SUII News
Summer Update
Call for Proposals autumn 2016 - 'Learning from other places'
A new call for knowledge exchange programmes running this autumn will focus on the exchange of knowledge and best practice between places (as well as between disciplines and between academics and non-academics) to improve policy and practice. Proposals may involve looking at the lessons to be learned from varying policy and practice approaches in different parts of the UK or EU or from the experience of places further afield .
We will be running a series of workshops to present the call in more detail and to help potential applicants consider some of the key aspects of running a SUII programme, with input from previous programme leaders. Register below:
Interested in wellbeing? New MOOC starting September!
A MOOC has been developed by academics at Edinburgh University on the theme of social wellbeing. The free online course, which builds on the 2014 SUII wellbeing programme, aims to create a global community of wellbeing practitioners, who can inspire and learn from each other. The course will help participants engage constructively in the wellbeing movement, and use wellbeing considerations to make important transformations to their work and ways of planning, learning and justifying decisions. Sign up to take part below:
Programme update
We are pleased to announce 4 new programmes kicking off this autumn:
- A bridge over troubled water: a new integrated assessment tool for enhanced social, energy and eco-systems
- Changing lives through inspirational STEM
- The UN convention on the rights of the child in Scotland
- What are public inquiries meant to achieve and can we do it faster, cheaper and better?
Catch up on what some of our current programmes have been up to below, including this blog from the Food Security team:
Community Land Ownership
Child neglect and arts based practices
Follow on fund
The follow on fund enables successful SUII projects to build on their outcomes and maximise impact on policy and practice. The programme supports a range of follow up activities including wider and deeper dissemination of insights or the trialling of policy and practice innovations. The following projects are currently underway:
- Credit Unions: achieving sustainable growth in Credit Unions through the development of payroll deduction systems
- Memory Friendly Neighbourhoods: increasing the reach and usefulness of online resources dedicated to addressing the challenges of living with dementia
To find out more and to apply for a follow up grant visit our website
http://www.scottishinsight.ac.uk/AbouttheInstitute/FollowUpSupport.aspx
Scottish Universities Insight Institute
Email: info@scottishinsight.ac.uk
Website: www.scottishinsight.ac.uk
Location: 22 Richmond Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Phone: 0141 548 5930
Twitter: @scotinsight
Background photo of Silver Sands beach, Aberdour. The Boathouse pictured far right was the venue for the second Innovative Health and Social Care workshop in June
http://www.scottishinsight.ac.uk/Programmes/Innovation2016/Healthandsocialcare.aspx