Past Projects

Past  Projects

Innovatiove teaching projects for Queen's University Belfast  including postgraduate policy simulations and undergraduate Sociology research skills

Professional Development Framework for staff working in Early Intervention witth children and young people in Northern Ireland

Peer led research on Adult Social Care for LB of Tower Hamlets
 

Work on diet and exercise among young Somalis in Brent for Help Somalia Foundation and Brent Public Health

Assessment of Social Work course at Salahaddin University Hawler (SUH), Kurdistan Region, Iraq for UNICEF and SUH.

Training for Human Rights lawyers, Darfur taking place in Tanzania for International and Darfur Bar Associations

Volunteering in Social Care European Grundtvig Project- see IVISOC page

History of General Practitioner representative bodies to mark centenary

Islington Personal Budgets - peer researchers looking at barriers to and experience of Personal Budgets for Adult Services with Disability Action in Islington.

London Excels - Project with Mayhew Harper Associates looking at the use of administrative data to support three london local authorities' work on cohesion and equalities


Training in Intercultural Competences (TRICC) - UK partner in European (Grundtvig) looking at the skills of family, friends, neighbours as interpreters. See http://www.tricc-eu.net/

Bengali Heritage Trail; advice to Swahdinata Project on creation of a virtual trail tracing the history of the Bangladeshi community in East London,

Immunisation Health Equity Audit and Qualitative work - work with Women's Health and Family Services for NHS Tower Hamlets on looking at rates of take up of immunisations and how to increase take up.

Packington Family Support - evalaution of project on the Packington estate for Hyde Housing and Islngton Children's Services

Tower Hamlets 3rd sector Strategy advice to LB Tower Hamlets and NHS Tower Hamlets

Local Recruitment to Clinical jobs - collection of information and advice on strategy to NHS Tower Hamlets

Patient and Public Involvement: training and advice on setting standards for Barts and the London Trust

Counting Refugee Health Profesionals for NHS Employers.

Survey of experiences and expectations of disabled people for Office for Disability Issues (with GfK NOP and OPM)

Review of involvement of disabled people in Disability Equality Schemes for Disabilty Rights Commission (with OPM)

Quality Assurance of consultation process for reconfiguration of health services in Hertfordshire for NHS

ASAP Research study on Asthma and Educational Attainment with Queen Mary University of London and others for Asthma UK

Local Empowerment and Environmental Project training coures with London Metropolitan University for Federal Government of Nigeria and World Bank

Evaluation of HealthStart programme at City University for Mercers Company

BICOM: EU funded project on ad hoc interepreting in Europe with UCL and partners in Netherlands, Germany, Italy

Write up of Refugee Health Professionals Steering Group for Department of Health

The future of local race equality work in London with London Metropolitan University for ROTA

Baseline studies and evaluation of regeneration programmes including SRB and New Deal for Communities

Evaluation of Investors in Communities: a community development benchmarking tool for social housing agencies

A review of equalities work in a PCT

Quantitative and qualitative study on the nature and extent of ‘forced marriages'

Promoting equality and diversity in employment in health and social care

Best Value reviews of services for disabled people

Work on the extent and implications of linguistic diversity in London

Research on local government funding formulae and ethnicity.

Research and development on measures to overcome barriers to recognition of refugee health professionals

Use of routine management data for policy-making: Neighbourhood Knowledge Management

Advice to grant-givers on strategies, priorities and criteria and to applicants on fund-raising strategies

A study of barriers to the take-up of specialist palliative care

Development of alcohol services in Primary care

GPs' understanding and perception of their patient population


Publications and reports arising from completed projects are listed in the resources section