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Mhairi
Aitken
Research Fellow |
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Mhairi’s
main research interests relate to public engagement with
science and technology. She is currently working with
the Scottish Health Informatics Programme (SHIP) (www.scot-ship.ac.uk)
conducting public engagement work to explore ethical and
social issues relating to the use of electronic patients
records and the sharing of patient data.
Mhairi studied Sociology (BA Hons) at the University of
York, Environment and Development (MSc) at the University
of East Anglia and has a PhD from the Robert Gordon University.
Before taking up her current post with SHIP Mhairi held
an ESRC post-doctoral fellowship at the University of
Edinburgh.
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| Current
project |
| Linking
Social care, housing and health data: privacy impact focus
group |
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m.aitken@ed.ac.uk |
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Amy
Chandler
Research Fellow
The University of Edinburgh
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Amy completed
her PhD in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh in
2010. Her doctoral research
explored meanings and understandings of self-injury and
embodiment. Her work is located within
the sociology of health and illness. Particular areas
of interest include: bodies, embodiment and
emotions; lay and professional understandings of health
and illness; morality; suicide and self-harm. |
| Current
project |
Parenting
support and drug use
Amy is research fellow on an NHS funded project exploring
understandings about parenting
capacity among drug-using parents. |
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a.chandler@ed.ac.uk> |
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Susan
Elsley
Senior Research Fellow
The University of Edinburgh
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Susan is
a part time Senior Research Fellow at CRFR. Her interests
focus on children, young people
and childhood.
She is also Director of her own independent consultancy
in policy and research relating to children and young
people and the services that support them. She has wide
experience in management, research, policy and practitioner
roles in children's organisations and across the voluntary
sector.
Susan’s research and policy interests include children's
rights, looked after children and young people,
well-being, advocacy, participation in services and policymaking,
research methods with children and
young people, children's books and culture.
Much of Susan’s work centres on inter-disciplinary
and cross sectoral approaches to children and
childhood in policy, research and services. She enjoys
working at the interface of policy, research
and practice and much of her work reflects this dynamic.
Susan is on the board of Together (the Scottish Alliance
for Children’s Rights) and Play Scotland.
She is currently a member of the NHS Health Scotland Expert
Advisory Group on Children and
Young People’s Mental Health Indicators. |
| Current
projects |
Economic and
Social Research Council “Creative Methods in Research
with Children” (2011-2012). Knowledge Exchange Small
Grant with Kay Tisdall (University of Edinburgh). Grant
Holder.
Economic and Social Research Council, Follow on Fund “Children
and Young People's Participation:
From fashion accessory to part of the fabric” (2011-2012).
Follow on Fund with Kay Tisdall (The University of Edinburgh),
J.Sher (Children in Scotland) and S.McCausland (Barnardo’s).
Co-Investigator
CPD courses on research and consultation with children
and young people including Involving Children
and Young People in Research and Consultation, Using Digital
Media in Research with Children and
Young People and Using Creative Methods in Research with
Children and Young People. Co-convened
with Kay Tisdall.
www.crfr.ac.uk/cpd/cpdindex.html
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| Telephone |
0131 651 1832 |
| Email |
Susan.elsley@ed.ac.uk |
| Website |
http://www.susanelsley.com
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Lesley
Kelly
GUS Dissemination Officer
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Lesley Kelly
is the Dissemination Officer for the Growing up in Scotland
study (GUS). As a member
of the Knowledge Exchange 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/ |
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Professor
Linda McKie
Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor
Linda McKie is Professor of Sociology, Glasgow Caledonian
University.
She previously worked at the Department of General
Practice and Primary Care,
University of Aberdeen as Senior Lecturer in Sociology
of Health & Illness. |
| Current
project |
Junction
project
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| Email |
l.mckie@gcal.ac.uk |
| Website |
www.lindamckie.org |
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www.gcal.ac.uk |
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Sue
Milne
Research Fellow |
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Sue has 30
years experience of working with children, young people
and their families in a range
of educational, health and community settings. Her PhD,
gained in 2009, examined children’s
experiences and conceptualisations of child-adult relations
within, and beyond, their families.
She has also worked on a consultation with children and
young people on the services they
receive from a local authority and conducted research
on pupil councils in Scotland. She recently
held a Beltane Public Engagement Fellowship which enabled
her to work with an education authority
and school to explore the potential of the GLOW intranet
system for supporting pupil councils.
