusioned young people. As Rory Stewart mentions in The Rest is Politics, we have a political landscape which favours those who “can keep up pace” with social media, something that ensures politicians’ electability but leaves ...
20th November 2022
A year on from the COP26 climate conference here in Glasgow, what have we learned? Glancing at the news the other day, I was surprised to discover that COP27 was taking place in Egypt this month. I presume I’m not alone in having almost forgotten the seemingly momentous climate summit that took place in Glasgow ...
20th November 2022
The world needs to stand with the people of Iran against the Islamic Republic. “Someone’s crime was that her hair was flowing in the wind,” rapped Iranian musician Toomaj Salehi – a song lyric that would soon result in his arrest for crimes punishable by death. Over the past week, international discussion of the situation ...
20th November 2022
Culture Editor Jeevan Farthing argues that David Cameron’s policies are ultimately responsible for the failings of more recent prime ministers. David Cameron is the worst prime minister of the 21st Century. He did a runner after his big Brexit gamble because he was too scared to face the consequences, leaving it to a trio of ...
20th November 2022
The case of Natasha Abrahart highlights the importance of a legally defined duty of care for universities toward their students. You’d be forgiven for assuming that our University and others across the country owe students a duty of care in regard to their wellbeing and personal safety. With school leavers in Scotland being as young ...
20th November 2022
Angelica gives her perspective on reading Glaswegian literature as someone who moved here for University. Douglas Stuart’s novel Shuggie Bain, which won the Booker Prize in 2020, joins a long list of rich, and at times, dark, depictions of Glasgow in literature. His story was rejected by 30 publishers before going on to be the ...
20th November 2022
Constance Roisin discusses with Charlotte Gordon her book Romantic Outlaws: the extraordinary lives of Mary Wollestonecraft and Mary Shelley. There have been a lot of stories told about Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley. In their own lifetime the pair were notorious, not just for their controversial books – A Vindication on the Rights ...
20th November 2022
Music Editor Otto Hampden-Woodfall attends a screening of short film The Hermit, directed by James Hawkins, and set to the lead single from Richard Dawson’s newest album The Ruby Cord. The Hermit is an enigma. It’s a striking series of disjunctions at heart; a deliberately unclear collaboration between songwriter Richard Dawson and director James Hawkins, ...
