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Professional curiosity in public protection

Iriss’s Professional Curiosity project has been seeking to develop a deeper understanding of this topic and its implications for the Public Protection workforce in Scotland. This report brings together both the literature review and findings from the discussion sessions that were core to the…
Published 20 Mar 2026 in Reports

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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

Extending the housing options for older people

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Seeks to explore the evidence base in respect of housing with care and support, in particular extra care provision, and the extent to which the range of models embraced by this term provide an…
Published 21 May 2014 in Insights

We are here

Jason has recently completed a participatory public art project in the North East of Scotland fishing town of Peterhead. The project has seen him undertake an exhaustive approach of engagement,…
Published 19 May 2014 in Case studies

pARTicipate

Angus Council Day Opportunities team provides weekly visual art sessions as part of the service provision for adults with learning disabilities. The groups were established 10 years ago and artists…
Published 19 May 2014 in Case studies

What's the point of theatre?

What’s the point of theatre? Who is it for? What difference does it make? Are theatre buildings museums in 21st century? Do we need acting? Do most people care? These are some of the questions that…
Published 14 May 2014 in Case studies

Living Voices

Living Voices is a national two-year project that is piloting the use of story, poems and song in care home settings across Scotland. It aims to engage and enliven groups of older people through…
Published 13 May 2014 in Case studies

A Better Life

Includem was founded 14 years ago to support socially excluded young people achieve better lives. Includem’s overarching framework of intervention consists of four parts, one of which is ‘A Better…
Published 12 May 2014 in Case studies

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