our projects.

In 2024, Faye visited Botswana and South Africa to explore community engagement practices reducing transmission of HIV and other blood-borne viruses. She then returned to Scotland to contextualise her research into practice through her role as Trustee of Waverley Care, Scotland’s largest sexual health charity.

Our role: Fellowship Holder (Faye)

Researchers, alongside people with dementia, family carers, health and social care professionals and UK charities, have come together to empower a meaningful life for all.

Our role: Public & Community Engagement Specialist (Faye), Creative Facilitator & Illustrator (Alice), Web Developer (FoSho Studios)

Family Interventions iN Dementia Mental health Environments (FIND ME) aims to co-design evidence-based strategies to improve how Mental Health Wards involve and support carers and improve patient outcomes for people with dementia.

Our role: Public & Community Engagement Lead (Faye), Illustrator (Alice), Podcast (FoSho Studios)

The African and Caribbean Elders (ACE) study aims to understand the support needs of African and African-Caribbean people living with dementia and their care partners and families. We hope to identify inclusive strategies to facilitate timely and culturally appropriate social care support.

Our role: Public & Community Engagement Lead (Faye)

A partnership between the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, the Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) and Waverley Care which explores the different experiences of living with a blood-borne virus (BBV).

Our role: Co-founder and Project Lead (Faye), Creative Facilitator (Alice), Communications (Lois), Video Production (FoSho Studios)

Coalface to Wildspace: Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire & Lothians aims to engage with communities across the region to help create and restore ponds and surrounding land habitats. The project also aims to create Neighbourhood Wildlife Corridors and undertake a vast public engagement programme of activities and events.

Our role: Public Consultation Specialist (Faye), Education Specialist (Sam)

A citizen science project raising awareness of ticks & tick-borne diseases across Scotland, empowering people to make informed decisions about accessing the outdoors.

Our role: Co-founder and evaluation consultant (Faye), Communications (Lois)

A creative collaboration aiming to find better ways to dispel misconceptions and communicate real insights into the experiences of those living with Parkinson’s Disease.

Our role: Public Engagement Training and Events Management (Faye)

Dear World Project was a cross-disciplinary public engagement collaboration that explored mental health, its diagnosis, and the use of labels often associated with feelings and emotions.

Our role: Events Programming & Management (Faye)

A Welsh Government funded project working to champion Welsh horticulture, plants for pollinators, the protection of wildlife and the virtues of growing plants for food, fun, health and well-being.

Our role: Events Programming & Management (Faye)