Ruthless Research

31/01/2023

I was very pleased to find about this today!

02/02/2021

Oh my word are we still having a pandemic? I’ve been away from blogging for nearly a year, basically because old Covid has got in the way. But one of my lovely clients Scottish Recovery Network ha…

03/07/2020

We're working on a new cultural strategy for the Angus region. If you work in the Angus cultural sector please do fill it in, it would be great to have as many people involved as possible.

(pls share!)

If you work or volunteer in the Angus cultural sector - we want to hear from you! Please take our survey to be part of shaping the region's cultural future.

07/01/2020

Join our round table discussions (in Edinburgh / Stirling / Aberdeen) and have your say on the national development of Creative Words for Wellbeing Services in Scotland:

The Scottish Poetry Library and Lapidus Scotland, supported by the Scottish Library and Information Council, warmly invite you to a Roundtable to gather your ideas about developing a national network of Creative Words for Wellbeing Services in Scotland.“Creative Words for Wellbeing” services inc...

01/11/2019

Nine years ago today* – armed with a voluntary redundancy windfall** – I took the leap into self-employment. I would never have guessed that I would still be doing it nine years on. T…

03/10/2019

Do you know about any initiatives that use reading, writing or other words-based creative activities to improve people's wellbeing? Survey still open! Please share!

Please take the survey titled "Creative Words for Wellbeing survey". Your feedback is important!

23/09/2019

Can you tell us about Creative Words for Wellbeing initiatives in Scotland?

Please take the survey titled "Creative Words for Wellbeing survey". Your feedback is important!

29/05/2019

https://ruthlessresearch.wordpress.com/2019/05/29/visibility-of-working-parents/

You’ll know about the gender pay gap, of course you do, and as a woman obviously it is something that I’m interested in. The more you look into it, the more you see it isn’t just about paying men …

31/01/2019

Here’s a bit of a change… you can now find a little piece of me at Ivy’s Library which is a blog all about children’s books. I’m part of Ivy’s Guest Book which feature…

30/08/2018

My son is now 4 years old. Have you ever tried to get any sense out of a four year old? Mine just wants to talk about ninjas. But lately now we’re not together all the time I wonder about his day…

15/08/2018

Here’s a link to my third guest blog on the Scottish Recovery Network website, writing about some of my ongoing work. I’m evaluating SRN’s Write to Recovery project which is a national eight …

19/05/2018

Some good points here GDPR fans. Another thing the MRS has always required me to do, but might be new to non researchers.

We look at the key rural postcodes in Scotland you should consider when you are working with audience data in order to make sure you comply with new GDPR regulations around anonymisation.