Organisation profile
Organisation profile
Staff have a wide range of professional and research experience which contributes to a stimulating environment for learning. Research is focused on the following key areas :
- Looked After Children
- Residential Child Care
- Young People and Education
- Sustainable Communities
- Mental Health and disability
- Adult Social Work Services
- Inter-professional working
Teaching and research is supported and enhanced through our links to various centres and initiatives:
- The Centre For Excellence For Looked After Children in Scotland (CELCIS) is a national initiative established to promote the training and education of the residential child care workforce. The School hosts the national office and carries out linked education, training and research.
- Community Care Works is an on-line database of good practice in community care. The database brings together details of practice and research and facilitates dissemination to practitioners and managers.
- The Glasgow Centre for the Child & Society carries out research, consultancy and policy advice in the areas of child welfare, children's rights, child protection, and young people and crime.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Profiles
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Lived experience for impact: enabling work-orientated service systems change and mutual value co-creation through the lived experience of working age adults with learning disabilities and autism
Strokosch, K. (Principal Investigator), MacIntyre, G. (Co-investigator) & Whitworth, A. (Co-investigator)
NHS National Institute for Health Research NIHR
1/10/25 → 31/07/26
Project: Research
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KTP-Solutions on Demand Limited - To embed capacity in user adoption and management methodologies to evaluate and scale the commercialisation of Connect, a Software-as-a-Service care management platform for residential care
Butler, J. (Principal Investigator), Cunningham, I. (Co-investigator), Joshi, M. (Co-investigator) & Steckley, L. (Co-investigator)
4/07/25 → 3/07/27
Project: Research
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CELCIS Scottish Government CORE Grant 2025 - 2026
Burns, C. (Principal Investigator), Doyle, K. I. (Co-investigator), McMeeking, J. (Co-investigator), Ottaway, H. (Co-investigator), Paterson, S. (Co-investigator), Scott, J. (Co-investigator) & Steckley, L. (Co-investigator)
1/04/25 → 31/03/26
Project: Knowledge Exchange
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Indigenous ethics through a research advisory group of persons with albinism: Umunthu practices for decolonizing and (re-)centring othered voices in qualitative inquiry
Chamdimba, E., 1 Mar 2026, In: Qualitative Inquiry. 32, 3-4, p. 279-290 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The minimum age of criminal responsibility internationally-history, systems and the future
Delmage, E., Anderson, P., Blower, A., Brown, A., Davoren, M., Enell, S., Gibson, R., Henriksen, A. K., Johns, D., Kaltiala, R., Carvalho, M. J. L. D., Pol, T. M. V. D., Mulder, E., Oostermeijer, S., Orlando, M. S., Souverein, F., Taylor, P., Thibaut, F. & Hales, H., 6 Feb 2026, In: Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health. 36, 1, p. 21-32 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The State and Future of Social Work and Social Care Funding in Scotland: Impact of reductions to SDS option 1 budgets (direct payments) on social workers
MacIntyre, G. & Stewart, A., 25 Jan 2026, 37 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Open Access
Datasets
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Data for: "Defining ‘actionable’ high- costhealth care use: results using the Canadian Institute for Health Information population grouping methodology"
Anderson, M. (Creator), Revie, C. W. (Creator), Stryhn, H. (Creator), Neudorf, C. (Creator), Rosehart, Y. (Creator), Li, W. (Contributor), Osman, M. (Creator), Buckeridge, D. L. (Creator), Rosella, L. C. (Creator) & Wodchis, W. P. (Creator), figshare, 16 Feb 2023
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.10282202.v1
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Data for: "Effectiveness of a walking programme to support adults with intellectual disabilities to increase physical activity: walk well cluster-randomised controlled trial"
Melville, C. A. (Creator), Mitchell, F. (Creator), Stalker, K. (Creator), Matthews, L. (Contributor), McConnachie, A. (Creator), Murray, H. M. (Creator), Melling, C. (Creator) & Mutrie, N. (Creator), figshare, 5 Apr 2023
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3641918.v1
Dataset
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Co-producing Desistance: The Role of Social Cooperative Structures of Employment in Supporting Desistance and Social Integration
Weaver, B. (Creator), University of Strathclyde, 2018
Dataset
Prizes
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British Society of Criminology Book Prize 2016
Weaver, B. (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Courseware and Curriculum In-House Award
McPheat, G. (Recipient), Laycock, M. (Recipient) & Nicholson, R. (Recipient), 10 Oct 2016
Prize: National/international honour
Activities
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Relationship Based Practice as Collaborative Research Culture: 20 Years of Learning
Miller, E. (Speaker)
4 Mar 2026Activity: Talk or Presentation › Oral presentation
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VOCAL staff conference
Miller, E. (Participant)
4 Feb 2026Activity: Presenting or Organising an Event › Key-note speaker and plenary lectures at conferences
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Cross-Faculty Connections: Growing Networks and Building Opportunities with and for Children and Young People
Batchelor, H. (Organiser), Davidson, J. (Organiser), McCann, L. (Organiser), Vaupel-Schwittay, H. (Organiser), Hall, H. (Organiser), Thomson, E. (Organiser), Shields, S. (Organiser), Vaswani, N. (Organiser), Rivers, I. (Participant), Mueller, T. (Participant), Boyd, M. (Participant), Kurdi, A. (Participant), Weston, K. (Participant), Swann, J. (Participant), Steckley, L. (Participant), Sojka, B. (Participant), Smith, K. (Participant), Shields, S. (Organiser), Russell, K. (Participant), Remy, C. (Participant), Reilly, G. (Participant), Porter, R. B. (Participant), Paul, S. (Participant), Nicol, E. (Participant), Mueller, T. (Participant), Moore, I. (Participant), McPherson, L. (Participant), MacAskill, M. (Participant), Kurdi, A. (Participant), Ierna, M. (Participant), Harrington, D. (Participant), Farooq, A. (Participant), Ellis, C. (Participant), Delaney, D. (Participant), Cunningham, M. R. (Participant), Corrigan, A. J. (Participant), Cordeiro, S. (Participant), Cleland, J. (Participant), Burns, C. (Participant), Boyd, M. (Participant), Bardid, F. (Participant), Graham, D. (Participant) & Rivers, I. (Participant)
26 Feb 2026Activity: Presenting or Organising an Event › Organiser of special symposia
Impacts
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Transforming attitudes to mental health: using art festivals to access hard to reach communities
Knifton, L. (Participant) & Quinn, N. (Participant)
Impact: Impact - for External Portal › Public understanding, information and debate
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Student theses
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(Re-) centring othered voices and lived experiences of un/belonging : a participatory study with children and young persons with albinism in Malawi
Chamdimba, E. (Author), Sime, D. (Supervisor) & MacIntyre, G. (Supervisor), 21 May 2025Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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An exploration and analysis of the role which local non-governmental welfare organisations play in social service provision and their impact on service users in Tanzania
Kanyumi, D. H. (Author), Harris, B. (Supervisor) & MacIntyre, G. (Supervisor), 3 Feb 2022Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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An oral history of domestic abuse in Scotland 1945-1992
Donaldson, A. (Author), Harris, B. (Supervisor) & Bartie, A. (Supervisor), 31 Jan 2020Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis