|
|
|
|
Project staff |
|
| This list consists of
project staff who are based at the CRFR main office in Edinburgh. |
|
 |
Kelly
Davis
|
| |
|
| Biography |
Kelly’s
background is in Anthropology, and in 2008 she completed
her PhD in the Social Anthropology department at Edinburgh.
Her research interests include issues of gender, kinship
and parenthood,
medical anthropology and the scientisation of daily life,
ethnographic methods and social history. |
| Current
project |
Kelly is
an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship holder with the primary
aim of disseminating the findings from
her thesis ‘Here’s your baby, on you go: kinship
and expert advice amongst mothers in Scotland’.
Her work
examined how kinship and expert advice affected the processes
by which women in post-war Scotland
learned to mother and made childrearing decisions. The
thesis compared in-depth interviews with
mother-daughter pairs with professionally published childrearing
literature, examining the tensions,
parallels and gaps between them. While her thesis used
cohorts and time periods to socially and
politically contextualise her material, the present aim
is to connect her findings to their health and
social policy implications. Following this line of investigation,
she is also undertaking new interviews
with health professionals involved in maternal and child
health. |
| Telephone |
0131 651 3002 |
| Email |
Kelly.Davis@ed.ac.uk |
| Website |
|
|
|
 |
Susan
Elsley
Senior Research Fellow
University of Edinburgh
|
| |
|
| Biography
|
Susan is
an independent consultant in children and young people's
rights, policy and research.
She has wide experience in management, research, policy
and practitioner roles in children's
organisations and in the wider voluntary sector. Susan
has a PhD in Sociology, teaches on the
MSc in Childhood Studies in the Department of Social Policy
and is an Honorary Fellow of the
School of Social and Political Science, University of
Edinburgh. Susan has research interests
across children and childhood with a particular focus
on children's rights and participation,
looked after children and young people, play, child poverty
and children's books and culture.
Susan is interested in inter-disciplinary approaches to
children and childhood in policy, research
and service delivery. |
| Current
project |
| |
| Telephone |
0131 650 4635 |
| Email |
susan.elsley@ed.ac.uk |
| Website |
|
|
| |
| |
|
 |
Lesley
Kelly
GUS Dissemination Officer
|
| |
|
| Biography |
Lesley Kelly
is the Dissemination Officer for the Growing up in Scotland
study (GUS). As a member
of the Research Liaison team in CRFR, her role is to ensure
that findings from GUS are made available
to a wide range of audiences, including the study participants.
She is the key point of contact for those
with an interest in the study.
Her background is in research, strategy and policy, mainly
in Housing, having worked for the City of Edinburgh Council
and Scottish Homes. |
| Current
project |
Growing
up in Scotland
Lesley's role is to publicise and promote GUS findings
to policy makers,
practitioners, study participants and others. |
| Telephone |
0131
651 1832 |
| Email |
lesley.kelly@ed.ac.uk |
| Website |
www.growingupinscotland.org.uk/ |
|
|
 |
Diana
Kerr
Research Fellow/Consultant
|
| |
|
| Biography |
Diana worked
for many years in social work as both a practitioner and
educator. She developed and was Director of the MSc in
Dementia Studies at the University of Stirling. Diana
moved to CRFR in 2002 where her area of research and emphasis
has been predominantly in the field of learning disability
and dementia. Diana is an advisor to service providers
and planners who support people with dementia and people
with a learning disability and dementia. She is also a
trainer to direct care staff, managers, health and social
work professionals, carers and people with a learning
disability on the needs of people with dementia.
She was recently involved in a research project, funded
by Joseph Rowntree foundation on supporting people in
care homes at night. |
| Current
project |
Consultant:
Supporting
staff working with people with a learning disability and
dementia: practice development pack.
Development of work in relation to nighttime care research.
Co writing, with Heather Wilkinson, a book for Jessica
Kingsley Publishers on nighttime care in care homes, to
be published 2010. |
| Telephone |
0131
651 1832 |
| Email |
dkerr3@staffmail.ed.ac.uk |
| Website |
|
|
|
|
 |
Juliet MacArthur
NHS Lothian Values Based Framework KE and Sustainability
Manager |
| |
|
| Biography
|
| Juliet is
a registered nurse with 25 years experience of working
in the NHS. She is the Lead Practitioner for Research
in NHS Lothian which is a role that is focussed on developing
research capacity and capability in nursing, midwifery
and the allied health professions mainly through collaborative
working with higher education institutions. Her research
interests include the general hospital care of people
with a learning disability and compassionate care. She
is currently undertaking a part-time PhD - 'Embedding
compassionate care in local NHS practice: a realistic
evaluation'. |
| Current
project |
NHS
Lothian Values Based Framework - Knowledge Exchange
and Sustainability Manager
Juliet is working on knowledge exchange relating to
a number of projects being delivered in NHS Lothian
all of which focus on improving the patient experience
through attention on fundamental values. Many of these
values centre on relationships not only between healthcare
professionals and patients but between the professionals
themselves. This involves implementation of the 'Senses
Framework' (Nolan et al 2006) and the '10 Essential
Shared Capabilities for Mental Health Practice' (NES
2007). The work involves collaboration with clinical
teams in hospital and community services to identify
examples of positive work from evidence and practice
and develop dissemination strategies to promote awareness
raising and adoption on a wider scale. |
| Telephone |
07792 894
760 |
| Email |
juliet.macarthur@ed.ac.uk |
| Website |
|
|
|
|
Alex McCauley
Connect in Care Project Co-ordinator |
| |
|
| Biography
|
Alex's background
is in psychological research and information technology.
Alex works in website development including construction
of online databases and online experiments. She combines
this with multi-media work in audio, graphics and photography.
