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Suicide prevention in rural areas

This webinar will introduce Scotland’s Scotland’s Suicide Prevention Strategy: Creating Hope Together, that is delivered by a collective of National public and third sector organisations supported by a network of Suicide Prevention Leads in local areas. It will highlight how you can connect to…
Published 23 Oct 2025 in Events

UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum 2015

The 2nd Annual UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum is being held on 13th-14th April 2015 at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. It will provide a space for knowledge producers, knowledge…
Published 23 Mar 2015 in News

Some stories and some gifts

It is some time since I blogged here – apologies to anyone who missed me and apologies, also, to anyone who would have been happy for me to stay away! This time around is all about stories and gifts…
Published 23 Mar 2015 in Features

School of Life

I recently attend two courses at the School of Life. One was called ‘How to communicate better at work’ and the other ‘How to have better conversations’. Both classes were pretty theoretical (as the…
Published 10 Mar 2015 in Features

The Art of the Possible

Pilotlight is a partner in an event - Capacity Building: The Art of the Possible - organised by Providers and Personalisation to share learning around self-directed support. In 2012, the Scottish…
Published 9 Mar 2015 in News

Creative consultations

I work for LGBT Health and Wellbeing, supporting services working with older people to become more inclusive of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. This is a valuable opportunity to…
Published 2 Mar 2015 in Features

Taking the time to tinker

I come from a family of tinkerers. My granddad was always in his shed hacking away at something or in the garage mucking about with his Morris Minor. He was a postman, not a carpenter or an engineer…
Published 23 Feb 2015 in Features

Encouraging storytelling part 3

Turning points This exercise comes with a health warning - it can unearth unwanted emotions. Participants need to be encouraged to look after themselves and only deal with parts of their lives that…
Published 17 Feb 2015 in Features
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Hospital to Home gets animated

Since July 2013, Iriss's Innovation and Improvement team has been leading a project to design a care pathway to support the transition from hospital to home for older people. The first stage of this…
Published 16 Feb 2015 in News

Ten 'rules' for being creative in producing research

Since the changing of the year seems to be the time for lists, top ten lists, etc., I decided to compile mine about being creative whist producing cutting‐edge research. Not for the faint‐hearted!…
Published 9 Feb 2015 in Features

Fit for the Future

Fit for the Future is a partnership project of Iriss and Scottish Care dedicated to inspiring better outcomes for older people by working with providers from the independent sector. The project…
Published 6 Feb 2015 in Features

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