Research in TCELT
TCELT members see transition to be an on-going process and understand its close link with well-being.
Current research opportunities
PhD opportunity
PhD opportunity
Projects
The members currently focus on four main themes:
- educational transitions
- life transitions
- social change for well-being
- values, approaches, and strategies
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We are investigating the long-term impact of exposure to opioids in pregnancy, exploring health, education, and justice outcomes for young people up to age 16.
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Our study aims to design and validate the first scale to measure children’s emotional wellbeing in the context of primary-secondary school transitions.
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Exploring and sharing tales of living with mental health challenges in the past and today.
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This project page has been created to support early years and primary school educators with leading change by listening to children's voices.
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Sustainable design-led innovation for a green transformation of Health Services.
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New and emerging pollutants in water present health threats to humans and the environment.
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Sustainability objectives for Wales are ambitiously defined through The Wellbeing of Future Generations Act (2015). This project is developing a framework to bring together environmental and socioeconomic components through co-ordinated long-term management of natural resources (water, air, soil, land, marine) and biodiversity.
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Identifying predictors of neuropathic pain medication prescribing and response in diabetic peripheral neuropathy and chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy
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Understanding how our early life experiences influence our long-term health.
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Linking structural and functional neuroimaging with healthcare data to explore the effects of early life adversity on chronic pain, depression and analgesic use
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Understanding barriers to increasing physical activity in chronic pain
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Development and validation of an algorithm to identify people with chronic pain through primary care-based records.
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Project to look at the pain caused by nerve damage
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Chronic pain is a major unmet global public health challenge.
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CAPE’s goal is to identify mechanisms of vulnerability to pain in those exposed to childhood adversity.
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This project will propose a "pain patch" that is wearable for people who are going through chemotherapy.
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A project to identify any onset or progression of neuropathy and pain for people receiving neurotoxic chemotherapy for cancer treatment.
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Citizen-powered data ecosystems for inclusive and green urban transitions
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Dr Sean Whittaker (School of Law) has been awarded the Scottish Universities’ Law Institute Early Career Fellowship for his project
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Judith Sixsmith is a co-author on a new policy and guidelines publication called Place-Age, Place-Making with older adults towards age-friendly cities and communities.
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Love and Relationships through Intergenerational Storytelling
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Creative storytelling project
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Refugee Youth Experiences of Transitions to Adulthood in Uganda & Jordan.
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Impact of transitions and the factors that support or hinder a successful transition from primary to secondary school.
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Care across the life course for people living with life-limiting conditions
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Analysis of experiences relating to the transition from primary to secondary school using data collected from Growing up in Scotland (GUS).
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This small-scale project set out to provide an independent evaluation of a recently developed health and well-being programme, MindJump, targeted at primary aged children
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Improving didactics, education and learning in higher education with the Online Serious Game Creator
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This collection of articles aims to address key gaps in educational transitions research literature, leading to new perspectives and the identification of recommendations for further research, policy and practice.
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Understanding the life transitions of young adults cared for by CHAS and the impact on their parents, siblings and professionals
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Economic and Social Research Council-funded project
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We are seeking to explore how the right of access to environmental information is utilised in Scotland.
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PAINSTORM is a group of research centres from the UK and Belgium. Our aim is to understand the disease processes of NeuP
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Amplifying children’s voices through creative and playful research methods
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A study into the genetic and trait diversity of daffodils.
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The purpose of this R-Shiny application is to make this information more accessible and to allow its user to export the reference lists based on keyword searches.
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We explore the requirements needed in the interaction of new scientific and digital technologies with legal frameworks, the legal system and the justice system.
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Ecosystems to promote the community participation of older people: A rapid realist review
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This project explored the social and health outcomes associated with younger and older peoples’ LGBT2QI+ love and relationship experiences using creative intergenerational storytelling.
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Corporations, their activities, influence, incentive structures and business models are deeply implicated in inter-linked environmental, economic and social challenges with profound implications for human rights. This raises the question, through what international standards and mechanisms should corporate human rights impacts be addressed?
