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Projects related to School of Law, Politics and Social Science

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Bridge: A MindSport for All
PI: Professor Samantha Punch
Funded by: Donors (UK) and Donors (O.S)

ESRC Centre in Community Participation and Connectedness
PI: Professor Peter Matthews
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council and Local Trust

Evaluating the impact of casework for the whole Armed Forces community in a changing world
PI: Dr Steve Rolfe
Funded by: Forces in Mind Trust

Bridging Juniors: Learning, Education and Development in Bridge
PI: Professor Samantha Punch
Funded by: The Davenport Foundation

Waste/Land/Futures: intergenerational relations in places of abandonment and renewal across Europe.
PI: Professor Melanie Lovatt
Funded by: Volkswagen Stiftung

Analysing take-up of languages in Scotland, Wales and Ireland
PI: Professor Fiona Barclay
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council

Bringing ‘norms’ back home: Troop Contributing Countries and their domestic engagement with UN peacekeeping norms
PI: Dr Monalisa Adhikari
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

NESSIE - NIHR Evidence Synthesis Scotland Initiative
PI: Professor Emma France
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research

Balancing Trust and Accountability: Charities, Regulators, and Society
PI: Professor Vikki McCall
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

Working environments for healthy ageing: An evidence-driven framework
PI: Professor Paul Cairney
Funded by: Innovate UK

Intersectional Stigma of Place-based Ageing
PI: Professor Vikki McCall
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

The Illicit Project (phase 2)
PI: Dr Hannah Carver
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a peer-delivered, relational, harm reduction intervention to improve mental health, quality of life, and related outcomes, for people experiencing homelessness and substance use problems: The ‘SHARPS’ cluster randomised controlled trial.
PI: Professor Tessa Parkes
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research and The Salvation Army

Housing Studies Charitable Trust Early Career Fellowship
PI: Dr Anna Pearce
Funded by: Housing Studies Charitable Trust

UK-Japan Collaboration on Sustainable Reconstruction in Post-conflict countries: Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Ukraine
PI: Dr Zana Gul
Funded by: The Great British Sasakawa Foundation

Developing an Impact Framework for SSAFA’s Casework service
PI: Dr Steve Rolfe
Funded by: SSAFA: The Armed Forces Charity

Penal Supervision in Comparative Context
PI: Dr Hannah Graham
Funded by: The Leverhulme Trust

Disrupting hierarchies and constraints in children's experience of reading in primary school
PI: Dr Jess Anderson
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Model Mooting Competition (UPRMMC) - UK Edition
PI: Dr Damian Etone
Funded by: The Clark Foundation

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Model Mooting Competition (UPRMMC) - UK Edition
PI: Dr Damian Etone
Funded by: The Society of Legal Scholars (SLS)

Conference - Mass Atrocities, Environmental Degradation, and Communities’ Rights: Lived Experiences from the Peripheries
PI: Dr Damian Etone
Funded by: Delegates - Conferences

Scotland's first Managed Alcohol Programme: Evaluating the impact to inform future service delivery and research
PI: Dr Hannah Carver
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office

The State of Migration and Refugees in Scotland Amidst a Changing World
PI: Dr Damian Etone
Funded by: The Scottish Council on Global Affairs

Why is immersion in nature so powerful, and how might it be incorporated into substance use treatment/support in Scotland? A co-produced documentary film
PI: Dr Wendy Masterton
Funded by: Society for the Study of Addiction

See Beyond – See the Lives – Scotland: Phase 2
PI: Dr Hannah Carver
Funded by: Scottish Government

The Illicit Project UK: Adaption and implementation of an evidence based schools prevention programme for older adolescents
PI: Dr Hannah Carver
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research

Scottish International Law Conference - Human Rights Incoporation
PI: Dr Damian Etone
Funded by: The Clark Foundation

Challenges and the Future of Minority and Indigenous Rights Protection Conference
PI: Dr Damian Etone
Funded by: Delegates - Conferences

Intervention development and acceptability/feasibility study of a greenspace programme for mental health and problem substance use
PI: Dr Wendy Masterton
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office

From Smart Technologies to Smart Consumer Law: Comparative Perspectives from Germany and the United Kingdom
PI:
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council

BSG Small Event
PI: Professor Melanie Lovatt
Funded by: British Society of Gerontology

Welfare access, assets and debts of LGBT+ people in the UK
PI: Professor Peter Matthews
Funded by: The Nuffield Foundation

