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Voices of the Future: Collaborating with Young People to Reimagine Treescapes, 2022-2024
No full textThe aim of this project was to explore how children experience and talk about nature and the value of trees in their lives. Working with diverse groups of children in the Northen Forest region (name of the city), we investigated the relationships between children, young people, trees, and the affordances of treescapes (trees in school, parks and on the streets) in fostering learning, belonging and hope, which we consider critical to ensuring a sustainable future.
We used methods such as audio-recordings, creative arts, and short films to explore treescapes, focusing on children’s knowledge to understand the opportunities and barriers to engagement. The work informs a shared understanding of how sensing materials, arts methods, and scientific approaches to tree mapping can be combined to attend to children’s and young peoples’ experiences of treescapes.
This project, conducted from January 2022 to April 2024, employed a co-productive approach to involving primary school children aged (7-9) as co-researchers. We also worked worked with early years families as part of an ethnographic participatory study with children and young people in urban parks and woodlands. Child-led, art-based creative methods were used to explore children’s everyday experiences with trees in various locations such as neighbourhoods, schools, homes, or other transnational geographical areas. The methods included filmmaking, still photography, drawing, and designing. Children were equipped with digital tools, such as iPad and voice recorders to document their activities, and notebooks for recording field notes. Adult researchers also documented their observations through field notes at the end of each research activity.
The data consists of Fieldnotes, Multimodal Transcriptions, Still images and drawn images by children (Artefacts).
Ethical approval to conduct this research was obtained by the university ethics committee. Special ethics assemblies were conducted with children in both schools to explain research processes. Children, their parents, and school teachers were given copies of participant information sheets and consent forms to read and make an independent decision about their voluntary participation.The future of treescapes belongs to children and young people. Yet there is a lack of interdisciplinary research that explores their engagement with treescapes over time. This project aims to re-imagine future treescapes with children and young people, working with local and national partners including Natural England, Forest Research and the Community Forests and Scottish stakeholders. We will identify opportunities and barriers to treescape expansion and pilot innovative child and youth-focused pathways to realising this goal. We will create curricula material which will be disseminated with the support of our project partners, Early Childhood Outdoors and the Chartered College of Teachers.
The aim of this project is to integrate children and young people's knowledge, experiences, and hopes with scientific knowledge of how trees adapt to and mitigate climate change in order to co-produce new approaches to creating and caring for resilient treescapes that benefit the environment and society. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches and in collaboration with stakeholders, the team will produce a 'lexicon of experience' that captures the ecological identities of children and young people. An audit of existing activity in the field of activism and treescapes, with a particular focus on marginalised groups, will inform the project. In particular, the project will produce new material for use by practitioners, educators and policy makers that will inform future treescape planting and will be rolled out nationally, with the help of our project partners. Novel methods for assessing carbon storage in trees and soil will inform a 'tree-twinning' project to enable children and young people to recognise how they can relate to treescapes. Children and young people will draw on the scientific work together with their lived experience to balance their evolving carbon footprint with the changing treescapes they have partnered with. New treescapes will be planted with the help of Community Forests and local authorities. Learning will be enhanced by the scientific project on tree-twinning, embedded within the project, to advance knowledge about the relationship between climate science and urban trees. This research will be carried out with children and young people as co-researchers.
The project will focus on hope as a vital ingredient of future planning and philosophically and practically create a set of actions to look to the future while addressing temporalities, including past archival work on trees. It will work with cohorts of young people across early years, primary, secondary and young people out of school, as well as families and communities, to think about and engage with treescapes, to plan as well as plant new treescapes and to engage in treescape thinking and curricula innovation. Working with Natural England as project partners, a toolkit will be developed to guide this work and a set of resources and outputs to be rolled out nationally that inspire and inform future generations of children and young people to become involved in treescapes, which will re-shape the disciplinary landscape of treescapes research and inform policy and practice. Community forest planners, policy-makers and practitioners will better understand how to engage children and young people in treescapes and how to work with their knowledges to inspire and inform future generations. Innovative approaches to arts and humanities, environmental science and social science will produce a new understanding of how combining disciplines can further treescape research with children and young people. The project will also advance methodological understandings of the relationship between children and young people and treescapes with a focus on co-production and attending to lived experience while conducting environmental scientific research. New knowledge in the fields of environmental and social science will create new disciplinary paradigms and concepts.</p
Survey of Displaced and Host Households in Four Refugee-Hosting Countries, 2021-2022: Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Jordan, and Kenya
No full textAbstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Data from a large-scale survey carried out with 4,466 displaced and host households in four refugee hosting countries: Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Jordan, and Kenya. In each country, the data includes respondents in an urban setting and a camp (or camp-like) setting.
