Reading Time: 7 minutesThis blog explores the AAAQ framework analysis approach to human rights spending taken by the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee in a collaborative budget scrutiny workshop supported by the SHRC.
Tag: People and communities
Guest blog: Strengthening the use of lived experience in the Scottish Parliament
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis guest blog by Dr Clementine Hill O’Connor introduces and links to the findings and recommendations arising from a fellowship project exploring the ways that lived experience is understood as a form of evidence and features in committee scrutiny.
Guest blog: Where does lived experience sit in the work of the Parliament?
Reading Time: 7 minutesThis guest blog introduces and shares interim findings from a SPICe fellowship by Dr Clementine Hill O’Connor (University of Glasgow) on the role of lived experience within scrutiny at the Scottish Parliament.
Deliberative democracy in the Scottish Parliament – do we have the answers?
Reading Time: 9 minuteshis blog gives an update on work to develop an approach to embedding deliberative democracy in the work of the Scottish Parliament, and looks back to see if some of the fundamental questions raised in earlier SPICe blogs have been answered.
The Scottish Parliament’s deliberative democracy timeline
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis timeline blog lists reports, briefings, blogs and other publications which relate to deliberative democracy in the Scottish Parliament from 2017 onwards, and will be updated with new publications until the end of the current parliamentary session in March 2026.
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.
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.
Guest blog: Connecting deliberative practices in Parliament with participation and community engagement
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis blog summarises key points from a recent fellowship in which Dr Ruth Lightbody explored practice principles and a framework for participation in the Scottish Parliament
Embedding Deliberative Democracy in a Participatory Parliament
Reading Time: 9 minutesThis blog gives an update on work to improve public participation in the work of the Scottish Parliament, including a look at the recommendations of the Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee, as well as detail on next steps and a case study of using a deliberative approach with citizens in the Budget scrutiny process.
Domestic abuse – a civil law perspectiveÂ
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis blog post revisits the Domestic Abuse (Protection) (Scotland) Act 2021, an important piece of as yet unimplemented legislation from the end of Session 5 of the Scottish Parliament. It also explores the potential need for wider-ranging reforms in this area and highlights an interesting law reform project by the Scottish Law Commission.