Relationships and Health
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Glasgow
Department Name: UNLISTED
Abstract
Our social relationships – including between intimate partners, families, friends, and within communities - are essential to health. People with strong and positive connections to others tend to live healthier and longer lives. Yet, some relationships can be bad for our health, including those that are violent or that influence us to take risks.
Researchers in this programme seek to understand how social relationships and health are linked. The relationships team studies both positive and negative influences but are particularly interested in how we might make use of the positive influences to improve health. The research focuses particularly on groups at highest risk of poor health, perhaps because they are excluded from broader society, or living in areas with few resources. The team views relationships between people as just one part of a bigger system of influences on health.
The programme uses different approaches to study and improve health. This includes talking to people about their experiences; advanced statistical methods to analyse survey results; holding meetings with community members to understand local health issues and design solutions; studies to find out how well these solutions work; and supporting other researchers and communities to use the best solutions.
In doing so, the team constantly looks for ways to improve their methods and works with scientists internationally to strengthen understanding of social relationships in public health.
Researchers in this programme seek to understand how social relationships and health are linked. The relationships team studies both positive and negative influences but are particularly interested in how we might make use of the positive influences to improve health. The research focuses particularly on groups at highest risk of poor health, perhaps because they are excluded from broader society, or living in areas with few resources. The team views relationships between people as just one part of a bigger system of influences on health.
The programme uses different approaches to study and improve health. This includes talking to people about their experiences; advanced statistical methods to analyse survey results; holding meetings with community members to understand local health issues and design solutions; studies to find out how well these solutions work; and supporting other researchers and communities to use the best solutions.
In doing so, the team constantly looks for ways to improve their methods and works with scientists internationally to strengthen understanding of social relationships in public health.
Technical Summary
Positive social connections are protective of health. Social relationships can be strongly supportive, but can also be a source of poor health and risk behaviour. Our aim is to progress understanding of mechanisms linking relationships to health and translate this knowledge into relationship-based solutions to key population health issues. We have three primary objectives:
- To uncover multilevel and modifiable relational mechanisms that shape, and are shaped by, experiences of wellbeing, health, risk, illness and inequality;
1. - To improve methods for discovery and translational public health research focused on relationships and health;
2. - To co-produce and evaluate relationship focused solutions to key public health priorities.
The programme conceptualises relationships as inherently complex, heterogeneous and influenced by the social context in which they are enacted. Our research is framed by complex systems thinking, in which social relationships are construed as interdependent elements within a connected whole. Our emphasis is on transdisciplinary action research, involving partnership with stakeholders throughout the research cycle, from problem framing, through measuring and describing, to identification and evaluation of potential solutions.
Our three complementary workstreams are structured around the levels at which social relationships operate; in dyads, small groups, social networks and communities.
The first focuses on intimate relationships and families. We aim to lead internationally on the public health conceptualisation and measurement of sexual wellbeing, and on the co-production and evaluation of complex interventions that theorise and measure relational mechanisms of change. This includes sex education, whole-school approaches to gender-based violence, and prison-based parenting programmes.
The second examines the distinct influences of social networks on health. We seek to advance methodological innovation in capturing and analysing multi-layer networks and using this to optimise network-based interventions. We will advance understanding of how evolving digital interactions have altered relational influences on adolescent health. We will also develop novel methods to assess change in social networks over the lifecourse, using causal mediation methods to assess relational elements of inequalities in healthy ageing.
The third focuses on social relationships in communities. We will use a syndemics lens to advance understanding of health inequalities in marginalised communities; we will engage network analysis to establish the most effective ways of harnessing formal network support in areas of high deprivation; and we will employ systems thinking methods to understand the complex causes of social isolation, working with stakeholders to identify whole-community and strengths-based ways to tackle it.
- To uncover multilevel and modifiable relational mechanisms that shape, and are shaped by, experiences of wellbeing, health, risk, illness and inequality;
1. - To improve methods for discovery and translational public health research focused on relationships and health;
2. - To co-produce and evaluate relationship focused solutions to key public health priorities.
The programme conceptualises relationships as inherently complex, heterogeneous and influenced by the social context in which they are enacted. Our research is framed by complex systems thinking, in which social relationships are construed as interdependent elements within a connected whole. Our emphasis is on transdisciplinary action research, involving partnership with stakeholders throughout the research cycle, from problem framing, through measuring and describing, to identification and evaluation of potential solutions.
Our three complementary workstreams are structured around the levels at which social relationships operate; in dyads, small groups, social networks and communities.
The first focuses on intimate relationships and families. We aim to lead internationally on the public health conceptualisation and measurement of sexual wellbeing, and on the co-production and evaluation of complex interventions that theorise and measure relational mechanisms of change. This includes sex education, whole-school approaches to gender-based violence, and prison-based parenting programmes.
The second examines the distinct influences of social networks on health. We seek to advance methodological innovation in capturing and analysing multi-layer networks and using this to optimise network-based interventions. We will advance understanding of how evolving digital interactions have altered relational influences on adolescent health. We will also develop novel methods to assess change in social networks over the lifecourse, using causal mediation methods to assess relational elements of inequalities in healthy ageing.
The third focuses on social relationships in communities. We will use a syndemics lens to advance understanding of health inequalities in marginalised communities; we will engage network analysis to establish the most effective ways of harnessing formal network support in areas of high deprivation; and we will employ systems thinking methods to understand the complex causes of social isolation, working with stakeholders to identify whole-community and strengths-based ways to tackle it.
Organisations
- University of Glasgow (Lead Research Organisation)
- University of Manchester (Collaboration)
- NHS Lothian (Collaboration)
- NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) (Collaboration)
- De La Salle University (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
- NHS LANARKSHIRE (Collaboration)
- The Open University (Collaboration)
- Public Health Wales NHS Trust (Collaboration)
- University College Cork (Collaboration)
- Government of Scotland (Collaboration)
- University of Queensland (Collaboration)
- Early Years Scotland (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
People |
ORCID iD |
Publications
Anderson M
(2021)
'It's not 9 to 5 recovery': the role of a recovery community in producing social bonds that support recovery.
in Drugs (Abingdon, England)
Aventin Á
(2020)
Engaging parents in digital sexual and reproductive health education: evidence from the JACK trial.
in Reproductive health
Baillie A
(2022)
Participatory and deliberative processes in the UK related to income insecurity: a scoping review
in The Lancet
Bevan Jones R
(2020)
A Digital Intervention for Adolescent Depression (MoodHwb): Mixed Methods Feasibility Evaluation.
in JMIR mental health
Bosó Pérez R
(2023)
Access to and quality of sexual and reproductive health services in Britain during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative interview study of patient experiences.
in BMJ sexual & reproductive health
Bosó Pérez R
(2022)
Young People's Sexual Wellbeing: A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis Protocol
in International Journal of Qualitative Methods
Broccatelli C
(2021)
Social Network Research contribution to evaluating process in a feasibility study of a peer-led and school-based sexual health intervention.
in Scientific reports
Buston K
(2022)
The Case for Targeted Parenting Interventions with Reference to Intergenerational Transmission of Parenting: Qualitative Evidence from Three Studies of Marginalised Mothers' and Fathers' Participation in Parenting Programmes.
in Child care in practice : Northern Ireland journal of multi-disciplinary child care practice
Buston K
(2022)
How do Pregnant Women with Additional Health or Social Care Needs Experience Parenting Groups: Evidence from Delivery of Enhanced Triple P for Baby and Mellow Bumps as Part of the Trial of Healthy Relationships Initiatives in the Very Early Years (THRIVE).
in Child care in practice : Northern Ireland journal of multi-disciplinary child care practice
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| Project Reference | Relationship | Related To | Start | End | Award Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MC_UU_00022/1 | 01/04/2020 | 31/03/2025 | £4,603,000 | ||
| MC_UU_00022/2 | Transfer | MC_UU_00022/1 | 01/04/2020 | 31/03/2025 | £5,774,000 |
| MC_UU_00022/3 | Transfer | MC_UU_00022/2 | 01/04/2020 | 31/03/2025 | £2,597,000 |
| MC_UU_00022/4 | Transfer | MC_UU_00022/3 | 01/04/2020 | 31/03/2025 | £3,437,000 |
| MC_UU_00022/5 | Transfer | MC_UU_00022/4 | 01/08/2020 | 31/03/2025 | £1,000,000 |
| Title | Brief video: Understanding LGBT+ Youth Suicide in Scotland |
| Description | In this video Hazel Marzetti describes her findings on youth suicide among LGBT+ youth in Scotland. The Findings are from research she did as a PhD student at MRC/CSO SPHSU. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The video was posted on the TRIUMPH network website (http://triumph.sphsu.gla.ac.uk/videos-and-podcasts/). The Transdisciplinary Research for the Improvement of Youth Mental Public Health (TRIUMPH) Network brings together young people, health practitioners, policy-makers and those working with voluntary organisations, with academics from across clinical, social sciences, arts and humanities, design, and computer sciences disciplines. As such the video is accessible to a wide range of practitioners and young people concerned about youth mental health. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDexAVmHwqA |
| Title | Co-production of an animated video on sexual harassment in schools - as a knowledge exchange tool. |
| Description | This animated video gives a powerful account of sexual harassment in school. It conveys key insights from the pilot phase of Equally Safe at School project and is designed to encourage discussion on the issue. The video was commissioned by the University of Glasgow and produced by Media Co-op, with an advisory group of young people, as well as with Rape Crisis Scotland. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | We have just launched the website in August, presented our video during the national launch (attended by Education Scotland), and will continue to further disseminate these via Equally Safe schools, festivals, and conferences. |
| URL | https://www.equallysafeatschool.org.uk/ |
| Title | Short animation illustrating PhD project |
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| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Video shared via social media.No known impacts as yet |
| Title | Short film: Repartnering in midlife |
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| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Video link on twitter has 3332 impressions. The corresponding paper has been downloaded 664 times in first month since publication |
| URL | https://youtu.be/Pn4PanmGnZE |
| Description | Advice and research evidence given to Scottish Government Recovery Plan for Sexual Health and Blood Borne Viruses |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Alternative Children Rights Impact Assessment - impact of COVID-19 legislation and policy on children's mental health |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://cypcs.org.uk/coronavirus/how-are-scotlands-coronavirus-policies-impacting-children-and-young... |
| Description | CONUNDRUM report cited in Scot Government 'Reset and Rebuild' Covid recovery document (p.21) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
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| URL | https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/strategy-plan/2021/08/reset-reb... |
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| Description | Citation in Abortion care NICE guideline [NG140] |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | This paper was cited in NICE guidance document NG140 on Abortion care |
| URL | http://www.altmetric.com/details.php?citation_id=19656627 |
| Description | Citation in Behaviour change: digital and mobile health interventions NICE guideline [NG183] |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | This paper was cited in NICE guidance document NG183 on digital and mobile health interventions |
| URL | http://www.altmetric.com/details.php?citation_id=18229622 |
| Description | Citation in Health Improvement Scotland (HIS) Standards for Sexual Health |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.healthcareimprovementscotland.org/our_work/standards_and_guidelines/stnds/sexual_health_... |
| Description | Citation in Household and area-level social determinants of multimorbidity: a systematic review |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| URL | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33158940/ |
| Description | Citation in NICE guidance document NG140 on Abortion care |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | This paper was cited in NICE guidance document NG140 on Abortion care |
| URL | http://www.altmetric.com/details.php?citation_id=10882522 |
| Description | Citation in NICE guidance document NG140 on Abortion care |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | This paper was cited in NICE guidance document NG140 on Abortion care |
| URL | http://www.altmetric.com/details.php?citation_id=26299786 |
| Description | Citation in NIHR report (Kathryn Skivington) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| URL | https://evidence.nihr.ac.uk/collection/making-sense-of-the-evidence-multiple-long-term-conditions-mu... |
| Description | Citation in Scottish Government's plan for post-COVID recovery for sexual health. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.gov.scot/publications/reset-rebuild-recovery-plan-sexual-health-blood-borne-virus-servic... |
| Description | Citation in Sex Education Forum report |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.sexeducationforum.org.uk/sites/default/files/field/attachment/RSE%20The%20Evidence%20-%2... |
| Description | Citation in Systematic Review and Bibliometric Analysis |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| Description | Citation in UK Government evidence review |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
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| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tackling-loneliness-evidence-review/tackling-loneliness-e... |
| Description | Citation in UK Parliamentary Consultation on 'Children and young people's mental health'. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_778688_smxx.pdf |
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| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
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| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
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| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
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| Description | Citation in systematic review of Factors associated with risk behaviors in adolescence. Bozzini (2020) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| URL | https://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S1516-44462020005024204&script=sci_arttext |