The survey was part of the IIED project 'Protracted Displacement in an Urban World' which sought to compare the experiences of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in cities and camps in four countries. The aim of the comparative investigation was to better understand how displaced people in these different settings fare in terms of their self-reliance, livelihoods and economies, and well-being.
The survey covers the following areas:
Respondent and household profileMigration profile and perception of settingWellbeingLivelihoods and self-reliancePlans and Aspirations
It provides 4,466 structured survey interviews in each of four countries: 886 in Afghanistan, 1,256 in Ethiopia, 983 in Jordan, and 1,341 in Kenya, offering urban-camp comparative insight in each.Main Topics:Respondent and household profileMigration profile and perception of settingWellbeingLivelihoods and self-reliancePlans and Aspirations</ul
Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, 2023
No full textAbstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Scottish Social Attitudes (SSA) survey was launched by ScotCen Social Research (formerly the Scottish Centre for Social Research) in 1999, following the advent of devolution. Based on annual rounds of interviews of between 1,200 to 1,500 people drawn using probability sampling (based on a stratified, clustered sample), it aims to facilitate the study of public opinion and inform the development of public policy in Scotland, similar to the British Social Attitudes (BSA) series (held at the Archive under GN 33168). The SSA survey has been conducted annually each year since 1999, with the exception of 2008. The survey has a modular structure. In any one year it typically contains three to five modules, each containing 40 questions. Funding for its first two years came from the Economic and Social Research Council, while from 2001 onwards different bodies have funded individual modules each year. These bodies have included the Economic and Social Research Council, the Scottish Government and various charitable and grant awarding bodies, such as the Nuffield Foundation and Leverhulme Trust.
Further information on the SSA and links to publications may be found on the ScotCen Social Research Scottish Social Attitudes webpages.
The 2023 survey was conducted for the first time using a push-to-web mode, with a telephone interview offered for those either unable or unwilling to take part online.
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Supporting those with a Multimorbidity. A Qualitative Study on the Perspectives of Healthcare Professionals who Provide Care to Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease, 2023-2024
No full textType 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease frequently co-exist as multimorbid conditions due to their shared pathophysiological mechanisms and overlapping treatment needs. Effective management requires coordinated patient centred care, however there is limited qualitative accounts understanding how support is provided to those who live with T2D and CVD collectively.
Thus, the present study aims to bridge the gap by providing in depth explorations of practitioner’s perception and practices regarding the management of these conditions. Thirteen community practitioners and three hospital-based clinicians were recruited, and raw data was analysed using Reflexive Thematic Analysis.
Three core themes and six sub themes were generated: first, current care, second, structural challenges, and third, psychological perceptions of multimorbidity. Importantly, the data demonstrated inconsistencies in how healthcare professionals conveyed risk information, with some suggesting the monitoring of biological complications alone is sufficient for managing morbidity. Further, multifaceted barriers within the structure of care and lack of cohesion between teams highlighted how support is not always optimised for those living with complex needs. Moreover, psychological issues were recognised by all healthcare professionals, however most lacked confidence providing this sort of support, and several commented on the lack of suitable services for those mentally struggling with chronic health conditions. This study underscores the need for improved communication and a more integrated approach to care, however until complex systemic issues are resolved multimorbidity management will remain minimal.Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease frequently co-exist as multimorbid conditions due to their shared pathophysiological mechanisms and overlapping treatment needs. Effective management requires coordinated patient centred care, however there is limited qualitative accounts understanding how support is provided to those who live with T2D and CVD collectively. Thus, the present study aims to bridge the gap by providing in depth explorations of practitioner’s perception and practices regarding the management of these conditions. Thirteen community practitioners and three hospital-based clinicians were recruited, and raw data was analysed using Reflexive Thematic Analysis. Three core themes and six sub themes were generated: first, current care, second, structural challenges, and third, psychological perceptions of multimorbidity. Importantly, the data demonstrated inconsistencies in how healthcare professionals conveyed risk information, with some suggesting the monitoring of biological complications alone is sufficient for managing morbidity. Further, multifaceted barriers within the structure of care and lack of cohesion between teams highlighted how support is not always optimised for those living with complex needs. Moreover, psychological issues were recognised by all healthcare professionals, however most lacked confidence providing this sort of support, and several commented on the lack of suitable services for those mentally struggling with chronic health conditions. This study underscores the need for improved communication and a more integrated approach to care, however until complex systemic issues are resolved multimorbidity management will remain minimal.</p
Growing Up in Scotland: Cohort 1: Sweep 8.5, 2016-2017: Special Licence Access
