Impact Acceleration Funded projects 2016-2017
Annette Hastings (£6,885)
"Extending the impact of the counting of the cost of the cuts to the whole of Scottish Local Government."
Project provided capacity for a ‘whole of Scotland’ application of the Social Impact Tool to the 2016-17 budgets of Scottish authorities – thereby overcoming the capacity problem experienced by individual councils.
Gareth Mulvey (£4,620)
"Refugees as a devolved matter."
Project facilitated Scottish Refugee Council and others in advocating for policy change.
Oscar Odena (£4,278)
"Music Education for Integration (MEI)."
Project enhanced the audience scope and understanding of the use of music as a means of integration through innovate KE activities.
Sayantan Ghosal (£1,999)
"Inclusive Growth Diagnostics for the Scottish Government."
Project produced a document providing an academic foundation to the inclusive growth diagnostic being developed by the Scottish Government.
Jill Robbie (£1,100)
"Reform of Scottish Water Rights."
Project funded a one-day workshop at the University of Glasgow centred on exploring how the law of private water rights in Scotland needs to be reformed .
Kerry Kilborn (£6,136)
"Addressing a public health crisis: Building a better diagnostic for Alzheimer’s disease."
Project evaluated how accurately BNA distinguishes healthy elderly and early Alzheimer's through a collaboration with Israeli tech firm Eminda.
Yee Kwan Tang (£4,835)
"Smart informal firms in Africa: Accelerating firm growth and formalisation of quasi-firms."
Project supported early-stage engagement activities (stakeholder event) with local partners, users and beneficiaries in Zambia and surrounding countries to generate critical knowledge to inform the design of a larger project.
Annette Hastings (£1,170)
"Updating the Social Impact Tool for 2016/17."
This project updated the underlying data in the Social Impact Tool so that it can be re-launched and can continue to be used by local authorities in Scotland, England and for the first time in Wales.
Patrick Bayer (£500)
"Emissions trading - Inside out!"
This event targeted the general public with the aim to promote the understanding of climate change and emissions trading from a social science perspective.
Deirdre Shaw (£500)
"Tasty Future Workshops."
The project hosted a workshop to empower and inform young people through visualisation and reflection on food-based future scenarios for city living. It will gave participants the opportunity to learn about urban agriculture, food system theory and practice, and think creatively about relationships between food, community and the urban environment.
Fiona Heatlie (£3,909)
"Glasgow Innovation Business Briefing."
Project ran business briefings with the aim of cementing a strong relationship with the Business Support team at GCC to secure them as partners in future funding bids.
Pauline Trevena (£4,624)
"Angus International Community Café."
Project set up and worked with a steering group in Angus to act as a PAR (participatory action research) set working towards establishing the ‘Angus International Community Café’.
Margaret Fletcher (£500)
"Doing International Business: Acquiring knowledge, learning and networks."
The project hosted an event looking at developing international business opportunities, combining self-assessment diagnostic questionnaires for potential entrepreneurs and businesses.
Pete Seaman (£500)
“Research and You: Exploring the value of social research.”
Project produced a short film, produced in collaboration with people and organisations in Bridgeton, to stimulate conversations around how or if social research matters and the difference it can make for individuals and communities.
Vikki Turbine (£500)
"Envisioning young women's political engagements: learning across differences and commonalities in the experiences of women living in Russia and in Scotland."
The event engaged Modern Studies pupils in a discussion about young women’s political engagements in Russia and in Scotland. The workshop enhanced participants’ knowledge of Russia, and developed discussion about the participants’ own feelings about politics and their opportunities to participate.
Sharon Wright (£322)
"Welfare confidentiality: sanction, support and behaviour change - Scotland - specific impact activities for new welfare powers."
Project was a bespoke SNP impact event at Westminster to enhance the impact of our first wave findings via Scottish politicians in the UK government.
Jessica Watson (£12,000)
"Festival of Social Science Barras Event."
To fund a variety of FoSS events.
Matthew Barr (£746)
"Game Think 2.0."
Project held a stakeholder event to showcase what the university could offer the games industry through a 'Game Think' knowledge exchange event.
Cindy Gray (£20,000)
"Intervening on sedentary behaviour in older adults: from results to practice."
Project developed information resources e.g. a top tips cue card) for dissemination to key practitioners to aid and help them boost fitness amongst the older adults they care for.
Hayden Lorimer (£4,960)
"Landscaping Change Toolkit: Print, disseminate, communicate, implement."
Project extended the reach and active use of the ‘Landscaping Change Toolkit’ (LCT) through a series of KE events with key stakeholders/user groups.
Teresa Piacentini (£3,486)
"Improving Interpreting Practice in Healthcare Settings."
