Understanding Inequalities

Title	Addressing Spatial Inequality in the 21st Century
Description	In 2019, we hosted an international symposium on The Dynamics of Spatial Inequality in Sheffield. This event brought together US and UK-based speakers and delegates from a variety of policy, practitioner and academic disciplines to share perspectives on whether and how spatial inequalities matter and the implications for policy innovation. As part of this event, we filmed a short documentary featuring interviews with our international speakers. We asked them about the implications of spatial inequalities for life outcomes, across health, housing and the labour market, and we asked what they thought a new vision for spatial policy in the 21st Century might look like. This film also features an interview with Lord Blunkett, former UK Home Secretary. Contributors to the film include: Lord Blunkett discussing the impact of 'place on life outcomes' Professor George Galster, Wayne State University, on 'Geography as a barrier to equal opportunity' Dr David Manley, University of Bristol, on 'People and place-based policy solutions' Lord Blunkett on 'Building social capital' Dr David Walsh, Glasgow Centre for Population Health, on 'Addressing the fundamental causes of inequality' This documentary was filmed and edited by Tig Digital and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council International Networking Award.
Type Of Art	Film/Video/Animation
Year Produced	2020
Impact	This documentary has had over 400 views on our YouTube channel and resulted in a number of collaborative activities taking place.
URL	https://www.understanding-inequalities.ac.uk/publications-and-outputs/documentary-addressing-spatial...

Title	Data Comic - How crime has changed in Scotland - Susan McVie
Description	Working in partnership with members of the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, the Understanding Inequalities team collaborated with a graphic artist (Miranda Smith) to create a data visualisation comic focussing on crime and inequality in Scotland. This project was funded by the Edinburgh Futures Institute and aimed at engaging a wider audience in data-driven policy and decision-making about inequality. This data comic draws on findings from the research on changing patterns of crime in Scotland, including both victimisation and offending. It is called "How crime has changed in Scotland".
Type Of Art	Artwork
Year Produced	2020
Impact	This data comic has been used at various events and distributed widely to a range of public and policy audiences. In particular, we shared the comic with a number of Scottish secondary schools as part of a series of visits to highlight issues of inequality to students studying Modern Scotland within the Advanced Higher Curriculum. As a result of this, we were contacted by the Chair of the Modern Studies Association in Scotland and asked to produce a series of 'worksheets' based on the comic which could be used as teaching tools within Scottish schools at all levels of Modern Studies teaching (S3 to S6). Working in partnership with the MSA, we produced the worksheets and these are now circulated to teachers via the MSA website and are being used across Scottish schools.
URL	https://www.understanding-inequalities.ac.uk/crime-worksheet

Title	Data Comic - We'll take the low road - A comparison of Inequality in England and Wales since devolution
Description	Working in partnership with members of the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, the Understanding Inequalities team collaborated with a graphic artist (Miranda Smith) to create a data visualisation comic focussing on economic inequality in Scotland. This project was funded by the Edinburgh Futures Institute and aimed at engaging a wider audience in data-driven policy and decision-making about inequality. This data comic draws on findings from the research on changing spatial patterns of inequality. It is called "We'll take the low road: How has Scotland fared in pursuing its vision for lower inequality?" The comic looks at a number of measures of inequality, including income, housing, educational attainment and exposure to crime, and analyses how these factors have impacted on life outcomes for people in Scotland compared with England in the 20 years since the Scotland Act 1998.
Type Of Art	Artwork
Year Produced	2018
Impact	This data comic has been used at various events and distributed widely to a range of public and policy audiences. We are not aware of any specific impact of the data comic, but we have received good feedback about how accessible and interesting it is. It has raised awareness about the similarities and differences in different forms of inequality in Scotland compared to England.
URL	https://www.understanding-inequalities.ac.uk/sites/default/files/We%27ll%20take%20the%20low%20road%2...

Title	Decentralisation of poverty and its unequal effect on different populations
Description	This was one of four short research videos created by the UI team to demonstrate some of the key findings from their research. The videos were designed for a range of audiences and intended to be used as a short introduction to inequalities on a range of topics. This video focuses on changes within urban areas in terms of population growth, regeneration and employment patterns. It argues that inner city regeneration has forced low income families into suburbs, which makes access to work and amenities more expensive, although it does reduce exposure to air pollution. These changes are not true of all urban areas - smaller areas are seeing poverty being imported back to city centres, along with increased pollution, as wealthy families move out (especially with the impact of Covid-19). Different policies are needed depending on where poverty is situated, with both local and regional strategies that connect poorer families to jobs, facilities and skills.
Type Of Art	Film/Video/Animation
Year Produced	2021
Impact	This video has been shared widely with policy makers and practitioners and we are currently monitoring impact.
URL	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BGcokOAqbY

Title	The impact of childhood inequalities on later life outcomes and chances
Description	This was one of four short research videos created by the UI team to demonstrate some of the key findings from their research. The videos were designed for a range of audiences and intended to be used as a short introduction to inequalities on a range of topics This video focuses on the impact of inequalities in childhood on later life outcomes and chances. Specifically, it discusses the differential learning outcomes for children from more and less advantaged backgrounds across the educational stages, from primary school to university, and the longer term effects of making transitions into the labour market. It recommends that economic policies need to ensure that people have equal access to good learning and education throughout life.
Type Of Art	Film/Video/Animation
Year Produced	2021
Impact	This video has been shared widely with policy makers and practitioners in Scotland and we are currently monitoring impact.
URL	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T7cazopRfg&t=1s

Title	Unequal risks of offending and justice system contact amongst young people
Description	This was one of four short research videos created by the UI team to demonstrate some of the key findings from their research. The videos were designed for a range of audiences and intended to be used as a short introduction to inequalities on a range of topics. This video focuses on the crime drop in Scotland and the consequences for inequalities. It finds that youth offending is significantly associated with child maltreatment and poverty; however, both things together led to a higher chance of offending; and suggests that youth justice contacts are not always useful in reducing crime, and may in fact lead to recurring patterns of offending and convictions. We recommend that policy responses aimed at reducing offending must take an evidence based approach to reducing poverty, trauma and negative system effects.
Type Of Art	Film/Video/Animation
Year Produced	2021
Impact	This video has been shared widely with policy makers and practitioners and we are currently monitoring impact.
URL	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMXUK6XTNvo&t=1s

Title	Using AI techniques to improve effectiveness and equity of police service delivery
Description	This was one of four short research videos created by the UI team to demonstrate some of the key findings from their research. The videos were designed for a range of audiences and intended to be used as a short introduction to inequalities on a range of topics. This video focuses on changes in demand for policing service and ability to respond on the basis available resources. it highlights the problem of responding to mental ill health crises and shows how improvements in use of data, using AI techniques, could better identify cases that require more specialist resources and training for police officers. It recommends investment in more advanced data analytics to improve the impact of operational policing.
Type Of Art	Film/Video/Animation
Year Produced	2021
Impact	This video has been shared widely with policy makers and practitioners and we are currently monitoring impact.
URL	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLytc5GGv8g

