Global Conversations, from Scotland
by John Edward
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Scotland’s Role in Global Innovation for Addiction Care
Scotland’s Role in Global Innovation for Addiction Care
About this podcast
The Scottish Council on Global Affairs is the all-Scotland international relations institute. It marshals Scotland’s wide expertise on international affairs, supports the formulation of public policy, and provides a convening space for informed debate.
The Council provides a forum to bring together the public, private and not-for-profit sectors with civil society and academic expertise to encourage dialogue, debate and the dissemination of research on issues of global importance.
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Episodes
- Scotland’s Role in Global Innovation for Addiction Care · 48 min · Season 2 Episode 6A discussion between partners in the SCGA-funded project on Scotland’s role in global innovation for addiction care. Dr Gosia Mitka, University of St Andrews Business School…
- Women, Peace and Security in the Age of Fragmentation · 49 min · Season 2 Episode 5Women, Peace and Security in the Age of Fragmentation In this podcast, Laura Wise, Kasia Houghton, and Fiona Campbell discuss an SCGA Insight report following a workshop - with…
- World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and World Order · 1 h 30 min · Season 2 Episode 4The audio track from a very timely lecture organised by the Stevenson Trust for Citizenship and co-hosted by the Scottish Council on Global Affairs. It took place at the…
- "How nations like Scotland and Ireland can provide a hub for discussion on international affairs" - Leo Varadakar · 53 min · Season 2 Episode 3A live recording of First Minister John Swinney MSP and former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar with Principal Professor Dame Sally Mapstone, at an event held in the Booth Lecture Theatre…
- A Global Perspective on National Security · 28 min · Season 2 Episode 2In this episode we look at the work undertaken by Prof. Andrew Neal and his colleagues on National Security globally. Breaking new ground a corpus and dataset of national…
- The next 100 years of peace in the greater Middle East: Beyond the 1923 peace settlement and the reconfiguration of the East-West relations · 48 min · Season 2 Episode 1We are joined by Dr Ilia Xypolia, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen; and Dr Zana Gul, Lecturer in International Politics at…
- Human Rights Collaboration between Academia and Civil Society · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 13Recorded live at the Glasgow Human Rights Network’s Early Career Researcher event, Dr David Scott talks with Dr Elaine Webster (Strathclyde University), Prof Bruce Adamson…
- The Long Road to Children’s Rights in Scotland · 58 min · Season 1 Episode 12On 16 January 2024, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024 entered into law, ending a multi-year push by civil society to…
- Good Global Citizens? What are Scots thinking? · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 11In this podcast, John Edward speaks to Prof. Tom Scotto and Dr Claire Duncanson of the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh respectively, on their work on public attitudes in…
- Equity in Global Health Law - after COVID, what next? · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 10Four years on since the pandemic broke across the world SCGA looks at the prospects for a new Pandemic Treaty. John Edward speaks to Dr Stephanie Switzer of the University of…
- Whatever happened to nuclear deterrence..? · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 9In the last edition of 2023 Dr. Tyler White, Associate Professor of Practice and the Director of the National Security Program at the University of Nebraska talks to John Edward…
- 75 years of the Human Rights Convention - in conflict and in practice · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 8The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in Paris 75 years ago. Professor Helen Duffy, Professor of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the Grotius…
- Never again? The Genocide Convention at 75 - Professor Christian Tams · 36 min · Season 1 Episode 7John Edward speaks to Professor Christian Tams, University of Glasgow International Law Chair and Director of the Glasgow Centre for International Law and Security (GCILS)…
- Commercial space systems and foreign armed conflicts · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 6Dr Adam Bower is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Relations, and Director of Impact and Innovation in the School of International Relations at the…
- UK-EU foreign policy post-Brexit · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 5In this episode, the SCGA's John Edward speaks with Dr Benjamin Martill, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. We consider his…
- The Scottish Human Rights Bill - writing international human rights into Scots law. · 1 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 4Dr David Scott talks with Laura Pasternak from Who Cares? Scotland and Mhairi Snowden from the Human Rights Consortium Scotland about the Scottish Government’s plans to write…
- Migration & Scotland with Professor Rebecca Kay · 26 min · Season 1 Episode 3Professor Rebecca Kay talks to John Edward on her research on migration and depopulation, prepared for the SCGA. This is at the same time that Migration Policy Scotland, where…
- Russo-Ukraine War, and the Wider North · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 2SCGA Co-Director Phillips O'Brien speaks with Minna Ålander of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs on the implications of the Russo-Ukraine War for the Security in the…
- SCGA introduction - August 2023 · 15 min · Season 1 Episode 1In our first podcast, SCGA Head of Operations John Edward talks with Professor Peter Jackson, SCGA Executive Director. The episode covers what the Council is, how it works, what…
