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Torricelli, Emily. "Multicultural Glasgow." Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, no. 13 (July 20, 2017): 90–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/alpha.13.05.
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In films, even contemporary ones posing alternatives to the mythic representations of Scotland, Scottish identity is often constructed as homogeneous and white. Though a small number of films have been made addressing Scotland’s white minority groups, it is not until the 2000s that filmmakers such as Ken Loach and Pratibha Parmar began to explore non-white Scottish identities. This article explores the ways the former’s Ae Fond Kiss… (2004) and the latter’s Nina’s Heavenly Delights (2006) construct hybrid, plural Scottish identities by first considering the way the two films construct these identities, and then by considering the how the identities constructed were received by film critics. Ae Fond Kiss… suggests that racial and ethnic minorities understand “Scottishness” in varied ways that are often influenced by gender, whereas, for Nina’s Heavenly Delights, race, gender, and sexuality are some of the many identities that are united in the Scottish nation. In support of the plural and hybrid Scotlands these two films construct, film critics, despite the complications of genre, strongly label both as Scottish films, which suggests they understand Scotland as a diverse or hybrid place or culture.
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McLeod, Wilson. "The nature of minority languages: insights from Scotland." Multilingua 38, no. 2 (March 26, 2019): 141–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/multi-2018-0034.
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Abstract The Gaelic language in Scotland presents a useful case study for the conceptualisation of minority languages. A key issue has been the extent to which Gaelic is understood as belonging to a discrete minority within Scotland and a bounded territory in the northwest of the country, or as a national language of significance to all of Scotland. Using the most obvious, demographic criterion, Gaelic is an extremely minoritised language, now spoken by barely 1.1 % of Scotland's population, and not spoken by a majority for at least five hundred years. Yet Gaelic was formerly the principal language of the Scottish kingdom, until processes of minoritisation began in the twelfth century. The concept of Gaelic as Scotland’s ‘true’ national language has been retained and refined, but co-exists with other interpretations that see Gaelic as belonging only to the territory that retained Gaelic after language shift occurred elsewhere. In recent decades, revitalisation initiatives (loosely connected with growing awareness of Scottish cultural distinctiveness and moves towards self-government) have promoted Gaelic as a language of national significance, an important resource for all Scots. Contemporary government policies advance this understanding even as speaker numbers continue to decline and many Scots view Gaelic as distant or irrelevant.
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MEEK, JEFF. "Scottish Churches, Morality and Homosexual Law Reform, 1957–1980." Journal of Ecclesiastical History 66, no. 3 (June 26, 2015): 596–613. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022046914001250.
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The role of Scottish Churches in the decision not to include Scotland in the 1967 Sexual Offences Act requires scrutiny. This article examines the role of the Church of Scotland, and other Churches, in debates regarding homosexuality in the years following publication of the Wolfenden Report. It argues that although Scotland's Churches appeared steadfast in their determination to prevent homosexual law reform during the 1950s and 1960s, there was much ambivalence, contradiction and debate and that, in fact, Scotland's two main Churches played a significant role in the development of Scotland's foremost homosexual rights organisation, the Scottish Minorities Group.
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Młynarska-Sobaczewska, Anna. "Rada Sądownictwa Szkocji i szkocka Rada Nominacji Sędziowskich." Przegląd Prawa i Administracji 119 (January 20, 2020): 205–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0137-1134.119.20.
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THE JUDICIAL COUNCIL FOR SCOTLAND AND THE JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS BOARD FOR SCOTLANDThe article presents the structure, competences and functions of the two bodies responsible for protecting the independence of the judiciary in Scotland. The text also presents the reforms to which the Scottish judiciary has been subject in the 21st century and the organisation of the judiciary in Scotland.
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Hurst, Mike. "Young Software Engineer of the Year 2021." ITNOW 63, no. 4 (December 1, 2021): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwab111.
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Abstract BCS-in-Scotland, a grouping of the BCS Branches and Specialist Groups in Scotland, continued its long-standing involvement with the annual ScotSoft event organised by ScotlandIS. Mike Hurst, Treasurer and Webmaster of the BCS Edinburgh Branch, reports.
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Wilson, David. "The Resurgence of Scotland as a Force in International Arbitration: The Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010." Journal of International Arbitration 27, Issue 6 (December 1, 2010): 679–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/joia2010038.
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The Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010 has introduced significant and welcome changes to the law and practice of arbitration in Scotland, sweeping away centuries of inconsistency and uncertainty. Following the much-needed and long-awaited codification of the old common law, will Scotland’s popularity improve as a cost-effective and efficient seat for arbitration on the international stage? This article details the history of arbitration in Scotland and explains how the provisions of the 2010 Act will rectify the unsatisfactory system of arbitration that it is overruling. Although it remains to be seen to what extent the 2010 Act will affect Scotland’s reputation as a credible seat for international arbitrations, both Scots lawyers and non-lawyers alike are optimistic that the impact will be positive.
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Rosie, Michael. "The Sectarian Iceberg?" Scottish Affairs 24, no. 3 (August 2015): 328–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/scot.2015.0081.
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This article situates the contemporary evidential position on Scotland's sectarianism within some longer-term and ongoing debates. It does so by addressing three key aspects of sectarianism in Scotland. Firstly it explores long-standing concerns about sectarianism in Scotland, and the puzzle that sectarianism frequently seems to be someone else's problem. It then outlines some central evidential claims made about sectarianism in the 1980s and why our increasing knowledge about religion in Scotland's social structure appear to bear them out. Finally, the article concludes by questioning how far we can conceive of ‘Protestants’ and ‘Catholics’ as divided in the personal, informal and intimate spheres of contemporary Scottish life.
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McInerny, C. J., and K. D. Shaw. "The honey-buzzard in Scotland: a rare, secretive and elusive summer visitor and breeder." Glasgow Naturalist 27, no. 1 (2019): 20–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.37208/tgn27103.
