Katherine Smith joined the Global Public Health Unit in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh as a new lecturer in January 2011. Prior to this she was a lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Bath and where she previously worked as a Research …

On March 14th 2011, a national workshop was co hosted by the Collaboration, to explore in detail the feasibility, methodological challenges and costs of using modern, anonymized record-linkage to exploit Scotland’€™s considerable potential to utilise linkable administrative datasets, across diverse human service sectors of government, to efficiently address policy-relevant question. It …

Sally Brinkman is a social epidemiologist with the majority of her research focusing on societies’€™ impact on child development.  Sally is a Senior Research Fellow at the world renowned Institute for Child Health Research in Perth and is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide’€™s Australian Institute for …

This is a joint meeting of our Working Group members, grantees and other collaborators. This meeting is an opportunity to collectively reflect on the first three years of the Collaboration’€™s operations, and to plan our future. We propose to use the occasion for two related purposes. First, we want attendees …

The keynote speaker is Dr Gill Westhorp, Director of Community Matters, a consultancy business based in South Australia. Community Matters undertakes service, program and project evaluation and specialises in realist evaluation (not just ’€œDoes this work?’€, but ’€œFor whom, in what contexts, and how does it work?’€) Gill has undertaken …

This is the first-ever Joint Meeting of our Working Groups. This meeting will be the first formal interaction of our Working Groups since they each held a series of four separate meetings over two years, ending in late 2010. The main goal of the May 23rd meeting is to allow Working …