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A realist process evaluation within the Facilitating Implementation of Research Evidence (FIRE) cluster randomised controlled international trial: an exemplar
(BioMed Central, 2018)Background Facilitation is a promising implementation intervention, which requires theory informed evaluation. This paper presents an exemplar of a multi-country realist process evaluation that was embedded in the first ... -
T2 Trainspotting’s obsession with the past says a lot about today
(The Conversation, 2017-01-30)A review of T2 (2017), the sequel to Trainspotting (1996), which arrived in UK cinemas in January 2017. -
Scottish cinema now (Book Review)
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-09-28)Review of: Scottish cinema now, edited by Jonathan Murray, Fidelma Farley and Rod Stoneman, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, 244 pp., £39.99 (hbk), ISBN 978-1443803311. -
Traveling groups stick together: How collective directional movement influences social cohesion
(Sage, 2018-08-02)We tested the hypothesis that the social act of moving through space with others - collective directional movement - is associated with greater levels of group cohesion compared to static activities. We asked participants ... -
Advancing the science behind human resources for health: highlights from the Health Policy and Systems Research Reader on Human Resources for Health
(BioMed Central, 2018-08-14)Health workers are central to people-centred health systems, resilient economies and sustainable development. Given the rising importance of the health workforce, changing human resource for health (HRH) policy and practice ... -
AlcoLOLs Project: Final report, March 2016
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2016-03-31)This report evaluates the AlcoLOLs project, funded by the Robertson Trust and conducted in Edinburgh 2013-2015. The project was designed to tackle the issues alcohol presents for young people and worked by combining ... -
Scottish family businesses: Innovative strategies for education and business support
(InderScience Publishers, 2018)Family business is of critical importance to economies, communities and societies across Scotland, but academic research that considers and supports this group of businesses through links to the policy agenda is in the ... -
Charcot neuroarthropathy patient education among podiatrists in Scotland: a modified Delphi approach.
(BioMed Central, 2018-09-24)Background This evaluation sought to determine current Charcot neuroarthropathy (CN) diabetes patient education practices among Scottish National Health Service (NHS) and academic podiatrists and evaluate novel visual ... -
In the shadow of occupation: Racism, shame and grief
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-10-10)In Freud’s seminal paper on mourning and melancholia, he distinguished between those who are able to mourn (i.e. relinquish their loved object or an idealised self) and those who become melancholic (i.e. forever lamenting ... -
Episodic volunteer management at festivals: The case of Valletta Film Festival, Valetta, Malta
(Routledge, 2018-09-01)A film festival now opens every 36 hours somewhere in the world (Archibald and Miller, 2011, p. 249). As argued elsewhere (Dickson, 2017a), the extraordinary rate at which the number of festivals has increased signals a ... -
Purpose, place, people and passion: The Case of the Lammermuir Festival, East Lothian, Scotland
(Routledge, 2018-09-01)In 2017 Cheltenham Music Festival, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Lammermuir Festival and Welsh National Opera were all nominated for the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for best concert series or festival. Three ... -
Follow the leader or the pack? Regulatory focus and academic entrepreneurial intentions
(Wiley (on behalf of the Product Development & Management Association), 2016-10-17)Drawing on the academic entrepreneurship and regulatory focus theory literature, and applying a multilevel per-spective, this paper examines why university academics intend to engage in formal (spin-off or start-up companies ... -
Embedded health service development and research: why and how to do it (a ten-stage guide).
(BioMed Central, 2018-07-25)In a world of changing disease burdens, poor quality care and constrained health budgets, finding effective approaches to developing and implementing evidence-based health services is crucial. Much has been published on ... -
Living on: an exploration of healthful cancer survivorship among grey nomads
(Cambridge Publishing, 2018-06-28)Aim: To explore the experiences of grey nomads living with a diagnosis of cancer. Background: Cancer is primarily both a life-limiting and a chronic condition of ageing and older people. Older people, however, are not ... -
Art making and its interface with Dissociative Identity Disorder: No words that didn’t fit
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-08-21)Studies point to promising developments in expressive arts therapy work with clients who experience dissociation as one of a constellation of symptoms of trauma. Individuals diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder, ... -
A nurse‐led FibroScan® outreach clinic encourages socially deprived heavy drinkers to engage with liver services
(Wiley, 2018-09-05)Aims and objectives To determine whether a portable FibroScan® device can be an acceptable screening tool for chronic liver disease in a community alcohol support service, through recording uptake, determining apparent ... -
Smoking cessation advice for people with serious mental illness
(Wiley, 2016-01-28)Background: People with a serious mental illness are more likely to smoke more and to be more dependent smokers than the general population. This may be due to a wide range of factors that could include a common aetiology ... -
Partnership as Educational Policy Imperative: An unquestioned good?
(Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, 2017-11-15)“Partnership” is often promoted as an unquestioned “good” for higher education institutions in relation to its various stakeholder organizations. This paper seeks to problematize this uncritical valorization through a ... -
Don’t Panic: Common Sense and the Student Voice in a Transitional Guide
(Edinburgh Napier University, 2017-03-01)The Scottish Enhancement Theme of Transitions has largely been explored by institutions in terms of pre/post undergraduate degree, with a tangential focus on employability. Less considered are transitions between and through ... -
TrainWreck, or The Failures of Infrastructure: reflections on a Creative People and Place project
(Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2018-07-23)This reflective text considers the ‘failures of infrastructure’ from the perspective of a researcher involved in a participatory art project funded by Creative People and Places. It uses a single project to act as a microcosm ...
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