Projects per year
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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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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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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Whose knowledge counts? Reframing "demographic literacy" in Scottish widening access higher education through international and anti-oppressive perspectives
Kourova, E., 2 Dec 2025, In: Populations. 1, 4, 15 p., 26.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The impact of health and social care integration on children and young people’s outcomes: what can be determined from Scotland’s administrative data?
Soraghan, J., McTier, A., Anderson, M., Anderson, C. A., Young, E., Bowman, A. & Ottaway, H., 26 Nov 2025, In: International Journal of Integrated Care. 25, 4, 14 p., 17.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mortality outcomes of children and young people who have spent time in care: evidence from Children’s Health in Care in Scotland, a population-wide administrative data cohort study
Brown, D., Gedeon, E., Henderson, M., Leyland, A. H., Wilson, P. & Allik, M., 1 Oct 2025, In: Archives of Disease in Childhood. 110, 10, p. 837-843 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile8 Downloads (Pure)
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
Dataset
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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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Art Based research and Engagement - NHS Arran Research Mentorship
Brinon, L. (Speaker)
28 Nov 2025Activity: Talk or Presentation › Invited talk
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Relationship based practice in the context of Self-Directed Support
Miller, E. (Speaker)
16 Oct 2025Activity: Talk or Presentation › Invited talk
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NIHR National Institute for Health and Care Research (Publisher)
Young, E. (Peer reviewer)
22 Oct 2025Activity: Publication Peer-Review and Editorial Work › Membership of peer review panel or committee
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