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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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Effective presentations online

An overview of some advice and guidance for presenting online effectively.
Published 7 Oct 2020 in Reports

Working together apart

A course for partnership or group projects where participants can’t physically be together

A course for partnership or group projects where participants can’t physically be together.
Published 7 Sep 2020 in Online learning materials

Iriss review of the year 2019/20

Summarises our work over the year, and the difference that we've made to social services in Scotland.
Published 1 Aug 2020 in Annual reviews

Perinatal and addiction mental health support

ESSS Outline

Evidence focused on clinical trials and studies which evaluate the effectiveness of certain support methods.
Published 24 Jul 2020 in Outlines

Reducing the overcriminalisation of care-experienced young people in Scotland

Towards a model of best practice

Research which explores how care-experienced people are disproportionately criminalised and over-represented in justice systems.
Published 23 Jul 2020 in Student research

Covid-19, low incomes and poverty

ESSS Outline

Evidence summary that provides an overview of recent evidence relating to Covid-19 and how it affects those on low incomes and in poverty.
Published 14 Jul 2020 in Outlines

Mindfulness in social work education and practice

Insight 56

Provides students and practitioners with the opportunity to critically assess the value of mindfulness as a way of attending to wellbeing in their professional and personal lives.
Published 8 Jul 2020 in Insights

Iriss on...A chance to redesign the homelessness system

A short paper on redesigning the homelessness system in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, with insights from Dr Lígia Teixeira, Chief Executive of the Centre for Homelessness Impact.
Published 8 Jul 2020 in Iriss on…

Evaluating social prescribing

Insight 55

Provides a review of the research methods and approaches used to evaluate UK-based social prescribing interventions in recent years. It gives an overview of how social prescribing has been evaluated…
Published 22 Jun 2020 in Insights

Using evidence for change: domestic abuse

Working with domestic abuse in families with children

Four papers focused on supporting multi-agency communication in working with domestic abuse in families with children.
Published 17 Jun 2020 in Reports

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