Monitoring Support for Children and Young People Regarding their Rights

The main focus of the project is to analyse and report quantitative and qualitative aggregated data gathered through an online survey of third sector organisations. This evidence will provide national level insight into how these organisations support children and young people regarding their rights, including identifying gaps, barriers and successes in the sector. The intern will carry out descriptive quantitative analysis and thematic […]

Professional Motivation for, and Understanding of Delivering Value‑based Health and Care in Scotland’s Health and Care System

This qualitative research project will explore how Value Based Health and Care (VBHC) and Realistic Medicine are understood, interpreted and enabled by the multiple professions involved in the planning and delivery of care – not just those who provide care, but all professionals including managers, financial and procurement professionals across Scotland’s health and social care […]

Pathways into Perpetration of Technology Facilitated Violence Against Women and Girls

The aim of this project is to improve our understanding of the data and evidence on, or relevant to, tech-facilitated violence against women and girls (VAWG) and pathways into perpetrating TFVAWG. The project will entail a mapping exercise to provide an understanding of the existing evidence and understandings of evidence in relation to pathways into […]

Equity in the Early Days: A Review of Targeted Breastfeeding Support in Pregnancy and Early Postnatal Life

The intern will engage with NHS Boards, HSCPs and third‑sector organisations, which currently receive Scottish Government funding to provide enhanced breastfeeding support (additional to universal support). This would involve a high-level comparison across already established QI projects. The reason this is required is because these projects and pathways of support operate on slightly different models. The purpose of the high-level comparison would be to […]

Kachinas, Charms and Crocodiles: Researching Roland Penrose’s Ethnographic Collection

National Galleries Scotland (NGS) has, for the past 25 years, had on loan a collection of naturalia, artworks and ethnographic objects that belonged to the artist and collector Roland Penrose (1900-1984). A Surrealist interpretation of a ‘Wunderkammer’, these objects span millennia and culture, comprising an eclectic array of media and meaning: from a 2000-year-old Cycladic […]