Funding awarded by the Scottish Universities Insight Institute
Co-producing Desistance: International Social Economy Justice Network: Dr. Beth Weaver, School of Social Work and Social Policy, with Professor Stephen Osborne (University of Edinburgh), Dr. Michael Roy (Glasgow Caledonia University) and Dr Sarah Soppitt (University of Northumbria), Pauline Graham and Jayne Chappell (Social Firms Scotland), Elizabeth Docherty (Glasgow Social Enterprise Network), Thomas Jackson (Community Justice Glasgow) and Paul Morris (Glasgow City Council) have been awarded funding from the Scottish Universities Insight Institute.
This programme of knowledge exchange, running between October 2018 – March 2019, will bring together international, multi-disciplinary academic and industry leaders from 14 countries in the respective fields of social cooperatives, social enterprise and the social economy; community justice, social work and public health; and economic sociology, criminology, governance and public policy to form an active and sustainable collaborative network and to inform the development of social enterprise and cooperative structures of employment in both work generation and integration for people involved in the justice system.