SUII News
November 2015
Fostering Cultures of Innovation
The SUII call for proposals in autumn 2015 focuses on the theme of fostering cultures of innovation – one of the strands in Scotland’s Economic Strategy published in March 2015. Projects will draw on a wide range of disciplines and involve academics, policy-makers, practitioners and other stakeholders from Scotland and elsewhere, in order to share their knowledge and experience and generate fresh insights. The programme will run in the first half of 2016 and will conclude with a conference at the end of 2016, which will aim to draw together the threads of the individual projects supported. Successful projects will be announced in January 2016.
New programmes get underway!
To find out more about any of the programmes and to sign up for future events, click here
You can view a clip from the first Food Security workshop at Stirling University below.
Improving Lives in Scotland: A Wellbeing Approach
An update to our report on the 2014 wellbeing programme was published earlier this month in the Fraser of Allander Review.
Scotland is considered to be one of the leading countries in the world in measuring wellbeing, although there are a number of areas where this could be improved. A wellbeing framework provides an opportunity to actively engage citizens, join up policy and practice and prevent the need for often costly remedial action. Actively engaging, enabling and empowering citizens will not only improve policy and practice and strengthen democracy it will also directly improve wellbeing. You can read the article here
Work is ongoing to develop a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on wellbeing, led by the University of Edinburgh. Watch this space...
AskAcademia: Linking Scotland's research community with the Parliament
Creative Scotland follow up funding for Seannachies programme
The Seannachies programme led by the Institute of Design Innovation, the Glasgow School of Art and Edinburgh University has secured additional funding from Creative Scotland to develop work around engaging with older people through art. Seannachies explored how storytelling can engage people in meaning-making in order to enhance collective wellbeing in socially and culturally challenged communities, in particular, social isolation in communities of elders.
Funding was provided to stage additional performances of ‘Broth’, a piece originally commissioned for the Seannachies programme, as part of the Luminate Festival - Scotland's Creative Ageing Festival.
Broth is an honest exploration of the experience of elders in 21st century Scotland, told by artist Donna Rutherford, through the tradition of soup making. It explores the rituals and revelations that trace changes in people’s lives, families and wider communities through a series of personal storytelling conversations.
Watch a clip from the performance below
Flourishing Communities, Productive Seas: Workshop 2
- Implementing the ecosystem approach through law and policy
- Exploration of tools to assist decision making
- Prioritising ideas for community engagement
For more details and to register click here
Thursday, Dec 10, 2015, 09:30 AM
The Sir Duncan Rice Library, Bedford Road, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Child Neglect Workshop 2: Community approaches and targeted interventions for resilience, wellbeing and neglect
This event will focus on therapeutic and community interventions as developed by organisations such as the YDance, Hot Chocolate, Scottish Book Trust, Art Room and Macrobert Arts Centre, who will demonstrate how they work collaboratively with GIRFEC Coordinators, art projects and drama therapists in which to develop bespoke projects.
The sessions are aimed at teachers, social workers, educational psychologists, youth workers, dance, music and drama development officers and community learning and development workers. The format of the day will enable individual groups and professions to showcase their work with space for discussions. Places are limited.
Thursday, Jan 28, 2016, 09:30 AM
22 Richmond Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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