This project focused on bridging impact work with NHS to inform staff about language being used as a proxy for racism in health care, and the need to embed innovative approaches into anti-discriminatory practice on working with interpreters.
Mira Sundara Rajan (£12,086)
"Moral Rights and New Technologies: Authorship and integrity in a digital world."
The project aimed to influence policy and legislative change in the United States in the area of global intellectual property law through targeted dissemination.
Chris Chapman (£53,021)
"Social Science Research Hub Knowledge Exchange and Impact Fellowship: Children's neighbourhoods."
Project supported the development, implementation and evaluation of a pilot project Children’s Neighbourhoods in four areas of significant socio-economic disadvantage in Scotland.
Chris Chapman (£15,003)
"Social Science Research Hub Knowledge Exchange and Impact Fellowship: Children's neighbourhoods."
Project supported implementation and evaluation and roll out of Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland in Dalmarnock.
Samantha Flander (£500)
"The Divide (documentary screening and Q & A)."
Project hosted a screening and follow-on discussion between film production crew and academics on the documentary "The Divide".
Daniel Wight (£400)
"Nature vs Nurture? How to build a child."
How to Build a Child offered the public opportunities to examine how a child’s wellbeing is determined by internal and external factors. Visitors discussed and discovered how much influence a variety of social, familial and natural forces has on a child’s make-up, behaviour and development.
Mhairi Mackenzie (£4,403)
"Developing primary care engagement with domestic abuse: learning lessons from "Police to Primary Care"."
Project disseminated policy and practice learning to relevant stakeholder groups so that a new model of responding to domestic abuse notifications from Police Scotland could be developed within the newly formed health and social care partnerships.
David Heald (£29,488)
"Communicating Brexit's Impact on the Law, Governance and Public Finances of the UK Devolved Nations and the Republic of Ireland."
This project addressed work to clarify the legal implications of Brexit for key stakeholders through KE engagements and seminars.
Dely Elliot (£4,160)
"Toward maximising international PhD students experience in the UK."
Project explored strategic avenues for establishing effective two-‐way knowledge exchange with identified key users and beneficiaries of the research.
David Featherstone (£10,629)
"Solidarity and the 1984-5 Miners' Strike."
Project used innovative methods to provide a voice and give presence to people who have engaged in labour disputes and solidarity campaigns in and between contrasting communities in Britain.
Kate Reid (£11,441)
"Representing literacies in times of precarity using Glasgow ""Big Data"": Turning research data into interactive and engaging social objects for the public (with MakLab)."
Project showcased innovative methods of science communication in presenting urban big data to non-specialist audiences.
Oscar Valiente (£13,070)
"Engaging local and regional LLL policy makers in Glasgow City Region and Aberdeen & Aberdeenshire Region (YOUNG_ADULT, H2020) ."
Project engaged relevant local and national actors who are direct beneficiaries of the H2020 project results through targeted KE events.
Marta Moskal (£4,265)
"Experiences of minority ethnic and migrant young people in Scotland - lessons for education practitioners and policy makers."
The project consolidated existing, recent research on/ with minority ethnic and migrant young people in Scotland’s context to better inform key education stakeholders on how to better support the social inclusion of minority ethnic and migrant communities.
Simon Newman (£19,488)
"Runaway slaves in Britain: Bondage, Freedom and Race in the 18th Century."
Project placed academic research in every Scottish secondary school, in a form and with supporting materials which will help teachers to teach the issues of slavery/trafficking and human rights in both historical and modern contexts.
Inge Sorenson (£3,815)
"Commissioning Creativity and Funding Film."
By exploring public funding frameworks, processes and practices in a comparative and international context, the project identified ‘best practice’ in screen funding, improve screen policy and facilitate greater collaboration and knowledge exchange between the screen funders themselves as well as academia, within these countries.
Sarah Armstrong (£9,688)
"Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice (SCCJR) Website Redevelopment Project."
To undertake a major redevelopment of the SCCJR website.
Thomas Margoni (£7,764)
“Supporting Open science through Creative Commons UK”
Project developed a first experimental collaboration (scoping) with Creative Commons UK to mutually support each other activities in the common goal of favouring access, use and reuse of knowledge in an information society.
David Morrison-Love (£1,503)
"An Open Impact Network for Technology and Engineering Education."
Project supported the professional learning and practice of teachers in relation to the use of published research.
Maria Fletcher (£34,547)
"Scottish Universities Legal Network on Europe (SULNE) – Development."
Scottish Universities Legal Network on Europe provided legal expertise and advice on Scotland and the UK’s future position following ‘Vote Leave’, by inputting into the work of the Scottish Governments’ Standing Council on Europe, to publish expert and focussed position papers and briefings.