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Shaping the Choreography of Care and Support 14/11 Social Isolation Presentation
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16 Nov 2011
Redesigning Leaving Care 5th workshop
Start of the day To start the day we all start together and shared what had happened after we had taken the mocked up version of our ideas out of the room and tested them with care leavers. Someone from each of the 4 idea groups was asked to feedback on...
07 Nov 2011
Redesigning Leaving Care 6th workshop
Start of the day This workshop followed quite a similar format to workshop 5. Everyone got together at the start of the day and fed back what they had learnt about their idea in the intervening week. They also discussed and what they would be working on...
08 Feb 2012
Alison's Musings A Sense of Belonging
Last night I was at a celebration of the Sight and Sound Project, a research project led by Stirling University and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.  At the end of a long day (including a PhD viva in the morning) an invitation to hear...
01 Feb 2013
Shaping the Choreography of Care and Support Anticipatory care presentation – 17/10/11
First group up is anticipatory care They told us how they had gone about their research and their learning about the sectors. They talked to older people about how they felt about services and what would make them happy and mapped and overlaid the...
17 Oct 2011
Shaping the Choreography of Care and Support Anticipatory Care team
Health is one of the big challenges we face in our society. By meeting the service providers but also the older people and their carers, we realized that there was a real stake in this project. Both students and professionals are really involved and...
11 Oct 2011
Shaping the Choreography of Care and Support Anticipatory Care team – Presentation 31/10
The project has been going for 4 weeks already and the last days were still very bouncing, with new insights and lots of new elements to think about. In addition to the meetings with a the GP and another rather smaller workshop with older people, we also...
03 Nov 2011
Discovering Desistance Austerity doesn’t work in prisons either….
I thought people might find the following letter (to the Editor of the Herald) interesting. It’s a response to a lot of media coverage today of comments made by the Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to the Justice Committee yesterday....
30 Jan 2013
Just do it! Social media in the workplace Book now for the digital future
The Scottish Government is running a series of workshops for public sector employees on ‘Scotland’s Digital Future: Delivery of Public Services’.  The event will focus on ‘new ways of working – not just deploying new technology but...
15 Jan 2013
Adult Support and Protection : Improving Involvement Bringing Together What We Know About Effective Working Together in Adult Support and Protection
Kathryn Mackay (University of Stirling) and Beth Cross (UWS) have produced a briefing paper pulling together what we know so far about effective working together in Adult Support and Protection. Briefing paper for improving involvement in ASP The purpose...
18 Mar 2013