Love in the time of dementia: love, care and dementia across the four cultures
Existing research into dementia is highly Eurocentric. This project aims to lay the groundwork for research across four different cultures, understanding how caregiving is carried out in the context of dementia in conversation with the theologies and practices that are indigenous to each culture.
Mathematical Model of Hospital Patient Flow: Data Driven Parametrisation and Validation
In this extension of an existing project to create a model for predicting discharge times of patients from hospital, we aim at validating and further improving the model by using NHS Grampian data through the Safe Haven environment.
The Spirit of Fascism in the Arts and the Prospects for Cultural Democracy (Testing a Randomised Jury Model)
This project examines the threat of fascism within rather than against democracy. Using a jury-led commissioning process, we will collect data for a collaborative ethnography, the outcomes of which will be at the centre of a multi-media multi-site exhibition entitled Domination, Courtship and Belonging: The Spirit of Fascism in the Arts.
Exploring policy enactment in Further Education colleges in Scotland and England
This is part of a larger project designed to explore how policy implementation at Further Education institutions is largely interpretative and is shaped by a range of policy actors, leading to different outcomes.
Mass deaths and memorialisation
This project investigates how mass deaths impact on cultural understandings of death as a phenomenon, and on the memorialisation of the dead, with the longer-term aim of developing a network of scholars to support the establishment of a Centre for the study of death at the UoA.
Enhancing Collaboration between State, Civil Society and Community in the Face of Crime and Chronic Violence in Mexico
This project aims to support the production of a Guide to Participatory Research for Effective Collaboration in Response to Non-War Violences, aimed at civil society organisations looking to engage with state and communities affected by organised crime. Additionally, the hope is to develop a conceptual tool-kit to help understand and deal with levels of corruption and complicity in criminal business in states across the world.
Affordability and sustainability of school uniforms
How do school uniform banks address the issues of affordability and sustainability of school uniforms? How can these two functions of school uniform banks be measured? Answering these questions should ultimately help show how more sustainable and more affordable school uniform practices could be developed.
In their own words: the democracy Tunisians want
Tunisia’s transition to democracy following the Arab Spring is seen by analysts as something of a success story. But how best can we understand what Tunisians themselves want and expect from government? A pioneering new interview technique aims to find out.
Community regeneration and biodiversity within a food activism and sustainability framework
The benefits of food growing and gardens are numerous and considerable. We propose that further work needs to be done to explore how to maximise these benefits for different groups using coordinated approaches that have the potential to address a range of requirements across different sectors and ages.
The Mindfulness Challenge to Western Individualism
Buddhism and mindfulness resonate particularly well with contemporary Western society because they shed light on the struggle between individualism and the human need for community and social interdependence. This project looks to create a series of videos exploring this tension.