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This project aims at the development of a new scale, School Professionals’ awareness of ACEs Scale (SPACES)
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Co design and co production of oral health improvement interventions for people with lived experience of drugs.
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This contributes to reliable access to off-grid energy for healthcare facilities in Nigeria effectively to combat the pandemic, building on CEPMLP’s network of local policymakers and academics.
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This ‘RSE COP 26 International Climate Change Network’ project addresses how initial experience in tackling climate change in Scotland and the rest of the UK may yield insights into the design of domestic laws and regulations on adaptation and resilience in the Global South in line with international legal requirements under the Paris Agreement and the Paris Rulebook’
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‘Assessing the Human Rights Potential in Scotland’s External Relations’ examines the role human rights play, or could play, in Scotland’s foreign policy.
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‘Making Sense’ embodies socio-technical design research to support participatory sensing initiatives addressing urban environmental challenges in areas such as noise and air pollution.
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The UK Royal Navy War Graves project comprises three MoD licensed underwater surveys of the historically significant Naval shipwrecks located on the seabed around Orkney.
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Kieran Baxter uses aerial Photogrammetric techniques and digital media integrated with the more traditional and commonly used method of repeat photography to create new perspectives on landscapes, revealing the change that has taken place over decades.
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'Nunalleq: Stories from the Village of our Ancestors' is an interactive educational resource for children aged 7-15, by Alice Watterson.
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‘IN TIME AND SILENTLY’ and ‘A WIND FROM THE NORTH’ is a portfolio of two exhibitions of landscape paintings by Philip Braham.
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ECZEMA! is a cumulative performance work for one voice and pipe organ, written and directed by Maria Fusco, commissioned by National Theatre Wales to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the NHS.
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‘Sounding Coastal Change’ (SCC) is a project by Gair Dunlop, exploring how sound, music, film and alternate ways of listening are useful tools in a facilitated process of public engagement.
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Rosnes Bench is a permanent artwork commissioned by Wide Open, for the diverse and vast landscape of Dumfries & Galloway Forest.
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‘TIDE’ is a multi-layered creative research project by Tania Kovats which examines the uniquely dynamic nature of tides in the UK.
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Sàl (Saltwater) is a collaboration between Dalziel + Scullion and composer Iain Morrison, commissioned by 14-18 NOW, WWI Centenary Art Commissions, in collaboration with An Lanntair.
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Witness was developed as a new series of drawings for a solo exhibition (curated by Esen Kaya), with eight drawings first exhibited in ‘DRAWN’ – Anita Taylor (solo exhibition).
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‘Women’s Early Video Art’ is a multi-component research project, led by Elaine Shemilt,
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‘Urban Gold Rush’ by Sandra Wilson is a research project comprising three exhibitions and supporting publications.
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‘Jacobites by Name’ was a solo exhibition of 27 new works by Calum Colvin.
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‘Hands of X’ by Andrew Cook, investigates prosthetic hands, identity, fashion, and ownership.
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‘Ages of Wonder: Scotland’s Art from 1540 until Today’ is a curatorial and editorial research project led by Arthur Watson.
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The Slave’s Lament is a five-channel video artwork by Graham Fagen.
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This work develops Mick Peter’s evolving research interest in the rhetorical, self-reflexive potential of making an exhibition which is apparently about making an exhibition, by showing exhibition-making as something that can reflect on how sculptural form is understood in mainstream visual culture.
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A Drama in Time draws on histories shaping Edinburgh’s forms and ideas, presenting iconic images in neon, illuminating a journey, a life, and questioning what lies beyond.
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Developing and evaluating a diabetes self-management intervention for people with severe mental illness
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A multi-method study and realist evaluation of what works for whom and under what circumstances
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Looking at using text messaging to enhance motivation for stroke survivors to participate in physical activity
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Developing, implementing and evaluating an oral health preventive programme for homeless populations across Scotland
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A major challenge facing the health and wellbeing of people with intellectual disabilities is the level of anxiety experienced by both the disabled patient and the dentist
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Investigation of NICE Technologies for enabling risk-variable-adjusted-length dental recalls trial
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Prisoners have been identified as one of the target groups (along with the homeless) for oral health improvement by the Scottish government as offenders' oral health is generally worse than that of the general population
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We are creating new ways to detect illicit drugs, explosives and bodily fluids at crime scenes using cutting edge nanobiosensor, DNA aptamers and quantum dot chemistry.
