Generation Scot Y

What is Generation Scot Y?Born in the 1980s and 1990s and comprising primarily of the children of the baby boomers, Generation Y is often perceived as being the generation that wants it all.

Think you know what makes Scotland’s 20-somethings tick? Knowing who Generation Y in Scotland – Generation ScotY – is, matters for our economy, our society and our political culture.

Generation ScotY has grown up with devolution: are they ready to embrace full nationhood? How has Scotland’s independence referendum affected them and what does it mean for their future?

In this book, political blogger at Burdz Eye View, Kate Higgins explores all this and more – Generation ScotY’s identity, influences, values, voting behaviours and aspirations. Far from being frivolous, this is a serious generation for serious times.

This book only skims the surface but dip in and you’ll discover something you never knew – I did and I’m the mother of one. And ultimately, you’ll find that far from wanting to have it all, they just want a little of all that we’ve had.
KATE HIGGINS

Kate Higgins

KATE HIGGINS blogs at A Burdz Eye View on all things political and topical. She has spent the last 15 years working within the policy environment for charities, engaging with political institutions in Scotland, the UK and EU. She grew up with politics ever present in her childhood, carrying on the family tradition into adulthood, immersing herself in the independence referendum campaign and helping to co-found Women for Independence. Whatever happens on 19 September, she hopes to be able to retire from some aspects of it all and spend more time with her children and her garden.