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Man seated in bedroom fill with disordered clutter

Hoarding Disorder: Towards a unified approach beyond disciplines

This Insight explores how transdisciplinary collaboration across health, social work, social care, housing, environmental health, emergency services, third sector support and other related professionals can transform practice and reduce low-value interventions for people with hoarding disorder…
Published 19 Jan 2026 in Insights

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Trauma sensitive practice with children in care

Insight 27

Summarises the evidence in this challenging area of work and aims to support practitioners to reflect on their practice in this context.
Published 13 Aug 2014 in Insights

How to run an experience lab

Developing social care and support

A guide on what needs to be considered when running an experience lab, and how the methodology can be evaluated.
Published 30 Jul 2014 in Reports

Plan for prevention - prompt cards

Preventing loneliness and social isolation for older people

Cards that prompt people to think about preventative approaches to maintain and build social and community connections for older people.
Published 30 Jul 2014 in Tools

I Can't Do it On My Own

This video highlights the personal perspectives of two individuals using the services of Raise. They offer an insight into how borderline personality disorders can lead to behaviour that may…
Published 14 Jul 2014 in Case studies

Exploring roles and boundaries: the prisoner and prison officer experience

Experience lab, case study 2

Context Positive Prisons? Positive Futures (PPPF) is a Scottish charity that uses its collective experience of the criminal justice system, to benefit others still within the system, or shortly…
Published 10 Jul 2014 in Reports

Working with outcomes: the practitioner experience

Experience lab, case study 1

Context South Lanarkshire is moving from a day care centre service delivery model (where daily activities are provided), to a model that supports and facilitates individuals with learning…
Published 10 Jul 2014 in Reports

The impact of welfare reform on third sector care and support services in Scotland

Iriss, in partnership with Coalition of Care and Support Providers (CCPS), commissioned research to understand how Scotland's third sector care and support workforce is being affected by the welfare…
Published 18 Jun 2014 in Reports

Blending ideas

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Innovation is not a practice reserved for ‘the creative’ or ‘the experts’. You innovate all the time… Hello innovator! Innovation has got quite a reputation. It is fresh, bold and awe-inspiring. It…
Published 17 Jun 2014 in Iriss on…

Please Listen

Please Listen is a play about growing up in the care system in Scotland. It was written by young people at Kibble Education and Care Centre in Paisley and has been performed over 40 times with…
Published 9 Jun 2014 in Case studies

Building your personal learning network

People who can seek new information, make sense of it, and share it with their colleagues will be an asset to any work team

In today’s workplace we learn with and from one another. This is called social learning. Popular social media, such as Twitter and LinkedIn, offer great opportunities for connecting, conversing,…
Published 22 May 2014 in Videos

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