Projects in Education and Social Work
Projects
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Research project
We are investigating the long-term impact of exposure to opioids in pregnancy, exploring health, education, and justice outcomes for young people up to age 16.
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Public engagement project
This season of Inside Forensic Science delves into our most complicated case yet: The Ardlamont Trial. We examine this historical case with modern-day forensic scientists and ask them, ‘what would you do differently today?’
Public engagement project
Learn first-hand some of the techniques forensic scientists use to detect chemicals and illicit drugs with these experiments you can do at home.
![PS-WELLS logo](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2024-02/PS-WELLS-logo-Black%2Btext_0.jpg?itok=L9UZIN7e)
Research project
Our study aims to design and validate the first scale to measure children’s emotional wellbeing in the context of primary-secondary school transitions.
![An old sketch of a building.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2024-02/change-minds-image.jpg?itok=3_NN9AjV&h=ea82b51b)
Research project
Exploring and sharing tales of living with mental health challenges in the past and today.
![A giant sits on a rock in the water, there are electric pylons behind him and he is holding a magic wand.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2024-01/hydro-electric-dam-cartoon_0.jpg?itok=LHQZMADS&h=47af66f0)
Public engagement project
This cataloguing project focusses on the archives of Captain William McClean and Dr John Berry, who have both had an enduring influence on the use of water in Scotland.
Research project
This project page has been created to support early years and primary school educators with leading change by listening to children's voices.
![Photo of Design Hopes launch event talk at the V&A Dundee with Leonie Bell.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-11/Launch_LeonieBell.png?h=56d0ca2e&itok=hL5XPZO8)
Research project
Sustainable design-led innovation for a green transformation of Health Services.
![A glass of water sitting on a rock in a river.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-12/drinking-water.jpg?itok=PsOIX4Y-&h=094654a7)
Research project
New and emerging pollutants in water present health threats to humans and the environment.
![Digital illustration of a Rubik's cube with people placed on it, as if it were a globe.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-09/Primary-Secondary-Transitions-image.jpg?itok=usm99zx8&h=aa0c50f7)
Public engagement project
Using drama to facilitate transitions
![A coastline with a big sandy beach, ocean and rocky cliffs.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-08/water-project-coastline.jpg?itok=pL6llYoi&h=0c7369ca)
Research project
Sustainability objectives for Wales are ambitiously defined through The Wellbeing of Future Generations Act (2015). This project is developing a framework to bring together environmental and socioeconomic components through co-ordinated long-term management of natural resources (water, air, soil, land, marine) and biodiversity.
Research project
Identifying predictors of neuropathic pain medication prescribing and response in diabetic peripheral neuropathy and chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy
Research project
Understanding how our early life experiences influence our long-term health.
Research project
Linking structural and functional neuroimaging with healthcare data to explore the effects of early life adversity on chronic pain, depression and analgesic use
![Architect's drawing of Life Sciences Innovation Hub](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-05/Exterior%20%28south%29.png?h=8abcec71&itok=zNBGRZ7V)
University project
Providing transformative laboratory and office infrastructure for enabling life sciences companies to grow, scale and thrive.
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Public engagement project
We look at historical investigations and ask forensic scientists, ‘what would you do differently today?’
Research project
Understanding barriers to increasing physical activity in chronic pain
Research project
Development and validation of an algorithm to identify people with chronic pain through primary care-based records.
Research project
Project to look at the pain caused by nerve damage
Research project
Chronic pain is a major unmet global public health challenge.
Research project
CAPE’s goal is to identify mechanisms of vulnerability to pain in those exposed to childhood adversity.
Research project
This project will propose a "pain patch" that is wearable for people who are going through chemotherapy.
Research project
A project to identify any onset or progression of neuropathy and pain for people receiving neurotoxic chemotherapy for cancer treatment.
Public engagement project
Playful Gardens was a monthly inclusive family day held within the Dundee Botanic gardens in 2022.
