The Knowledge Exchange Blog
What technology brings to health and social care: a case study of Calderdale and Idox
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By Steven McGinty
In the second of our articles on health and social care and technology, we‘re going ….
Happiness and productivity, and how our Ask A Researcher enquiry service can help to increase at least one of these things…
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by Laura Dobie
It’s the International Day of Happiness today. To mark ….
The renaissance of Building Control
Post–recession, the building industry has begun a return to rapid growth against a background of changes in building regulations, continuing technical innovation, and raised standards and expectations for developers. Building Control (the process of ensuring that buildings ….
February issue of SPEL Journal (Scottish Planning & Environmental Law)
The Knowledge Exchange publishes a bi-monthly journal covering all aspects of planning and environmental law in Scotland. SPEL Journal (Scottish Planning & Environmental Law) launched over 30 years ago and is one of the ….
Budget 2015 – how does it tackle the housing crisis?
By Alan Gillies
1p off a pint of beer, 2p off cider and whisky, wine duty frozen… “a beer-soaked election budget”, according to the International Business Times. But of course there’s more to the ….
They are driving economic change in cities, but what are ‘knowledge-focused industries’?
A Century of Cities, a reflection on urban economic change since 1911, was recently published by Centre for Cities. An informative read, which does something many economic development reports do not do, it looks ….




