Dr Dan Heap
Senior Teaching Fellow
Social Policy
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Publications
- A gestalt shift? : Reflections from researchers turned elected representatives on the real-world use of evidence in policy making
- Synhaeve Marijke, Heap Dan, McMahon Naoimh
- Evidence and Policy (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1332/17442648y2024d000000036
- "Paid yesterday, broke today" : the impact of employment and financial instability on suicidal thinking and behaviour in Scotland
- Rasmussen Susan, Cogan Nicola, Russell Kirsten, Heap Daniel
- (2024)
- Goodbye to PIP, but hello to what? Disability, social security, devolution and policy change in Scotland
- Heap Dan
- Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Vol 32, pp. 170-180 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1332/17598273Y2023D000000011
- Using Google Jamboards to Support Higher Education Students' Learning : Draft Report
- Heap Daniel
- (2023)
- Briefing on the devolved social security system in Scotland
- Heap Daniel
- (2022)
- Institutionalisation as an under-explored aspect of active labour market programmes
- Heap Daniel
- European Consortium for Political Research (2018)
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Professional Activities
Projects
- Insecure Employment and Suicide in Scotland
- Rasmussen, Susan (Principal Investigator) Russell, Kirsten (Co-investigator) Cogan, Nicola (Co-investigator) Heap, Daniel (Research Co-investigator)
- The aim of the project is to more fully understand the link between employment and financial instability and experiences of suicidal thinking and behaviour for people living in Scotland. In line with the tender, and as a result of adopting a mixed methods approach to the project we are proposing to focus our research questions on exploring what the links are between employment and
financial instability and, importantly, why these links exist. More specifically we wish to explore the following questions:
· What are the experiences of employment and financial instability in Scotland, and do those experiences link to suicidal thinking and behaviours?
· What are the temporal dynamics of the experiences of suicidal thinking and behaviours for individuals living in Scotland who experience employment and financial instability?
· Can we use the risk and protective variables specified by a key theory of suicidal thinking and behaviour to understand how employment and financial instability is linked to suicidal thinking and behaviours? - 01-Jan-2023