Completed research projects in DJCAD
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Scottish Government Social Care ESRC Policy Fellowship
Respectful, responsive and relational: a mixed methods qualitative study on how to define, evidence and improve social care in Scotland
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Youth Engagement in Analysis Programme (YEAP)
Involving school pupils in data analysis
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Growing up on the Streets fellowship programme: Building capacity and creating influence
We support early career scholars from African universities, helping them to enhance their research skills
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The International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership (ICCRP)
Case Study 1a: Intergenerational Partnerships While Growing up on the Streets
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The ‘My Data’ Project
We explored the views of people who used drugs about how their routinely-collected data are used in research, and created a short film about these views
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An Exploratory Study to Develop the Sustainable Self Effective Exercise Development (SUSSED) Intervention
Understanding barriers to increasing physical activity in chronic pain
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“A One-Way System? Examining the Supply of Environmental Information in Managing Flood Risk in Scotland
Dr Sean Whittaker (School of Law) has been awarded the Scottish Universities’ Law Institute Early Career Fellowship for his project
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Place age
Judith Sixsmith is a co-author on a new policy and guidelines publication called Place-Age, Place-Making with older adults towards age-friendly cities and communities.
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Exploring Life-time LGBT2QI+
Love and Relationships through Intergenerational Storytelling
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Embodying mothering in the neonatal intensive care unit
Creative storytelling project
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Growing up in Protracted Crises
Refugee Youth Experiences of Transitions to Adulthood in Uganda & Jordan.
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Primary-Secondary Transitions: A Systematic Literature Review
Impact of transitions and the factors that support or hinder a successful transition from primary to secondary school.
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Future Transitions in Palliative Care
Care across the life course for people living with life-limiting conditions
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Primary to secondary school transitions: analysis
Analysis of experiences relating to the transition from primary to secondary school using data collected from Growing up in Scotland (GUS).
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MindJump health and well-being programme: evaluation and development
This small-scale project set out to provide an independent evaluation of a recently developed health and well-being programme, MindJump, targeted at primary aged children
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Transitions through Education
This collection of articles aims to address key gaps in educational transitions research literature, leading to new perspectives and the identification of recommendations for further research, policy and practice.
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Multiple and multi-dimensional transitions
Understanding the life transitions of young adults cared for by CHAS and the impact on their parents, siblings and professionals
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Uncovering the Environment: The Use of Public Access to Environmental Information
Economic and Social Research Council-funded project
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Institute for Social Science Research Global Scholar Programme
We are seeking to explore how the right of access to environmental information is utilised in Scotland.
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Intergenerational age friendly ecosystems for inclusive ageing
Ecosystems to promote the community participation of older people: A rapid realist review
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Exploring Life-time LGBT2QI+ Love and Relationships through intergenerational storytelling
This project explored the social and health outcomes associated with younger and older peoples’ LGBT2QI+ love and relationship experiences using creative intergenerational storytelling.
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Business and human rights: exploring the potential and challenges of a UN framework convention
This project explores the opportunities and challenges of a UN framework convention to address corporate impacts on human rights amid global environmental, economic, and social issues linked to business activities and models.
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Oral Health Improvement for People Who Use Drugs
Co-designed research informing national training and resources to improve oral health for people who use drugs.
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Renewable Energy for Resilient Healthcare Systems in Rural Areas
This contributes to reliable access to off-grid energy for healthcare facilities in Nigeria effectively to combat the pandemic, building on CEPMLP’s network of local policymakers and academics.
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Making Sense
‘Making Sense’ embodies socio-technical design research to support participatory sensing initiatives addressing urban environmental challenges in areas such as noise and air pollution.
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Royal Navy War Graves
The UK Royal Navy War Graves project comprises three MoD licensed underwater surveys of the historically significant Naval shipwrecks located on the seabed around Orkney.