Description	Understanding Inequalities Impact Narrative - March 2023 A key priority of our research programme was to engage with a diverse group of stakeholders in the development and dissemination of our research, including policy makers, practitioners, community groups and public audiences. We did this using a range of mechanisms, including: targeted approaches that engaged directly with specific policymaker and practitioner groups; policy engagement events aimed at people in positions of power with the ability to effect change; public engagement events targeted at grass roots audiences; dissemination on broadcast and social media platforms; and generally contributing to public debate around inequalities. Stakeholders we engaged with include: central and local UK governments (e.g. Scottish Government, Ministry of Justice, Scottish Local Authorities, the Improvement Service, Mayor of Greater Manchester, and Sheffield City Region); international governments and organisations (e.g. the Queensland Treasury, government officials from Hebei Province and UNICEF); the Scottish and UK Parliaments; policing organisations (e.g. Police Scotland, Scottish Police Authority, Her Majesties Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland, West Midlands Police, Greater Manchester Police and Violence Reduction Unit,, South Yorkshire Police, National Police Chiefs Council, Queensland Police Service, Excellence in Policing, and the Society for Evidence Based Policing); educational organisations (e.g. Research Advisory Group for Head Teacher Survey, Academic Reference Group - Research Strategy for Scottish Education, and the Modern Studies Association); learned societies (e.g. Royal Society of Edinburgh, Academy of Social Sciences and the British Academy); and a wide range of third sector or charitable organisations (e.g. the Edinburgh Poverty Commission, IPPR North, Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Oxfam). Our multifaceted approach to dissemination and engagement enabled us to build solid stakeholder relationships and develop a number of pathways to impact. Over several years, we have had impact across a range of domains, including conceptual, instrumental and capacity building. Some examples of these are provided below. (i) The Improvement Service: Uptake and use of the Duncan index measure of inequality In 2018, Dr Meng Le Zhang and Professor Gwilym Pryce worked with The Improvement Service to develop a set of tools to enable Scottish Local Authorities to estimate and measure inequalities. They devised a series of 'inequality indices' across a range of dimensions (e.g. air pollution, exposure to crime or housing quality) at Local Authority level, which can then be followed over time. The Improvement Service has used these indices as a key component of their Community Planning Outcomes Profile (CPOP) toolkit, which aims to help Community Planning Partnerships (CPP) understand the issues in their area, to identify where they might prioritise intervention measures to improve the outcomes for people living in in those areas. Working in partnership with the Improvement Service to develop the indices, we have achieved meaningful impact through building capacity among Local Authority staff to identify inequalities and assist them in delivering their objectives through using the CPOP toolkit. Nick Cassidy, Policy Officer with The Improvement Service, explained the purpose of the CPOP tool and our role in its development as follows: "The tool is linked to the 2015 Community Empowerment Act and is designed to help CPPs meet their obligations under the Act to develop and review a Local Outcome Improvement Plan (LOIP), which is about understanding inequality in outcomes across their area, and within smaller localities within the CPP. The inequality indicators and analysis that Gwilym and Meng Le developed and shared with us are really helpful in doing that, and help to identify the outcomes where a CPP can focus attention, which might not be picked up by other measures." The CPOP toolkit is easily searchable for non-specialists and provides CPPs with critical information in a straightforward way. The inequality indices help CPPs and other stakeholders working in the Local Authority (such as analysts, councillors and other services) to identify where to focus their work in terms of improving conditions for people living in those areas. The toolkit helps CPPs to answer the following questions: • What is the overall pattern of outcomes across the area? • What is happening to levels of inequality in this area? • Are outcomes for the most vulnerable communities improving? • Which communities are seeing the biggest improvement and which require targeted focus? • Are there other similar communities that offer opportunities for learning? The Improvement Service held a workshop in 2019 with Local Authority representatives to gather feedback on the CPOP too, where participants shared that they found that it was a really easy way to understand inequality within their CPP. Nick Cassidy told us: "We're using the method developed by Gwilym and Meng Le to look at inequality for each outcome area (e.g. educational attainment or crime), and so it lets us identify the areas where, although there have been improving outcomes across the CPP, there is still growing inequality. That is a really effective way to challenge them and think about whether their performance is as good it looks otherwise. The inequality indicators are also really useful because they look at everyone across the whole CPP, rather than deprived/non-deprived areas. For example, in West Lothian, who are in the process of refreshing their Local Outcome Improvement Plan, this was really helpful, as inequality between geographical areas looks very low there, but actually we can see from the Duncan Index measure that inequality in terms of experience of poorer outcomes is relatively high for some outcomes. So that really challenged their thinking about inequality in their area." Carl Bennett, Research and Information Officer at Moray Council explained how the CPOP tool is helping them to address inequalities within their Local Authority area: "The CPOP tool was used as one of the means of identifying the most vulnerable areas in Moray so that we could focus the activities of our Community Support Team, and community partners in the two localities most in need of support. As a direct result of using the tool, together with other data sources including the SIMD and NHS data, this allowed us to analyse and identify the two areas that are now being supported, Buckie Central East and New Elgin East. Both now have Locality Plans in place to tackle issues including reducing child poverty, improving educational attainment, and improving employment opportunities in better paid jobs. The CPOP tool is going to be particularly invaluable when we review the impact of these two locality plans, and the impact of the LOIP in the longer-term." The Improvement Service are also working closely with a couple of Community Planning Partnerships across Scotland who are interested in developing their own set of indicators, and the Improvement Service will be encouraging them to use the inequality measures analysis further in understanding their own area. Nick Cassidy advised that there has been interest in using the measures within the CPOP at a national level, with Audit Scotland having recently used them and a plan to develop these further in collaboration with other national partners including the Scottish Government and Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO). The measure was also taken up by Sheffield City Region following a series of meetings and presentations by Gwilym and Meng Le with potential for this to be integrated in to the SCR inclusive growth strategy. The research team led by Pryce were also invited to provide evidence to the Edinburgh Poverty Commission and present their new approach to the Economic Policy Team at Sheffield City Region (23rd July 2019). They were also invited by the Head of Research at Scottish Government to present their inequality measure to Scottish Government Statisticians (3rd Dec 2019). In 2023, the CPOP Tool is still being used and promoted by The Improvement Service in Scotland. It has become a core tool used by Local Authorities and other organisations in performance management and benchmarking to assess the lives of people in communities across Scotland. See https://www.improvementservice.org.uk/products-and-services/performance-management-and-benchmarking/community-planning-outcomes-profile (ii) Edinburgh Poverty Commission: Using evidence from Understanding Inequalities research In June 2019, we responded to the Edinburgh Poverty Commission (EPC) call for evidence around the theme of 'Prospects - what can be done to improve the life chances of people who are struggling to get by in Edinburgh?' Our submission focused on inequalities in exposure to risk of crime and victimisation, and in access to amenities and employment opportunities. Our submission can be accessed here: https://www.understanding-inequalities.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Understanding%20Inequalities%20Response%20to%20Edinburgh%20Poverty%20Commission%20Call%20for%20Evidence%2020.6.19.pdf Following this submission, Susan McVie, Gwilym Pryce, Meng Le Zhang and Fiona Barlow met with the chair of the Commission, Dr Jim McCormick and two commissioners, Zoe Ferguson and Chris Adams, to discuss the UI project contribution, and further opportunities to feed into the work of the commission. This has so far resulted in further UI papers being shared and a follow up discussion, with EPC keen to feed in key messages from the UI work around crime and policing as well as the research findings from the work around the Glasgow Housing Stock Transfer into their next phase of work which focuses on 'places'. By directly engaging with the EPC call for evidence, we anticipate achieving conceptual impact through the on-going contribution to the understanding of issues related to poverty in the city of Edinburgh. While not cited directly, our contribution to the work of the Edinburgh Poverty Commission was reflected in its final report 'A Just Capital: Actions to End Poverty in Edinburgh' published in September 2020 (20200930_EPC_FinalReport_AJustCapital.pdf (edinburghpovertycommission.org.uk). Our work is reflected specifically in relation to findings and recommendations around education and the attainment gap, experiences of children and families, youth contact with the criminal justice system, and housing policy. This also fed through into the Council Business Plan 2021-24 (https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/28919/our-future-council-our-future-city) and the End Poverty in Edinburgh Delivery Plan 2020-30 (https://democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/documents/s29287/Item%207.4%20-%20End%20Poverty%20in%20Edinburgh%20Delivery%20Plan%202020-30.pdf). (iii) Patterns of victimisation in Scotland: Influencing policies on repeat victimisation The UI project has continued to develop research on changing patterns of victimisation undertaken as part of our previous AQMeN research programme. In particular, we have investigated inequalities in the victimisation by analysing the profiles of those who benefited least from the crime drop in Scotland. Our findings were presented to the Scottish Government in a number of AQMeN and UI events. Our work was also cited in a government report on repeat violent victimisation published in April 2019 (Repeat Violent Victimisation: A Rapid Evidence Review), and in an SCCJR published report in September 2019 (Taking Stock of Violence in Scotland). Our work, which highlighted the increasing risk of violence amongst specific groups in the population, influenced the launch of a new study into repeat victims of violence announced by the Justice Secretary, Humza Yousaf, and fed into an £18m investment to improve support, advice and information for victims of crime during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our work continues to influence Scottish Government around victim policies, and has most recently been used to inform the development of the new Violence Prevention Framework which is due to be published in 2023. (iv) Understanding the attainment gap: Engaging with education practitioners, general public, charity and government officials in Scotland Tackling educational inequity is 'a central, defining priority' of the Scottish Government, in order that every child can succeed in school and gain the skills for life. In 2015, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon MSP staked her personal and professional reputation on closing the attainment gap and stated that she was prepared to be 'judged on this'. In 2015 the Scottish Government launched the Scottish Attainment Challenge to raise the attainment of children and young people living in deprived areas, and close the equity gap. A core element of our UI research has focused on educational challenges and how the attainment gap might be closed. In April 2019, a group of education practitioners and (non-) governmental researchers participated in a knowledge exchange event titled 'In Conversation with Professor Cristina Iannelli and Dr Adriana Duta: Understanding the Attainment Gap'. The presentation, based on our findings, was followed by round table discussions and open debate. The event aimed to disseminate our research to, and engage in conversation with practitioners, teachers, government representatives and other relevant stakeholders, with the purpose of identifying solutions to close the attainment gap. To further disseminate these findings, Duta, Iannelli and Fiori produced a blog as part of the UI blog series, titled Understanding the Attainment Gap' published on the Understanding Inequalities website in May 2019. Our research on understanding the attainment gap was also presented and informed roundtable debates at '20 years of devolution: how have inequalities in Glasgow changed?' during the ESRC Festival of Social Science in 2018. Work is ongoing to ensure this research will feed into the Government's Attainment Challenge. Our research 'Against all odds: A study of enabling factors in early childhood for cognitive outcomes' was presented at the Growing Up in Scotland Conference (2019). This was attended by several high-level officials from the Scottish Government, including the Minister for Children and Young People, the Head of Getting it Right for Every Child (Directorate for Children and Families), and the Head of Children and Families Analysis. The event was attended by over 100 participants from the general public and charity sector, many of whom disseminated key findings from our research via Twitter. Several also approached us via e-mail to inquire about using evidence from our research in their work (e.g. Parenting across Scotland, YWCA Scotland, and Toonspeak, a charity working with Children and Young People in North Glasgow). Two online public UI webinars in 2020 further informed the debate around social inequalities in education: 'What causes social inequality? How intersecting disadvantages shape lives' and 'Succeeding against the odds: which factors matter?' These webinars were attended by a large number of participants and included internationally renowned academic speakers alongside UI researchers and discussants from The Poverty Alliance, Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament, and representatives from SYP's Equalities and Human Rights Committee. Research informing the attainment gap was also presented at the Scottish Parliament during an UI knowledge exchange symposium in 2019 (see below), which was attended by key government and third sector representatives. Two pieces of research were presented and disseminated in the symposium report: 'The transition to primary school: How family background and childcare experiences influence children's' (Smyth &Duta) and 'Inequalities in achieving a university degree: Using a sibling design to disentangle the importance of individual and family factors' (Iannelli, Duta & Breen). Beyond the end of the grant funding, members of the UI team continue to be active in informing education and labour market policy based on UI research. In 2022, Cristina Iannelli presented to members of the Scottish Government on the effect of family of origin on social inequalities in occupational attainment. She highlighted that inequalities in entering higher education and occupational attainment are even larger when considering families (i.e. siblings) rather than individuals and showed evidence of the relative importance of parental social class and education. Findings from this, and other research, are also being fed into the Scottish Government Independent Review of Qualifications and Assessments by Iannelli and Duta through their membership of the Collaborative Community Group - Equalities and Social Justice. With other colleagues, Iannelli also coordinated a response to the 'National Improvement Framework: A Consultation on Enhanced Data Collection for Improvement' which was subsequently published on the Scottish Government website (see Advanced Quantitative Research in Education Hub's response). Another important UI contribution within this substantive area, which is expected to generate impact in coming years, is the study on the role of individual, family and neighbourhood factors on the attainment gap using new data linking education records to the children of the Scottish Longitudinal Study (COTS) members. This work started during the UI funding period and is continuing thanks to the award of an ESRC-Scottish Graduate School of Social Science Supervisor-led PhD studentship to Prof. Cristina Iannelli and Dr Adriana Duta. A PhD student, Peter Barlow, is currently working with the newly created dataset which is unique in the UK due to its large sibling sample and detailed geographical data. (v) Engaging with and feeding into international policy debates In March 2019, the UI teams held two international symposia (supported by an International Networking Grant from the ESRC). The first was held at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh and titled 'The impact of inequalities in the early years on outcomes over the life course: Using international evidence to identify creative policy solutions', and led by Susan McVie, Emer Smyth and Cristina Iannelli. This event brought together a group of UK and international academics and policy makers to discuss a range of evidence around the detrimental effect of economic, social, and environmental inequalities on children and young people, both in childhood and over their lifespan. Speakers included: Professor Carol Tannahill, Chief Social Policy Advisor to the Scottish Government; Professor Adam Gamoran, President of the William T. Grant Foundation and ex-advisor to Barak Obama; Professor Susan Morton, University of Auckland and Director of the Growing Up in New Zealend study; Dr Lauren Supplee, Deputy Chief Operating Officer for Child Trends in the US; Dr Leon Feinstein, Director of Evidence for Children's Commissioner for England and Wales; and Professor Yossi Shavit from Tel Aviv University and The Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel. The event was also attended by a wide range of policy makers and practitioners from the fields of education, policing, social work, youth justice and early learning from both public and third sector organisations. A report was published from the event, and has been used as a springboard to continue dialogue with policy makers around childhood inequalities and the Poverty Action Plan for Scotland. Since the event, we have had repeated contact with the Chief Social Policy Advisor to the Scottish Government and fed into debates around child poverty, universal credit, and youth justice in Scotland. In particular, we were involved in campaigning around an increase in the minimum age of criminal responsibility in Scotland from 8 to 12, which was achieved through the enactment of the Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Act 2019, and implementation of the Act in December 2021. We continue to be involved in campaigning for an increase in the ACR in Scotland; and we have also been involved in arguing for similar increases in ACR in Northern Ireland and Australia. The second symposium was organised by Gwilym Pryce and UI colleagues at Sheffield and Edinburgh and focused on 'Dynamics of Spatial Inequality: Processes, Outcomes & Solutions'. Held in Sheffield in 2019, this symposium brought together leading international experts to share the latest research and policy findings on the causes, consequences, and solutions to geographic inequalities. Speakers included: Kathrine O'Regan, Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research at the Department of Housing and Urban Development for the last three years of the Obama administration; Jonathan Guest, Senior Economic Policy Manager at Sheffield City Region; Miles Crompton, Policy and Partnership Officer at Rotherham Borough Council; Jamie Smith Business Analyst within the Business Change and Innovation department at South Yorkshire Police; and Vic Stirling, Head of Partnerships at South Yorkshire Housing Association. The symposium led to new policy and research links with South Yorkshire Policy, Institute for Public Policy Research, South Yorkshire Housing Association, Princeton University, and New York State University. The event also led to the development of a short documentary on spatial inequality based on interviews with the experts attending the event. (vi) Maternal employment and child wellbeing: Feeding evidence into policy and campaigning Francesca Fiori engaged with organisations including One Parent Families Scotland, Parenting Across Scotland, Child Poverty Action Group, Close the Gap, Save the Children and Action for Children in relation to her research into maternal employment and the wellbeing outcomes for children with lone mothers. In June 2020, the UI team organised an online event to share perspectives on the issue of lone mothers' employment and child wellbeing. Participants included representatives from Scottish Government, ScotCen Research and various third sector organizations (including Close the Gap, One Parent Families Scotland, Gingerbread Fife, Save the children, Poverty Alliance). A blog and a policy briefing was published summarising the main messages from the event. Several of the organisations have stated that the evidence supports their agendas around supporting families, and campaigning for policy coherence across social security, employability services and childcare provision to provide better outcomes for children and families in Scotland. (vii) Inequality in exposure to crime and monitoring police demand and implementation: engaging with UK-wide police forces We have engaged with police forces across the UK to provide research evidence on inequality in exposure to crime, and on the importance of people and place-based inequalities in the rise of non-crime demands being placed upon the police. Our research teams (led by Bannister, Pryce and McVie) have, collectively, secured access to datasets from Police Scotland, Greater Manchester Police, West Midlands Police, Thames Valley Police and South Yorkshire Police and are using these to develop bespoke pieces of research in partnership with policing colleagues, and develop three collaborative PhD studentships with these constabularies. This research has created a deeper understanding of the qualities and factors driving policing demand, helping police forces to understand how policing practice contributes to and can potentially reduce inequality, and being used to shape step changes in the capabilities and capacities of police forces to meet demand-based challenges. Our research on policing demands and responses, with specific reference to violent crime, mental ill-health, domestic abuse and missing persons, has contributed to operational and strategic changes within policing in Scotland and England, including the modification of recording practices, innovations in police training, the development of new risk assessment procedures and their application through novel software applications, and in the advance of evidence-informed interventions and partnership working. Our research has paved the way for long-lasting engagement such as appointment to the Evidence Based Policing Advisory Group for South Yorkshire Police and collaborative grant applications to Nuffield and the ESRC. Beyond the end of the grant funding, we continue to work with policing organisations around improving policy and practice through better use of data to understand inequalities, especially in relation to stop and search. Our engagement work around stop and search has already led to significant changes in the way that policing is conducted in Scotland, and our forthcoming paper on the impact of stop and search on crime rates will feed into further organisational reform around community policing and partnership working. We presented at an international policing conference in early 2023 on the impact of organisational reform and the introduction of a Code of Practice in Scotland (which Susan McVie was centrally involved in developing for the Scottish Government). Our continued work in this area demonstrates that legal reforms have improved equality in the policing of the public and communities across Scotland, giving confidence that reducing the number of searches conducted has resulted in both more effective and equitable policing practice. Further, the contribution we took to reforming policing practice in this specific area has been spreading out into other areas. (viii) Informing policy and legislation around collecting data on sex and gender Members of the UI team have been extremely active in providing evidence to inform the development of the Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill and wider policy around sex and gender, including the development of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill, in Scotland. Members of the research team (Murray and McVie) presented oral and written evidence to the Culture, Tourism and External Affairs Committee of the Scottish Parliament which considered a major change to the sex question in the next census. In 2018 the Scottish Government proposed that the census should no longer ask whether people are male or female: but instead should ask whether a person identifies as male or, female, thereby conflating sex and gender identity in the same question. This moved away from the long-standing binary definition of sex as used in law (notably in the Equality Act 2010), which reflects biological and/or legal sex, to also ask about self-identified gender identity. We argued strenuously that distinct and clearly defined questions on both sex and gender identity were needed to: produce data that is suitable for planning and policy purposes by local and national governments: ensure consistency between the sex question and the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the protected characteristic of sex: and allow researchers to identify and highlight separate and overlapping inequalities on the basis of sex and gender identity. This is a highly charged political issue which is fundamentally about the relevance of biological sex and gender identity respectively to people's lives. While this has often played out on social media, we have also been very active in dialogue with a range of stakeholder groups. Murray and McVie met with stakeholders, including the National Records of Scotland, the Chief Statistician, and the Office for National Statistics, and we raised this issue at national forums such as the ADR UK Conference in 2019. As part of the MBM Collaborative, Murray has written extensively in this area, including several peer reviewed publications. Our evidence has been heavily cited by the media and in parliamentary debates on this topic. Following a successful appeal to the High Court by campaign group Fair Play for Women to have the Census Guidance for England and Wales explicitly define sex in accordance with legal status in 2021, a similar appeal was launched to the Scottish Inner Court of Session to have the Census Guidance amended in the same way in 2022. Evidence from the Understanding Inequalities team was led in court. Unfortunately, the appeal was rejected and the Census Guidance launched by the Scottish Government has allowed for self-identification. This is extremely disappointing, as it will make it extremely difficult to measure sex-based inequalities in the future, including those that impact on the trans community, using Scottish data. It also sets a precedent for all public sector organisations to collect information on sex using self-identification. Further developments in this area resulted in the Gender Recognition Reform Bill being blocked by the UK Parliament in 2022, and we have been involved in influencing the wider debate in this area as developments unfold. This is still very much a live issue; however, we continue to support the campaign for sex and gender to be measured as separate entities in order that inequalities across both aspects of social life can be properly researched and understood. (ix) Estimating the impact of immigration on local employment: Influencing debate and policy around immigration Our pioneering estimates of the local impacts of immigration published in Urban Studies sparked extensive interest on social media, achieving an Almetric Score of 86, placing the article in the top 5% of all outputs scored by Altmetric, and in the top 1% of all Altmetric scores received in Urban Studies. The article has had over 18,000 downloads, making it the most downloaded article in the history of the journal, one of the world's leading academic periodicals in this field. A short video summarizing the findings released by the University of Sheffield attracted over 8,600 viewers. We also published a blog in The Conversation which attracted over 14,000 readers from across the world and over 60 comments. The research was also picked up by various news outlets, including an article in national press including The Independent. This has led to ongoing discussions with economists at DWP who contacted us to explore the implications of the research for employment and benefits post-Brexit. We hope to work in collaboration with the DWP and with the ONS in developing an ESRC proposal to extend the application of the model to the rest of the UK, and subsequently to update the results when the 2021 Census becomes available. Our findings have important implications for post-Brexit immigration policy and for regional economic policy. Our approach opens up a new avenue of inquiry into sub-national variations in the impacts of immigration on employment and this raises the possibility of identifying regional variations in how immigration affects jobs. We may finally be able to confirm whether or not the concerns about immigration in some of the poorest areas of the UK have any basis in fact. Moreover, being able to estimate the regional and sub-regional impacts of immigration, and changes to immigration policy, is a potentially important contribution to the policy making of newly devolved regional governments in the UK such as Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, and Glasgow City Regions. If some areas are shown to have lost out due to migration while other areas have made huge gains, it would highlight the case for redistributing the spoils of globalisation between regions. (x) Examining inequalities in justice inequalities as a result of Covid-19: Influencing policing strategies and political decision making Our analysis of the temporal, spatial and demographic patterning of police interventions during the course of the lockdown demonstrated both variations and similarities in practice. Using a unique dataset constructed by Police Scotland, we conducted analyses of the Fixed Penalty Notices (FPN) issued in response to breaches of the Regulations introduced to contain the spread of the Coronavirus. Our research demonstrated considerable inequalities in relation to the issue of police enforcement by age, sex, country of birth, prior criminal record, and neighbourhood deprivation during the first lockdown (McVie, 2021; McVie and Matthews, 2021). However, it also showed that age inequalities increased over time, while sex and deprivation inequalities reduced (Gorton, Matthews, McVie and Murray 2022). It is clear that a shift in patterns of compliance across the population during the course of the pandemic created challenges for the police in terms of enforcing regulations that were becoming increasingly unpalatable to wider (usually law abiding) swathes of the population. This research has highlighted that, in addition to health and economic inequalities, the Covid-19 pandemic created justice inequalities in terms of those who were subject to enforcement (although that, in itself, does not necessarily demonstrate policing discrimination). Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority have publicly highlighted the value of our data analysis and linkage in scrutinising policing during the pandemic, and the Scottish Government's Justice Board is keen to explore the potential for further justice data sharing and linkage. Our work was influential in shaping the development of policing practice during the pandemic, especially during periods of tightened restrictions and lockdown. We are continuing to work on this, anticipate that it will be influential in informing future political decision making about how to manage a national lockdown without unduly penalising vulnerable and deprived members of society. Commissioned to do similar work in England and Wales by the National Police Chiefs' Council, we demonstrated further inequalities in relation to policing of the pandemic across all police force areas (McVie, Murray, Gorton and Matthews 2023). This included differences by sex and age, and significant disproportionality of policing by ethnic group and social deprivation. Our work has provided the most comprehensive picture of policing across the UK during the pandemic, and has been fed in to both the Scottish and UK Covid-19 Inquiries. (xi) Crime data comic and worksheets: engaging with Modern Studies teachers and pupils in Scotland Working in partnership with graphic artist Miranda Smith, we used findings from our research to create a data comic telling the story crime in Scotland and the contribution of young people to the crime drop. The Understanding Inequalities team piloted the data comic with pupils from several Scottish secondary schools and identified it as being of use for pupils in the senior phase of secondary education (S4 to S6). The data comic was shared with the Modern Studies Association (Association for Modern Studies teachers in Scotland) and it was presented through the online stalls at the Modern Studies Association (MSA) conference on 7th November 2020 which 140 teachers attended. The data comic now exists as a permanent resource on the MSA website. In addition, we worked with the MSA to adapt the data comic and co-produce a series of worksheets for pupils in the junior phase of education (S1 to S3). The worksheets were shared with teachers across all Scottish schools for use as an electronic resource suitable for 'home-schooling' during the COVID-19 pandemic.
First Year Of Impact	2018
Sector	Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice
Impact Types	Societal,Policy & public services