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We are creating curated ground truth (known source) data sets and applying machine learning algorithms to explore the interpretation of chemical profiles and feature comparison problems.
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We are exploring the strengths and weaknesses of algorithms and software programs used to interpret complex DNA mixtures (samples that contain DNA from more than one person).
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We are developing new avenues of research, collaboration, education and training using Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) tools.
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We are exploring alternative methods of DNA analysis using oxford nanopore and other technologies.
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We generate accessible data sets to aid forensic science research. These include chemical and biological data, physical evidence (such as ballistics and footwear) and biometric samples.
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Research in the area of digital game-based learning (GBL) in primary schools.
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Our research has influenced national policy developments, implementation, and practice guidelines regarding protecting/supporting vulnerable adults
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Serious social, emotional and behavioural disturbance in adolescents is costly - incurring long-term costs to society in service provision and collateral damage as well as personal costs to the young people themselves
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This project explores transfer to the secondary school environment of pupil domain-specific knowledge and skills (particularly in science), and general social, communication and teamwork skills
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The Museum of Loss and Renewal investigates issues such as the value and significance of objects, life and death, and artist-led curatorial practice
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Design in Action (DiA) is a £5m Knowledge Exchange (KE) Hub for the Creative Economy, funded in 2012 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to demonstrate design as a key strategy for economic growth and innovation within industry. A further £500k was awarded from Creative Scotland to support Scottish SMEs to apply design innovation and strategy in both the creative and non-creative industries.
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‘GROW Observatory’ by Mel Woods centres around a design framework and operational information system for climate action at scale.
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The Centre for Remote Environments (CRE), previously known as Project Atlantis, was established by the late Brigadier David Nicholls and Prof Elaine Shemilt as a research and consultancy group concerned with environmental protection and education, and to provide environmental educational resources through digital media
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SGHT aims to preserve the island’s natural and historical heritage for future generations
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Forensic Art aids in the identification, apprehension or conviction of offenders and the location of victims or identification of unknown human remains.
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We are exploring methods for the development of measurement uncertainty associated with the analysis of a wide range of forensic evidence types and how probability is used to understand the meaning of evidence given different alleged activities.
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We are working in collaboration with Cambridge University and the Alan Alda Centre for science communication to develop new tools for the communication and understanding of statistics in forensic science
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We identify and monitor the emergence of new psychoactive substances on illicit drug markets and investigate the risks of emerging drug threats involving these and more traditional drugs of abuse.
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Natural flood management (NFM) can help us adapt to climate change, reducing flood risk and conserving habitats, while sustaining farming livelihoods. We are testing this at Eddleston Water, within the Scottish Government’s research programme on the effectiveness of catchment-scale NFM measures.
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Recent Research Projects Supporting Scotland's climate change adaptation policy In a changing climate, issues of flooding and water resource quality and quantity are becoming increasingly critical. We supported the Scottish Government to develop research-led policy and the monitoring and evaluation framework for climate change adaptation in Scotland.
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Soil moisture plays a key role in predicting the extreme weather events that are becoming increasingly common in a changing climate. Our vision is supporting a movement of citizens generating, sharing and using information to improve their soil management, and food production.
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The river system of the Ganges holds great physical, social and cultural importance in India, but suffers from poorly regulated pollution and water demand. This project looked at how water pollution affects communities on the Ramganga tributary of the Ganges.
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Rapid economic change and population growth increase the pressure on water resources management to address competing demands across river basins. The key challenge is to give adequate representation to the many local, small-scale water management interventions in larger-scale decision-making.
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Climate change is enhancing the intensity and frequency of floods, which further exacerbates many other challenges. This project co-developed and tested a flood resilient home with communities in Bangladesh.
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DECCMA: assessing the options, limits and potential for adaptation to climate change in deltas