Reading Time: 6 minutesHow do changes that are being made to retained EU law relate to the Scottish Government’s EU alignment policy?
Category: Parliament & Government
Assimilated EU law reform: Where does Scotland stand in early 2025?
Reading Time: 4 minutesA look at recent updates from the UK and Scottish Governments on changes that are being made to retained EU law.
Guest Blog: Opening Up Scrutiny – Reflections on Creativity, Collaboration, and Evidence in The Scottish Parliament
Reading Time: 7 minutesThis guest blog sets out the findings of a SPICe fellowship project with Dr Cara Broadley, Glasgow School of Art, who used an immersive Participation Action Research approach to explore how creative, participatory and visual approaches can enhance public involvement and the effectiveness of evidence in scrutiny. Cara’s full research report is embedded and downloadable from this blog.
Intergovernmental activity update: Q1 2025
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSPICe has published a new quarterly intergovernmental activity update, which covers quarter 1 (January to March) of 2025.
Guest Blog: Continuously improving people’s panels at the Scottish Parliament – Lessons from our independent evaluation
Reading Time: 6 minutesThis guest blog by Iñaki Goñi and Elisabet Vives (University of Edinburgh) summarises and builds on their external evaluation of the two People’s Panels run by the Parliament in 2025.
UKRI Policy Internships at the Scottish Parliament – what are they all about?
Reading Time: 4 minutesAcademic research can have a crucial role in the formation and scrutiny of policy. One of the ways in which PhD students can engage with
Scottish Parliament launches Areas of Research Interest pilot to support climate scrutiny
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Scottish Parliament has launched its first Areas of Research Interest. This blog why we are keen to pilot ARIs and how researchers can engage with them.
Delivering a model for parliamentary scrutiny of climate change: a Climate Change People’s Panel
Reading Time: 13 minutesIn January 2024, the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee established a People’s Panel to support its post-legislative scrutiny of section 91 of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009. This initiative was part of broader work to embed public participation in the work of the Scottish Parliament.
The second review of Scottish Parliament boundaries: Updated proposals for constituencies and regions
Reading Time: 6 minutesA summary of the latest proposed changes to Scottish Parliament constituency and region boundaries.
How is Scotland Performing?
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis blog looks at how Scotland is performing against the 81 National Indicators in the National Performance Framework.