Description	Advisory Group meetings for Nuffield-funded project on the implementation of the Curriculum for Excellence
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee

Description	Citation of research (Cristina Iannelli and Emer Smyth) in OECD report (2021) Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence: Into the Future
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
Impact	Research published by Profs Cristina Iannelli and Emer Smyth on inequalities in higher education entry in Ireland and Scotland was cited in the OECD report (2021) Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence: Into the Future. The reference to their work focused on the key finding from the study which showed that social inequalities in HE entry were explained to a greater extent by subject choice in Scotland than in Ireland. In particular, the report highlights the authors' conclusions that flexibility in curriculum choices in Scotland may have the unintended consequence of disadvantaging students from lower social backgrounds in the long run and this may hinder policy efforts to reduce inequalities. This report improved Scottish policymakers' understanding and knowledge of the role of curriculum choice in perpetuating inequalities in young people's education outcomes and informed their developments in relation to the Curriculum for Excellence implementation in the senior phase.
URL	https://www.oecd.org/education/scotland-s-curriculum-for-excellence-bf624417-en.htm

Description	Contribution of evidence to the Edinburgh Poverty Commission - June 2019
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL	https://consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/bi/edinburgh-poverty-commission-phase-two-call-for-ev/

Description	Expert academic advisor to the Greater London Violence Reduction Unit
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	Provision of evidence-informed strategies to address and reduce violence.
URL	Http://London.gov.uk/content/londons-violence-reduction-unit

Description	Gave evidence to a parliamentary review - S McVie - Evidence to the Scottish Parliament Justice Committee - Policing Subcommittee - Policing of the pandemic
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL	https://www.parliament.scot/S5_JusticeSubCommitteeOnPolicing/Minutes/20201123_Minutes.pdf

Description	J Bannister - MMU/BDC contribution to Police Effectiveness, Efficiency & Legitimacy (PEEL) Review - May 2019
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL	https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/wp-content/uploads/peel-assessment-2018-19-greater-m...

Description	J Bannister - MMU/BDC work with VRU cited in Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) Serious Violence Action Plan - report Sept 2019
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit has appointed MMU as an academic research, implementation and evaluation partner. "In July 2019, Manchester Metropolitan University Crime & Well-Being Big Data Centre used artificial intelligence and advanced analytical methods to produce potentially the most sophisticated and therefore most accurate analysis of a region's knife crime problem anywhere in the UK. The report identifies key markers for why GMP's knife crime reporting trends began to diverge from the national trend in 2016 and provides assurance that the changes to knife crime recording made in December 2017 are valid and have led to more accurate and reliable recording."
URL	https://democracy.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/documents/s2052/8.%20Police%20and%20crime%20panel%20se...

Description	M Ellison & J Bannister - contribution to GMP response to Home Office consultation on Knife-enabled Crime - Jan 2020
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review

Description	Membership of the Independent Advisory Group on Police Use of the Temporary Powers under the Coronavirus Regulations in Scotland.
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL	https://www.spa.police.uk/strategy-performance/independent-advisory-group-coronavirus-powers/

Description	Membership of the Ministry of Justice Data First Academic Advisory Group
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL	https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ministry-of-justice-data-first

Description	S McVie & L McAra - Meeting with Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP regarding the Age of Criminal Responsibility -15.8.19
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Invited to meet with MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton in the wake of the decision to increase the ACR to 12 in Scotland. Asked to be involved in further meetings and discussions around raising the ACR even further. Awaiting further contact from ACH.

Description	S McVie - Board of Official Statistics in Scotland Meeting
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	Member of the BOSS. Contributed evidence to the group around changes to data collection as a result of definitions of age and sex. Stressed the importance of this as an issue impacting on data quality in Scotland. Contributed to the involvement of Chief Statistician, Roger Halliday, in developing a new group to consider data, sex and gender issues.

Description	S McVie - Meeting with the Police Scotland Age of Criminal Responsibility Policy Team
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	Invited to be meet with the team from Police Scotland developing policy and practice around the 2018 Age of Criminal Responsibility Bill, in relation to how to deal with children committing offences under the age of 12. Discussed findings from the Edinburgh Study, AQMeN and UI project on crime and justice issues concerning children and young people's involvement with the police. Asked to participate in a Multi-Agency Ethics Panel in August 2019.

Description	S McVie - Participation in a roundtable discussion on local policing at the Scottish Parliament, invited by Daniel Johnson MSP - 1.3.19
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee

Description	S McVie - Police Scotland National Alcohol, Drugs and Other Substance Use Violence Group Meeting - 30.4.19
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee

Description	S McVie - SCOTSTAT Crime and Justice Committee Meeting 3.9.19
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Membership of a guideline committee
Impact	Member of this group. Invited to give an update on UI research on inequality. Interesting debate on the use of crime data to measure inequality, especially around violence. Asked to report further at the next meeting of the group.

Description	S McVie - UI organised a consultation event on Police Crime Recording in Scotland, in collaboration with Scottish Government. 6.11.19
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL	http://bit.ly/2QZ0hpa

Description	S McVie - oral evidence submission to Parliament on a Bill for an Act of the Scottish Parliament to amend the Census Act 1920 to enable particulars about gender identity and sexual orientation to be gathered voluntarily
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/Bills/109595.aspx

Description	S McVie - participated in a Scottish Government and Police Scotland workshop on reporting official crime statistics 11.9.19
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review

Description	S McVie - participation in a Scottish POlice Authority roundtable on 'Bridging the gap between research evidence and police action' - 29.11.19
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	Workshop involved participants fromthe SPA, Police Scotland, HMICS, Scottish Government and a range of academic and third sector organisations. Contributed to the debate and discussion around better use of police data for research to investigate inequalities. Invited to speak at the next roundtable event in February 2020.

Description	S McVie - participation in advisory panel - Age of Criminal Responsibility Bill Multi-Agency Extraordinary Ethics Panel event
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee

Description	S McVie - written evidence submission to the Scottish Parliament Equalities and Human Rights Committee on the minimum age of criminal responsibility bill - September 2018
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL	http://www.parliament.scot/General%20Documents/SMCVieSuppEvidencedoc.pdf.docx

Description	SM, GP & MLZ - Follow up meeting - Expert contribution to Ed Poverty Commission SM, GP and MLZ met with Edinburgh Poverty Commission .
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL	http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/povertycommission

Description	Scottish Government Academic Reference Group - A Research Strategy for Scottish Education
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	Prof Iannelli has been involved in discussing evidence gaps and challenges with Scottish Government representatives, and involved in identifying opportunities and priorities for educational research in Scotland with the ultimate goal of improving government decision-making. This has contributed to educational reform, including the establishment of new bodies for governing education in Scotland as recently announced by the First Minister.
URL	https://www.gov.scot/publications/research-strategy-scottish-education/

Description	Scottish Police Authority Independent Advisory Group on Police Use of the Temporary Powers under the Coronavirus Regulations - Susan McVie
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	This work is ongoing in terms of public and policy impact; however, Susan's work has already had a direct impact in terms of changing the delivering of policing practices and focusing on engagement with the public during the pandemic. It has also led to greater cooperative working between partner agencies in an effort to reduce societal problems that lead to non-compliance and, therefore, reduce the need to rely on police use of enforcement. The work has had a profound impact on discussions about the use of data within Police Scotland, and the need for more evidence-based research to support policy and operational policing. The work of Susan McVie was discussed at numerous Scottish Police Authority Board meetings, with a specific emphasis on the data analysis (one example from the August 2021 meeting is provided below).
URL	https://www.spa.police.uk/spa-media/1sqimlkv/rep-b-20210823-item-8-1-report-of-the-independent-advis...

Description	Scottish Police Authority Steering Group on Public Confidence and Deparivation - Susan McVie
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	On the basis of our report, and other evidence that they were collating around public confidence, the SPA decided to establish a Public Confidence Governance Board and to create a specific steering group to develop work around public confidence and deprivation to review different strategies for improving public confidence, especially amongst those living in the most deprived communities. Susan McVie was appointed to the steering group, which meets quarterly. Susan provides research-based advice based on findings from the UI project. To date, the advice provided has led to: the development of a strategy to select a series of pilot areas in Scotland for in-depth work to improve public confidence in policing. This work is ongoing.
URL	https://www.spa.police.uk/spa-media/5nihtjpl/25-june-ps-appendix-a.pdf

Description	CDT Data Analytics & Society studentship, Inequalities in Access to Green Space
Amount	£89,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start

Description	CDT Data Analytics & Society studentship, Road Accident Risk and Social Deprivation
Amount	£89,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start

Description	CDT Data Analytics & Society studentship, Social Frontiers in Residential Segregation: A Data Analytics Approach
Amount	£89,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start

Description	CDT Data Analytics & Society studentship, Spatial Dynamics of Hate Crime
Amount	£89,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start

Description	CDT Data Analytics & Society studentship, Tackling Homelessness in the UK: A Data Analytics Approach
Amount	£89,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start

Description	Centre for Care
Amount	£8,219,677 (GBP)
Funding ID	ES/W002302/1
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	11/2021
End	10/2026

Description	College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Knowledge Exchange and Impact Grant
Amount	£5,000 (GBP)
Organisation	University of Edinburgh
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	05/2019

Description	Disentangling the importance of individual, family and neighbourhood factors on educational outcomes using sibling data
Amount	£67,830 (GBP)
Organisation	Scottish Graduate School for Social Sciences
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2021
End	08/2024

Description	ESRC International Collaboration grant
Amount	£26,756 (GBP)
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2018
End	03/2019

Description	Estimating the effect of crime (maps) on house prices using a natural experiment
Amount	£10,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	SRG21\210192
Organisation	The British Academy
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2021
End	07/2023

Description	Ethnic Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System
Amount	£103,629 (GBP)
Funding ID	ES/V015613/1
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	04/2021
End	05/2022

Description	Inequalities in Science Education: Using PISA data to investigate the role of family and school factors
Amount	£67,830 (GBP)
Organisation	Scottish Graduate School for Social Sciences
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2021
End	08/2024

Description	Life at the frontier: The impact of social frontiers on the social mobility and integration of migrants
Amount	£1,000,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	06/2020
End	05/2023

Description	Operational Analytics, Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit (Phase 3)
Amount	£105,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Greater Manchester Police
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	11/2021
End	07/2023

Description	Policing The Pandemic: The Role Of Enforcement In Securing Compliance With The Coronavirus Regulations
Amount	£355,022 (GBP)
Funding ID	ES/W001845/1
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2021
End	09/2022

Description	Policing the Pandemic: The Role of Enforcement in Securing Compliance with the Coronavirus Regulations
Amount	£440,000 (GBP)
Organisation	United Kingdom Research and Innovation
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2020
End	08/2022

Description	RESEARCH RE-BOOT (COVID-19 IMPACT) RESEARCH GRANTS
Amount	£6,553 (GBP)
Funding ID	1054
Organisation	Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE)
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	04/2021
End	10/2021

Description	Research Fellowship: "Racial differences in the school-to-work transition: exploring the long-term implications"
Amount	£51,903 (GBP)
Organisation	The Leverhulme Trust
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	10/2020
End	04/2022

Description	Secondary Datasets PhD Studentship on the relationship between social and health inequalities and death following imprisonment
Amount	£80,344 (GBP)
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2019
End	08/2023

Description	The Edinburgh Study: causes and impacts of criminal justice pathways
Amount	£299,381 (GBP)
Organisation	Nuffield Foundation
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	07/2019
End	06/2021

Description	The NILS Small Grants Scheme 2019
Amount	£4,810 (GBP)
Organisation	Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study (NILS)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2020

Description	Violent Crime Hotspot Randomised Control Trial for Greater Manchester Police
Amount	£100,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Greater Manchester Police
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	11/2021
End	07/2023

Title	'Akmedoids' R package
Description	UI researchers Monsuru Adepeju and Jon Bannister, together with their MMU colleague Sam Langton developed this R Package to support a novel theoretically informed longitudinal clustering technique
Type Of Material	Improvements to research infrastructure
Year Produced	2019
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	n/a
URL	http://www.understanding-inequalities.ac.uk/developing-the-%E2%80%98akmedoids%E2%80%99-statistical-p...