Home Improvement Services in England - National Evaluation
PI: Professor Vikki McCall
Funded by: Centre for Ageing Better

Developing the evidence base for social care responses to children / families affected by domestic abuse
PI: Professor Jane Callaghan
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

Should I stay or should I go: sense of belonging and intentions to stay among young, newcomers to Armenia
PI: Dr Sarah Wilson
Funded by: The British Academy

Networking nuclear research in Scotland and the UK
PI: Dr Megan Dee
Funded by: The Scottish Council on Global Affairs

Harm reduction intervention for severe drug and/or alcohol dependence among people who are homeless
PI: Professor Tessa Parkes
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research

Designing homes for healthy cognitive ageing: co-production for impact and scale (DesHCA)
PI: Professor Alison Bowes
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

Choice, attainment and positive destinations: exploring the impact of curriculum policy change on young people
PI: Professor Marina Shapira
Funded by: The Nuffield Foundation

'It's our anxiety that keeps them locked up'. Protection for whom? Responding to the needs of 'at risk' young women in Scotland.
PI: Professor Margaret Malloch
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

Emotional AI in Cities: Cross Cultural Lessons from UK and Japan on Designing for An Ethical Life
PI: Dr Diana Miranda
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

Access to Justice for Social Rights: Addressing the Accountability Gap
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Funded by: The Nuffield Foundation

See beyond, see the lives Scotland
PI: Professor Tessa Parkes
Funded by: Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems

FRONTLINERS: Climate change and human rights: closing the accountability gap
PI: Professor Annalisa Savaresi
Funded by: The British Academy

Older People’s Experience of Adaptations in Scotland
PI: Professor Vikki McCall
Funded by: Age Scotland

Super-Networks: Fostering Rights & Justice for Sustainable Environmental Policy-Making
PI: Professor Andrea Schapper
Funded by: The Royal Society of Edinburgh

Critically Exploring Biometric AI Futures
PI: Dr Diana Miranda
Funded by: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

The Scottish Law and Innovation Network
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Funded by: The Royal Society of Edinburgh

Dementia Activity Toolkit
PI: Professor Vikki McCall
Funded by: Alberta Health Services

Water and Fire: Understanding and reducing risk with 15 “Best Bets” for enhancing capacity for transformative adaptation with vulnerable township residents on the Cape Flats in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

Investigating cultural influences on malnutrition (over and under): the case of Zimbabwe
PI: Dr Ashley Rogers
Funded by: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE)
PI: Professor Kim McKee
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

Reimagining the Future in Older Age
PI: Professor Melanie Lovatt
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

IMAJINE
PI: Professor Paul Cairney
Funded by: European Commission (Horizon 2020)

What do lower income tenants in Scotland’s private rented sector want to see from a new Rented Sector Strategy?
PI: Professor Kim McKee
Funded by: Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Evidence Review into Public Experience and Confidence of Body Worn Video in a Policing Context
PI: Professor William Webster
Funded by: Scottish Institute for Policing Research

Inventorying Intangible Cultural Heritage Assets Affected by Cyclone Idai in Chimanimani, Chipinge and Buhera districts in Zimabawe
PI: Dr Ashley Rogers
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council

Emerging Technologies in Policing
PI: Dr Niall Hamilton-Smith
Funded by: Scottish Institute for Policing Research

Enabling Bridge to Thrive in Schools: Exploring the Benefits, Opportunities & Challenges
PI: Professor Samantha Punch
Funded by: The Davenport Foundation

Peer Research in Addiction Services
PI: Dr Hannah Carver
Funded by: East Renfrewshire Council

Assessing financial vulnerability and risk in the UK's charities during and beyond the COVID-19 crisis
PI: Professor Alasdair Rutherford
Funded by: UK Research and Innovation

Optimising Procurement Outcomes for Covid-19 and Beyond: Lessons from the Crisis
PI: Professor Richard Simmons
Funded by: UK Research and Innovation

Creating better lives? An Evaluation of the Life Changes Trust
PI: Professor Louise McCabe
Funded by: Life Changes Trust

Measuring the Impact of SSAFA’s Glasgow’s Helping Heroes
PI: Dr Steve Rolfe
Funded by: Forces in Mind Trust

Zooming in on Privacy and Copyright Issues in Remote Teaching
PI:
Funded by: British and Irish Law Education and Technology Association

