Psychologists at the University of Liverpool have developed a smartphone app to help people maintain their mental health using the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy. The `Catch It` app was
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The Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS) have announced the appointment of Jackie McKenzie as Director. Jackie is joining IRISS from Nesta, the innovation charity where for
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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
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At 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
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The 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
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Lancashire 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
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The 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,
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I 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;
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A 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
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Government 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
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