STAND UP FOR HEALTH SCPHRP’s Jillian Manner has been home in Toronto, Canada for a while, and plans to return in April to start work on a new NIHR-funded project called Stand Up For Health, which looks at sedentary behaviour in call centres. The Stand Up for Health intervention has been developed and …
Goodbye to John McAteer John McAteer, SCPHRP’s Deputy Director has decided to fly the SCPHRP nest for the foreseeable future and we’re going to miss him greatly. John has been part of the team for many years and has some incredible achievements under his belt, including the STAND awards, Parenting …
View this email in your browser Happy New Year! Welcome to our first bulletin of 2019. Bringing you our usual mix of news, publications, project updates and more. This has been an exciting start to the year for SCPHRP, with lots to look forward to. In this issue you can read about: …
View this in your browser Hello and welcome to our last bulletin of 2018. Bringing you our usual mix of news, publications, project updates and more. This has been a busy year for us at SCPHRP with lots to celebrate and look back on, including our move to our new home …
Earlier this year we worked with the Junction to explore the impact of their work on young people attending the service. The Junction is a safe, friendly, confidential centre which provides assets-based health and wellbeing support for young people aged between 12 and 21 who live or work in North Edinburgh. Our …
Hello and welcome to our September bulletin. Bringing you our usual mix of news, publications, project updates and more. We’d like to extend a warm welcome to all new and existing students who joined us at the University of Edinburgh this month! Autumn is now upon us and September has been …
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Many of you may know that SCPHRP was funded for ten years until June 2018 by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Chief Scientist Office (CSO). After five years based within the Usher Institute, we are delighted to announce that SCPHRP will continue to operate as a research centre within The University of …
SCPHRPs Jane Hartley, John McAteer and Sam Bain have recently designed a support resource for kinship carers. Kinship carers are family members (often grandparents) who take care of children when the birth-parents are no longer able to care for them due to circumstances such as ill-health, addiction, abuse or bereavement. …
Our Outdoors’ is a citizen science project which aims to contribute to public understanding of how shared outdoor spaces can affect our health and wellbeing. The project will also explore whether specific spaces affect people’s health and wellbeing differently and if so, why? In this project, we need people like …
