Centre for Applied Social Sciences
The Centre for Applied Social Sciences (CASS) unites experts and researchers from a range of disciplines, including health, mental health, education, and business, to address issues of individual and social relevance.
CASS researchers collaborate with a variety of stakeholders including patients, practitioners, policy makers, SMEs, larger businesses, charities and not-for-profit organisations to develop solutions to real-world challenges that are applicable on a local, national and international scale.
CASS members offer expertise in:
- Community empowerment and activism
- Sustainability
- Participatory methods towards change
- Critical pedagogies
- Science of enquiry
- Social policy
Clinical Audiology, Speech and Language Centre
Members of the Clinical Audiology, Speech and Language (CASL) Research Centre explore speech, language, hearing, signing and swallowing by researching the rich and complex patterns of social, physiological and developmental variation in typical and clinical populations.
The work of this group highlights the vital role that communication plays in society while developing innovative new speech and language assessments, techniques and treatments to improve lives locally, nationally and internationally.
Our audiological clinic rooms, speech research laboratory and articulatory clinic provide access to a wide range of specialist, cutting edge equipment, dedicated to the analysis of speech and disorders of communication.
CASL members offer expertise in:
- Improving participation for all speakers, hearers and signers
- Innovating Ultrasound technologies for speech and swallowing
- Co-producing evidence-based change with neurodiverse and marginalised populations
Centre for Culture in Society
The Centre for Culture in Society (CCS) explores innovative and reflective research methods and knowledge exchange with direct application to communication and communities, artistic practice, and cultural policy.
The Centre enables interdisciplinary and creative collaboration to explore cultural practices and experimental environments, diverse identities and/in cultural memory, and discourse and audience studies.
CCS members offer expertise in:
- Evaluating and critically commenting on cultural policy, including Fair Work.
- Supporting, developing and delivering creative research.
- Advising on political, activist and cultural discourse.
- Enhancing inclusivity in screen media and audience studies.
- Improving efficiency of practice within cultural organisations.
- Refining accessibility in the historiography of media and performance.
Institute for Global Health and Development
The Institute for Global Health and Development (IGHD) conducts research grounded in the social sciences to better understand and positively influence the health and development of vulnerable and marginalised populations around the world. Our researchers offer critical insights into key global health and development challenges and work to identify practical, actionable solutions.
IGHD members have wide ranging topical expertise in health policy and systems research, migration and mobility, sexual and reproductive health and rights, climate change and health, and psychosocial well-being and mental health. While our geographical scope is global, we have particular experience working in fragile and vulnerable contexts.
IGHD researchers collaborate effectively with individuals with lived experience, communities, practitioners, policymakers, and funders. We offer particular expertise in:
- Co-producing and co-designing interventions in partnership with communities, practitioners, and people with lived experience.
- Evaluating programmes using diverse and equity-sensitive methods, including realist, participatory, and process evaluations, randomised trials, and modelling.
- Strengthening systems and services through applied research and evidence-informed implementation.
- Influencing policy and practice by engaging stakeholders throughout the research process and tailoring outputs for decision-makers.
- Building capacity to generate, interpret, and use evidence in ways that prioritise equity and support marginalised populations.
Centre for Health, Activity and Rehabilitation
The Centre for Health, Activity and Rehabilitation Research (CHEARR) undertakes research and knowledge exchange activities to enhance quality of life for people living with long-term health conditions and the general population, using nutrition, physical activity and new technologies.
The work conducted within this centre also supports the development of enhanced health and social care professional practice and policy.
Our researchers work closely with collaborators across the healthcare, community, and commercial sectors to develop, evaluate and apply innovative solutions to real-world issues.
CHEARR members offer expertise in:
- Food innovation for health and environmental sustainability
- Sustainable physical activity and exercise interventions for health and wellbeing
- Assistive and digital technologies to support participation and quality of life
Centre for Person-centred Practice Research
The core mission of the Centre for Person-centred Practice Research (CPcPR) is to humanise healthcare, by keeping the person at the heart of health and social care.
Academics within the CPcPR work across disciplines to develop and promote new research methodologies that enhance people's experience of care and wellbeing with immediate impact, making a difference locally, nationally, and internationally.
The core activities for this Centre focus on the wellbeing of people living with long-term conditions, such as dementia and osteoporosis, those living in care homes, end of life care, and the use of creative arts to enhance the wellbeing of people receiving and providing health and social care.
CPcPR members offer expertise in:
- Creative arts in health, care and wellbeing
- Wellbeing of people with incurable long-term conditions and those living in care homes
- Practice/service development
- Bio-psycho-social interventions to support wellbeing
- Complex interventions
The Scottish Centre for Food Development and Innovation
成人直播 is home to The Scottish Centre for Food Development and Innovation (SCFDI), a team of food scientists, nutritionists and sensory specialists with a wealth of experience in research and development across the food and drink sector.
The SCFDI team are passionate about driving innovation within the food and drink industry and routinely enable businesses (from start-ups and SMEs to large established brands) to develop their products and services via contracted consultancy, research and development and collaborative projects.
The SCFDI team offer expertise in:
- New product development
- Reformulation of existing products
- Extending shelf life
- Regulation compliance
- Nutrition calculations
- Food labelling advice
- Recipe writing
- Sensory evaluation (using our purpose-built sensory suite)
- Gaining consumer insight via our consumer panels
Queen Margaret Business School
Queen Margaret Business School research spans a wide range of disciplines that reflects the diverse interests of our researchers.
Our Research and Knowledge Exchange activities are driven by ethical, social and ecological responsibility.
The Queen Margaret Business School expertise is focused on three areas:
- Family and Small Businesses
- Gastronomy, Events, Tourism and Hospitality
- Consumer Disputes
