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The Centre is known for conducting fieldwork and reporting on studies including the annual Scottish Health Survey, [3] [4] the Scottish Social Attitudes survey, [5] [6] and the Growing Up in Scotland longitudinal study. [7] [8] The research conducted covers: Children and young people; Communities; Families; Crime and justice; Equality and diversity
In the Early Middle Ages, Scotland was overwhelmingly an oral society and education was verbal rather than literary. After the "de-gallicisation" of the Scottish court from the twelfth century, an order of bards took over the functions of poets, musicians and historians, often attached to the court of a lord or king, and passing on their ...
A GWA study of longitudinal cohorts, including the LBC1921 and the LBC1936, found that the APOE E4 allele was associated with deleterious cognitive change. [24] Furthermore, a 2015 meta-analysis of GWA studies in 31 cohorts, including the two Lothian Birth Cohorts, found that the APOE gene as well as SNPs on the APOE / TOMM40 genomic region ...
The Scottish people or Scots (Scots: Scots fowk; Scottish Gaelic: Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland.Historically, they emerged in the early Middle Ages from an amalgamation of two Celtic peoples, the Picts and Gaels, who founded the Kingdom of Scotland (or Alba) in the 9th century.
Stone houses at Knap of Howar, evidence of the beginnings of demographic growth, c. 3500 BCE. At times during the last interglacial period (130,000– 70,000 BC) Europe had a climate warmer than today's, and early humans may have made their way to what is now Scotland, though archaeologists have found no traces of this.
The 2022 Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) showed Scotland’s reading level was above OECD average. Scotland’s education study figures decline amid ‘profound’ Covid-19 ...
However, despite growing evidence of Anglian settlement in southern Scotland, only one such grave has been found, at Dalmeny in East Lothian. [81] The growth of Christianity in Scotland has been traditionally seen as dependent on Irish-Scots "Celtic" missionaries and to a lesser extent those from Rome and England.
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