Welcome to our blog. We are really excited about this Mental Health, Imagining beyond project and hope that you will find our reflections interesting and useful. About Us: The Community Wellbeing Collective (CWC) is a grassroots group of people living in or connected to Wester Hailes, Edinburgh. Together we transformed a derelict former off-license in […]
The following resources were used by data science researchers to describe how health information gets from GP appointments to research studies, and all the ethics, security, and anonymisation processes that take place in between. We are happy for other people to use these resources, if you find them useful. Coding Health Events Emily used […]
[This part of the project was completed by Sarah Norman and Rumilla Uddin, in collaboration with Dr Iona Beange and Dr Pippa Thomson of The University of Edinburgh and the Community Wellbeing Collective. This post follows on from How do you deal with stress? Part 3: Researcher Feedback & Pilot } Data Collection Process We invited […]
At the start of the project, the CWC asked a number of questions, which were intended to set a baseline for evaluation. However, these turned out to be a rich source of ‘data’ in and of themselves. Below are transcripts that CWC members have edited and agreed to release to the world. [If you wish […]
At the start of the project, the CWC asked a number of questions, which were intended to set a baseline for evaluation. However, these turned out to be a rich source of ‘data’ in and of themselves. Below are transcripts that CWC members have edited and agreed to release to the world. [If you wish […]
At the start of the project, the CWC asked a number of questions, which were intended to set a baseline for evaluation. However, these turned out to be a rich source of ‘data’ in and of themselves. Below are transcripts that CWC members have edited and agreed to release to the world. [If you wish […]
At the start of the project, the CWC asked a number of questions, which were intended to set a baseline for evaluation. However, these turned out to be a rich source of ‘data’ in and of themselves. Below are transcripts that CWC members have edited and agreed to release to the world. [If you wish […]
How can sharing be healing for ourselves and the world? During a wellbeing discussion/workshop at The Community Wellbeing Space, the group discussed ‘How can sharing be healing for ourselves and the world? Notes were recorded as a mind-map and some people also created little books they wanted to share with the world, about healing, […]
Tools Towards Emotional Safety As the first workshop brought up strong emotions, we decided to ask ourselves as a group how to create emotional safety together. We started by considerng the space that we wanted to create for our collaboration to work as a group. This can be extrapolated out to inform how we work […]
Healthcare data should ultimately be used for helping & healing others. That was the overall message to data scientists, from the CWC. At this CWC anchor event in September, three Mental Health Data Scientists described how health data is accessed, handled and used by researchers. The group discussed important topics including: How each health condition […]
[This part of the project was completed by Sarah Norman and Rumilla Uddin, in collaboration with Dr Iona Beange and Dr Pippa Thomson of The University of Edinburgh and the Community Wellbeing Collective. This post follows on from How do you deal with stress? Part 2: Designing Questions ] Feedback from researchers Last week [30th Aug […]
