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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

TodaysMeet

Face-to-face meetings can be hard on resources. Often there's just not the time or the money to bring people together. This is especially true for those working in rural areas or those who need to…
Published 3 Nov 2014 in Features

Creative Care and Support funds six projects in Pitlochry

We're delighted that Creative Care and Support has funded six wonderful projects in Pitlochry from its funding pot. As part of the project, we made a seed fund of £10,000 available to help people who…
Published 30 Oct 2014 in News

Green Juice

Everyone has an attitude towards eating greens. We may like them or not; but we all know that they are good for us. However, we don't always prioritise eating them or other healthy foods. We tend to…
Published 30 Oct 2014 in Features

Creative things happen when I see new things

For me creative things happen when I see new things, or old things in a new light, and need to make sense of what I have seen in order to act upon this new perspective.
Published 28 Oct 2014 in Features

Pilotlight: Self-directed support for small business

Pilotlight is working with co-design teams of people who use and deliver services across Scotland to design four pathways to self-directed support for seldom heard groups. Many disabled people want…
Published 28 Oct 2014 in News

The importance of leisure

One of my biggest criticisms of the way social care currently works, and where there is a conflict with the principles of independent living, is its distaste for leisure activities. When social…
Published 20 Oct 2014 in Features

Q&A: the art of academic blogging

Amy Genders at Cardiff University recently interviewed Kip Jones to find out more about how he uses social media to share his research and his advice for other academics who want to try their hand at…
Published 16 Oct 2014 in Features

Facing our fear of the future… to embrace it

Exploring future lifestyles or professional options with disabled people and their families is a creative process – albeit often in an unfamiliar territory. Too many people feel ‘stuck’ and don’t…
Published 14 Oct 2014 in Features

…… and my next question is!!

I went for a cliffhanger approach at the end of my last Creative Bite when the first question was "Is there time to be creative?" My argument was that there was a lot that we could do to create time…
Published 7 Oct 2014 in Features

My Home Life Scotland

My Home Life (MHL) was originally a project set up in 2006 by the National Care Forum (an organisation that represents not-for-profit care homes) and Help the Aged. It was established to promote…
Published 3 Oct 2014 in Features

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