| Description | Citation in systematic review of prevalence of Sexual Dysfunction in Asia And Europe (Irfan 2020, Am J Men's Health) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| URL | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1557988320937200 |
| Description | Citation of research within Scottish Government consultation paper on continuation of home abortion (p.10 - Heller et al) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.gov.scot/publications/consultation-future-arrangements-early-medical-abortion-home/ |
| Description | Citations in Scottish Government Women's Health Plan 2021-2024 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.gov.scot/publications/womens-health-plan/ |
| Description | Contribution to Consultation on Sexual health Standards (2021) Scottish Government |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.healthcareimprovementscotland.org/our_work/standards_and_guidelines/stnds/sexual_health_... |
| Description | Exposure to violence, a risk for suicide in youths and young adults. A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies (RY) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| URL | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acps.12679/full |
| Description | Invited book chapter |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| URL | https://www.routledge.com/Qualitative-Researcher-Vulnerability-Negotiating-Experiencing-and-Embracin... |
| Description | Invited member of the Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Advisory Group (MERAG) on Residential Rehabilitation for PHS (commissioned by Scottish Government) - series of working meetings over the course of 6 months (evaluation to be commissioned in Sept 2022) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.gov.scot/publications/pathways-through-out-residential-rehabilitation-scotland/ |
| Description | Invited research skills seminar |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
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| Description | Key stakeholder meetings to advise Scottish Government on design of forthcoming national Sexual Health Framework. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Meetings with Public Health England and Department for Health and Social Care to discuss evidence from Natsal COVID |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1015... |
| Description | Mercer et al cited in Toldam review of sexual health during COVID |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| Description | Natsal COVID study cited in Public Health England's report on Sexually Transmitted Infections and Chlamydia, 2020 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1015... |
| Description | Participation in Public Health Scotland Working Group on Drug Death Reporting |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | The short life working group considered how to reconfigure the collection, analysis and dissemination of drug related death statistics in Scotland. As a result of the working group, there will be a redesign in the timing of drug death reporting, the extent of linkage and data collection, and the methods for dissemination to the wider public. |
| Description | Participation in advisory group (Kathryn Skivington) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Presentation at UK Council for Graduate Education 2021 |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Presentation related to research integrity training delivered at UoG. Presentation to other stakeholders involved in training (UKCGE) |
| Description | Providing research and clinical input into the drug deaths task force MAT subgroup |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Rapid briefing to a Scottish Alcohol & Drug Partnership on service users experience during COVID lockdown |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Recommendations adopted for Scottish Government Action Plan on Peer Support in Perinatal Mental Health 2020-2023 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.gov.scot/publications/peer-support-perinatal-mental-health-action-plan-2020-2023/ |
| Description | Sexuality and Abortion Stigma Study (SASS) project cited in IPAS (partners for reproductive justice) training |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| URL | https://www.ipas.org/ |
| Description | Short course on developing and evaluating complex interventions |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | 100 people have completed the course, and have gained learning on developing and evaluating complex interventions. Course evaluation shows that participants have found the course useful and have used their learning, and the principles taught, in their work going forward. For example, one participant directly attributed his success in a fellowship application to the course. |
| URL | https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=12482 |
| Description | Short course on developing and evaluating complex interventions |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | 100 people have completed the course, and have gained learning on developing and evaluating complex interventions. Course evaluation shows that participants have found the course useful and have used their learning, and the principles taught, in their work going forward. For example, one participant directly attributed his success in a fellowship application to the course. |
| URL | https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=12482 |
| Description | Social networks and adolescent alcohol use- Citation in systematic review (Mark McCann) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250169 |
| Description | Talk at 27th Annual Regional Sexual Health Conference in Northern Ireland |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Training of clinical professionals in sexual dysfunction (BASHH) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Understanding the social and emotional needs of carers: final report. Social Policy Research Centre (UNSW) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | This paper was cited in a New South Wales, Autralian document commissioned by NSW Family & Community Services on behalf of the NSW Carers Advisory Council. |
| URL | http://www.altmetric.com/details.php?citation_id=42990523 |
| Description | Virtual Training Day for clinical practitioners at Mortimer Market Sexual Health Clinic, London |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | "The JACK Trial" A multi-site cluster randomised trial of an interactive film-based intervention to reduce teenage pregnancy and promote positive sexual health |
| Amount | £1,788,159 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 15/181/01 |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2017 |
| End | 04/2021 |
| Description | A SOCial sITuational Systems approach to measuring and modelling influences on adolescent mental health |
| Amount | £643,361 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/X003264/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2022 |
| End | 02/2025 |
| Description | A systems approach to exploring syndemic health and social condition clustering among individuals who experience a drug-related death: developmental work for co-produced intervention(s) |
| Amount | £277,014 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | HIPS/19/32 |
| Organisation | Chief Scientist Office |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2020 |
| End | 05/2022 |
| Description | Advancing measurement of gender and sexual dimensions of adolescent mental health and wellbeing: Addressing a missing link |
| Amount | £301,107 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/X003256/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2022 |
| End | 10/2024 |
| Description | An exploratory Study to test STASH, a peer led intervention to prevent & reduce STI transmission & improve sexual health in secondary schools |
| Amount | £446,544 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 14/182/14 |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2016 |
| End | 03/2019 |
| Description | Does Mellow Babies improve the psychosocial health of mothers and their children? The Mellow Babies Trial |
| Amount | £1,210,208 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 15/126/05 |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 11/2022 |
| Description | Enhancing the impact of a project to design mental health workplace interventions in the Philippines |
| Amount | £52,656 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2022 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Exploratory Study to test STASH |
| Amount | £27,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Government of Scotland |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2016 |
| End | 12/2018 |
| Description | Exploring intersections of norms of female sexuality and abortion stigma: a preparatory qualitative secondary analysis study |
| Amount | £69,507 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 207878/Z/1 7/Z |
| Organisation | Wellcome Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2018 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | From CONUNDRUM evidence to action: Co-producing the pillars of young people's involvement in sexual health policymaking and service improvement in Scotland |
| Amount | £19,597 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 07/2022 |
| Description | Future updates & dissemination of MRC Complex Intervention Guidance |
| Amount | £23,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MC_PC_20041 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 06/2021 |
| Description | Improving help-seeking in adolescence: the importance of mental health stigma and mental health literacy. |
| Amount | £96,453 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/W005581/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | Medical Research Council Confidence in Concept funding (Kirstin Mitchell) |
| Amount | £5,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Mental health and HIV among call centre employees in the Philippines: Co-producing a workplace intervention using a systems approach. |
| Amount | £140,700 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/V004093/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 08/2022 |
| Description | NIHR Public Health Research: Optimisation, feasibility testing and a pilot randomised trial of SaFE: a sexual health and healthy relationships intervention for Further Education |
| Amount | £510,815 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 17/149/12 |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles-4 |
| Amount | £7,166,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 212931Z/18/Z |
| Organisation | Wellcome Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2019 |
| End | 04/2024 |
| Description | Optimisation feasibility testing and a pilot randomised trial of SaFE: a sexual health and healthy relationships intervention for Further Education |
| Amount | £510,815 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 17/149/12 |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Parenting for Respectability RCT study (Daniel Wight) |
| Amount | $43,430 (USD) |
| Organisation | Oak Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | Global |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2022 |
| Description | Physical Activity, Social Connectedness and Healthy Ageing: Intervention Development (Kathryn Skivington and Sharon Simpson Co-PIs) |
| Amount | £150,391 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/Y503228/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2023 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Description | Providing strategic direction to optimize parenting interventions to prevent violence in Uganda |
| Amount | £196,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | OCAY-18- 670 |
| Organisation | Oak Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | Global |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | Rapid Review of the Relationships between Adolescents' Screen Time, Sleep and Mental Health and Wellbeing |
| Amount | £19,140 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Government of Scotland |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2019 |
| End | 09/2019 |
| Description | Relationships in Good Hands Trial: clinical and cost-effectiveness of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy for abused and neglected young children with maltreatment-associated problems and their parents |
| Amount | £2,121,389 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NIHR127801 |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 07/2024 |
| Description | Research Fellowship Posts & Knowledge Broker |
| Amount | £869,115 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MC PC 13027 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2013 |
| End | 05/2021 |
| Description | Ruth Lewis - MVLS Academic Returners' Support Scheme |
| Amount | £9,781 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Wellcome Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2022 |
| End | 02/2023 |
| Description | SPHSU/MRC EU - Participatory Systems Mapping |
| Amount | £158,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MC_PC_20039 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | Scottish Student Mental Health Research Network (ScotSMART) |
| Amount | £17,985 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| End | 07/2024 |
| Description | The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual and reproductive health in Britain |
| Amount | £49,800 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2020 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | The time of their lives? Developing Concepts and Methods to Understand Loneliness in Students |
| Amount | £860,034 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/X002810/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2022 |
| End | 02/2025 |
| Description | Uganda Parenting for Respectability Implementation Science Evaluation (UPRISE) |
| Amount | £21,547 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The Evaluation Fund |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Start | 04/2020 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| Description | WWCW_Loneliness and Wellbeing Among Adolescents and Young Adults |
| Amount | £247,772 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/T008679/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2020 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | Young People's Engagement in Sexual Health |
| Amount | £19,694 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Government of Scotland |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2022 |
| End | 04/2022 |
| Title | Evidence Synthesis for Directed Acyclic Graphs (ESC-DAGs) method |
| Description | We propose a method for using a combination of evidence synthesis strategies and causal inference principles to integrate the DAG-building exercise within the review stages of research projects. We demonstrate this idea by introducing a novel protocol: 'Evidence Synthesis for Constructing Directed Acyclic Graphs' (ESC-DAGs)'. |
| Type Of Material | Model of mechanisms or symptoms - human |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This paper describing the method (Ferguson et al, IJE, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyz150) has been cited 40 times. The method we set out has been in other applied research papers, causal inference methodological papers, and in methods tutorial / educational papers. |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyz150 |
| Title | Guidance on processing data for social network research |
| Description | This is a freely downloadable guidance document on issues related to GDPR, Data protection act and UK common law of confidentiality when conducting social network research. It was developed by the SPHSU and the MRC Regulatory support centre, and is intended for social researchers and Data Protection Officers in research organisations. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | There were over 200 downloads of the guidance in its first week of it's launch on Twitter. It was also circulated to the MRC regulatory support centre's counterparts in the ESRC. |
| URL | https://osf.io/kvdpt/ |
| Title | Guidance on processing data for social network research |
| Description | This is a freely downloadable guidance document on issues related to GDPR, Data protection act and UK common law of confidentiality when conducting social network research. It was developed by the SPHSU and the MRC Regulatory support centre, and is intended for social researchers and Data Protection Officers in research organisations. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | There were over 200 downloads of the guidance in its first week of it's launch on Twitter. It was also circulated to the MRC regulatory support centre's counterparts in the ESRC. |
| URL | https://osf.io/kvdpt/ |
| Title | Introduction to Networks and Health Improvement Short Course (Mark McCann) |
| Description | This annual course gives an overview of the theory and methods for understanding how networks of interpersonal relationships, their features and their structures can affect non communicable disease, and how network analysis methods can be used for health improvement. |
