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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.

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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
🧑‍🎓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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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
📚✨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! 📸
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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
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RESOURCES | Assets
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
🎉 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...
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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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Glasgow Caledonian University @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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...
Professor Rachel Baker
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
📣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...
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Glasgow Centre for Population Health @thegcph.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
📣 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 CoWBELLS Public Involvement Panel (PIP)

We’re inviting community organisations to take part in an exciting new Public Involvement Panel (PIP) as part of the Community Wealth Building Evaluation Learning Lessons from Scotland (CoWBELLS) research project.
CoWBELLS is a 3-year study exploring how Community Wealth Building (CWB) – an approach to creating fairer, more inclusive local economies – impacts health and reduces inequalities. CWB focuses on keeping wealth within communities through five pillars: inclusive ownership, finance, workforce, spending, and land/property. Examples include co-operative food pantries, employee-owned businesses, and community banks. This research will inform Scotland’s upcoming Community Wealth Building Bill, which will require local authorities to implement CWB strategies.

 

What is the PIP?
The PIP will bring together up to 18 people from across six areas – North Ayrshire, Clackmannanshire, Fife, Glasgow City Region, South of Scotland, and the Western Isles – who are involved in CWB activities. Members might be staff, volunteers, or trustees from social enterprises, small businesses, housing associations, schools, or trade unions. You don’t need research experience – just practical knowledge of community-led work.

 

Why get involved?

Shape important research that could influence policy and support for community organisations.
Promote your organisation’s work and connect with others across Scotland.
Access training and learning opportunities in evaluation and public health.
Visit and learn from CWB projects in other areas.
Receive payment for your time (£150 for full-day meetings) plus travel and childcare costs.
 

What’s involved?
Panel members will meet roughly every six months to share insights and help guide the research. Sessions will cover topics like refining the project’s Theory of Change and advising on how findings are shared.

 