Title	'Opitools': An R-Package for Analyzing Opinions in a Text Document
Description	This tool analyzes the opinions inherent in a text document relating to a specific subject (A), and assesses the impacts that opinion expressed with respect to another subject (B) have on subject A. This package is specifically designed for application to social media datasets, such as Twitter and Facebook.
Type Of Material	Improvements to research infrastructure
Year Produced	2021
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	The utility of the package has been demonstrated in Adepeju and Jimoh (2021) in the assessment of impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on public opinions concerning neighbourhood policing across England and Wales.
URL	https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/opitools/index.html

Title	ML Zhang and G Pryce - Provided data and R code to Improvement Service to execute our index of relative inequality 28.9.18
Description	As part of the continuing exchange between the improvement service: we have given the IS data and R code to execute our index of relative inequality.
Type Of Material	Improvements to research infrastructure
Year Produced	2018
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Quote from Rachel McGuire, Senior Analyst - Performance Management & Benchmarking at Improvement Service. "We have used Meng Le's Duncan Index methodology to create in the 'inequality over time' tab, and specifically the 'inequality across communities' graphs. We were looking for a way of understanding inequality across the whole of the local authority and how that changes over time, and Meng Le's work and support to calculate the Duncan Index has allowed us to do that. It allows us to see if inequality is getting better or worse across a range of indicators at a local authority level and at a Scotland level. We really appreciate Meng Le's support, as he provided the underlying code for the calculations as well."
URL	https://scotland.shinyapps.io/is-community-planning-outcomes-profile/

Title	Production of a new R Package version of Akmedoids
Description	Building on earlier work to create a new R Package - Akmedoids - to analyse anchored Kmedoids for Longitudinal Data Clustering, members of the UI team (M Adepeju, S Langton, and J Bannister) have published a new R package version 1.3.0. This work advances a novel adaptation of longitudinal k-means clustering technique for grouping trajectories based on the similarities of their long-term trends and determines the optimal solution based on either the average silhouette width. Includes functions to extract descriptive statistics and generate a visualisation of the resulting groups, drawing methods from the 'ggplot2' library. The package also includes a number of other useful functions for exploring and manipulating longitudinal data prior to the clustering process. The new package was made available to R users via CRAN on 13th April 2021.
Type Of Material	Improvements to research infrastructure
Year Produced	2021
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	The technique has been used to analyse 15-years worth of police-recorded crime data from Birmingham, England, and the akmedoids package provides greater insight than alternative packages. The package is being used to demonstrate the value to law enforcement agencies in terms of offering an effective and equitable service to the public. Work is currently ongoing with Greater Manchester and West Midlands police forces.
URL	https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=akmedoids

Title	Gwilym Pryce and Meng Le Zhang - 3D data visualisation models developed for Glasgow City Council
Description	These were developed as a tool for visualising data We created 3D scultpture of educational inequality in Glasgow. Developed for Michele McClung in the education service in Glasgow city council; the sculptures were used for internal demonstrations to policy makers in Glasgow city council.
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2018
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	These are a useful tool for visualising data and have enabled us to strengthen relationships with stakeholders by collaborating on these outputs with them.

Description	Social Analytics Lab, Brisbane, Australia
Organisation	Griffith University
Country	Australia
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	As a result of additional ESRC funding for 'international collaboration', a team of four researchers from the UI project visited Griffiths University in Brisbane and conducted research using linked administrative data held by the Social Analytics Lab. This included analysis of the Queensland Data Linkage project to conduct research on youth justice inequalities; and analysis of the Queensland Police Service data to examine differential patterns of violent and property crime across different Queensland communities. This research has been used to develop comparative analysis of Scotland, the wider UK and Australia in relation to policing demand and productivity, and in relation to the impact of early system contact on adult criminal conviction trajectories. Papers are currently in progress using these data. In addition, the ESRC funding was used to bring international scholars (including colleagues from Queensland) over to Scotland to participate in a symposium on the impact of inequality in childhood on outcomes over the life-course. This symposium brought together academics, policy makers and practitioners from the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand and Israel to discuss cutting edge research on childhood inequalities, and was hosted at the Scottish Parliament with an audience of senior policy makers.
Collaborator Contribution	Griffiths University partially funded the collaboration by supporting travel and accommodation for two of the UI researchers. They are also providing intellectual support to the project and will be involved in collaborating on the published papers as a result of the research. Members of the Griffiths University academic team also attended an international symposium in Edinburgh, presenting evidence to policy makers and practitioners on the topic of justice inequality and adverse childhood experiences. There will be further to report on this collaboration over the coming year.
Impact	There was an international symposium on childhood inequality and adversity held at the Scottish Parliament on 11th March 2019 that involved presenting a series of papers from around the world based on cutting edge research on childhood inequalities from around the world. A summary report of the symposium was published in June 2019. Academic papers are currently in preparation.
Start Year	2018

Description	A Duta - Longitudinal data across the life course: an introduction to using cohort data
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Workshop organised by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (UCL) and held at the University of Edinburgh. The purpose of this presentation was to promote UI research and showcase the use of Millennium Cohort Study data based on work with Emer Smyth on: "The transition to primary school: how family background and childcare experiences influence children's skills on school entry."
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	A Duta - Presentation 'Against All Odds: A Study of Enabling Factors in Early Childhood for Non-Cognitive and Cognitive Outcomes' - the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Annual International Conference 2018 (Milan, Italy)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	A Duta presented this paper, co-authored by C Iannelli, to an academic audience at the he Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Annual International Conference 2018 in Milan on 9-11th November 2018. To promote UI research and receive feedback by discussing preliminary results with an international academic audience specialised in quantitative longitudinal research. To revise the analysis and incorporate the received feedback.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	A Duta - Presentation at the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Annual International Conference 2019 - October 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presentation at the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Annual International Conference 2019 (Potsdam, Germany) 'The Transition to Primary School: How Family Background and Childcare Experiences Influence Children's Skills on School Entry' , regular session, co-author: Prof. Emer Smyth. This activity involved promotion of UI research and receive feedback by discussing preliminary results with an international academic audience specialised in quantitative longitudinal research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	A Duta - Research seminar, Population and Health Research Group at the University of St Andrews 9.03.2021
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presentation research 'Social inequalities in educational and occupational outcomes in Scotland: evidence using sibling data'. Research seminar Population and Health Research Group University of St Andrews.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://populationandhealth.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/seminars/

Description	A Duta - Scottish Educational Research Association Annual Conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presenting two papers: (1) Against all odds: A study of enabling factors in early childhood for non-cognitive and cognitive outcomes (Co-author: Cristina Iannelli) ; (2) The transition to primary education in Ireland and Scotland: the role of family background and preschool experiences (Co-author: Emer Smyth)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	A Duta - Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Annual International Conference 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	A Duta presented a paper: Against All Odds: A Study of Enabling Factors in Early Childhood for Non-Cognitive and Cognitive Outcomes (Co-author: Cristina Iannelli)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	A Duta - presentation at GUS Annual Conference 'Against All Odds: A Study of Enabling Factors in Early Childhood for Cognitive Outcomes' October 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	To promote UI research and receive feedback by discussing preliminary results with a mixed audience of policy officers, practitioners, academics and general public.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	A Duta -Presentation at the Scottish Educational Research Association - 21.11.18
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presentation at the Scottish Educational Research Association (Glasgow, UK) 'Against all odds: A study of enabling factors in early childhood for non-cognitive and cognitive outcomes' (Co-author: Cristina Iannelli) To promote UI research and receive feedback by discussing preliminary results with a national academic and practitioner audience specialised in Scottish education.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	A Duta Presentation - 'The transition to primary education in Ireland and Scotland: the role of family background and preschool experiences' - 23.11.18
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	A Duta presented this paper, co-authored with Emer Smyth, at the Scottish Educational Research Association (Glasgow, UK). The purpose was to promote UI research and receive feedback by discussing preliminary results with a national academic and practitioner audience specialised in Scottish education.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	A Duta Presentation at the International Sociological Association Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presentation at the International Sociological Association Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility - Spring Meeting: 'Inequalities in achieving a university degree: using a sibling design to disentangle the importance of individual and family factors' (Co-authors: Cristina Iannelli and Richard Breen)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	A Duta and C Iannelli participation in City of Edinburgh Council Virtual Round Table on Covid-19 economic recovery (barriers to work)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Disseminating research from Understanding Inequalities RQ 4&5 and past research to policy experts and practitioners at the City of Edinburgh Council Virtual Round Table on Covid-19 economic recovery (barriers to work) with the purpose of expanding the 'Edinburgh Guarantee' (scheme funded by the City of Edinburgh Council). Around 20 participants from City of Edinburgh Council & Service Delivery Partners; University of Edinburgh; University of Glasgow. The purpose was to discuss the potential collaboration in evaluating of the 'Edinburgh Guarantee' scheme. The outcome was that A Duta and C Iannelli shaped the design of the 'Edinburgh Guarantee' scheme.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	Adepeju, Bannister, Langton - panel at ESC 2019 - Space, Place and Crime Working Group
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	To foster the worldwide participation of criminological scholars in our ongoing international collaborative research on shifting inequalities in the exposure to crime at the micro spatial levels.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Adriana Duta, Cristina Iannelli and Francesca Fiori - Understanding the Attainment Gap blog - May 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Adriana Duta, Cristina Iannelli and Francesca Fiori co-wrote this blog following up from the In Conversation With event at Moray House School of Education in April. The aim of the blog was to raise awareness about the attainment gap, promote the main messages based on research and highlight potential solutions suggested by the participants at the MH event.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.understanding-inequalities.ac.uk/project-blog/understanding-the-attainment-gap

Description	Age of Criminal Responsibility Data and Research Group (Susan McVie)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Prof Susan McVie was invited to join the Age of Criminal Responsibility (ACR) Data and Research Group, which is reviewing the evidence around a potential increase in ACR to beyond 12 (which was increased in 2019 as a result of Prof McVie's research). Prof McVie's role has been to provide data, research and expertise with regards to measuring and monitoring patterns of offending at different ages. The work will be used to present a case for increasing the ACR in Scotland to 14 or beyond, in line with UNCRC guidelines, to the ACR Advisory Group which will prepare the case to Ministers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021,2022,2023
URL	https://www.gov.scot/groups/age-of-criminal-responsibility-advisory-group/

Description	B Matthews & S McVie - Blog - Developing a cross-national research agenda on crime and convictions: When will we catch up with our Scandinavian neighbours? Sept 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Matthews and McVie co-wrote this UI blog following a trip to Stockholm to discuss data access with colleagues there. SCADR were also involved in this visit and related work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.understanding-inequalities.ac.uk/project-blog/developing-a-cross-national-research-agend...

Description	B Matthews & S McVie - Guest blog for Howard League Scotland on "Imprisonment and Inequality" - 18.9.18
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited blog post as part of HLS's Critical Issues in Scottish Penal Policy series; advertise work in RQ6
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://www.understanding-inequalities.ac.uk/project-blog/guest-blog-critical-issues-in-scottish-pena...

Description	B Matthews - Presentation at Scottish Prison Service seminar series - December 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Ben Matthews presented on 'Geographic variation in the relationship between deprivation and imprisonment in Scotland'. Sharing and promoting key findings from UI research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	B Matthews - Presentation to staff and students at University of Exeter Q-Step methods series
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Staff and students at the University of Exter attended Ben Matthews' event 'Understanding the relationships between risk factors, intersectional identities and criminal career trajectories: A multilevel approach'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://benmatthewsed.github.io/qstep-nov-2020-exeter/#1

Description	B Matthews - UI Blog: What's driving Scotland's falling conviction rate? 14.8.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Ben co-wrote this blog with Josiah King (RA with SCADR)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	http://www.understanding-inequalities.ac.uk/project-blog/what's-driving-scotland's-falling-reconvict...

Description	B Matthews - presentation - Geographic variation in the relationship between deprivation and imprisonment in Scotland
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Ben gave this presentation at 'Perspectives from the Edges of Exclusion and Punishment' early career academic network event. This session offered the opportunity for feedback on this work-in-progress paper.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.sccjr.ac.uk/news-events/events/peep-perspectives-from-the-edges-of-exclusion-and-punishm...

Description	B Matthews - presentation at 19th annual conference of European Society of Criminology, September 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Ben Matthews presented on 'Understanding how intersectional advantage and disadvantage affects criminal career trajectories: A multilevel approach' to promote key findings from UI research programme.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	B Matthews - presentation at Edinburgh University Q Step seminar series
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Ben presented "Two countries, lots of models and one secret weapon: Two applications of the "many models" workflow". The purpose of this was to raise awareness of UI in Edinburgh quantitative social science community and present on methodological aspects of work in RQ6.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	http://bit.ly/2MrWajY

Description	B Matthews, S McVie, J Bannister - - Workshop at Griffith University Criminology Insitute on Understanding Crime Inequalities 15.2.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Policy networking event as part of ESRC International Collaboration grant. We presented research-in-progress from UI research areas on crime and criminal justice to a mixed audience of academics from Griffith University (Australia) and Simon Fraser University (Canada), Queensland Correctional Services and Queensland Treasury. UI presentations were followed by round-table discussion. This activity led to further discussion about potential collaborations. We shared analytical code used to analyse the Scottish Offenders Index with representatives from Queensland Treasury to allow them to conduct comparable analysis of their own data.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	BBC Radio 4 Interview - Death of a Headmaster - Jon Bannister
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Jon Bannister took part in an interview on BBC Radio 4, presented by Edward Adoo, reflecting on the death and legacy of Philip Lawrence, the Headmaster killed during a knife attack outside the gates of his school in London.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000q3r0