Her primary interests are in child-adult relations, child/adult
worlds and children's rights,
participation and play. |
| Current
project |
| 'Me
and my Befriender' |
| Telephone |
0131 651 1832 |
| Email |
s.e.milne@ed.ac.uk |
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Karen Mountney
Project Manager - About Families |
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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 |
About
families website |
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Martyn Pickersgill
Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Biomedical
Ethics |
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a sociologist of science, technology and medicine, and
currently Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Biomedical
Ethics. To date, his research has focused primarily on
psychiatry, psychology, and the neurosciences. He also
has active research interests in sociological and science
and technology studies approaches to bioethics and public
health, and in the sociology of health-related enhancement. |
| Current
project |
| Details to
follow |
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martyn.pickersgill@ed.ac.uk |
| Website |
www.chs.med.ed.ac.uk/ |
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Emma
Rawlins
Project Co-ordinator - Recession, global threats and
young people's
anticipated futures as partners and parents
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| Biography |
| To follow |
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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.
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| Telephone |
0131 651 3002 |
| Email |
e.rawlins@ed.ac.uk |
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Katrina
Reid
Development Officer - About Families
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has experience of supporting community and voluntary sector
organisations to demonstrate the difference made by their activities though providing
training, 1:1 support and facilitating peer support opportunities
for developing self evaluation tools and techniques .
The demonstration of soft outcomes has been an area of particular focus thorughout. Katrina
has also focused on sharing the impact of these services, learning generated and celebrating successful
inititiatives in a range of ways which are engaging for
other voluntary organisations, local authorities and the
Scottish Government. |
| 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 651 1941 |
| Email |
Katrina.reid@ed.ac.uk
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About
families website |
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Amy is the
Domestic Abuse Development Officer at LGBT Youth Scotland
and coordinates the
Scottish LGBT Domestic Abuse Project. |
| Current
project |
Transgender
People's Experiences of Prostitution
The research aims to explore transgender people’s
experiences of involvement of prostitution in
Scotland, including the connections with other forms of
commercial sexual exploitation. It will also
seek to gain insight and allow transgender people’s
experiences to be included within policy debates
around prostitution in Scotland. The research is being
undertaken as part of an exchange fellowship
with the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships
until February 2012. |
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amy.roch@ed.ac.uk |
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Valeria Skafida
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Valeria completed an MA (Hons) in Social Policy and Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh in 2006. Having been awarded a CASE ESRC studentship with the Scottish Centre for Social Research (ScotCen) and the Centre for Research in Families and Relationships (CRFR) Valeria completed an MSc by Research (with distinction) in Social Policy in 2007. She was awarded her PhD in 2011.
http://www.chs.med.ed.ac.uk/people/staffProfile.php?profile=vskafid1
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An appetite for life? Changing food habits and health from infancy to childhood in the context of family life in Scotland
Previous research on child nutrition has focused primarily on school aged children, by which time many fundamental eating habits have been set. This project will build upon the investigator's doctoral work which looked at child nutrition from birth to age 2. It will use upcoming longitudinal data from the Growing Up in Scotland survey to explore how dietary habits continue to develop over time as children turn 5 years old. The research will provide a unique understanding on how children's nutritional trajectories evolve from birth through the toddler years, within the context of family meal patterns and parental health behaviours. It will also explore how nutrition in infancy and early childhood relates to young children's weight, their dental health, and their participation in physical activity. The project is expected to provide a comprehensive, policy and theory embedded analysis of children's nutrition and health in the early years. The findings will inform health policy which addresses the growing problems caused by sub-optimal nutrition in infancy and early childhood.
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Valeria.Skafida@ed.ac.uk |
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| Coming soon |
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Secretly
connected? Anonymous semen donation
Jennifer M. Speirs has been awarded an ESRC Postdoctoral
Fellowship to disseminate and develop
the policy and academic findings of her doctoral research
which she carried out with an ESRC
studentship at Innogen, the ESRC Centre for Social and
Economic Research on Innovation in
Genomics based at Edinburgh University. Jennifer's thesis,
which is based on anthropological
theory and research methodology and was supervised by
Professor Janet Carsten (Social Anthropology) and Professor Lynn Jamieson (Sociology and the Centre
for Research on Families and Relationships)
is entitled 'Secretly connected? Anonymous semen donation,
genetics and meanings of kinship'.
It explores the views of men who donated semen anonymously
between 25 and 45 years ago about
what it means to them to have been a donor, and also analyses
the continuing disputes about the need
for secrecy amongst infertility treatment provision stakeholders
in the UK and the connection between
these disputes and beliefs about what constitutes fatherhood.
During the fellowship Jennifer will be based at the CRFR
but will be working with Innogen colleagues
on plans for a joint CRFR/Innogen symposium in 2011 on
the topic of 'inheritance'.
Listen
to Jennifer Speirs on the radio programme 'Digging up
your roots' |
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J.M.Speirs@ed.ac.uk |
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