Stuart Muirhead and Vivien Moffat at the Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS) and Heather Wilkinson at The Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) are the project co-ordinators.
Stuart is a Proje
ct Manager in the Evidence-Informed Practice team at IRISS. Stuart has a wide range of interests around collaborative and co-produced methods of working, as well as having an academic grounding in the field of human geography. Stuart has worked across the boundaries of academic, policy and practitioner knowledges, seeking to link these worlds in meaningful and impactful ways.
Vivien is the Programme Manager for the Evidence-Informed Practice team at IRISS.work within IRISS specifically aims to facilitate the creation and sharing of different types of evidence so that all those working with people who access support have the skills, confidence and knowledge to find relevant evidence and use it to inform their practice.
Heather is a co-director of CRFR and Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange for the School of Health in Social Science; she also chairs the College of Humanities and Social Science Knowledge Exchange Committee in the University of Edinburgh. Heather has extensive project management experience including engaging with policy and user communities.