Knowledge Media has the longest history of all the Iriss programmes and has set the foundations for the other two: Evidence-informed Practice and Innovation and Improvement.
Knowledge Media was set up over ten years ago as the Learning Technology Team, which became the Scottish Institute for Excellence in Social Work Education (SIESWE), a collaboration of Neil Ballantyne, then social work lecturer at the University of Strathclyde, and a group at Dundee University.
SIESWE set out to improve knowledge exchange in social work practice and to improve the quality of social work education more generally. This was in response to Changing Lives: Report of the 21st Century Social Work Review.
In 2008, SIESWE evolved into Iriss and grew its Evidence-informed Practice and Innovation and Improvement arms. Ian Watson (who was Head of Knowledge Media) from 2008 until 2016 recently retired from Iriss. Before he departed we gathered the Knowledge Media team together for a chat about the programme’s work over the last ten years years. We hear from Ian Watson (Head of Knowledge Media), Ian Phillip (Interactive Designer), Lesley Duff (Integration Developer) and Ellen Daly (Project Manager). Enjoy listening.