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Blog Post
Introducing the Connected grants programme
In Summer 2019 we published Hard Edges Scotland, which expanded on our initial statistical profile of severe and multiple disadvantage from 2015. Over the last few months we’ve taken this much further and published a whole range of new research...
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Blog Post
Patterns of severe and multiple disadvantage in women
Many people will face a major adversity at some point in their life. A period of overwhelming depression or anxiety. Time in a violent or abusive relationship. Perhaps a spell with no home, or dependent on drugs or alcohol. Some people will...
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DMSS Research
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Di McNeish
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Sara Scott
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Blog Post
Hitting rock bottom: It didn’t have to be that way. One woman’s determination to see women-only services for women struggling to cope.
My name is Katy *. I am 29 years old, have a 7-year-old boy and a job in the caring profession. The new Gender Matters report strikes a particular chord for me, highlighting the urgent need for women-only services. Every year, over...
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Blog Post
Women Healing Women – why vulnerable women need specialist services
When I arrived in Bristol after having run away from an abusive relationship, I had a drug habit to feed, I had nowhere to live and I was losing my mind. Not just in the everyday sense - I was completely out of touch from reality. My Bipolar...
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Gender Matters: we all have to don our ‘gender goggles’
Gender Matters is a report with personal resonance for us as women. We recognise the experience of ‘generic’ design (of services, research, products) actually being implicitly designed for men. We’re very lucky to work and thrive in a...
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Gender Matters
Following Hard Edges (2015), we began a process to explore how disadvantages might cluster differently in the lives of women. This included consultation with women facing multiple disadvantage about the experiences most relevant to them. They...
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Katy