Paisley Town Centre recently hosted 225 S3 pupils from across Renfrewshire.
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Developing the Glasgow 2030 Tourism Strategy
The Glasgow 2030 Tourism Strategy was developed following an intensive phase of engagement and consultation with industry and key stakeholders across the city region. Replacing the previous Glasgow Tourism and Visitor Plan 2023, the new Strategy was launched in October 2023.
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‘Training would be the absolute worst place to leak [menstrual blood]. I’d be mortified!’ Anna, Karate practitioner.
In recent years we have seen a growing number of women in sport speaking out about the ‘P’ word – periods!
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A few weeks ago, SCVO, Mhor Collective and Simon Community Scotland were on a panel at the Holyrood Digital Health and Care Conference.
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It’s an exciting time for our region, with the opening of the refurbished Paisley Town Hall playing host to the Royal National Mòd last October, the upcoming re-opening of Paisley Museum, developments and longer term plans around RSPB Lochwinnoch and Castle Semple Visitor Centre and proposed hotel investment announced elsewhere in Renfrewshire.
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I have worked at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) for 6 years as a lecturer in sport and physical education. Upon moving to Scotland, having taught in the Northwest of England for 15 years, I was struck by the limited amount of academic research undertaken on sport development in Scotland.
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I have just finished a research project in Japan. While travelling around, I had the opportunity to attend the Cycle Messenger World Championships taking place in Yokohama and, to attempt to form an understanding of these events through the lens of a community-based tourism that re-enforces the right to the city for bicycle messengers.
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One the main themes of CCSE research work focuses on major and mega sport events, including bidding, planning, delivery and legacy.
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As part of CCSE’s ongoing collaboration with Renfrewshire Council, and relating to their wide ranging Future Paisley Programme, CCSE is committed to developing a suite of resources to assist Council colleagues with their ongoing work and, to contribute to Future’s Paisley‘s legacy.
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Culture has become increasingly implicated in regeneration and placemaking in peripheral (sub)urban places in recent years (Richards and Diuf, 2019; Miles, 2020).
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In the past 3 and half years, I have been investigating the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as a soft power tool. I have taken a holistic approach in the context of understanding my case study, this holistic research approach arose because I have never travelled to Japan and I have never experienced the Japanese culture in reality.
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In the last week I’ve heard the term ‘the perfect storm’ on repeat, from multiple sources, in relation to the perceived threats to Scottish arts organisations’ future existence.
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Recently, Paisley’s marvellous STAR Project completed a 9-month long, seasons inspired, arts based therapeutic intervention; ApArt.
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Barcelona’s FestSpace team has produced a short video to bring together the objectives of the research and to summarise its key outcomes. It includes the perspective of the five cities participating via the contributions of the principal investigators of the project, members of their teams and some stakeholders.
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The Burrell Collection in Glasgow reopened to the public on 29 March 2022, after a major refurbishment that lasted nearly 6 years.The A-listed home of The Burrell Collection in Pollok Country Park is now a modern, greener museum that shows more of the Collection to visitors and gives access to over a third more of the building.
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Our Spirit of London 2012 and Local Trust funded research project examining the social value of community events was completed at the end of last year.
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It is easy to forget that in a world before COVID there were already significant barriers for people with disabilities and chronic illness who wanted to take part in physical activity. Some of these barriers were physical in nature, such as inaccessible facilities, difficulties in accessing transport and the costs of specialist equipment.
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On boarding the 12.30 LNER high-speed from Edinburgh Waverly to London Kings Cross, little did I expect that the journey itself would begin in such a decidedly uncanny manner.
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