Nordic Horizons

Nordic Welfare - a DIY Guide - A Short Audio Precis

Nordic Welfare Event Poster

After the meeting about Nordic Welfare with Profs Jon Kvist and Jochen Clasen, we have recorded a short summary podcast with Lesley Riddoch giving her report and initial thoughts.

You can download and listen to Nordic Welfare - A Short Guide with Lesley Riddoch

If you would like a copy of the presentation which is an excellent guide to the Danish Welfare perspective, we have posted a full copy of Prof Kvist slides here. The full audio recordings of the presentations and lively Q&A session are also available here.

Is the evolution of social democracy in Norway relevant to Scotland?

This is the provocative title for an article written by Øivind Bratberg of the University of Oslo. It is an edited version of his presentation to Nordic Horizons in June. You can download and read the article in full here.
 

Norway, independence, social democracy and Scotland's referendum - the notes

 

Lesley, Jenny Marra, Nicola, Oivind

The meeting was a huge success and thanks to all involved. Jenny Marra MSP for hosting, Oivind Bratberg of Oslo University for presenting ( his speech  is available for download here. ) , Nicola McEwen of Edinburgh University for responding, Lily Greenan has supplied extensive meeting notes which can be downloaded here. and Rhona McLaren supplied the photo. Lesley has blogged about the event here. An audio recording of the event is being edited. The Facebook page remains open for business; discussions and insights.

The full "Finns can only get better " presentation

As promised, Dr Tapio Lappi-Seppälä has sent on a full copy of his slides which he used at the recent meeting of Nordic Horizons. They are full and comprehensive and  and available here as "the Scotland 2012 Finnish prison reduction presentation ".

As a reminder, you can listen to the presentation recording in real time by downloading the audio recording below. ( Tapio starts speaking about 7 minutes in ) .

 

Download the "Finns can only get better" Podcast

 

The full Pasi Sahlberg presentation

Pasi Sahlberg has kindly let us have a copy of his slides from his presentation. It's a big file ( 3+ mb ) and you can download it here. Download Pasi Sahlberg Presentation in the Scotland Parliament 2012