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The honey-buzzard (Pernis apivorus) is probably Scotland’s most enigmatic breeding bird of prey. The raptor is extremely difficult to observe, being rare, secretive and elusive. Over the past few years we have discovered two populations of honey-buzzards in central Scotland. Systematic and intensive monitoring of these populations has revealed new information about the species’ annual breeding cycle. In this paper we review the history and distribution of the honey-buzzard in Scotland and summarise the results of our recent studies in central Scotland, which have considerably increased understanding of the species.
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Stevenson, Anna J., Charlotte F. Huggins, Alison Forbes, Jim Hume, Grant Fulton, Claire Thirlwall, Janet Miles, et al. "RuralCovidLife: A new resource for the impact of the pandemic on rural Scotland." Wellcome Open Research 6 (May 23, 2022): 317. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17325.2.
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RuralCovidLife is part of Generation Scotland’s CovidLife project, investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigation measures on people in Scotland. The RuralCovidLife project focuses on Scotland’s rural communities, and how they have been impacted by the pandemic. During survey development, Generation Scotland consulted with people living or working in rural communities, and collaborated with a patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) group composed of rural community leaders. Through this consultation work, the RuralCovidLife survey was developed to assess the issues most pertinent to people in rural communities, such as mental health, employment, transport, connectivity, and local communities. Between 14th October and 30th November 2020, 3,365 participants from rural areas in Scotland took part in the survey. Participant ages ranged from 16 to 96 (mean = 58.4, standard deviation [SD] = 13.3), and the majority of the participants were female (70.5%). Over half (51.3%) had taken part in the original CovidLife survey. RuralCovidLife includes a subsample (n = 523) of participants from the Generation Scotland cohort. Pre-pandemic data on health and lifestyle, as well as biological samples, are available for these participants. These participants’ data can also be linked to past and future healthcare records, allowing analysis of retrospective and prospective health outcomes. Like Generation Scotland, RuralCovidLife is designed as a resource for researchers. RuralCovidLife data, as well as the linked Generation Scotland data, is available for use by external researchers following approval from the Generation Scotland Access Committee. RuralCovidLife can be used to investigate mental health, well-being, and behaviour in participants living in rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as comparisons with non-rural samples. Moreover, the sub-sample with full Generation Scotland data and linkage can be used to investigate the long-term health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in rural communities.
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Stevenson, Anna J., Charlotte F. Huggins, Alison Forbes, Jim Hume, Grant Fulton, Claire Thirlwall, Janet Miles, et al. "RuralCovidLife: Study protocol and description of the data." Wellcome Open Research 6 (November 23, 2021): 317. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17325.1.
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RuralCovidLife is part of Generation Scotland’s CovidLife project, investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigation measures on people in Scotland. The RuralCovidLife project focuses on Scotland’s rural communities, and how they have been impacted by the pandemic. During survey development, Generation Scotland consulted with people living or working in rural communities, and collaborated with a patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) group composed of rural community leaders. Through this consultation work, the RuralCovidLife survey was developed to assess the issues most pertinent to people in rural communities, such as mental health, employment, transport, connectivity, and local communities. Between 14th October and 30th November 2020, 3,365 participants from rural areas in Scotland took part in the survey. Participant ages ranged from 16 to 96 (mean = 58.4, standard deviation [SD] = 13.3), and the majority of the participants were female (70.5%). Over half (51.3%) had taken part in the original CovidLife survey. RuralCovidLife includes a subsample (n = 523) of participants from the Generation Scotland cohort. Pre-pandemic data on health and lifestyle, as well as biological samples, are available for these participants. These participants’ data can also be linked to past and future healthcare records, allowing analysis of retrospective and prospective health outcomes. Like Generation Scotland, RuralCovidLife is designed as a resource for researchers. RuralCovidLife data, as well as the linked Generation Scotland data, is available for use by external researchers following approval from the Generation Scotland Access Committee. RuralCovidLife can be used to investigate mental health, well-being, and behaviour in participants living in rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as comparisons with non-rural samples. Moreover, the sub-sample with full Generation Scotland data and linkage can be used to investigate the long-term health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in rural communities.
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Guite, Candace. "He Who Pays the Piper: Shifting Scottish Legal Landscapes." Legal Information Management 13, no. 3 (September 2013): 139–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1472669613000376.
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AbstractIf Scotland votes ‘Yes’ to the question ‘Should Scotland be an independent country?’ how will its relationship change with the remainder of the UK? A ‘yes’ vote will have huge financial, political and legal implications. This article, written by Candace Guite, considers the current role of the UK Supreme Court in Scotland, the recent conflict (to which the title alludes) and it reflects on Scotland's potential international status. The UK Government has argued that it would be regarded as the continuator state and an independent Scotland would be a successor state, and so, in the event of a ‘yes’ vote Scotland would have to re-apply for entry to the European Union and the United Nations. However, there are arguments to support the alternative option, that Scotland could be regarded as a co-equal successor state with England, and thus would retain EU and UN membership.
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Silverman, Stephanie J. "What Habeas Corpus Can (and Cannot) Do for Immigration Detainees: Scotland v Canada and the Injustices of Imprisoning Migrants." Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société 34, no. 01 (April 2019): 145–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cls.2019.7.
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AbstractThis paper closely studies Scotland v Canada to reveal the normative and substantive justice challenges facing immigration detainees across Canada. The Scotland decision at the Ontario Superior Court certified a habeas corpus writ as an individual remedy to release Mr. Ricardo Scotland from a pointless, seventeen-month incarceration. The decision frames Mr. Scotland’s detention as anomalous or divergent from an otherwise-functioning system. Against this view, this paper argues that access to habeas corpus cannot remedy the detention system’s scale of injustices. The paper contextualizes Mr. Scotland’s incarceration and the Superior Court decision against two primary claims: first, that the Canadian immigration and refugee determination system is arbitrarily biased against certain minoritized individuals, therefore transforming some people into detainable bodies; and second, that the global criminalization of migration trend has nested an arc of penal practices into Canadian policymaking and law, and this arc has seemingly normalized indefinite detention for some migrants. The paper concludes that restoration of access to habeas corpus cannot be understood as a substantive remedy to address the miscarriages of justice in the Canadian detention system.
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Roy, Graeme, and Mairi Spowage. "Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS): A look beyond nearly 30 years of controversy at what it does and doesn't tell us about Scotland." Scottish Affairs 30, no. 4 (November 2021): 423–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/scot.2021.0383.
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Government Expenditure Revenue Scotland (GERS) remains a controversial statistical publication on Scotland’s public finances. We trace the evolution of GERS over time, and track how it has been used in political debate since it was first published in 1992. Now in its 27th edition, we review its ongoing role in informing constitutional and fiscal debate in Scotland. We dispel some of the myths about the publication, but also highlight legitimate criticisms, and explore how it is used by both sides in the independence debate. Our main contribution is to summarise what GERS tells us – and crucially what it does not tell us – about the state of Scotland’s economy and public finances. We conclude with an assessment of what GERS might tell us about the prospects for any future debate on Scottish independence.
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Fairley, John. "Scotland's New Democracy: Opportunities for Rural Scotland?" Scottish Affairs 34 (First Serie, no. 1 (February 2001): 45–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/scot.2001.0008.
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Hussain, Asifa M., and William L. Miller. "How and Why lslamophobia is tied to English Nationalism but not to Scottish Nationalism." Ethnic Studies Review 27, no. 1 (January 1, 2004): 78–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/esr.2004.27.1.78.
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Muslim minorities throughout Europe are under threat of collateral damage from the Blair/Bush ‘War on Terror.’ In Scotland they also have to cope with the added possibility that Scottish nationalism might develop an ‘ethnic’ as well as a ‘civic’ dimension. But is Scottish nationalism part of the problem or part of the solution? Paradoxically, Muslims are under less pressure in Scotland than in England, despite Scotland's move over recent decades—psychologically as well as institutionally—towards nationalism.
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Doherty, Robert A., Kevin Stelfox, Adela Baird, and Stephen Baron. "National Education Priorities: The Distance to Milestone 9." Scottish Educational Review 39, no. 1 (March 27, 2007): 13–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/27730840-03901003.
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The Scottish Executive has published a collection of desired policy destinations with designated indicators of progress which set out its ambitions for social justice. Milestone 9, in Social Justice: a Scotland where everyone matters, aspires to bring the attainment of the poorest-performing 20% closer to the attainment of all pupils in compulsory education. In the context of Scotland’s National Priorities in education, this paper focuses on the lowest attaining 20% of pupils in Scotland’s compulsory education sector. The historical and political context of the National Priorities is discussed in conjunction with the challenges of Milestone 9. The main sections of this paper draw on empirical data: to describe more fully Scotland’s young people who fall within the bottom quintile and to widen its conceptual frame to include social, economic and spatial constituents; and, through a small interview study, to illuminate how the high-level policy intention of Milestone 9 is mediated into practice. The final section of the paper addresses the implications of norm-referenced and criterion-referenced ways of constructing the poorest performing quintile and places these in the context of contemporary research into absolute and relative social mobility in Scotland.
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McDiarmid, Andrew. "The Equivalent Societies of Edinburgh and London, the Formation of the Royal Bank of Scotland, and the Nature of the Scottish Financial Revolution." Journal of British Studies 60, no. 1 (January 2021): 88–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2020.185.
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AbstractThe historiography of the Financial Revolution in Scotland remains underdeveloped. This article addresses that gap by rounding out the rough sketch that currently represents our understanding of Scotland's Financial Revolution by focusing on the formation of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Scotland's first new financial institution in more than thirty years when it emerged in 1727. The case is made that the Scottish Financial Revolution was a complex movement, very often separated from the state and driven by the agency of Scotsmen at home and abroad, and that 1727 denoted a phase of the revolution in which financially innovative projects returned to the country after a period of absence. The article demonstrates how the progress of the Financial Revolution ebbed and flowed in the country, contingent upon political circumstances, from the nascent economic developments of the 1690s and on to the political upheaval of the early eighteenth century.
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Whalley, Lawrence J., Brenda M. Thomas, Cecilia A. McQuade, Gerard McGonigal, Robert Swingler, and Roger Black. "Epidemiology of Presenile Alzheimer's Disease in Scotland (1974–88)." British Journal of Psychiatry 167, no. 6 (December 1995): 728–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.167.6.728.
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BackgroundFactors that determine geographical differences in incidence rates of ‘probable’ presenile Alzheimer's disease (AD PSD) may help to clarify the possible role of the environment in its aetiology.MethodWe have ascertained the treated incidence of AD PSD in Scotland by scrutiny of hospital casenotes and searched for cases outside hospital settings. Small area geographical analysis compared the observed distribution of cases (each allocated to one of Scotland's 898 postcode sectors) with the estimated random distribution of cases.ResultsThere was non-random geographical distribution of AD PSD but not of the comparison conditions (vascular dementia (VaD), motor neurone disease, prostatic or ovarian cancers). Substantial differences between Scottish regions were probably not attributable to methodological artefact, as other techniques of case finding showed the same regional differences.ConclusionsThe observed differences in incidence of AD PSD between Scotland's regions are real and some localities have a higher incidence, mostly in central Scotland.
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Hunter, Alistair, and Nasar Meer. "Is Scotland Different on Race and Migration?" Scottish Affairs 27, no. 3 (August 2018): 382–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/scot.2018.0249.
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This short article reports on a symposium at the University of Edinburgh entitled ‘Is Scotland Different on Race and Migration’. The event brought together the latest research to consider whether Scotland really is different from neighbouring countries. Questions under discussion included, but were not limited to, what does the data tell us on mass Scottish attitudes? Is ‘Scottishness’ more inclusive then ‘Englishness’? Where do migrants and racial minorities fit into this story and who is narrating it? What are Scotland's policy options in light of it?