Description	Babak Jahanshahi - Presentation at 19th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, September 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Babak Jahanshahi presented on 'The relationship between search rates and crime rates in Scotland and the introduction of the code of practice.'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	C Iannelli & A Duta - presentation 'Understanding the attainment gap' at Moray House 'In conversation with' event April 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation to education practitioners and (non-) governmental researchers during the knowledge exchange event 'In Conversation with Professor Cristina Iannelli and Dr Adriana Duta: Understanding the Attainment Gap'. The presentation was followed by round table discussions and open debate. The purpose was to disseminate UI research among practitioners and engage in conversation with (head)teachers and (non-) governmental representatives with the purpose of identifying solutions to close the attainment gap.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	C Iannelli - Contributed to a roundtable discussion on Pupil Equity Funding (PEF) organised by the Royal Society of Edinburgh - 22.6.18
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	To develop an understanding of how PEF is being used to support the NIF priorities; to Help inform the plans for evaluating the PEF; and consider the connections between the PEF and the Education Research Strategy; and to discuss the contribution that the education research community can make. A synopsis of the discussion was produced and circulated to participants (including SG representatives).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	C Iannelli - Keynote presentation at Scottish Government Statisticians event - 7.12.18
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Presentation to SG statisticians about the use of quantitative data to analyse inequalities in education and subsequent labour market outcomes based on AQMeN and UI examples of research. CI's slides were subsequently circulated among the participants.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	C Iannelli - Meeting of the Scottish Government Academic Reference Group - 'A Research Strategy for Scottish Education' - 1.11.18
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	During this meeting a summary of the research conducted by the RQ4 and RQ5 teams was presented. The purpose was to identify and discuss evidence gaps and challenges, opportunities and priorities for educational research in Scotland going forward A written summary of the research conducted by the RQ4 and RQ5 teams was submitted to the SG organisers of the meeting and circulated among the participants in the meeting.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	C Iannelli - Meeting of the Scottish Government Academic Reference Group - A Research Strategy for Scottish Education. 11.4.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	The aim of this meeting was to identify and discuss evidence gaps and challenges, opportunities and priorities for educational research in Scotland going forward. During the meeting, Cristina Iannelli discussed new data linkages related to the PISA data with SG representatives Following the meeting, Cristina Iannelli submitted a draft research proposal (in collaboration with Lindsay Paterson and Adam Gamoran) to the Scottish Government.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	C Iannelli - Meeting with UNICEF and Scottish Government reps 29.4.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	To develop a research agenda focused on child poverty as part of the UNICEF Data for Children Hub. First research ideas were shared and further meetings were agreed.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	C Iannelli - Meetings of the Research Advisory Group for Headteacher Survey on the senior phase of the Curriculum for Excellence
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	CI was approached to provide expert advice on the design and content of the survey
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	C Iannelli - Meetings of the Research Advisory Group for Headteacher Survey on the senior phase of the Curriculum for Excellence x 2 - 7/12/2018 and 24/1/2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	The purpose of participating in these meetings was to provide expert advice on the design and content of the survey on curriculum for excellence. Feedback on a draft questionnaire was provided which was taken on board by the survey organisers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018,2019

Description	C Iannelli - Participation in the Data for children collaborative with UNICEF and Scottish Government - announced 23.9.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	The Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF has officially launched in Scotland, with a series of projects set to explore how data can be used to improve the lives of children at home and abroad. Three initial projects will examine how data can deliver new ways of tackling childhood obesity, address child poverty and improve child population estimates locally, nationally and globally.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://digit.fyi/data-for-children-collaborative-with-unicef-confirms-first-projects/

Description	C Iannelli - Presentation - 'Inequalities in achieving a university degree: Using a sibling design to disentangle the importance of individual and family factors'
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	This presentation was delivered at the Understanding Inequalities International Policy Symposium 'The impact of inequalities in the early years on outcomes over the life course:Using international evidence to identify creative policy solutions', Scottish Parliament.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	C Iannelli - Quantitative Social Science seminar at University College London
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Professor Cristina Iannelli presented the paper on ''The social gap in higher education: new evidence from sibling data' as part of the Quantitative Social Science seminar series at UCL.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2020/feb/social-gap-higher-education-new-evidence-sibling-data

Description	C Iannelli - Social Research Association (SRA) 40th anniversary event.23.5.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Title and topic of the event: The researcher and the researched - an ever-changing relationship. The keynote speaker was Dr Audrey MacDougall - SG Chief Statistician
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	C Iannelli - UNICEF Data for Children Hub Workshop - 1.3.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	To develop the research questions that will form the initial roadmap of projects for the UNICEF Data for Children Hub, within the scope of the themes identified, via collaboration between policy advisers and analysts, academics, UNICEF experts and data experts First draft questions were discussed. Further consultations will follow.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	C Iannelli - article for The Times 11.11.20
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Cristina Iannelli wrote an article for The Times entitled 'A degree helps but doesn't guarantee social mobility' which was published on 11.11.20
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a-degree-helps-but-doesnt-guarantee-social-mobility-jq8wlslgz

Description	C Iannelli - presentation at 26th 'Transition in Youth' annual workshop on 'Youth Transitions in Challenging Times' in Mannheim - 5-8 September 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	CI presented this paper, co-authored by A Duta and B Wielgoszewska.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	CI - Advisory Group meeting for a new Nuffield-funded project on the implementation of the Curriculum for Excellence - 17.12.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	CI is feeding into this advisory group on an on-going basis.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	CI - Meeting of the Scottish Government Academic Reference Group - A Research Strategy for Scottish Education - 15/11/2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Meeting as part of CI's on-going role to feed in UI evidence to this expert panel.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	CI - Meeting with Scottish Government Head of Education Analytical Services 28.6.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Meeting with Mick Wilson (Head of Education Analytical Services at the SG) and Keith Dryburgh. To discuss PISA-SQA linkages, our proposed research using these data and potential impact on current policies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	CI - Meeting with UNICEF and Scottish Government representatives - 9-10th September 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	To develop a research agenda focused on child poverty as part of the UNICEF Data for Children Hub. This work is ongoing and CI is feeding in evidence from the UI project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	CI - Meetings of the Research Advisory Group for Headteacher Survey on the senior phase of the Curriculum for Excellence - 31.7.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	CI has been feeding into this expert working group and this meeting was to provide feedback on the final report from the Research Advisory Group for Headteacher Survey on the senior phase of the Curriculum for Excellence before publication.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Career Development Institute National Conference - Education for All? Social inequalities in education and the labour market - Cristina Iannelli
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Cristina Iannelli participated in the CDI National Conference, presenting a paper on 'Education for All? Social inequalities in education and the labour market'. This is a large prestigious event that promotes career development and enhancement and focuses on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Cristina's presentation was part of a wider session on Decent Work and Sustainable Economic Activity Goals / Education Goals.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://hopin.com/events/cdi-annual-conference-and-agm

Description	Consultation with Oslo Police Officers around use of Stop and Search (Susan McVie)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	During a visit to Scotland, Norwegian police officers, NGO representatives and academics consulted with Prof Susan McVie about the work of the UI team on police stop and search, including analysis of inequalities and police reform. The police in Oslo are bringing in new pilot measures around stop and search which are intended to make the practice fairer and more equitable and were keen to learn from the work undertaken in this area in Scotland. The discussion influenced decision making around the implementation of the pilot measures.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	Crime data comic shared at Modern Studies Association Conference 2020 (virtual stall)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	The crime data comic based on Prof Susan McVie's research was shared through the online stalls at the Modern Studies Association conference on 7th November 2020 which 140 teachers attended. The data comic for Advanced Highers pupils was created with input from the Modern Studies Association (Association of MSA teachers in Scotland) and is now shared as a permanent resource on the MSA website. As a result, the Understanding Inequalities team collaborated with MSA chair James Cook to produce a worksheet based on the comic for lower levels to be shared as an electronic resource suitable for 'home-schooling' during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.understanding-inequalities.ac.uk/crime-comic

Description	D Olner - Data visualisation of IMD Data - September 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Dan developed a bespoke interactive map which illustrates the changes in deprivation between English local authorities in 2015 compared with 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	http://www.taleoftwocountries.org/

Description	David Raffe Memorial Lecture (Cristina Iannelli)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Cristina Iannelli drew on several UI papers during her David Raffe Memorial Lecture at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, entitled "Behind the numbers: Understanding how social inequalities in education and the labour market come about" (November 15th 2022 - event open to the public)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	Different degrees of career success: Understanding inequalities in graduates' employment pathways 09.10.20
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Over 250 individual (quantified as unique page views) have seen this blog by Dr Bozena Wielgoszewska (UCL, Social Research Institute), Professor Cristina Iannelli and Dr Adriana Duta discussing the findings of their new study, which highlights inequalities in graduates' career paths based on their parents' social class.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.understanding-inequalities.ac.uk/news-and-blog/different-degrees-of-career-success

Description	E Smyth - Presentation at the Educational Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, Sligo (Ireland) April 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Promote UI research 'The transition to primary school: how family background and childcare experiences influence children's skills on school entry' and receive feedback by discussing preliminary results with an international academic audience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	E Smyth - presentation - The transition to primary school: how family background and childcare experiences influence children's skills on school entry' - March 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	This presentation was given at the Understanding Inequalities International Policy Symposium 'The impact of inequalities in the early years on outcomes over the life course:Using international evidence to identify creative policy solutions', Scottish Parliament . The aim of the day was to contribute to discussion regarding the implications of research evidence for policy decision making and developing effective modes of practice.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	ESRC Festival of Social Science event - 20 years of devolution: how have inequalities in Scotland changed?- Glasgow, 8.11.18
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	UI Public Engagement event as part of the ESRC FoSS. Findings from across the UI research areas were prsented to a mixed audience of policy, practitioner, third sector, community groups and private citizens in Glasgow. Presentations and faciliated workshop discussion led to a lively day of debate and discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://www.understanding-inequalities.ac.uk/event/20-years-of-devolution-how-have-inequalities-in-gl...

Description	European Society of Criminology Conference 2021 - Jon Bannister
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Jon Bannister presented at the 2021 European Society of Criminology Conference on UI work 'Is the policing of crime equitable across space and time?'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://openwater-public.s3.amazonaws.com/sonar-uploads%2F55ZA1FAVSGCwSyhs8Shx_Programme%20Eurocrim2...

Description	European Society of Criminology Conference 2021 - Susan McVie and Lesley McAra
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presentation to a predominantly academic audience at the European Society of Criminology Conference 2021 (online). Susan McVie and Lesley Mcara presented on Transformations in policy and their impacts on criminal justice pathways, providing new findings from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://openwater-public.s3.amazonaws.com/sonar-uploads%2F55ZA1FAVSGCwSyhs8Shx_Programme%20Eurocrim2...

Description	Event: Driving forward data informed approaches to policing: Using police data to assess demand, inform deployment and address priorities - 24.10.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	A workshop was held on 24th October 2019 to discuss data informed approaches to policing. The main aim of the workshop was to generate discussion aimed at informing the strategic direction of data-use for research purposes to inform, support and improve priority areas of policing practice in Scotland. The workshop was attended by around 30 participants from a range of organisations, including Police Scotland, the Scottish Police Authority, the Violence Reduction Unit, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland, the Information Commissioner's Office, and a variety of Scottish Universities. The event was chaired by Barry Sillers (Scottish Police Authority) and presentations were given by Denis Hamill (Chief Data Officer for Police Scotland), Supt Stan Gilmour (Thames Valley Police), Professor Jon Bannister (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Professor Susan McVie (University of Edinburgh). Subsequently invited to participate in two SPA roundtable events on policing, research and data (Dec 2019 and Feb 2020).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	F Fiori - Participation in a roundtable organized by Child Poverty Action Group 16/03/2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Third sector organisations
Results and Impact	Participation in a roundtable organized by Child Poverty Action Group - Scotland as part of their Secure Futures seminar series
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://cpag.org.uk/projects/secure-futures

Description	F Fiori - Presentation at the Q-Step research Seminars of the School of Social and Political Science (University of Edinburgh)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Francesca Fiori shared the details of her UI research into lone mothers, focusing on the quantitative methods used during this research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	F Fiori - Presentation to Scottish Government Growing Up in Scotland team & other research/statistician teams - December 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Francesca Fiori presented on 'Maternal employment and the wellbeing of children living with a lone-mother in Scotland' to a group comprising the team of researchers and statisticians who work with the Growing Up in Scotland survey dataset.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	F Fiori - Seminar at the Population Health Research Cluster at University of St Andrews - 21.1.20
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Francesca Fiori presented her research on the lone mothers, employment and child wellbeing to the University of St Andrews Population and Health Research Group.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	Francesca Fiori's research featured in the Parenting Across Scotland Newsletter
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Francesca Fiori's research on lone mothers and child wellbeing featured in the June 2020 issue of the Parenting Across Scotland Newsletter. The purpose was to disseminate findings from UI research to third sector, community groups and parents.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.parentingacrossscotland.org/info-for-practitioners/articles/lone-mothers-employment-and-...

Description	G Pryce & D Olner - cited in The Independent re their research on the impact of EU immigration on the UK labour market
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	UI researchers G Pryce and D Olner with Bernard Fingleton (Cambridge) published research that found that EU migration has had a significantly positive effect on the UK labour market. As this is highly relevant to the Brexit debate - given that the perceived "negative" impact of migration was one of the leading arguments for the 'leave' campaign - a media release was issued highlighting the findings. See Urban Studies https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0042098019887916 for the related article.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brexit-eu-nationals-jobs-employment-migrants-london-...

Description	G Pryce & ML Zhang - Conference call with Improvement Service re new paper measuring neighbourhood inequalities - 17.8.18
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	GP and MLZ shared details of new paper and methodology with Improvement Service who are keen to use this as part of their Outcomes Evidence and Performance Board report IS to review the paper shared by GP with a view to including findings in report
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://www.improvementservice.org.uk/oepb.html

Description	G Pryce - Life at the Frontier launch event
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	A webinar on the social integration of migrants will mark the launch of the new ESRC and Nordforsk funded project Life at the Frontier.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.understanding-inequalities.ac.uk/news-and-blog/life-at-the-frontier-project-launch-webin...

Description	G Pryce - The Conversation article - Inequality in Scotland: despite Nordic aspirations, things are not improving
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	G Pryce wrote a piece for The Conversation introducing the UI project and giving an overview of the factors which have led to the increase of inequalities since devolution in 1998.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://theconversation.com/inequality-in-scotland-despite-nordic-aspirations-things-are-not-improvi...

Description	G Pryce - UI and Sheffield Migration Group Webinar on Changing inequality in exposure to crime 12.11.2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	A joint webinar of the University of Sheffield Migration Research Group and Understanding Inequalities (UI) project which explored the social, economic and political ramifications of a new approach to the estimation of the labour market impacts of immigration
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.understanding-inequalities.ac.uk/webinars-and-events/researching-the-local-employment-im...

Description	G Pryce - UI and Sheffield Migration Group Webinar on Unravelling the interwoven dimensions of geographic inequalities 10.02.2021
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	UI and Sheffield Migration Group webinar on the interconnected causal mechanisms underlying spatial inequalities, their impacts, and the role of policy.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://www.understanding-inequalities.ac.uk/webinars-and-events/unravelling-the-interwoven-dimensio...

Description	G Pryce - quoted in I News re blog piece in The Conversation about inequality in Scotland since devolution
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	GP was quoted in I News following the blog he wrote for The Conversation about the increase in inequality since devolution - linked to Festival of Social Science event n 7.11.18
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/inequality-in-scotland-has-got-worse-in-the-last-20-years-finds-re...

