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Glasgow Caledonian University
Glasgow Caledonian is a dynamic university and our student population has grown to over 14,000 in recent years. We have over 90 undergraduate, 40 postgraduate programmes and a large number of students engaged in research for PhDs in topics that put them at the forefront of their disciplines. Our students come from over 90 countries throughout the world, enriching our campus and making Glasgow Caledonian a truly cosmopolitan environment in which to study.
We are proud of our growing reputation as a provider of high quality research, consultancy and training services to local, national and international businesses. Our recent work includes collaborations with organisations such as Microsoft, Bovis Lend Lease (Scotland), CISCO Systems and Scottish Enterprise in the development of programmes, facilities and research capacity.
We offer over 90 undergraduate and 40 postgraduate programmes, together with a comprehensive portfolio of part-time and distance learning across our eight schools.
A range of specialised study options for anyone interested in continuous professional development (CPD).
Business & Research
We have an innovative and entrepreneurial reputation, which comes from our academic excellence in research and knowledge transfer.
Research Areas
Staff within our academic schools are engaged in a wide variety of research activities in areas such as:
- Accounting and finance
- Applied mathematics
- Biological biomedical and food sciences
- The built environment and environmental science
- Business and management
- Computer science
- Communication and media studies
- Education
- Economics and enterprise
- Engineering
- Materials and physical sciences
- History
- Hospitality and tourism
- Law
- Marketing
- Nursing midwifery and allied health professions
- Psychology
- Risk
- Sociology
- Vision science and many more.
Consultancy Services for Business and the Media
We are committed to transfer the benefits of our accumulated scholarly learning, applied research and knowledge and know-how, to businesses, the public sector, the media and the wider public.
Consequently we can offer access to the expertise of our academic staff who can provide commentary, advice, or where appropriate, formal consultancy on commercial terms across a wide range of disciplines.
CPD Courses
Glasgow Caledonian University has an excellent reputation for its teaching and advanced learning in its formal undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes, as well as being an enjoyable place to work and study.
However, increasingly our provision has widened to take account of the growing demand from both businesses and individuals for flexible educational delivery methods that accommodate the constraints of the competitive workplace and of busy individual lives. Consequently, we now offer a variety of options for addressing these needs via the provision of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) courses (including professional accreditation), training in specialist subjects, part-time or work-based learning, distance and e-learning, lifelong learning, and short courses.
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Contact for Black and Ethnic Minorities Project
Lani Russell, Research Fellow, School of Law & Social Sciences
Tel: 0141 331 8387
Mobile 07729817636
Email: Lani.Russell@gcal.ac.uk
Contact for Smart Communities
Sarah Skerratt, Research Fellow, School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Tel: 0141 331 8375
Email: Sarah.Skerratt@gcal.ac.uk
Promoting positive action for race equality in a Scottish workplace
Pamela Abbott, Rachel Russell, Bill Hughes and Lani Russell, Caledonian Centre for Equality and Diversity, Glasgow Caledonian University
How do Black and ethnic minority people working in Scotland feel about their treatment at work? How have they experienced positive action in the workplace and what contribution can they make to building best practice? These are questions our team will answer in our two year collaborative action research project.
Significant evidence indicates that Black and ethnic minority people experience discrimination in employment in the United Kingdom. The particular pattern of discrimination in Scotland is just beginning to be mapped. The requirement for public sector bodies to promote racial equality in the workplace under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, together with the acknowledged need for ‘Fresh Talent’ for Scotland, means this issue will be of increasing concern for both the public and private sectors. In Glasgow the demographics of the city are already changing, with increasing numbers of Black and ethnic minority people coming to live and work here. One Glasgow employer who has been part of this change has agreed to partner our team in evaluating and improving their current practices in relation to racial equality, including recruitment, harassment procedures, training and promotion.
Through focus groups and learning circles we will explore what working life is like for Black and ethnic minority employees and support them to play an active role in initiating improvements in the workplace. Interviews with other stakeholders including employee representative organisations, the CRE, the Scottish Council for Minorities, the Scottish Executive and the CBI will help us to understand how positive action is understood and promoted by relevant agencies. This process will foster best practice which can be shared through reports and case studies with employers, employees and others who have a stake in achieving racial equality at work both here in Scotland and beyond our borders.
Rural portals presentation
I was recently invited to make a presentation at the Annual Rural Services Conference organised by SCVO (Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations) in Inverurie, on my research into rural portals, and strategies which have been used to engage members and move towards self-sustainability. I presented at the “Gateway Gathering”, which brought together those working with online communities and thus concerned about their potential for rural social inclusion and regeneration, as well as for allowing people to engage in online debate about policy and practice issues. My paper examines two rural portals: (i) Scotland’s Rural Community Gateway (www.ruralgateway.org.uk) and (ii) Northumberland’s Rural Voices (www.ruralvoices.org.uk). I look at how they have developed ways of increasing participation, and how their objectives differ and therefore their approaches have to “fit” the needs that they have identified. I compare their methods with those of “best practice2 models and literature.
Dr Sarah Skerratt presenting her research on Scotland’s Rural Community Gateway (2005).
You can look at, and download, my Powerpoint Presentation by going to the Rural Gateway, at www.ruralgateway.org.uk (click on Information, then on the drop-down menu Documents, where the presentation from the conference are uploaded).
This research has already been feeding directly into the EQUAL Project
Sarah Skerratt (sarah.skerratt@gcal.ac.uk)
