Behind scenes across #Glasgow there were acts of kindness yesterday & just sheer practical care - folk ensuring food & water supplied, phone calls, peace talks & messages zigzagging every network. People sitting with those dawn-raided or detained in past & shaken to core 💚🙏🏾💚
This doesn’t happen by accident. This is built up over years of many strong small organisations that mean everyone’s who fae somewhere can know someone. The kinds of community trust #KenmureStreet demonstrates was also policy in Scotland over 10 years #NewScots
The policy is built from the ground up, through many, many grassroots organisations, NGOs, public service & endless practical & caring and sometimes fraught conversations & debates. Social bonds are actively foster BECAUSE it keeps people safe. And our neighbours. #NewScots
Asylum dispersal was supposed to stop this happening. It didn’t. Integration networks grew that integrated, grew new leaders in communities, dismissed reliance on the early teachers. 15 years ago this was small, fragile, inexperienced. Now it literally has a life of its own.
These days it’s hard to list how many different extraordinary community actions there are - that are like Bruce Lee’s water - mingling and moving behind the scenes. It’s now longer just the 3 usual suspects. In 2014 & 2015 massive political community education began organically.
Whilst some funds were available much was voluntary. Glasgow is rightly famed for this. It organises practically & culturally. Gathers, speaks, listens, gallus in its endless conversation never afraid of argument.
Our folk traditions are redolent with it.
I’ll be updating my @UofGlasgow lecture on Glasgow over the weekend again. Mary Barbour, Jimmy Reid, George Macleod, PI, Poll Tax @ionacommunity, #GlasgowGirls, Kenmure Street and never forgetting Annie’s Loo
We’ve hard days ahead. The @ukhomeoffice is hell bent on cruelty and has an entirely different ideological understand and fear fed action agenda. I am under no illusions.
But I’ll take the joy yesterday represented and for its long holding as much as for the victory cries. Respect to all there with us and to all who make a city live like this, when it matters. It’s no small thing. 💚
The @UofGUnescoRILA Spring School is just one place where fostership of community-mindedness & social bonds are thought about, made, studied & sung, as well as critiqued. It's free and starts on Monday. Do come: gla.ac.uk/research/az/un…

@UofGlasgow @UofGEducation @UNESCOUK

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13 May
The indefatigable ⁦⁦@willrworley⁩ has put together a tracker will details of programmes affected by #ODA cut. It includes initial list from March 11 #UKRIcuts . If your project has been cut please let him know #gcrfcuts devex.com/news/tracking-…
This list @UKRI_News #GCRF cuts on @willrworley tracker picked up to date

Programs affected:
• Research and development into technology to purify dirty water (The Guardian)
• Mapping natural disaster risk in lower income communities (The Guardian)
• Research and development for infectious disease diagnostics (Independent)
• A refugee integration project run by Professor Alison Phipps. (Devex interview)
• Reducing homicide in Latin America (The Guardian)
• Migration for Development and Equality
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12 May
Our UNESCO Spring School on Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts begins next week and its going to be amazing. @UofGUnescoRILA @UofGlasgow @UofGEducation @UofGVC @UNESCOUK

gla.ac.uk/research/az/un…
Forget any normal ideas you have about zoom and 'online conferences' - just come and join our online cinema, games room, bed time stories, talks, outdoor activities (kinda online) lectures, learnings together and workshops with makers and magicians and marvels. @scotrefcouncil
The pre-activities are a joy - I've just added to our shared play list (@IAMKP a tradition of course) & to @Tawona_Sithole's comforting sounds.
Its FREE (very very small charge for our cookery keynote) and there is the gorgeous complex social space we've built in gather town.
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17 Apr
Thread 🧵 of more #GCRFcuts media, protest, the great work 💚analysis & actions from last week or so 👇🏼#ODAcuts #UKRIcuts starting with @heavencrawley @MIDEQHub
And here is a 🧵 from former challenge lead @lhammondsoas after she resigned in protest #gcrfcuts
The good folk @GCRFWaterHub have lots of great examples of the vital work they are doing - give them a follow. It’s amazing how much you will learn. 👇🏼💚👏🏼
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16 Apr
Today was the day #UKRI required my University and hundreds of others to submit their decisions on what to cut, how hard and what to terminate.

And required this with a timescale of 3 weeks which included Easter, Ramadan, Passover, up to Orthodox Easter. And school holidays.
To all the research and finance staff, PIs, Co-Is, and University leaders who have worked flat out to find ways of responding with integrity to this unprecedented situation and who have just been colleagues - thank you. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 we still have far to go. But it’s made a difference.
For #GCRF hubs deadline looms next week. So more pain ahead. Forthright comments from @heavencrawley & @profrichdawson
on #UKRi letter some PIs have received to send to partners.

“We are not sending it on”

“Too little too late”
tinyurl.com/cxe9wam3
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16 Apr
20 November 2020

#UKRI announced award of 141 new projects under #GCRF all addressing #SDGs

Global challenges being tackled by projects include [d]:
👉🏼environmental disasters
👉🏼education for children living through conflict
👉🏼malnutrition.” #odacuts ukri.org/news/ukri-anno…
Many of these 141 #GCRF award holders had been under strict @beisgovuk imposed embargo on #UKRI for over a year. I know, I was one of them. Delivering during the pandemic meant constant requests to ‘reprofile’ our grants meaning using resource to make projects Covid compliant
Between and in secret because of the embargo we worked out how to ensure partners had access to good enough internet for our partner meetings. This meant investing in and rapidly learning g about mobile technologies #odacuts #gcrfcuts #ukricuts
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31 Mar
“The scrapping of ODA projects will lead to a “loss of trust” in the UK that “will take years to rebuild”, warned Prof Anne Johnson, the president of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

#odacuts #gcrfcuts #ukricuts theguardian.com/science/2021/m…
“Disaster is an overused word but the recently announced cuts in ODA funding for research are exactly that” @kevinmarsh8 ‘a letter below now joining @JoBeall1 @FiddianQasmiyeh @OlivetteOtele @ZoeNorridge & Ayesha Siddiqi in resigning as #GCRF advisors at #UKRI 👇🏼
Unrolled thread here from @lhammondsoas as she ends her contract and resigns from secondment to #UKRI over #odacuts
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