Scottish Society
For a Society Which Cares – Justice for Sheku
Author / Creator: Layla-roxanne Hill
Media type: Article
Date published:
Earlier this week the Sheku Bayoh Public Inquiry recommenced, with this phase examining the extent to which race was a factor in the events leading up to and following Sheku’s death – particularly the actions of the police officers involved.
Access to Justice for Everyone
Author / Creator: Scottish Human Rights Commission
Media type: Report
Date published: 2023
How might a new Human Rights
legal framework improve access to
justice in Scotland today?
Independence is not Going Away: The Importance of Education and Birth Cohorts
Author / Creator: Lindsay Patterson
Media type: Article
Date published:
Support for Scottish independence has remained stable since the change in the leadership of the
Scottish National Party in March 2023, despite the fall in support for the party.
Autonomy of Modern Scotland
Author / Creator: Lindsay Paterson
Media type: Book
Date published: 1994
No Scottish politics reading list would be complete without Lindsay Paterson’s Autonomy of Modern Scotland
The New Sociology of Scotland
Author / Creator: David McCrone
Media type: Book
Date published: 2017
A ground-breaking, comprehensive account of the social, political, economic and cultural processes at work in contemporary Scottish society.
Independence in the modern world. Wealthier, happier, fairer: why not Scotland?
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
This paper sets out a detailed analysis of the UK’s performance across a range of economic and social indicators relative to that of ten European countries.
Caledonian Dreaming: The Quest for a Different Scotland
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Book
Date published: 2014
Hassan challenges the myths that define modern Scotland and its place in the United Kingdom.
Bella Caledonia: An Anthology of Writing from 2007 – 2021
Author / Creator: Bella Caledonia
Media type: Book
Date published: 2022
This is a book celebrating fourteen years of publishing and collaborations. We have taken the idea of ‘self-determination’ and began to ask what would that mean for us as individuals, communities, towns and cities, not just as a nation? We have taken the idea that we have been living through a mistake in our timeline. In Scotland we thought we needed a parliament, then realised it’s actually a democracy we need. Our question is: what does that democracy look like and how can we create it, now?