15th February 2022
Episode 8: Weekly Round-Up, 14 February 2022. Join Fraser with Kimberley, David and Lucy on this week’s biggest stories on the UCU staff strikes, Scotland’s drug policy, yet another Boris-Party-picture and the conversation around footballers’ ethics! Get in touch with your thoughts! Click here to listen....
10th February 2022
The Pakistani Consulate-General and the Scottish Human Rights Forum hosts a panel to observe Kashmir Solidarity Day. February 5th marked Kashmir Solidarity Day, to bring attention to alleged human rights abuses in the Indian controlled region of Kashmir, with allegations of political repression, extrajudicial killings, and censorship in the contested region. The Consulate General, Zahid ...
7th February 2022
Episode 7: Weekly Round-Up, 7 February 2022. Join Fraser with News Editor Kimberley and Editor-in-Chief Lucy on this week’s biggest stories on the upcoming staff strikes, sexual violence in academia, Johnson’s Savile digs and the UK energy crisis! Get in touch with your thoughts! Click here to listen....
5th February 2022
University staff to walk out for 10 days of industrial action over ongoing pay and pension disputes, as the University of Glasgow “guarantees” minimisation of impact to students during this time. The University and Colleges Union (UCU) has confirmed university strike action will take place across 68 universities in the UK, including the University of ...
5th February 2022
The charity has raised money to fund suicide prevention research at the University. The Mindstep Foundation has raised £100k for suicide prevention research at the University of Glasgow, led by Professor Rory O’Connor. The foundation is a family-run mental-health charity that was founded to help educate people on the warning signs and consequences of untreated ...
5th February 2022
The Glasgow Guardian speaks to one student forced to take a year out due to severe symptoms. A Freedom of Information (FOI) request by The Glasgow Guardian has found that over the first semester of the academic year 2021/22, 127 Good Cause claims were made at the University of Glasgow containing a reference to or ...
5th February 2022
The People and Planet environmental rankings place the University 84th in the UK, failing in areas such as recycling and strategy. The People and Planet 2021 sustainability league table has ranked the University of Glasgow 84th out of 184 UK universities and 4th in Scotland on its environmental policy, which represented a 2:2 classification for ...
5th February 2022
A deep dive into the world-changing research by Team UofG. Last year was an impressive one for research at the University of Glasgow; from aiding the development of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to groundbreaking studies on malaria, dementia and cancer. The success continued into the final month of the year with a series of important ...
1st February 2022
UofG researchers found an increase in virtual sexual activity and a decline in physical relationships and sexual satisfaction for people aged 18-24. A recent study published by the University of Glasgow in conjunction with University College London (UCL) and the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) found that the sex lives of young people were ...
31st January 2022
Murray Blackburn Mackenzie, an Edinburgh-based independent policy analysis collective, found that no Scottish university has a “single-sex, female-only” staff network or representative body. The group sent Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to 15 Scottish universities which questioned whether each institution had a female-only staff network, and if so, who it was open to. The FOI ...
