🧑🎓Don't miss this PhD opportunity to work with the fantastic team at Yunus Centre GCU🧑🎓 🔗click the link to find out more about this amazing opportunity www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Research in the Centre is characterised by interdisciplinarity, working at the interface of research in social innovation and the social economy, health economics, and public health.
📚✨Julie Cowie, Nicola Irvine and Sarkis Manoukian are learning lots and thrilled to be in Newcastle, showcasing excellent work at the UK Public Health Science Conference and connecting with others 📚✨ Photos below! 📸
The Yunus Centre are delighted to share some recent research reports developed for the community partners who worked with us in the CommonHealth Assets project. For further information and the reports visit: www.commonhealthassets.uk/resources
RESOURCES | Assets
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🎉 Our WIGWAM-S project is complete! Together with our community partners, we’ve co-created 2 factsheets on attracting working-age men (16–65) to Men’s Sheds across Scotland. www.gcu.ac.uk/research/res...
WIGWAM-S
A co-design community project to develop realist programme theories around the impact of Men’s Sheds on positive health and wellbeing of socially disadvantaged, working-age men.
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Professor Rachel Baker has shared the findings of a major study on how community organisations can impact health and wellbeing. 👏 🔗 Read more: www.linkedin.com/posts/glasgo...
📣Registration is now open for our online Q Methodology Workshops to be held in May 2026📣 📆Register now to avoid disappointment. Further details can be found on our webpage www.gcu.ac.uk/research/res...
📣 Please share: Call out to those in North Ayrshire, Clackmannanshire, Fife, Glasgow City Region, South of Scotland & the Western Isles who are staff, volunteers, or trustees from social enterprises, small businesses, housing associations, schools, or trade unions 🔽 @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social
Join the Datavysts this Monday at 12:45pm (UK time) for the premiere of a short animation introducing the Datavysts mission — exploring how data can drive better decisions and impact. 🎥 Watch live on YouTube: lnkd.in/eYvXC3d3 datavysts.eu
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⚡ TOMORROW: Don’t miss Social Economy Today 2025 with Dr Liz Gardiner on social enterprises & complexity 🌍 📅 16 Sept | GCU + Online Register ASAP ⬇️ In person: eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-eco... Online: eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-eco...
Having read a draft of this lecture 👀 I can confirm it's brilliant.Using research from @socialenterprise.scot EDI groups to raise important challenges for the social economy to move beyond tokenistic inclusivity 👏👏👏 Join in person or online 👇
YunusCentreGCU@yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 12mo ago📢 *Social Economy Today* "In an increasingly uncertain world: Social enterprises dealing with complexity – the unheard voices" 🗓️ Tue 16 Sept 2025 | Glasgow Caledonian University 🎤 Dr Elizabeth (Liz) Gardiner In Person: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-eco... Online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-eco...
We are thrilled to announce a new £1.5m NIHR-funded project led by the Yunus Centre, launching 1st October 2025! More info below 👇
Glasgow Caledonian University@glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social · 11mo agoResearchers have launched a major new investigation into the power of Community Wealth Building (CWB) to affect local economies and improve population health. 💡 Find out more ⬇️ www.gcu.ac.uk/aboutgcu/uni...
Deadline to apply for this fantastic job opportunity is 7th September! More info below:
YunusCentreGCU@yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 12mo ago🚨JOB OPPORTUNITY IN THE YUNUS CENTRE🚨 We are looking to recruit a Research Fellow to join our team working on The CoWBELLS project, a mixed methods, theory-based, impact evaluation of Community Wealth Building in Scotland. Apply here: myjobscotland.gov.uk/education/gl...
🚨 Don’t forget to register for the Social Economy Today Lecture taking place on 16th September! 📅 Save the date and secure your spot 👉Book now via Eventbrite ⬇️ lnkd.in/eKwMmGDX
YunusCentreGCU@yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 12mo ago📢 *Social Economy Today* "In an increasingly uncertain world: Social enterprises dealing with complexity – the unheard voices" 🗓️ Tue 16 Sept 2025 | Glasgow Caledonian University 🎤 Dr Elizabeth (Liz) Gardiner In Person: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-eco... Online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-eco...