No full textAbstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) study is a large-scale longitudinal social survey which follows the lives of several groups of Scottish children from infancy through childhood and adolescence. It aims to provide important information on children, young people and their families in Scotland. The study forms a central part of the Scottish Government's strategy for the long-term monitoring and evaluation of its policies for children and young people, with a specific focus on the early years. The study seeks both to describe the characteristics, circumstances and experiences of children in their early years in Scotland and, through its longitudinal design, to generate a better understanding of how children's start in life can shape their longer term prospects and developmentSince 2005 fieldwork has been undertaken by the Scottish Centre for Social Research. The survey design for Birth Cohort 1 consisted of recruiting the parents of an initial total of 5,217 children aged 10 months old in 2005 and interviewing them annually until their child reached age six. Further fieldwork was then undertaken at ages 8, 10, 12, 14 and 17-18 with a sample boost added at age 12.Data for sweeps 1-9 were collected via an in-home, face-to-face interview with self-complete sections. Fieldwork for sweep 10 was disrupted due to the COVID pandemic. As a result, the final portion of the data was collected via web and telephone questionnaires. Sweep 11 data were gathered via web, telephone and face-to-face surveys of cohort members and their parent/carer.Further information about the survey may be found on the Growing Up in Scotland website.In May 20205, data and documentation for Cohort 1, Sweeps 1-11 were released as individual studies (SNs 9373-9383 and 9386-9387). Previously they were held under one study (SN 5760) which has been withdrawn from the data catalogue.Main Topics:The questionnaire covered several topics including:primary school (barriers to learning; additional support needs; homework)transition to secondary school (placing requests; readiness for secondary school; parents' concerns and/or preparations)child's participation in organised activities/classes.A topic overview covering all sweeps, is available on the GUS website.</p
Growing Up in Scotland: Cohort 1: Sweep 7.5, 2013-2014: Special Licence Access
No full textAbstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) study is a large-scale longitudinal social survey which follows the lives of several groups of Scottish children from infancy through childhood and adolescence. It aims to provide important information on children, young people and their families in Scotland. The study forms a central part of the Scottish Government's strategy for the long-term monitoring and evaluation of its policies for children and young people, with a specific focus on the early years. The study seeks both to describe the characteristics, circumstances and experiences of children in their early years in Scotland and, through its longitudinal design, to generate a better understanding of how children's start in life can shape their longer term prospects and developmentSince 2005 fieldwork has been undertaken by the Scottish Centre for Social Research. The survey design for Birth Cohort 1 consisted of recruiting the parents of an initial total of 5,217 children aged 10 months old in 2005 and interviewing them annually until their child reached age six. Further fieldwork was then undertaken at ages 8, 10, 12, 14 and 17-18 with a sample boost added at age 12.Data for sweeps 1-9 were collected via an in-home, face-to-face interview with self-complete sections. Fieldwork for sweep 10 was disrupted due to the COVID pandemic. As a result, the final portion of the data was collected via web and telephone questionnaires. Sweep 11 data were gathered via web, telephone and face-to-face surveys of cohort members and their parent/carer.Further information about the survey may be found on the Growing Up in Scotland website.In May 20205, data and documentation for Cohort 1, Sweeps 1-11 were released as individual studies (SNs 9373-9383 and 9386-9387). Previously they were held under one study (SN 5760) which has been withdrawn from the data catalogue.Main Topics:The questionnaire covered several topics including:child's relationship with friends and parent/carerfamily functioningattitudes towards social issues and engagementA topic overview covering all sweeps, is available on the GUS website.</p
Interviews with Staff in Homelessness Sector During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2022
No full textThe research, entitled Homelessness during COVID-19: Homeless Migrants in a Global Crisis, took a biographical life story approach to understand the experiences of 43 non-UK nationals who experienced homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the first phase of the project, and in order to gain insight into the homelessness sector, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 37 people across nine homelessness organisations. The focus of the interviews was on migrant homelessness before and during the pandemic. Due to ethical reasons, we are not able to upload data from the life story interviews that we conducted with migrants experiencing homelessness. However, the data from the semi-structured interviews with staff in the homelessness sector that we have submitted to the UK Data Service helped us to frame our research and provided much-needed contextual information during the pandemic.People experiencing homelessness are disproportionately impacted by coronavirus. Despite government efforts to place rough sleepers in hotels to contain the spread of the disease, many migrants sleeping rough with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) have been left behind at the height of a global pandemic. This project, involving researchers from University of Portsmouth, University of Sussex and St Mungo's, the homeless charity, will produce an 18-month qualitative-based study of migrant homelessness framed by the wider global and national context. Working with two of St Mungo's migrant services, Street Legal, St Mungo's legal team and Routes Home, a service supporting people sleeping rough from outside of the UK, a particular focus of the study will be the experience of non-UK nationals and their attempts, during the crisis, to resolve their immigration status. Many of these migrants are at the sharpest end of homelessness: almost 1,000 rough sleepers housed in emergency accommodation in London have NRPF (Heath, 2020).
