Free Workshops

Professor David Garland is widely considered one of the world’s leading sociologists of crime and punishment and is currently Professorial Fellow in Criminology at the University of Edinburgh. SCCJR. He is running a variety of free workshops between 15th to the 26th January 2018 .....

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Andrew Eccles has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts ...

ESRC to fund major new international comparative criminology study

Laura Piacentini, Professor of Criminology at the School of Social Work and Social Policy, has won a major ESRC award to explore cultures of punishment in the former USSR (fSU).

Stand Up For Siblings

A multi-agency partnership ‘Stand Up For Siblings’ is being launched in Glasgow today, Friday 9 March 2018.

First Minster adds her support to ‘Stand Up For Siblings'

Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has added her support to ‘Stand Up For Siblings’, a new programme initiated by University of Strathclyde and a number of public and third sector partners.

Strathclyde joins new Commonwealth Sports Universities Network

Ahead of the start of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland Australia, a new international initiative has been announced between the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), the University of Strathclyde, Griffith University and three other partner universities from Canada and South Africa.

European Conference for Social Work Research

The European Conference for Social Work Research started yesterday in the University of Edinburgh and a number of our staff and PhD students are presenting their work..

Sally Paul will be delivering a plenary session

Sally Paul will be delivering a plenary session

The Equally Safe Gender-Based Violence Toolkit Launched

New practical guidance for universities to tackle gender-based violence on campus has been published

Reimaging the city centre: a future without retail?

This week’s series of articles in the Herald Scotland newspaper, to which the Institute for Future Cities has contributed, picks up some of these dimensions in relation to Glasgow.

Welcome to our BA Honours in Social Work students

We were excited to welcome the first year BA social work students to the university today and hope that they will enjoy their time with us.

Welcome to our new Head of School

The School of Social Work and Social Policy warmly welcomes our new Head of School, Professor Ian Greener.

Nordic Welfare Research Conference

Chris Deeming and Johannes Kananen, University of Helsinki, have had a Panel accepted for the forthcoming Nordic Welfare Research Conference “Towards Resilient Nordic Welfare States: Challenges, Responses and Consequences” 14-15 March 2019, University of Helsinki, Finland.

SWSP Seminar Series

New cluster led seminars commencing Wednesday 3rd October 2018

New Social Policy and Criminology research staff join the school

Welcome to our new staff joining us on the new phase of work in the “Equally Safe in Higher and Further Education” project and Daniel Horn will be with us for three years on the ESRC study “In the Gulag’s Shadow”.

Catharsis, Containment and Physical Restraint in Residential Child Care

An article by Laura Steckley which explores the relationship between physical restraint and catharsis in residential child care has been selected as Editor’s Choice in the current issue of the British Journal of Social Work.

Funding from the Scottish Universities Institute

The Bereavement Research and Innovation Group (BRIG) and colleagues from Dundee University successfully applied for funding from the Scottish Universities Institute

Visiting Professor

Dr Chris Deeming is currently visiting Professor in Comparative Social Policy at the Sciences Po, Paris, Sept/Oct period 2018.

PhD success in the School!

Mhairi Gavin, who was supervised by Professor Laura Piacentini and Dr Claire McDiarmid (Strathclyde Law School), successfully defended her PhD Thesis on 17th October with no corrections.

Our project with EU migrant young people on Channel 4 News

Research from our project with young people who are EU nationals has featured in a Channel 4 News item on 13th November 2018

CYCJ Residential Childcare project

A Centre for Youth & Criminal (CYCJ) and the Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum (STAF) project on improving the experiences of young people in residential care has received a Special Commendation for Policy Development at the 2018 Howard League Community Awards.