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Iriss Conference June 2024 - A day working with Iriss

We invite you to bring your social services problem, idea or hope for change along and work with us to do something about it. This will be a day of useful tools and practical workshops designed to help you: grow your early ideas lead change Work effectively with the complex and complicated…
Published 17 Apr 2024 in Events

IRISS strategy 2012-15 published

Iriss has recently published Designs for the future: Iriss strategy 2012-15, which illustrates the organisation's activities - through examples of its work - from 2009-11, and sets out its planned…
Published 18 Oct 2011 in News

SWAPBox

SWAPBox is a digital repository that brings together open educational resources - social work and social policy learning and teaching materials - that can be freely used and repurposed for use with…
Published 4 Oct 2011 in Features

New report on the evidence base for the delivery of adult services

Alison Petch, Director at Iriss, has authored a report commissioned by the Association of Directors of Social Work (ADSW) entitled, An evidence base for the delivery of adult services. It was…
Published 30 Sep 2011 in News

Social Media Week 2011 for the Third Sector

Glasgow is one of the cities hosting Social Media Week (#socialmediaweek), which will take place from 19-23 September 2011. The week will focus on exploring how local and regional societies, cultures…
Published 12 Sep 2011 in Features

Google Docs

Most of us create documents (usually in Word) and circulate them by email to colleagues for comment. This generates many versions of the document on various computers along with a chaotic trail of…
Published 12 Sep 2011 in Features

New report from Iriss: The future for personalisation? Service users, carers and digital engagement

Social media is used by an increasing number of people to communicate: from rating purchases on Amazon to sharing news, views and opinion through Twitter, to sharing photographs and video on Flickr…
Published 22 Aug 2011 in News

Birthlink

An adopted person trying to establish contact with birth parents or other birth relatives may find it a daunting and potentially stressful process, which requires a sensitive and caring approach.…
Published 13 Jul 2011 in Features

Crime and justice research collection published

Iriss has been involved in the development of a crime and justice research collection, which contains a mixture of podcasts and videos about recent research on crime and justice related topics. The…
Published 1 Jul 2011 in News

Visualising data in social services

With the ever-increasing emphasis on the collection of data around social services, the sector has seen an increasing need for greater data literacy in order to effectively provide insight into key…
Published 3 Jun 2011 in Features

Parents Protect

Child sexual abuse is a not a subject that most people choose to dwell on for very long, however, the reality is that we are living in a world where such abuses can and do occur. Fortunately, there…
Published 4 May 2011 in Features

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