Humanities, Social Sciences and Law projects
Collaborative activities across Humanities, Social Sciences and Law including research, public engagement, and campus projects
Humanities, Social Sciences and Law projects
Research project
Supporting Human Rights Defenders around the world through temporary relocation in Scotland
Research project
DOLFIN is a research and know-how platform designed to support and strengthen the activities of the two existing natural resources centres (CEPMLP and Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science) and other departments of the University of Dundee.
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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
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Funded by DFID, Youth Transitions in Protracted Crisis focuses on young people who are refugees and highlights the challenges and strategies youth employ to create adult lives in difficult environments. The research took place in urban and camp settlements in Uganda and Jordan working with various refugee groups aged 10 -24.
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'Growing up on the Streets’ worked 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
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A programme of work, led by Prof. Mark Cutler, that builds on research started over 20 years ago in logged forests around Danum Valley in Sabah, Malaysia. This includes analysis of the impacts of the 2015 El Niño on leaf reflectance and traits, and the effectiveness of restoration measures on carbon accumulation in forests after logging.
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This research, funded by ESRC-DFID, generated evidence regarding how social cash transfers (SCTs) .
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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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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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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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DECCMA: assessing the options, limits and potential for adaptation to climate change in deltas
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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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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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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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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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Recent Research Projects Supporting Scotland's climate change adaptation policy In a changing climate, issues of flooding and water resource quality and quantity are becoming increasingly critical. We supported the Scottish Government to develop research-led policy and the monitoring and evaluation framework for climate change adaptation in Scotland.
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Natural flood management (NFM) can help us adapt to climate change, reducing flood risk and conserving habitats, while sustaining farming livelihoods. We are testing this at Eddleston Water, within the Scottish Government’s research programme on the effectiveness of catchment-scale NFM measures.
Public engagement project
This comic has been designed with the purpose of raising awareness of fibromyalgia amongst professionals, families, and communities.
Research project
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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Serious social, emotional and behavioural disturbance in adolescents is costly - incurring long-term costs to society in service provision and collateral damage as well as personal costs to the young people themselves
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Our research has influenced national policy developments, implementation, and practice guidelines regarding protecting/supporting vulnerable adults
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Research in the area of digital game-based learning (GBL) in primary schools.
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‘Assessing the Human Rights Potential in Scotland’s External Relations’ examines the role human rights play, or could play, in Scotland’s foreign policy.
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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’
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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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This project aims at the development of a new scale, School Professionals’ awareness of ACEs Scale (SPACES)
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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?
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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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Ecosystems to promote the community participation of older people: A rapid realist review
Public engagement project
A city rewilding project that focuses on creating wildlife-friendly gardens.
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A study into the genetic and trait diversity of daffodils.
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Amplifying children’s voices through creative and playful research methods
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We are seeking to explore how the right of access to environmental information is utilised in Scotland.
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Economic and Social Research Council-funded project
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Understanding the life transitions of young adults cared for by CHAS and the impact on their parents, siblings and professionals
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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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Improving didactics, education and learning in higher education with the Online Serious Game Creator
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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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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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Care across the life course for people living with life-limiting conditions
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Impact of transitions and the factors that support or hinder a successful transition from primary to secondary school.
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Refugee Youth Experiences of Transitions to Adulthood in Uganda & Jordan.
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Creative storytelling project
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Love and Relationships through Intergenerational Storytelling
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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
Dr Sean Whittaker (School of Law) has been awarded the Scottish Universities’ Law Institute Early Career Fellowship for his project
Public engagement project
Pandemic Tales: Responses to Covid-19 and Lockdown collects stories about these strange and challenging times.
Public engagement project
Lost, and found, in transitions is a comic written by Anj Snape and Divya Jindal-Snape, Artwork by Ashling Larkin
Public engagement project
A comic created in response to the Covid Pandemic and how people in universities were affected
Public engagement project
A Pandemic Tales comic about reconnecting with the outdoors.
Public engagement project
The comic helps readers gain different and better perspectives on grief and what grieving means for young people.
Public engagement project
This comic was designed to raise awareness about coeliac disease among professionals, families, and communities.
Public engagement project
Comic about helping staff who are going through bereavement and using the Bereavement Charter Mark steps to help them.
Public engagement project
Preparing for their development across the lifespan.
Public engagement project
Multiple and Multi-dimensional Transitions of Healthcare Graduates
Public engagement project
The postgraduate research experience can be a unique and challenging process
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.
Public engagement project
Using drama to facilitate transitions
Research project
New and emerging pollutants in water present health threats to humans and the environment.
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This project page has been created to support early years and primary school educators with leading change by listening to children's voices.
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Our study aims to design and validate the first scale to measure children’s emotional wellbeing in the context of primary-secondary school transitions.