![Poster showing a hand holding a piece of a puzzle for the Wellbeing Postgraduate Researcher Narratives as part of TCELT comic series](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-03/wellbeing-pgr-comic-tcelt_2.jpg?itok=Zdd5MaKK&h=6284956e)
Public engagement project
The postgraduate research experience can be a unique and challenging process
![Urban ReLeaf diagram showing a city with people moving around.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-03/Urban-ReLeaf.png?h=125a58ae&itok=X_bWZUQC)
Public engagement project
Citizen-powered data ecosystems for inclusive and green urban transitions
![Margaret Grant, founder of the Society pictured in 1986.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-02/Archives-Brittle-Bone-Society.jpeg?itok=iw-sAAUz&h=47d87fe5)
Public engagement project
This project aims to catalogue the extensive archive of the Society.
![School pupils look over some archived photographs in a scrapbook](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-02/Archives-School-Projects-transformed.jpeg?itok=FCjyv9N_&h=fdc4b340)
Public engagement project
Archive staff can visit the classroom to provide hands-on experiential learning opportunities across a range of subjects.
![A female archivist and two older community members sit at a table discussing large photograph images of Dundee](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-02/Archives-Boomerang-Project.jpeg?itok=idf5uUvy&h=08b866d1)
Public engagement project
A collaborative community engagement project, co-created between Boomerang Community Centre and the University of Dundee.
![The pavilion at Baxter Park](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-02/Archives-Big-Back-Garden.jpg?itok=fsezCHeW&h=4521fff0)
Public engagement project
The iconic Baxter Park in Dundee is the focus of this project which explores its history and how people enjoy it today.
![Mentally Healthy Tayside](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-02/Archives-Mentally-Healthy-Tayside.jpg?itok=F_Jv-rY5&h=92879bef)
Public engagement project
This pilot project built on the work that we have done using our hospital and asylum records to contribute to nursing, social work and medical classes.
![Great War memorial at the summit of the Dundee Law (hill).](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-02/Archives-Great-War-Dundee.jpg?itok=Mi_-JviQ&h=d62b32da)
Public engagement project
This is Dundee's story of those that served in the First World War, and of the people left at home.
![Two community members sit in front of a stall advertising the work of the Strathmartine Hospital Histories project.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-02/Archives-Strathmartine-Hospital-Histories_0.jpg?itok=e-IYUXLa&h=f5e074b0)
Public engagement project
The memories of people who lived and worked at Strathmartine Hospital have been captured for posterity.
![The cover of the Covid Rollercoaster comic.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-12/Covid%20rollercoaster%20cover.jpg?itok=rnPC7SSu)
Public engagement project
Multiple and Multi-dimensional Transitions of Healthcare Graduates
![Three illustrated people are in front of a blue background, two of them are in wheelchairs.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-12/neurology.jpg?itok=9fMfBE_j&h=e08413df)
Public engagement project
Preparing for their development across the lifespan.
![Two people discussing the bereavement charter mark, and how everyone is affected by it.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-12/bereavement%20%281%29.jpg?itok=P-1NppKP)
Public engagement project
Comic about helping staff who are going through bereavement and using the Bereavement Charter Mark steps to help them.
![Illustration of two friends discussing coeliac disease.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-12/understanding-coeliac.jpg?itok=3Ioy-exi&h=125a58ae)
Public engagement project
This comic was designed to raise awareness about coeliac disease among professionals, families, and communities.
![Illustration of a group of people of mixed ages remembering a lost love one together.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-12/When-people-die-cover.jpg?itok=GZdC95f2&h=28d1ecf3)
Public engagement project
The comic helps readers gain different and better perspectives on grief and what grieving means for young people.
![A comic strip showing children climbing in trees and others gardening.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-12/staying-wild.jpg?itok=huhtHtg9&h=125a58ae)
Public engagement project
A Pandemic Tales comic about reconnecting with the outdoors.
![Illustration depicting a staff member reading an important covid message from the principal.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-12/university-lives.jpg?itok=8E7fGFMv&h=125a58ae)
Public engagement project
A comic created in response to the Covid Pandemic and how people in universities were affected
![A section of the comic, a girl looks at her laptop screen, where she is having a video call with her friends.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-12/lost-in-transitions.jpg?itok=xTZK6NvB&h=125a58ae)
Public engagement project
Lost, and found, in transitions is a comic written by Anj Snape and Divya Jindal-Snape, Artwork by Ashling Larkin
![Pandemic Tales cover section](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-12/pandemic-cover-digital-web.jpg?itok=dTN2_9aj&h=c2327463)
Public engagement project
Pandemic Tales: Responses to Covid-19 and Lockdown collects stories about these strange and challenging times.