👏 @cowiej.bsky.social and Dani Hutcheon were delighted to present the WIGWAM-S scoping review findings at EHPS 2025 - 39th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society - today in Groningen 👏
📖 In light of the UK Government’s 10-Year Health Plan, Emeritus Yunus Chair @camdonaldson.bsky.social and Dr Adrian Crofton explore how Community Interest Companies (CICs) could shape the future of true neighbourhood health services. 🔗 bjgp.org/content/75/7...
CICing the partnership model into the future: a new social enterprise model for general practice?
For some years, the number of new GPs going into partnership across the whole of the UK has been decreasing, while the number of GPs exiting partnerships has been increasing.1,2 These trends show no s...
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🚨JOB OPPORTUNITY IN THE YUNUS CENTRE🚨 We are looking to recruit a Research Fellow to join our team working on The CoWBELLS project, a mixed methods, theory-based, impact evaluation of Community Wealth Building in Scotland. Apply here: myjobscotland.gov.uk/education/gl...
Research Fellow (1.0FTE) - GCU01845 | Glasgow Caledonian University | myjobscotland
View details and apply for this research (further / higher education) role in Glasgow with Glasgow Caledonian University on myjobscotland
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📢 *Social Economy Today* "In an increasingly uncertain world: Social enterprises dealing with complexity – the unheard voices" 🗓️ Tue 16 Sept 2025 | Glasgow Caledonian University 🎤 Dr Elizabeth (Liz) Gardiner In Person: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-eco... Online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-eco...
How do we create the right conditions for meaningful Patient & Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE)? In her new blog, Mohasin Ahmed reflects on the successes, limitations and key learning from the CommonHealth Assets Lived Experience Panel. Read it here: www.gcph.co.uk/latest/news-...
📢NEW REPORT Following the end of the CommonHealth Assets project, this report details the impact & outcomes of the Lived Experience Panel - a great resource to support others to develop better Patient & Public Involvement activities in public health research. www.gcph.co.uk/latest/publi...
Find our more about GCPH's work in relation to the @commonhealthassets.bsky.social Lived Experience Panel here: www.gcph.co.uk/our-work/25-...
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👏Well done to GCPH's Mohasin & Jen and co-authors @profrachelbaker.bsky.social, @camdonaldson.bsky.social & Michael Roy on the publication of 'Creating the conditions for meaningful and effective PPIE in community-based public health research' researchinvolvement.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Cam Donaldson and colleagues Cathie Russell and Nick Kemp, address injustices in the adult care home funding in a recent editorial in the British Medical Journal. ⚖️🏥 @camdonaldson.bsky.social @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/389/...
🎓 Well done to all MSc Social Innovation (including Professional Practice) students who graduated yesterday! 👏 Wishing you every success in your next chapter. #Graduation #SocialInnovation #ClassOf2025
Last week Prof Rachel Baker and Prof Olga Biosca were lucky enough to be invited to a meeting with His Excellency Professor Muhammad Yunus. Both were delighted to congratulate him on the Kings Foundation Harmony Award presented earlier in the day by King Charles III.
Emeritus Yunus Chair Professor Cam Donaldson has had a new book published on the future of publicly-funded healthcare systems. For further information, visit: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Financing Health and Social Care
This book argues that clinical leadership and politicians need to pay more attention to the economic issues underlying health and social care
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🥳A successful night was had at the recent WIGWAM WIGWAM-S Curry and Chat Night in Denny🥳
Julie Cowie@cowiej.bsky.social · last yr.Great night of conversation at the WIGWAM-S project "Curry and Chat" night in Denny talking with local men about how best to support health and wellbeing in the community. Hopefully not the last curry and chat night.. watch this space! @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social
www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/... Funded PhD Opportunity! 🚨Join our team at the Yunus Centre for Social Business & Health through an ESRC-funded SGSSS Studentship: The alterity & transformative potential of democratic finance in Scotland. 📅 Apply by: 24th June
The alterity and transformative potential of democratic finance in Scotland - Scottish Graduate School of Social Science
This PhD will explore the alterity and transformative potential of democratic finance – Community Bonds and Community Shares – in Scotland. This (relatively) new form of finance creates citizen invest...
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See the latest Yunus Centre BMJ article highlighting injustices in care home funding and offering some solutions : Care home funding: lessons from Scotland bmj.com/cgi/content/...
📢 Closing date: This Friday, 23rd May apply now 📢
YunusCentreGCU@yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · last yr.⏳Deadlines for applications extended to 23rd May⏳