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Organisation profile
Organisation profile
The Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (SGSSS) is a collaboration between 16 HEIs in Scotland. The ESRC Doctoral Training Centre in Scotland sits within SGSSS and involves 10 HEIs, making it the largest ESRC training centre in the UK. The Scottish DTC offers ESRC-accredited training in 24 different training pathways, each involving collaboration across a number of Scottish universities. The ESRC has awarded 65 full studentships annually to the Scottish DTC for five years from 2011, worth c. £20 million.
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Profiles
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Sharada Nia Davidson
- Economics - Senior Lecturer
- Economics & Social Sciences
Person: Academic, Doctor of Philosophy
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Fern Rebecca Louise Gillon
- Social Work And Social Policy - Research Associate
- Economics & Social Sciences
Person: Research Only, Doctor of Philosophy
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Student Excellence Award - Policymaking in Times of Tension: Modelling the Evolving Transmission of Geopolitical Risk Across Sectors and Countries
Davidson, S. N. (Principal Investigator), Wu, P. (Co-investigator) & Koop, G. (Co-investigator)
1/10/25 → 30/09/28
Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated
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ESRC/SGSSS Advanced Quantitative Methods (AQM) Supervisor-Led Studentship Competition: £120,000
Davidson, S. N. (Principal Investigator), Wu, P. (Co-investigator), Koop, G. (Co-investigator) & Zhang, Z. (Researcher)
1/10/24 → 30/09/28
Project: Research - Studentship
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Who knows best? Working with uncertainty
Weaver, B. (Principal Investigator), Belton, I. (Co-investigator), Dong, F. (Co-investigator), Gillon, F. R. L. (Researcher), Heron, G. (Co-investigator), Lagnado, D. (Co-investigator) & Sanna, G. (Researcher)
15/06/25 → 15/02/26
Project: Internally funded project
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The use and misuse of regional data: perspectives, challenges and policy implications from across the UK
Black, J., Connolly, K., Davidson, S. N. & Spowage, M., 31 Dec 2025, In: Regional Studies. 59, 1, 16 p., 2464102.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Investigating economic uncertainty using stochastic volatility in mean VARs: the importance of model size, order-invariance and classification
Davidson, S. N., Hou, C. & Koop, G., 2 Oct 2025, In: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. 43, 4, p. 992-1007 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The use and misuse of regional data: insights from across the UK
Davidson, S., Connolly, K., Black, J. & Spowage, M., 1 May 2025, Regions eZine, 21 5 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Letter
Open AccessFile
Datasets
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Data for: "2018 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Scotland"
Williamson, J. (Contributor), Figus, G. (Creator), Allan, G. (Creator) & Pillai, S. S. (Creator), University of Strathclyde, 10 Jun 2022
DOI: 10.15129/a45a8b61-e96a-49e6-a54e-377463cfe49f
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Data for: "The impact of the new Northern Ireland protocol: can Northern Ireland enjoy the best of both worlds?"
Duparc-Portier, G. (Creator) & Figus, G. (Creator), figshare, 23 Feb 2023
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.17061239.v1
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Data for: "Resilience in a behavioural/Keynesian regional model"
Allan, G. (Creator), Figus, G. (Creator), McGregor, P. G. (Creator) & Swales, J. K. (Contributor), figshare, 23 Feb 2023
DOI: 10.25384/sage.c.5060784.v1
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Prizes
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Euan Minto Prize
Alkhurayyif, Y. A. A. (Recipient), Almaghairbe, R. H. G. (Recipient), Kheirbakhsh Abadi, A. (Recipient), Smith, L. (Recipient), Davies, S. (Recipient), Foster, C. (Recipient), Nicol, E. (Recipient), Goodfellow, M. (Recipient), Canning, C. (Recipient) & Gibson, R. C. (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Nominated for Impactful Early Career Academic - SBS Knowledge Exchange Excellence Award
Davidson, S. N. (Recipient), Apr 2025
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Shortlisted for Outstanding Commitment to Equality and Inclusion - Teaching Excellence Awards
Davidson, S. N. (Recipient), Apr 2025
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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2026 International System Dynamics Conference
Nguyen, L. K. N. (Speaker) & Davidson, S. N. (Speaker)
20 Jul 2026 → 24 Jul 2026Activity: Presenting or Organising an Event › Conference, workshop, seminar or course
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RSS Roundtable on UK-wide Data Comparability and FAI Comparability Framework
Davidson, S. N. (Contributor)
16 Jul 2026Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Policy Outreach
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Using AI wisely: Ethics and effectiveness in social work
Weaver, B. (Invited speaker), Gillon, F. R. L. (Invited speaker) & Reid, F. (Invited speaker)
10 Jun 2026Activity: Presenting or Organising an Event › Conference, workshop, seminar or course