Research project
Dr Sean Whittaker (School of Law) has been awarded the Scottish Universities’ Law Institute Early Career Fellowship for his project
Research project
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.
Research project
Love and Relationships through Intergenerational Storytelling
Research project
Creative storytelling project
Research project
Refugee Youth Experiences of Transitions to Adulthood in Uganda & Jordan.
Research project
Impact of transitions and the factors that support or hinder a successful transition from primary to secondary school.
Research project
Care across the life course for people living with life-limiting conditions
Research project
Analysis of experiences relating to the transition from primary to secondary school using data collected from Growing up in Scotland (GUS).
Research project
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
Research project
Improving didactics, education and learning in higher education with the Online Serious Game Creator
Research project
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.
Research project
Understanding the life transitions of young adults cared for by CHAS and the impact on their parents, siblings and professionals
Research project
Economic and Social Research Council-funded project
Research project
We are seeking to explore how the right of access to environmental information is utilised in Scotland.
Public engagement project
Hands-on science to do at home
Research project
PAINSTORM is a group of research centres from the UK and Belgium. Our aim is to understand the disease processes of NeuP
![Members of the Playful research group jumping in the air with their hands above their heads set in the Geddes Quadrangle](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-03/uod-soh-playful-02-23-2-2.jpg?itok=aRSAtC0P&h=2e7c44a8)
Research project
Amplifying children’s voices through creative and playful research methods
Research project
A study into the genetic and trait diversity of daffodils.
![A bike leaning against a tree overlooking the bandstand at Magdalen Green](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/Magdalen2018-3.jpg?itok=AM3gm8WJ&h=95651f9d)
Public engagement project
A city rewilding project that focuses on creating wildlife-friendly gardens.
![Two researchers looking at a computer screen](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-04/6.jpg?itok=LXO-jH-Q&h=1c9491c7)
Research project
The purpose of this R-Shiny application is to make this information more accessible and to allow its user to export the reference lists based on keyword searches.
![A person looking at a mobile screen](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2024-04/uod-LRCFS-02-23-519.jpg?itok=Ec2CX9aM&h=e5aec6c8)
Research project
We explore the requirements needed in the interaction of new scientific and digital technologies with legal frameworks, the legal system and the justice system.
![Cover image for Leverhulme Understanding Forensic Science Comic](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-06/LRCFS%20-%20Understanding%20Forensic%20Science%20Comic.png?h=412c3f02&itok=TN7AWe1V)
University project
A series of comics based on judicial primers exploring the benefits and limitations of different forensic evidence types.
![Title image for The Evidence Chamber](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-03/hero.jpg?itok=UoRF3QUT&h=c27c7a58)
Citizen science
An interactive experience where you become the jury and scrutinise the evidence related to a fictional criminal case.
![An image of a hand focusing on the knuckles.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-03/Task%25203a%2520high%2520res.png?h=92ee845c&itok=eH2VeQYJ)
Citizen science
A three year PhD project, assessing human variation in knuckle creases.
![Picture from the Curse of the Burial Dagger](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-03/c_CPhHDA.png?h=5cfe582f&itok=FwRoax08)
Public engagement project
An interactive graphic novel murder mystery, suitable for players aged 10+.
![Fingerprint](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-03/Inside%20Forensic%20Science%20-%20header_0.png?h=d1cb525d&itok=7OUaFn-R)
Public engagement project
The story of a crime scene investigation through the eyes of forensic scientists.
Research project
Ecosystems to promote the community participation of older people: A rapid realist review
Research project
This project explored the social and health outcomes associated with younger and older peoples’ LGBT2QI+ love and relationship experiences using creative intergenerational storytelling.
