Read Yoshinori Kasai on Japan’s traditional pilgrimage associations and their social functions, including the Ise-kō, an organization formed to carry out pilgrimages to the Ise Shrine, one of Japan’s most revered Shinto shrines.

Last week, Youth Scotland released ‘Acting on Funding’, highlighting the huge challenge of securing sustainable funding for youth work. Earlier this year, with Youth Link Scotland, we published The Power of Youth Work, a longitudinal biographical study which explored how youth work shapes lives

Read Bethany Sikes, Research and Policy manager at Volunteer Scotland, on the challenges of articulating the impact of volunteering, and work carried out with social value specialists State of Life to evidence the difference volunteering makes to people’s wellbeing.

Most research on migrant care work traces women’s journeys from the Global South to the Global North, where they care for someone else’s children while leaving their own behind. But what happens when this story unfolds within the Global South, in a context marked

Marie Larsson has been researching contraceptive experiences and practices for almost 10 years, primarily using “traditional” qualitative methods. In this blog, Marie reflects on her new project, delivering a creative workshop using guided poetry methods, targeted an interdisciplinary audience with a particular interest in,

Louise Ho has explored how, in the context of the Chinese diaspora in Scotland, the role of siblings extends beyond childhood companionship, delving into the complexities of cultural identity while also reflecting on their own experiences.

I am Chinese and it seems that I have always lived under the persistent prodding of my elders. From childhood, when I was urged to speak and walk, to my teenage years, when the pressure was on to study hard, and now, as an

Throughout human history, there has always been a desire and need to contracept. That is, a desire to prevent or be able to plan pregnancies or prevent against sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

In this blog, Dr Marie Larsson introduces her new research briefing,