User:Suemorris500

|logo=right - shows the Wikipedia logo on the right (default hidden) |noindex=yes – prevents external search engines from indexing the page (default no) |rounded=yes - makes the container's border rounded (default no) |border-radius=15px - changes the border radius, if rounded=yes is also set (default 15px) |border-s=1 - the size of the border (default 1) |border-c=#ffc9c9 - the color of the border (default #ffc9c9) |background=#fffff3 - changes the background color (default #fffff3) This user is a social scientist working as a researcher at the James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland. Research is in the area of human health & wellbeing and engagement with natural outdoor environments, with special interest in water, and in public parks. Member of the facilitation team for CREW, the Scottish Government-funded centre of expertise for waters, networking Scottish water experts, policy makers and practitioners to exchange knowledge about the water resource (source to sea), in Scotland and globally. This user is more broadly interested in exchange of knowledge among scientists, policy makers, practitioners and citizens; interdisciplinary research practice; research methods to investigate socio-cultural aspects of people's political and economic environments; evaluation methods to identify quality in practice; policy-driven approaches to research. Current interests in methods focus on qualitative methods; evaluation techniques for knowledge exchange; interdisciplinary approaches (across disciplines in natural sciences/social sciences/humanities) to policy-based research; and use of sensory tools and life course analysis to investigate human engagement with the environment. Disciplinary background is law, with interdisciplinary study of social policy, primarily of welfare theory and provision in five main areas: health, housing, education, income maintenance, and employment. Research experience includes work in government (Scottish/EU), parliament (Scottish), academic (university/research institute, and independent sector (SME). --Suemorris500 (talk) 12:10, 13 April 2012 (UTC)