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This classroom-focused study will trace the emergence of challenging behaviour amongst children in their earliest years at school. Based in four mainstream schools in Greater...

The research contributes to understandings about the causes of, and solutions to, multiple exclusion homelessness in policy relevant ways by comparing and contrasting the...

This project will establish an interdisciplinary network in order to develop strategies for technology-enhanced teaching and learning of 'threshold concepts' in higher...

There is a large body of evidence showing that a child's speech processing skills are vitally important for language and literacy development. Difficulties in speech processing...

Street children are often positioned as deviant and contrasting to powerful moral constructions of family, home and childhood. Here they are viewed as a product the...

None specified We conducted three experiments to test between these two accounts of interhemispheric communication. In each of these experiments, we controlled where the...

Comparative political economy has been dominated in recent years by the issue of globalisation. Within that literature, the Nordic economies are routinely presented as special...

This research examines the question of parental choice of secondary schools in Manchester and Stockport. In particular, it will explore the extent to which parents are seeking...

This series of studies aims to examine the ways in which young infants (14 months old) use the emotional expressions of other people to help them learn about the world around...

The contemporary Burmese state, (Union of Myanmar), recognises thirteen ethnic 'families', of which the ethnic Burman peoples are but one. Since independence from Britain in...

This climate change leadership fellowship addresses the need for new ways of framing problems of climate change, consumption and demand. To date, governments have sought to...

Household surveys are essential for the production of data for policy design and interventions in developing countries. Little attention is paid by commissioners, producers and...

The internet is a central part of contemporary life. After e-mail, online discussion forums are one of the most popular ways for people to interact online. Research into...

This project seeks to increase student engagement and achievement in mathematics education by focusing on the two topics at Key Stage 3 (KS3) that are central to the current...

This project will assess the equality impact of the recent recession on the labour utilisation and position of women and men in the labour market, and on the employment of lone...

Sexualised images are widespread. In three studies we will examine how these images effect men's perception of 'real' women. In Study 1 we will experimentally manipulating men's...

Ships' engines generate global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions greater than those of the aviation industry, while also generating very large amounts of nitrogen oxides (NOx),...

The overall aim of this research is to gain an in-depth understanding of the experiences of forced labour among asylum seekers and refugees (AS/R) based in England. This new...

This interdisciplinary work will develop software to run and evaluate an exciting and innovative 'Interactive Immersive Classroom' called 'SynergyNet'. Critically, whilst...

Educational neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field, informed by educational theory and neuroscience. Educational neuroscientists employ electrophysiological and brain...