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The Opportunities and Challenges of the Changing Public Services Landscape for the Third Sector in Scotland: A Longitudinal Study: Year Two Report

Report
Osborne, S. P., Bond, S., Dutton, M., & Honore, E. (2012)
The Opportunities and Challenges of the Changing Public Services Landscape for the Third Sector in Scotland: A Longitudinal Study: Year Two Report. Edinburgh: Scottish Government
The report provides findings from the second year of a three year qualitative longitudinal study on the third sector in Scotland.

The Opportunities and Challenges of the Changing Public Services Landscape for the Third Sector in Scotland: A Longitudinal Study Year One Report: Baseline Findings

Report
Osborne, S. P., Honore, E., Bond, S., & Dutton, M. (2011)
The Opportunities and Challenges of the Changing Public Services Landscape for the Third Sector in Scotland: A Longitudinal Study Year One Report: Baseline Findings
This research report outlines the findings from the first year of a three year longitudinal study examining the opportunities and challenges facing third sector organisations ...

The Opportunities and Challenges of the Changing Public Services Landscape for the Third Sector inScotland: A Longitudinal Study Year Three Report(2009-2012).

Report
Osborne, S. P., Bond, S., Dutton, M., Honore, E. & Egdell, V. (2011)
The Opportunities and Challenges of the Changing Public Services Landscape for the Third Sector inScotland: A Longitudinal Study Year Three Report(2009-2012). Edinburgh, Scotland: Scottish Government
This report outlines findings from the first three years of a longitudinal research project examining ‘The Changing Public Services Landscape in Scotland: Opportunities and Ch...

Gender and health: a social movement’s agenda for Big Pharma.

Journal Article
Grieco, M. (2010)
Gender and health: a social movement’s agenda for Big Pharma. Wagadu, 8,
Social movements have an important new campaigning and organizing competence in new information communication technologies. These technologies also enable the members of soci...

Communicative actions, women's degree of social connectedness and child mortality in rural Bangladesh

Journal Article
Gayen, K., & Raeside, R. (2010)
Communicative actions, women's degree of social connectedness and child mortality in rural Bangladesh. Child: Care, Health and Development, 36(6), 827-834. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2214.2010.01099.x
Background Child deaths are decreasing throughout South East Asia, yet the rate remains high and is a cause of considerable anguish. In Bangladesh, there is also a great deal...

Social networks and contraception practice of women in rural Bangladesh

Journal Article
Gayen, K., & Raeside, R. (2010)
Social networks and contraception practice of women in rural Bangladesh. Social Science and Medicine, 71(9), 1584-1592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.08.002
This paper analyzed the association of social networks with contraceptive use using both structural and attitudinal properties of social networks. Data were collected from sev...

Employment and employability

Book Chapter
McQuaid, R. W. (2008)
Employment and employability. In M. A. Mulhern, J. Beech, & E. Thompson (Eds.), Scottish Life and Society, the working life of Scots, 67-84. Birlinn, University of Edinburgh

Educational migration – students leaving a region to study elsewhere: the link to religion in Northern Ireland

Book Chapter
Hollywood, E., & McQuaid, R. W. (2007)
Educational migration – students leaving a region to study elsewhere: the link to religion in Northern Ireland. In C. Larsen, W. Mathejczyk, J. Kipper, & A. Schmid (Eds.), Monitoring of Regional Labour Markets in European States, 17-22. Rainer Hampp Verlag
This paper reviews data sources concerning the key patterns and drivers of educational migration and non-return in Northern Ireland (NI). In particular it considers the sourc...

Changing nature of work and transport.

Book Chapter
McQuaid, R. W. (2003)
Changing nature of work and transport. In J. Hine, & J. Preston (Eds.), Integrated Futures and transport choices - UK transport policy beyond the 1998 white paper and transport acts (55-67). Ashgate Publishing

A model of the commuting range of unemployed job seekers

Book
McQuaid, R. W., & Greig, M. (2001)
A model of the commuting range of unemployed job seekers. In D. Pitfield (Ed.), Transport Planning, Logistics and Spatial Mismatch, 152-166. Pion
The ability or willingness of unemployed people to travel further to a new job will affect the level of mismatch between job seekers and jobs (Brueckner and Martin 1997; Gabri...