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Devine, T. M., and Michael Rosie. "An Enduring Connection: The Irish in Scotland." Scottish Affairs 31, no. 4 (November 2022): 452–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/scot.2022.0431.
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This contribution to the theme of ‘Scotland and the Two Irelands’ takes the form of a discussion between Michael Rosie, editor of Scottish Affairs, and Professor Sir Tom Devine, the pre-eminent scholar of modern connections between Scotland and Ireland. In the discussion Devine unfolds the migrant autobiographies of the Devine and Martin families, from rural Ulster, through industrial Lanarkshire, and into Scotland’s professional classes. The account sheds light both on the migrant experience, and on the centrality of secondary education for twentieth century Scottish social mobility.
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Hoppit, Julian. "Scotland and the Taxing Union, 1707–1815." Scottish Historical Review 98, no. 1 (April 2019): 45–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/shr.2019.0379.
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This article sketches the amounts of taxes collected in Scotland for central government between the Union of 1707 and the end of the Napoleonic wars, looking at the impact of the Union, change over time and comparisons with how much taxes were collected in the rest of Britain. Those findings are then generally explained with reference to tax policy, taxable capacity and the tax gap. Finally, how these findings affect our understanding of the Union state are considered. Contrary to many accounts, the Union did not immediately lead to much larger amounts of taxes being collected, nor to much money being sent to London. Rather it was from the 1780s that substantial change on both accounts took place, though even in 1815 the per capita tax take in Scotland was under a half that in England and Wales. Trying to resolve the tension between the principles of equality and equity enshrined in the Union treaty, tax policy was more sympathetic to Scotland's circumstances than is often allowed. Very speculatively, Scotland's taxable capacity appears to have been significantly less than England's, even as late as 1815. And while the revenue services were necessarily more costly in Scotland, probably greater relative poverty there also lowered tax compliance compared to England.
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Mortimer, Jonathan, Nick Pilcher, and Kendall Richards. "Scotland’s History of Animation: An Exploratory Account of the Key Figures and Influential Events." Animation 16, no. 3 (November 2021): 190–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17468477211052598.
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Scotland’s history of animation is a forgotten past accomplishment in the animation/VFX sector, with key influential animation professionals having had an impact both at home and abroad. Yet, to date, this history has not been meaningfully documented and such documentation can help inform policy initiatives to help nurture and develop the industry. These developments could help ensure that the importance and accomplishments of its achievements will not be forgotten or remain undeveloped. Indeed, it is argued here that Scotland suffers from historical amnesia with regard to the country’s past accomplishments and missed opportunities, but that public funding and further investment in talent development and retention can help establish the industry as a key player in society and economy. This article presents the results from an investigative literature collection and consultation with central figures in the Scottish animation industry, providing for the first time a clearer picture of the importance of animation in Scotland both for the country and for the industry worldwide. Discussing the initiatives and funding models of other European countries such as France, the article concludes by suggesting ways in which future policy initiatives could help assist Scotland’s animation industry grow and establish itself both for the future development of animation in Scotland and worldwide.
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Gawlewicz, Anna. "‘Scotland's different’: Narratives of Scotland's distinctiveness in the post-Brexit-vote era." Scottish Affairs 29, no. 3 (August 2020): 321–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/scot.2020.0326.
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While Scotland has been portrayed as an outlier in the context of Brexit, we know relatively little about how ordinary people in Scotland, including a growing migrant population, make sense of this (political and media) narrative. In order to address this gap, in this article I look at everyday narratives of Scotland's distinctiveness in the post-Brexit-vote era among the long-settled population and Polish – and to a lesser degree other European Union – migrants in the East End of Glasgow. By drawing upon scholarship on everyday nationalism and imagined communities, I explore discursive claims which romanticise Scotland as different and ‘welcoming’ of immigration and position it in binary opposition to England. How is Scotland produced as different in the context of Brexit? How are these stories used to re-imagine increasingly diverse Scottish society? In what ways are they being employed by migrant communities?
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Crawford, Rowena, and Gemma Tetlow. "Fiscal Challenges and Opportunities for an Independent Scotland." National Institute Economic Review 227 (February 2014): R40—R53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002795011422700106.
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This paper looks at some of the key fiscal questions related to Scottish independence, drawing on detailed analysis of household survey data, official data on public spending and revenues, and using a model of the UK and Scotland's public finances over the next half a century. We examine how and why public spending on, and revenues raised from, Scotland differ from the average across the UK, and how Scotland's fiscal position might be expected to evolve over the next 50 years under current policies.
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McCollum, David, Beata Nowok, and Scott Tindal. "Public Attitudes towards Migration in Scotland: Exceptionality and Possible Policy Implications." Scottish Affairs 23, no. 1 (February 2014): 79–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/scot.2014.0006.
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Scotland is often perceived as having a relatively welcoming view towards migrants and is presented as such by its politicians and policymakers. This positioning sits within a broader political context in which the Scottish Government favours immigration but has limited policy levers with which to directly influence it. This paper seeks to scrutinise the supposition that Scotland can be seen as ‘different’ to the rest of the UK in terms of how immigration is perceived in the public realm. This is pursued through the analysis of attitudinal data to explore public views on migration, the potential drivers of these perceptions and their implications for future immigration policy in the context of the 2014 referendum on the constitutional future of Scotland. The research finds that the public in Scotland does hold relatively positive views towards migration and that this could be related to Scotland's particular experience of population in and out movements. However there is evidence of some (growing) hostility towards migration on the part of the general public in Scotland and a possible link between nationalist leanings and opposition to ‘Others’. These findings have significant implications for debates regarding possible future immigration policies in Scotland.
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WINETROBE, BARRY K. "Enacting Scotland's ‘Written Constitution’: The Scotland Act 1998*." Parliamentary History 30, no. 1 (January 24, 2011): 85–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-0206.2010.00241.x.