Description	G Pryce - quoted in The Ferret re blog piece in The Conversation about inequality in Scotland since devolution
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Article quoted G Pryce's blog for The Conversation re inequality in Scotland having increased in the 20 year period since devolution. Links to FOSS event on 8.11.18
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://theferret.scot/inequality-scotland-devolution/

Description	G Pryce, B Fingleton & D Olner - Blog in The Conversation - 'Immigration: there is a gaping hole in the debate over how it affects everyone's job prospects' - 13.1.20
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	GP published a piece in The Conversation titled 'Immigration: there is a gaping hole in the debate over how it affects everyone's job prospects'. Based on work co-authored with Bernie Fingleton and Dan Olner, this blog connects with a recently published paper in the Journal of Urban Studies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://theconversation.com/immigration-there-is-a-gaping-hole-in-the-debate-over-how-it-affects-eve...

Description	GP and MZ presented to a group of Scottish Government Statisticians - 3.12.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	GP and MZ were invited to present their work on the inequality index that they have developed and their work on the decentralisation of poverty, at a lunchtime seminar to Scottish Gov statisticians.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Growing Up in Scotland Annual Conference 2022 (Susan McVie)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Prof Susan McVie presented 'Childhood offending in contemporary Scotland: A tale of two studies', drawing on the UI Team's work on inequalities in offending behaviour amongst children. Based on analysis of the Growing Up in Scotland Study and Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, the research highlighted that childhood offending has declined significantly over the last two decades; however, inequalities persist in terms of those who are most likely to be involved. The conference was well attended by policy makers, politicians (including Scotland's Minister for Children and Young People) and practitioners. The presentation was positively received and resulted in requests for further information. The presentations were recorded and are available on the website link below.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022
URL	https://growingupinscotland.org.uk/growing-up-in-scotland-conference-2022-2/

Description	Guest lecture as part of a 'Multilevel Modelling in Social Science' course (Adriana Duta)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Adriana Duta showcased UI paper 'Social inequalities in attaining higher education in Scotland: New evidence from sibling data' to undergraduates and postgraduate students during a guest lecture part of the 'Multilevel Modelling in Social Science' course taught at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh (13 February, 2023)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Holyrood Evidence Week - Sense About Science - Meng Le Zhang and Susan McVie
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Members of the Understanding Inequalities team were invited to be part of the 2022 Holyrood Evidence Work. Sense about Science partnered with SPICe in the Scottish Parliament, RDS Scotland and ADR Scotland, to deliver Evidence Week in Holyrood. This involved MSPs joining researchers, and constituents to discuss how the evidence used to make policy decisions in Scotland is scrutinised. The UI team contributed two 'pods' to this event: Meng Le Zhang - HOW TO MONITOR THE IMPACT OF SCOTTISH POLICY ON NEW REFUGEE HOMELESSNESS AND INTEGRATION - https://senseaboutscience.org/evidence-week-holyrood/institution/how-to-monitor-the-impact-of-scottish-policy-on-new-refugee-homelessness-and-integration/ Susan McVie - DATA TO CREATE EFFECTIVE CRIME, JUSTICE AND EQUALITY POLICY - https://senseaboutscience.org/evidence-week-holyrood/institution/data-to-create-effective-crime-justice-and-equality-policy/ Because this event takes place right at the end of the ResearchFish reporting period, we are unable to report on any impact; however, we are making plans to follow up on this activity by working pro-actively with Members of the Scottish Parliament.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022
URL	https://senseaboutscience.org/evidence-week-holyrood/event/

Description	Interview for Daily Record news story 'Dark web dealers use post to deal cocaine and ecstasy across Scotland'
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Ben Matthews answered questions to a reporter in relation to his paper 'Understanding digital drug markets through the geography of postal drug deliveries in Scotland'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/dark-web-dealers-use-post-23593570

Description	Interview for the BBC Panorama Programme on 'How Scotland Cut Violent Crime'
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Professor Susan McVie featured in a public news programme on violence reduction in Scotland.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000gxgv/panorama-how-scotland-cut-violent-crime

Description	J Bannister & MMU colleagues - ESRC Festival of Social Science - 'Using Big Data to uncover inequalities in the exposure to crime'. Nov 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	MMU UI team participated in the 2019 FoSS sharing findings from their research into inequalities in the exposure to crime.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	J Bannister - presentation of findings on the policing of vulnerability to the Senior Leadership Forum of Greater Manchester Police
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The Chief Constable reported that he spoke to UI research at the recent NPCC forum at the Home Office and that this was reported in the media - I have not been able to find reference to this).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	J Bannister - Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis Symposium, Guangzhou University - June 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	JB presented on 'Planetary Urban Criminology' at the Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis Symposium at Guangzhou University.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	J Bannister - MMU knife crime research & collaboration with the GM VRU cited in Stop Knife Crime website - January 2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Stop Knife Crime is a website that raises awareness about knife crime and the work taking place to tackle it. The article covers the £3million received by the Violence Reduction Unit "Work with academics at the Manchester Metropolitan University to develop a clearer picture of the causes of violent crime".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	http://stopknifecrimes.co.uk/manchester/violence-reduction-unit/

Description	J Bannister - MMU knife crime research cited in Manchester Evening News - 19.9.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Jon Bannister and the team at MMU have been working with Greater Manchester Police to analyse the increase in knife crime.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/its-not-just-london-problem-169...

Description	J Bannister - Meeting with Greater Manchester Police to discuss research specification, methodology and format of outputs from the UI project
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	The aim of this dialogue was to agree research and dissemination (policy and practice) plans.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	J Bannister - Meeting with Greater Manchester Police to outline emergent UI results and discuss implications for practice 14/11/2018 and 11/12/2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Brief research presentations and discuss of operational implications of UI findings.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	J Bannister - Presentation at virtual conference: 'Can Big Data and AI transform operational policing?' 15.01.21
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation on 'Policing Inequalities' to disseminate and get feedback on work in progress at the virtual conference 'Can Big Data and AI transform operational policing?', organised by CAPITA.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	J Bannister - Presentation of key findings on the policing of vulnerability to the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police. 10.2.20
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation and discussion of UI findings.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	J Bannister - Presentation on Understanding and Addressing Vulnerability at the Excellence in Policing Annual Conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	JB presented UI findings at this conference in September 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	J Bannister and S McVie - Police Scotland Seminar, Scottish Police College, Tullialan December 19 and Feb 20
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Jon and Susan participated in two round table discussion workshops hosted by Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority in December 2019 and February 2020 to discuss policing, use of policing data and statistics in public discourse and 'Bridging the gap between Research Evidence and Police Action'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019,2020

Description	J Bannister and S McVie - UI Webinar on Changing inequality in exposure to crime 01.10.2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Around 70 people attended the first of two interrelated webinars which, based on new research, explores the interplay between inequality, crime and policing and how this may differ in the COVID-19 recovery period. The event including a reflection on the research from a police practitioner and the talks sparked several audience questions and many attended the second event.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.understanding-inequalities.ac.uk/webinars-and-events/changing-inequality-in-exposure-to-...

Description	J Bannister and S McVie - UI Webinar on Shaping policing responses to crime inequality 14.10.2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Around 60 people attended the second of two interrelated webinars which, based on new research, explores the interplay between inequality, crime and policing and how this may differ in the COVID-19 recovery period. The event including reflections on the research from police practitioners.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.understanding-inequalities.ac.uk/webinars-and-events/shaping-policing-responses-to-crime...

Description	Jon B - Meeting with Greater Manchester Police - 30th November 2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	The aim of this meeting was to introduce the UI project and discuss mutual priorities. Outcomes - Research agreement to be amended to incorporate UI.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Jon B - Meeting with the Home Office - 5th December 2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	To present research plans on inequalities in the exposure to crime / alcohol Outcome - On-going dialogue established with alcohol related teams at HO
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Jon Bannister on BBC Radio 4 Programme 'Death of a Headmaster' on violent crime and school exclusion
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Professor Jon Bannister comments on violent crime and school exclusion in the programme made in memory of London Headmaster Philip Lawrence who was stabbed to death at his school 25 years ago. The programme looks at the legacy of Mr Lawrence and also investigates whether initiatives to reduce knife crime have had any lasting effect. The impact of school expulsions is explored first hand from an expelled pupil who says it led them down the wrong path. Jon talks about the research evidence on the harm of expulsions as well as the services and initiatives that are needed to tackle violent crime. The full episode 'Death of a Headmaster' aired on 8th December 2020 and Jon appears at 27 minutes and 23 seconds into the programme.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000q3r0

Description	K Lymperopoulou & J Bannister - UI Blog Is crime in Glasgow following poverty and dispersing to the suburbs? - 21.1.20
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Part of the UI blog series to distil key findings and share the research with a wider audience. Over 800 people (recorded as unique page views) have viewed the blog to date (March 2021)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	http://bit.ly/2RA9pPz

Description	K Lymperopoulou - Meetings at the The European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, University of Helsinki, t
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	This conference is affiliated with the United Nations (HEUNI) and the Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy (KRIMO) at the University of Helsinki. KL attended to discuss the UI research programme and future collaboration, particularly the development of international comparative research on inequalities in exposure to crime. The visit at Helsinki was supported by MMU's International Research Partnership Fund. Discussed collaboration on a project focusing on shifting inequalities in exposure to crime in UK, European and US cities. KRIMO will scope plan for the analysis of crime accross neigfhbourhods in Helsinki drawing on Finnish Police data held at KRIMO. Follow up meetings to develop this work are planned and likely to take place in Manchester.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Lords And Commons Family and Child Protection Group - Youth Violence and Knife Crime - Jon Bannister
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Jon Bannister contributed to an event on Youth Violence and Knife Crime: Developing evidence-based policy and practice, hosted by The Centre for Forensic and Family Psychology, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham and the Lords And Commons Family and Child Protection Group (LCFCPG).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	M Adepeju, S Langton and K Lymperopoulou - UI Blog Have poor and affluent neighbourhoods benefited equally from the crime drop? 26.06.20
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Part of the UI blog series to distil key findings and share the research with a wider audience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.understanding-inequalities.ac.uk/shifting-inequality-crime-exposure-Glasgow-Birmingham

Description	ML Zhang & G Pryce - presentation to SG Data analysts re Decentralisation of Poverty
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Presentation of UI work on decentralisation of poverty and spatial inequality to Scottish Government statisticians as part of their seminar series in December 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	McAra & McVie - Presentation - re 'Care to crime cycle': Challenges for theory, method and policy - 9th May 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	The aim of this presentation was to promote key findings from UI research programme and engage practitioners including senior members of the judiciary, social workers, youth workers and policy makers from local and central government.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	McAra & McVie - Presentation at 19th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Sept 19
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	McAra and McVie presented on 'How do early inequalities and adverse experiences impact on offending and criminal convictions over the life-course?'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Meeting of the Scottish Government Academic Reference Group
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Meeting of the Scottish Government Academic Reference Group - A Research Strategy for Scottish Education.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	Meeting with Katherine Hudson- SG Poverty and Inequality Commission and Emma Congreve - SG Communities Analysis Division.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Purpose of meeting: to discuss the UI research programme and identify areas for collaboration/co-production Outcomes: to review research questions in light of discussion and invite to later stakeholder meeting.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Meeting with Scottish Government Inequalities Analysis Group - 6th Novembe 2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	UI team were invited to present to the Scottish Government Inequalities Analysis Group to promote the UI research project and identify key areas of co-production/collaboration with stakeholders. This involved a presentation of research questions and discussion of links to Scottish Government priorities across all areas including health, justice, environment, education, housing/regeneration. The outcome - SG to identify priority areas and discuss further following the meeting.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Meeting with justice analytical services representatives from Scottish Government in Edinburgh. 27.2.18
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	To discuss the UI research programme and identify areas for collaboration/co-production.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Meeting with the National Violence Prevention Board. - Jon Bannister - 11th October 2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	To introduce the UI project to the NVPB, particularly the crime strand. Outcome - Agreement to arrange meetings with multiple groups in Police Scotland to discuss research priorities / Jon Bannister to lead
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Online event to share perspectives on the issue of lone mothers' employment and child wellbeing.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	We held a discussion with around 15 participants from the Scottish Government, ScotCen Research and Third sector organizations (Close the Gap, One Parent Families Scotland, Gingerbread Fife, Save the children, Poverty Alliance). The purpose was to engage in a dialogue with stakeholders regarding the implications for policy and practice of findings from Francesca Fiori's research and the wider Understanding Inequalities team, and promoting the use of evidence-based research to influence future policy and practice; Informing future development of research activities. We followed up with the participants to share a blog post on the key messages from the event and also shared the academic paper to be used as an evidence base for policy and practice.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.understanding-inequalities.ac.uk/news-and-blog/sharing-perspectives-on-lone-parents-empl...

Description	Operation Talla Information Collation, Assurance and Liaison Cell - Police Scotland (Susan McVie)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The OpTICAL Group was established by Police Scotland at the onset of the pandemic to review the use of data in relation to policing. This group was involved in overseeing the collection, development and sharing of policing data in the context of the pandemic. It also became a vehicle for improving information governance procedures and data quality in relation to the pandemic. Susan McVie was a member of this group from its inception and used the research developed through the UI and Policing the Pandemic projects to inform and improve data-related activities. She also drew extensively on the expertise of the group to ensure public facing reports were accurate and informative. According to the Chief Constable of Scotland, this group was invaluable during the course of the pandemic, and provided a model that has been used in the context of future policing emergencies or major incidents (including COP26 in Glasgow). The main outcomes of this work are: improvements in working with Police Scotland around research; changed attitudes towards data sharing and data linkage research; creation of new policies and procedures for sharing data (including DPIAs and DSAs); generation of new research that are being pursued through funding from Police Scotland, including work on demand and response efficiencies in Scotland.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020,2021,2022
URL	https://www.spa.police.uk/spa-media/v2nnb3j2/acc-gary-ritchie.pdf

Description	Partner Stakeholder meeting 1 - 11th December 2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	First meeting of the Partner Stakeholder Group took place at the Scottish Parliament. UI Co-Is presented the research questions. Stakeholder Partners shared their organisational priorities followed by discussion about how their focus and priorities connect with the RQs; discussion about potential for joint working and co-production. Outcome - UI team to follow up with partners individually to take forward the discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Policing the Pandemic: The Scottish Experience - Scottish Police Authority Roundtable Event (Susan McVie)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The aim of this event was to generate discussion and debate about the way in which Scottish policing had adapted during the Coronavirus crisis. The focus was on challenges to policing practice, the impact on operational police officers, and the changes, adaptations and innovations inspired by the pandemic. Bringing together the expertise of police officers, academics, third sector and government, Susan McVie was asked to participate in the event specifically to discuss the growing bank of evidence relating to policing during the pandemic in Scotland and explore areas of both current and future research. The event was attended (virtually) by around 100 people, and sparked significant discussion. The SPA noted that it had been a highly successful event and Police Scotland noted that they had made decisions about changing the nature of their practices directly as a result of the research produced by Susan during her time as an advisor on the Independent Advisory Group and OpTICAL Groups.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://www.spa.police.uk/strategy-performance/joint-evidence-and-research-roundtables/policing-and-...