| Type Of Material | Model of mechanisms or symptoms - human |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Alumni of the course have had several successes and impacts, including: A 2021 alumnus successfully applied for an ESRC fellowship using social network analysis to look at mental health among people released from prison. Several 2022 alumni have been applying social network analysis methods to the whole systems approach to Obesity in Public Health Wales. Another 2022 alumnus aimed to direct their PhD funding on a whole systems approach to incorporate network methods. |
| URL | https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=12322 |
| Title | National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles COVID-19 Study, 2020-2021. [data collection]. 2nd Edition. UK Data Service. SN: 8865 |
| Description | The Natsal-COVID Wave 1 survey was conducted four months after the announcement of Britain's first national lockdown (23 March 2020), between 29 July and 10 August 2020. Wave 1 was an online web-panel survey administered by survey research company, Ipsos MORI. Eligible participants were resident in Britain, aged 18-59 years, and the sample included a boost of those aged 18-29. Questions covered participants' sexual behaviour, relationships, and SRH service use. Quotas and weighting were used to achieve a quasi-representative sample of the British general population. Participants meeting the criteria of interest and agreeing to recontact were selected for qualitative follow-up interviews. Comparisons were made with contemporaneous national probability surveys and Natsal-3 (2010-2012) (see SN 7799) to understand bias. Wave 2 was conducted March-April 2021, approximately one year after the start of Britain's first national lockdown. Data were collected using an online web-panel survey administered by Ipsos. The sample comprised a longitudinal sample of Wave 1 participants who had agreed to re-contact plus a sample of participants residing in Britain, aged 18-59, including a boost sample comprising people aged 18-29. Questions covered reproductive health, relationships, sexual behaviour and SRH service use. Quotas and weighting were used to achieve a quasi-representative sample of the British population. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Data were made quickly available to practitioners and policy makers via an international webinar (audience >500 people), pre-prints, direct inputs into Government Sexual Health recovery plans, multiple presentations at national and international conferences (e.g. STI & HIV World Conference in July 2021), numerous invited talks to clinical, academic and policy audiences (including UK Health Security Agency), and citations in key surveillance reports. Findings were discussed in print media, radio interviews (BBC Radio 4 PM with Evan Davies; BBC Five Live 'Sex and the Pandemic' show with Naga Munchetty') and television ('The Nine', national news programme in Scotland). The study has been highlighted in blogs (e.g. 60 seconds on COVID and sex in BMJ), podcasts and a BBC videos hosted on their news site. The study has published 11 papers to date and has provided data to a host of MSc and Doctoral training projects |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8865 |
| Title | Natsal COVID Wave 1 dataset |
| Description | The National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles COVID-19 study (Natsal-COVID) is a national quasi-representative web-based survey of 6,500 participants resident in Britain. The survey captures the impact of COVID on sexual behaviour, sexual and reproductive health service use and intimate relationships. Wave one of the survey captures change during the first four months of the survey. The dataset is deposited in the UK dataservice archive and is 'safeguarded'. The deposit comprises: a technical report, codebook and questionnaire as well as the datafile itself. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Three MSc students at UCK used the data for the dissertation research (academic year 2020/21). No other known notable impacts yet except that this dataset supported the development for wave two of the Natsal COVID study. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8865#!/details |
| Title | THRIVE longitudinal database |
| Description | Completed collection of baseline and follow-up data for the Trial of Healthy Relationship Initiatives for the Very Early-years (THRIVE). We recruited 500 women with additional social and care needs during pregnancy. Baseline data was collected between week 12 and week 27 of pregnancy. Follow-up data was collected when their infant was between 6 and 12 months of age. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | After a pre-agreed period of 5 years (2025), we intend to deposit the data for open access. |
| Description | CONUNDRUM Collaboration |
| Organisation | Government of Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration is an ongoing partnership building from relationships developed through the CONUNDRUM study (conducted 2019-2020). The collaboration is coordinated by our SPHSU research team (Ruth Lewis, Carolyn Blake, Christina McMellon, Kirstin Mitchell) with sexual/public health improvement leads from three NHS Scotland health boards (Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lothian, Lanarkshire), members of Scottish Government Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus (SHBBV) team, and two participatory youth initiatives (Waverley Care Young People's Panel and Contraception Education Reform Team). The original CONUNDRUM study was co-developed with these collaborators and others in the Scottish sexual health community and involved over 2000 young people living across Scotland. Since the study ended, the team has continued to collaborate on ways to take forward the co-produced policy recommendations. This has included securing ~£60k additional funding for a new project ("CONUNDRUM Action") focused on increasing young people's meaningful involvement in sexual health policymaking within Scotland. This project has backing from the Scottish Government SHBBV team, who anticipate this engagement work informing the upcoming review of their SHBBV Framework. In partnership with our CONUNDRUM collaborators, we anticipate pursuing further external funding for a co-developed digital intervention focused on increasing contraception/sexual health literacy among young people. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners from NHS, Scottish Government, third sector and youth organisations have been involved in co-designing the CONUNDRUM study, interpreting study data, generating policy recommendations, engaging with the sexual health community to share study findings (e.g. as panellists in a webinar), co-authoring a journal article based on Covid-related data from CONUNDRUM, co-developing the funding application for CONUNDRUM Action, and participating as members of the Action Group that comprises the core of this new project. |
| Impact | STUDY REPORT: https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_781762_smxx.pdf JOURNAL ARTICLE: https://srh.bmj.com/content/47/4/269.full BLOG POST: https://www.iresh.org.uk/working-together-to-understand-condom-and-contraception-use-among-young-people-in-scotland/ |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CONUNDRUM Collaboration |
| Organisation | NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration is an ongoing partnership building from relationships developed through the CONUNDRUM study (conducted 2019-2020). The collaboration is coordinated by our SPHSU research team (Ruth Lewis, Carolyn Blake, Christina McMellon, Kirstin Mitchell) with sexual/public health improvement leads from three NHS Scotland health boards (Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lothian, Lanarkshire), members of Scottish Government Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus (SHBBV) team, and two participatory youth initiatives (Waverley Care Young People's Panel and Contraception Education Reform Team). The original CONUNDRUM study was co-developed with these collaborators and others in the Scottish sexual health community and involved over 2000 young people living across Scotland. Since the study ended, the team has continued to collaborate on ways to take forward the co-produced policy recommendations. This has included securing ~£60k additional funding for a new project ("CONUNDRUM Action") focused on increasing young people's meaningful involvement in sexual health policymaking within Scotland. This project has backing from the Scottish Government SHBBV team, who anticipate this engagement work informing the upcoming review of their SHBBV Framework. In partnership with our CONUNDRUM collaborators, we anticipate pursuing further external funding for a co-developed digital intervention focused on increasing contraception/sexual health literacy among young people. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners from NHS, Scottish Government, third sector and youth organisations have been involved in co-designing the CONUNDRUM study, interpreting study data, generating policy recommendations, engaging with the sexual health community to share study findings (e.g. as panellists in a webinar), co-authoring a journal article based on Covid-related data from CONUNDRUM, co-developing the funding application for CONUNDRUM Action, and participating as members of the Action Group that comprises the core of this new project. |
| Impact | STUDY REPORT: https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_781762_smxx.pdf JOURNAL ARTICLE: https://srh.bmj.com/content/47/4/269.full BLOG POST: https://www.iresh.org.uk/working-together-to-understand-condom-and-contraception-use-among-young-people-in-scotland/ |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CONUNDRUM Collaboration |
| Organisation | NHS Lanarkshire |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration is an ongoing partnership building from relationships developed through the CONUNDRUM study (conducted 2019-2020). The collaboration is coordinated by our SPHSU research team (Ruth Lewis, Carolyn Blake, Christina McMellon, Kirstin Mitchell) with sexual/public health improvement leads from three NHS Scotland health boards (Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lothian, Lanarkshire), members of Scottish Government Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus (SHBBV) team, and two participatory youth initiatives (Waverley Care Young People's Panel and Contraception Education Reform Team). The original CONUNDRUM study was co-developed with these collaborators and others in the Scottish sexual health community and involved over 2000 young people living across Scotland. Since the study ended, the team has continued to collaborate on ways to take forward the co-produced policy recommendations. This has included securing ~£60k additional funding for a new project ("CONUNDRUM Action") focused on increasing young people's meaningful involvement in sexual health policymaking within Scotland. This project has backing from the Scottish Government SHBBV team, who anticipate this engagement work informing the upcoming review of their SHBBV Framework. In partnership with our CONUNDRUM collaborators, we anticipate pursuing further external funding for a co-developed digital intervention focused on increasing contraception/sexual health literacy among young people. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners from NHS, Scottish Government, third sector and youth organisations have been involved in co-designing the CONUNDRUM study, interpreting study data, generating policy recommendations, engaging with the sexual health community to share study findings (e.g. as panellists in a webinar), co-authoring a journal article based on Covid-related data from CONUNDRUM, co-developing the funding application for CONUNDRUM Action, and participating as members of the Action Group that comprises the core of this new project. |
| Impact | STUDY REPORT: https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_781762_smxx.pdf JOURNAL ARTICLE: https://srh.bmj.com/content/47/4/269.full BLOG POST: https://www.iresh.org.uk/working-together-to-understand-condom-and-contraception-use-among-young-people-in-scotland/ |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CONUNDRUM Collaboration |
| Organisation | NHS Lothian |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration is an ongoing partnership building from relationships developed through the CONUNDRUM study (conducted 2019-2020). The collaboration is coordinated by our SPHSU research team (Ruth Lewis, Carolyn Blake, Christina McMellon, Kirstin Mitchell) with sexual/public health improvement leads from three NHS Scotland health boards (Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lothian, Lanarkshire), members of Scottish Government Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus (SHBBV) team, and two participatory youth initiatives (Waverley Care Young People's Panel and Contraception Education Reform Team). The original CONUNDRUM study was co-developed with these collaborators and others in the Scottish sexual health community and involved over 2000 young people living across Scotland. Since the study ended, the team has continued to collaborate on ways to take forward the co-produced policy recommendations. This has included securing ~£60k additional funding for a new project ("CONUNDRUM Action") focused on increasing young people's meaningful involvement in sexual health policymaking within Scotland. This project has backing from the Scottish Government SHBBV team, who anticipate this engagement work informing the upcoming review of their SHBBV Framework. In partnership with our CONUNDRUM collaborators, we anticipate pursuing further external funding for a co-developed digital intervention focused on increasing contraception/sexual health literacy among young people. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners from NHS, Scottish Government, third sector and youth organisations have been involved in co-designing the CONUNDRUM study, interpreting study data, generating policy recommendations, engaging with the sexual health community to share study findings (e.g. as panellists in a webinar), co-authoring a journal article based on Covid-related data from CONUNDRUM, co-developing the funding application for CONUNDRUM Action, and participating as members of the Action Group that comprises the core of this new project. |
| Impact | STUDY REPORT: https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_781762_smxx.pdf JOURNAL ARTICLE: https://srh.bmj.com/content/47/4/269.full BLOG POST: https://www.iresh.org.uk/working-together-to-understand-condom-and-contraception-use-among-young-people-in-scotland/ |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Centre for Research on Families & Relationships (CRFR) |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Department | Centre for Research in Families and Relationships (CRFR) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Dr. Ruth Lewis was invited to become Associate Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Families & Relationships in May 2019. Specific contributions include to: discussions about the strategic vision and function of the centre; international conference organisation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CRFR is a consortium research centre based at University of Edinburgh, with partners at the Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, Glasgow Caledonian, Highlands & Islands and Stirling. |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Collaborator on ESRC Network Grant Bid: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Anglo-Celtic Isles: Establishing a Cross-Border Networks of Scholars, Activists and Practitioners. |
| Organisation | Open University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Joint UK/Ireland bid, Co-I |
| Collaborator Contribution | Joint UK/Ireland bid to support establishing of cross-border research and engagement network |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaborator on ESRC Network Grant Bid: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Anglo-Celtic Isles: Establishing a Cross-Border Networks of Scholars, Activists and Practitioners. |
| Organisation | University College Cork |
| Country | Ireland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Joint UK/Ireland bid, Co-I |
| Collaborator Contribution | Joint UK/Ireland bid to support establishing of cross-border research and engagement network |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaborator on ESRC Network Grant Bid: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Anglo-Celtic Isles: Establishing a Cross-Border Networks of Scholars, Activists and Practitioners. |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Joint UK/Ireland bid, Co-I |
| Collaborator Contribution | Joint UK/Ireland bid to support establishing of cross-border research and engagement network |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaborator on ESRC Network Grant Bid: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Anglo-Celtic Isles: Establishing a Cross-Border Networks of Scholars, Activists and Practitioners. |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Joint UK/Ireland bid, Co-I |
| Collaborator Contribution | Joint UK/Ireland bid to support establishing of cross-border research and engagement network |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaborator on new Abortion Talk project |
| Organisation | Open University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaborator on new project funded/led by Open University, building on findings from The Sexuality and Abortion Stigma (SASS) to develop new abortion social support organisation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Findings from SASS study formed basis for funding app; CP is collaborator |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Established a short life multi-sector stakeholder group [CONUNDRUM Action Group] |
