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1528201490 Cost-of-living crisis: Working together is right on the money This blog highlights the damaging effects of falling incomes on people’s pockets, some opportunities to boost income, and how local money advice partnerships play a crucial role in supporting people struggling to get by in the current crisis.

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Published
31 January 2023
1528201490 CommonHealth Assets: The Lived Experience Panel - Creating the conditions for successful PPI engagement In this blog, Mohasin Ahmed reflects on the first in-person Lived Experience Panel meeting held in Glasgow in November 2022. The Lived Experience Panel is a component of the CommonHealth Assets research project.

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Published
13 January 2023
1528201490 A cost-of-living crisis - for whom? Associate Director, Pete Seaman, reflects on the unequal impact of the cost-of-living crisis and what insights our work offers in responding to the crisis in the short and long-term to support those most affected and address underlying inequalities.

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Published
06 December 2022
News_article_listing_image_listing November e-update Our latest e-newsletter is now available.

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Published
29 November 2022
1528201490 Our Rights, Our Communities: The empowerment of being a peer researcher In this blog, we asked the peer researchers that led the peer-evaluation of the ‘Our Rights, Our Communities’ project to tell us what they thought about the peer research process. They shared why and how this was an empowering experience for them and the

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Published
24 November 2022
1528201490 Our Rights Our Communities: The benefits of community-based research In this blog, Lily Owens-Crossman, a research intern on a peer-led research project, shares what she has learnt about participatory research in action, the benefits of this approach and the challenges of conducting research in this way.

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Published
23 November 2022
1528201490 Our Rights, Our Communities: Co-production in practice In this blog, Lisa Garnham, a Public Health Research Specialist at GCPH, reflects on the recent peer-led evaluation she was involved in and the importance of time, trust and relationships for co-production

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Published
22 November 2022
1528201490 Our Rights, Our Communities: Knowledge is power This blog was written by Lydia Gitamvu, a New Scots woman who took part in a peer advocacy training project in Glasgow and a peer-led evaluation of that training. These are her reflections of the training and the experience of being a peer researcher.

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Published
21 November 2022
1528201509 The importance of fighting for long-term change alongside the provision of immediate solutions Debbie King shares her reflections on our recent seminar by Prof Cameron Parsell and Andrew Clarke on ‘How can charity be reimagined to contribute towards a more just society?’ and explains how Shelter Scotland is focussed on doing just that.

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Published
09 October 2022
News_article_listing_image_listing Over 300,000 ‘excess’ deaths attributed to UK government austerity measures

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Published
05 October 2022