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The Culture and Communities Mapping Project

Social Work: The Culture and Communities Mapping Project uses open data and participatory mapping to locate cultural and artistic spaces in the city.

The dynamics of a recovery oriented mental health approach in northern India

Set in rural and urban communities of the state of Uttarakhand in north India, this project will co-develop a culturally relevant visual tool for recovery with community members with psycho-social disability.

The Feminist Policy Project

The Feminist Policy Project (FPP) will be a collaborative venture through which contributors critically evaluate and creatively re-write a range of UK social policies.

The national evaluation of the NSPCC Speak Out, Stay Safe Programme

Social Work: The study involves an analysis of the way the programme is delivered to children; an evaluation of whether children’s knowledge about different forms of child harm increases.

Social Anthropology

The New Data Economies of Social Enterprise

As data are increasingly monetised, traded, and circulated within new data economies, we must consider what kinds of value are extracted from data and for whom, and with what socio-political and economic effects.

The Politics of Monitoring

The Politics of Monitoring project explores the determinants and effects of different monitoring practices across three policy areas: climate change, defence procurement and immigration policy.

The Rape Clause

In this project, Dr Rebecca Hewer critically interrogates the frontline administration of the UK government’s controversial ‘non-consensual conception exception’ to its two-child limit.

The role of livestock in food system resilience in remote, upland regions (ResULTS)

ResULTS examines the resilience of beef and sheep production in upland regions of Northern England and Scotland.

The Ukrainian Politics Network

The Ukrainian Politics Network (UPN) is an initiative designed to bring together a wide range of professionals, including scholars, students, policy practitioners, public organisations and media professionals.

TRANSGENE

TRANSGENE explores the development of genomic science across three different species: the baker and brewer’s yeast (S. cerevisiae), the pig (Sus scrofa) and Homo sapiens.

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Understanding and shaping a digital welfare state in Scotland

This research project explores digital and technological approaches to the design and delivery of welfare services in Scotland and the UK.

Whites writing whiteness

The whites writing whiteness (WWW) research is shaped by the social theory of Norbert Elias and involves a Qualitative Longitudinal Research (QLR) historical sociology investigation of social change and the processes of racialisation in South Africa.