| Placement and funding
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| Exchange Fellow |
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| Amy Roch has joined CRFR as part of
a five month exchange fellowship researching transgender people's
experiences of involvement in prostitution in Scotland. (Click
here for further details) |
AQMeN (Applied Quantitative
Methods Network) award
April 2011 |
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Development of online annotated
demonstration analyses to support researcher in selecting,
applying and interpreting multivariate methods of analysis of
longitudinal data.
The project will undertake multi-variable analyses of a longitudinal
data set to create demonstration materials for a set of multi-variable
approaches, all focused on the same set of variables.
Dr Pamela Warner and Professor Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Centre
for Research on Families
and Relationships and Centre for Population Health Sciences,
University of Edinburgh
Dr Paul Bradshaw, Scottish Centre for Social Research
Ms Lesley Kelly and Dr Roona Simpson, Centre for Research on
Families and Relationships,
University of Edinburgh |
| Emma
Davidson |
Emma Davidson spent three months this
summer working in the Children, Young People and Social Care
Analytical Services Unit of the Scottish Government. Emma’s
experience was hugely positive, allowing her to contribute to
research on diversionary activities for young people, children
affected by parental substance misuse and youth crime and victimisation.
The placement provided a first hand insight into the important
role given to evidence in policy making.
The placement was funded by the ESRC. |
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| Helen
Graham |
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Helen was in the Strategy Unit in the Cabinet
Office, whose principal function is to accumulate evidence and
develop recommendations on key policy issues. Helen worked on
issues relating to work and welfare, which she found very interesting,
and which broadened her substantive knowledge in an area connected
with her own research. More generally, the experience gave Helen
a deep insight into the policymaking process and the role of
evidence within it.
The placement was funded through the ESRC student internship
scheme |
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| Sue
Milne |
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Sue recently gained a Beltane
Public Engagement Fellowship. The aim is to work with
a local
education authority at officer and school levels, using the
GLOW Intranet to disseminate the
findings from the ‘Having a Say at School Research Project’. |
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| Sarah
Morton |
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Sarah spent three weeks with
the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation at the Vancouver
Coastal Health Institute, part of the University of British
Columbia.
She was interested in linking with them in relation to their
work using complex systems approaches
to how evidence is used in the development of health policy.
She presented some of her work on planning and capturing research
impact to a special seminar on complex systems.
The placement was funded by the ESRC overseas travel award. |
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| Marilyn Sangster |
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| Marilyn has been awarded an ESRC grant to go
to Melbourne. |
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| Valeria
Skafida |
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Valeria Skafida a 3-month ESRC
and Scottish Government funded internship at the Office of
Chief Researcher within the Scottish Government. Valeria conducted
longitudinal secondary analysis of Millennium Cohort Study
data. She used data from Scotland, England, Wales and Northern
Ireland for a comparative analysis of different aspects of
child well-being. The internship provided Valeria with a better
insight of how research affects policy-making, and of the
type of work done by Scottish Government researchers.
The placement was co-funded by the Scottish Government (Office
of Chief Researcher) and the ESRC.
Valeria was awarded her Phd 'The Habits of a
Lifetime?: Babies' diets and family life in Scotland' in Spring
2011. |
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