IRISS Blog Updates
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| Practitioner Research: Older People |
Upcoming Knowledge Exchange Event – May 9th 2013 We’re looking forward to our next knowledge exchange event on May 9th 2013 at David Hume Tower in the University of Edinburgh. We’ve arranged the different PROP research projects into three panels: service review, service improvement and... |
09 May 2013 |
| Evidence and Practice |
What improves evidence use in practice? The notion of evidence-based practice emerged in the early 1990s, first emerging in medicine but spreading across a range of practitioner professions (such as social work and education) (Mullen, 2008). To a large extent consideration of evidence and... |
07 May 2013 |
| Discovering Desistance |
Don’t just release the cuffs, release their citizenship! This guest post comes from Kyesha James who is currently a senior at SUNY New Paltz. She majored in Sociology with a concentration in Criminology. She lives in Brooklyn, NY and is passionate about criminal justice reform and advocacy. While watching the... |
06 May 2013 |
| Evidence and Practice |
Share thoughts and experiences This blog is intended as a space to share and reflect on evidence and practice, and to share what improves the relationship between them. We would love to hear from you and particularly welcome guest posts if you have something to share. Contact: Claire... |
03 May 2013 |
| Alison's Musings |
For the common good… I always said this blog would be sporadic! Just to show I haven’t entirely gone to ground, here are two for the price of one. The first can be found at http://conversationsinhsc.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/guest-post-collaboration-and-integration –... |
03 May 2013 |
| Food for thought |
Reflective Workshop Pilots Three of the six pilot Workshops have now been completed – and we’re very much looking forward to the next one. We need to wait to hear from everyone who is helping with the pilots before reviewing the materials to take account of the... |
14 Apr 2013 |
| Social Services Knowledge Scotland |
SSKS Impact and Satisfaction Evaluation The Social Services Knowledge Scotland (SSKS) Impact and Satisfaction Evaluation was completed in order to evaluate the impact SSKS has on day-to-day practice and learning and development for social care workers. It was also designed to find out how... |
09 Apr 2013 |
| Evaluation Exchange |
Evaluation is everything “Everything we do, we should evaluate. Evaluation is everything.” The fifth and final meeting of Evaluation Exchange was held on 21st March at Project Ability’s project space at 103 Trongate, hoping for inspiration from the artistic space! We... |
02 Apr 2013 |
| Just do it! Social media in the workplace |
Social media and the employee voice A very welcome report form Silverman Research for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) chimes well with the sentiments often expressed in this blog. The report argues that, as a result of the relentless advance of social media, the... |
29 Mar 2013 |
| Discovering Desistance |
Punishment, Rehabilitation and Progress Last night I had the pleasure of participating in what may well be the strangest public engagement of my life at the Salon Project at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow. The Salon Project is a sort of ‘immersive theatre’ in which the whole... |
24 Mar 2013 |