Alex is currently in the post of knowledge
transfer co-ordinator for Connect in Care, which is a
project funded by NHS Education Scotland and
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland in partnership with the
Care Commission. Alex also works as
a consultant. She is particularly interested in how images
and words interact with the medium
of presentation, to aid communication of information or
ideas. |
| Current
project |
Connect
in Care
Promoting access to resources for staff who care
for older people, across all settings
and creating a network across Scotland to enable the sharing
of learning and practice
development, in order to improve the quality and experience
of care for older people. |
| Telephone |
0131 651 1940 |
| Email |
alex.mccauley@ed.ac.uk |
| Website |
www.connect-in-care.net/ |
|
|
 |
Alice
MacLean
Research Fellow |
| |
|
| Biography
|
Alice joined
the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships
in February 2007 to work
on a study entitled 'Work and Family Lives: The changing
experiences of 'young' families'.
Between 2002 and 2006, she conducted her PhD research
while based at the MRC Social
and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow. This involved
using qualitative methods to investigate
gender differences in symptom reporting during childhood
and adolescence. |
| Current
project |
Work
and Family Lives: The Changing Experiences of ‘Young’
Families
This study aims to explore the ways in which
families reconcile their work and family lives
over time by drawing on the changing experiences and perceptions
of a sample of 10 low
income and 10 affluent families with primary school-aged
children. Specifically, the research
will investigate processes of negotiation between parents
and children in addressing issues
raised by working parenthood. It will look at the ways
such issues impact on everyday family
practices and will explore any ways that these may change
over time in response to changes
in work and family circumstances, including those in the
children’s lives. By comparing the
experiences of low income and affluent families, the study
aims to deepen our understanding
of how work and family issues are constructed and ‘worked
out’ by parents and children living
under different socio-economic and labour market conditions.
This study is part of the ESRC-funded ‘Changing
Lives and Times’ qualitative longitudinal
research initiative involving a consortium of 5 universities
based across the UK. |
| Telephone |
0131650 4635 |
| Email |
alice.maclean@ed.ac.uk |
| Website |
|
|
|
 |
Sue
Milne
Beltane Fellow |
| |
|
| Biography
|
Sue
Milne has 30 years experience of working with children,
young people and their families
in a range of educational, health and community settings.
She has also undertaken a number
of research projects. These include consultations with
children and young people and those
in 'hard to reach' communities, and the promotion of children's
rights. Her primary interest
is in enabling children's voices to be heard. |
| Current
project |
|
| Telephone |
0131 651 1832 |
| Email |
s.e.milne@ed.ac.uk |
| Website |
|
|
|
|
Enid Mordaunt
Research Fellow |
| |
|
| Biography
|
Enid's research
work has had a number of focuses, namely:
1. The accountability of public services through inspection
and regulation, and also the
nature and work of lay inspectors.
2. Various aspects of families such the involvement of
children and young people in child protection processes,
the use of Child Protection Orders, and an evaluation
of a wide-ranging Young
Fathers Project in England.
3. Aspects of the special education procedures in both
England and Scotland, in particular the
justice inherent in assessments, and also the role of
the Commissions for Local Administration
in promoting procedural justice.
4. The promotion process for academic staff within the
University. |
| Current
project |
| Legal
practitioners’ perspectives on the cohabitation
provisions
of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006
This project will examine the functioning of the Family
Law (Scotland) Act 2006 based on the
experiences of those working with the law.
This one year study, funded by the Nuffield Foundation,
is a collaboration between CRFR and the Faculty of Law,
University of Cambridge. The research team consists
of Fran Wasoff, Enid Mordaunt and Jo Miles.
The focus will be on experiences and perspectives of
legal practitioners and other selected family law professionals
regarding the use of the provisions in the first three
years of the legislation. |
| Telephone |
|
| Email |
Enid.Mordaunt@ed.ac.uk |
| Website |
|
|
| |
|
|
Karen Mountney |
| |
|
| Biography
|
Before joining
CRFR, Karen was Head of Programme and Practice Development
with Children in Scotland,
the national agency for organisations and individuals
working with children and their families. |
| Current
project |
About
families: gathering evidence, informing action
This project aims to ensure that the changing needs of
parents and disabled people
are met by using evidence to help inform policy and service
development. |
| Telephone |
0131 650 4055 |
| Email |
karen.mountney@ed.ac.uk |
| Website |
|
|
|
|
Emma
Rawlins
Project Co-ordinator - Recession, global threats and
young people's
anticipated futures as partners and parents
|
| |
|
| Biography |
| To follow |
| Current
project |
Recession,
global threats and young people's anticipated futures
as partners and parents
The aim of this project is to explore whether and how
the current economic crisis and sense of various global
threats, for example climate change and security issues,
inform the discourse of childless young people about the
future: specifically how they are thinking about, talking
about and doing or preparing for partnering and parenting.
|
| Telephone |
0131 651 3002 |
| Email |
e.rawlins@ed.ac.uk |
| Website |
|
|
|
 |
Karen Watchman |
| |
|
| Biography
|
Karen is
the former Director of Down’s Syndrome Scotland
and has a background of research into
learning disability, end of life care and dementia.
Karen has a joint honours degree in Sociology
and Social Policy and a Masters degree in Dementia Studies.
She is a committee member of the
Special Interest Research Group on Down Syndrome with
the International Association for Scientific
Study of Intellectual Disability (IASSID). Karen is
also a part time PhD
student at the University
of Edinburgh. |
| Current
project |
Supporting
staff working with people with a learning disability
and dementia:
practice development pack
This project is funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
The aim is to produce training material that
will enable internal practice development among staff
who support people with a learning disability. |
| Telephone |
0131 651
1941 |
| Email |
Karen
Watchman |
| Website |
|
|
| |
| |
| |
|