Most migrant homeless clients are faced with multiple everyday challenges; they experience the hostility and aggression directed toward homeless people, compounded with often intense experiences of racism. Migrant homeless clients are also likely to be afraid of 'authorities' for various reasons including fear of deportation by the Home Office and personal histories of violent persecution by state actors in their original countries of belonging. During the pandemic, increased numbers of police on the streets have created high anxiety for refugees/asylum seekers and destitute migrants who report being retriggered with PTSD symptoms, with no access to NHS mental health services that are now delivered primarily remotely and are restricted access except to those patients who have access to free or cheap wifi, or unlimited phone credit (Munt 2020). A cultural miasma of fear and anxiety due to pandemic can affect such vulnerable minority groups particularly forcefully, with public attitudes generating direct aggression toward perceived 'outsiders' as harbingers of disease. Historically, the discourse of the 'stranger' (Ahmed 1991) or foreigner as bringer of disease has been well recognised within cultural sociology (Munt 2007), and as cultural suspicion grows under such conditions, feelings of alienation and estrangement amongst vulnerable groups intensifies.
The project will innovate by examining the biographical and life history narratives of St Mungo's clients in London in relation to their experiences of homelessness during the coronavirus crisis. Alongside semi-structured interviews, we will use participatory research methods including peer research, autoethnographic diaries, mobile phone photo-ethnographies and life history narratives in order to capture the rich and emotive narratives of those experiencing crisis. In doing so, we will examine the intersection of personal histories, complex global processes and the dynamics of the particular situation (Stewart, 2012, 2013). Researching vulnerable groups requires ethical sensitivity. It carries the danger of risking more disappointment among the respondents and exacerbating intense feelings of loneliness and isolation. To avoid this, and to make a positive intervention, we will seek to engage clients with services and support as part of the research project. Based on its findings, and working with St Mungo's partners, the project will make recommendations for measures that can be taken across the UK and elsewhere to support the homeless, particularly those most vulnerable, during times of crisis.</p
Armed Services Trauma and Rehabilitation Outcome Study, 2015-2023
No full textThe ArmeD SerVices TrAuma RehabilitatioN OutComE (ADVANCE) Study a is a lifetime prospective cohort study which aims to determine the long-term effects on both physical and psychosocial health of servicemen surviving severe combat related trauma.
Approximately 1,200 Afghanistan-deployed male UK military personnel and veterans have been recruited and will attend regular study visits. Half of the participants have sustained combat trauma, and the other half act as the control group. Participants undergo a series of physical health tests and questionnaires through which information is collected on cardiovascular disease (CVD), CVD risk factors, musculoskeletal disease, TBI, mental health, functional and social outcomes, quality of life, employment and more. The Study has a Ministry of Defence Research Ethics Committee approval.
The objective of the ADVANCE Study is to investigate the long-term medical and psychosocial outcomes of UK military personnel who sustained combat trauma. We hypothesise that combat trauma casualties will have an increased incidence of adverse medical, psychosocial and vocational long-term outcomes compared with equivalent but non-injured service personnel.
