Our Portfolio

We believe in the importance of sharing research outputs with a wide range of audiences and use the office window to raise awareness of our work among the many thousands of people who pass by each day.

We delivered an evaluation of three local delivery trial sites funded through the Scottish Government’s National Trauma Transformation Programme. Evaluation activity involved in-depth interviews with a range of key stakeholders and staff in Argyll & Bute, Glasgow and Midlothian exploring progress, impact, achievements and challenges experienced across the pilot sites.

We found that activity delivered at the trial sites has enhanced the local workforce’s awareness, knowledge, and skills in relation to trauma and trauma-informed practice. There is now a greater understanding of, and focus on, staff wellbeing and the support they need to work in a trauma-informed way safely and effectively.

Our report sets out the learning captured and recommendations to inform the future delivery of the programme. You can read it in full here: https://www.gov.scot/publicati...

In research for Save The Children, we explored views and experiences of 50 parents living on low incomes in Scotland on what they need to support their babies and toddlers learning and development at home. As part of this study, we produced a series of case studies telling the stories of individual parents’ experiences of accessing support for their children’s early development and learning.

https://www.savethechildren.or...

We worked in partnership with LUC to deliver an important piece of work exploring the use of route maps and score cards to share information about climate change with the public. LUC undertook a comprehensive evidence review and The Lines Between led on the stakeholder engagement aspect of the project. Our team conducted a series of focus groups with participants across Scotland to gather views on climate change route maps and score cards and explore the best ways of communicating climate goals and progress with the public.

You can read the report in full here: https://www.climatexchange.org...

We have history of delivering national surveys across specific communities or sectors, often to identify unmet needs, or evidence impact. For example, The Lines Between delivered and analysed a survey of each of Scotland’s 30 Chief Social Work Officers for Social Work Scotland. We explored Chief Social Work Officers' motivations, career histories and the role’s vast responsibilities, and gathered data on professional challenges, recruitment, training, retention and the impact of changes within the sector, including the development of the National Care Service.

Our findings can be read in full here: https://socialworkscotland.org...

A short animation of our evaluation report on the Inclusion Health Action in General Practice Programme. We identified positive impacts for patient care and support, changes in working culture, improved patient engagement with services, and better health outcomes.

In early 2024, The Scottish Government launched a public consultation to gather views on the revised Circular Economy and Waste Route Map to 2030. The Route Map sets out a series of proposed actions under four strategic themes:

1. Reduce and reuse

2. Modernise recycling

3. Decarbonise disposal

4. Strengthen the circular economy

The Lines Between analysed the 156 responses to the consultation and reported on the findings. The report can be read in full here: https://www.gov.scot/publicati...

We regularly facilitate partnership workshops for this consortium of youth organisations. This involves developing and delivering half-day events with self-evaluation activities, energisers, training and creative exercises.

Each event is carefully planned, resulting in excellent feedback about the value of our sessions and how much they are enjoyed by attendees. Stemming from this success, a range of other organisations have commissioned us to facilitate partnership events, or workshops for funded programmes.

We have also delivered workshops, events or training for Prince's Trust, Life Changes Trust, the Young Women's Movement and SCVO.

Much of our work at The Lines Between focuses on families who experience inequality and poverty. One example of this is our recent evidence review for Parenting Across Scotland, which draws together important research carried out with parents in Scotland. We identified many different publications, spanning research by the Scottish Government and numerous third-sector organisations, including Save the Children UK, Aberlour Children's Charity, Fathers Network Scotland, One Parent Families Scotland, Children 1st, Oxfam Scotland, The Poverty Alliance and a range of consultancies and academics. While the number of participants, methodologies, and focus of each publication we reviewed differed, key priorities and issues emerged across the work. The report gives a voice to parents' concerns about poverty, housing, mental and physical health, childcare, and education.

Our findings will help Parenting Across Scotland and its network to make decisions about where to focus their policy activity and future research planning.

You can read the report in full here: https://www.parentingacrosssco...

We delivered research on the Scottish Government’s Accessible Vehicles and Equipment (AVE) Scheme.

The AVE Scheme allows Adult Disability Payment and Child Disability Payment recipients receiving the higher or enhanced rate mobility component to use their payments to lease an accessible vehicle or mobility equipment. This can include a car, powered wheelchair or scooter, or a wheelchair-accessible vehicle.

Through one-to-one interviews and online surveys, our research explored views and experiences of the AVE Scheme among disabled people, dealers and providers of vehicles and equipment and wider stakeholders.

The findings from this research will play a crucial role in ensuring that the AVE Scheme meets the needs of disabled people across Scotland: https://www.gov.scot/publicati...