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About
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.
Antisocial behaviour and children: their spaces, relationships
and interactions with formal policy
PhD project
The research is concerned with how children and young people
define and understand the concept of antisocial behaviour,
and how this is effected by,
and effects, children’s relationships with peers, family
members, and the
wider community.
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.
Checking
it out: A consultation with children and young people on a
draft framework for
children and young people's mental health indicators
Child-Adult Relationships Beyond
the Home and School
PhD project
The aim of the research is to explore children's realtionships
with adults who
are not their parents or school teachers from the perspectives
of children on the edge of transition from childhood to adolescence
(11/12 years old, Primary 6/7) and living in Social Inclusion
Partnership (S.I.P.) areas within a Scottish city.
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.
Children and Second-Hand Smoking in the Home:
a Qualitative Study
PhD project
This PhD study is funded by CSO and aims to increase understanding
of children's experiences and views on their second-hand smoke
(SHS) exposure and thereby aid the design of more effective
health improvement interventions to reduce this exposure.
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
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.
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
Early Years Practice – Consulting with Young Children
– A Discussion Paper
Completed project
CRFR undertook a ‘desk-top review’ of evidence-based practice on participation methods
with young children.
Embedding information rights in schools
Current project
Exploring how information rights could be embedded within primary and secondary school curricula.
Growing up in Scotland
within an international context
PhD project
This studentship will extend the existing evidence base for
policy, enhancing knowledge of early years in Scotland and
how it compares to early years experiences and contexts elsewhere.
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.
Half-blood
Princes and Princesses: Identity among the Second Generation
of Immigrants in Taiwan
PhD project
In this study, Hung-Chieh will explore what the childhood
of children in transnational families is like and how they
define themselves and construct
their identities.
Heroes and heroines
of just like us? Exploring children's views
on childhood in children's fiction
PhD project
The study explores children’s views on how childhood
is represented in children’s books. It considers children’s
perspectives as to whether fictional texts accurately reflect
their everyday lives and relationships, comparing these with
children’s experience of other forms of popular culture
such as television and films.
International Network “Theorising Children’s
Participation: learning across
countries and across disciplines”
Current project
Looking After Children:
A study of young people’s experiences of home
supervision in Scotland
PhD project
Emerging data suggests that children who are ‘looked
after’ at home, are likely to have the worst outcomes
amongst ‘looked after’ children in general. The
aim of this research is to explore whether the poor outcomes
for children ‘looked after’ at home are attributable
to their experiences of being looked after per se, or to wider
experiences of disadvantage.
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.
Participation
in practice: school councils
Completed project
Parenting
support and drug use
Current project
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.
Theorising
Children’s Participation: learning across countries
and across disciplines
Completed project
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.
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.
Twenty+
futures: recession, global threats and young people's
anticipated futures as partners and parents
Current project
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.
Young
People Creating Belonging: spaces, sounds and sights
Current project
This project aims to explore the notion of belonging
in domestic spaces.
Young People's Experiences
in Residential School:
Concerns and 'Complaints
PhD project
Using institutional ethnography, this research explores young
people's experiences in a residential school with expressing
concern or making 'complaints' about the services they receive.
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Growing older and
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Connect in
Care
Completed
project
The purpose of Connect in Care is to support learning and
practice development across all settings in order to improve
the quality and experience of care for older people in Scotland.
Grandparents
and teenage grandchildren
Completed project
This research explored relations between grandparents and
teenage grandchildren.
Impact of Learning
Disability Liaison Service on health experiences
and outcomes of people with learning disabilities attending
for general
hospital care (Learning Disability Liaison Nursing Services
in South East Scotland...)
Completed project
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.
Narrative research
with people who have Down's syndrome and dementia
PhD project
This two stage mixed method research project will first involve
determining how dementia was suspected in the person someone
was caring for and who was involved in this process and secondly
how they see their sense of identity in relation to those
around them.
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.
Person-focused
approach in services for older people with intellectual disabilities:
doing life story work with older people with mild or moderate
intellectual disability
PhD project
The project will focus on life story work, service recipient's
reactions and the effects
of knowing a person's life story on the attitudes and practice
of service providers.
The project is planned with field work in Norway and UK which
hopefully will start
in autumn 2009, with results in spring 2011.
Supporting Care Homes Residents with Dementia at Night
Completed project
Supporting
staff working with people with a learning disability and dementia:
practice development pack
Completed project
Understanding
contructions and perspectives of quality of life
in dementia care
PhD project
In this study, Jane is using focused interviews to elicit
subjective perspectives
on quality of life from people with dementia and their carers.
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
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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.
About 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.
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.
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.
Secretly
connected?
Anonymous semen donation, genetics and meanings of kinship
Current project
Twenty+
futures: recession, global threats and young people's
anticipated futures as partners and parents
Current project
Rural
and Urban solo living study
Completed project
This two year ESRC funded study investigates the experiences
and expectations of people living alone between the ages of
25 and 44, a period of adulthood conventionally associated
with partnership and parenting. The aims of the study include
deepening our knowledge and understanding of the social capital
and quality of life of working age adults living alone, and
to consider how this might vary in different types of rural
and urban localities.