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Kingstone, Sydney. "“Scottish”, “English” or “foreign”." English World-Wide 36, no. 3 (October 19, 2015): 315–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.36.3.02kin.
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This paper provides the first perceptual dialectology survey of Scotland. Respondents from the northeast fishing town of Buckie were asked to mark and label dialect areas on a map, and to rate 12 government regions on five scales: “degree-of-difference”, “correctness”, “pleasantness”, “broadness” and “sounding Scottish”. Based on the results of the survey, Scottish dialect perceptions could be placed into three main cultural dimensions: : (i) “Scottishness”, the “Good Scots/Bad Scots” distinction; (ii) “Englishness”, the cultural prominence of the Scotland-England border; and (iii) “Foreignness”, the influence of other languages on its islands. The conflicting responses regarding correctness offer a glimpse into different aspects of linguistic (in)security in Scotland. These findings provide a means of understanding Scotland’s current perceived linguistic landscape through significant regional and cultural dimensions.
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Spurlock, R. Scott. "Cromwell's Edinburgh Press and the Development of Print Culture in Scotland." Scottish Historical Review 90, no. 2 (October 2011): 179–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/shr.2011.0033.
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Alasdair Mann, the noted scholar of book culture in early modern Scotland, has suggested that a significant change had occurred in Scotland's relationship with the printed word by the late seventeenth century. This study sets out to explain how the interregnum served as a ‘watershed’ during which a consumer demand was created for popular print and how this in turn necessitated a significant increase in the production and distribution of printed material. Beginning with the sale of the press and patent of Evan Tyler to the London Stationers’ Company in 1647, the article charts the key factors that transformed Scotland's printing industry from the production of official declarations and works for foreign markets to the production of polemical texts for a Scottish audience. These developments also witnessed publication of the first serial news journal and the growth of a competitive market for up-to-date printed news. More than just an anomaly that flourished during a decade of occupation, these fundamental changes altered Scotland by introducing the large-scale consumption of chapbooks and printed ephemera, thereby initiating the nation's enduring print culture.
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Kenealy, Daniel. "Much Ado About (Scotland in) Europe." Scottish Affairs 23, no. 3 (August 2014): 369–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/scot.2014.0035.
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The issue of an independent Scotland's relationship with the European Union (EU) has been one of the most contentious and recurring issues of the referendum campaign. Discussion, to date, has been characterised by competing assertions from the two sides of the campaign. There has been little in the way of reasoned debate and consideration of the issue. Instead it has become grist to the mill of two campaign meta-narratives, one concerning the uncertainty inherent in a ‘Yes’ vote and the other concerning the continuity and stability that Scotland would enjoy following a ‘Yes’ vote. In this essay I will problematise the official position set out by the European Commission, clarify some of the outstanding issues, and raise questions about the proposed timescale for securing an independent Scotland's continuing membership of the EU. I argue that it would be in the interests of all parties, in the event of a ‘Yes’ vote, to avoid a scenario in which Scotland found itself outside of the EU and its legal framework for any period of time.
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Noorda, Rachel L. "Borrowing place brands: product branding from SMEs in the publishing industry." Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship 21, no. 2 (December 16, 2019): 57–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jrme-07-2017-0022.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically test how company size affects the use of Scotland’s place brand in product branding by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the book industry in Scotland. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses a mixed-method approach to investigate place brand adoption for product branding by SMEs in the Scottish book industry through the analysis of Scotland’s place brand identifiers in a corpus of 208 online book blurbs. Findings Results from the analysis show that, amongst SMEs in the Scottish publishing industry, smaller companies are more likely to use Scotland place brand identifiers in product marketing. Originality/value This is the first study to analyze book blurbs from a marketing perspective and it is one of the few articles on product-place co-branding. Additionally, branding in SMEs is a relatively new and uncharted area of research to which this study contributes, and branding in book publishing is also a scarcely researched area, to which this study offers new, empirical data about the relationship between place brands and product brands.
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Magee, Karl. "Boycotts and Bailouts: the archives of the Commonwealth Games Council of Scotland." African Research & Documentation 116 (2011): 25–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00019130.
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In December 2010 the archives of the Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland were transferred to the University of Stirling Archives. The Council is the lead body for Commonwealth sport in Scotland and is responsible for selecting, preparing and managing Scotland's team at the Commonwealth Games. It is one of the seventy-one national Commonwealth Games Associations who are members of the Commonwealth Games Federation which is the parent body for the Games. The bulk of the collection, which consists of approximately one hundred and fifteen linear metres of records, relates to the planning, organisation and administration of the 1970 and 1986 Commonwealth Games, which were both held in Edinburgh. As well as these two major sporting events organised in Scotland the archive also contains material relating to the participation of Scottish athletes at other Commonwealth and Olympic Games.
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Magee, Karl. "Boycotts and Bailouts: the archives of the Commonwealth Games Council of Scotland." African Research & Documentation 116 (2011): 25–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00019130.
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In December 2010 the archives of the Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland were transferred to the University of Stirling Archives. The Council is the lead body for Commonwealth sport in Scotland and is responsible for selecting, preparing and managing Scotland's team at the Commonwealth Games. It is one of the seventy-one national Commonwealth Games Associations who are members of the Commonwealth Games Federation which is the parent body for the Games. The bulk of the collection, which consists of approximately one hundred and fifteen linear metres of records, relates to the planning, organisation and administration of the 1970 and 1986 Commonwealth Games, which were both held in Edinburgh. As well as these two major sporting events organised in Scotland the archive also contains material relating to the participation of Scottish athletes at other Commonwealth and Olympic Games.
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Dawson, Tom. "Community Rescue: Saving sites from the sea." AP: Online Journal in Public Archaeology 6, no. 2 (January 7, 2017): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.23914/ap.v6i2.78.