| Organisation | Government of Scotland |
| Department | Scottish Government Health Directories |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The CONUNDRUM Action project research team established a working group (the CONUNDRUM Action Group) to coproduce research and action aiming to increase the meaningful involvement of young people in sexual health policymaking and service improvement in Scotland. Membership of the Action Group included 20 young people from two participatory youth initiatives focused on sexual health (Contraception Education Reform Team (CERT) & Waverley Care’s Young People Panel (WCYPP), sexual health improvement managers from three NHS Health Boards, a policymaker from the Scottish Government Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus team, and a service development manager from a sexual health third sector organization. As planned, the Action Group met regularly online over a six-month period, with sustained engagement throughout the project duration. The group worked together on putting into action some of the key recommendations from the first phase of the CONUNDRUM research project. One of the main aims of the group was to show from a workable example the benefits of meaningfully involving young people in the sexual health policymaking process. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All partners have been engaged throughout the project and we have seen consistently high attendance in online Action Group meetings. In evaluation activities, Action Group members have reported a variety of impacts derived from their participation in the Action Group, including development of new collaborative cross-sector relationships, strengthening of existing partnerships, development of new skills and knowledge relating to youth involvement and digital engagement, and impact on policy-decision-making at both Health Board and government levels. |
| Impact | Action Group members have reported impacts including the development of new collaborative cross-sector relationships, strengthening of existing partnerships, development of new skills and knowledge relating to youth involvement and digital engagement, and impact on policy-decision-making at both Health Board and government levels. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Established a short life multi-sector stakeholder group [CONUNDRUM Action Group] |
| Organisation | NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The CONUNDRUM Action project research team established a working group (the CONUNDRUM Action Group) to coproduce research and action aiming to increase the meaningful involvement of young people in sexual health policymaking and service improvement in Scotland. Membership of the Action Group included 20 young people from two participatory youth initiatives focused on sexual health (Contraception Education Reform Team (CERT) & Waverley Care’s Young People Panel (WCYPP), sexual health improvement managers from three NHS Health Boards, a policymaker from the Scottish Government Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus team, and a service development manager from a sexual health third sector organization. As planned, the Action Group met regularly online over a six-month period, with sustained engagement throughout the project duration. The group worked together on putting into action some of the key recommendations from the first phase of the CONUNDRUM research project. One of the main aims of the group was to show from a workable example the benefits of meaningfully involving young people in the sexual health policymaking process. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All partners have been engaged throughout the project and we have seen consistently high attendance in online Action Group meetings. In evaluation activities, Action Group members have reported a variety of impacts derived from their participation in the Action Group, including development of new collaborative cross-sector relationships, strengthening of existing partnerships, development of new skills and knowledge relating to youth involvement and digital engagement, and impact on policy-decision-making at both Health Board and government levels. |
| Impact | Action Group members have reported impacts including the development of new collaborative cross-sector relationships, strengthening of existing partnerships, development of new skills and knowledge relating to youth involvement and digital engagement, and impact on policy-decision-making at both Health Board and government levels. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Established a short life multi-sector stakeholder group [CONUNDRUM Action Group] |
| Organisation | NHS Lanarkshire |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The CONUNDRUM Action project research team established a working group (the CONUNDRUM Action Group) to coproduce research and action aiming to increase the meaningful involvement of young people in sexual health policymaking and service improvement in Scotland. Membership of the Action Group included 20 young people from two participatory youth initiatives focused on sexual health (Contraception Education Reform Team (CERT) & Waverley Care’s Young People Panel (WCYPP), sexual health improvement managers from three NHS Health Boards, a policymaker from the Scottish Government Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus team, and a service development manager from a sexual health third sector organization. As planned, the Action Group met regularly online over a six-month period, with sustained engagement throughout the project duration. The group worked together on putting into action some of the key recommendations from the first phase of the CONUNDRUM research project. One of the main aims of the group was to show from a workable example the benefits of meaningfully involving young people in the sexual health policymaking process. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All partners have been engaged throughout the project and we have seen consistently high attendance in online Action Group meetings. In evaluation activities, Action Group members have reported a variety of impacts derived from their participation in the Action Group, including development of new collaborative cross-sector relationships, strengthening of existing partnerships, development of new skills and knowledge relating to youth involvement and digital engagement, and impact on policy-decision-making at both Health Board and government levels. |
| Impact | Action Group members have reported impacts including the development of new collaborative cross-sector relationships, strengthening of existing partnerships, development of new skills and knowledge relating to youth involvement and digital engagement, and impact on policy-decision-making at both Health Board and government levels. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Established a short life multi-sector stakeholder group [CONUNDRUM Action Group] |
| Organisation | NHS Lothian |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The CONUNDRUM Action project research team established a working group (the CONUNDRUM Action Group) to coproduce research and action aiming to increase the meaningful involvement of young people in sexual health policymaking and service improvement in Scotland. Membership of the Action Group included 20 young people from two participatory youth initiatives focused on sexual health (Contraception Education Reform Team (CERT) & Waverley Care’s Young People Panel (WCYPP), sexual health improvement managers from three NHS Health Boards, a policymaker from the Scottish Government Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus team, and a service development manager from a sexual health third sector organization. As planned, the Action Group met regularly online over a six-month period, with sustained engagement throughout the project duration. The group worked together on putting into action some of the key recommendations from the first phase of the CONUNDRUM research project. One of the main aims of the group was to show from a workable example the benefits of meaningfully involving young people in the sexual health policymaking process. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All partners have been engaged throughout the project and we have seen consistently high attendance in online Action Group meetings. In evaluation activities, Action Group members have reported a variety of impacts derived from their participation in the Action Group, including development of new collaborative cross-sector relationships, strengthening of existing partnerships, development of new skills and knowledge relating to youth involvement and digital engagement, and impact on policy-decision-making at both Health Board and government levels. |
| Impact | Action Group members have reported impacts including the development of new collaborative cross-sector relationships, strengthening of existing partnerships, development of new skills and knowledge relating to youth involvement and digital engagement, and impact on policy-decision-making at both Health Board and government levels. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Global Strategy and Partnership Collaboration (Kathryn Skivington & Anna Pearce) |
| Organisation | University of Queensland |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We (Anna Pearce and Kathryn Skivington) contributed towards the overall organisation of 4 collaborative workshops between SPHSU, the Institute of Social Science Research at the University of Queensland, and the Leeds Social Science Institute. We led the 2nd workshop, and attended the 4th in person in a visit to the University of Queensland. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Colleagues at the University of Queensland secured funding to hold a collaborative workshop with us, and led the overall organisation of the workshop series. |
| Impact | Three online workshops, with individual research presentations from SPHSU and the other institutes. There were >100 attendees at these workshops. An in-person workshop with a smaller working group to explore project ideas from the online workshop series and to further secure the collaboration. This was multidisciplinary, involving people from Public Health, Social Sciences, International Development, Geography, Political Science. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Ongoing collaboration with Early Years Scotland in doctoral studentship |
| Organisation | Early Years Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | JM is undertaking an evaluation of Early Years Scotland's work in Scottish prisons (Learning through play) for her PhD thesis |
| Collaborator Contribution | Early Years Scotland have granted Jessica access to delivery of the Learning Through Play programme. |
| Impact | Article in Early Years Scotland magazine - distributed to all members. Participation in Early Years meetings and conferences. Short social media film made about the research. Academic public health with childcare practitioners. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Partnership with De La Salle University |
| Organisation | De La Salle University |
| Country | Philippines |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Leadership and delivery of project. Successfully securing further funding. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Co-leadership and delivery of project. Successfully securing further funding. |
| Impact | Reported elsewhere and will mostly be realised post March 2023 |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Public Health Wales Child and Family Healthy Weight Pilot |
| Organisation | Public Health Wales NHS Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We are providing expertise and support in the application of network analysis and systems science methods to support the evaluation of a Pilot Whole Systems Approach to Child and Family Healthy weight in three areas of Wales. We are providing survey design and analysis expertise. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Public Health Wales are supporting data collection from organisations in the pilot areas, and provided a financial contribution to the project. |
| Impact | The funded research collaboration was based on the initial discussion of collaborative opportunities. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | SGSSS co-supervision with University of Edinburgh |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Department | School of Social and Political Science |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We successfully submitted an application to the ESRC Scottish Graduate School of Social Science supervisor led PhD funding stream, a joint bid between the Unit and the University of Edinburgh. The student will graduate at Edinburgh. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Edinburgh partners have provided the dataset for analysis. |
| Impact | Successful SGSSS studentship awarded |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Using Natsal COVID data to model impact of COVID pandemic on STI transmission |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Department | MRC Epidemiology Unit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are contributing UK national population data from a web panel survey (n=6,500) we undertook to assess impact of COVID 19 on sexual health. We are assisting the modellers in selecting the right variables and assumptions based on our data and expertise in measuring sexual behaviour. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The team at MRC Epidemiology Unit are setting up and running a model to assess the impact of COVID 19 on spread of STIs in UK. |
| Impact | article underway. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Title | Coaching for Wellbeing: Supervisor Training programme |
| Description | Two-stage interactive Group based training programme for supervisors/team leads working within PBO Industry. Underpinned by self-determination theory and designed to support conversations between supervisors and their team members on mental wellbeing, as well as intra and interpersonal reflection among supervisors. The intervention materials comprise a slide deck, facilitator manual, homework sheets, and evaluation tools. |
| Type | Therapeutic Intervention - Psychological/Behavioural |
| Current Stage Of Development | Initial development |
| Year Development Stage Completed | 2023 |
| Development Status | Under active development/distribution |
| Impact | Currently at intervention development and refinement stage. Next step is evaluation for effectiveness. |
| Title | SEED Intervention: a Stratified, Cluster Randomised Trial of a Multi-component Primary School Intervention that follows the Pupils' Transition into Secondary School |
| Description | The SEED study is a cluster randomised trial of a school-based public health intervention. We ticked the 'clinical trial' box because there was no option to tick for a cluster randomised trial of a public health intervention. The intervention is as follows: Data collected on emotional wellbeing of students is fed back to schools alongside benchmarked data and used to support reflective discussion sessions led by educational psychologists. This enables schools to make action plans at classroom level but also whole school level (interventions such as restorative justice). The focus of these interventions is particularly on managing transition from primary to secondary school. Trial results are currently being analysed. The report will be submitted mid April 2020. Scottish Government are interested in scaled up roll out. SEED has been developed and implemented in close partnership with Scottish government (for instance the Scottish Government is adopting questions from the SEED survey into the census to enable sharing across data sources/support consistency in what is collected) The intervention scoping, development and feasibility trial was funded by Scottish Government/CSO. Phase III trial Evaluation funded by NIHR. |
| Type | Preventative Intervention - Behavioural risk modification |
| Current Stage Of Development | Late clinical evaluation |
| Year Development Stage Completed | 2020 |
| Development Status | Under active development/distribution |
| Clinical Trial? | Yes |
| Impact | Results are still being analysed but impacts are expected in future. For instance, the Resource guide (which enables schools to select activities that respond to identified need) will be made publicly available. |
| URL | http://seed.sphsu.mrc.ac.uk/home |
| Title | STASH: Digital resources for young people's Sexual Health designed for peer-to-peer sharing via social media |
| Description | The STASH website houses a set of curated sexual health resources designed to be shared between peers via social media. The original STASH website was designed for the NIHR funded STASH feasibility trial [Moore 14/182/14]. Since the end of the Trial, we have used funding from the Scottish Government to implement key changes based on the findings of the feasibility trial. Specifically, these were: flexibility to share on any social media platform (previous site was linked to Facebook), enhanced search function and organisation of resources to make them easier to find, an escape button, simplified log in; improved design for both mobile and computer. |
| Type | Preventative Intervention - Physical/Biological risk modification |