Staying Together
PhD project
Staying Together: an exploration of longer term married relationships,
is an ESRC CASE funded project, being undertaken in collaboration
with Care for the Family, an organisation that aims to strengthen
family life.
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.
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.
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policies, evidence and practice |
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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
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
Young children have been the focus of a range of government
initiatives since 1997, aimed at improving outcomes for children
in later life. These initiatives have included Sure Start
Scotland, provision of nursery places, and other local and
national initiatives. In the last few years there has been
a move to integrate these policies, and to bring together
the agencies providing services to these groups.
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.
Engaging with involuntary service users in social work
Current project
This project involves 6 local authorities covering a variety
of knowledge exchange activities
around a range of involuntary service user groups
Examining
Agency and the Politics of Reproductive Choice
Current project
Exploring and assessing research impact in the social sciences
PhD project
The overall aim of this project will be to explore the assessment
of the impact
of social science research on local and devolved policy contexts.
Exploring children
and young people's experiences and support needs
when affected by parental (or significant carer) alcohol problems
PhD project
This project is a colloboration between the University of
Edinburgh and the national voluntary childcare organisation,
Barnardo's and is funded as an ESRC Case studentship.
The main objectives of the study are: to understand the diverse
experiences of children when a parent is a problem drinker;
to identify these children's understandings of, and engagement
with, services that support them in relation to parental alcohol
misuse.
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.
Health of all children: how professionals and parents experience
the implementation of Hall 4
PhD project
The study explores the implementation of Hall 4 in Lothian
from the perspectives of health professionals and parents.
How
rural communities respond to and prepare for climatic changes
PhD project
Legal
practitioners’ perspectives on the cohabitation provisions
of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006
Completed project
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.
NHS Lothian
Values Based Framework - Knowledge Exchange
and Sustainability Manager
Current project
NORFACE
Completed project
The University of Edinburgh is organising a seminar series
on Evidence and Policy with the
University of Iceland, National University of Ireland, University
of Oslo and Erasmus University (Rotterdam). The seminars aim
to advance international and comparative understanding of
the
use of different forms of knowledge and evidence in the policy
process through a process of
sharing of ideas and discussion across these jurisdictions.
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.
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.
Policy influence of children’s
voluntary organisations
PhD project
This research is an ESRC CASE studentship exploring
the ways in which the children’s voluntary
sector influences policy in a devolved Scottish context. The
studentship is co-sponsored by
Barnardo’s, a national children’s voluntary organisation.
Secretly
connected?
Anonymous semen donation, genetics and meanings of kinship
Current project
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.
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.
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
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Asking
for it? A Sociological Study of Attitudes towards Rape
PhD project
This PhD research focuses on the influence that rape myths
have on definitions and interpretations of rape in early 21st
century British society.
Biographical
Disruption and Construction: exploring the effects
of living with HIV and parental substance use
Completed project
Care and Support Needs of Men who Survived Childhood Sexual
Abuse
Completed project
CRFR is working in collaboration with the mental health charity
Health in Mind on a qualitative research project which will
use life-history methodology to explore the impact of men’s
childhood experiences on their wellbeing and relationships
through the lifecourse.
Checking
it out: A consultation with children and young people on a
draft framework for
children and young people's mental health indicators
Children and
Second-Hand Smoking in the Home: a Qualitative Study
PhD project
This PhD study is funded by CSO and aims to increase
understanding of children's experiences and views on their
second-hand smoke (SHS) exposure and thereby aid the design
of more effective health improvement interventions to reduce
this exposure.
Engaging with
involuntary service users in social work
Current project
Examining
Agency and the Politics of Reproductive Choice
Current project
Food, families
and parenting skills
PhD project
Habit of a lifetime? Babies diets and family life
in Scotland
PhD project
The research project concerns the development of children's
nutritional habits and child health within the context of
the family. This is explored primarily through the Growing
Up in Scotland longitudinal survey of young children
under five years of age.
How do individuals make fertility decisions?
PhD project
This project explores the factors that influence how people
make fertility decisions.
Impact
of Learning Disability Liaison Service on health experiences
and outcomes
of people with learning disabilities attending for general
hospital care
Completed project
Investigating young people's attitudes to violence
against women
PhD project
Examining younger children's (aged 10 & 11) attitudes
to violence against
women.
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.
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.
NHS Lothian
Values Based Framework - Knowledge Exchange
and Sustainability Manager
Current project
Parenting
support and drug use
Current project
Secretly
connected?
Anonymous semen donation, genetics and meanings of kinship
Current project
Someone To
Talk To Study
Current project
An examination of contemporary views and experiences
of emotional support and emotions talk,
funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
Supporting
Care Homes Residents with Dementia at Night
Completed project
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.
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.
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