Knowledge hub

This panel discussion provides guidance about the energy crisis in the UK and Scotland, contextualising the issues, and exploring what the pros and cons are of the main solutions that are under discussion. Several recent events have created a very unexpected and worrying energy crisis. Prices for consumers have shot up and are expected to […]

A discussion assessing the experience of tackling inequalities at new spatial levels, putting Scotland into a comparative perspective and asking what can be learnt.

Discussing the role of arts and humanities in the implementation of the joint Scottish-Irish bilateral review.

The RSE’s held an event for young people to hear the inspirational Ugandan climate justice activist, Vanessa Nakate.

A discussion of the notebooks of Sir Charles Lyell, their significance, internal workings, composition and conservation efforts.

Professor Mirela Delibegovic FRSE sets the scene and presents the controversial story.

A growing body of research evidences the positive role of the arts, literature and culture in promoting mental wellbeing.

Dr Sam Illingworth on how science poems can communicate important scientific research that is being done daily worldwide.

In the changing socio-political landscape of Scotland, debates on the Scots language have come to the fore. But what exactly is Scots?

Damian Barr FRSE in conversation with Dr Eve Poole, Chief Executive of the RSE, discussing the important moments in his life.

This event brought together experts to challenge and provoke us about how the time for rural is now.

As a leader in the field of early learning and childhood development, Professor Peter Moss will critically reflect on the day’s discussions and, from his extensive experience and observations contained within his book “Contesting Early Childhood…and Opening for Change”, will look at the failures in the current early years system in Scotland and paint a […]

September 2021 marked the introduction of 30 funded hours of early learning and care provision for all Scottish 3-, 4- and eligible 2-year-olds. Despite the pandemic’s impact, Scotland’s central and local governments, in partnership with the ELC sector, admirably managed to maintain the momentum behind this major policy innovation. Four years earlier England introduced 30 […]

The idea of universal early childhood education and care (ECEC) services is embedded in Nordic educational policies, and ECEC is considered a national responsibility. Children have the right to attend full-day ECEC programmes and, thus, virtually all children attend ECEC from their early years. The presentation will focus on the principles and values presented in […]

Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology, at the University of California at Berkeley, and author of over 120 journal articles and several books including the bestselling and critically acclaimed “The Scientist in the Crib”, “The Philosophical Baby” and “The Gardener and the Carpenter”. She is a Guggenheim fellow, fellow of the Cognitive Science Society […]

Our approach to early education and childcare is of both symbolic and practical significance. It is suggestive of the type of nation to which we aspire, and delivers the foundation for how that can be achieved. In this presentation, we reflect on where we are at, where we are headed and – in light of […]

Paul Bradshaw is Director of ScotCen Social Research, an independent, not-for-profit research institute and the Scottish arm of NatCen Social Research. In a career spanning 20 years, Paul has worked on a wide range of studies across many policy areas, though his primary focus has been research on children and families. Most notable is his […]

This discussion brings together experts with perspectives from art therapy, psychology and psychiatry to address what we mean by wellbeing for babies and toddlers.