| Current Stage Of Development | Refinement. Non-clinical |
| Year Development Stage Completed | 2020 |
| Development Status | Actively seeking support |
| Impact | To our knowledge the STASH website is unique as a resource specifically designed to support sharing of sexual health resources via social media. It attempts to bring together the 'best of the web' in terms of accessible and quality information on sexual health. We intend to apply for funding to trial its use in a full evaluation of the STASH intervention, and we are investigating options for broader roll out. |
| URL | https://stash.tips/ |
| Description | 'Sexy Science' game at HIV Scotland 'Smut Slam' event |
| 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 | Malachi Willis led the Unit's Sexy Science engagement activity at this public engagement event. As people filed in for the event, they stopped by the table to guess when various sex-related events happened in history. Most figured that it was medieval times when the only church-sanctioned sex position was missionary, and plenty knew that the first Gay Pride parade happened in the 1970s. However, people were surprised that a husband could legally rape his wife until 1989 and that corn flakes were invented in the late 1800s to reduce masturbation! In honour of International Women's Day, the theme of the Smut Slam was taking control of your sexuality. Over the course of the evening, people of various gender identities got on stage to tell a 5-minute real-life story about their sex lives |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | A published blog about co-producing research with young people online |
| 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 | Published a blog post via the SPHSU blog titled: 'Co-producing research with young people online: Insights from a participatory sexual health project. The blog was co-authored by the research team and young people participating in the CONUNDRUM Action Group.' The blog describes what we have learnt from using a digital approach to co-production, including challenges and benefits. It also offers some practical tips for anyone considering running online engagement workshops with young people. The blog was publicised via the Unit Twitter (tweets by the Unit and Relationships team account), and has been retweeted at least 12 times from this account, and liked 9 times including by external researchers and 3rd sector organisations. The blog was published to coincide with Scottish Co-production week. The organisers of the Scottish Co-production week shared the blog post on their social media as part of their calendar of events. In their Tweet, they highlighted the useful practical tips offered in the blog about doing co-production with young people online. NHS partners also included a link to the blog in sexual health newsletters and bulletins (some with up to 7,000 subscribers) to update the sexual health community on what was happening in the CONUNDRUM Action project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/research/mrccsosocialandpublichealthsciencesunit/shari... |
| Description | Article in Daily Mail |
| 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 | Daily Mail covered our publication 'We're just tired' which explains how social stressors are as salient as biological menopause in explaining declines in function, frequency and satisfaction among women in mid-life. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11822641/Stresses-life-likely-affect-sex-lives-middle-age... |
| Description | Articles in the Sunday Times and Independent newspaper citing findings from Natsal COVID and quote by Kirstin Mitchell |
| 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 in Sunday Times newspaper covering the decline in sexual activity among young people during the pandemic. Following a phone interview with kirstin Mitchell, the article included headline findings from Natsal COVID and quoted Kirstin Mitchell. The story was subsequently picked up and covered by the Independent newspaper and other outlets |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/students-sex-pandemic-virginity-b1974515.html |
| Description | Autonomy, trust and surveillance - the role of technology in reproductive healthcare |
| 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 | Invited talk at inaugural event for new BPAS Centre for Reproductive Research and Communication |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.bpas.org/get-involved/centre-for-reproductive-research-communication/ |
| Description | BBC Scotland_Media enquiry about CONUNDRUM project findings |
| 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 | A BBC Scotland researcher contacted the CONUNDRUM project team to know more about our research findings - to support the writing of a piece on use of oral contraception among young people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | BBC Video broadcast on how the pandemic affected young people's sex lives, featuring Cath Mercer sharing findings from the Natsal COVID study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | BBC video vignette featuring three young women describing how their sex life had been affected by the pandemic. Their accounts were interspersed with interview footage of Cath Mercer (Natsal PI) describing headline findings from the Natsal COVID study on changes in sexual behaviour in the first four months of the pandemic. The video was released on 17th December and continued to feature as a 'top story' on the first page of the BBC news app. At beginning of January it was the third most watched video on the BBC news app. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-59690154 |
| Description | BMJ SRH Blog on natsal covid findings about people's qualitative accounts of their unmet SRH needs |
| 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 | Blog written for the BMJ SRH readership to help disseminate the findings from the research article and make it more accessible. The blog explores people's difficulties trying to access sexual and reproductive health services during the early months of the COVID-19. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://blogs.bmj.com/bmjsrh/2022/06/20/what-were-patients-experiences-of-trying-to-access-sexual-an... |
| Description | Blog for IRESH network: Understanding condoms and contraceptive use in young people |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | The CONUNDRUM project team (Ruth Lewis, Carolyn Blake, Christina McMellon, Julie Riddell & Kirstin Mitchell) wrote a blog post for the IRESH blog titled: "Working together to understand condom and contraception use among young people in Scotland". The blog post outlined the co-production approach we're taking in this project, and summarised systems thinking activities we used to generate dialogue within the engagement workshops held with young people and sexual health stakeholders at the outset of the project. We sent the blog to over 50 stakeholders who attended the workshops, and also to a wider list of stakeholders nationally who helped us recruit for the online survey. Tweets about the blog were shared by multiple organisations/individuals on twitter, including third sector and NHS partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.iresh.org.uk/working-together-to-understand-condom-and-contraception-use-among-young-peo... |
| Description | Blog for What Works Centre for Wellbeing on loneliness and mental health in schools |
| 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 | Blog summarising the results of recent paper on loneliness and mental health in Scottish schools. Put up on study webpage on the What Works website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Blog post (IRESH) |
| 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 | This blog post was shared on the IRESH website (the Scottish Interdisciplinary Research in Sexual Health Network) describing how the Covid-19 pandemic has influenced research into abortion-related content online. Blog readers are IRESH members, including health practitioners, NGO employees, and academics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.iresh.org.uk/sharing-abortion-experiences-online-how-my-research-is-being-shaped-by-the-... |
| Description | Blog: Why we need targeted parenting interventions |
| 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 | Blog outlining the case for targeted parenting interventions for marginalised families for a general audience. The blog accompanied a paper on the same topic, published in Child Care and Practice. Key practitioner organisations were informed about both blog and paper, and there was focused twitter activity. Increased awareness of research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/healthwellbeing/research/mrccsosocialandpublichealthscience... |
| Description | CONUNDRUM - Blog post on involving young people in sexual health policy and service improvement |
| 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 | Published a blog post via the SPHSU blog titled: "Involving young people in sexual health policy and service improvement". Blog was co-authored by the research team and young people participating in the CONUNDRUM Action Group. It describes our approach to young people's involvement, including practical and ethical considerations. The blog has been publicised via Twitter (tweets by the Unit and Relationships team account), and has been retweeted at least 20 times, including by external researchers and sexual health clinicians. The blog has also been shared with project stakeholders, and is a useful tool for further engagement we are doing via youth organisations across Scotland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/healthwellbeing/research/mrccsosocialandpublichealthscience... |
| Description | CONUNDRUM - Interview (video) for a co-production network project |
| 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ruth Lewis and Billie Turner participated in a video interview to discuss our approach to co-production with young people and other sexual health stakeholders in the CONUNDRUM project. The interview was conducted by a Community Reporter to contribute to a project called "The Value of Co-Production" - a collaborative project between People's Voice Media, the Community Reporter Network and the Co-Production Collective to gather people's experiences of co-production. Through gathering a range of stories about co-production, the project will work to identify what changes co-production can bring to services, research and policy. The interview is available on the Community Reporter website and a segment from the interview has been included in a collection of videos publicised by the Co-Production Collective (led from UCL): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1vtHOjD7gN0zv69hASCuk6wfgHC4yrSq |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://communityreporter.net/story/billie-and-ruth-value-copro-sexual-health-project-scotland-2022-... |
| Description | CONUNDRUM - Press release & coverage |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | One of the CONUNDRUM study partners - NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde - press released the call for participants for the online survey, including quotes from NHS representatives and study co-PIs (Ruth Lewis & Carolyn Blake). The release was picked up by local newspapers including: Glasgow Times, Paisley Daily Express, Dumbarton Democrat. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/18544414.teens-asked-contraception-views-uptake-free-condoms-dro... |
| Description | CONUNDRUM Action - Engagement workshops with young people, co-led by peer researchers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As part of the CONUNDRUM Action project, we conducted eight online workshops to understand young people's priorities for digital sexual health information and support in Scotland. Workshop participants (n=35) were recruited via youth organisations, and were diverse in gender, sexuality, ethnicity, SIMD. Workshops were co-facilitated by trained peer researchers (n=4 young people) from the CONUNDRUM Action Group, alongside two members of the research team (Billie, Ruth or Carolyn). Peer researchers participated in three capacity-building sessions to strengthen their knowledge, skills and confidence relating to workshop facilitation, research ethics, and data management. They also co-designed the workshop with the research team. This piece of engagement work was prompted by requests from NHS health improvement staff and is intended to inform improvement of online sexual health resources. Based on our sharing of the interim report with our NHS partners, NHS Health Improvement staff reported a change in practice on the basis of insights from this report (ie deciding not to go ahead in the short term with a planned course of action relating to digital resources as it was felt these no longer met young people's needs, and instead further work was needed). A short final report on this engagement work is currently being co-developed with the peer researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | CONUNDRUM youth engagement workshops |
| 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 | Between November 2019 and January 2020, we held 6 youth engagement events with young people aged 16-24 (n=38) in three NHS health board areas (Greater Glasgow & Clyde, Lothian and Lanarkshire), to inform the development of the CONUNDRUM study. We used dynamic activities (e.g. 'rich pictures', small group and whole group discussion) to explore young people's own perspectives on factors shaping condom and contraception use. Young people also advised us on the content and design (e.g. format, recruitment) of an online survey, which will be open to young people across Scotland in 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | Call with BBC Scotland to discuss gender based violence |
| 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 | I was contacted by BBC Scotland to take part in a call to discuss Gender Based Violence in Schools, in the context of current media coverage of the issue. They were interested in finding out more about our project Equally Safe at School (ESAS), and were looking for information to better frame an investigative piece they will be producing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Co developing recommendations for addressing condom and contraception use among young people in Scotland (Conundrum Study) |
| 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 | The aims of the online workshop was to engage policy makers from the Scottish Government Womens Health Plan Team discuss study findings and support the co-production of recommendations. 6 people took part, but the reach of the workshop was likely wider. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Co developing recommendations for addressing condom and contraception use among young people in Scotland (Conundrum Study) |
| 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 | The aims of the online workshop was to engage the national ' Condoms Distrbution Scheme' network members (from NHS health boards) to discuss study findings and support the co-production of recommendations. 6 people took part, but the reach of the workshop was likely higher. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Co developing recommendations for addressing condom and contraception use among young people in Scotland (Conundrum Study) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The aims of the online workshop was to engage students from Queen Mary University to discuss study findings and support the co-production of recommendations. 5 people took part, but the reach of the workshop was likely wider |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Co developing recommendations for addressing condom and contraception use among young people in Scotland (Conundrum Study) |
| 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 | The aims of the online workshop was to engage the Sexual Health Clinical Leads (from NHS health boards) to discuss study findings and support the co-production of recommendations. 8 people took part, but the reach of the workshop was likely wider. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Co-production methods to explore co-morbidity among drug-related deaths in Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interactive presentation demonstrating co-production methods to Population and Health Research Group, University of St Andrews |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Conducted 3 participatory workshops to evaluate the CONUNDRUM + CONUNDRUM Action project with multi-sector stakeholders |
| 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 | We conducted three online workshops to evaluate impacts of the inter-linked CONUNDRUM and CONUNDRUM Action projects. We used Ripple Effects Mapping â€" a participatory evaluation method â€" to identify stakeholders’ views on key actions and impacts across both phases of the project. Workshop participants included young people, alongside professionals from NHS, academia, and Scottish Government. Next steps include working with stakeholders to analyse the map outputs and co-development of a journal article outlining impacts of a research-led multi-sector sexual health collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Contributed to workshop as part of the ADAPT study to adapt complex population health interventions |