Description	Presentation titled 'Data as an Asset in the Fight against Knife Crime'
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Jon Bannister delivered a presentation for the Society of Evidence-Based Policing (SEBP) on 29/04/2020, which was also recorded and shared as a podcast episode.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://ebpdoctor.podbean.com/e/data-as-an-asset-in-the-fight-against-knife-crime-jon-bannister/

Description	Presentation to Griffiths University and Queensland Government staff
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Susan McVie and Ben Matthews gave a presentation for academic staff and government officials on the Understanding Inequalities programme and specific research conducted on the Queensland Linkage Project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Presentation to the European COST Action PolStops in Europe Conference 2023 (Susan McVie)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation by Prof Susan McVie on 'Effectiveness and Equity in Police use of Stop and Search in Post-Reform Scotland'. Building on work developed on police stop and search by the UI team, this presentation highlighted the importance of focusing on equity of policing rather than effectiveness as a way of measuring improvement in practice and achieving public confidence. The aim of the meeting was to inform and influence academics, NGOs and policing practitioners across Europe in improving stop and search practice. It sparked significant debate and interest and the general concensus of participants was that equitable policing practice should become a high priority.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://polstops.eu/events/international-conference-police-stops-across-europe-february-2023/

Description	Presentation to the Growing Up in Ireland Annual Research Conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Ivan Privalko and Emer Smyth presented at the Growing Up in Ireland Annual Research Conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.growingup.ie/pubs/Revised-programme-for-website-pdf-1.pdf

Description	Presentation to the Growing Up in Scotland Conference 2022 (Francesca Fiori)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Francesca Fiori presented the UI paper 'Social disparities in housing and residential mobility: the experience of a cohort of children born in Scotland' (Invited talk) at the Growing Up in Scotland Conference 2022, organized by ScotCen and the Scottish Government (June 2022)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	Presentation to the International Sociological Association (ISA), Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (Adriana Duta)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Adriana Duta presented UI paper 'Social inequalities in occupational attainment: using sibling data to estimate the total effect of family of origin and the role of education' (Co-authors: Cristina Iannelli and Richard Breen) at the International Sociological Association (ISA), Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility - Spring Meeting, London 21 Apr 2022 - 23 Apr 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	Presentation to the annual workshop of the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth, Naples (Cristina Iannelli)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Cristina Iannelli presented a UI paper 'Social inequalities in occupational attainment: using sibling data to estimate the total effect of family of origin and the role of education' at the annual workshop of the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth, Naples, Italy (7-10 September 2022)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	S McVIe & C Iannelli - Meeting with Improvement Service - 4.4.18
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Discussion of key aspects of UI research that will be relevant to IS; discussion of areas for collaboration; discussion re other networks and organisations
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie & B Jahanshahi - Research meeting with members of the Police Scotland national Stop and Search Unit 8.8.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Feedback to the National Stop and Search Unit of Police Scotland on findings from our UI research on stop and search and crime rates. Contributed to ongoing debate in this area of policing work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	S McVie & B Jahanshahi - presentation to members of the Police Scotland national Stop and Search Unit - 26.2.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation on preliminary findings from our analysis of the relationship between stop and search and crime rates. Significant interest in the paper and request to be kept informed. Academic paper in preparation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	S McVie - A talk for staff at Griffith University, Brisbane. 22.2.18
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Highlighting the new programme of UI research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie - ADRP Workshop on offending/reoffending data at the UKRI offices in London - 13.2.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Participated in a meeting to discuss potential and priorities for using administrative data to study offending and re-offending, including inequalities in patterns of behaviour. Various follow up emails and meetings as a result of this workshop. Invited to join the Ministry of Justice Data First Academic Advisory Group (Jan 2020).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	S McVie - Advisory group meeting on the impact of minimum unit pricing on crime, safety and public nuisance evaluation
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Discussion of the evaluation strategy for measuring the impact of MUP on crime and disorder in Scotland - using UI research to inform development of further policy NHS Scotland to develop a research specification around MUP.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie - BBC News Scotland story 'Police Scotland used emergency Covid powers 640 times a day' 30.06.2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Professor Susan McVie's interim report on Covid-19 Fixed Penalty Notices for the Scottish Police Authority was cited in a BBC Scotland news story.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-53236209

Description	S McVie - Blog - How changes to childhood have contributed to the crime drop in Scotland. - July 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	S McVie wrote this UI blog in response to the July release of SCJS stats and reflecting on the youth crime figures.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	http://www.understanding-inequalities.ac.uk/project-blog/how-changes-to-childhood-have-contributed-t...

Description	S McVie - Building Safer Communities Progress and Improvement Framework meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Discussion about using UI research data to support the monitoring of BSC programme work
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie - Building Safer Communities board meeting 17.4.18
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Discussion of the issues impacting on crime inequality and strategic discussion about the focus of the Board moving forward. Presentation of AQMeN research findings, and discussion of UI projects that are of relevance to BSC.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie - Daily Record story 'Scots in most deprived areas 10 times more likely to get Covid fine' 23.02.2021
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	News story on findings from Professor Susan McVie's second data report on Covid-19 Fixed Penalty Notices for the Scottish Police Authority
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scots-most-deprived-areas-10-23553045

Description	S McVie - Darren McGarvey's Scotland - Susan participated in an episode of this BBC Scotland Documentary Series which looks at poverty & inequality in Scotland - Oct 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	san McVie, appeared in the second episode of the series which focused on crime in Edinburgh. Drawing on research from the UI project, Susan gave Darren McGarvey (aka Scottish rapper Loki) with a tour of Edinburgh neighbourhoods and injected key findings on poverty, inequality and crime during the course of the programme.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00087lh

Description	S McVie - Evening Express story 'Poorer Scots 11 times more likely to get Covid fine than wealthier peers' 23.02.2021
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	News story on findings from Professor Susan McVie's second data report on Covid-19 Fixed Penalty Notices for the Scottish Police Authority
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/news/scotland/poorer-scots-11-times-more-likely-to-get-covid-fine-t...

Description	S McVie - Event on data led by the Official for Statistical Regulation, Ed Humpherson
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Involved in discussion and debate about the lack of policing data available for research in Scotland. Gave opportunity to discuss this with MSPs and ask them to query this in parliamentary debates.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	S McVie - Final meeting of the Building Safer Communities Programme Board 31/10/18
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	To wrap up the work of the Building Safer Communities Programme
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie - Glasgow Live story 'Poor Scots 10 times more likely to get covid fines than rich' 24.02.2021
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	News story on findings from Professor Susan McVie's second data report on Covid-19 Fixed Penalty Notices for the Scottish Police Authority
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/poor-scots-10-times-more-19901140

Description	S McVie - Growing Up in Scotland conference - 7th December 2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) Annual Conference, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.  McVie presented a paper titled 'How is crime inequality shaped by social change & the effects of justice systems?'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	S McVie - Interview for BBC Radio 4 Law in Action - 11th February 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Radio interview on BBC Radio 4 Law in Action on the measuring of prevalence in the population of criminal conviction.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie - Introductory meeting with Denis Hamill, the new Chief Data Officer for Police Scotland. 8.8.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Meeting to discuss the possibilities around sharing of police data to enable further research work on crime inequalities. Agreed to host an event on this topic, at which Denis would contribute. This meeting led to UI hosting a Policing Data event with Police Scotland and SCADR in October 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	S McVie - Key findings from first FPN data report. Scottish Police Authority Webinar 19.08.20
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation on Police Use of Fixed Penalty Notices under the Coronavirus Regulations in Scotland: Key findings from the first data report, at the Scottish Police Authority Webinar.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	S McVie - Key findings from interim FPN data report. Scottish Police Authority Webinar 30.06.20
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation on the Independent Advisory Group on Police Use of Temporary Powers relating to the Coronavirus Crisis: Key findings from interim data report at the Scottish Police Authority Webinar.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	S McVie - Lecture for the Faculty of Advocates 'Euro Devils' on young people, crime and inequality in Scotland. - 5th April 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Highlighting the new programme of UI research that will be forthcoming and presenting key findings from AQMeN research on youth crime and justice.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie - Meeting of the Blue Lights Tactical Group - 8th January 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Meeting of the Blue Lights Tactical Group at Dalmarnock to discuss the development of research around emergency services and vulnerability.  This research will measure inequality in terms of the emergency response to specific types of inequality in Scotland.  Outcome/follow up - To develop a more specific proposal for agreement by Police Scotland, Scottish Fire and Rescue and the Scottish Ambulance Service
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie - Meeting of the Building Safer Communities Phase 2 Executive Group on Unintentional Harm
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Building Safer Communities Working Group includes reps from SG, Fire Service, Health, Social Care, COSLA, RoSPA, etc. Purpose - To discuss the possibility of developing a national strategy for preventing unintentional injury, and examining aspects of social and economic inequality that underpin that.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie - Meeting of the Building Safer Communities Phase 2 Executive Group on Unintentional Harm - including reps from SG, Fire Service, Health, Social Care, COSLA, RoSPA, etc
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	To discuss the possibility of developing a national strategy for preventing unintentional injury, and examining aspects of social and economic inequality that underpin that SG to take forward development of a national strategy.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie - Meeting of the Scottish Sentencing Council discussion on young people- 8.5.18
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation of information and data on the causes and consequences of offending amongst young people, and the implications of different sentencing policies - with a view to developing new sentencing guidelines for young people Findings from the research to be included in decision making around developing a new set of sentencing guidelines for young people.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie - Meeting with Chief Sup. Int. Paul Main re ACE informed policing policies
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Discussion about ACE informed policing policies and possibility of conducting some research on policing and young people to inform development of practice and policy Susan to contact Police Scotland about taking forward research using police data.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie - Meeting with Frances Warren from Scottish Government - 11.6.18
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Discussion about existing research on violence and identify gaps that could be filled through further research. Highlighted that the UI project will be looking at some issues around violence and inequality. SG to make some funding available for gap analysis and small scale work to develop a larger programme of research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie - Meeting with Police Scotland and Scottish Government to discuss research priorities using policing data. 17.1.20
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Conversation with Denis Hamill from Police Scotland and Amy Wilson, Neil Grant and David G from Scottish Govermnent around reseach priorities on inequality. Further discussion required. Another meeting scheduled for February 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	S McVie - Meeting with the Director of Business Integration from Police Scotland 19.3.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Focus of the meeting was to discuss Police Scotland analytical functions, capabilities and structures; and to consider ways of sharing Police Scotland data for research on inequalities. Led to the development of our Policing Data event (October 2019)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	S McVie - Meeting with the Home Office, Public Health England, Ministry of Justice and a range of other policy representatives. Jan 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Focus of meeting was to discuss potential and priorities for using administrative data to study crime inequalities Various follow up emails and meetings as a result of this workshop. Outcome: Invited to join the Ministry of Justice Data First Academic Advisory Group (Jan 2020).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	S McVie - Participation in SG Child Poverty Action Plan workshop - 16.4.18
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Scottish Government workshop to discuss the indicators that will be required to monitor the success of the Child Poverty Action Plan
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie - Participation in a review of research on violence in Scotland - involved being interviewed as part of a wider study 23.1.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Provided details of our research to the Glasgow University academic conducting the review. The published SCCJR report titled 'Taking Stock of Violence in Scotland' heavily cited our work on inequality and crime in Scotland. This resulted in further research on repeat victims of violence being commissioned by the Scottish Government.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.sccjr.ac.uk/publications/taking-stock-of-violence-in-scotland/

Description	S McVie - Police Scotland Demand, Productivity and Performance Reference Group event - 1st December 2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Police Scotland Demand, Productivity and Performance Reference Group event at Jackton to discuss the development of policing in Scotland with senior officers.  The aim of this meeting was to identify key areas of research of importance to Police Scotland planning Outcomes - ACC Malcolm Graham to develop a programme of work and commission further work/research around demand and productivity.  Reference Group to reconvene at a later date.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	S McVie - Police Scotland National Alcohol, Drugs and Other Substance Use Violence Group Meeting - 13.8.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Participation in the meeting, discussing inequality and violence research by UI team.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	S McVie - Presentation titled 'Behind the Policy: Dealing with Knife Crime in Schools' 1/11/18
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation at the No Knives Better Lives Network Conference in Glasgow.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie - Quoted in The I Newspaper re violence rates in capacity as SCCJR representative
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	"Number of murders and homicides in Scotland drops to lowest rate in 42 years"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/homicides-figures-at-all-time-scottish-low/

Description	S McVie - STV News story 'Coronavirus fines 12 times more likely in poorest areas' 21.08.2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	STV News story on findings from Professor Susan McVie's first data report on Covid-19 Fixed Penalty Notices for the Scottish Police Authority.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://news.stv.tv/west-central/coronavirus-fines-12-times-more-likely-in-poorest-areas?top

Description	S McVie - Scottish Prisons Commission 10th year anniversary event - 29.6.18
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation to policy makers and commissioners using current prison statistics and data. Invitation to write up presentation for Howard League ECAN bulletin
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie - The Herald story 'Poor Scots more likely to be fined' 23.02.2021
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	News story on findings from Professor Susan McVie's second data report on Covid-19 Fixed Penalty Notices for the Scottish Police Authority
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	S McVie - The I story 'Fines 'more likely' in poorer areas' 23.02.2021
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	News story on findings from Professor Susan McVie's second data report on Covid-19 Fixed Penalty Notices for the Scottish Police Authority.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	S McVie - The Scotsman story 'Coronavirus in Scotland: People living in deprived areas more likely to get Covid fine' 23.02.2021
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	News story on findings from Professor Susan McVie's second data report on Covid-19 Fixed Penalty Notices for the Scottish Police Authority.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://www.scotsman.com/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-in-scotland-people-living-in-deprived-areas-...

Description	S McVie - The Scottish Sun story 'Fines risk is 11 times higher for poorest' 23.02.2021
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	News story on findings from Professor Susan McVie's second data report on Covid-19 Fixed Penalty Notices for the Scottish Police Authority
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	S McVie - The Times story 'Lockdown fines far more frequent in deprived areas' 23.02.2021
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	News story on findings from Professor Susan McVie's second data report on Covid-19 Fixed Penalty Notices for the Scottish Police Authority
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	S McVie - interviewed for BBC Scotland 8th March 2019 - 'Is there a link between Scotland's exclusion rates and knife crime?'
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	McVie was interviewed for the piece by Nichola Rutherford about the increase in knife crime in England and whether this links to school exclusion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-47484927?intlink_from_url=&

Description	S McVie - interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland - discussing the minimum age of criminal responsibility
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Susan was discussing the proposed changes by the Scottish Parliament to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to 12.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017,2018
URL	https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00011j1

Description	S McVie - keynote at Keynote address at the Applied Research Crime and Justice Conference organised by Griffith University in Brisbane. 15th Feb 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Keynote address at the Applied Research Crime and Justice Conference organised by Griffith University in Brisbane.  Attended by a mixture of academics, government statisticians, police officers, youth justice workers and policy makers. Highlighting the new programme of UI research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie - news story on 'Stop and search up by quarter after police rethink of tactics' in The Times 09.04.2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Professor Susan McVie comments on the rise in stop and search in the news story on 'Stop and search up by quarter after police rethink of tactics' in The Times.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/stop-and-search-up-by-quarter-after-police-rethink-of-tactics-qk9...

