Projects (16)

Dubai Police Authority consultancy Jun 10, 2024 - Dec 16, 2024

Investigating New Types of Engagement, Response and Contact Technologies in Policing Sep 1, 2021 - Nov 30, 2024
INTERACT (Investigating New Types of Engagement, Response and Contact Technologies in Policing) is a wide-ranging study of the use of technology in interactions between the police and public. It explores recent shifts towards technologically-mediated... Read More about Investigating New Types of Engagement, Response and Contact Technologies in Policing.

Public Health and Criminal Justice CPD Apr 1, 2025 - Jul 31, 2025
Criminal justice and health services share much common ground with both responding to people and communities susceptible to crime, ill health, or both. Understanding this common ground is critically important, requiring an inter-sectoral approach. Th... Read More about Public Health and Criminal Justice CPD.

Understanding the everyday ethics of foraging (revised) Jan 1, 2025 - Dec 31, 2025
This research project investigates the everyday ethics of foraging. Foraging represents a cultural practice interconnected to wider discourses of sustainability, more-than-human ethics and local food sourcing within the context of ecological crisis.... Read More about Understanding the everyday ethics of foraging (revised).

Aesthetic labour in online spaces May 27, 2024 - Jul 28, 2024
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Embedding Public Health Approaches to the policing of alcohol in Kenya Aug 1, 2024 - Jul 31, 2025
Heavy handed law enforcement approaches that have historically been deployed by the Kenyan government to regulate alcohol consumption seem to have failed. It is estimated that 12.5% of Kenyans aged 15-65, especially young men, currently use alcohol,... Read More about Embedding Public Health Approaches to the policing of alcohol in Kenya.

Organising plants in the city Jan 6, 2025 - Jun 30, 2026

Safe Nurse Staffing for Scotland (Nurses4Scotland): A Cross-Sectional Observational Study Jun 1, 2024 - May 31, 2025
Amid a global nurse staffing crisis, this study is designed to describe the baseline adherence to nursing standards, nurse staffing levels, and work environments in hospitals prior to the implementation of the Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Ac... Read More about Safe Nurse Staffing for Scotland (Nurses4Scotland): A Cross-Sectional Observational Study.

Full day NCA consultancy Oct 23 Sep 1, 2023 - Aug 31, 2024
I will be providing consultancy on developing objectives for the Scottish office of the NCA around the implementation of recommendations to improve inclusion

NCA consultancy Sep 1, 2023 - Aug 31, 2024
I will be providing consultancy on developing objectives for the Scottish office of the NCA around the implementation of recommendations to improve inclusion

Chairing Independent Advisory Group on Emerging Technologies in Policing Dec 1, 2020 - Nov 30, 2022
To establish and Chair a new Independent Advisory Group on Emerging Technologies in Policing and prepare a final report

Purpose of the ETIAG
To report to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice on whether the current legal or ethical... Read More about Chairing Independent Advisory Group on Emerging Technologies in Policing.

The National Hub for Restorative Justice in Sensitive Cases Apr 1, 2022 - May 31, 2023
Thriving Survivors will collaborate with Dr Estelle Zinsstag and Community Justice Scotland (CJS) on the development and delivery of a National Hub for Restorative Justice (RJ) in cases of sexual harm in Scotland. The National Hub will initially offe... Read More about The National Hub for Restorative Justice in Sensitive Cases.

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a peer-delivered, relational, harm reduction intervention to improve mental health, quality of life, and related outcomes, for people experiencing homelessness and substance use problems: The ‘SHARPS’ cluster randomised controlled trial. Apr 1, 2024 - Mar 31, 2027
This study (award: £2,497,467.37) is funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment, and is being delivered in partnership with The Salvation Army, the University of Aberdeen, the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier University, the University... Read More about Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a peer-delivered, relational, harm reduction intervention to improve mental health, quality of life, and related outcomes, for people experiencing homelessness and substance use problems: The ‘SHARPS’ cluster randomised controlled trial..

Mapping Capacities for a Community Policing of Cybercrime and Digital Harm Sep 1, 2021 - Aug 31, 2024
Research exploring cybercrime policing has tended to focus on specialist policing units on the one hand (Harkin, Whelan and Change, 2018), and on the inherent limits of public policing organisations on the other; multi jurisdictional, insufficient tr... Read More about Mapping Capacities for a Community Policing of Cybercrime and Digital Harm.

THE SOCIAL RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK 2024 - Scottish Goverment Sep 1, 2024 - Aug 31, 2028
This Framework Agreement is for the provision of Social Research and Analysis Services and is for initial period of 2 years with two optional extensions of 1 year. The Framework is a multi-lot/multi-tenderer agreement and has 3 lots covering the prov... Read More about THE SOCIAL RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK 2024 - Scottish Goverment.

Exploring Barriers Faced By Social Enterprises in Scotland Sep 1, 2024 - May 31, 2025
This project is a follow up activity from the initial research conducted by the Social Value Lab (2023), commissioned by the Social Enterprise Scotland. This research project seeks to identify and analyses the primary barriers that impede the growth... Read More about Exploring Barriers Faced By Social Enterprises in Scotland.