HaSS People and Society- Research and Impact Bulletin, Autumn 2022- Issue 8

SOCIETY

Welcome

I am very pleased to re-launch our Faculty bulletin for research and KE news, after the publication was suspended during the challenging time of the pandemic. Since I have taken over as Vice Dean Research, I have been delighted to re-connect with research across the Faculty, in our Schools and Centres, and to meet new colleagues.

As a Faculty, we have significant strengths in research through our diverse areas of expertise, which allows us to engage with key challenges facing societies nowadays. Building on our strong partnerships with communities and organisations in Scotland and further afield, we do fantastic work in tackling some of the most pressing issues globally, from rising inequalities post-pandemic to the climate crisis and threats to democracy around the world. Our research and KE are key to the university’s mission of being a socially progressive institution.

Some of this outstanding work is illustrated in this issue. Research from CYCJ shows how vulnerable young people from England and Wales are moved into the care system in Scotland, leaving them isolated from family and friends. These children also came from the most deprived areas, which makes it significantly challenging for their families to visit them. Colleagues in the School of Education are looking at how new interventions that address educational inequality can be implemented in partnership with local communities. A research project I am involved in with colleagues in Brazil, Poland and Germany is examining the significantly negative impact of the pandemic on migrant women and their families. Inequalities have been on the rise since the Covid-19 pandemic, so it is fitting that we respond to these as researchers.

to the Autumn 2022 issue of People & Society.

In other sections in the issue, you will read about work colleagues are involved in with policy makers and other key stakeholders to tackle ocean pollution or find nature-based solutions to the on-going climate crisis. Our impact on policy has always been significant and we showcase here many recent achievements in informing policy, via engagement events or research-driven evidence. Colleagues have also organised many activities for members of the public, including some art- and drama-based.

Finally, we have a new section where we highlight funding and training opportunities. To provide support in applying for research funding, we are planning Faculty-wide events I will lead on, to make the process of applying for funding more transparent and easier to navigate. I’ll share successes (and failures), so please consider joining these if you think these sessions might be helpful for your grant writing plans.

Enjoy the Bulletin and send us your research and KE news for future issues via the RAKET page, in Sharepoint.

Prof Daniela Sime Chair in Youth, Migration and Social Justice Vice Dean Research

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Spotlight on research

The most vulnerable children in England and Wales are being sent to secure children’s homes in Scotland, when places can’t be found for them locally, according to research undertaken by the Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ). The findings were published by the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory. This research is based on two secure care censuses that CYCJ undertook on a set day in Scotland’s five secure accommodation centres in 2018, and again in 2019. The previous reports by CYCJ’s Ross Gibson combined all children resident in secure care on these dates, regardless of their home nation.

At any one time, around 25 children from England and Wales are living in secure care in Scotland, an average of 353 miles away from their homes, family and friends. They are the most vulnerable of an already vulnerable group of children, with many having experienced neglect, abuse, mental health problems, criminal and sexual exploitation. More than a third (37%) of children included in the census had been placed in Scotland by English or Welsh local authorities. Over 70% of those children had experienced ‘adverse childhood experiences’ such as emotional or physical neglect or abuse, parental mental ill-health, substance abuse, or separation, or exposure to domestic violence at some point in their lives - more than children in a comparable study in England.

This new report compliments the data provided within the CYCJ reports, adding to what is already known about this group of children. Ross Gibson, lead researcher of the study, said: “Our data suggests that the children placed in Scotland’s secure children’s homes by local authorities in England and Wales have had a childhood marked by intra-familial abuse and year-on-year exposure to adversity and risk. Separation from family and friends is often

another blow to a cohort of children who have faced multiple difficulties. Making the situation even more pressing is potential new legislation on its way in Scotland that could ban or significantly reduce the number of placements that are available in Scottish secure care homes to children from England and Wales. The urgent need for an alternative plan to take care of these children if that happens has yet to be acknowledged by policy makers in those countries.”

Whilst this report is about children from England and Wales, it is also important and very much of relevance to us here in Scotland. These are the children that Scottish secure providers are looking after, and – in some small number of cases – they remain in Scotland following their transition out of secure care. This research allows secure care providers to better understand their needs and give them the best support.

The study also showed a strikingly high prevalence of mental health or emotional difficulties, substance misuse problems, incidents of violence to parents and staff, school exclusion, youth justice involvement and sexual exploitation in the year prior to the children being admitted to the secure unit. Child sexual exploitation was cited as a primary reason for admission for 23% of children – contributing to concerns that children are the ones being moved away and isolated, rather than potential offenders.

The children in the study came from families living in the most deprived areas of the country. One third of them were known to social services before the age of three, and another third had come to their attention by age 11. Despite the involvement of children’s services in their lives, it was notable that children’s exposure to risks and adverse childhood experiences persisted until secure care was necessary.

CYCJ research finds children from England and Wales are placed in secure homes in Scotland, far from their families

Lisa Harker, director of Nuffield Family Justice Observatory, said: “It is not acceptable for a society to lock up victims instead of offenders, yet in cases of child criminal or sexual exploitation we are seeing children placed in secure settings instead of those they are at risk from. Many of the children in our study had experienced more adversity in one year than most people experience in a lifetime. Placing them hundreds of miles from home and the support of family or friends is not a long-term solution.”

Bruce Adamson, Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland, said: “Every child deprived of liberty has the right to be treated with humanity, dignity and in a way that takes into account their needs and best interests. It must only ever be a measure of last resort, take place for the shortest possible time, and should always be in a facility appropriate for their age.

“I have long been concerned that children from England and Wales are being sent to secure care in Scotland, hundreds of miles away from their families and friends. This important study,

by Nuffield Family Justice Observatory and CYCJ, highlights the trauma and adversity that these children have endured throughout their childhoods, and the complexity of their needs. “In the limited circumstances where children need to be detained, it’s important that they stay as close as possible to their families and communities. Placing them hundreds of miles from family, friends and other supports, as well as the local authorities charged with their care, cannot be in their best interests.”

View the research report at www.cycj.org.uk/ news/cross-border-placements/ https://www.nuffieldfjo.org.uk/resource/whatdo-we-know-about-children-from-england-andwales-in-secure-care-in-scotland

charlotte.morris@strath.ac.uk

Spotlight on research

iCharlotte Morris Communication Lead Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ)

Research and KE activities

Building a community level response to educational inequality?

with younger children (The Bowmar Bookies), a summer programme of excursions for families, volunteer- led reading mentor projects and mentoring for young people seeking to enter higher education.

Crucially, these interventions seek to facilitate schools to work more effectively within their communities, engaging for example in family literacy work and more closely combining schoolbased experiences of reading with what children experience outside of school.

The research aspect of this work is fundamental in terms of informing potential projects and supporting an iterative process of research and development as they grow. These interventions represent the realisation of ideas developed and shaped by both the engagement of communities as well as more established research- informed interventions that need tailored to local contexts and challenges. The formation of a social enterprise has helped further the community development and practice elements of the work.

Building on previous research work that pioneered the use of different forms of mentoring for children and young people, Alastair Wilson and Katie Hunter have been funded by the Scottish Government and local authorities to trial and explore the potential of interventions that address educational inequality by working with local communities.

This work is ongoing and supports development work across local communities and schools and is framed around models of community development. It is founded on building and creating opportunities for relationships and supporting engagement in learning across communities.

Presently, work being developed includes reading cafes in primary schools for parents and children, a community- led book club for parents

The ambition for this work is to develop a bid for the substantive funding that will enable local communities to work in partnership with community groups, schools and researchers to develop innovative ways to address educational inequality.

We are currently looking for help! If this sits within your overall research interests, please get in touch. Equally, if you think you can help a child with their reading, assist a young person hoping to enter university, or help build a Santa’s Grotto please contact us.

