Jenn’s PhD research investigates financial abuse in Scotland and the role of finances in physically separating from an abusive partner. In addition, it explores how women’s personal financial situations prior and post-separation are likely to be affected by key social security policies in Scotland and the UK.
Jenn’s submission for the Research Impact and Knowledge Exchange Competition related to an internship undertaken with Royal Bank of Scotland, supported by the SGSSS.
Oliver HamletOliver is undertaking a 3 year ESRC funded PhD in organisational / human factors psychology. His research is primarily focused on the non-technical skills utilised by individuals and groups within high-risk environments.
Oliver’s submission for the Research Impact and Knowledge Exchange Competition related to the materials he has produced to support with the training and development of air crews.
Ashlee ChristoffersenAshlee is based in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, and her PhD thesis is entitled ‘The politics of intersectional practice’.
Ashlee’s PhD draws on her practitioner background to explore how equality third sector organisations, which have been predominantly focused around single issues/identities, are conceptualising and operationalising the politically transformative frame of ‘intersectionality’: the understanding that structures of inequality are mutually constituting and thus cannot be addressed separately.
Her submission for the Research Impact and Knowledge Exchange Prize relates to a conference that she organised for equality third sector practitioners, public sector practitioners, policy makers, and academics.
Viktoria ErikssonViktoria is completing a PhD provisionally titled ‘Gendered Identities: Exploring Scottish constitutional preferences’.
Viktoria’s submission for the Research Impact and Knowledge Exchange Competition relates to her work on an internship with the Scottish Government in 2020, where she produced a tool which will transform the way in which Scottish Household Survey results can be used and analysed.
Lucy Cathcart FrodenLucy’s PhD thesis is provisionally entitled ‘A language we all understand’? A practice-led exploration of the role of musical communication in re/integration of people who have migrated and people who have offended’. Her research draws on criminology, migration studies, applied linguistic and communication studies, and popular musicology.
Lucy’s submission for the Research Impact and Knowledge Exchange Competition demonstrates how her work has engaged with and impacted a variety of stakeholders, including through her podcast.