Biographical Disruption and Construction: exploring the
effectsof living with HIV and parental substance use
Completed project

Care and support needs of men who survived childhood sexual abuse
Completed project
CRFR examined, in collaboration with the mental health charity health in mind, the experiences
of men who had suffered childhood sexual abuse.

Children's concerns about the health and wellbeing of their
parents and significant others
Completed project
A collaboration between Childline Scotland and CRFR led to an ESRC award to explore ChildLine
Scotland’s unique database. This project focused on children’s health-related concerns about
parents and significant others.

Children's concerns about their sexual health and wellbeing
Completed project
This project arose as a result of a previous collaboration between ChildLine Scotland and CRFR
and led to a Scottish Executive award to utilise ChildLine Scotland’s unique caller database to examine children and young people’s self-identified concerns about their sexual health and well-being.

Cool with Change
Completed project
CRFR, in collaboration with Scotland’s Families, was awarded a grant from the Community Fund
to explore the impact of family change on the lives of young people aged 11-14.

Delayed Childbearing and Childlessness in Britain:
the 1958 and 1979 Cohorts Compared
Completed project
Roona Simpson is conducting research to investigate the factors associated with changing patterns
in the timing and propensity to childbirth in Britain.

Early years longitudinal survey
Completed project
CRFR along with the National Centre for Social Research conducted a 2 stage evaluation of integration
of early years policies on behalf of the Scottish Executive.

Early years policy and services
Completed project
CRFR along with the National Centre for Social Research conducted a 2 stage evaluation of integration of early years policies on behalf of the Scottish Executive.

Family Values in Scotland
Completed project
CRFR and the Scottish Centre for Social Research studied attitudes to changing families based on a specially commissioned module of the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey 2004 that canvassed public views and knowledge on a range of family matters including knowledge of the law about, and attitudes to wider
kin relationships.

Fertility variations in Scotland: socio-cultural attitudes
and interactions
Completed project
The General Register Office (GRO) for Scotland has identified low fertility in Scotland as a problem, and a major contributory factor in population decline and population ageing. However fertility rates vary widely across the country. This project concerned the social interactions and attitudes underpinning the variation
in fertility rates within Scotland.

Grandparents and teenage grandchildren
Completed project
This research explored relations between grandparents and teenage grandchildren.

Legal practitioners’ perspectives on the cohabitation provisions
of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006
Completed project

Life in low income families
Completed project
This research project explored the views and experiences of poverty amongst those living within low
income households with at least one child under the
age of 18.

Older women and domestic violence
Completed project
CRFR was commissioned by NHS Health Scotland to carry out a short research project on older women
and domestic violence. An overview of issues regarding domestic violence for women later in life was
the object.

Participation for Change: carers influencing policy
Completed project
In September 2002, new legal rights in the form of the Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002 recognised the contribution of many thousands of unpaid carers in Scotland. Carers were active in the policy process leading to the act, Supported by Carers Scotland.
CRFR, in collaboration with CARERS Scotland and funded by the Scottish Executive, studied what helped carers become involved in this policy process.

Solo Living
Completed project
CRFR was awarded a grant to study the growth in solo living across the life course, based on looking at
data already collected in British and Scottish long term surveys, for example the Scottish Household Survey.

South Ayrshire consultation research exercise
Completed project
A team of researchers worked in South Ayrshire between January 2003 and October 2004 to find out what people think about integrated children’s services, and to explore the best ways of asking for their views.

Sure Start Mapping
Completed project
CRFR and the Scottish Centre for Social Research were commissioned by the Scottish Executive
Education Department, Research and Economic Unit to conduct a second mapping exercise of
Sure Start Services in Scotland.

The experiences of older children of drug and alcohol
using parents
Completed project
Children whose parents have substance misuse problems are at greater risk of various adverse outcomes, both during their childhood and in later life. CRFR was awarded a 22 month grant to study older children’s accounts of their childhoods, pathways to independence and thoughts about the future.

Training in Research with and about Children
Completed project
The aim of this project was to develop an advanced, interdisciplinary training package for those undertaking research with and about children.

WELLCHI: the wellbeing of children
Completed project
The project has set up and operates a network to improve our knowledge of the impact of changing family forms, the working conditions of parents, and social policy and legislative measures on the wellbeing of children and their families.

Women in their fifties: wellbeing, ageing and anticipation
of ageing
Completed project
This small qualitative study explored the everyday experiences of women aged
50-59 – a topic area in which there has been little previous research. The study focused on the opportunities and challenges facing fifty-something women in a range of different social and economic circumstances.

Work-life balance in Scottish food retail companies
Completed project
A research project based in Scottish food retail companies, exploring: employers’ views on work-life
balance policies; women’s experiences of combining paid work and caring for family members and
other dependents; best practice’ in terms of work-life balance policies in the food retail sector.