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families: gathering evidence, informing action
Current project
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.
An appetite for life? Changing food habits and health from infancy to childhood in the context of family life in Scotland
Current project
This research will provide a unique understanding of how children's nutritional trajectories evolve
from birth through the toddler years, within the context of family meal patterns and parental health behaviours.
Children and Young People's Participation: From fashion accessory
to part of the fabric
Current project
The project aims to identify sustainable ways of working which support children and young people's participation
Creative
methods in research with children
Current project
This project creates opportunities for exchanging
innovative research practice, by developing and running an
advanced level Continuous Professional Development (CPD) course
at CRFR at The University of Edinburgh
Embedding information rights in schools
Current project
Exploring how information rights could be embedded within primary and secondary school curricula.
GUS - Growing up in
Scotland
Current project
GUS is a study that follows the lives of a national sample
of Scotland's children from infancy through to their teens.
This is one of the largest longitudinal studies ever done
in Scotland and will provide information that will help develop
policies affecting young children and their families in Scotland.
Linking
social care, housing and health data
Current project
This project will explore the views of social and health care
clients and patients (or carers), on linking social care,
housing and health data for statistical and research purposes.
Me
and my befriender
Current project
This 18 month research
project will explore the views of children, from lone mother
households, attending befriending projects in Scotland and
England.
Parenting
support and drug use
Current project
This project aims to explore understandings about parenting
and parenting capacity among drug-using parents, and health-care
professionals. Longitudinal research is being carried out
with expectant parents who are drug dependent. In addition,
a series of focus groups will be held with health-care professionals.
Personal
Development Project (PDP) evaluation
Current project
The PDP Project offers outdoor based activities for the target
group of 14-17 year olds who have a 'significant’ risk
of offending. The evaluation draws upon contribution analysis
and allows for the identification and consideration of which
elements of potential outcomes the PDP project has under
direct control and which can be achieved through direct and
indirect influence.
Secretly
connected?
Anonymous semen donation, genetics and meanings of kinship
This project will disseminate the findings of Jennifer
Speirs' PhD thesis ‘Secretly connected? Anonymous semen
donation, genetics and meanings of kinship’.
Theorising Children’s Participation: learning across
countries and across disciplines
This Academic Collaboration brings together experts in Brazil,
India, South Africa and the UK. Exchanges are taking place,
in the first three countries, which will be the springboards
to achieve a number of theoretical objectives.
Timescapes
- Work and family lives; the changing experiences of ‘young’
families
Current project
Timescapes aims to explore the ways in which personal relationships
and identities unfold over the life course by focusing on
the ways that people’s relationships with significant
others – parents, siblings, wider family, children,
partners, friends and lovers – develop and change over
time.
Twenty+
futures: recession, global threats and young people's
anticipated futures as partners and parents
Current project
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.
Transgender
People's Experiences of Prostitution
Current project
The research aims to explore transgender people’s
experiences of involvement of prostitution
in Scotland.
Veteran’s
and their Families in Scotland
Current project
Developing a research agenda with charities and individuals
working with veterans from
UK Armed Forces in Scotland and their families.
Wellcome
Strategic Programme in the Human Body,
its Scope, Limits and Future
Building on established research groups with diverse expertise,
this multidisciplinary programme
will follow five strands of innovative research.
Young
People Creating Belonging: spaces, sounds and sights
Current project
This project aims to explore the notion of belonging
in domestic spaces.
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