The ADVANCE Study is, worldwide, the only longitudinal cohort study evaluating the effect of combat trauma on a range of health indicators in military personnel who served in the Afghanistan war. ADVANCE will provide a wide range of longitudinal data across sociodemographic, physical health and mental health outcomes, providing evidence for incidence and risk of disease and non-disease outcomes. ADVANCE will provide high levels of evidence that will influence future healthcare of combat and major trauma patients. Participants were injured between 5 and 16 years prior to baseline data collection, and the length of time since injury may have an effect on various physical and mental health indicators. As with any cohort study, there is potential for response bias.The ADVANCE study is a prospective cohort study of British male military personnel who were deployed on combat operations to Afghanistan between 2003 and 2014. The sample includes serving and former personnel; a group which sustained severe combat-related trauma during the Afghanistan conflict (injured) and a comparison group of the same size matched based on deployment to Afghanistan, age, sex, service, regiment, rank, and role-in-theatre (uninjured).</p
Qualitative Election Study of Britain Party Leader Evaluations Database, 2005-2024
No full textIn each round of the Qualitative Election study, participants were asked to provide the words and phrases they associate with British political party leaders. The data were collected during pre-election focus groups and interviews conducted with participants from England, Scotland and Wales, during the General Election campaigns of 2010, 2015, 2017, and 2019. For the in person data collection, party leader evaluation pre-election component, participants were provided with head shot pictures of the party leaders (depending on where in Britain they lived) taken from the party’s own website. In 2024 the data collection was moved online and participants filled in the words and phrases as part of the application process to join the study.
Participants were instructed to write down words or phrases they associate with each person, and indicate if that association was positive, negative or neutral. During the focus groups, the focus group moderator would lead the group in a discussion of the positives, negatives and neutral qualities of each leader. The data included in this dataset only includes the words and phrases written down by the participants, and not the subsequent discussion.
These data are structure for use in sentiment analysis. Each tab contains a column listing participant’s’ words and phrases as a string variable; the next two columns list the election year and leader, affective evaluations (relating to, arising from, or influencing feelings or emotions) as a string variable, and the affective evaluation as a numeric scale from negative –1 to positive +1. These data are suitable for sentiment and discourse analysis, or analytic generalization – establishing that a concept exists within a population regardless of the number of people who hold it.
The new version contains the 2005 and 2014 supplement data.
Words from the 2005 British General Election are substantively different from the other data. They were collected from the article 'Hearts or Minds: Men, Women and Leader Evaluations in the 2005 General Election' by K Winters, R Campbell in Political Communications: The General Election Campaign of 2005, 184-202. Words coded as 1 indicate the respondent thought the word was important in their considerations.
In addition, a supplementary dataset is provided of leaders’ evaluation data from a study with residents of Dundee after the Scottish Independence Referendum in 2014 (N = 287).The Qualitative Election Study of Britain (QESB) Party Leader Evaluation Database 2010 – 2024 contains the collection of 5,504 words and phrases that evaluate British political party leaders collected during pre-election focus groups and interviews conducted with participants from England, Scotland and Wales, during the General Election campaigns of 2010, 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2024.
The aim of this component of the QESB was to get language in use data on the various party leaders, to suppliment, compliment and perhaps contradict closed-ended question results from public polling and social surveys.
These data aren't released alongside the transcript data, however the transcripts refer to respondents' answers. The PIs of the study decided to collect the nearly 15 years worth of raw data and transform it for secondary reuse.</p
Using the Physical Activity Messaging Framework to Co-Design Strength Training Messaging: Metadata and Documentation, 2023-2024
No full textWorkshop activity guide (PowerPoint attached) based off the Physical Activity Messaging Framework (PAMF) was used for the 4-hour focus group workshop on January 19, 2024 with 20 public participants aged 40-60 years old from the Greater Manchester area, United Kingdom. The aim of this workshop and study was to co-design strength training messaging guidance that aligns to the strength component of the UK's Chief Medical Officers' physical activity guidelines.
Three examples of poster outputs that adhere to the results from our co-designed messaging workshop are attached (Culture Change, Ups and Downs, and Model for my Children).
Participant consent was not sought for the availability of raw data for secondary qualitative analysis.Physical inactivity costs the UK 7 billion each year and is responsible for 1 in every 6 deaths. Although a number of exercise programmes have aimed to address the global challenge of ageing and inactivity, there continues to be a shortage of successful programmes in real-world settings. When older adults become inactive, they lose their strength and become weak. Older adults who are weak are more likely to have a fall, become hospitalized, depressed, develop diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer, and live in a care home much earlier than they should.
Providing people with an exercise programme while they are still healthy, and before they shown signs of muscle weakness can prevent these devastating outcomes. Exercise referral as a routine part of healthcare and providing all adults the opportunity and benefits of participating in exercise will also help to reduce health inequalities in later life. Research shows that doctors don't feel confident discussing or referring exercise to their patients. While our research shows that older adults and exercise providers are unaware of exercise guidelines, the benefits of exercise participation, and where to turn to for support.
Our mission is to connect older adults with the tailored exercise programs that are proven to lower the risk of disability and disease. Our platform will be an easy-to-use tool for doctors and exercise providers to support exercise awareness, knowledge, referral, and support while its use will lead to a happier, healthier, and more active population.</p