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Society, Politics & Law
Why grow a tree? Barriers and boosters for landowners to adopt agroforestry
Planting trees can align environmental and development goals and integrate sustainable practices into rural livelihoods. However, there are many challenges in adopting agroforestry practices.
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Society, Politics & Law
1722 to 2021 - a history of Scotland's railway
Where did it start and what influenced the development of Scotland's railway industry? Find out in this brief interactive guide to key points in its history.
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Society, Politics & Law
Housing beyond borders
How can tracing international financial flows through Manchester and Salford help us understand how British cities are changing?
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Money & Business
The Great Resignation: temporary blip or more enduring labour market trend?
One consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic was that many workers quit their jobs en masse. Will this have a lasting effect on the labour market?
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Society, Politics & Law
Women in the Railway, the War and the Unions
The war years transformed working life for women, called upon to fill the void left by men. Proving themselves more than capable in jobs formerly considered only suitable for men contributed to the fight for women's suffrage.
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Society, Politics & Law
Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver
Nicole McLean made railway history when at just 21 she became the youngest person to qualify as a train driver. She shares the story of her impressive achievement with Lois Nicolson.
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Society, Politics & Law
Introducing key global development challenges
Global development is at a critical turning point. This course introduces ‘challenges’ as a spur to thinking critically and creatively about development’s future on a global scale. You will identify how the four key challenges of conflict, governance, justice, and transformation cut-across all areas of global development. These touch upon all ...
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Society, Politics & Law
Women and the fight to reclaim higher education
Maureen McBride speaks to four female UCU activists at the Glasgow branch on the wave of disputes to have gripped higher education across Scotland and the rest of the UK in the 2020s.
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Society, Politics & Law
Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955
The story of women workers at Rolls-Royce and their fight for equal pay during the 1950s. Lynn Rooney reveals another example of history's failure to recognise and honour brave, tenacious women who refused to accept they were not equal to men.
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History & The Arts
Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company
Robert Clive, a general of the East India Company, was despised by his contemporaries – so why was a statue of him erected outside the foreign office by the Edwardians years later?
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Society, Politics & Law
Working mothers in Scotland's railways
Nicola Parker spoke to three working mothers in the Scottish railway industry, including her mum, to find out what has changed since her mum joined the industry.
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Society, Politics & Law
Reflections on the Glasgow City Council equal pay dispute
Gerry Mooney's interview with Lyn-Marie O'Hara examines the background to the pay dispute, her role in the campaign and her involvment in trade unionism.