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Imagining the Future: Citizenship and Innovation

How innovation in social services can advance citizenship for all in Scotland

Change occurs when old patterns break down and new patterns begin to replace them. Change is not always good. In human affairs it is just as likely that people will react with fear, hatred or…

Imagining the Future

Background and rationale

A scenario planning tool which explores four different worlds that might emerge depending on the interplay of social, political and economic factors.

Imagining the Future: Enabling technology

How technology might affect social care by 2025

Author Written by Kevin Doughty, Centre for Usable Home Technology. With thanks to those who attended the workshops for each of the three themes - the other two are Citizenship and Workforce - and…

The Arts and Social Care

A visual story

Research exploring the role of arts in the delivery of adult social care with a particular emphasis of workforce development.

Supporting Peer Support

Thoughts for people wishing to set up, run or participate in a peer support group

Report that is drawn from lessons learned during the facilitation of Evaluation Exchange. Evaluation Exchange was a time-limited peer support network created by Iriss and Evaluation Support Scotland…

Evaluation Exchange report

Building capacity to self-evaluate

Evaluation Exchange was set up by Iriss working in partnership with Evaluation Support Scotland (ESS). We brought together a group of practitioners from social services sector with a real self-…
A talk in seven parts presented by Dr Andrea Williams, Consultant Psychiatrist Personality Disorder and Homeless Team, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

SCMA Community Childminding Service

This is Where it Starts

Case study eight. This case study has been added to the This is Where it Starts case study collection, a collection of case studies on work with children and parents in early years. This case study…
Compiled by Peter Hillen, PhD student, University of Edinburgh. Final report of research that aimed to:
Final reports of the Practitioner Research: Older People (PROP) project, a partnership between the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) and Iriss. The project was about health and…