![Business and human rights poster for seminars series showing a panel of participants photos at the bottom](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-02/BHumanRightsImage.png?h=c74750f6&itok=htBXSTpd)
Research project
Corporations, their activities, influence, incentive structures and business models are deeply implicated in inter-linked environmental, economic and social challenges with profound implications for human rights. This raises the question, through what international standards and mechanisms should corporate human rights impacts be addressed?
![An adult and group of children around a desk that is covered in brightly coloured paper and crayons](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2021-12/project-spaces.jpg?itok=CVFyQTcw&h=56d0ca2e)
Research project
This project aims at the development of a new scale, School Professionals’ awareness of ACEs Scale (SPACES)
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Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland
![Corin Sworn film still](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2021-11/Corin-Sworn-Gallery-1_0.jpg?itok=kpN-AxDf&h=350e3793)
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase Four
![16mm film still from the film Bear](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2021-11/NashashibiSkaer-Gallery-1.jpg?itok=HNnnuJXU&h=97d19fa8)
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase Four
![Phase Three Current feature image](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2021-11/e_flux_CURRENTPhase3.jpg?itok=5mmQfCif&h=b6b33c27)
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland
![Man sat on white boxes, raising one leg](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2021-11/Bruce-McLean-Gallery-1.jpg?itok=t-wYBTmC&h=97d19fa8)
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase Three
Research project
Co design and co production of oral health improvement interventions for people with lived experience of drugs.
![naked man with outstretched arms and tattoo of 'real life is dead'](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2021-07/RossSinclair_web.jpg?itok=iDgAMzJF&h=97d19fa8)
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase Three
![orchestra in a small room surrounded by posters with text 'Real Life Moby Dick'](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2021-11/Ross_AltImage.jpg?itok=soZPHsAB&h=93b3b00c)
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase Three
![Pink and red graphic advertising Phase Two of CURRENT](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2021-11/eflux-workingfile_0.png?h=81ea464f&itok=LdmQxy-n)
Public engagement project
Focuses on the history, development and current conditions of artists’ moving image works to further explore the distinctiveness of contemporary art made in Scotland, its grass-roots spirit and its keen debates with the social and political dimensions of art and culture.
![Hubs and Fictions | On Current Art and Imported Nearness](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2021-11/webtile-HF.png?h=235c276f&itok=JqfQaVZH)
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase Two
![golden circles in the sky](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2021-07/KatyFFWDOctober2.jpg?itok=yMuyv0Cm&h=97d19fa8)
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase Two
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Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase Two
![Artwork from the Here Was Elsewhere event](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2021-10/here-was-elsewhere.jpg?itok=SKtfhI4h&h=97d19fa8)
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase Four
![Two speakers stand at a podium in a room full of people.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-04/hubs-fictions-feature.jpg?itok=h3JSr4Qd&h=199d8c1f)
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase Two
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Public engagement project
A two-year four-phase contemporary art exhibition and forum programme, showcasing for the first time in China the distinctiveness of contemporary art made in Scotland, its grass-roots spirit and its keen debates with the social and political dimensions of art and culture.
![black and white building with text Final Residency and chinese characters](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2021-07/FINAL_RESIDENCY.jpg?itok=1qySMnvt&h=ae67dfad)
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase One
![gallery exhibition](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2021-07/19318997842_b6e8e92f96_o.jpg?itok=boTiYxko&h=6f8e8448)
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase One
![woman alone in gallery with circular fabric on floor](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2021-07/Edgar_Schmitz_website_main_shanghai.jpg?itok=cu2MdMvg&h=97d19fa8)
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase One
Research project
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.
Research project
This ‘RSE COP 26 International Climate Change Network’ project addresses how initial experience in tackling climate change in Scotland and the rest of the UK may yield insights into the design of domestic laws and regulations on adaptation and resilience in the Global South in line with international legal requirements under the Paris Agreement and the Paris Rulebook’
Research project
‘Assessing the Human Rights Potential in Scotland’s External Relations’ examines the role human rights play, or could play, in Scotland’s foreign policy.
![a table with someone writing post-its](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2021-05/Making%20Sense.jpg?itok=i8axkLmK)
Research project
‘Making Sense’ embodies socio-technical design research to support participatory sensing initiatives addressing urban environmental challenges in areas such as noise and air pollution.