I-SPHERE’s Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick and Dr Beth Watts, with Professor Hal Pawson of University of New South Wales, argue in their new paper that localism, alongside austerity and welfare reform, has played a key role in driving up homelessness in England. Read the Blog Localism and homelessness: a decade of disaster in England published by the […]
Month: June 2020
Young Scots tell how ‘overwhelming workloads’ and ‘isolating online learning’ are widening the attainment gap
Scottish Children’s Charity, A Place in Childhood (APiC), co-founded by I-SPHERE’s Dr Jenny Wood, this week announced the first recommendations arising from a research project led and facilitated by young teams from cities, towns and villages across Scotland. Echoing the EEF’s findings regarding the impacts of school closures on the attainment gap, their priorities focus […]
COVID-19 crisis measures, poverty and free school meals
Blog by Professor Morag Treanor From Friday 20th March 2020 at 5pm, schools across Scotland closed in an effort to tackle the spread of COVID-19. As part of its crisis response, the Scottish Government quickly enacted the COVID-19 (Scotland) Act 2020,[i] and also guidance measures to ensure children and young people continue to be supported […]
I-SPHERE Online Seminar
Join us next week for I-SPHERE’s June seminar with recent I-SPHERE PHD student Dr Nikoletta Theodorou. Nikoletta, will talk to us about the findings of her PHD ‘Multiple Exclusion Homelessness, attachment and relationship with care: A missing link?’ Her PHD was funded by a Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences Collaborative Award in partnership with […]