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The team is now asking members of the public to join them as citizen scientists. The public will be asked to complete a short survey while in the Lower Granton Road area before the changes occur in February 2019. This will make up the pre-changes survey, and after development the public will be asked to complete a post-survey. The surveys are currently being tested by students in the School of Health in Social Science.
P Research Fellow Larry Doi, together with researchers from the University of St Andrews, Glasgow Caledonian University and the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana have recently received funding from the Scottish Funding Council and the UK Strategies for Global Challenges Research Fund through the University of St Andrews to set up a consortium and subsequently conduct Antimicrobial resistance research in West Africa. The consortium is named the West Africa partnership to fight Antimicrobial resistance (SWAB).
tematic reviewer, Jan Pringle, has started working with colleagues from Stirling University on a review examining the influence of physical activity for people with dementia, or associated cognitive impairment. Screening of search results is underway, and analysis of findings will commence within the next few weeks.
ohn McAteer, alongside colleagues Ross Whitehead and Eileen Scott in NHS Health Scotland, and Dona Milne from NHS Fife, recently published their report titled “
Improving reporting of Meta-Ethnography: The eMERGe Reporting Guidance
January 2019 Bulletin!
How qualitative (or interpretive or critical) is qualitative synthesis and what we can do about this?
Thanks to everyone who attended the seminar on ‘How qualitative (or interpretive or critical) is qualitative synthesis’, it was a huge success.
And you can watch ‘SCPHRP meets George’ here
George W. Noblit is the Joseph R. Neikirk Distinguished Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He, with Dwight Hare, developed meta-ethnography. He had occasionally written more about it and has consulted on several large qualitative synthesis projects. He has a forthcoming article on the meta-ethnography of autoethnographies as well as a book in process, The cultural construction of identity: Metaethnographies and theorizing. In truth, however, he more a practicing qualitative researcher whose work has won several awards. He specializes in the study of racialization and class formation from a decidedly critical lens. He is the editor/author of 18 books.
His most recent book, Is Education, equity and economy: Crafting a new intersection for Springer. He edits The Urban Review and two book series. Most recently he is the founding editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education which he hopes will not deter Scottish separatists from attending his presentation.
Latest Projects
HiSS Winter Fair for Research Policy & Practice 2019 (November 13, 2019)
We will be hosting an event to bring third sector, industry, government and healthcare organisations together with staff and students in the School of Health in Social Science. Join us for a fun and interactive fair, which aims to connect organisations doing work that may be of interest to staff and students. Attendees will have […]
Brown Bag Series: Episode 2 (October 30, 2019)
Participation levels and media representation of girls & women in physical activity in Scotland Wednesday 13 November 2019 Guest speakers: Audrey Buelo and Jillian Manner Regular physical activity is important for long-term physical and mental health. However, girls and women are consistently identified as less active than boys and men. The reasons for this are […]
HiSS research methods community (October 22, 2019)
These sessions are open to students and staff across the School of Health in Social Science. They will focus on learning and supporting each other in regards to research methods. The aim is to learn about methods, share ideas of research, and help each other with methodological methods and encourage the sharing of best practice from […]
Recent Projects
Early Years Projects
- Early Years Working Group – Continuity and transition of care event
- Seven Key Investments for Health Equity across the Lifecourse: Scotland versus the rest of the UK
- Continuity and Transition of Care: How Can we take the Evidence to Practice?
- Childhood obesity analysis using the Growing Up in Scotland study
- Adaptation and Piloting of the Early Development Instrument (EDI) in Scottish School Enterers
Adolescence and Young Adulthood Projects
- Evaluation of TRE (Tension & Trauma Release Exercises) among university students
- School-based stress-reduction skills
- Parenting support for kinship carers looking after teenagers
- Mental Health: Moving Forwards – The Five Year Plan programme
- Life of Breath
Working Age/Adult Life Projects
- Seven Key Investments for Health Equity across the Lifecourse: Scotland versus the rest of the UK
- Open Space on Health Inequalities in Scotland (Report)
- Creating Better Health & Wellbeing – Final Report & Video
- Self-Management and Social Prescribing Advisory Group (NHS Scotland / Scottish Government)
- Inequalities in risk marker acquisition in the Scottish population
Later Life Projects
Other Projects
- The Community Alcohol Campaign
- Seven Key Investments for Health Equity across the Lifecourse: Scotland versus the rest of the UK
- Calling all obesity researchers: Scottish Landscape Obesity Review
- Farr Institute @ Scotland/Natural Experiments
- Training materials on developing public health interventions