| 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 | Expert advisory group contributing to guidance around developing and adapting interventions. No formal output as yet, but when guidance is developed it will be a key resource for those working to adapt interventions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/7/e038965 |
| Description | Critical Systems Heurists activity (South Lanarkshire) (Benjamin Rigby) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 2 stakeholders, including a representative of the PACES project partner Seniors Together, participated in a structured Critical Systems Heuristics activity, which was facilitated by the research team. The discussions led to the identification of key stakeholders for physical activity and social connectedness in South Lanarkshire, who are to be recruited to our systems workshops and will enable us to target pathways to impact as the PACES Project develops. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Critical systems heuristics activity (Renfrewshire) (Benjamin Rigby) |
| 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 | 3 stakeholders, including a representative of the PACES project partner ROAR, participated in a structured Critical Systems Heuristics activity, which was facilitated by the research team. The discussions led to the identification of key stakeholders for physical activity and social connectedness in Renfrewshire, who are to be recruited to our systems workshops and will enable us to target pathways to impact as the PACES Project develops. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Data from Natsal COVID study discussed in article in The Guardian newspaper and on BBC Radio 4 'PM' show |
| 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 | Article by Zoe Williams in the Guardian newspaper about COVID has changed our sex lives. The article cites data from the Natsal COVID study to explain the complex picture of how the pandemic affected intimate relationships and sexual behaviour. The article was picked by BBC Radio 4 and KM was interviewed live on the 'PM' show. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/sep/25/has-covid-killed-our-sex-lives |
| Description | Developments in abortion care: reflections and future directions in Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Co-hosted (with Nicola Boydell) expert panel on developments in abortion care for Scottish Interdisciplinary Research Network / HIV Scotland online conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGF03ZcYBjs&ab_channel=HIVScotland |
| Description | Doing trans and non-binary sexual health research blog (IReSH for LGBT History Month 2020) |
| 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 | In the first seven days: over one thousand impressions and forty-two engagements with my own tweet about the blog post, including seven retweets and 12 likes from national and international Twitter users. Additional likes and retweets of others' tweets about the blog post, including engagement by a sexual health service within a Scottish health board. Five new followers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.iresh.org.uk/doing-trans-and-non-binary-sexual-health-research-george-burrows |
| Description | Drugs Deaths Task Force Round Table |
| 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 | Final reporting on all of the projects funded by the Drugs Deaths Task Force. Hosted by Drugs Research Network Scotland. Although our project was not Drugs Deaths Task Force funded it was identified as highly relevant for the round table discussion and we were directly asked to present at this event. Diverse stakeholders were in the audience, including government representatives, clinicians, third sector, consultancy, and research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Engagement with policymakers for loneliness study (Sharon Simpson) |
| 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 aspects of study design, early results and dissemination strategy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Equally Safe at School - Launch of National Roll out |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Online national launch of the 'Equally Safe at School' Intervention. The event was opened by Ms Shirley-Anne Somerville, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills. We showed the animated film produced by our team and developed from our research findings. The session featured talks from Rape Crisis, from our SPHSU research team, testimonies from teachers and young people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.equallysafeatschool.org.uk/ |
| Description | Expert consultation survey (Benjamin Rigby) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | 17 invited experts were invited to complete an online survey about Participatory Systems Mapping. These experts were from around the World, and included university academics, two private consultants, and a graduate student. Responses to the survey led to refinement of the Project outputs, as well as shaped the content of further engagement workshops. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | Expert workshops (Benjamin Rigby) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | 21 global participatory systems mapping experts (including university academics, a graduate student and two private consultants) took part in one of two online workshops (25th and 27th January 2022), which were designed to obtain feedback on key elements of the intended outputs. These workshops generated discussion and questions about the project, which led to an increased interest in the work and helped shape our views on how to move the project forward. We also received new interest in continued involvement by external parties. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Five page feature on Sexual Harassment in schools in Scottish Sunday Post, including promotion of 'Equally Safe at School' |
| 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 | Kathryn Dawson (Rape Crisis lead for Equally Safe at School) was interviewed as a commentator on a survey commissioned by The Sunday Post on the extent of sexual harassment in Schools. The article promoted the Equally Safe Intervention as a promising way to tackle the crisis in schools. Article appeared both in print and online |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/teach-pupils-about-relationships/ |
| Description | Focus group with young carers from Swansea YMCA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Met with a group of young carers from Swansea YMCA to showcase the work we do here in DECIPHer and ALPHA. this was an opportunity to recruit a wider range of young people to the ALPHA group. We ran a number of tasks looking at public health topics and the importance of asking young people for their views on topics. Another task we ran with the group was looking at the TRIUMPH network and discussing how to make our website more young person friendly and interactive. The group provided feedback on the most suitable and sustainable ways in which this website and TRIUMPH could appeal to more young people. including incentives, activities and usability. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | From rose garden to ridicule: how a week of disaster for Tories and Dominic Cummings unfolded |
| 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 | Quoted in article. The Guardian. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/30/from-rose-garden-to-ridicule-how-a-week-of-disaster... |
| Description | Glasgow People's Health Inquiry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | An oral evidence submission to the Glasgow People's Health Inquiry, organised by The People's Health Movement Scotland (a diverse group of health and social activists based in Scotland who are members of a global movement that calls for a right to health for all). The session was attended by people from third sector organisations, academics, and policymakers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Health inequalities reception at Scottish Parliament (Gillian Bell) |
| 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 | The SPHSU was invited to have a stall at an evening reception at the Scottish Parliament to celebrate the work of the Cross Party Group on Health Inequalities. There was a lot of interest in the Unit's research from MSPs and people representing a wide range of health charities and voluntary organisations. It was a valuable opportunity to raise awareness of our work and make connections with others working to reduce health inequalities in Scotland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Healthy Ageing PPI (Sharon Simpson) |
| 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 | Completed several meetings to engage stakeholders in Healthy Ageing work |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Helping Families Change Conference 2020 THRIVE |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented Marion Henderson, et al. (2020). Learning from the Trial of Healthy Relationship Initiatives for the Very Early-years (THRIVE): A three-armed trial of parenting interventions for women with additional social care needs. 20th Biennial Helping Families Change Conference. Brisbane, Australia. Questions about the challenges of engaging with a population with addition and social care needs during the perinatal period, and implications for interpreting preliminary outcomes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://helpingfamilieschange.org/about-the-hfcc/ |
| Description | Hilton S., Olson J., Mitchell R., Patterson C., Caryl F., Rundle A., Mooney S. House of Commons Research Briefing - Advertising to children |
| 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 | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Response submitted 09 March, 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8198/?utm_source=HOC+Library+-+Research+... |
| Description | Hilton S., Vaczy C., Smith M. Restricting alcohol advertising and promotion: submitted 8th March 2023 Restricting alcohol advertising and promotion: consultation - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) |
| 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 | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Hilton S., Vaczy C., Smith M. Restricting alcohol advertising and promotion: submitted 8th March 2023 Restricting alcohol advertising and promotion: consultation - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.gov.scot/publications/consultation-restricting-alcohol-advertising-promotion/ |
| Description | Impact of COVID-19 on sexual behaviour in Britain: Press Release and coverage |
| 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 | Press release for paper on wave one findings of the Natsal-COVID study by Mercer et al: Impacts of COVID-19 on sexual behaviour in Britain published in Sexually Transmitted Infections. Headline findings were covered by Sky News. Also picked up The Financial, News Medical, Phys Org, Mirage News and LSHTM news |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-virtual-sexual-activity-increased-during-first-lockdown-but-youn... |
| Description | Interview about our research on Sexual Wellbeing and the Natsal COVID study for an upcoming book |
| 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 | Interview with freelance journalist Sophia Smith-Galer (journalist) who was writing a book on sexual myths (Losing It: Sex Education for the 21st Centrury. She was particularly interested in our work on sexual wellbeing, as well as finding out more about the Natsal COVID study. Her book has since gone to the Publisher. The 'audience reached' represents the likely audience once the book is published. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Losing-Dispelling-Myths-that-Lives/dp/000847558X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywor... |
| Description | Interview for national news - Austerity policies and impact on mortality (Ruth Dundas) |
| 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 | Resulted in 225 news stories from 202 outlets; 3 Westminster parliamentary questions to the Chancellor of the Exchequer; 2 questions in Holyrood parliament and a debate in the House of Lords. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | Interview for public radio in Germany |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Give an hour-long interview on Covid impacts on social relationships (in response to our programme paper). Unknown impact. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Interview with health editor of the Economist |
| 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 | Health Editor of the Economist interviewed me for an hour about sexual function. I then shared a range of pertinent literature on the issue. This lead to an Editorial and longer article in the Dec 3rd edition of the Economist. The article was titled 'Talking about it at last' and the editorial was titled 'The wounds of silence'. As per Economist style I was not acknowledged in the article but I recognised many of the points as ones that I had made in our previous discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Interviewed in podcast - produced by young people - about young people's mental health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was interviewed about my research in adolescent mental health on a podcast designed for, and produced by young people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/research-zone-podcast/id1588635511 |
| Description | Invitation to speak at Holyrood's Health and Care Policy Festival (September) |
| 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 | Invitation to speak at Holyrood's Health and Care Policy Festival (September) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invitation to speak at the University of Glasgow-Charles Perkins Centre (Sydney) joint seminar on obesity and dietary interventions (August) |
| 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 | Invitation to speak at the University of Glasgow-Charles Perkins Centre (Sydney) joint seminar on obesity and dietary interventions (August) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited Lecture on Sexual Function and Sexual Wellbeing to MSc Public Health students at LSHTM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited external lecturer to the Sexual Health Module course as part of the MSc in Public Health at LSHTM. Pre-recorded lecture (due to COVID restrictions) on sexual function and wellbeing which introduced a new concept of sexual wellbeing developed via core-funded international collaborative work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited Speaker at Voluntary Health Scotland AGM and Annual Lecture 'How COVID disrupted our Social Relationships' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Kirstin Mitchell was invited to give the Annual Lecture at the Voluntary Health Scotland AGM. Kirstin presented on 'How COVID disrupted our social relationships' alongside Ben Cavanagh and Andrew Connal from the Scottish Government. Around 40 people attended online and others watched the recording. Kirstin was subsequently asked to give the same presentation to Scottish Government and an attendee requested permission to show the recording of the presentation to a volunteer group in Edinburgh. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/OYBc-XE4adQ-MGDEpy1e1CX7QbBOzh6y98S2GMPGIQWWQVPFUp7iHibErNEAUdibujJ... |
| Description | Invited by Prof. Nick Freudenberg to deliver a seminar at the CUNY Public Health and Health Policy (May) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited by Prof. Nick Freudenberg to deliver a seminar at the CUNY Public Health and Health Policy (May) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited participant, Health Scares Meeting, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emergency Preparedness & Response, London (October) |
| 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 | Invited participant, Health Scares Meeting, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emergency Preparedness & Response, London (October) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited participant, Seminar on The Commercial Determinants of Health edited book, University of Edinburgh (October) |
| 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 | Invited participant, Seminar on The Commercial Determinants of Health edited book, University of Edinburgh (October) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited presentation to the North West Research Development Service staff training session (Kathryn Skivington) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 15 staff from the North West Research Development Service (England) attended the presentation and joined discussion. The aim of the session was to provide details on the updated framework to staff in the service, so that they could in turn encourage and support researchers using the MRC/NIHR Framework in grant applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited presentation, Commonwealth Civil Society Policy Forum 2022, Commercial determinants of health: evidence, tools, dialogue and advocacy (April) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation, Commonwealth Civil Society Policy Forum 2022, Commercial determinants of health: evidence, tools, dialogue and advocacy (April) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited presentation, UK-Ireland Alcohol Research Network (AcoRN) Webinar: The Politics of Alcohol (February) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation, UK-Ireland Alcohol Research Network (AcoRN) Webinar: The Politics of Alcohol (February) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://alcoholresearch-uk-irl.net/2022/ |
