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By Clementine O’Connor and Hayley Bennett  In early 2025 we gave a SKAPE presentation called ‘Lived Experience as Evidence’ at Edinburgh Uni. We focussed on exploring the differences between a movement- driven approach and a governance-driven approach to lived experience and connections to evidence-use practices. We developed this idea through a consideration of Scottish anti-poverty making and focussed […]

By Kat Smith, Niklas Andersen and Valérie Pattyn.  In June 2022, the University of Edinburgh played host to a vibrant workshop on “cultures of evidence,” which was sponsored and co-organised by SKAPE. This dynamic event brought together scholars from a wide variety of disciplinary and national contexts for two days of comparative discussion about the

By Nathan Coombs, Hilary MacDonogh, and Eugénia Rodrigues.  Incentivising and supporting the ‘impact’ of social science research has become an objective for funding bodies in the UK and worldwide over recent decades. Defining the impacts of social science research on the economy, policy and society is key to demonstrating that public expenditure on such research