Description	S McVie - presentation at SPA Roundtable discussion on 'The use of policing data and statistics in public discourse' - Feb 2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Susan McVie presented on 'Current research & evidence using policing data & statistics'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	http://www.spa.police.uk/assets/611486/611493/newslettermarchevent

Description	S McVie - presentation of Crime data comic and feedback session with Advanced Higher school children from Dunbar Grammar School
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Presented on our understanding inequalities research; and product tested our draft data comic. Good feedback provided. Will redraft the data comic in line with comments.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	S McVie - quoted in The Guardian re the implications of changes to census questions - 9.1.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Scotland census: sex question changes 'may risk reliability of data Published 9.1.19
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/09/scotland-census-sex-question-changes-may-risk-reliabil...

Description	S McVie - quoted in The Times re proposed changes to the census - 6th February 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Headline: 'Non-binary' sex option will not appear on the next census'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/non-binary-sex-option-will-not-appear-on-next-census-7d86dks72

Description	S McVie - quoted in Wired UK online article about rise in UK knife crime and links to police cuts - 7.3.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	McVie and fellow SCCJR criminologists comment on the debate around who is to blame for the recent increase in knife crime in England and Wales. Published online 7.3.19
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-knife-crime-london-statistics

Description	S McVie - quoted in the Washington Post re violence rates and the work of the VRU in Scotland
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Glasgow was once the 'murder capital of Europe.' Now it's a model for cutting crime
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/glasgow-was-once-the-murder-capital-of-europe-now-its-a-...

Description	S McVie - talk at Monash University 19.2.18
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Third sector organisations
Results and Impact	A talk for policy makers (including government officials), third sector representatives and academics at the Victoria State Library in Melbourne, organised by Monash University.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie - talk for youth justice policy makers, Brisbane 21.2.18
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	A talk for youth justice policy makers from the Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women, Queensland Government in Brisbane.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie cited in The Guardian piece on the implication of changes to census questions 9.1.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Susan McVie was cited as an expert in this Guardian newspaper article, published 9.1.19 Headline: 1Scotland census: sex question changes 'may risk reliability of data Subheadline: Proposed changes to a question about biological sex, asked in Scotland's next census, risk undermining the reliability of the survey and set a difficult precedent for equalities protection, experts have said. Excerpt: Susan McVie, also a professor and chair of quantitative criminology at Edinburgh University's law school, said: "If we are to properly understand the relationship between sex and gender identity and how that impacts on factors such as health, the likelihood of getting a job and attainment in education, we need to disentangle those things so that we can have a much clearer picture."
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/09/scotland-census-sex-question-changes-may-risk-reliabil...

Description	S McVie quoted in The Herald - How Scotland could treat sex crimes as 'public health issue'
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Discussing criminal behaviour of young people.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17316624.how-scotland-could-treat-sex-crimes-as-public-health-is...

Description	S McVie, C Iannelli - Meeting with Poverty Truth Commission - 22nd January 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Third sector organisations
Results and Impact	Meeting with Poverty Truth Commission in Glasgow to discuss the UI research programme and identify areas for collaboration/co-production. On-going as part of stakeholder engagement.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie, C Iannelli - Meeting with Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC) -10th January 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Third sector organisations
Results and Impact	Meeting with David Allan, Scottish Community Development Centre, to discuss strategy in terms of community engagement with UI research. On-going - David Allan to produce a proposal for community engagement activities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie, C Iannelli, F Barlow - Meeting with Andrew Magwowan, Inspiring Scotland and Link Up project
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Third sector organisations
Results and Impact	Meeting to share details of UI research plans and activities with Andrew Magowan who leads the Link Up project - a community based third sector programme of work which helps empower and build capacity in disadvantaged communities in Scotland. A M also keen to assist with invitation dissemination for the Festival of Social Science event in November 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie, F Barlow - Building Safer Communities learning event - policy, practitioners and third sector organisations -19.4.18
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Learning event to discuss unintentional harm and identify ways of preventing and intervening; lots of discussion about data sharing and the issue of inequality Contact key individuals about identifying data relevant to UI.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S McVie, F Barlow - Meeting with Glasgow City Council Poverty Leadership Panel leader Gerry Quinn, GCC Policy Officer Louise McKenzie and Dr Jim McCormick, Assistant Director for Scotland for Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Discussion of key aspects of UI research that will be relevant to JRF and GCC PLP; discussion of areas for collaboration; discussion re other networks and orgs for UI to link with Invite to the FoSS event
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	S Mcvie - Meeting of the Scottish Government's ScotStat Crime and Justice Committee Meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	McVie shared findings from AQMeN in order to inform and influence the work of the ScotStat Crime and Justice Committee.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	SM & L McAra - Drummond Hunter Memorial Lecture at the University of Edinburgh. 'Youth Justice coming of Age?' - 28th November 2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	This presentation shared details of the research around social inequalities and the criminal justice system.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	SM - Meeting with Police Scotland Demand, Productivity and Performance Reference Group at Tulliallan - 22nd November 2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	The purpose was to discuss developing new research activity around policing in Scotland, including inequality in demand and response. The outcome was agreement to attend a further meeting of the Reference Group along with senior officers from across Scotland at Jackton on 1st December.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	SMcVie - Radio interview with Radio France Internationale about the reduction in violent crime in Scotland - 1.7.19
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	SM discussed research findings on the crime drop in Scotland, in particular violent crime and measures such as the Violence Reduction Unit.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	http://en.rfi.fr/20190622-How-Scotland-took-knife-crime-and-won

Description	Scottish Association for the Study of Offending Webinar - Equality and Justice - Susan McVie and John Scott QC
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This webinar was organised by the Scottish Association for the Study of Offending. The focus of the event was Equality and Justice, and the presentation focused on the policing of the pandemic in Scotland. UI and Policing the Pandemic project Director, Susan McVie, in partnership with human rights lawyer John Scott QC, examined this through the lens of justice, human rights and inequalities. It drew on research findings from both projects. The event was webcast and attended by around 100 participants across Scotland, and beyond.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022
URL	https://www.sastudyoffending.org.uk/attachments/article/343/270122%20-%20Equality%20and%20Justice.pd...

Description	Scottish Crime and Justice Research Centre Early Career Researcher Symposium (Ben Matthews)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Presentation by Dr Ben Matthews on 'Intersectional' statistical models of criminal conviction trajectories: promise and pitfalls', at annual SCCJR ECR Symposium. Intention was to share methodological and theoretical insights about measuring intersectional inequalities amongst those who are convicted in court, citing recent research conducted by the UI team using Australian data. Attended by around 60 early career researchers from across Scotland and beyond with an interest in criminological research. Sparked questions and discussion, with increased interest in this type of research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	Scottish Government Academic Seminar (Cristina Iannelli)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Cristina Iannelli presented UI paper 'Social inequalities in occupational attainment: using sibling data to estimate the total effect of family of origin and the role of education' at the Scottish Government Academic Seminar Series (14 December 2022)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	Scottish Police Authority - Public Confidence and Deprivation Steering Group (Susan McVie)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The UI Team was commissioned by the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) to conduct analysis of the Scottish Crime and Justice Survey on inequalities in public confidence in policing (https://www.spa.police.uk/spa-media/4ccdlgnm/rep-c-20200521-item-9-1-2-edinburgh-uni.pdf). Building on the report provided to the SPA, which was discussed at Authority meetings, the Public Confidence and Steering Group was established to consider ways of improving policing practice in areas of high deprivation in an effort to improve public confidence. Prof Susan McVie has been acting as an advisor to the Group and has influenced the development of research methodologies and the focus of the work. While ongoing, the work is demonstrating the value of focusing on inequalities within communities and ensuring policing practice is equitable, fair and focused on community priorities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021,2022,2023
URL	https://www.spa.police.uk/strategy-performance/community-confidence-action-research/

Description	Scottish Police Authority - Public Confidence and Deprivation Steering Group - Susan McVie
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Members of the UI team were asked to produce a bespoke policy briefing report for the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) on public confidence in policing in Scotland, and how it had changed. Using Scottish Crime and Justice Survey data, we highlighted that the lowest levels of confidence were amongst those living in the most deprived communities; however, there had been large reductions in confidence amongst those who were previously the most confident, including those living in more affluent areas. The SPA decided to establish a steering group on Public Confidence and Deprivation to review different strategies for improving public confidence, especially amongst those living in the most deprived communities. Susan McVie was appointed to the group, which meets quarterly. Susan provides research-based advice based on findings from the UI projec.t
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://www.spa.police.uk/spa-media/qcnbp4ol/spa-business-plan-21-22-5184-21-ar-v2.pdf

Description	Social Statistics Research Group Seminar (Ben Matthews)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Seminar presentation by Dr Ben Matthews on Inequality in victimization trends in Scotland 2008/09-2019/20 presented at University of Stirling, Social Statistics Research Group All Hands Seminar Day. Seminar involved staff and students from the University with an interest in social statistics, and was intended to inform people about the use of an innovative method within criminology. Generated interest in developing this methodology within both research and teaching amongst attendees.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	Summary report from UI event - Driving forward data-informed approaches to policing - January 2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	UI held a joint event with SCADR and Police Scotland to discuss data-informed approaches to policing. This event took place in October 2019 and was attended by 34 people. This report summarises the presentations and the facilitated workshop discussion which followed.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019,2020
URL	https://www.understanding-inequalities.ac.uk/summary-report-driving-forward-data-informed-approaches...

Description	Symposium on the impact of childhood inequalities over the life course
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	This international symposium brought together academics with a large group of practitioners and policy makers to discuss the issue of inequalities and adversity in early childhood and how it impacts in childhood, adolescence and into adulthood. This symposium focused mainly on justice and education inequalities; however, it also covered a wider range of issues including health, social care, poverty and adverse childhood experiences. The event was chaired by the Chief Social Policy Advisor to the Scottish Government, and was attended by a wide range of policy makers and practitioners, including teachers, civil servants, police officers and children's representatives. The aim of the event was to share international research evidence with policy makers and practitioners and discuss potential new policy solutions to the problem of childhood inequalities. We are in the process of producing a government briefing paper from this event, which will be shared with the participants and more widely with practitioners and policy makers. Further impact will be reported in the next submission.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	UI Blog post B Matthews: 'Is the relationship between imprisonment and deprivation in Scotland at its most pronounced in Glasgow?'
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Ben produced this blog, originally published by the Howard League for Penal Reform (Scotland) Early Career Academics Network Bulletin about his research into the links between neighbourhood deprivation and rates of imprisonment in Scotland's largest city.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://howardleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/ECAN-bulletin-Spring-2019.pdf

Description	UI International Networking Symposium on The impact of inequalities in the early years on outcomes over the life course: using international evidence to identity creative policy solutions- 11th March 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Funded by the ESRC International Networking Grant, we held a one-day symposium on 11th March at the Scottish Parliament to bring together international academics who are researching the impact of disadvantage and inequality in the early years. The symposium event involved five leading academics from the US, Australia, New Zealand and Israel plus a policy respondent from the US and two from the UK. Together with four presentations from the UI project team based in the UK and Ireland, the international speakers provided evidence and insights in to childhood inequalities across education, criminal justice and poverty in their jurisdictions. The audience was comprised mainly of policy makers from national government in Scotland as well as public health, education practitioners and local government (Glasgow).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	UI blog - K Murray, S McVie - 'Data matters: Recording sex and gender identity in the Criminal Justice System'
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Kath Murray on the potential impact of the proposed change to census data collection around sex and gender.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	http://www.understanding-inequalities.ac.uk/project-blog/data-matters-recording-sex-and-gender-ident...

Description	UK-China Newton Researcher Links Workshop - Rethinking the Healthy City in the Post-COVID19 Era - Jon Bannister
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	The aim of this workshop was to create opportunities for 40 early career researchers from the UK and China to critically, creatively and constructively discuss the theories, methods, and techniques associated with geographical exposure, urban mobility and inequality, using multi-disciplinary and comparative perspectives.Under the Researcher Links scheme offered within the Newton Fund, the British Council and National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), this virtual workshop was coordinated by Dr Jianquan Cheng at Manchester Met and Prof Suhong Zhou at Sun Yat-sen University. Contributions were presented from a range of expert speakers, including Jon Bannister.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://www.mmu.ac.uk/research/research-centres/ecology-environment/projects/Rethinking-Healthy-City...

Description	Understanding Inequalities Webinar 'Succeeding against the odds'
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Over 100 people attended our webinar on succeeding against the odds, featuring research presentations and policy responses, which sparked lots of questions throughout the event. The purpose was to disseminate UI research and stimulate a debate through the paper presentations from Professor Cristina Iannelli ('The long-term consequences of social inequalities') and Dr Adriana Duta ('Against All Odds: A Study of Enabling Factors in Early Childhood for Cognitive Outcomes').
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU-YiC2EO5hcfEUXwYA9Zra1QgL94n7Ct

Description	Understanding Inequalities Webinar 'What causes social inequality'
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Over 200 people attended our webinar on the causes of social inequalities, featuring research presentations and a policy response, which sparked lots of questions during the event. The purpose was to disseminate and encourage engagement with UI research through the paper presentations from ProfessorEmer Smyth ('Disadvantaged families or disadvantaged schools?'), Dr Ivan Privalko ('The transition to secondary school in Scotland: unequal pathways?') and Dr Francesca Fiori ( 'Social disparities in residential mobility and children's outcomes').
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU-YiC2EO5hcpcHLwm26q346Q19iWg9ns

Description	University of St Andrews KE Event - Children's housing and residential mobility - Francesca Fiori
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	A knowledge exchange event organised by the University of St Andrews to examine issues of children, housing and residential mobility, involving an invited audience of policy makers and practitioners from the public and third sectors.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	Webinar 'Preventing violence in a recession' organised by the No Knives Better Lives campaign
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Dissemination of key research findings and contribution to the policy debate about the challenges of preventing violence in an economic recession, whilst maintaining a rights-based and trauma-informed approach, at a webinar organised by the No Knives Better Lives campaign.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://noknivesbetterlives.com/practitioners/discussion/nkbl-preventing-violence-in-a-recession-thu...

Description	s Mcvie - meetings/discussions with BBC producer Lucy Adams, 22 and 28th March 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Discussion about the possibility of developing a feature on crime inequalities in Scotland. Further discussion about the possibility of developing a feature on crime inequalities in Scotland.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018