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Visualising Climate Change in Alpine Glacial Landscapes
Kieran Baxter uses aerial Photogrammetric techniques and digital media integrated with the more traditional and commonly used method of repeat photography to create new perspectives on landscapes, revealing the change that has taken place over decades.
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Nunalleq Educational Resource
'Nunalleq: Stories from the Village of our Ancestors' is an interactive educational resource for children aged 7-15, by Alice Watterson.
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ECZEMA!
ECZEMA! is a cumulative performance work for one voice and pipe organ, written and directed by Maria Fusco, commissioned by National Theatre Wales to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the NHS.
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Sounding Coastal Change
‘Sounding Coastal Change’ (SCC) is a project by Gair Dunlop, exploring how sound, music, film and alternate ways of listening are useful tools in a facilitated process of public engagement.
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Rosnes Bench
Rosnes Bench is a permanent artwork commissioned by Wide Open, for the diverse and vast landscape of Dumfries & Galloway Forest.
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TIDE
‘TIDE’ is a multi-layered creative research project by Tania Kovats which examines the uniquely dynamic nature of tides in the UK.
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Sàl
Sàl (Saltwater) is a collaboration between Dalziel + Scullion and composer Iain Morrison, commissioned by 14-18 NOW, WWI Centenary Art Commissions, in collaboration with An Lanntair.
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Witness [DRAWN]
Witness was developed as a new series of drawings for a solo exhibition (curated by Esen Kaya), with eight drawings first exhibited in ‘DRAWN’ – Anita Taylor (solo exhibition).
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Women’s Early Video Art
‘Women’s Early Video Art’ is a multi-component research project, led by Elaine Shemilt,
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Urban Gold Rush
‘Urban Gold Rush’ by Sandra Wilson is a research project comprising three exhibitions and supporting publications.
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Jacobites by Name
‘Jacobites by Name’ was a solo exhibition of 27 new works by Calum Colvin.
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Hands of X
‘Hands of X’ by Andrew Cook, investigates prosthetic hands, identity, fashion, and ownership.
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Ages of Wonder
‘Ages of Wonder: Scotland’s Art from 1540 until Today’ is a curatorial and editorial research project led by Arthur Watson.
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The Slave's Lament
The Slave’s Lament is a five-channel video artwork by Graham Fagen.
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Pyramid Selling
This work develops Mick Peter’s evolving research interest in the rhetorical, self-reflexive potential of making an exhibition which is apparently about making an exhibition, by showing exhibition-making as something that can reflect on how sculptural form is understood in mainstream visual culture.
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A Drama in Time
A Drama in Time draws on histories shaping Edinburgh’s forms and ideas, presenting iconic images in neon, illuminating a journey, a life, and questioning what lies beyond.
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Improving Maths Through Digital Games
Research in the area of digital game-based learning (GBL) in primary schools.
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Protecting and supporting vulnerable adults in Scotland: Impacting public policy, services, health and welfare
Our research has influenced national policy developments, implementation, and practice guidelines regarding protecting/supporting vulnerable adults
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Groupwork Transition
This project explores transfer to the secondary school environment of pupil domain-specific knowledge and skills (particularly in science), and general social, communication and teamwork skills
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Museum of Loss and Renewal
The Museum of Loss and Renewal investigates issues such as the value and significance of objects, life and death, and artist-led curatorial practice
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Design in Action
A £5m Knowledge Exchange Hub funded by the AHRC to show how design drives innovation and economic growth, with added support from Creative Scotland to help Scottish SMEs apply design-led strategies across industries.
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WeObserve
WeObserve will build a sustainable ecosystem of citizens’ observatories and move environmental monitoring into the mainstream
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Supporting Scotland's climate change adaptation policy
Recent research has supported the Scottish Government in shaping climate change adaptation policy, focusing on flooding, water quality, and resources, and developing a research-led monitoring and evaluation framework.
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The GROW Observatory: empowering European food growers to monitor soil moisture
Soil moisture plays a key role in predicting the extreme weather events that are becoming increasingly common in a changing climate. Our vision is supporting a movement of citizens generating, sharing and using information to improve their soil management, and food production.
