Emily Thomson, WiSE Research Centre, recently gave evidence to the Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee enquiry into Underemployment in Scotland. The full report has been published today http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/CurrentCommittees/55889.aspx As WiSE…
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http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/ailsa-mckay/women-scotland-and-crisis-in-economics By Professor Ailsa McKay
Unsurprisingly the Work and Pensions Secretary chose not to reprise his endlessly promoted state visit to Easterhouse in 2002. Instead, when he came to a seminar in Edinburgh last week…
Professor Ailsa McKay on Newsnight Scotland, 25 March 2013 talking about women’s voice within the constitutional debate. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01rn3lp/Newsnight_Scotland_25_03_2013/
Do the current welfare reforms undermine our human rights? by Morag Gillespie, WiSE Research Centre Last week I spoke at one of the many events at SCVO’s Gathering at the SECC…
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WiSE Facts March 2013, compiled by Susanne Ross, WiSE Research Centre http://www.gcu.ac.uk/wise/wisefacts/
Link to Professor Ailsa McKay’s paper “Welfare to Work or a Welfare System that Works” for David Hume Spring Series Lecture, Monday 18 February 2013. http://www.davidhumeinstitute.com/images/stories/Research/McKay.pdf
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Professor Ailsa McKay, WiSE Research Centre, was interviewed by Will Peakin for “Holyrood” Magazine. Read the full article here. http://www.holyrood.com/2013/01/a-womans-work/
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by Alison Lockhart, WiSE Research Centre I really enjoyed the recent Insight Institute’s Constitutional Futures debate on Gender Equality Matters in a New Scotland. Whilst we listened to some pretty…
by Susanne Ross, WiSE Research Centre Last week the WiSE team participated, and attended, a 2 day event on gender equality and the Scottish economy, the 2nd within a seminar…