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GCU Inaugural Professorial Lecture: Universities in Crisis? - Dreams, Myths and Realities of Mass Higher Education in the Early 21st Century
No full textGCPH Seminar Series 5: Should Government Try to Make us Happy?
No full textThe determinants of 'happiness' and its distribution both domestically and internationally suggest that a more appropriate target for policy is 'unhappiness', which responds to several forms of public action. But setting happiness as an objective does suggest some policy priorities. These include non-material forms of recognition, taxation of positional goods and support of culture and the arts. Individuals have an intrinsic short-term myopic bias, which is exacerbated by the flow of novelty in affluent societies. They find it difficult to commit. Government has a role in supporting personal and social commitment for the long term, for example in co-ordinating responses to challenges such as climate change and energy depletion
GCPH Seminar Series 2015-2016, Lecture 2: What does it mean to respond to change? Insight from the Solomon Islands
No full textProfessor Ioan Fazey, Director of the Centre for Environmental Change and Human Resilience (CECHR), Dundee University, delivers the second lecture in this Seminar Series. This presentation sought to examine issues around change, and how people respond to change using a case study from the Solomon Islands. The case study highlighted the need for improving our understanding of change and how desired change can be brought about. Towards the end, the presentation briefly touched on the kinds of things that might need to be considered if we are to facilitate transformative shifts that assist societies to work within the new normal of rapid and extensive change
Preparing the Literature Section
No full textThe aim of this project is to gather, contextualise and digitise oral testimony from men and women who sought sanctuary in Scotland to escape the racism of Nazi-dominated Europe
Cabling
No full textThis video will look at different types of LAN Cables such as Straight-Through and Crossover
GCPH Seminar Series 2015-2016, Lecture 3: Poverty in the UK is costly, risky and wasteful, but not inevitable.
No full textJulia Unwin CBE, Chief Executive of The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, delivers the third lecture in this Seminar Series. Julia discuses the great opportunity Scotland now has to do something positive about poverty and in particular, how people, communities, governments, businesses and housing providers can contribute towards a poverty-free Scotland
BoSS 15: Sport And National Identity
No full textThis video presentation was produced for use in the GSBS level 1 "Business of Social Science" module. It was used in the lecture entitled "Global Media"
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