The Centre for Culture, Sport and Events (CCSE) has developed from a collaborative partnership between the University of the West of Scotland and Renfrewshire Council. CCSE will provide a space to undertake collaborative research and development work that has relevance for the Renfrewshire area, nationally and internationally.
The Centre has been set up to conduct research, development, consultancy and knowledge exchange aligned to four key themes:
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Doctoral Student Launches Street Library in Colombia
A doctoral student and research associate at UWS Greis Cifuentes has also found the time to launch a Street Library program - “Libros a la Calle” - in Ibagué, Colombia. The program seeks to facilitate social cohesion alongside the appropriation of public spaces. It is...
Public Spaces: Culture and Integration in Europe
CCSE’s Professor David McGillivray and Dr Severin Guillard are in Gdańsk, Poland, this week attending the conference “Public Spaces: Culture and Integration in Europe” as part of their HERA-funded project FESTSPACE. David and Severin are accompanied by their four...
SoMe Companies: Can’t Beat Them, Won’t Join Them – Now What?
Amid rising unpopularity politicians and opinionaters increasingly seem determined to beat big media companies with a stick. But maybe there is a different way? A few words on the Internet Commission I think it’s fair to say that the subject of my research is pretty...
Digital Inequality & Positive Interventions; Ongoing Research into Provision of Meaningful Support
Currently in my second year as a PhD student at CCSE, I’m now working with the Simon Community Scotland in Glasgow as part of a participatory action research project reflecting on how digital exclusion impacts on people experiencing homelessness and how organisations...
CCSE Professors Contribute to Tokyo Policy Forum on the Paralympics and Social Change
CCSE Professors, David McGillivray and Gayle McPherson recently returned from a week in Tokyo, Japan, as part of an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded Japan-UK project focused on the Paralympic Games and Social Change. The project is designed to build...
The contribution of culture to global security and stability
On the 3rd July 2019, I presented at the Global Strategy Forum, in the National Liberal Club, in Whitehall, London. Global Strategy Forum is an open forum, founded in 2006 and dedicated to the promotion of fresh thinking and active debate on foreign affairs, defence...
Health Inequalities and Mechanisms
There’s one benefit of what my PhD colleague calls Interdisciplinary Imposter Syndrome, I feel I can be part of both the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (SGSSS) and Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH). So, I took advantage of their...
From UK City of Culture Bid Legacy to Future Paisley
I was lucky enough to join Renfrewshire Council in autumn 2018 as part of a new Cultural Regeneration team established to build on the legacy of Paisley’s UK City of Culture bid. Our small team is responsible for developing an overarching, collaborative and unifying...
Self-Discipline at the Beginning of your PhD
I’m about to make a small confession I’ve had it in my diary to write this blog post for longer than I care to admit. The reason I’m making such an, admittedly risky, confession is to show that self-discipline is hard to achieve. I’m sure we all procrastinate from...
Coal & Iron
My PhD revolves around the discipline of Creative Economics, which sounds like a euphemism for financial crime. Its first commandment may be Richard Florida’s statement “Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron once...
The Centre will build on the University’s local, national and international expertise in these areas, bringing a range of interdisciplinary perspectives to its research enquiries into policy and practice, advancing the production of new knowledge.
Research evidence produced through the Centre will contribute to academic excellence and influence policy makers and practitioners working in culture, sport and events and social policy and change.