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Erosion threatens coastal sites around the globe and Scotland has been pioneering a methodology of community action that brings local groups and professional together to work at sites before they are destroyed. This builds upon the Historic Scotland rapid coastal surveys and the follow-up analysis of collected data to prioritise action. Projects such as Shorewatch and the Scotland’s Coastal Heritage at Risk Project (SCHARP) have seen communities update records and participate in practical work. This paper presents the background to these community initiatives, giving details of two projects; the excavation of an Iron Age Wheelhouse in the Hebrides and the relocation of Bronze Age structures in Shetland.
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Phillips, Jim. "Oceanspan: Deindustrialisation and Devolution in Scotland, c. 1960–1974." Scottish Historical Review 84, no. 1 (April 2005): 63–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/shr.2005.84.1.63.
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Oceanspan was a grand design for Scotland's economic, industrial and social regeneration. It attempted to position Scotland as a land bridge between the Atlantic Ocean and Continental Europe: raw materials would flow in from the west, utilising the deep water of the Firth of Clyde, and be converted into finished goods for export across the North Sea. The chief architect of the plan was William Lithgow, the Port Glasgow shipbuilder, and it was publicised by the Scottish Council for Development and Industry, an organisation that encompassed representatives of local authorities and trade unions but was dominated by business interests. The plans were geared to assisting new industries notably electronics, but implied special privileges for the older heavy industries with which Lithgow and Lord Clydesmuir, chairman of the Scottish Council, were associated. Substantial public investment was required, which was resisted by both Labour and Conservative governments. Only the political sympathies of the Scottishcouncil leaders, nurtured further by the various social and industrial difficulties facing the Conservative government in 1971 and 1972, notably the miners' strike and the work-in at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, averted a substantial public row. Oceanspan nevertheless represents an important episode in the longer history of the emergence of devolutionary or nationalist impulses in modern Scotland, for the plkans linked Scotland's apparent economic and industrial stagnation with the alleged problem of remote administrationof policy in Scotland from Whitehall, and incorporated demands for enhanced policy powers for the Scottish Office.
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Inbadas, Hamilton, José Miguel Carrasco, Michelle Gillies, and David Clark. "The level of provision of specialist palliative care services in Scotland: an international benchmarking study." BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care 8, no. 1 (July 8, 2017): 87–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2016-001301.
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ObjectivesComparative benchmarking of specialist palliative care (SPC) services across jurisdictions can be used to assess the adequacy of provision. Published in 2016, the Scottish Atlas of Palliative Care unlocks the possibility of benchmarking Scotland’s provision against other European Union (EU) countries. Our objectives were to describe the provision of SPC services in Scotland and compare this with other EU countries, assessing coverage against European norms.MethodsWe conducted a secondary analysis of data collected as part for the Scottish Atlas by structured telephone (n=33) or online (n=3) survey with informants from 14 territorial health boards and 15 hospices who provided information about SPC services in their locality. National-level Scottish data were compared with data from other EU countries allowing ranking for each service type and service coverage as calculated against European Association for Palliative Care norms.ResultsScotland had a total of 23 SPC inpatient units containing 349 beds, 27 SPC hospital support teams and 38 SPC home care teams. Relative to other EU countries, Scotland ranked seventh for provision of SPC inpatient units and hospital support teams, and fifth for home care teams. Coverage for these services was 85%, 100% and 72%, respectively.ConclusionScotland is positioned among the top 10 EU countries for the level of provision of SPC services. National policy in Scotland has focused on the delivery of palliative care at home or in a homely setting. These data support a focus on developing services in community settings to meet Scotland’s policy ambitions.
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Murray, Gillian. "Community Business in Scotland: An Alternative Vision of ‘Enterprise Culture’, 1979–97." Twentieth Century British History 30, no. 4 (June 9, 2018): 585–606. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwy007.
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Abstract The force and coherency with which Margaret Thatcher and her inner circle outlined their vision for ‘enterprise culture’, like so many aspects of Thatcherism, have masked the complexity of its origins and the histories of alternative responses. This article provides a history of an alternative vision for enterprise culture by examining the community business movement in Scotland, the largest experiment of its kind in the UK in the 1980s and a forerunner of social enterprise. Working across Scotland, but with a hub of activity in the Strathclyde region, practitioners worked with local people to find ways to develop their neighbourhood economy while improving their environment, creating jobs, and developing services needed in their area. This article outlines the origins of the movement, the shared values of its founding members, and how their training in community development informed the community business model. It analyses how practitioners put their ideas into practice and the reasons behind the fragmentation of the movement in the 1990s. It argues that although at face value the concept of community business may appear to chime with the dominant political rhetoric of Thatcher’s ‘enterprise culture’, the history of the movement provides a signpost to an alternative, if unrealised, vision for Scotland’s recovery from social and economic depression. Where previous historical research has focused on the political consequences of Thatcher’s policies in Scotland, this research connects this discussion to the transformation of Scotland’s civic society in the wake of deindustrialization.
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Chowdhury, Gobinda, and Simone Margariti. "Digital reference services: a snapshot of the current practices in Scottish libraries." Library Review 53, no. 1 (January 1, 2004): 50–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00242530410514793.
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Discusses the current practices followed by some major libraries in Scotland for providing digital reference services (DRS). Refers to the DRSs provided by three academic libraries, namely Glasgow University Library, the University of Strathclyde Library, and Glasgow Caledonian University Library, and two other premier libraries in Scotland, the Mitchell Library in Glasgow and the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. Concludes that digital reference services are effective forms of service delivery in Scotland’s academic, national and public libraries, but that their full potential has not yet been exploited. E‐mail is the major technology used in providing digital reference, although plans are under way to use more sophisticated Internet technologies. Notes that the majority of enquiries handled by the libraries are relatively low‐level rather than concerning specific knowledge domains, and training the users to extract information from the best digital resources still remains a challenge.
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Murray, Kath, and Colin Atkinson. "This Service Terminates Here? Politics, Practitioner Perspectives, and the Future of Railway Policing in Scotland." Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice 14, no. 3 (November 8, 2018): 752–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/police/pay074.