For more information please visit www.intergenerationalmentoring.com

iDr Katie Hunter Research Fellow School of Education katie.hunter@strath.ac.uk

Projects in Speech and Language Therapy to tackle speech disorders in children and adults

Researchers in Psychological Sciences and Health are contributing significantly to the University’s Strategic Health and Wellbeing Theme. Drs Joanne Cleland, Anja Kuschmann, Eleanor Lawson and Prof Anja Lowit in Speech and Language Therapy have been successful in growing their research into assessment and treatment of speech disorders in children and adults, with current projects totalling over £1M. Speech Disorders can affect people of all ages, from young children who have difficulty learning the sounds of their native language, to people with cleft lip and palate and older people with acquired speech difficulties due to neurological problems. Research in Speech and Language Therapy tackles the whole life span.

A large ESRC project “Variability in Child Speech (VariCS)” started this summer. This project is looking at how children’s speech changes as they grow. Currently, we know very little about how primary-school aged children coordinate the complex systems required to produce clear speech, and how much children vary in terms of how and when their speech production patterns mature. However, this variation is important

for us to better understand the development of speech in children with speech disorders. The researchers will use specialised acoustic analysis techniques to measure speech in children of different ages in Scottish Primary Schools. Anja Kuschmann, Senior Lecturer in SLT is the principal investigator, with Joanne Cleland (Reader in SLT), David Young (Senior Lecturer in Mathematics and Statistics), and Jane Stuart Smith (Professor of Phonetics, Glasgow University) as co-investigators. This project will record children’s speech using an app to make sure all children do the same tasks and have fun when recording their speech. Based on the recordings, we will gain essential information about the functioning of each speech system and collate these in an interactive web resource for Speech and Language Therapists.

This new web resource will complement the ongoing ESRC-funded Secondary Data Analysis Initiative project “Speech Therapy Animation and Imaging Resource (STAR)”. STAR involves the creation of SLT teaching websites. The websites will provide free online access to real-time videos of vocal organ movement during speech, using

ultrasound tongue imaging technology; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and MRI-based vocaltract animation. The project makes use of preexisting ultrasound tongue imaging speech corpora, collected as part of Joanne Cleland’s ongoing research at Strathclyde, to enable SLTs and their clients to learn more about how the tongue moves in both disordered and nondisordered speech. The principal investigator of this project is Eleanor Lawson. After many years at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, Eleanor joined the team at Strathclyde as a Chancellor Fellow in SLT in August. CoInvestigators on this project are Dr Joanne Cleland and Dr Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow).

Intervention for speech disorders is an important area of research for SLT. A recent award from the Multiple System Atrophy Trust to Prof Anja Lowit for the project “ClearSpeechTogether” will allow her team to trial an online intervention for people with speech problems caused by Multiple System Atrophy. This rare nervous system condition causes problems with coordination, motor control and speech. The project begins in January 2023 and will compare standard NHS treatments from improving speech with online speech intervention that incorporates peer-support. This project adds to our ongoing research into speech interventions for children and adults with speech sound disorders, including an ongoing Chief Scientist Office Project, “Sonospeech” investigating intervention for children with Cleft Lip and Palate (Principal Investigator, Dr Joanne Cleland) and an NIHR funded project looking at maximising the impact of interventions for children with speech sound disorders (Coinvestigator, Dr Joanne Cleland, PI – Dr Yvonne Wren, Bristol).

Sneak peek of some of the resources associated with the Rannsachadh Àrainn Eucoir: Am Puffin Bochd project. © Dr Kirsty Ross CC BY 4.0

In July, Drs Kirsty Ross, Jane Essex and Ingeborg Birnie (School of Education) successfully applied for an Outreach Fund Large Grant from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), worth in total £10,000. Their project, titled: Rannsachadh Àrainn Eucoir: Am Puffin Bochd (English: Crime Science Investigation: The Poor Puffin), is an expansion on their existing work on the Erasmus Plus funded knowledge exchange project called DiSSI.

Rannsachadh Àrainn Eucoir: Am Puffin Bochd adapts a forensic workshop previously created for secondary school workshops at Prestwick Airport STEM week 2017 and 2018, as well as the Widening Access Team’s primary school RSC project called “Thinking Inside the Box”. It is a Gaelic Medium Education project that will see young people and their teachers/community leaders investigating the cause of death of a puffin found closed to fly tipped rubbish on a (unnamed) Scottish beach. CLPL sessions and kit boxes are a key component of the project,

STEM project in Gaelic has produced exciting resources for schools

matched with additional sessions around the GlasWeeAsian Plant Explorers and editing the world’s largest encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and her sister projects. Dr Ross also hosted three young people from Woodhill High School and Hamilton Grammar on work experience over the summer. Jack, Jessica and Reese worked incredibly hard, pulling together resources for the kit boxes as well as providing suggestions for improvements.

These resources will be donated to Gaelic Medium Educators across Scotland following their upcoming in person CLPL sessions. To read more about the project, please check out their website.

https://dissi.uk.engagementhq.com

iDr Jane Essex Senior Lecturer School of Education jane.essex@strath.ac.uk

KE grant success: Building primary teachers’ confidence in craft, design and engineering

David Roxburgh, Senior Teaching Fellow in the School of Education, has been successful in a bid of £9,046 to Round 4 of Education Scotland’s ‘Enhancing Professional Learning in STEM Grants Programme’. The project will exemplify the Curriculum for Excellence Technologies strand of Craft, Design, Engineering and Graphics (CDEG) in primary schools through a programme of professional learning within up to 9 local authorities in the School’s ‘West Partnership’.

Contemporary research highlights that CDEG can be a neglected aspect of Technologies in primary schools, something echoed through discussions with school colleagues, and through David’s extensive work with student teachers in this area. Practitioners’ confidence can be built through exemplification of up-to-date models that can easily be replicated in classrooms. This requires both subject-based and pedagogical knowledge, as well as meaningful links to other areas of the curriculum.

The project aim is to exemplify high quality, research-led practice with the ambition of boosting teacher confidence, knowledge and pedagogical skills. Both phases of funding will engage teachers in primary school clusters through workshops that:

• explore key principles of CDEG i.e., design process; subject pedagogy and design projects;

• exemplify practical tasks where staff take on learner roles and consider implications for inclusivity;

• plan for classroom projects addressing grant themes e.g. curricular integration, stereotyping, creativity, parental engagement, world of work etc.

These will support a period of trialling of approaches in participants’ schools, with evaluation of the initiative and its impact also included as key elements in the sharing of experiences more widely in a bid to sustain and grow practices.

David’s particular pedagogical approach to CDEG also raises awareness of traditional societal bias in STEM gender roles and highlights that practical activity is for everyone, regardless of

access needs, through differentiated classroom practices. It stresses the design process is enhanced by the skills that each pupil brings to the task, regardless of perceived ability and background when collaborating, and celebrates diverse CDEG role models who have made worthwhile contributions to the area.

This project is further evidence of the School of Education’s success in providing high quality CLPL provision in local, national and international contexts, aligning well to the socially progressive vision for our work.

David Roxburgh Senior Teaching Fellow School of Education

david.roxburgh@strath.ac.uk

New Security and Resilience Research Centre (SRRC)

The Security & Resilience Research Centre (SRRC) is a small pan-university centre whose purpose is to enable and grow Strathclyde academic participation in ‘Security and Resilience’ and, with colleagues across Strathclyde, to co-design the University’s strategy for these sectors.

‘Security & Resilience’ covers a breadth and diversity of activity. Key funders include the UK Ministry of Defence (including Dstl and DASA), international equivalents like US DoD and their labs, the wider UK Government National Security community (including organisations like the National Cyber Security Centre) and the industrial companies active in the sector. These organisations fund projects of various types from universities, often studies, consultancy and advisory work, generally relying on (and more recently partnering with) Research Councils to invest in the underpinning knowledge and research base. In addition to more established areas, there is also now opportunity to develop research visions and innovative propositions to address resilience-building to minimise society’s vulnerability to disruption, address underlying fragility and build more secure and resilient futures; this is where we see most alignment with Research Council agendas.

The greatest thing about working in these sectors is the fascinating and important nature of the challenges being addressed – challenges where academic expertise can really make a difference. The work is often ‘mission focused’ serving the needs of operationally-minded communities. It could be to build security and resilience into critical power and communications networks, to develop resilience-thinking skills in the future workforce, to counter terrorism or crime, or to help our Armed Forces get ahead and stay ahead. Those already active in the sector – and it may not be for everyone – enjoy the impactful nature of the work.

We know that the often quick-response, shortterm and applied nature of opportunities can be off-putting and that there are practical challenges of engaging with customers who speak in their own code, impose security requirements and use complex contracting frameworks (things like R-Cloud, Progeny, Serapis, ASTRID, ACE and DASA). This landscape is difficult to navigate and engage with but SRRC – with RKES and other colleagues – are here to make that all a little easier.

If you think you might be interested in getting more involved in this sector, please look out for some SRRC awareness events coming your way soon. We’ll ensure these are publicised within the Faculty. They will however be panUniversity events because this sector demands inter-disciplinary working and innovation across traditional organisational and discipline boundaries. The SRRC team relishes the opportunity to drive this agenda forward with you and explore some new ways of working. The SRRC core team have extensive experience of working in Industry and Government in this sector and, if we haven’t already, we look forward to collaborating with you. Please feel free to contact us:

• Dr Heather Anderson heather.e.anderson@strath.ac.uk (SRRC Operations Director)

• Professor of Practice Fiona Strens fiona.strens@strath.ac.uk (SRRC CEO)

• Professor of Practice Jeremy Ward jeremy.ward@strath.ac.uk (SRRC part time CTO)

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Nuffield Research Placements

Nuffield Research Placements provide engaging, hands-on research projects, where S5 pupils, especially those from marginalised communities, have the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution towards the work of a host organisation through a well-supervised but independent research collaboration relating to an area of science, quantitative social science, computing, technology, engineering or maths (or a combination). Over 90 placements were undertaken in 2022 and both students and placement hosts found it to be a very worthwhile experience. Placements will take place during the summer of 2023, with students undertaking 2 weeks in-person working with an industry or university/college partner and up to 2 weeks online completing additional planning and research work. Students will also receive pre-placement induction courses to prepare them for their placement.

An online session for potential mentors will take place on 22nd Nov 2022, link below for registration, and will cover an introduction to Nuffield Research Placements, outlining key dates and what mentoring involves. You will also hear of the experiences from previous placement hosts in an employer and a university department. If interested in being a mentor, register at:

Nuffield Research Placements - Employers, Universities and Colleges Tickets, Tue 22 Nov 2022 at 16:00 | Eventbrite

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Student successes

Thesis spotlight

Harkening the Loud Claps: The Representations of Hijras in Bollywood, Indian Anglophone Literature and Life Writings from 1990 to 2020

Rukhsar Hussain

Supervisors: Prof. Churnjeet Mahn (Humanities) and Prof. Yvette Taylor (Education)

Examiners: Dr. Rohit K Dasgupta (External); Dr. Navan Govender (Internal)

Rukhsar Hussain’s thesis investigates how subjectivity, agency, religion, and queer forms of kinship circulate across different cultural texts. It has collected and unpicked the patterns and politics of representation for hijras inter/ transnationally. Rukhsar foregrounded the need to understand difference within local contexts without becoming subsumed by typically western notions of gender diversity that are used to read and understand non-western contexts and experiences. In this regard, the thesis is part of a wider decolonial project that seeks to undermine the myth of universality by taking seriously the local. Hijra identities, cultures, experiences, practices, and storying are, therefore, important starting points for disrupting multiple gendered orders.

Viva successes

Student’s name Programme Thesis Title

Charlotte Allan MPhil Education

Nadeem Aslam PhD English

Clare Binning MRes English

Missed Connections and Silver Linings: researching Theatre for Early Years audience experience during the COVID-19 pandemic

Bodies of History in Anglophone Writing on Partition

The Incel Bookclub: Inceldom, Toxic Masculinity and the Literary Canon

Leanne Black EdD Education

Lannette

Kambole Chiti PhD Law

An Explorative Case Study of a Secondary School Nurture Group Focusing upon the Transfer of Learning from the Nurture Group to the Wider School Setting

Sustainable Energy, Climate Change Mitigation and International Energy Law: Hard, Soft Law and the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative

Yu Wei Chua PhD Education

Movement and socioemotional development – a multilevel approach examining subsecond motor patterns and behaviour in infancy and early childhood

Literary Interpretations of Linguistic Form: A Psychological Account

Printing and Periodical Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Asylum

Life after loss: A theory-based investigation into the impact of bereavement by suicide or other causes on adolescents in Scotland

Romancing the Beast: Intersections of Power, Gender, and Sexuality in Omegaverse Fan Fiction

Legal Rights in the Children’s Hearings System: Evolution or Revolution?

Andrew Currie MRes English

Mila Daskalova PhD English

Laura Elina del Carpio PhD Psychology

Kelsey Entrikin PhD English

Alyson Evans PhD Law

Sarah Farman MRes Creative Writing Under the Eclipse

Student successes

Ashley Fenwick EdD Education

Jonathan William Firth PhD Education

Practice Focused Study of Outdoor Learning in Five Scottish Secondary Schools 2011-2019

Memory and Metacognition in Classroom Learning: The Role of Item Order in Learning with Particular Reference to the Interleaving Effect

Lauren Gavin MRes History

Miranda Geelhoed PhD Law

Jenny Gillespie

Marion

PhD Physical Activity for Health

How did societal changes influence the development of movement assessment research and shape the definition of a normal child in Britain 1945-1985?

Agroecology at the Nexus Between Biodiversity Law and Human Rights Law

Translation and feasibility testing of the Healthy Habits Happy Homes (4H) Intervention to Scotland (4HS)

Henry PhD History Building Community with Music

Rukhsar Hussain PhD English

Ryan Innes

MRes Physical Activity for Health

Douglas Jack PhD Law

Harkening the Loud Claps: Hijra Representation in the Mainstream Indian Cinema, Literature and Life Writing

COVID-19: Why are the media obsessed with Vitamin D?

Defending the Scotland Act 1998 as a ‘third way’ bill of rights

An exploration and analysis of the role which local non-governmental welfare organisations play in social service provision and their impact on service users in Tanzania

Elizabeth Nicol King PhD Psychology

A mixed methods investigation of the impact of attachment theory on the policy and practice within early years and primary education in a Scottish Local Authority

Catherine Mann

MRes Physical Activity for Health

Francesca Masciullo MRes French

University of Strathclyde student experiences of an online physical activity programme

Denied and Disowned Motherhood in the Works of Dacia Maraini and Annie Ernaux

David Henry Kanyumi PhD Social Work

Brendan

Luke McGillen PhD Politics

Louise McKeever

PhD Speech and Language Therapy

Rachel Meach PhD History

Adam Mitchell

MRes Physical Activity for Health

Incorporating Emotion into Securitisation Studies: Fear-Based Psychological Models of Securitisation Attitudes

Speech- Fine- and Gross-Motor Control in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

A Spoonful of Sugar: Dietary Advice and Diabetes in Britain and the United States, 1945-Present

Exploring the use of Active Commuting as part of the COVID – 19 Recovery

Maria Ntona PhD Law

Stefania Pagani PhD Psychology

Legal Place-making in Europe’s Seas Laying the Foundations for a Human Rights-based Approach to Maritime Spatial Planning in the EU

Evaluating the Mentors in Violence Prevention programme: A theoretical, longitudinal, and implementation approach

Michelle

Patrick PhD Psychology

Feeling Sad, Angry, or Scared: An Investigation of Gender Differences in the Regulation of Specific Emotions, and their Relationship with Mental Health

Eilidh Russell

MRes Physical Activity for Health

Exploratory study of the integration of Fitbit data into existing diabetes healthcare platforms

Mika Schroder PhD Law

Sometimes Reality Enters the Room” Spatial In/Justice and the In/Visibilisation of Local Actors within International Biodiversity Negotiations

Bereavement and Imprisonment: A descriptive phenomenological exploration of prisoners’ experiences of bereavement in carceral contexts

Joshua Kenny Simpson PhD Education

David Spalding PhD Psychology

A Tripartite Investigation Into Narratives of Sexuality, Gender, and the Role of Fiction for Children and Young People in Shaping LGBT+ Exclusion and Inclusion

Impacts of trait anxiety on attention and feature binding in visual working memory

Student successes

Tia Simanovic PhD Criminology

PhD Social Work

Criminal Justice, Sentencing and the Reality of the Fine in Thailand

“Stigma is a Weird Amoeba of a Word”: Exploring mental health stigma as a multilevel concept through the experiences and conceptualisations of young people and staff members from stakeholder organisations in Scotland

PhD History

Drug Wars Before Duterte: ‘Illicit’ Substances and the American Colonial Experiment in the Philippines

Current living places and future utopias: community writing in Glasgow, 1967 – 1990

PhD History

‘I shall have to learn to live all over again’: Injury, Disability and Relationships in the lives of Second World War Servicemen

Thanyanuch Tantikul PhD Law

Amy Tucker

Eva Louise Ward

Kate Wilson PhD English

Jasmine Wood

Up-and-Coming Wikipedian of the Year!

Dr Kirsty Ross (School of Education) was recently awarded the Up-and-Coming Wikipedian of the Year by Wikimedia UK at Wikimania, the annual conference of the Wikimedia Foundation. This was in recognition of her efforts in training new editors and raising awareness via the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility in Open Knowledge Network (IDEA Network) that she co-founded at the University of St Andrews. Feel free to get in touch with Kirsty (kirsty.ross@strath.ac.uk) if you are interested in incorporating Wikipedia and her sister projects into your research, teaching, or knowledge exchange efforts.

Policy and practice impact

Advancing children, youth, and small-scale fishers’ meaningful role in climate change adaptation and mitigation

In the run-up to COP27, the One Ocean Hub in collaboration with civil society and youth partners such as Sustainable Ocean Alliance, Global Youth Biodiversity Network, Oceanic Global, Peace Boat, and Terre des Hommes are working together to highlight two key points:

• Children and young people should be the focus of ocean-based climate action and play a meaningful role in the national and international dialogues that shape the future of our ocean

• Traditional knowledge about the ocean and art can significantly contribute to empower children and youth.

As part of Children Rights Coalition Group, the Hub has supported two documents:

1. A COP fit for Children: How to support children’s participation

2. Incorporating Children’s Rights into Climate Action

The Hub also aims to connect the COP27 with the FAO’s International Years of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022 to underscore impacts of climate change on small-scale fishers (SSF) and their human rights and shed light on their insights on resilience and adaptation.

In collaboration with partners such as the FAO, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner, and the WWF, the Hub draws attention on how adaptation and mitigation measures that are implemented with little to no consultation with small-scale fishers raise human rights problems in terms of fishers’ access to resources, food and nutrition security, livelihoods, and social justice.

We aim to continue the journey at COP27 and have applied with key strategic partners to coorganise different events in Egypt. The Hub already has an important partnership with the

Virtual Ocean Pavilion (please register here to participate) and two confirmed events:

1. Ocean-Climate-Society: challenges & opportunities for ocean mitigation, adaptation, finance & UNFCCC (Blue Zone), 15th November 2022 at 16:45-18.15 (Egypt), Room 5, at COP27 Blue Zone, Egypt.

2. Indigenous Knowledge, Community-based Art Practice and Inclusive Ocean Governance: A Case Study from Vanuatu, 15th, 16th or 17th November 2022, COP27 Moana Blue Pacific Pavilion in the Blue Zone, Egypt. Led by One Ocean Hub and Glasgow School of Arts

We invite contributions in strengthening our messages and your support as we sail to COP27.

iDr Senia Febrica Knowledge Exchange Associate School of Law senia.febrica@strath.ac.uk

Sailing to the Climate COP27

In 2021, the One Ocean Hub and partners participated and contributed towards “increasing visibility” of the ocean in climate dialogues at the Glasgow Climate COP26. We amplified voices of those who are marginalized from oceanclimate decision making process such as women, children, youth and small-scale fishers by sharing stories, experiences and lived realities of the impacts of climate change and how this in turn impacts on their right to a healthy environment.

COP27 is fast approaching (8-16 November 2022 in Egypt) and the Hub has been battening the hatches and setting sail to further advance ocean-climate dialogues, amplify voices and meaningfully contribute to co-producing pathways for resilience. Our first port of call was contributions made by Hub Director, Professor Elisa Morgera, and Hub Early Career Researcher, Mitchell Lennan, at the Bonn climate meeting in June 2022 (see here and here), in response to the invitation from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat to bring to the international level the voices of Indigenous and local people as part

of an attempt to ‘blue’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) (see here and here).

Through these engagements we have identified key messages that need to be carried over to COP27. First, we need meaningful co-production of ocean-based climate solutions, through transdisciplinary research for development, so that we can co-produce pathways and considerations required to equitably address climate change impacts on the ocean that sustains us all. As part of this approach, we need to raise the profile of human rights, particularly of Indigenous Peoples, local coastal communities, women, children and youth, through enabling direct contributions at COP27 and across scales. These messages have been shared at the next port of call on the way to COP27 – Africa Climate Week, that took place between 29 Aug- 1 Sept 2022 in Libreville, Gabon. Africa Climate Week, co-hosted by the UNFCCC Secretariat along with the Gabonese Republic, brought together a broad range of stakeholders to drive climate action across countries, communities, and economies.

Piece written by Senia Febrica and Bernadette Snow

iDr Senia Febrica Knowledge Exchange Associate School of Law senia.febrica@strath.ac.uk

Policy and practice impact

Public engagement and media activities

IMPACT FILM: Arts-based research and education beyond the academy

Dr Katja Frimberger from the School of Education is member of the Experiments in Education Theory (ExET) research group (www.exet.org) in the School. The group’s main aim is to advocate thinking about matters educational so that actors therein, at all levels, might benefit from engaging with thought and its relationships with and to action. Katja has cooperated as researcher, educator and performer with stakeholders from the arts/film sector since 2013, to further the impact of arts-based research and education beyond the academy. Her long-term collaboration with Glasgow-based filmmaker Simon Bishopp (Showmanmedia) spans a variety of film education and film-making impact projects, for example, in the educational/documentary, animation and science fiction genre.

The documentary ‘Scotland Our New Home’, and film-based teaching materials, were the result of a Creative Scotland-funded participatory filmmaking project with young refugees from the New Young Peers Scotland group (hosted by YPeople Charity/Glasgow Clyde College) who wanted to learn about the art of filmmaking, and create a short film to support other new young arrivals in the process of making home in Scotland. A research article was also published from the project.

The Mice & the Bakers and film-based teaching materials were the result of the Creative Scotland and Paul Hamlyn Foundation - funded education projects ‘UAnimate’ and ‘Little Animation Studio’. The projects used adapted digital technologies to support primary school children in residential care from Harmeny School (Balerno) to learn about the art of animation and create their first fully animated short film, which

was exhibited at the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art. Safeguarding Online Practices interviews can also be watched online.

The Science Fiction Short Film called Refuge was selected by Alex Proyas (director of The Crow, Dark City, I-Robot, Gods of Egypt) for his new 2022 Streaming Platform Vidiverse. The short has previously screened at Glasgow Short Film 2017; the London Sci-Fi Festival 2018; Inverness Film Festival 2018 and was selected for Film Hub Scotland’s/ BFI’s “Shorts in Support” scheme, which aims to revive the tradition of the supporting short film by distributing eight new short films to cinemas and film societies to screen before features. An interview with the director is also available online.

iDr Katja Frimberger Lecturer School of Education katia.frimberger@strath.ac.uk

Public engagement and media activites

Bring Your Own Hammer is a new History and Music project in which historians and composers collaborate to create original song cycles based on historical sources. The songs aim to contribute to public history and a reinvigoration of traditional forms of presenting the past, connecting the audience with important historical themes in ways perhaps not possible in conventional ‘written’ histories. It is rooted in the history of nineteenth-century Ireland and of the Irish Diaspora and involves leading composers, musicians and singers. The project aims to be of benefit to the historian, the composer and the wider public.

The first two releases from the project appeared in September with Dimple Discs, from acclaimed Irish singer-songwriter Adrian Crowley, ably assisted on “Golden Streets, Bitter Tears” by Brigid Mae Power. They are available to stream here and the video is here.

Niall Whelehan (History) is co-director on the project, which is supported by Strathclyde’s HASS KE Fund and funding from the History Department, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. Some of the composers and singers involved are Linda Buckley, Adrian Crowley, Cathal Coughlan, Wally Nkikita, Brigid Mae Power, Michelle O’Rourke, Mike Smalle, Jah Wobble and James Yorkston.

iNiall Whelehan Senior Lecturer in History School of Humanities niall.whelehan@strath.ac.uk

Cultural rights project completed by School of Law

Members of the Strathclyde Centre for the Study of Human Rights, Dr Elaine Webster and Dr Lynsey Mitchell lead a team of researchers and authored a report into access to culture within the cultural rights landscape in Scotland. This work was commissioned by the Human Rights Consortium Scotland to explore the existing legal protection of access to culture and whether incorporation of UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights would help secure and improve the public’s access to culture in Scotland.

The report set out the current status of cultural rights in international human rights law and explains that access to culture is a key cultural right. The report noted that there is existing legal protection for some cultural rights in Scotland but that incorporation of UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights would add an additional layer to this.

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As part of the project the researchers attended a workshop with key stakeholders within the charitable and culture sectors in Scotland. Participants discussed current challenges around achieving equality of access to culture in Scotland and whether they thought incorporation of the UN Treaty would improve this.

The team included current students enrolled in the Law School’s Human Rights LLM and PhD programmes as well as Post-Doctoral Researcher Dr Diana Camps from the University of Glasgow.

iDr Lynsey Mitchell Lecturer in Law lynsey.mitchell@strath.ac.uk

Strathclyde Race, Ethnicity & Migration Network

The Strathclyde Race, Ethnicity & Migration Network is a research-led group designed to bring together academics, teaching staff, and practitioners. We currently have membership spanning HaSS, the Business School, and the Equality and Diversity team. Our aim is to become a leading hub for interdisciplinary research and practice in the field.

The network was recently awarded Faculty funding to build capacity in interdisciplinary research. We have significant expertise in areas including Health, Policy, Politics, the Arts and History. There is also significant expertise in participatory methods, including research co-design with communities.

We will be hosting a networking event in November and welcome all staff and PGRs in the Strathclyde community. Our priorities in the coming year are to develop concrete plans around funding, supporting PGRs and ECRs, and enhancing our impact in policy and the third sector. Join us!

To be added to the network’s mailing list, please contact Churnjeet Mahn: (churnjeet.mahn@strath.ac.uk)

Public

engagement and media activities

The UN One Ocean Conference and the need to scale up ocean action

The second UN Ocean Conference (Lisbon, Portugal, 27 June- 1 July 2022) brought together the international community of ocean decision-makers, researchers, practitioners and stakeholders to reflect on the need to scale up ocean action. Critical directions for the transformative change have emerged from the exchanges among civil society, youth representatives, researchers and UN partners on the side-lines of the Conference.

The Conference was convened under the theme “Scaling up ocean action based on science and innovation for the implementation of Goal 14: stocktaking, partnerships and solutions”. In addition to expressing alarm for the effects of climate change on the ocean, the 2022 Declaration also emphasized “shifts in the abundance and distribution of marine species, including fish”, the “decrease in marine biodiversity” and “related impacts on island and coastal communities”. Surprisingly, however, there were no detailed calls about scaling up ocean action under the Paris Agreement and the Glasgow Climate Pact.

The climate-related references in the Political Declaration do not sufficiently underscore the equity issues at stake, despite the additional reference to “avert[ing], minimiz[ing] and address[ing] loss and damage, and implementing nature-based solutions, ecosystem-based approaches for… carbon sequestration and the prevention of coastal erosion”. It is noteworthy, in this connection, that the recently appointed UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights attended the UN Ocean Conference, and is preparing a report on loss

and damage. The One Ocean Hub made a submission to contribute to that report, in order to underscore the loss and damage arising from climate change impacts on marine ecosystems, and the transformative potential of ocean-based climate action that contributes to biodiversity conservation and human rights protection. There were certainly various national delegations expressing commitment towards a speedy conclusion of current negotiations, but not much detail about what an ambitious agreement may look like.

What was mentioned several times, in official parts of the Conference, as well as on the sidelines, was the continued need to protect the human rights of small-scale fishers, as an integral part of the efforts to implement SDG 14. The references to human rights were another remarkable difference compared to the 2017 UN Ocean Conference. More work remains to be done to understand the benefits of more coherent human rights protection for sustainable fisheries and a healthy ocean, as the One Ocean Hub is exploring with FAO, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Danish Institute for Human Rights and WWF.

The Political Declaration further contains commitments to empower women and girls in progressing towards a sustainable oceanbased economy and to achieving SDG 14, as well as children and youth to “understand the importance of and the need to contribute to the health of the ocean, including in decisionmaking, through promoting and supporting quality education and lifelong learning for ocean literacy.” Youth representatives in Lisbon made

the most articulated statements on the oceanclimate nexus, on the BBNJ negotiations and the need to rethink deep-seabed mining (see also here). On the latter, the political momentum gained around a moratorium on deep-seabed mining has been considered one of the main achievements at the Conference. Despite this, youth representatives felt marginalized from the main political discussions taking place in Lisbon. It is for this reason that the One Ocean Hub has been contributing to the development of a new UN General Comment on children’s human rights and the environment, with a view to providing more clarity on the international human rights obligations of States to ensure meaningful participation of youth in ocean decisions-making.

The One Ocean Hub and its partners have provided their most recent insights on these critical questions in and around the UN Ocean Conference. We shared the message that our analysis (Niner et al, 2022) indicates that national blue economy policies focus on technical solutions that do not address systemic issues, such as discrimination, gender equality, and challenges posed by climate change (SDGs 16C, 5 and 13). We thus identified four challenges to strengthening sustainable ocean-based economies:

• avoid reproducing historical and current injustices, by identifying and addressing contextual inequalities;

• avoid exclusionary and non-responsive processes (SDG 16.7), by paying attention to local, national and global power imbalances that limit people’s abilities to engage in policy development;

• avoid prejudice against local knowledge systems, by integrating intangible cultural heritage (SDG 11.4) and respecting cultural rights;

• valuing blue natural capital, by integrating crucial marine ecosystem services (including deep-sea ecosystem services) on which humanity depends (notably, climate regulation and climate change mitigation, and contributions to human health).

We have exchanged with stakeholders and decision-makers our interim findings on how inclusive ocean knowledge co-production is a necessary precondition for the development of fair and sustainable blue economies, effective ocean-based solutions to climate change, and the implementation of multiple Sustainable Development Goals. This requires relying on the latest understanding of deep-sea ecosystems, and their benefits to humanity, the role of ocean culture and the arts in providing a space for transformative dialogue, and the benefits of mainstreaming human rights (of indigenous peoples, small-scale fishers, women and children, as well as everyone’s human right to a healthy environment) for integrated ocean science, management and governance. We will continue to distil key learning and approaches from our work, connect it in innovative ways with other’s efforts, and work with partners in preparation for the next UN Climate and Biodiversity COPs and the continuation of the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture.

Read Prof Elisa Morgera’s full blog here

Prof Elisa Morgera

iOne Ocean Hub School of Law

elisa.morgera@strath.ac.uk

Events Spring into Methods Workshop

led by Strathclyde academics and students

The SGSAH & SGSSS funded ‘Spring into Methods’ workshop entitled Doing Feminist Research follows previous events. The 2022 event was hosted by University of Edinburgh (@genderED) and co-organised with the University of Strathclyde (@strath_fem).

Presenting Strathclyde staff-students included: Prof Yvette Taylor, Dr Navan Govender, Dr Harvey Humphrey and Dr Mariya Ivancheva. Rukhsar Hussain and Kate Molyneaux presented on Researching Taboo Subjects Across Disciplines. Rukhsar presented her doctoral work on Hijra communities in India and Kate presented her work on Experiences of Menstruation in Scotland. Using their doctoral research, they discussed topics such as taboo, positionality, reflexivity and feminist research ethics.

Follow our work on Twitter: @strath_fem @rukhsarhssn @kate_mx

Event at Glasgow Science Festival

Dr Jane Essex, Dr Kirsty Ross (both from the School of Education) and undergraduate volunteer Anagha Prakash Bhat (University of Glasgow) brought a little of South Asia to the Glasgow Botanics as part of the Glasgow Science Festival in summer 2022. Their stand, titled GlasWeeAsian Plant Explorers, welcomed school children, their teachers, and the public to learn more about the movement of plants between Scotland and South Asia, the people behind those movements, and the chemistry underpinning our favourite culinary ingredients.

Project website is: https://dissi.uk.engagementhq.com/

Over the course of 2 days, they engaged with 321 individuals and created a lot of blueprints! If you’d like to have a go yourself, check out the instructions at these links è (English and Gaelic). This work is co-funded by the Erasmus Plus Programme of the European Union as part of a project titled Diversity in Science and Science Inclusion.

Example blueprint created by a member of the public at the GlasWeeAsian Plant Explorers event at Glasgow Science Festival 2022. © Dr Kirsty Ross CC BY 4.0

Dr Jane Essex Senior Lecturer School of Education jane.essex@strath.ac.uk

iTwitter: @GlasgowSciFest, @dissiprojecteu and @GlasgowBotanic

Highlighting the importance of local knowledge and experience in ecosystem restoration

One Ocean Hub co-organized to the ‘Ocean and Climate Action: Adaptation and Resilience Practices and Tools Clinic’ on 30 August 2022. This was a COP27 Virtual Ocean Pavilion liveevent for Africa Climate Week, which was co-organised by the Global Ocean Forum and Plymouth Marine Laboratory. It served as an interactive training and experience-sharing session during which experts discuss innovative ocean-based climate change adaptation and mitigation initiatives with attendees. Lessons were identified and reviewed with the attendees, including possible pathways for improvement.

At the event, Deputy Director Dr Bernadette Snow (University of Strathclyde, UK and Nelson Mandela University, South Africa) provided an overview of Hub research in Algoa Bay (South Africa), including restoration initiatives undertaken by colleagues at Nelson Mandela University. The process and considerations required for success of the ecosystem restoration include considering urban drainage systems, biomimicry, inclusive decision making and tools for monitoring.

Dr Snow stressed that it is essential to take an inclusive approach when tackling climate change because inclusivity links to stewardship. Inclusion brings in lived realities and local solutions for climate change adaptation. It also enables different stakeholders to work together to foster resilience in the face of increased natural disasters.

Dr Snow further noted that ecosystem restoration is an important approach to tackle climate change because ecosystems provide essential services, both at the local and global level. Many essential ecosystems such as rivers, estuaries, and coastlines are severely impacted by increasing urbanization, pollution, ecosystem destruction, thereby weakening natural protection against severe climate impacts. Restoring these ecosystems, builds resilience, and if designed right (collaboratively), tackles poverty and human health issues.

Key messages from Dr Snow at the event are:

• The climate-ocean nexus needs to be included in climate discussions, mitigation and adaptation strategies;

• Blue carbon habitats are essential. Restoration is the tool in the toolbox for climate change mitigation and to build resilience;

• It is important to bring in local knowledge and experience in ecosystem restoration processes;

• Inclusive process is needed if we want to see the long-term benefits of ecosystem restoration, particularly to ensure the initiative can be useful for saving costs and mitigate damage;

• Human activities on land such as raw sewage discharge and plastic pollution bring about negative impacts on ocean health and negatively affected local communities who are most dependent on the ocean. This shows interconnection between land and ocean ecosystems and social and environmental impacts;

• A gap identified is that we need to strengthening uptake of how restoration can measurably contribute towards job creation by decision makers through policy frameworks.

The recording of the event can be accessed here.

Dr Bernadette Snow was invited by Mr James Grabert, Director of the Mitigation Division of the UNFCCC Secretariat and Lead of the Regional Climate Weeks to participate as a speaker in session 6 titled “Harnessing nature for transformative adaptation in Africa” on 31 August 2022. This session discussed the potential for nature-based solutions and their enabling environment in Africa in light of its anticipated benefits for transformative adaptation and longterm resilience.

Mainstreaming research co-production to introduce and transform nature-based solutions

At the event, Dr Snow explored how best can the gaps between research and practice for nature-based solutions be bridged to facilitate transformative adaptation and resilience in Africa. She also illustrated to what extent there are known limits to nature-based solutions and cost-benefit analyses, and what potential they have to inform the integration of nature-based solutions into planning and implementation.

Key messages from Dr Snow’s intervention and engagement with the audience are:

• We need to ensure that different knowledge systems are included in the research process to address gaps between research and practice for nature-based solutions;

• The co-production of research between researchers and stakeholders is the way to introduce and transform nature-based solutions;

• Co-production needs novel methodologies such as arts-based participatory methodologies, an innovative way for inclusion of stakeholders that are often marginalized in decision making process in climate adaptation and mitigation and for discovering new pathways to develop naturebased solutions;

• It is important to unpack the inherent and intangible value of nature to people that is often overlooked in discussion on climate resilience, adaptation, and mitigation.

The recording of the event can be accessed here (FR) and here (ENG).

AS IS- theatre performance based on ESRC funded fellowship

This was an in-person performance of the AS IS play, an ethnodrama drawn from Dr Harvey Humphrey’s PhD research interviews with trans, intersex and LGBTI activists across the UK, Malta and Australia (conducted between 2016 and 2018). The play uses composite characters to ethically represent trans, intersex and LGBTI activist relationships. These characters were

played by a cast all of whom had a connection to the LGBTI community. The direction and production team were all trans and non-binary. The majority of the cast defined the same way as the characters. The cast and crew were all paid for their performance and rehearsal time.

The play surrounds a fictitious proposed bill ‘ASIS’ (drawn from real laws and proposed bills across all the countries) to consider trans and intersex legal recognition. Offering the characters a chance to discuss their work, complex relationships, and the battle for recognition of who they are. The sold-out event was attended by 70 audience members and a cast and crew of 15. There was also a post-show Q&A with Harvey, Mia and three actors. The play was filmed and the recording is available on request. A queer photographer and filming company were employed for this work.

This was funded by the ESRC as part of Harvey’s ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. Additional funding for accessibility and inclusion work was provided by the HASS KE Small Grant fund. A brief report considering accessibility and inclusion work is currently being compiled by Dr Harvey Humphrey, Prof Yvette Taylor and Dr Navan Govender, all from the School of Education.

Researcher/Writer/Producer: Dr Harvey Humphrey Director: Mia Slater; Scottish Youth Theatre, Glasgow.

Bottom four images on page 28 (from top left, clockwise): Full cast; Kate (played by Gina Gwenffrewi, she/her) and Sandy (played by Jacqueline Jay Wilde she/her); Narrator (played by Hev Clift they/them), Dean (played by Erden Göktepe he/him) and Iain (played by Odhran Thomson he/him); Narrator (played by Hev Clift they/them), Stephen (played by Len Lukowski he/him), cont. on opp. page

Dr Harvey Humphrey Research Fellow School of Education

cont. from opp. page Leslie (played by Leni Daly they/them), Dean (played by Erden Göktepe he/ him) and Katrina (played by Jackie Sands she/her).

Feminist Research Network

Colleagues form the School of Education, Professor Yvette Taylor and PhD student Kate Molyneaux (pictured), have again organised the Strathclyde University Feminist Research Network Seminar Series for 2022/23. The annual seminars, instigated by Yvette and co-organised with colleagues across the career course, have been running since 2016. September’s event, with speaker Renee Dixson of the Australian National University (pictured) marked a return to on-campus activities, after two years of online seminars. Renee’s well-attended talk, titled ‘Assembling Queer Displacement Archive’, introduced their project on creating an open digital archive to address the phenomenon of LGBTIQ+ forced migration, giving voice to those who are often socially marginalised.

iProf Yvette Taylor Professor of Education School of Education yvette.taylor@strath.ac.uk

Twitter: @strath_fem

History and diplomacy at the British Embassy in Paris

This years’ Series has interdisciplinary, international speakers presenting on topics such as menstruation, migration, sex education in schools, karate, and ‘the uses of difficulty’. Alongside external speakers, including from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Sheffield and St Andrews Universities, internal Strathclyde colleagues will also act as expert discussants.

The full schedule is available online and both staff and students are warmly encouraged to attend – this year’s programme sees a range of in-person and online activities: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/strathclydefeminist-research-network-17792708175

Dr Rogelia Pastor-Castro brings together history and diplomacy at the British ambassador’s residence in Paris with the book Embassies in Crisis. The volume she edited with Professor Martin Thomas (Exeter) brings together historians and diplomats to explore flashpoints in the recent lives of embassies at times of acute political crisis. Historical case studies include the British Embassy in Teheran, 1976-79; the British High Commissioners in India and Pakistan and the Kashmir conflict, 1947-49; and the establishment of the first US embassy in Israel. Dr Pastor-Castro’s contribution focused on the British Embassy in Paris and the Fall of France in 1940. The volume also features chapters from diplomats such as Jane Marriott who was ambassador to Yemen, and acting ambassador to Teheran; and Simon Smith who was British ambassador in Ukraine 2012-15, leading the embassy through the challenging months of the ‘Revolution with Dignity’ and Russia’s assault on Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Dr Pastor-Castro association with the British Embassy Paris began in 2014 when she was invited by the then ambassador, Lord Ricketts, to present her publication The Paris Embassy: British Ambassadors and Anglo-French Relations 1944-79. This collaboration continued when she organised a colloquium at the ambassador’s residence on relations between Britain and France in world war two, and later when she provided historical expertise to events such as the commemoration of the Liberation of Paris. She has participated in a number of embassy events on Franco-British relations, most recently attending the ‘Ravivage de la flamme’ commemoration at the Arc de Triomphe to mark the 82nd anniversary of the Battle of Britain in

the presence of British ambassador Dame Menna Rawlings, Patricia Miralles, French Minister for Veterans, as well as French and British defence staff. These significant events underline the importance of historic and contemporary FrancoBritish cooperation.

Dr Rogelia Pastor-Castro is director of the MSc Diplomacy and International Security in the School of Humanities. She is currently working on an AHRC funded project on ‘The Weight of the Past in Franco-British Relations’.

Dr Rogelia Pastor-Castro Knowledge Exchange Fellow School of Humanities

irogelia.pastor-castro@strath.ac.uk

Twitter: @RogeliaPC and @DiploStrath

Image on right: Dr Pastor-Castro at British Ambassador’s residence in Paris

Image above: Colloquium at the British Ambassador’s residence in Paris

International collaborations

GEN-MIGRA: New international project to examine the global impact of the pandemic on migrant women and their families

A new research project involving researchers at Strathclyde in a multi-country partnership with colleagues in Brazil, Poland and Germany will explore vulnerabilities experienced by migrant women and their resilience strategies. The project is titled GEN-MIGRA: Gender, mobilities and migration during and post COVID-19 pandemic: Vulnerability, resilience and renewal and is one of 19 grants funded under the TransAtlantic Platform for Humanities and Social Sciences 2021 Call Recovery, Renewal and Resilience.

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented countries not only with a crisis in healthcare, but also with heightened inequalities that threaten the moves towards gender equality made globally in recent years. The pandemic has exacerbated existing gender inequalities across domains, from precarious labour to the dislocation of family relationships and care duties in the home. In the European Union, for instance, 54% of women born outside the EU were employed in 2017, compared to 73% of men born outside the EU. Among employed women migrants, 40% were overqualified for their positions, according to the European Commission data. Refugee women are even worse off in terms of labour market inclusion. Similar disparities between

qualifications and access to jobs have also been present in countries of the Global South like Brazil, where women occupy only 30% of the formal jobs employing migrants. During the pandemic, we have seen societies around the world sliding back into gendered patterns of education, work and divisions of domestic duties. Women around the world have had to be at the forefront of tackling the pandemic, through an increase in their care duties for children and older parents, their work at the forefront in key sectors such as healthcare and food delivery, restricted mobility options and increased securitization measures.

GEM-MIGRA focuses on the challenges posed by the pandemic for migrant women, in order to produce evidence-based strategies of mitigating the complex effects of the pandemic on women and their families worldwide. Around the world, many migrant women have had their access to paid work restricted or have lost employment, while others had continued to work in essential sectors that were hardest hit, such as healthcare, agriculture, food industry or public services, which remain low paid and precarious. During the pandemic, many have experienced income losses which has reduced their capacity to send remittances to their families in countries of

origin, meaning that their vulnerability has extended to their dependents transnationally. Additionally, those excluded from the labour market or concentrated in low paid or informal labour have become increasingly vulnerable to gendered violence and exploitation, including trafficking. Women with insecure legal status had more limited access to basic social protection, decent quality housing and adequate healthcare.

The project at Strathclyde is led by Prof Daniela Sime (PI) and Emmaleena Käkelä (Research Associate) and receives funding from the ESRC. Evidence will involve analysis of policy interventions taken by governments during the pandemic, policy workshops with key stakeholders (policy makers, third sector organisations) and interviews with migrant women and their families, including family members in different countries.

Dr Emmaleena Käkelä Research Associate

iSchool of Social Work & Social Policy emmaleena.kakela@strath.ac.uk

Twitter: @GenMigra Website: www.genmigra.org

New collaboration between researchers in HaSS and Waterloo University

Researchers from the universities of Strathclyde and Waterloo, Canada, met on 9th November for a virtual research ‘speed date’ event on the theme of ‘Cybersecurity, privacy and crime’. Waterloo is one of Strathclyde’s international strategic partners and more events will follow, to support collaborations and exchanges between staff and students at our universities.

