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    Welcome to the SGSSS blog directory. Here you will find blogs from all corners of the Scottish Social Science community. If you’d like to contribute, register an account and head over to your blog page located in your profile.

    What’s the point of my literature review?

    Hello! My supervisors asked me to put together a couple of paragraphs describing what I’m hoping to get out of my literature review. I’ll be

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    Jamie Barker 11 June 2024 3 Comments

    Women’s Safety from Male Violence – A Societal Issue With Resonance Across Our Universities

    As with many individuals and organisations, SGSSS wished to show our solidarity around the issue of women’s safety from gendered violence and, in particular, to

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    SGSSS Team 18 March 2021 No Comments
    Negar Ebrahimi

    Hitting the Yellow Brick Road! Designing My Happy City: Playground

    The government’s road map in controlling the global pandemic, promises easing the restrictions on outdoor activities in spring. I am particularly looking forward to re-bonding

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    Negar Ebrahimi 23 February 2021 No Comments
    Stephen Joseph McNulty

    Planning, Papers and Protective Isolation: The life of a PhD student in 2020

    One of the benefits (read: curses) of having to work from home for an extended period of time is that your breakfasts, lunchtimes, mid-morning and

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    Stephen Joseph McNulty 8 December 2020 1 Comment

    Turnitin Does Not Detect Plagiarism

    Using Turnitin as a Positive Tool for Formative Assessment Ref: https://acdev.orgdev.coventry.domains/application/files/2715/6293/3552/J282-19_The-Coventry-Way-eBook_V7.pdf [accessed 26.10.20] Aims and rationale: The use of Turnitin as a tool within Higher

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    chelle Oldham 9 November 2020 10 Comments

    279 Days & Counting; Im 10yrs old and these are my words

    We are not going to lose We fight you on the streets We fight you everywhere we go We have our masks, we have our

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    chelle Oldham 9 November 2020 No Comments
    Jess Anderson

    Disrupting hierarchies in school-based reading: a conference paper

    Presentation to the Educational Inequalities Conference, Erasmus MaCE, University of Cumbria, 4&5 June, 2020 Introduction My name is Jess Anderson and I am doing a

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    Jess Anderson 21 September 2020 1 Comment
    chelle Oldham

    The Blogging Learning Curve

    Hey, if you are reaching this first sentence you must want to learn more about blogging; or you’ve read my writing before and I just

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    chelle Oldham 26 August 2020 No Comments
    chelle Oldham

    Popcorn popping on the apricot tree: the blossoms during Covid-19

    Parents were asked, ‘Does anyone who chose to use schools feel their children have blossomed whilst learning at home?’. Within less than 24hrs there were

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    chelle Oldham 18 August 2020 No Comments
    chelle Oldham

    13 & in Lockdown

    The Teenager Living with Covid-19 Living in lockdown as a home-schooled 13yr old. “Lockdown, a word that, just last year, had a very different meaning.

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    chelle Oldham 18 August 2020 No Comments
    Rachel Salzano

    Recruiting for a Pilot Study

    Hello Everyone, Covid-19 may have changed the way we are conducting our research, driving our in-person interviews to online platforms or telephones, pushing us to

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    Rachel Salzano 18 August 2020 No Comments
    chelle Oldham

    So, Home Education is okay now?

    Home Education is not the same as the Home Learning that parents are attempting to undertake during the Lockdown of 2020. There is some virtue

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    chelle Oldham 15 June 2020 1 Comment
    George Burrows

    Doing trans and non-binary sexual health research

    Blog post for LGBT History Month, February 2020, on the Interdisciplinary Research in Sexual Health (IReSH) Network Scotland website. https://www.iresh.org.uk/2020/02/

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    George Burrows 21 May 2020 No Comments
    Roeland Hemsteede

    An SGSSS Internship… In Nepal!

    Ever since SGSSS started promoting their internship scheme I was gutted when receiving calls for expressions of interest. Pretty much every position focused, understandably, on

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    Roeland Hemsteede 1 May 2020 1 Comment
    SGSSS Team

    Urban Life, The Untold Dimension of Happiness

    We are indeed aware of some spatial forces behind our actions, or for that matter, inactions. No one has ever doubted how doors enable us

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    SGSSS Team 30 April 2020 2 Comments
    SGSSS Team

    Maintaining Motivation

    I’m delighted to have had the opportunity to contribute to the SGSSS Cohort Building Programme this month. The student pitches and presentations demonstrated huge impact

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    SGSSS Team 30 April 2020 No Comments
    SGSSS Team

    Presenting at the Social Policy Association (SPA) Conference – trepidations and reality

    The first time I heard about the SPA conference, I was not sure whether my research would fit in. My PhD focuses on the practice

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    SGSSS Team 30 April 2020 No Comments
    SGSSS Team

    Big Data in Small Packages

    North of Sonderborg, alongside the Alssund, the gentle farmland of Jutland stretches into the horizon. Fields of early autumn colours keep small patches of woodland

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    SGSSS Team 30 April 2020 No Comments
    SGSSS Team

    PhD ‘Must-knows’ from attending the Big Data Centre for Environment and Health (BERTHA) Summer School

    PhD ‘Must-knows’ In late August I attended a summer school in Denmark run by the Big Data Centre for Environment and Health (BERTHA). The lessons

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    SGSSS Team 30 April 2020 No Comments
    Lorna Barton

    Listening, learning and sharing: The impact of group facilitation in oral history

    At the time of agreeing to help facilitate the Advanced Oral History Theory and Practice training programme at the Scottish Oral History Centre (SOHC) based at the University

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    Lorna Barton 30 April 2020 No Comments
    SGSSS Team

    Overseas Institutional Visits: I went, I saw, I conquered (my own fears) by Hazel Booth

    On a chilly November day just over two years ago, I sat in a room which reeked of excitement and fear.  It was emanating from

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    SGSSS Team 30 April 2020 No Comments
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