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    Community Blogs

    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.

    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 highlight the specific connections to the places where we work and study. To this end, we have commissioned a blog from Professor Michele Burman 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 with nature without the shadow of currently-necessary restrictions looming over my head. A research project that I led last year before the pandemic, highlights the

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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 afternoon breaks, your post-lunch coffees, your inspiration/exasperation-driven “pauses for thought”, the odd boring meeting etc. can be punctuated with a spot of light-hearted television. (Note

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    Stephen Joseph McNulty 8 December 2020 No Comments

    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 Education has been growing for many years. Alongside this, however, a culture of fear has been growing among students that they will somehow be caught

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    chelle Oldham 9 November 2020 No 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 bleach We are not afraid of you, unseen enemy You’re not the only one who can hide You can hide in plain sight We can

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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 Collaborative ESRC-funded PhD with Renfrewshire Council, in Scotland. I’m based in the School of Education at the University of Strathclyde. I’ve worked in education, particularly

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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 spark something you enjoy. It occurred to me this week, people may actually read my material because they absolutely hate the things I write about

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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 over 200 responses. Within 48hrs over 400 responses. The question asked parents to reflect upon the last 5 months and identify if anything had changed

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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. Now, when people hear the word ‘lockdown’ they think of social distancing, they think of the vulnerable who are shielding, and they think of the

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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 discover new ways to approach observation-based research etc. My own experience has been slightly less affected by Covid-19 because I was still in my first

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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 in the numerous online comments from existing Home Educators who repeatedly tried to distinguish themselves from the parents of Lockdown by offering the term ‘Home

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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 Scotland while my PhD in human geography focused on international development issues! As such, you can imagine my surprise, and delight, when in early September

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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 to move through, a possibility that a solid wall robs us from. In fact, we are so intrinsically adapted to architectural manipulations, no one is

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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 and productivity on their projects but also demonstrated the challenge of doing a PhD. I was asked to share some thoughts on maintaining motivation to

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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 of community development. It compares the effect of approaches aimed at helping people “navigate the system” to those approaches aimed at helping people “change the system” to see which better advances the well-being of communities

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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 company as the summer comes to a close with a final, and intense, hurrah. Deer move freely between the grasses and the trees, ignoring the

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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 I learned in those few days changed how I perceive myself, academia, and the potential impact my research could have on the world. Lesson 1:

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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 of Strathclyde, along with my colleague and mentor Arthur McIvor, Director of the SOHC and my supervisor Erin Jessee, I had not realised how incredibly fruitful and humbling it was

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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 me, and possibly the rest the new intake of ESRC-funded PhD students who sitting with me at the SGSSS induction event. In those early days, we hadn’t

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    SGSSS Team 30 April 2020 No Comments

    Realising Rights In Scotland: Making the Case for a Sociology of Human Rights

    This blog explores a number of themes. It gives an insight in to a research project, demonstrating the organic nature of research as outputs evolve including reports and podcats. The blog also explores what sociologists ‘do’ with their research time and why this is important to me, as a person

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    Jo Ferrie 29 April 2020 No Comments
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