Supporting separated migrant children to thrive during COVID-19
PI:
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

Mercator Fellowship with the Doing Transitions research group
PI: Professor Melanie Lovatt
Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Are We Owned? A Multidisciplinary and Comparative Conversation on Intellectual Property in the Algorithmic Society
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Funded by: Modern Law Review

Mobilising Voluntary Action in the four UK jurisdictions: Learning from today, prepared for tomorrow
PI: Professor Alasdair Rutherford
Funded by: UK Research and Innovation

Living Right Up To The End
PI: Professor Liz Forbat
Funded by: Strathcarron Hospice

Choice, Constraint and Conditional Citizenship: analysing migrant homelessness within 'crimmigration' systems
PI: Dr Regina Serpa
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

Innovation in supporting older people living in care homes
PI: Dr Jennifer Ferguson
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

Sustainable Care: connecting people and systems
PI: Professor Alasdair Rutherford
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

Making a House a ‘Home’ in the Private Rented Sector: Good Practice Guidance for Landlords
PI: Professor Kim McKee
Funded by: Safe Deposit Scotland Charitable Trust (SDS)

Strength2Food Secondment
PI: Professor Richard Simmons
Funded by: European Training Academy

Assessing the impacts of novel coronavirus outbreaks on people who use drugs, drug-related deaths and the effectiveness of service responses to them; a systematic review to inform practice and drug policy responses to COVID-19 in Scotland
PI: Dr Hannah Carver
Funded by: Scottish Government

Designing for Ageing and Dementia International Research Network
PI: Professor Alison Bowes
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

ESRC GOVERNMENT ENGAGEMENT BRIEFING
PI: Professor Paul Cairney
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

Where do we go from here? The development of private international law in the UK and the post Brexit environment.
PI: Professor Paul Beaumont
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council

Managed alcohol programmes: Implementation of a novel intervention to help prevent infection (Covid-19) for people experiencing alcohol dependency and homelessness
PI: Professor Tessa Parkes
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office

ASUME Volunteering and Dementia in Norway
PI: Professor Vikki McCall
Funded by: Nasjonalforeningen for folkehelsen

Care, Consent and Sport Related Concussion: Ethico-Legal Investigation into Head Injuries in Boxing, Football, and RugbyUnion
PI: Dr David McArdle
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council

Stress and mental health challenges experienced by third sector homelessness services workers during the Covid-19 pandemic in Scotland
PI: Dr Hannah Carver
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office

Working together: improving housing outcomes for the ex-Services community
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Funded by: Forces in Mind Trust

Rapid Review of National Qualifications 2020
PI: Professor Mark Priestley
Funded by: Scottish Government

Sociology of Bridge: Understanding Dynamics and Interactions of the Bridge World
PI: Professor Samantha Punch
Funded by: World Bridge Federation

Right to Health in Prison
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Funded by: Medical Research Council

Online Hate & Responsible Social Media Use: A Preliminary Analysis
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Funded by: British and Irish Law Education and Technology Association

Learning lessons from rapid changes to a UK homeless service in response to Covid-19.
PI: Professor Tessa Parkes
Funded by: The Salvation Army

Amnesty International Consultancy
PI: Professor Annalisa Savaresi
Funded by: Amnesty International

Make a Change
PI: Professor Jane Callaghan
Funded by: Lincolnshire Police & Crime Commissioner

Peer mentoring for young people leaving care
PI: Professor Jane Callaghan
Funded by: Falkirk Council

Association of Law Teachers Conference 2020
PI: Dr David McArdle
Funded by: Delegates - Conferences

Review of Making Life Better Framework
PI: Professor Paul Cairney
Funded by: Institute of Public Health in Ireland

The costs and benefits of 'good' self-directed support
PI: Professor Kirstein Rummery
Funded by: Disability Research on Independent Living & Learning (Scotland)

The experiences of victims in the criminal justice system: a qualitative research project
PI: Professor Jane Callaghan
Funded by: National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

Commonhealth (Developing methods to evidence social enterprise as a public health intervention)
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Funded by: Medical Research Council

Smart Governance of Sustainable Cities (SmartGov)
PI: Professor William Webster
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

Neighbourhoods and Dementia: A mixed methods study
PI: Professor Richard Ward
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

Evaluation Support for Wheatley Group Veterans Service
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Funded by: Wheatley Housing Group Limited