IRISS Blog Updates
| Blog |
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| Discovering Desistance |
The Truth about Me This guest post comes from David Honeywell… I’ve struggled with an identity crisis since as long as I can remember. It’s what led me to act out my role as a ‘gangster’ while rubbing shoulders with the Newcastle underworld; it’s what made me carry... |
04 Mar 2013 |
| View Source |
The Twitter learning curve We had our first IRISS Asks session on Twitter on Friday November 9th. IRISS Asks is where we ‘ask’ a social services/social care related question on Twitter in order to generate a discussion around the topic (hashtag: #irissasks). Generally it…... |
19 Nov 2012 |
| 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 |
| Asset Mapping |
Using the personal asset mapping tool in a group setting This week, we visited the EDAMH Peer Support Group to facilitate a session which would help people uncover their personal assets [we were interested in testing how the personal asset mapping approach would work in a group setting]. Prior to the session... |
21 Sep 2012 |
| Shaping the Choreography of Care and Support |
video from SOPA http://www.beyongolia.com/2011/10/scottish-older-people-assembly/ Hi everybody ! This is the latest Scottish Older People Assembly, have a look at the video named : Generation; are YOU being heard?" href="http://www.beyongolia.com/2011/10/scottish-older... |
08 Nov 2011 |
| Innovate |
Welcome to the re-designing support for care leavers project! This section of the blog has been created to follow one of the projects being undertaken by the Innovation and Improvement Programme at IRISS and is called ‘Re-designing Support for Care Leavers. Follow the project blog. gfdg Why run this project?... |
06 Jul 2011 |
| 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 |
| Shaping the Choreography of Care and Support |
What’s it like to be involved in the project? Throughout the project we’ll be capturing participant’s views about what it is like to be involved, what they are learning, and what should happen going forward. We’ve created a custom vimeo channel for this – you can subscribe... |
12 Oct 2011 |
| Discovering Desistance |
Why are the the labels “offender” and “ex-offender” so offensive? Charlie Ryder has asked me to post this for him. As well as outlining why so many people are starting to feel uncomfortable with the term “ex-offender” he starts the tricky process of finding new terms to replace this one. Steve Why... |
11 Feb 2013 |
| Social Services Knowledge Scotland |
“Luke, Ah’m yer da’” Tweeting, Meeting and FB-ing: Social Media for Information Professionals SLA Europe event at the National Library of Scotland, 24th April 2013 There were two speakers at this event and a summary of the rpesentations is provided below. You can follow SSKS... |
21 May 2013 |