Professor Rachel Baker recently discussed a paper at Vanhem (Vancouver health economics meeting) title and authors below:
The use of qualitative methods to understand patient and general population preferences for genomics- guided lymphoid cancer management
Author names and affiliations:
S Costa; I Cromwell; C Bentley; H McTaggart-Cowan; AJN Raymakers; DA Regier
Professor Rachel Baker presented a presentation to colleagues at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation (C2E2) (http://www.c2e2.ca/) at Vancouver General Hospital on 30th April, as part of the C2E2 Rounds, titled “What should we do when people disagree? Priority setting in relation to end of life and cancer drugs”.
A group of second year students from Glasgow Caledonian University are taking part in a community project as part of one of their modules. They have collaborated with Simon Community Scotland, a local charity aiming to eradicate homelessness in the Glasgow area. They are creating care bags containing items that are critical for those who are vulnerable. They aim aim to raise money to enable them to donate a large amount of bags to Simon Community Scotland who will distribute them to the homeless in our city.
More information is available via the website below:
https://www.facebook.com/Essential-Care-Bags-for-the-Homeless-877181715776623/
More than 100 policy experts, campaigners, and leading academics gathered for the official launch of the Scottish Poverty and Inequality Research Unit (SPIRU) at Glasgow Caledonian University.
SPIRU, in partnership with the Poverty Alliance, aims to bring together academics from across Scotland and strengthen links between those working on poverty and inequality research, campaign groups and policymakers.
Professors John McKendrick and Stephen Sinclair, of Glasgow School for Business and Society, are co-directors of the unit, which will build upon the legacy of the Scottish Poverty Information Unit.
Speakers at the launch event, which was opened by GCU Principal and Vice-Chancellor Professor Pamela Gillies, included Judith Robertson, chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission, and Emeritus Professor Gill Scott.
Professor Sinclair said: “We are overwhelmed by the interest that has been shown.
“Since we announced plans for the formal launch, we’ve had interest from the Scottish Government, COSLA, campaigning organisations and academics beyond Scotland.
“It is is a crucial time for social policy. This is a great window of opportunity to have an influence on the policy process and welfare reform.”
Douglas Hamilton, chair of the Poverty and Inequality Commission, who also spoke at the launch, said: “The great thing about the unit is that it will bring together academics from here and other universities, the third sector, and community-based groups.
“That richness of collaboration will give the unit an added edge to inform some of the solutions to the tough problems we face in Scotland just now.”
The launch comes after an analysis by Professor McKendrick highlighted intense pockets of child poverty in some of Scotland’s most affluent areas.
Councils are compelled to publish local Child Poverty Delivery Plans following the passing of the Child Poverty (Scotland) Bill, which seeks to eradicate child poverty in Scotland by 2030.
Professor McKendrick has warned income deprivation affects households in every local authority, in a paper for the Poverty and Inequality Commission.
Dr Sarkis Manoukian is presenting at the Infection Prevention Society (IPS) Conference in October with Prof Nicholas Graves from Queensland University of Technology and Research. The title of the session is:
Further details are available on the website below:
http://www.ips.uk.net/conference/programmes
The kick-off event of SIRIUS has taken place in Brussels last month. University and civil society partners from 7 different countries has met to discuss the workload for the next 3 years. A lunch talk has also been organised and more than 80 people participated to foster exchange among practitioners and stakeholders to better appreciate the integration capacities of cities and municipalities to contribute building successful local integration practices. NGOs from Italy, Greece and Serbia presented their activities and discussion by world experts from UNHCR, UNRISD and European Commission has fostered reflections about integration of migrants into the labour market. An inclusive integration agenda including concrete steps that countries can take to ensure migrant integration policies is at the core of new Horizon 2020 funded SIRIUS project and it represents an important challenge for European Countries.
More information about the project can be found here: www.sirius-project.eu
Last week, Scottish Poverty and Inequality Research Unit hosted an event about tackling food insecurity in Scotland and in Europe. The seminar aimed to foster exchange among academics, practitioners and stakeholders to better appreciate the innovative process to secure access to nutritious food for everyone, while also avoiding food waste. Best practices and policies from Scotland and other European countries have been illustrated by Dr Francesca Calò of the Yunus Centre for Social Business & Health and co-editor of the book Foodsaving in Europe: at the Crossroad of Social Innovation (Palgrave McMillan 2017). The seminar discussed also the work of the Big Lottery Funded project ‘A Menu for Change’, led by the Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland, Oxfam Scotland, Nourish Scotland and the Poverty Alliance
More information about the book and menu for change can be found here:
A paper on ‘Differentiating the effect of social enterprise activities on health’ by B Macaulay, M Mazzei, M Roy, S Teasdale and C Donaldson has been published in Social Science and Medicine.
Abstract
An emerging stream of literature has focused on the ways in which social enterprises might act on the social determinants of health. However, this previous work has not taken a sufficiently broad account of the wide range of stakeholders involved in social enterprises and has also tended to reduce and simplify a complex and heterogeneous set of organisations to a relatively homogenous social enterprise concept. In an attempt to address these gaps, we conducted an empirical investigation between August 2014 and October 2015 consisting of qualitative case studies involving in-depth semi-structured interviews and a focus group with a wide variety of stakeholders from three social enterprises in different regions of Scotland. We found that different forms of social enterprise impact on different dimensions of health in different ways, including through: engendering a feeling of ownership and control; improving environmental conditions (both physical and social); and providing or facilitating meaningful employment. In conclusion, we highlight areas for future research.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953618300480
The call for papers for the Social Enterprise World Forum Academic Symposium is now open. The deadline for submission is Friday 30th March and further details are available via the website below:
The Glasgow Caledonian team are hosting a 2 day introduction to Q methodology workshop on the 9th-10th April 2018 in Glasgow.
This two day workshop is designed for those looking for an introduction to Q methodology and Q research, and is especially suitable for people with limited or no prior experience. It will be led by experts in Q methodology drawing on examples from their own research as well as the wider literature.
This will be an interactive workshop providing an overview of the essential steps for conducting a Q study covering concourse theory, statement selection, P-set selection, Q-sorting, factor analysis and data interpretation. There will also be the opportunity for a one-to-one surgery session where participants can seek advice on their own Q study with one of the facilitators. The cost of the workshop will be £200 which will include all materials, lunch and refreshments on both days. We anticipate the workshop starting at 11:00 on day one and finishing by 4pm on day two.
If you are interesting in attending this event please email Helen Mason (helen.mason@gcu.ac.uk)