£90K prize pot for dementia ‘bright ideas’ competition
A competition to find the best ‘Bright Ideas’ to create a better life for people affected by dementia in Scotland has been launched today. The competition is being run by
Read MoreA competition to find the best ‘Bright Ideas’ to create a better life for people affected by dementia in Scotland has been launched today. The competition is being run by
Read MoreAt IRISS we believe that innovation is not a practice reserved for ‘the creative’ or ‘the experts’ and that people innovate all the time. We focus on how to blend
Read MoreThe Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS) is currently conducting a survey of professionals in the social services sector in Scotland. They are interested in your awareness
Read MoreLancashire County Council are set to trial new hi-tech child protection measure which may help to professional respond more quickly cases. Under the new measures, information about at-risk youngsters will
Read MoreThe Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) and the University of West of Scotland (USW) have launched two new learning games at The European Conference on the Application of Enabling Technologies,
Read MoreI consider myself a bit of a magpie; a bit of a scavenger when it comes to research: I’m opportunistic, interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial. My current design research projects are varied;
Read MoreA new e-book examined case studies from the ‘Welfare innovations at the local level in favour of cohesion’ (WILCO) project. WILCO was a cross-national comparative study that examined how local
Read MoreGovernment care minister Norman Lamb visited Leeds yesterday to launch an initiative called Developing Empowering Resources in Communities (DERiC). DERiC will invest a £1m loan from Big Society Capital in
Read MoreCare company, UnLtd, has announced a pilot programme targeting social entrepreneurs with innovative solutions to some of the UK’s tough social care challenges. Under the new ‘UnLtd Care’ initiative, UnLtd
Read MoreThe interim report of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s inquiry into spreading the benefit of digital participation in Scotland – published on 4 December 2013 – calls on the Scottish
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