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This impact relates to a body of practice-based research undertaken by Professor Graeme Hutton (since 2000) and centres on a single output, `The Shed' (2009), a 500m2 constructed residence and studio in rural Perthshire. The research has contributed to an advancement of thought and refinement of rural design practice internationally and locally. It has:
A. Informed a critical direction for professionals in architectural design relating to designing for predominantly landscape contexts
B. Informed wider society of the critical debate surrounding appropriate architectural designs for rural contexts
C. Established benchmark references for guiding planning and design judgements for sensitive rural locations
D. Transcribed this rural design research into the broader debate about architecture in the rural and urban built environment.
The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland project, completed in 2008, and its subsequent research developments have achieved considerable impact through widening global public awareness of this historical resource. Its free-to-access searchable database is accepted as the definitive point of reference for pre-Union Scottish legislation. The project's materials and findings have had sustained impact on archival, heritage, legal and policy practitioners, providing significant input to a wide spectrum of present-day political, social, economic, environmental and cultural initiatives, from public debate and consultation through to formal enactment. The project has also contributed to the enhancement of the history curriculum in Secondary education.
Leyshon and French's research on the geography of UK bank and building society branch closures influenced the decision by the Financial Inclusion Taskforce to target 25 under-served local authority areas for additional support from the government's £42m Growth Fund between 2008 and 2011. The Growth Fund, which is targeted at Credit Unions, Community Development Financial Institutions and other, not-for-profit `third sector' lenders, enables financially excluded households to access credit on more affordable terms.
PREDICT is a prognostication and treatment benefit decision aid aimed at aiding the breast cancer multi-disciplinary team in the management of women with early breast cancer. The user-friendly, web-based tool was developed in collaboration with the Cambridge Breast Unit multi-disciplinary team, the Eastern Cancer Registration and Information Centre. Implemented online, PREDICT is hosted on a NHS web-server. Since 2012 PREDICT has been used widely by clinicians throughout the UK and world-wide.
Chronic diseases associated with poor nutrition are on the rise; however, people increasingly eat nutritionally-deficient ready meals owing to their convenience. Researchers from the University of Glasgow took an innovative two-fold approach to tackling this worrying trend. First, they created a nutritionally-balanced frozen pizza in collaboration with local start-up company Eat Balanced. Second, they developed content for the Eatwell Everyday website, a government-funded resource that provides user-friendly nutritionally-balanced meal plans. These initiatives have attracted extensive media coverage, with an estimated global audience of about 93 million people. The Eatwell Everyday website has received 9,058 page visits since its launch in April 2013. The Eat Balanced pizza has won 10 business or product awards, has been endorsed by a leading sports nutritionist and is currently stocked by retail giants Sainsbury's, Asda and Ocado. More than 25,000 Eat Balanced pizzas have been sold in the UK since September 2012.
This case study focuses on the researcher's work on witness protection arrangements put in place by police forces to ensure the safety of individuals and close relatives whose lives are in danger as a result of their willingness to give evidence in criminal trials. Typically this involves the permanent relocation of witnesses and their families to new communities and the adoption of new identities.
This research was the first of its kind in the world and its impact has been evident in:
Collaboration between The Open University (OU) and the BBC on the landmark series Empire led to enhanced public understanding about a contested past. Empire was informed by research by Dr Karl Hack, Senior Lecturer in the History Department and Director of the OU's Ferguson Centre.
The series attracted up to 2.96 million viewers per programme '[text removed for publication]' and 53% of respondents to an OU survey reported they had `learned a lot' from watching. Additional impact was achieved through linking the series to an OU `Learning Journey', including a print item devised by Hack (63,700 requested by July 2013, including 2,700 downloads). OU Empire content had 98,660 unique visitors online by July 2013.
The impact of the research undertaken for the collaborative AHRC-funded project `Poetry Beyond Text: Vision, Text and Cognition' (2009-11) has been the generation of a new awareness of reading and viewing behaviours in the digital age among the creative artists who were invited to respond to the project's research and visitors to the project's travelling exhibition. The `Poetry Beyond Text' project studied artworks that combine visual art (patterns, painted images, photographs, digital images) with poetic text. The research identified psychological processes in the reception of such works, and analysed the creative and collaborative processes involved in their making. The impact of this research was achieved in three main areas: (1) the public understanding of specific art forms such as digital poetry, artists' books, and concrete poetry; (2) the practice of commissioned artists and writers; (3) the policy and public profile of partner non-HEIs, notably the Scottish Poetry Library. 1 and 3 were primarily within Scotland, but 2 was both national and international, including artists and writers from the UK, the United States, and Brazil. The pathways to impact were the project's Poetry Beyond Text exhibition, a website featuring an online gallery and educational materials, and a series of debates open to the public.
Italiane. Biografia del Novecento has enhanced public discourse by stimulating widespread and important debates in the Italian media, among politicians and the public about the role of women in twentieth-century Italy. Some of its arguments have been considered controversial, leading many commentators, including the prominent journalist Paolo Mieli in 2012, to call it a `courageous book' (Section 5:3). As the first scholarly but accessible work of synthesis (in any language) ranging over the history of Italian women in the whole twentieth century it is an important milestone for Italian women's history and for discussions about women's role in contemporary Italy. It has also made a significant contribution to history teaching in Italian universities.
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) systems and devices assist people with little or no functional speech to communicate. Dundee research on pragmatics and conversational modelling to improve communication rates and support conversational flow has led to widespread use in AAC of re-usable phatic conversation (e.g. greetings, responses, farewells) and visual scenes (rapid access to conversational items). More recently, the application of natural language generation and sensor-based data-to-text technology has resulted in the automated generation of jokes and narratives to assist non-speaking people to engage in lively conversation. Symbolic and phonetic interfaces have been developed for children and adults with congenital and language impairments.