Developing analysis and presentation of results from the Scottish Health Survey

The internship is based in the Scottish Health Survey team within the Health & Social Care Analysis Division. The team is moving analysis of the survey from SAS to R and the project involves setting up programmes in R to analyse a wide range of the survey results, prepare tables and charts and output these in accessible formats. The candidate should have some experience of using R, though we do already have some code that can be adapted.

Transform intersectional statistics into meaningful data visualisations in Scottish Government’s Equality Evidence Finder Dashboard

The Equality Evidence Finder (EEF) is a data dashboard for equality evidence built on R Shiny. The Equality Analysis Team’s Statistician is currently undertaking a programme of redevelopment of the EEF to improve accessibility, usability, and automation. The intern taking on this role will take the lead on a specific element of this project which will involve developing the presentation of intersectional equality evidence on the dashboard, thereby improving user experience and filling data gaps. Therefore experience of coding in R packages ggplot2 and tidyverse are essential, while experience of coding in R shiny is desirable.

Development of a national standard on accessibility for disabled passengers in ferry travel

This would be a discrete project within the ICP working with the Mobility and Access Committee Scotland (MACS), ferry and port operators and councils and other user group representatives such as Scottish Tourism Alliance. The objective would be to develop an Accessibility Standard for ferry services that will be in addition to legal requirements for physical and mental accessibility and will act as guidance for island and peninsula ferry services, including vessel and port design, information and customer service.

Reactive project in support of Drugs Policy and the National Mission on Drugs

SGSSS internships present invaluable opportunities for analytical outputs to be produced that are reactive and supportive to rapidly changing policy needs. As such, the outputs of these internships are likely to be of great relevance and value to the work of policy colleagues and present opportunity to have real impact on decision making. With this in mind, we will develop the specific focus of this project closer to when the internship is due to start. We will also try to offer a choice of the project that they undertake and ensure the project is shaped around the skills of the candidate. Previous research projects have included evidence/data reviews, surveys, mapping exercises and interviewing.

Tackling health inequalities: evidence for the national review of Community Link Workers

The internship’s objectives are to provide policymakers with a better, evidence-based understanding of: the training/professional support CLWs already receive and gaps in this; and the views of CLWs and those who manage and commission CLWs services about their priorities for professional support and development needs. We expect the project approach to be a combination of: desk-based work (e.g. reviewing reports); data collection and analysis (e.g. interviews, focus groups, online survey); which will lead to a report and key messages Powerpoint.