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Research Practice Partnerships in social care

Research Practice Partnerships in social care: Research production or capacity building? This session will explore work carried out within the Creating Care Partnerships study. The purpose of this NIHR funded study was to develop, implement and evaluate an approach called Research Practice…
Published 9 Feb 2026 in Events
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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

Practitioner Research: Outcomes and Partnership (PROP2)

PROP2 has been developed by IRISS and CRFR at the University of Edinburgh, and builds on learning from the previous Practitioner Research: Older People (PROP) project.
Published 3 Feb 2015 in News

Listening… with more than our ears (Part 1)

What a year for Glasgow. Many of us felt the warmth and goodwill that animated the carnival atmosphere in the city during the Games, stretch beyond the referendum as a tangible urge to transcend the…
Published 26 Jan 2015 in Features
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Launch of 'Fit for the Future' resource

Fit for the Future is a joint Iriss and Scottish Care project that has been working to inspire better outcomes for older people in Scotland through working with providers from the independent sector…
Published 21 Jan 2015 in News

Blogging as creativity

So. Blogging has (almost) come of age. Twenty years ago, a software developer in California ushered in a new era of communication. Dave Winer published his first blog post on 7 October 1994. He…
Published 19 Jan 2015 in Features

Integration and the arts

Integration is at the top of many social care, housing and health professionals agendas which made me wonder about the role of the arts and artists the integration debate. In my mind there are two…
Published 12 Jan 2015 in Features

Get involved in 'The View from Here' project

Iriss is trying to understand practitioners' experiences of delivering care and support in Scotland. Part of this project will be to undertake a survey in partnership with the Guardian to reach a…
Published 6 Jan 2015 in News

DIY (Development Impact and You)

At Iriss we believe that innovation is not a practice reserved for 'the creative' or 'the experts' and that people innovate all the time. We focus on how to blend and adapt ideas to support social…
Published 5 Jan 2015 in Features

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