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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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The Road from Crime - English subtitled

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

This film has been produced as part of a project to share knowledge and improve understanding about why people desist from offending. For details about the wider project and for an opportunity to…
Published 12 Jul 2012 in Videos

Shaping the choreography of care and support for older people in Glasgow

Report of the Shaping the Choreography of Care and Support project

The government's Reshaping Care for Older People (RCOP) agenda highlights the need to change the way we plan and deliver care and support. Not only does it mean improving a whole range of services,…
Published 11 Jul 2012 in Reports

Talking Mats, the Continuous Learning Framework and outcomes

Gathering feedback about staff qualities and capabilities from people who use services: using Talking Mats and the Continuous Learning Framework

St Joseph's Service is part of a registered national charity- Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. St Joseph's provides support services for people with a learning disability in Midlothian…
Published 9 Jul 2012 in Case studies

Knowledge management in practice - Charlene Tait

Interview with Charlene Tait, development director, Scottish Autism

In this short video, new Iriss Champion, Charlene Tait, describes the process of sharing knowledge to improve practice within Scottish Autism. This forms part of the Iriss evidence informed practice…
Published 20 Jun 2012 in Case studies

Rest assured? A study of unpaid carers' experiences of short breaks - survey data

Iriss, Shared Care Scotland, Coalition of Carers in Scotland and MECOPP worked together to carry out research into unpaid carers' experiences of short breaks from caring. The study explored, from the…
Published 11 Jun 2012 in Reports

Mobile learning in the workplace - Keith Quinn, Alice Gilligan, Thomas Gourlay

A cost effective approach to improving learning retention

Keith Quinn, Senior Education and Workforce Development Adviser with SSSC (Scottish Social Services Council), describes an e-learning model which uses the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) console to…
Published 6 Jun 2012 in Videos

Creating a culture of innovation

Final report of the Creating a Culture of Innovation project

Report that provides an overview and analysis of activities undertaken by Iriss - insights that have been gathered over the course of the Creating a Culture of Innovation project and a review of…
Published 23 May 2012 in Reports

SASW Social Worker of the Year 2011: Sandy Watt (Part two)

Interview April 2012

At the end of March 2012, the Scottish Association of Social Work (SASW) awarded its annual Social Worker of the Year Award 2011 to Sandy Watt, mental health officer at North Lanarkshire Council. At…
Published 10 May 2012 in Videos

SASW Social Worker of the Year 2011: Sandy Watt (Part one)

Interview April 2012

At the end of March 2012, the Scottish Association of Social Work (SASW) awarded its annual Social Worker of the Year Award 2011 to Sandy Watt, mental health officer at North Lanarkshire Council. At…
Published 10 May 2012 in Videos

Redesigning support for care leavers

Exploring the use of co-productive methods to collaboratively design and improve leaving care services

Final report of a project that brought together care leavers in Argyll and Bute with their corporate parents (throughcare and aftercare, social work, health, homelessness and education services), to…
Published 8 May 2012 in Reports

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