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Abstract Following the devolution of railway policing under the Scotland Act 2016, the Railway Policing (Scotland) Act 2017 set in motion a process that, if completed, will see the British Transport Police's Scottish Division integrated into Scotland’s relatively new national police force, Police Scotland. The post-legislative journey has, however, proven far more challenging than supporters of integration envisaged. Drawing upon primary and secondary data, this article investigates the integration process to date and shows how a politicized and poorly managed transition programme left employees disillusioned, and fostered a deep strain of mistrust towards the project. With escalating costs, a lack of practitioner buy-in, the potential loss of experienced officers and staff, longer-term risks to the remaining BTP organization, and no clear evidence of benefits, the article concludes that the Scottish Government should call off full integration and consider an alternative approach towards the devolution of railway policing.
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Christman, Ben. "(Non)-developments in environmental justice in Scotland." Environmental Law Review 20, no. 2 (June 2018): 69–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461452918779298.
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This comment discusses the implementation of a 2011 manifesto commitment by the Scottish National Party to publish an options paper on the creation of an environmental court in Scotland. It critiques the resulting 2016 ‘Developments in environmental justice in Scotland’ consultation and subsequent 2017 ‘analysis and response’ – which decided against creating an environmental court. In particular, it examines the consultation with regard to the access to environmental justice requirements of the Aarhus Convention. Despite repeated findings by the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee and the Meeting of the Parties that the Scottish legal system is non-compliant with Articles 9(4) and 9(5), the consultation documents mention Scotland’s ‘ongoing compliance’ and dismiss the Compliance Committee as a non-judicial body. The comment argues that the Scottish Government failed to fulfil its manifesto commitment and gave little recognition to the structural problems in accessing environmental justice in Scotland.
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Bell, David, David Comerford, and David Eiser. "Funding Pensions in Scotland: Would Independence Matter?" National Institute Economic Review 227 (February 2014): R21—R31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002795011422700104.
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Economic issues will be key determinants of the outcome of the Scottish referendum on independence. Pensions are a key element of the economic case for or against independence. The costs of funding pensions in an independent Scotland would be influenced by mortality risks, the costs of borrowing and the segmentation of costs and risks (i.e. pricing to Scotland's experience rather than pooled across UK experience). We compare the overall costs of providing pensions in an independent Scotland against the resources that are available to cover these costs. Scotland has worse mortality experience than the UK as a whole, and Scottish government debt is likely to attract a liquidity premium relative to UK government debt. An independent Scottish government would have to create a bond market for public debt. The liquidity premium would make pensions cheaper to buy, but taxpayers or the consumers of public services would have to pay the cost.
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Werritty, Alan, and David Sugden. "Climate change and Scotland: recent trends and impacts." Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 103, no. 2 (July 2012): 133–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1755691013000030.
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ABSTRACTThis paper reviews the key evidence for global climate change and outlines the trends of climate change in Scotland, the potential impacts and the implications for policy makers. Human activity is causing a rise in atmospheric CO2 concentrations and there is little doubt that this is contributing to global warming. There is greater uncertainty about how this global trend will play out at a regional scale and also how close we are to climatic tipping points. Instrumental records document the overall trends and variability in Scotland's climate since 1914. These show that since the 1960s, Scotland's average climate has proved to be wetter (especially in the west) and warmer. This trend is expected to continue throughout the 21st Century with, on average, hotter and drier summers and milder and wetter winters. However, extreme events will continue to affect Scotland, as they have always done, and the severity and frequency of these events may increase. Sea levels will continue to rise modestly, especially in the Outer Hebrides and the Northern Isles. Some of the uncertainty in climatic predictions is captured in the probabilistic outputs of Defra's UK Climate Projections 2009 programme. An initial attempt to assess the likely impacts of climate change is provided in Defra's 2012 Climate Change Risk Assessment, which includes a report specific to Scotland. Whilst most of the risks involve negative impacts, with increased flooding and loss of biodiversity being especially adverse, there are also positive impacts with associated opportunities, especially in terms of increased agricultural production and larger numbers of tourists. The report on Scotland will allow different groups of policy makers to refine the risks associated with specific activities. But given the fragile nature of many of the metrics underpinning the report, caution should be exercised in using it to frame climate adaptation strategies.
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Lowe, Gordon. "Thrombosis in Scotland, 1800–1960." Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 52, no. 2 (June 2022): 153–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14782715221107949.
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From 1800, arterial thrombosis and venous thrombosis were increasingly recognised as causes of sudden death. By 1960, they had replaced infections as the commonest cause of death in Scotland and the UK, as in many developed countries. The important contributions of Scotland’s doctors between 1800 and 1960 to the knowledge of thrombosis, and to its treatment and prevention by anticoagulant drugs, are reviewed.
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Bamford, Caroline, and Tom Schuller. "Comparing Educational ‘Performance’." Scottish Educational Review 31, no. 2 (March 18, 1999): 122–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/27730840-03102004.
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The paper draws on a wider study which is part of the ESRC’s Learning Society research programme. The study compares performance in initial and continuing education in Scotland and England. Here we report on the part of the analysis which deals with performance in initial education. Key findings include the large numbers of unqualified adults as the legacy of a previously highly polarised system; and the fact that it was girls’ greater schooling achievements which mainly account for Scotland’s earlier lead in initial education performance. We conclude that the differences between England and Scotland are reducing; and raise some questions about the foundation laid by the Scottish initial education system for a learning society.
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Williamson, D. B. "Rare Desmids from Scotland." Algological Studies/Archiv für Hydrobiologie, Supplement Volumes 84 (April 23, 1997): 53–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/algol_stud/84/1997/53.
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Bochel, Hugh, and Catherine Bochel. "Women Candidates and Councillors in Scottish Local Government, 1974–2012." Scottish Affairs 25, no. 2 (May 2016): 161–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/scot.2016.0125.