| Description | Invited presentation: CONUNDRUM findings and recommendations to Ayshire & Arran NHS health board |
| 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 | We were invited by the Ayrshire and Arran NHS Health Board to give a talk on the CONUNDRUM study. The event was advertised widely in the health board - to anyone who works or could have contact with YP in acute and community settings. The aim was to present study findings and recommendations, and discuss these in more detail in relation to their specific context. The session was also recorded, so that it could be shared with those not able to attend. Attendees were very interested in study findings and mentioned how they had already changed some of their processes at a sexual health clinic based on the study findings. They were also keen to get involved in future CONUNDRUM related activities. The presentation was done by Carolyn Blake in collaboration with one of the study commissioners from NHS Lanarkshire ( Jo Duffy). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited talk at international conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented a summary of research on youth loneliness for the Campaign to End Loneliness International Conference. This was an invited talk, and also involved being a member of a panel discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited webinar to the German Society of Nursing (Kathryn Skivington) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 96 people attended a webinar on the update to the MRC/NIHR Framework for Developing and Evaluating Complex Interventions & reflection on its application to nursing research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | LSHTM - Findings from the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyle (Natsal) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Research seminar titled "Findings from the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyle (Natsal)" presented to the Faculty of Public Health and Policy at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Learning session with the Mental Health Foundation and See Me. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Around 20 attendees drawn from various roles in the Mental Health Foundation and See Me. This was a presentation to discuss my research to date (PhD) which is of high relevance to the work of the MHF and See Me. This sparked many questions and discussions about the existing research, and how to develop this going forward. Following on from the presentation the CEO of See Me reached out and offered networking opportunities with several key staff in the organisation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Lecture for Health & Culture MSc course (Martin Anderson) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lecture to MSc Global Health students about the role of social structure and culture in shaping recovery outcomes for people with alcohol & other drug addictions. Very engaged and interested group of students with lots of questions about the topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Magazine article for Early Years Scotland Magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jessica Moran wrote an article to the Early Years Scotland quarterly magazine, covering the early findings of my PhD research. To be published in February 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Magazine article published in Education Today (Australia) (Claire Goodfellow) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | I wrote an article about Mental Health Literacy in Schools for an Education magazine with an international readership. This has since resulted in communications with other interested academics; and with the editorial team at the British Journal of Education Psychology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.educationtoday.com.au/news-detail/Mental-Health-Literacy-in-Schools-5540 |
| Description | Media coverage (newspaper, radio, TV) of research article on prevalence of sexual harassment in Scottish Secondary schools |
| 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 | The paper, (Sweeting et al, Sexual harassment in secondary school: Prevalence and ambiguities. A mixed methods study in Scottish schools) was published in February 2022 - presenting findings from our Equally Safe at School project (whole-school approach to gender based violence we are working on with Rape Crisis Scotland). A press release designed with the journal (Plos ONE) led to interviews with several journalists (Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Independent) and coverage in a wide range of national and Scottish media. The story was covered on 'The Nine' (BBC Scotland News programme) including interview with our project partner at Rape Crisis. KM was interviewed on BBC Scotland. The research findings were put to Nicola Sturgeon at First Ministers Question time and she responded by referring to Government commitment to projects such as Equally Safe at School. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/peerReview?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0262248 |
| Description | Media coverage of Natsal latent class analysis paper in BMC Public Health |
| 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 | Media coverage:BBC Radio 4 Women's Hour: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d1rl Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/09/half-of-british-women-have-poor-sexual-health-nhs Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7865385/A-women-UK-lack-sex-study-finds.html Grazia: https://graziadaily.co.uk/life/in-the-news/sexual-wellness/ Russia Today: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/477966-sexual-health-uk-study/ News distribution sites Eurek Alert: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/bc-psh010620.php Newsgram: https://www.newsgram.com/poor-sexual-health-women The Free Press Journal: https://www.freepressjournal.in/lifestyle/sex-and-relationships/women-are-sexually-weaker-than-men Spark Health MD: https://sparkhealthmd.com/gender-disparity-related-to-poor-sexual-health-in-the-uk/483/ Impact: Statement released by FSRH in response to paper: https://www.fsrh.org/news/fsrh-statement-study-half-women-poor-sexual-reproductive-health/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-019-7959-7 |
| Description | Media interview conducted by Henry Anderson of healthandcare.scot on Scottish Obesity Alliance Manifesto and what lies ahead for Scotland 2022 |
| 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 | Media interview conducted by Henry Anderson of healthandcare.scot on Scottish Obesity Alliance Manifesto and what lies ahead for Scotland 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://healthandcare.scot/default.asp?page=story&story=2502 |
| Description | Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) for Alcohol N of 1 Study Presentation to Scottish Government Alcohol Harm Prevention Team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Mark McCann and Dominika Kwasnicka (Melbourne University) presented on the findings of the study to the Scottish Government alcohol harm prevention team, and Public Health Scotland staff. There was a discussion about how the findings relate to other studies in the MUP evaluation portfolio and how the results will feed into the overall reporting on the evaluation of MUP for consideration by the Scottish Parliament. We also made plans made to co-ordinate press releases and online statements give a response to the study findings at the time of their publication. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Multi project presentations from SPSHSU at the International Academy of Sex Research (IASR) Webinar (academics from US, Canada, Europe and other settings) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | SPHSU was invited to present sexual health related research at an International Academy of Sex Research webinar that took place November 2nd 2021. Team members presented 5 of our key sexual health related projects (NATSAL , ESAS, CONUNDRUM, Sexual wellbeing, and HBSC) as part of the Connect series. The aim was to present the unit's work to the IASR membership, which are mainly North American based academics. Several senior academics were present including Editors of the top two sex research journals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.iasrsite.org/webinars |
| Description | Online interview for WebMD on Covid impacts on relationships. |
| 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 | Online interview with journalist for WebMD in the US, to be written up and shared on their site. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Online webinar: Dissemination of findings and recommendations from the CONUNDRUM study |
| 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 | Approx. 145 people attended our CONUNDRUM project Webinar in 2021 where we shared the key findings from our study, as well as the recommendations. The panel was chaired by Nicky Coia (NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde) and the panel was made from research commissioners (NHS Lothian and NHS Lanarkshire) as well as a youth think-thank and charity working with young people. A 45 min discussion session followed presentations, where the overall feedback was very positive and engaging. After the webinar, the research commissioners form the Scottish Government and NHS Health Boards mentioned they wanted to pursue a next research collaboration, following the findings from CONUNDRUM. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | http://www.gla.ac.uk/conundrum |
| Description | Panellist on BBC Five Live show 'Sex and the Pandemic'; Follow up interview on Scottish television News 'The Nine' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Kirstin Mitchell was a panellist on BBC Five live chat show 'Sex and the Pandemic' hosted by Naga Munchetty and Amy Irons. Kirstin contributed findings from the Natsal COVID study to a discussion about how the pandemic had affected sex lives. Kirstin was interviewed about the show - and the Natsal COVID study findings later that evening on Scottish TV news programme 'The Nine'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e6mn5v/live/cf9bj5 |
| Description | Perspectives On Violence - Sociocultural correlates of sexual and physical intimate partner violence across 98 countries |
| 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 | Presentation titled "Sociocultural correlates of sexual and physical intimate partner violence across 98 countries" at the Global Perspectives on Sexual Violence - Virtual Symposium hosted by the Lydia Hill Institute for Human Resilience at University of Colorado - Colorado Springs |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Pint of Science Festival, Glasgow. Invited talk titled, 'Talking Over the Din: Why we don't actually talk about sex and why that matters for our health' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A Valentine themed 'Pint of Science Festival' event held in central Glasgow as an additional event to the main festival in May. Event held in function room of a pub. Talks focused on Discomfort about sex and on Early Puberty. Event included an engaging Q&A session and a quiz. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/the-birds-and-the-bees |
| Description | Policy Stakeholder Panel - advisory group for PhD Project |
| 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 | 6 senior leads from across third sector and academic settings are members of a short life Policy Stakeholder Panel. This has been convened to feed into the final stages of a Systematic Scoping Review and to support and discuss the selection of potential sites for a multiple case study research project as well as associated data collection. It will meet 3-4 times, from November 2022 until December 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | Presentation at Educational meeting of the GUM team, NHS Lothian (Natsal COVID study) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ms Emily Dema and Prof Kirstin Mitchell presented and discussed findings from the Natsal COVID wave one survey, focusing on disrupted access to sexual health services in the first four months following the Spring 2020 lockdown. The audience comprised sexual health practitioners in NHS Lothian. The format was an online educational meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation at Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN) meeting (Martin Anderson) |
| 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 on PhD methods and current findings, sparking questions and discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation of Natsal COVID study to CNWL Sexual Health& HIV service (London and Surrey) Service Educational Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Nigel Field presented data from Natsal COVID on the disruption to SRH service access and uptake of SRH interventions, to a regional educational meeting of NHS SRH service providers, including clinicians and health promotion specialists |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.natsal.ac.uk/natsal-covid-study |
| Description | Presentation of findings of Natsal COVID study to clinical academic meeting at Mortimer Market Centre, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and discussion of Natsal COVID study findings to Clinical academic meeting at Mortimer Market Centre (Sexual Health Clinic), London. This group meets regularly as part of continuing professional development. Prof Nigel Field presented the study findings relating to disrupted SRH service use during the pandemic and the group discussed the implications for their own practice |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.natsal.ac.uk/natsal-covid-study |
| Description | Presentation to English HIV & Sexual Health Commissioners Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Nigel Field (co-PI for Natsal COVID study) and Ms Emily Dema presented the Wave one Natsal COVID study findings - on COVID-19 disruption to sexual health service access and use - to Sexual Health Commissioners from across England (3rd March 2021) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation to a national practitioner association - British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Nigel Field (co-PI for Natsal COVID study) presented the Wave one Natsal COVID study findings on COVID-19 disruption to sexual health service access to the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) Extra-Ordinary Meeting (16th December 2020). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presented findings at the Perinatal Peer Support Roundtable Event for the launch of my Scottish Government Internship research report on perinatal mental health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Jesica Moran Presented an overview and summary of my report written as part of her internship at the Scottish Government, for the virtual launch of the report, Peer support in perinatal mental health: evidence review, on the 30th October 2020. Attended by over 100 third sector representatives and policy makers, in addition to NHS staff and other mental health practitioners. Recorded and made presentation available following the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.gov.scot/publications/peer-support-perinatal-mental-health-review-evidence-provision-sco... |
| Description | Publicity for GUS overweight/obesity paper in International Journal of Obesity |
| 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 | Story posted on website and to Press Association - led to coverage in Sunday Times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Research briefing for health practitioners: Navigating STI risk in mid-life |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We published a research briefing summarising key findings and policy implications from one of our Natsal papers published in BMJ Sexually Transmitted Infections. We designed the briefing for a health practitioner audience (e.g. sexual health promotion workers, GPs, relationship counsellors and therapists). The briefing was disseminated via the Natsal Study and SPHSU twitter accounts, with the initial tweet from Natsal receiving over 3600 impressions and 274 engagements, including being retweeted by national sexual health networks and organisations, including British Association for Sexual Health and HIV and HIV Prevention England. The briefing was subsequently included in the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health's e-bulletin on SRH and HIV policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_761776_smxx.pdf |
| Description | Research briefing on effect of COVID-19 on young people's access to contraceptive services. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | With the publication of our CONUNDRUM research findings in the BMJ SRH journal, we also published a research briefing to provide a concise summary of our findings in an accessible form to a varied audience. The briefing was made available on the SPHSU website and promoted via Twitter. https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_781017_smxx.pdf |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/healthwellbeing/research/mrccsosocialandpublichealthscience... |
| Description | Research cited in national newspaper (front page story) |
| 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 | Abortion research paper (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24785904/) cited in front page news story in Scotland on Sunday on women travelling to England from Scotland for later abortio |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/women-and-girls-forced-to-have-abortions-in-london-due-to-sha... |