Interested?
Contact Mohasin Ahmed at mohasin.ahmed@glasgow.ac.uk to find out more or sign up.
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
⚡ 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...
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gillmurray.bsky.social @gillmurray.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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 👇
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
⏰Less than a week to go⏰ Register via the EventBrite link below🎫
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
We are thrilled to announce a new £1.5m NIHR-funded project led by the Yunus Centre, launching 1st October 2025! More info below 👇
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Deadline to apply for this fantastic job opportunity is 7th September! More info below:
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
🚨 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
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
👏 @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 👏
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
📖 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...
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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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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
🚨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...
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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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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
📢 *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...
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Glasgow Centre for Population Health @thegcph.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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-...
Members of the Lived Experience Panel around a restaurant table, with the following quote next to the photo: "With varying communication and support needs amongst Panel members, we adopted a tailored approach to meet individual requirements."
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Glasgow Centre for Population Health @thegcph.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
📢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...
Cover of the report, entitled 'CommonHealth Assets: Lived Experience Panel - Final evaluation report'. The cover is light blue with an illustration representing the panel. There are three women and two men of varied ages and ethnicities sitting around a table, conversing.
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Glasgow Centre for Population Health @thegcph.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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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Glasgow Centre for Population Health @thegcph.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
👏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....
Quote: To work well, Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) must be a genuine collaboration that values lived experience alongside academic knowledge. 
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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/...
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
🎓 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
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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.
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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...
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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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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🥳A successful night was had at the recent WIGWAM WIGWAM-S Curry and Chat Night in Denny🥳
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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
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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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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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/...
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
📢 Closing date: This Friday, 23rd May apply now 📢
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Day One kicked off the annual Q Methodology Workshop with an incredible cohort from universities in 13 countries across 4 continents 🌍 Participants are exploring subjectivity in health, AI, criminal justice, education, environment, literature, leadership and more a truly interdisciplinary journey!
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
⏳Deadlines for applications extended to 23rd May⏳
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
📣📣📣Join us at the Yunus Centre, GCU - don’t miss this fantastic funded PhD opportunity 👇
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
📢 Don’t miss this fantastic funded PhD opportunity at the Yunus Centre, GCU 👇
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
🎓PhD Opportunity – Join the Team @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social 🏫@glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social 🔔We're inviting applications for a fully funded PhD Exploring the developments of Living Labs fostering young people engagement in civic life. 🔗 Learn more & apply: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Exploring the developments of Living Labs fostering young people engagement in civic life at Glasgow Caledonian University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Exploring the developments of Living Labs fostering young people engagement in civic life at Glasgow Caledonian University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
✨Apply by 10th April 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. 🔗 www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/... #PhD #Studentship #ESRC #SGSSS
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Studentship - Scottish Graduate School of Social Science
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
📢 Register for the Online Q Methodology Workshop by 18th April 🌍💡https://gcu.ac.uk/research/researchcentres/yunuscentre/study/workshops 📅 8-9 & 12-13 May 2025 ⏰ 1 PM (BST) each day Q methodology combines qualitative and quantitative techniques to study subjectivity.
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🚨 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: 10th April 🔗 www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/... #PhD #Studentship #ESRC #SGSSS
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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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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Delighted to have our first paper published from our NIHR-funded ‘Public values, Universal Basic Income (UBI) and health’ project. We explored trade-offs between policy characteristics and (non-)health outcomes of a UBI and a Minimum Income Guarantee. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Excited to announce that Rural Entrepreneurship: Harvesting Ideas and Sowing New Seeds by Artur Steiner & colleagues is finally published! #RuralEntrepreneurship #SustainableEconomies #Innovation www.emerald.com/insight/publ...
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Rural Entrepreneurship: Harvesting Ideas and Sowing New Seeds: Vol. 20 | Emerald Insight
Rural Entrepreneurship: Harvesting Ideas and Sowing New Seeds | Editors: Gary Bosworth, Polly Chapman, Robert Newbery, Artur Steiner, Don J. Webber
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Glasgow Centre for Population Health @thegcph.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
You can download all six comics here: www.gcph.co.uk/latest/publi...
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Our Voices – Community Impact in Action
Our Voices – Community Impact in Action
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Glasgow Centre for Population Health @thegcph.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
How do community-led organisations (CLOs) make an impact in people’s lives? ‘Our Voices – Community Impact in Action’ is a comic co-created by the CHA Lived Experience Panel & Magic Torch Comics, using the Panel's stories to illustrate the life-changing impact that CLOs have in their communities.
Cover of the comic 'Our Voices - Community Impact in Action', with several colourful patterned panels.
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Ready to dive into Q Methodology? Join our online workshop this May to gain essential skills in concourse theory, Q-sorting, and more! Perfect for beginners! 🌟 Sign up via our website : www.gcu.ac.uk/research/res...
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
We are pleased to see the results of our Enjoy Life LocallY (ELLY) study published today! The study co-designed and feasibility tested a novel, incentive intervention to support disadvantaged communities with health and wellbeing. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/2...
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Feasibility study of a co-designed, evidence-informed and community-based incentive intervention to promote healthy weight and well-being in disadvantaged communities in Scotland
Objectives To feasibility test a novel community-based financial incentive scheme to promote healthy weight and well-being. Design Single-arm, prospective feasibility study using mixed methods. Sett...
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Discover what 'good work' means for members of work integration social enterprises in our latest paper. We unveil three distinct perspectives to help navigate social and commercial tensions. Read more here : bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Exploring mental health & wellbeing in farming communities across the Global North! 🌾 An international working group, including our own Artur Steiner, reviews research gaps and priorities and can be found in the Journal of Rural Studies www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We are delighted to have been informed that our article ‘The economic contribution of third sector initiatives for older people: a systematic review & development of a framework for evaluation’, is one of the most downloaded articles published in Voluntary Sector Review in 2024. lnkd.in/eaNSbBz9
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YunusCentreGCU @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
‼️ Registration is now open for our online Q Methodology Workshops to be held in May 2025. ‼️ Register now to avoid disappointment. Further details can be found on our webpage www.gcu.ac.uk/research/res...
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