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Report: Is physical access to basic services a determinant of multidimensional childhood poverty?
This report is an output from our Poverty team, and it describes the work conducted for the Child Poverty and Access to Services (CPAS) project. The project's ultimate aim was to determine if geographic access to health centres correlated with multidimensional child poverty.
Summary: Focus Group Discussions with young People in Jamaica
The objective of the focus group discussions was to evaluate the ways that adolescents and young people interact with technology.
Report: Prevention of Adolescent Mental Health Conditions - Is Technology a Possible Source for Good?
This report is an output from our Mental Health project feasibility phase, aiming to establish foundational knowledge, requirements and frameworks, which will lead to developing replicable research methodologies.
Report: Children's Climate Risk Index Systematic Review of the Literature - Findings, Outcomes & Policy Recommendations
This report has been compiled as part of the Children’s Climate Risk Index (CCRI) Project for UNICEF based on the work undertaken for the systematic literature review.
Case Studies: Young People Advisors INSPIRE Case Studies
Youth volunteers from five countries – Brazil, China, Colombia, Cote d’Ivore, and Uganda – looked into the implementation and outcomes of specific INSPIRE interventions. As a result of their participation, five case studies were produced – each of which assessed the successes and challenges of interventions.
Report and Guide: INSPIRE Accelerator Young People Advisors Report And Guide
Based on the youth-centred activities carried out for Young People Advisors, the Inspire Accelerator: Young People Advisors Report And Guide was created. The guide provides tangible examples for involving youth in research and assessment of interventions that directly impact their well-being.
Report: A Scoping Study on Data and Information that Describes Poverty and Educational Attainment
As part of our Northern Alliance project, this report by the Fraser of Allander Institute looks across a wide range of data, some of which are rural specific, to scope out alternative evidence that could be used by schools and local authorities to identify issues that may be impacting attainment.
Report: Democratising Action for Attainment
This report by CivicDataLab captures the work undertaken with stakeholders to identify the shared knowledge gap across local authorities, identify the most appropriate indicators and map the suitable data sources that can be used at the school catchment aggregation.
Policy Brief: Children's Climate Risk Index
As part of our climate change project, helping UNICEF to develop their Children’s Climate Risk Index, we have produced a policy brief that highlights just how vulnerable children are to the risks of climate change.
Report: Children's Climate Risk Index
UNICEF have generated a new report, supported by our climate change project team, to highlight the real risk that climate change poses on children and young people, now and in the future.
Poster: Population Estimation
A poster designed for conference presentation by our Population Estimation project team. This highlights key aspects of their work towards sustainable census independent population estimation in Mozambique.
Thought Piece: Obesity Growing Up in Scotland
A thought piece based on the analyses of the “Growing up in Scotland (GUS)” child cohort.
Webinar Summary: Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19 on Children
A summary of the outputs of our webinar discussion for our project addressing the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on children in Scotland.
Topic Map: Climate Change
A topic map exploring priority areas for youth and climate change.
Topic Map: Mental Health
The outputs of a topic mapping exercise to understand priority areas for adolescent mental health, with a focus on measuring and monitoring.