| Description | Researching the Rainbow as part of National Student Pride |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Hazel Marzetti presented her research as part of a 'Researching the Rainbow' event as part of National Student Pride, and then participated in a panel discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.studentpride.co.uk/researchingtherainbow |
| Description | Responding to Journalist queries about findings of the Natsal COVID study |
| 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 | Responded to journalists from BBC Women's Hour, The Economist, and The Sunday Times in February 2021. At time of reporting, neither of the print journalists had published the articles they were working on, and Women's Hour decided to wait until the study findings were published before deciding to run a feature. The boxes ticked above regarding reach assume that at least one of these enquires leads to a published article. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Scottish Government Drugs Policy Division Learning and Development Session |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited to facilitate a Learning and Development session for all members of the Scottish Government Drug's Policy Division. 20 members attended and participated in interactive activities and had a lively discussion. Potential for follow-up sessions and for other SPHSU staff to facilitate sessions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Sexuality and Abortion Stigma Study - Knowledge Exchange webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Sexuality and Abortion Stigma Study (SASS) team ran an interationally-attended webinar on Wednesday 3rd March 2021 to mark the launch of their project website and research briefings. The SASS project re-examines qualitative data from a decade of studies on abortion across the UK. Drawing on the accounts of women who have sought abortion, and health professionals involved in provision, the project addresses abortion stigma, and considers how to move the conversation on from stigma to normalisation, both in academic and in more everyday terms. In the run up to International Women's Day 2021, this webinar showcased the SASS study's findings, considered in the current context of Covid-19 and ongoing shifts in abortion provision in the UK. The webinar was chaired by SASS Advisory Group member, and President of IPAS, Dr Anu Kumar. There were five short talks from the project team plus discussion. • Dr Carrie Purcell and Dr Karen Maxwell, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow • Dr Fiona Bloomer, Ulster University • Prof Sam Rowlands, Bournemouth University • Prof Lesley Hoggart, The Open University The SASS website acts as an archive for outputs from all the studies which have contributed to the SASS secondary analysis, all the new outputs associated with the study, and its follow-on projects. Two SASS research briefings have been produced to accompany the two peer reviewed journal articles presenting the study's findings so far, which have already been published. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.sassproject.org.uk/ |
| Description | Sexuality and Abortion Stigma Study Website |
| 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 | New SASS website designed to make research accessible to general public and specific interested parties - soft launch Dec 2020 (official launch March 2021) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.sassproject.org.uk/ |
| Description | Society for Scientific study of sexuality Conference presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Oral presentation of Natsal-Covid data at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality in Vancouver, Canada. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Society for Social Medicine Workshop on Agent Based Models (Mark McCann) |
| 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 | 30 Delegates attended this workshop which provided an overview of the ways in which Agent Based Models could be used for population health improvement. The presentations and breakout groups were well received, will several of the delegates offering to get involved in the network and signing up to the mailing list. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Stakeholder steering group meeting. |
| 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 | Members of the research team met with key stakeholders in the project, facilitated by the What Works Centre for Wellbeing and the Campaign to End Loneliness. Around 20 attendees were present representing a range of policy and practice experts, from organisations such as the Welsh Government, the Mental Health Foundation, The Children's Society, and the National Statistics Office of Luxembourg. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Student-led workshop on complexity in social science and public health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Together with Shreya Sonthalia, I gave a two-day workshop on complexity in social science and public health as part of the SGSSS student-led training fund scheme. We gave introductory lessons on complexity science, agent-based models, and system dynamics using examples from the social sciences as well as public health and included exercises. Moreover, we taught the basics of both agent-based models and system dynamics in software programs typically used for academic purposes. The goal was to offer postgraduate students to learn about the opportunities of using the respective methods and give an introduction to each application. Several participants seemed inspired by the workshop and may use it in their future research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://social.sgsss.ac.uk/event/examining-complexity-in-social-science-and-public-health-applying-a... |
| Description | Student-led workshop on system dynamics and agent-based models |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Shreya and I got granted an SGSSS fund to organise a student-led introductory workshop on system dynamics and agent-based models. For half a day we gave a brief introduction to complexity, discussed opportunities of using each method in social science and public health research and let participants engage in group activities. The participants expressed that the workshop was helpful to think about further approaches in their research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://social.sgsss.ac.uk/event/comparative-introduction-to-system-dynamics-and-agent-based-models/ |
| Description | Substance use and sexual consent Bournemouth |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Research seminar titled "Substance use and sexual consent" presented to the psychology department at Bournemouth University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Symposium - Helping Families Change Conference 2020 THRIVE |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Henderson, M and Barrett, S (2020) How are parenting practices influenced by people's upbringing? IMAgINE helping families THRIVE Symposium, 20th Biennial Helping Families Change Conference. Brisbane, Australia. Questions on inter generational transmission of parenting practices and how these can be influenced. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://helpingfamilieschange.org/ |
| Description | TRIUMPH Fest event (Alice MacLachlan) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | TRIUMPH Fest was a 2-day event to celebrate young people's contributions to mental health research and activism. The event attracted over 150 attendees including young people, researchers, policymakers and practitioners from across the UK. The vent included presentations from young people working on mental health projects, exhibitor stalls, panel discussion around working with young people and a series of workshops aimed at young people. Key outcomes included raising awareness of the different roles young people can play in mental health research, the identifying priority areas to improve young people's mental health, and developing new contacts and collaborations for future work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://triumph.sphsu.gla.ac.uk/2022/11/16/reflections-on-triumph-fest-2/ |
| Description | TRIUMPH Network Co-video (Alice MacLachlan) |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this Co-video Network Director, Jo Inchley, and Young People's Engagement Officer, Christina McMellon, talk about the work of the TRIUMPH Network in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. This video includes content on how the pandemic affected young people and the Network's work on the protecting the rights of the child during the pandemic. The video was recorded and published in collaboration with the UKRI Mental Health Research Matters team, and has been widely disseminated through both the TRIUMPH Network and the wider UKRI mental health networks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/covideos/ |
| Description | TRIUMPH Youth Advisory Group Residential (Alice MacLachlan) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As part of our ongoing coproduction work with young people through the TRIUMPH Youth Advisory Group - a group of 16 young people age 16-24 from across the UK - members of the group attended a 3-day residential weekend in Glasgow. The weekend included a several different workshops covering: analysis of research data from a Youth Advisory Group research project; development of new research ideas; reflecting on coproduction experiences and definitions; planning for future TRIUMH Network events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://triumph.sphsu.gla.ac.uk/2022/05/10/triumph-youth-advisory-group-residential/ |
| Description | TRIUMPh Youth Advisory Group residential, August 2022 (Alice MacLachlan) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The August residential brought together 16 young people, youth workers and triumph staff from across the UK who make up the TRIUMPH Youth Advisory Group. The 3-day residential included range of workshops focussed on delivery of ongoing TRIUMPH research activities and planning for future network activities. In particular, workshops included several analysing data and planning the next steps for the Youth Advisory Group's peer led research project "Felling Understood", a workshop focussed on planning for the TRIUMPH Fest event in October, and workshops reflecting on what teh Youth Advisory have achieved and what the groups' legacy is. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk at Pint of Science Glasgow-Paul Schuler |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The event, part of the Pint of Science Glasgow series, was attended by a small group of members of the general public and postgraduate students. I talked about the role of agent-based models in the social sciences and public health to spark some interest and received a few follow-up questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/post-pandemic-life |
| Description | Talk on 'Sex and the Pandemic' for Glasgow chapter of the Pint of Science Festival-Kirstin Mitchell |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presented results from the Natsal COVID study to general public audience as part of the Glasgow 'Pint of Science' Festival |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://pos-uk.sitesbythem.com/event/post-pandemic-life |
| Description | Talking Heads, Glasgow Science Centre, February 2023 |
| 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 | Talking Heads, Glasgow Science Centre, February 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Teaching on participatory approaches for the SGSSS (Scottish Graduate School of Social Science) workshop for PHD students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I taught on the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science 1 day workshop on participatory approaches to health and social research in UK and globally. In total, about 40 PHD students took part. It was a one day interactive workshop to provide training in participatory research methods to students from across Scotland who are considering/already using input from key stakeholders to maximise the impact and applicability of their research, including its potential to inform policy and practice. I taught the first session : Concepts and critique of participatory approaches. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | The Kemnal Academies Trust (TKAT) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Member, The Kemnal Academies Trust (TKAT) Sex and Relatioships Education (SRE) Working Party (Dr. Karen Roberts, CEO). We supported them to develop items to assess consent attitudes and norms in children and adolescents. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.tkat.org/ |
| Description | Trans Health Roundtable (IReSH and HIV Scotland 'Sex, Drugs and Scotland's Health') 19/10/2021 |
| 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 on trans health rights, needs and inequalities. Roundtable panel discussants from academic and third sector organisations. Audience of around 30 people, not visible to panel members in the online setting therefore audience makeup not known. Audience members asked questions after the planned discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Two Invited talks to Scottish Government: How COVID-19 affected our social relationships |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Kirstin Mitchell was invited to talk to Scottish Government (civil servants) on how COVID-19 affected social relationships. The presentation was based on a paper co-written by researchers in the Relationships Programme which discussed four key relational mechanisms: social networks, social support, interactional norms and intimacy and how these were disrupted by the pandemic. 240 people attended and there was an engaged discussion following the presentation. Kirstin was subsequently asked to give the presentation again to the Wellbeing team with Scottish Government. Participants commented how helpful the talk was in helping them think about the impact of COVID on different aspects of social relationships. The paper was subsequently cited in a Scottish Government Pandemic Impact of COVID Evidence report |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://jech.bmj.com/content/76/2/128?rss=1 |
| Description | Two large online systems mapping workshops with young people and policy and practice stakeholders. CONUNDRUM Action project. |
| 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 | We ran two online validation workshops as part of the systems mapping process with about 25 public health and sexual health stakeholders and young people from our project Action Group. The aims of these 2 online workshops were to ensure the system map reflected the views of a broad range of stakeholders. It is still too soon to reflect on the wider impact of the mapping process. Publication of a paper and production of an online animation summarizing key messages will come out from April 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Webinar to launch the newly published framework on developing and evaluating complex interventions |
| 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 | 520 people attended a webinar launch of our newly published framework on developing and evaluating complex interventions. There were presentations from some of the authors followed by Q&A (with a lot of questions posed by audience members). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/healthwellbeing/research/mrccsosocialandpublichealthscience... |
| Description | Webinar to present findings of the Natsal COVID study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Natsal COVID study team, co-led by University of Glasgow, presented preliminary findings from wave one of their national survey on the impact of COVID on sexual and reproductive health in Britain. Over 500 sexual and reproductive health professionals registered for the event, including from across Europe and the US. Around 300 people attended live. The presentations highlighted strong age-related inequalities, with adverse outcomes more commonly experienced by younger people. The findings also underlined that although SRH services moved rapidly to reconfigure services, there were delays to access and unmet need affecting contraceptive use, cervical screening and STI diagnosis. A recording of the webinar is housed on the Natsal website and has been accessed by journalists (Women's Hour; Sunday Times) interested in writing up findings, as well as health providers and academics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.natsal.ac.uk/natsal-covid-study |
| Description | Workshop at Society for Social Medicine ASM (Kathryn Skivington) |
| 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 | >20 participants to a workshop organised as part of the Society for Social Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting. Attended mostly by academics and postgraduate students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Workshop to co-develop recommendations on young people's use of condoms and contraception in Scotland (Conundrum) |
| 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 | The aims of the online workshop was to engage the national ' Condoms Distrbution Scheme' network members (from NHS health boards) to discuss study findings and support the co-production of recommendations. 6 people took part, but the reach of the workshop was likely higher. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |