Impact Acceleration Funded projects 2020-2021
Alicia Davis (£7,500)
"Operationalising One Health Interventions in Tanzania—District Engagement."
To provide mid-level health providers in Kenya and Ethiopia with a means to engage with and provide feedback to communities about zoonotic disease prevention measure that will be developed together in joint workshop.
Oona Brooks-Hay (£1,300)
"Improving the disclosure of sensitive records in rape and domestic abuse trials in Scotland."
To inform and effect change in disclosure policy in cases of domestic abuse and rape cases and to protect survivors privacy rights by bringing together relevant stakeholders from policy, medical and legal domains for the first time.
Henry Lovat (£5,000)
"International Adjudication Under Pressure."
To inform both academic and policy stakeholder understandings of the determinants of "backlash" against international adjudication tribunals through a variety of targeted Knowledge Exchange activities.
Joanne Neary (£4,180)
"Network for Social and Educational Equity."
To establish the Network for Social and Educational Equity as a model for effective and collaborative attainment-linked school interventions through a co-developed NSEE toolkit and launch event.
Asil Ozcelik Olcay (£4,875)
"Youth-led Peace: Inclusion of Youth in Peace Processes."
To undertake a collaborative workshop with the United Nations leading to non-academic partners being able to draw on academic guidance to increase youth participation in peace processes.
Lavinia Hirsu (£14,8700)
"Implementing a Translingual Approach in a Trilingual Environment (Kazakhstan)."
To co-develop and promote new teaching approaches and classroom materials to support the teaching of three languages as required by state policy in Kazakhstan - based on an established model developed from the UofG team's research.
Anne Martin (£14,415)
"Empowering stakeholders in Early Learning in Childcare to evaluate and implement outdoor childcare."
To create a shared understanding of how outdoor childcare may benefit (or negatively impact) the health and wellbeing of children, families and practitioners.
A short video and presented it at the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Early Years conference in March. Invitation to present at the conference is a result of our stakeholder engagement with Glasgow City Council. The video can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/mH5nB2ASgj8.
Anna Chadwick (£3,600)
"Litigating Corona? How Lawsuits Could Shape Post-Covid Decisions, and How States Should Respond to Them."
To provide guidance through collaboration between academics and lawyers on the legal framework relating to litigation on issues challenging issues and decisions based upon "public interest".
The website for our outputs is here: https://gcils.org/?projects=litigating-corona-how-lawsuits-could-shape-post-covid-decisions-and-how-states-should-respond-to-them. And you can find the Investment Law Policy Brief up on there.
Andrew Jahoda (£4,000)
“Impact and implementation: COVID adapted guided self-help booklets for people with intellectual disabilities.”
To evaluate the use of guided self-help booklets, developed in an HTA funded trial for people with learning disabilities and depression to support further development and wider distribution.
Paula Karlsson-Brown (£4,000)
"Supporting the social economy during Covid-19: The Third Sector KE Collaborative."
To develop a cross-discipline hub for advice and technical assistance (TA), The Collaborative, to support the sustainability of Glasgow’s third sector, pivotal to community resilience, as organisations adapt, recover and transform from COVID-19.
The Collaborative approach to training and support from the UoG will put the organisations in a better position to deal with the increasing pressures of their sectors as we recover from Covid and demand for their services increase.
Details on on The Collaborative can be found at https://policyscotland.gla.ac.uk/third-sector-knowledge-exchange-collaborative/
Alena Kostyk (£3,770)
"Reimagining customer outreach for the Scottish Tourism sector - the VR application."
This project aims to mitigate the negative consequences of the COVID-19 on the tourism industry by focusing on the VR applications for consumer marketing. Further, these cases and guidelines will be disseminated to other industry players via a website, ensuring project scalability for the whole UK.
Yvonne Skipper (£1,400)
"My Child the Hero: Using creative writing in prisons to enhance family connection and prisoner literacy during Covid-19 lockdown."
This project will develop and evaluate a creative writing toolkit, allowing prisoners to produce a short story for their children that will be published. This will enhance family relationships and literacy during lockdown.
Simon Newman (£7,298)
“Runaway London: history, storytelling and escape from slavery in 17th & 18th century London.”
Increase popular knowledge and awareness of enslaved people in early modern London.
Engage young BAME creative artists in London with academic historical research, empowering them to reclaim histories of those who resisted enslavement in London 1655-1780.
The book and film have been published, and the school lesson materials published. Details are on: https://www.spreadtheword.org.uk/projects/runaways/
Marguerite Schinkel (£3,393)
“Expanding community involvement to develop penal reform efforts.”
To coordinate a series of meetings to co-produce an agenda for research and radical penal change that brings neglected voices into conversation with policy makers and sustains an ongoing civic conversation on punishment.
Philip Tonner (£4,681)
“Wayfarers: confronting the past through history and traditional music education in schools.”
This project will develop a ‘teaching pack’ for a pilot study in a secondary school to teach about the “musical migration” of Scots to Appalachia, Eastern U.S., and the challenging historical factors (e.g. forced migration, slavery and segregation) that they encountered.
For more information go to https://thewayfarers.gla.ac.uk/
Caitlin Gormley, Nughmana Mirza, Philippa Wiseman (£4,460)
“Deepening community research partnerships and impact following Covid-19 study.”
This project involves (1) developing impactful and capacity-building outputs from a rapid Covid-19 research project that runs June-November 2020, and (2) growing the community partner relationships from this study.
Fraser McMillan (£5,000)
“Scottish Government Campaign Promise Tracker.”
The project will provide an independent, transparent resource for Scottish citizens, interest groups, journalists and other stakeholders to evaluate the progress of the Scottish Government’s promises.