22nd February 2023
Fixed-term contracts have increased for staff across all colleges of the University, with women and BAME staff more likely to experience casualisation. An investigation by The Glasgow Guardian has found that the number of academic staff employed on fixed-term contracts at the University of Glasgow has increased by 16.1% over the last four years. The ...
22nd February 2023
Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis first offered UofG the councillor service they supply at Strathclyde back in February 2021. The Glasgow Guardian understands that the University of Glasgow has rejected numerous offers from Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis (GCRC) to supply a councillor on campus since February 2021. This comes as Glasgow University Fashion Show ...
22nd February 2023
With the rapid growth of women’s sport in the UK from grassroots to professional level, more women should consider coaching. I have been involved in playing different sports since I was a young child. And apart from when I played club and county netball, where there were more women involved in the coaching than men—although ...
22nd February 2023
The Glasgow Guardian unpacks the problematic values embedded in the sporting industry, which favours cishet masculinity. Strength is a word often associated with sports. A vital component, one may argue. This correlation has often resulted in sporting events becoming environments dominated by heterosexual masculinity. The aftermath of this is a depreciation of marginalised groups, who ...
22nd February 2023
Scottish Swimming’s vision is ‘everyone can swim’. But with rising energy costs, leisure facilities with high operating costs, such as swimming pools, are at risk of closure. According to a recent poll conducted on behalf of Scottish Swimming, 94% of Scots agree that swimming pools are necessary for safety by teaching people to swim with ...
22nd February 2023
Spotify’s obsession with data should not come at the expense of smaller artists. Enter Spotify, the most popular streaming service in the world. Home to your favourite music artists, podcasts, and audiobooks, all but the press of a button away. What’s more, it’s accessible, and completely free (if you can stomach a persistent wave of ...
22nd February 2023
It’s a war waging between fan bases with no sole aim or angle: the battlefield of the 21st century. Being able to follow artists we idolise on social media is like having a virtual backstage pass to all their events, all the time. Have you ever been to a gig and seen the artist post ...
22nd February 2023
For LGBTQ+ history month, an exploration of three artists and bands bringing queer expression into their songwriting It’s often said that if you want something done well, you must do it yourself. This perfectly sums up the new wave of LGBTQ+ musicians that have risen up in recent years. With fresh ideas, unapologetic themes, and ...
22nd February 2023
Music can help comfort us and contextualise our sorrows. Let’s be honest with ourselves for a second. Our comfort, pump up and nostalgic song choices aren’t just a reflection of our mood, but a message to our past, present and future selves. As many of us dived into our Spotify wrapped last year, I’m sure ...
22nd February 2023
Trend cycles make us individual, not unoriginal. In a world dominated by capital, originality is seemingly a falling trend. We live in a world of specific aesthetics, defined by micro trends which take ideas from high fashion and translate them into fast fashion dupes. I’m not here to tell you that fast fashion brands are ...
