Our Project Portfolio
Our Themes
Consistent, credible data about children’s situations are critical to the improvement of their lives – and indispensable to realising the rights of every child.
The emotional wellbeing of children and young people is just as important as their physical wellbeing. Having good mental health is critical in allowing children to flourish and reach their full potential.
Proper nutrition is a powerful good: children who are well nourished are more likely to be healthy, productive and able to learn. Good nutrition benefits families, their communities and the world as a whole.
No matter where they are, children who grow up impoverished suffer from poor living standards, develop fewer skills for the workforce, and earn lower wages as adults. Only a limited number of Governments have set the elimination of child poverty as a national priority.
Climate change is a direct threat to a child’s ability to survive, grow, and thrive. As extreme weather events such as cyclones and heatwaves increase in frequency and ferocity, they threaten children’s lives and destroy infrastructure critical to their well-being. Children are the least responsible for climate change, yet they will bear the greatest burden of its impact.
Here you can find out more about the wide variety of projects we are working on outside of our priority themes.
Our Projects
Evaluating the Impact of Place-Based Early Years Interventions of Aberlour’s Family Support Service at Langlees, Falkirk.
Our project looks to develop an understanding of the data sharing barriers across three themes: Legal/Regulatory, Technical and Cultural. The planned outcome will be a time-bound action plan that can drive organisational change in relation to information sharing
Our nine-month project builds upon pre-existing work carried out by UNICEF in Ukraine in 2021-22 to use machine learning techniques to follow online mental health and well-being discourse among young people and adolescents. Our aim in this project is to take a more participatory approach with adolescents and young people.
Phase 2 of… Half of the world’s population has no regular access to the Internet. Millions of children leave school without any digital skills, making it much more difficult for them to thrive and contribute to local and global economies. The goal of the project is to understand whether a machine learning model can inform, in part, the need, cost and difficulty of connecting such schools to the internet via radio links.
Half of the world’s population has no regular access to the Internet. Millions of children leave school without any digital skills, making it much more difficult for them to thrive and contribute to local and global economies. The goal of the project is to understand whether a machine learning model can inform, in part, the need, cost and difficulty of connecting such schools to the internet via radio links.
Immunisation is widely perceived as gender-neutral, yet in many countries, there are distinct gender barriers at both household and community levels. This project aims to strengthen the availability of timely and granular data to identify gender-related barriers to immunisation better and inform targeted pro-equity strategies.
The SEASNUT project is examining if it is possible to use secondary data (other existing) to account for fluctuations in wasting measurement where it has not been previously able to be accounted for.
COVID-19 has impacted many aspects of children’s lives across Scotland and had detrimental effects on their health and well-being. Recreational sport has long been understood as a crucial mechanism for improved health and well-being and positively impacting social cohesion, education, and the economy.
Our Projects Outputs
Discussion paper exploring lessons learned throughout the evaluation of Aberlour’s Early Years Services that could help other third-sector organisations, commissioners, and funders improve how early-years and preventative services are evaluated.
This report brings together findings from two linked work packages: one exploring data protection officer (DPO) challenges through discovery sessions, surveys, and stakeholder mapping; and the other investigating how existing tools support (or fail to support) practice through interviews and focus groups.
This report brings together an overall narrative review of what good data sharing looks like in practice, alongside a set of detailed examples from a number of US and European jurisdictions, including recent successes from within Scotland.
This report focuses on the development of a Transparency Enhancement Tool using semantic ontology to help visualise data flows, stoppages, and organisational dependencies.
This report focuses on exploratory research into workforce training and development for data sharing.
This report focuses on organisational risk maturity and the communication of risk guidance within the care ‘system’.
This is a summary of a white paper assessing the current state of public service integration across statutory, public, third, and independent sector organisations.
This Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) Template Pack combines narrative structure with visual representation to better understand risk, roles, and responsibilities. The report outlines how the DPIA template can be used in practice, making data sharing arrangements easier to assess, communicate, and explain.