Spatial, sectoral and temporal trends in A8 migration to the UK 2004-2011: evidence from the Worker Registration Scheme

Dr David McCollum, University of St Andrews This project involved collaborative working between researchers from the universities of St Andrews and Dundee and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities and the Scottish Government. The focus of the project was on spatial, sectoral and temporal trends in A8 migration to the UK 2004-2011. The research involved analysis of the Worker Registration

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Exploring patterns and variations in volunteering using Scottish Household Survey data

Alasdair Rutherford, Division of Economics, University of Stirling Recent shifts in UK and Scottish Government policy changes, both at the UK level and in Scotland, have led to greater funding scrutiny and a need to understand how communities, individuals and volunteers can participate in, shape and support sustainable public services. This policy shift towards a co-production agenda assumes that levels

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Demonstration modules for Growing Up in Scotland dataset

Dr Pamela Warner, Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, University of Edinburgh There is general agreement that policy should be evidence-based, but often the evidence needed is highly subtle/contingent. In most cases the many factors associated with any outcome of interest are themselves inter-related. This can create challenges in analysis, and also in communicating findings to policy-makers and practitioners.

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Applying statistical methods to quality improvement in health and social care

Guro Huby School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh A collaborative initiative between the University of Edinburgh (Dr Guro Huby and Dr Andrew Thompson), Scottish Government Joint Improvement Team (Dr Peter Knight) and NHS Education Scotland (Shona Cowan) to develop a postgraduate teaching module Service redesign and quality improvement are increasing in importance for Scottish health and social

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Youth transitions and education in contemporary Scotland

Susan Murray, Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling This was a small-scale project to create a specialist data resource from the Scottish booster sample of the British Household Panel Survey on youth transitions and education, involving collaboration between Susan Murray, in the Department of Applied Social Science, and Professor John Field, in the Institute of Education. Research into

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A scoping study of Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) analysis of house price estimation: with applications to impacts of crime, ethnic/religious segregation and landlord portfolio optimisation

Dr Ellie Bates, University of Edinburgh and Professor Gwilym Pryce, University of Sheffield, Joe Frey, Northern Ireland Housing Executive and Dr John Boyle, Rettie and Co. This project explored new inter-disciplinary uses of Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) in criminology, sociology, housing economics and real estate finance, developed in collaboration with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive and Rettie and Co. Ltd.

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The impact of social media on young people’s attitudes towards independence

Dr Mark Shephard, Dr Stephen Tagg and Dr Stephen Quinlan, University of Strathclyde, and Dr Jan Eichhorn and Professor Lindsay Paterson, University of Edinburgh This project built on existing ESRC–funded research (the Future of the UK and Scotland cross-investment AQMeN social media project) on the impact of social media on attitudes towards independence. This project had two specific objectives: 1)

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Social media and the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum: The Twitter dimension

Dr Mark Shephard, Dr Stephen Quinlan, Dr Stephen Tagg, University of Strathclyde and Professor Lindsay Paterson, University of Edinburgh This project sought to examine the role of Twitter in the referendum campaign, while tying in with the existing ESRC funded/AQMeN supported project on social media and its impact in the referendum. Social media is becoming an ever more important part

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A collaborative quantitative research development programme in the Third Sector: understanding volunteering in Scotland

Dr Alasdair Rutherford, University of Stirling, Dr Helen Harper, Volunteer Development Scotland, Dr Louise Meikleham, Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and Steven Hope, Ipsos MORI There is increasing enthusiasm for exploiting “big data”, and making better use of quantitative data from both social surveys and administrative sources. However, this poses a significant challenge for organisations that do not have

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