Employability, Poverty and the Spheres of Sociability - Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey
Journal Article
Canduela, J., Raeside, R., Lindsay, C., & Graham, H. (2015)
Employability, Poverty and the Spheres of Sociability - Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey. Social Policy and Administration, 49(5), 571-592. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12101
Policymakers in the UK and beyond have sought to promote interventions to encourage social capital-building among disadvantaged groups. One specific concern is that those with...
Who cares? Managing obligation and responsibility across the changing landscapes of informal dementia care
Journal Article
Egdell, V. (2013)
Who cares? Managing obligation and responsibility across the changing landscapes of informal dementia care. Ageing and society, 33, 888-907. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X12000311
This paper explores the different ways in which informal carers for people with dementia negotiate their care-giving role across the changing organisational and spatial landsc...
Identifying time-space constraints: a neglected element of the development discourse
Journal Article
Grieco, M., & Crowther, D. (2011)
Identifying time-space constraints: a neglected element of the development discourse. Social responsibility journal, 7, 638-648. https://doi.org/10.1108/17471111111175182
Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide conceptual provocation in the context of collective expertise on the identification of time-space constraints – a conceptua...
Social experimentation for active ageing: Edinburgh stakeholders interviews.
Report
Fuertes, V., McQuaid, R. W. & Egdell, V. (2010)
Social experimentation for active ageing: Edinburgh stakeholders interviews.
The Edinburgh Stakeholder Interviews presented in this report are part of QeC-ERAN’s (European Areas Regeneration Network – Quartiers en Crise) ‘Social Experimentation for Act...
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...
Identity, contestability and ethics of unified virtualisation of society.
Conference Proceeding
Wigan, M. (2010)
Identity, contestability and ethics of unified virtualisation of society. In 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), (399-405). https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS.2010.5514616
Virtualisation (the replacement of physical representation by bits) in society is placing great pressures on individuals and society. The progressive loss of legal multiple id...
Achieving access to work, improved social inclusion and reducing rural access costs.
Presentation / Conference
Cooper, U., Nelson, J. D., Wright, S., & Cooper, J. A. (2010, April)
Achieving access to work, improved social inclusion and reducing rural access costs. Paper presented at Scottish Transport Applications and Research (STAR) Conference, Glasgow
The paper considers the contribution that focused Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) may make to the delivery of improved access to work in rural Scottish locations. Whilst acc...
Identity, contestability and ethics of unified virtualisation.
Presentation / Conference
Wigan, M. (2010, January)
Identity, contestability and ethics of unified virtualisation
Partnership action for continuing employment (PACE): towards a future delivery model.
Report
McQuaid, R. W., Dutton, M., & Egdell, V. (2010)
Partnership action for continuing employment (PACE): towards a future delivery model
The Employment Research Institute, Edinburgh Napier University was commissioned by the Scottish Government to help develop a future delivery model for the Partnership Action f...