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While significant attention has been paid to the levels of representation of women in both the Westminster Parliament and the Scottish Parliament, much less consideration has been given to the position within local government. This article addresses that deficit for Scotland. It shows that for twenty-five years following the reorganisation of local government in Scotland in 1974 there was a slow but relatively steady increase in the numbers of female candidates and councillors, although more recently this appears to have plateaued somewhat, together with a similar increase in the number of women councillors taking up more senior roles in Scotland's councils. The article analyses the representation of women in Scottish local government over the period from 1974 to 2012 against the backdrop of significant change in Scotland, including a further restructuring of local government and the introduction of the Single Transferable Vote for council elections, the creation of the Scottish Parliament, the rise of the SNP and the decline of the Conservative Party.
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Kane, Jean, Sheila Riddell, Pauline Banks, Anne Baynes, Alan Dyson, Alan Millward, and Alastair Wilson. "Special Educational Needs and Individualised Education Programmes: Issues of Parent and Pupil Participation." Scottish Educational Review 35, no. 1 (March 27, 2003): 38–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/27730840-03501005.
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Recent statute in Scotland (Children (Scotland) Act, 1996; Standards in Scotland’s Schools, etc. Act (Scotland), 2000; Disability Discrimination Act, 1995, as amended) has lent force to attempts to increase the participation of pupils and parents in educational processes, particularly in decision-making. These attempts are apparent in policy recommendations (SOED,1994; SOEID, 1998) and are further evidenced in the field of special educational needs (SEN) in the response to recent proposals for consultation (SEED, 2002) and in the drafting of new legislation with regard to additional support needs. While there is a consensus that such participation is desirable, education professionals are not in agreement about what constitutes participation, nor have schools found easy the development of more participative ways of working with pupils and their parents. This article discusses these issues in relation to the findings of a recent Scottish Executive funded research project Raising the Attainment of Pupils with Special Educational Needs (Banks, et al., 2001)
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Czapiewski, Tomasz. "Scotland at the Crossroads between the European Union and the United Kingdom." Reality of Politics 4, no. 1 (January 31, 2013): 29–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/rop201302.
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Scottish Independence Referendum will take place on 18 September 2014. There would be only one question during referendum: “Should Scotland be an independent country? The reform of devolution established by Scotland Act 2012 is sometimes overlooked by observers as too little too late. The most principal issues of the referendum will be: economy, oil resources, currency, defense and European Union. Main doubt around referendum is whether Scotland would be better economically after Independence. Scotland’s position within the EU is likely to be shaped more by any agreements between the parties than by pre-existing principles of EU law. Doubts about Scottish membership in the EU have to be viewed in the context of the referendum on the UK’s membership in the European Union, that will take place if the Conservative Party wins the 2015. British political class have always behaved differently towards the European integration than continental elites The importance of the European dimension of the Scottish Independence Referendum was proved by Panelbase poll in May 2013.
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Garrison, Stephanie, and Claire Wallace. "Media Tourism and Its Role in Sustaining Scotland’s Tourism Industry." Sustainability 13, no. 11 (June 2, 2021): 6305. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13116305.
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Popular media, including films, television, comics, videogames, and books, are an increasingly important aspect of contemporary tourism. This is especially the case in Scotland, where popular culture led to the development of Scotland’s tourism industry. In this article, we will describe the phenomenon of media-related tourism in Scotland with respect to three selected case studies within Scotland: First, Glenfinnan Viaduct, made famous by the Harry Potter film series; Second, Doune Castle, used as a set for Monty Python, Game of Thrones and more recently, Outlander; Third, Abbotsford, home of Sir Walter Scott, a classical novelist now celebrating his 250th Birthday Anniversary. In examining these case studies, the article will consider how sustainable media tourism is. This approached is from the lens of media tourism and its impact on rural communities, concerns over local infrastructure, wider understandings of media tourism as a growing sub-sector, and the sustainability of the wider Scottish tourism industry in relation to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Clark, Andy, and Ewan Gibbs. "Voices of social dislocation, lost work and economic restructuring: Narratives from marginalised localities in the ‘New Scotland’." Memory Studies 13, no. 1 (November 19, 2017): 39–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698017741931.
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Political discourse in contemporary Scotland increasingly revolves around the vision of a ‘New Scotland’, more prosperous and meritocratic than the rest of the United Kingdom. This has a convoluted relationship with Scotland’s industrial past, and specifically the social dislocation experienced through deindustrialisation. This article analyses the deployment of this narrative within regeneration efforts in former industrial communities in Lanarkshire and Inverclyde, West Central Scotland, before counterpoising it with the reflections of former industrial workers and their families. It does so through an analysis of monuments to the industrial past, comparing those erected as part of regeneration schemes by local authorities with community efforts to commemorate past struggles and industrial disasters. This examination is accompanied by the use of oral history narratives to argue that there are two distinct understandings of the nature of place, space, struggles over social justice and communal identities within these localities, which lean heavily on the memory of the industrial past in contrasting ways.
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Ross, Andrea. "The Evolution of Sustainable Development in Scotland—A Case Study of Community Right-to-Buy Law and Policy 2003–2018." Sustainability 11, no. 1 (December 27, 2018): 130. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11010130.
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Effective ownership, management and access to land are central for sustainable development and can impact significantly on the opportunities for local enterprise. In 1998, Scotland’s Land Reform Policy Group concluded that ‘Land reform is needed on the grounds of fairness and to secure the public good’ Consequently, Scotland has introduced various schemes that facilitate or compel the transfer of land from an existing landowner to a community body. Sustainable development is a primary objective of all these regimes making them exceptional both in UK and global terms and worthy of in depth examination. This article critically explores how the laws and policies relating to sustainable development within these community right-to-buy regimes have matured and evolved from their introduction in 2003 to the present. It reveals the beginning of a fourth era in sustainable development policy in Scotland which moves away from a single ‘one size fits all’ approach to one where both sustainable development itself and wider sustainable development equations are tailored to land-use in Scotland and to the needs of each of the different community right-to-buy regimes. These developments evidence a significant maturity in the implementation and delivery of sustainable development in Scotland.