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A current research project within our Lifelong health and wellbeing thread is investigating whether Commuting has an impact upon a person's health.
Commuting to work by bicycle can improve your health and how?What barriers stop people cycling to work in Glasgow and Edinburgh?Can these barriers be overcome and how?How our research can affect policy?What further research needs to be done in this area?
In this third episode in our podcast pilot, Professor Chris Dibben and Dr Laurie Berrie discuss with Renata Samulnik the value of using administrative data and linking datasets, in order to research whether:You may wish to refer to the following documents after listening to the podcast;
Blog: Commuting and its impact on health
Data Insights: What makes people more likely to cycle to work?For further information on ADR Scotland including all the research projects we are involved in, please visit the SCADR website or follow us on Twitter and Linkedin.
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In the 1980 and 90s, Glasgow was notorious for a knife crime and had a high rate of homicide – which, in 2005, resulted in the World Health Organization dubbing Glasgow the “murder capital of Europe.”
The development of the Violence Reduction Unit’s approach to dealing with violence as a public health issue and how that shifted from Enforcement to EmpowermentHow reductions in youth crime and changes in the social behaviours of children, including their use of technology, may have shaped patterns of violenceThe potential impact of the Scottish Government’s development of 'Getting it right for every child' focused on child wellbeing and the development of a whole systems approach for dealing with young people who offendThe value of administrative research data in studying violence, including how using ambulance, hospital and A&E data is helping to show the relationship between levels of repeat violence, deprivation and alcohol availability in Scottish communitiesAnd the valuable contribution of linking police and health data in understanding patterns of compliance during the pandemic in Scotland.
In this second episode of our podcast pilot, Mr Alastair McAlpine discusses with
Professor Susan McVie how Glasgow has seen a 60% drop in homicide, and violent crime in Scotland has fallen to historic lows over the last two decades, and asks whether she believes that 'this was a miracle' or whether there were other reasons.
In this episode, Susan discusses:You may wish to refer to the following documents after listening to the podcast, which demonstrate the value of researchers having secure access to datasets from Police Scotland, Hospital A&E, Census 2011 or Ambulance Service.
Violence and vulnerability
Covid19 - Policing the Pandemic
Professor Susan McVie has recently joined a European research group on crime register data, who hope to expand and formalise into a more formal group of the European Society of Criminology. It is hoped that future funding will allow joint research.For further information on ADR Scotland including all the research projects we are involved in, please visit the SCADR website or follow us on Twitter and Linkedin.
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This episode focuses on data on children and families and explores our latest research in this area, how it can help policy and practice, and why engaging with children and understanding their rights is so important.
You may wish to refer to the following documents after listening to the podcast;
Report on The Impact of Covid-19 on Children’s Care Journeys in Scotland
Report on Infants Born into Care
Comic on data, research and children’s rights
Please visit our website pages for further information on Children's Lives and Outcomes or email [email protected] .For further information on ADR Scotland including all the research projects we are involved in, please visit the SCADR website or follow us on Twitter and Linkedin.
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A current research project within our Health and social care programme is investigating whether there was an increase in deaths at home during and after the Covid19 pandemic and the implications for end of life care and health service usage.
Our Research Fellow, Jan Savinc, shares his initial findings from his work analysing the linked death records held by National Records Scotland and health service data held by Public Health Scotland, with Dr Iain Atherton.
Listeners may wish to read these accompanying articles after hearing the Research Update:
- DATA INSIGHTS -Were people who died at home less likely to attend hospital at the end of life during the Covid pandemic?
- BLOG SERIES: Dramatic increase in deaths at home
- PALLIATIVE CARE AT HOME: implications of the Covid-19 pandemic and into the future, March 2021For further information on ADR Scotland including all the research projects we are involved in, please visit the SCADR website or follow us on Twitter and Linkedin.
