Our projects

Community Wealth Building Evaluation: Learning Lessons from Scotland (CoWBELLS)

The aim of the study is to evaluate the health, and health inequalities impacts of Community Wealth Building.

FinWell Wales

Understanding the links between people's financial lives, health and wellbeing and the impact of fair microcredit.

ENGAGED Youth

This project aims to advance current understanding of youth civic engagement and to establish Living Labs in London, Seville, and Lisbon.

WIGWAM-S

A co-design community project to develop realist programme theories around the impact of Men’s Sheds on positive health and wellbeing of socially disadvantaged, working-age men.

Common Health Assets

Common Health Assets: an evaluation of the health and wellbeing impacts of community-led organisations.

CommonHealth Catalyst

Information on the CommonHealth Catalyst developing community research.

Developing and evaluating an economic and ethico-legal framework for priority setting in health and social care

Health and Social Care Partnerships (HSCPs), created in Scotland, are collaborations between the NHS and local authorities, with third-sector representation.

Common health

Developing Methods for Evidencing Social Enterprise as a Public Health Intervention (CommonHealth)

T4VET

Implementation and evaluation of an accredited vocational trainer within Scotland’s Bravest Manufacturing Company’s progressive employment training programme for veterans.

NESSIE (NIHR Evidence Synthesis Scotland Initiative)

NIHR Evidence Synthesis Scotland Initiative is a five-year (2023-2028) programme aiming to produce and disseminate timely, high quality and impactful evidence syntheses across a wide range of topics relevant to health care, public health and social care.

Rural Assets: Policy and practice insights from the devolved nations

A study aiming to understand the impacts of the processes of community asset acquisition upon the empowerment, resilience and wellbeing of rural communities.

ELLY: Enjoy Life LocallY

A new community-led approach to incentivise, support, and sustain healthy weight and well-being.

Establishing Quality Adjusted Life Year weights for end of life

Criteria used by the Scottish Medicines Consortium and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to assess end-of-life technologies mean these medicines can be provided even if there is a large opportunity cost.

Public Values, Universal Basic Income and Health

Developing a mixed-methods study to elicit and deliberate public values for Universal Basic Income and comparator policies in relation to their impact on population health and health inequalities.

Evaluation of Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act

The Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 aims to empower communities through the ownership of land and buildings

GiG: The Gig Economy

The Gig Economy and its Implications for Social Dialogue and Workers’ Protection

Innovation and Creativity in the Third Sector in response to COVID-19: A Rapid Realist Evidence Synthesis

The project's aim is to understand the role of third sector organisations in innovating, to ensure support to vulnerable and disadvantaged people during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Is ‘end-of-life’ care more valuable?

Is ‘end-of-life’ care more valuable? Measuring societal values using the new Q2S method.

Sustainable sheds

Sheds for Sustainable Development Project focuses on supporting Men’s Sheds in Scotland to be both financially and socially sustainable.

EFESEIIS

Enabling the flourishing and evolution of social entrepreneurship for innovative and inclusive societies 

SIRIUS

Skills and Integration of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Applicants in European Labour Markets

Social Enterprise Collection

Future Development of the Social Enterprise Collection (Scotland): Collecting, preserving and interpreting the legacy of social enterprise in Scotland

Solidarity in a Time of Crisis

Solidarity in a time of crisis : The role of mutual aid to the COVID-19 pandemic

Strategic Public Social Partnership Model

Report - to date - of the Strategic Public Social Partnership Model in Scotland Scottish Government