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River health in the Ganges
The river system of the Ganges holds great physical, social and cultural importance in India, but suffers from poorly regulated pollution and water demand. This project looked at how water pollution affects communities on the Ramganga tributary of the Ganges.
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UPSCAPE: supporting decision-making for sustainable water resources in Peninsular India
Rapid economic change and population growth increase the pressure on water resources management to address competing demands across river basins. The key challenge is to give adequate representation to the many local, small-scale water management interventions in larger-scale decision-making.
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Floating houses: community-based flood resilience innovations in Bangladesh
Climate change is enhancing the intensity and frequency of floods, which further exacerbates many other challenges. This project co-developed and tested a flood resilient home with communities in Bangladesh.
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DECCMA: assessing the options, limits and potential for adaptation to climate change in deltas
DECCMA: assessing the options, limits and potential for adaptation to climate change in deltas
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Governance and management of small rural water supplies: a comparative study
Small water supplies in Scotland are less likely to meet drinking water quality standards and likely to be managed by communities or individuals who may need support. We looked at how other countries manage small rural water supplies, to guide their governance and management in Scotland.
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ESPA Deltas: exploring links between ecosystem services and human wellbeing in coastal Bangladesh
Delta communities are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts. This project looked at the links between ecosystem services, human health and wellbeing and projected how these might evolve over the coming decades in the light of varying policy contexts.
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GENESIS: developing new tools to manage groundwater and dependent ecosystems
Groundwater resources face increasing pressure from consumption and pollution. This project developed methods and tools for integrated groundwater management and monitoring in Europe.
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Shaping better places together
With support from the Scottish Government, a specialist research team made up of members from the University of Dundee, Eclipse Research and Kevin Murray Associates has produced a report into the facilitation of participatory placemaking.
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Hybrid Housing Typologies for Off-Grid Rural Communities
MacroMicro Studio is building a body of work situated in the unique sociological and physical contexts of remote rural Scotland.
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The effectiveness of greenhouse gas emission policies in Scottish Local Development Plans
The study, funded by ClimateXChange for Scottish Government was carried out by academics in Architecture and Planning to assess the effectiveness of greenhouse gas emission reduction policies in Local Development Plans in promoting the uptake of low and zero-carbon generating technologies.
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Social cash transfers, generational relations and youth poverty trajectories in rural Lesotho and Malawi
This research, funded by ESRC-DFID, generated evidence regarding how social cash transfers (SCTs) .
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Tropical forest dynamics in logged, restored and conserved forests in SE Asia
Led by Prof. Mark Cutler, this research explores tropical forest dynamics in SE Asia, assessing logging impacts, El Niño effects on vegetation, and how restoration influences carbon accumulation in forests over time.
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Growing up on the streets: research with and for young people on the streets
Work with hundreds of street children and youth in three African cities, providing insights into their patterns of daily life, struggles, capabilities and coping strategies as they seek to create adult lives to value. Several secondary data analysis projects are ongoing.
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Youth Transitions in Protracted Crises
Completed in 2017 with an updated story map re-released in 2026, this project examines how refugee youth in Jordan and Uganda navigate protracted crises – long-term, extended periods of conflict and war, meaning young refugees are growing up displaced from their homes for many years, even lifetimes.
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Intergenerational mobility of housework time in the United Kingdom
This study explores how housework time is passed between generations in UK families, focusing on links between parents’ housework time, their children’s time as adolescents, and into early adulthood.
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Funeral Link addressing the problem of funeral poverty
School of Business academics Carlo Morelli and Ruth Bickerton are investigating the impact of funeral costs, while a new charity (Funeral Link) has been set up in the city to help families cope in the aftermath of a bereavement
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STRADE
The Strategic Dialogue on Sustainable Raw Materials for Europe (STRADE) addresses the long-term security and sustainability of the European raw-material supply from European and non-European countries
