In this category you can find out about our student-and staff-led inspiring research centres and groups, their missions and visions, research interests and projects, and how you can get involved if you would like!
Our “Getting to know our research centres” series is back! Read all about The Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry (CCRI) and how to get involved in the following interview with Jonathan Wyatt, one of the centre’s directors. Would you like to share with us the journey, mission and vision of this research centre? The first …
We are excited to present to you the third research centre in our blog series: The Edinburgh Centre for Research on the Experience of Dementia (or ECRED)! Would you like to know more about the centre’s journey, initiatives and inspiring work? Read this interview with Prof Heather Wilkinson, the director …
It’s time to put the spotlight on our second School Centre: the Centre for Homelessness and Inclusion Health! Did you always wonder about the centre’s journey, initiatives and inspiring work? Read this interview with Dr. Fiona Cuthill, the Academic Director for the Centre for Homeless and Inclusion Health, to learn all about it …
Did you know we have 5 main research centres in our School? Did you know that PGR students are more than welcome to join them, and we can actually join more than one if we would like? If your answer to the above questions is something along the lines ‘Emm, I had no idea’, then you are not alone. We are excited to introduce our new monthly …
Hello everyone! I would like to introduce Project Soothe—a project led by Dr Stella Chan and her team. This project aims to assist researchers and clinicians alike to help improve mood and overall well-being. You know that feeling of calmness and tranquility you sometimes get when you see a beautiful …
Qualitative research is an approach used extensively in social science, in which, methodologies such as Grounded Theory (GT) are developed and chosen by PhD students at the School widely. Grounded theory is a methodology for developing theory that is grounded in systematically gathered and analysed data with the aim to …
The School of Health in Social Science is associated with different departments, subject areas and research topics. It can be inspiring to work across disciplines and to share a workspace with researchers from varying backgrounds. Focusing on similarities while benefitting from our differences helped us create our relatively new research …