This first event brought together researchers from the Schools of Law, GPP and Social Work & Social Policy at Strathclyde with researchers in the Departments of Economics, Political Science, Sociology and Legal Studies at Waterloo to discuss global pressing challenges in relation to the themes of the workshop. If you are interested in being involved in future initiatives with Waterloo, please contact Prof Daniela Sime to express interest. (daniela.sime@strath.ac.uk)

International collaborations

HASS research and KE awards

01/08/22 - 04/10/22

These are the awards we have secured in the Faculty since 1st August 2022 (some new awards might not be processed yet, they will appear in our next issue).

Congratulations to all colleagues and teams involved!

Research awards

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Lorna Arnott 30/08/2022 ESRC

Amy Hanna 15/09/2022 Office of the Children’s Commissioner for Jersey

Joan Mowat 15/09/2022

SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY

John Bachtler 22/08/2022

British Educational Leadership, Management & Administration Society (BELMAS)

Ministry of Regional Development (Czech Republic)

John Bachtler 23/09/2022 Agency for Development and Cohesion

John Curtice 13/09/2022

National Centre for Social Research

Robert Mattes 10/08/2022 Afrobarometer

SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES

Caroline Verdier 17/08/2022 Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland

SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND HEALTH

Benedict Jones 19/08/2022 ESRC

Anja Kuschmann 07/09/2022 ESRC

0-3-year-old Children’s language And Literacy Learning at Home in a Digital Age (0-3s, Tech and Talk) £83,601

Children’s Lives in Jersey – Secure Accommodation Orders £4,296

The role and perceived effectiveness of approaches adopted by Into Headship students at a Scottish university to support the wellbeing of the school community during the pandemic £3,000

Cohesion Policy & New Instruments: From Coexistence to Synergies £10,800

Regional Policy in Europe: A Comparative Assessment £84,607

Joint research with the National Centre for Social Research £105,440

Sustainable Development and Citizenship in Africa (SGSSS award) £8,152

Belgitude and Feminism: Intersection and Impact. £3,522

Using secondary data analyses to establish whether face-shape characteristics predict social judgments of faces consistently across world regions £207,256

Variability in child speech (VariCS) £356,196

HaSS research and KE awards

Anja Lowit 18/08/2022 Multiple System Atrophy Trust (MSA Trust)

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK & SOCIAL POLICY

Emma Miller 19/08/2022 Includem

Kat Smith 17/09/2022 Medical Research Council

Nina Vaswani 26/9/2022 Medical Research Council

KE awards

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Fhiona MacKay Aug-22 British Council

SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY

Karen Turner 29/09/2022 Scotland Gas Networks

SCHOOL OF PSYCOLOGICAL SCIENCES & HEALTH

Nicola Cogan Aug-22 Welbot

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK & SOCIAL POLICY

Jennifer Davidson Sep-22 New York University

Neil Quinn Aug-22 Public Health Scotland

ClearSpeechTogether versus standard NHS speech intervention: A single, mixed method, rater blinded pilot randomised controlled trial for people living with MSA-C £98,629

Talking Hope 3 £24,758

System-science Informed Public Health and Economic Research for Non-communicable Disease Prevention (the SIPHER Consortium Project) £20,716

Men-Minds: Co-producing change for better mental health for adolescent young men at the margins £299,967 CISS Learners Immersion Course in China £294,548 Just Transition Analysis Proposal £26,704 Sentinel Trauma Mobile App £2,000 Pathfinders Project: Justice for All £85,413 Putting it into action together £48.883

HaSS research and KE awards

Funding and training opportunities

Sign up to Research Professional for research opportunities

Do you want regular updates on funding opportunities in your areas of interest? You can now sign up for weekly updates from Research Professional and receive customised research opportunities sent to your inbox.

This site is designed to make it easier for researchers to access the funding opportunities and news items in one place and it is updated daily. An email alert is easy to set up and this can be customised by key words relevant to your research interests. The University also has a page set up, with the most relevant Calls listed by funders. This really is the best source of up-to-date information on funding and training opportunities and news for the sector.

Login with your university ID and password and see opportunities listed under our university’s own customised site, which has Calls from all UKRI councils, including early and mid/career fellowships, guidance to funding and news for the sector.

If you have any comments on our University site set up now on Research Professional or need any assistance, please contact researchprofessional-admin@strath.ac.uk

Securing research funding- Faculty events

If you are interested in learning more about applying for funding for your research and the support your School and the Faculty can offer through RAKET, sign up to one of these Faculty-wide events, led by Prof Daniela Sime (Vice Dean Research). Prof Sime has direct experience of securing income from a range of funders, in addition to being reviewer of grant applications and panel member.

At each session, we will cover funders’ expectations, how to plan a project, steps involved in writing a proposal to meet funders’ expectations and support you can receive with costings and the application process. You’ll also get to see successful research proposals. Everyone welcome, no matter your career level, contract type or experience.

Applying for a small grant (British Academy, Carnegie, RSE) 29th November, 2-4 pm

Applying for UKRI funding- ESRC and AHRC 8th December, 2-4 pm

Please register for these events in advance, to receive details on location. We will book rooms once we get a sense of numbers for each event. Registration links will close two days before each event.

Funding and training opportunities

HaSS Researchers’ Meeting

The Faculty would like to invite all colleagues on research contracts to a meeting chaired by Prof Daniela Sime to discuss the opportunities and priorities for researchers in HaSS and the scope for organising a permanent Researchers’ Group in the Faculty.

The group would meet regularly to discuss research, training opportunities, career development issues and to offer peer-to-peer support. At this first meeting, we can also agree an Agenda for future meetings, identify future activities and potential volunteers to lead the group.

Please feel free to come along if you are on a research contract, no matter your level of seniority.

Register for HaSS Researchers’ Meeting, 29th Nov, 4-5 pm

AHRC (Engage the public with

future of health and care in the UK) – deadline for applications 13th December

In 2023 the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) will be 75 years old. During this anniversary year for the NHS, AHRC wants to bring the public into dialogue about the future of healthcare and social care. They want researchers and the public to contribute in imaginative ways to activities and conversations that will help shape future debate, ideation, and decision-making, and secure the future of health, ageing and wellbeing over the next 25 years.

Projects funded through this opportunity will:

• engage diverse audiences in research conversations about the changing structures of social care and healthcare, and how they can be responsive to public needs in the face of great societal challenges, including health inequalities

• deliver innovative public engagement where researchers create dialogue with the public to shape thinking and have new ideas around the role of communities and community-led initiatives in supporting health, wellbeing and social care.

• While applications that engage in interdisciplinary research and collaborate outside of arts and humanities are encouraged, projects should have engagement activity directly linked with research, and be based in the arts and humanities, or have strong arts and humanities links.

Key Facts

• Grant value: The full economic cost of your project can be up to £40,000. AHRC will fund 100% of the full economic cost

• Project Duration: Projects can be delivered at any time between June 2023 and March 2024.

• Deadline: 13th December 2022, for projects starting from 1st June 2023

• Funding call link

For support with any grant applications, please approach your School research director/s to discuss your research ideas or contact RAKET: hass-rke@strath.ac.uk

RAKET maintains a site on SharePoint which you can access here for a list of current funding opportunities and examples of previous successful applications.

Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grants –deadline for applications 30th November

Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grants enable Early Career Researchers to develop their independent research career. There will only be one Call for Proposals in 2022-23 and the Trust expects to fund only 40-50 projects in this round.

The scheme allows an Early Career Researcher to undertake, as the Principal Investigator, a short research project, either of a stand-alone nature or in the form of an initial study leading to a more extensive project.

The principal criteria for the award of a RIG are that the planned research is of excellent quality, will enable the principal investigator to develop a new project or line of research, and will lead to high quality outputs and outcomes.

Key Facts

• Career stage: Early Career Researchers

• Grant value: min £1,500 to max £15,000

• Project duration: Up to 12 months

• Deadline: 30th November 2022, for projects starting from 1st June 2023

• Funding call link

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