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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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Changing the interior design of a children's home to engender ownership and connectedness to the environment

Gayle Rice (Iriss), Zachari Duncalf (SIRCC) and Lisa Wilson (Unit Manager)

Introduction This case study describes changes to the interior design of a purpose built children's home in Argyll and Bute, which has been used as a children's home since May 2001. The home…
Published 28 Aug 2012 in Case studies

How good is our leadership?

Learning from Angus Council, written by Fran Deacon and Pam Linton

This case study is based on the key findings of research undertaken within Angus Council Social Work and Health (Deacon, 2011), which asked the question - how good is our leadership?
Published 13 Aug 2012 in Case studies

How action research can help to deliver better services (video)

Creative storyboard

This storyboard (animated video) aims to explain what action research is and how it can help to improve public services. It uses the example of Cedar (Children experiencing domestic abuse recovery)…
Published 1 Aug 2012 in Videos

The Road from Crime

What can we learn from those former prisoners who have successfully "desisted" from criminal behaviour or "gone straight?"

Film produced as part of a project to share knowledge and improve understanding about why people desist from offending.
Published 18 Jul 2012 in Videos

Improving access to research for the social services

Can higher education digital repositories help?

Higher education repositories are on-line spaces where university staff can deposit their research outputs, making them available for anyone to access for free. This report explores the potential for…
Published 16 Jul 2012 in Reports

Rest assured?

A study of unpaid carers' experiences of short breaks

Research that describes the findings of a study into unpaid carers' experiences of short breaks from caring.
Published 16 Jul 2012 in Reports

El camino de la delincuencia - subtitulada en español

¿Qué podemos aprender de los exreclusos que han dejado atrás la delincuencia y se han rehabilitado?

Este documental forma parte de un proyecto cuyo objetivo es fomentar el conocimiento y el entendimiento sobre los motivos por los que las personas dejan de delinquir. Si desean más información del…
Published 12 Jul 2012 in Videos

Der Weg aus Straftaten - Deutsche Untertitel

Was können wir von jenen Ex-Straffälligen lernen, die sich erfolgreich distanziert haben von ihrer kriminellen Vergangenheit oder "anständige Bürger" wurden?

Dieser Film wurde als Teil eines Projekts produziert, das sich zum Ziel setzt, Wissen zu teilen und das Verständnis dafür zu fördern, warum Menschen letztlich den Ausstieg aus der Kriminalität…
Published 12 Jul 2012 in Videos

Road rikoksen - suomalainen tekstitetty

Mitä voimme oppia entisiltä vangeilta, jotka ovat menestyksekkäästi irrottautuneet rikollisuudesta ja päässeet kaidalle polulle?

Tämä elokuva on tuotettu osana projektia, jonka tarkoitus on auttaa ymmärtämään, miksi ihmiset irrottautuvat rikollisuudesta. Discovering Desistance Blog sisältää lisätietoja projektista, ja sen…
Published 12 Jul 2012 in Videos

Désistant - français Sous-titrée

Quels enseignements peut-on tirer des anciens prisonniers qui ont réussi à renoncer au crime ou qui ont « retrouvé le droit chemin » ?

Ce film a été produit dans le cadre d'un projet visant à partager les connaissances que l'on a des raisons qui poussent certains à abandonner le crime et à en améliorer la compréhension. Pour en…
Published 12 Jul 2012 in Videos

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