Do Professional Learning Communities reify or interrupt the language of pedagogical practice? by Carey Philpott

“…The data is transcriptions of PLCs from two schools in Scotland. …”
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Improving literacy through storytelling in residential care by Irene Stevens, Ruth Kirkpatrick, Claire McNicol

“…The Learning with Care report (HM Inspectors of Schools and the Social Work Services Inspectorate, 2001) highlighted the poor attainment of looked-after children in Scotland. As a result of the report, funding was made available to local authorities to help raise their educational attainment. …”

Residential child care in the spotlight: reflections on being involved in the BBC series 'social workers' by G.A. McPheat

“…Describes how a residential unit offering services for 8 children and young people became involved in the BBC Scotland series 'Social Workers', a fly-on-the-wall documentary about Edinburgh's Social Work Department. …”

The carbon cost of impaired welfare on sheep farms by L. Lanzoni, M.C. Reeves, K. Waxenberg, R. Ramsey, A.S. Atzori, J. Bell, R.M. Rees, G. Vignola, C.M. Dwyer

“…Two case study research farms in Scotland, representative of high welfare conditions, were used as baselines for semi-intensive L and extensive H systems. …”
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A multi-country cohort database study to assess pregnancy and infant outcomes after potential maternal or paternal exposure to cladribine tablets in the treatment of multiple scler... by Kerstin Hellwig, Melinda Magyari, Thomas M. MacDonald, Carolyn E. Cesta, Stig Wergeland, Maarit K. Leinonen, Asher Ornoy, Sandra Vukusic, Alexandra Lauer, Xiaolei Zhou, Alison Kawai, Rachel Weinrib, Alejandro Arana, Tahani Boumenna

“…Methods: A staggered methodological approach, using data from Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Scotland, and Sweden, will be applied to analyze the occurrence of major congenital anomalies (primary outcome) and selected pregnancy outcomes. …”
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Single-cell morphological tracking of cell states to identify small-molecule modulators of liver differentiation by Rebecca E. Graham, Runshi Zheng, Jesko Wagner, Asier Unciti-Broceta, David C. Hay, Stuart J. Forbes, Victoria L. Gadd, Neil O. Carragher

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Young people's networked constructions of nature: Evidence from a qualitative multiple case study in the United Kingdom by Jack Reed, Simon Kennedy Beames, Gale Macleod

“…Utilising ethnographically situated, participant‐as‐observer methods, this qualitative multiple case study generated data across three rural residential outdoor education centres in England, Scotland and Wales, with young people aged 12–17. Participants were visiting the residential centres from urban schools in England and Scotland, with each group spending 5 days at their respective centre. …”
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Understanding repeated non-attendance in health services: a pilot analysis of administrative data and full study protocol for a national retrospective cohort by Alex McConnachie, Philip Wilson, Ross McQueenie, David A Ellis, Andrea E Williamson

“…The full study, using a retrospective cohort design, will link routine health service and education data to determine the relationship between GP appointment attendance, health outcomes, healthcare usage, preventive health activity and social circumstances taking a life course approach and using data from the whole journey in the National Health Service (NHS) healthcare. 172 practices will be recruited (∼900 000 patients) across Scotland. The statistical analysis will focus on 2 key areas: factors that predict patients who serially miss appointments, and serial missed appointments as a predictor of future patient outcomes. …”
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Opening the gifts and treasures of relationship in residential child care by Carey Morning

“…This paper is about the initial phase of a development project at a residential school in Scotland. It asks us to consider the inner lives of children and those who work with them, and to find ways to create a community which will engender a holistic evolution in all its members. …”

Editorial Vol1 no1 by Andrew Kendrick

“…The aim of SIRCC is to ensure that residential child care staff throughout Scotland have access to the skills and knowledge they require to meet the needs of the children and young people in their care. …”

Cultural industries, nation and state in the work of Renato Ortiz: A view from inside the Anglosphere by Philip Schlesinger

“…It then discusses the author’s meeting with Ortiz in Scotland during a European-Latin American ‘encounter’ set up to discuss cultural identity and communication. …”
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A Feasibility Randomised Controlled Trial of the New Orleans Intervention for Infant Mental Health: A Study Protocol by Rachel Pritchett, Bridie Fitzpatrick, Nicholas Watson, Richard Cotmore, Philip Wilson, Graham Bryce, Julia Donaldson, Kathleen Boyd, Charles Zeanah, John Norrie, Julie Taylor, Julie Larrieu, Martina Messow, Matt Forde, Fiona Turner, Susan Irving, Helen Minnis

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Pericardial Window Formation Complicated by Intrapericardial Diaphragmatic Hernia by Jeremy Docekal, Thomas Fabian

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L’impossible désappartenance : le paysan des Hautes Terres d’Écosse et les clearances du dix-neuvième siècle by Christian Auer

“…In the middle of the nineteenth century, at a time when the Highlands of Scotland were being wounded by the clearances, the traditional clan had all but disappeared and the chiefs had abandoned one of their most fundamental functions, the protection of the community from potential external threats. …”
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Programmes & praxis: a review of taken-for-granted knowledge by Leon Fulcher

“…Over the past decade, the term programme has entered the daily language of residential child and youth care workers, managers and planners in Scotland, almost as though it has always described a schedule of activities and routines operating in and around group care services. …”

The National Care Standards: hearing the voices of young people in residential care by Irene Stevens, Pauline Boyce

“…The National Care Standards describe what each child or young person can expect from their residential care home in Scotland. The Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care (SCRC) invited the Scottish Institute of Residential Child Care to carry out a study eliciting the views of young people. …”

Book review: Holistic Special Education: Camphill Principles and Practice. Robin Jackson, editor by Jeremy Millar

“…Holistic Special Education: Camphill Principles and Practice is a story of a vision transcending the destruction and displacement of the Nazi era, and then bringing a holistic philosophical and spiritual approach to the care of children with special needs in the North East of Scotland. This approach is manifest at the Camphill school/community, which practises curative education developed from the philosophy of the anthroposophical work of Rudolph Steiner.…”

STEP 1: The Scottish Trauma & Orthopaedics Equality Project: demographics and working patterns of a national workforce by Monu Jabbal, Jennifer Cherry, Deborah Eastwood, Chloe E. H. Scott, Phil Walmsley, Emily Baird

“…This study suggests that T&O in Scotland is an evolving speciality in terms of equality and diversity, and is making positive progress. …”
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The development of a kinetic biotic ligand model to predict acute toxicity of Gadolinium for Daphnia magna by Marion Revel, Qiao-Guo Tan, Andrew Hursthouse, Susanne Heise

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Challenges of Assessing Maltreated Children Coming into Foster Care by Rachel Pritchett, Harriet Hockaday, Beatrice Anderson, Claire Davidson, Christopher Gillberg, Helen Minnis

“…An ongoing randomised controlled trial in Glasgow, Scotland, recruiting infants entering foster care, provides a unique opportunity to explore some of the issues which need to be considered when assessing these children. …”
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