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The probabilistic representation of linguistic knowledge: Linguistic data set...
The files contain crowd sourced (Amazon Mechanical Turk) speaker annotated sentences in several domains, and for several languages. The annotations are mean acceptability... -
Living Multiculture: the new geographies of ethnic diversity and the changing...
The qualitative data collection consists of a total of 138 transcripts and approximately 70 observation field notes. In detail the data collection = 1. A series of detailed... -
Living in Ambivalence: Punjabi Migrant Transnationalism in the U.K
14 In-depth ethnographical interviews with UK-resident Punjabis were conducted in Birmingham, Leicester and London. These interviews paid particular attention to the ways... -
Breast awareness among black women in East London 2013-2015
Researchers at Homerton Hospital noticed that while black women are less likely to develop breast cancer than their white counterparts, when they are diagnosed with breast... -
Language, Performance, and Region: Discourse and Sociocultural Identity in th...
The project collected data from performers across the Black Country – poets, singers and stand-up comedians, as well as from local archives. It examined the notion that within a... -
The formation of stereotypes through cumulative cultural transmission - Exper...
These are data from the two primary dependent measures from my ESRC grant examining how novel lab-based stereotypes form via a process of cumulative cultural evolution. The data... -
The politics of Chinese engagement with African 'development': Case studies o...
The project examined the impacts of China's enhanced global role on African politics (and other donors) through case studies of Angola and Ghana and organised the research... -
Opportunities afforded by the outdoors for alternative pedagogies as children...
This project aimed to find out how being outdoors changes teaching and learning in Year 1. Four classes in two urban schools (involving children aged 4-6 years old) were... -
Wage Top-Ups and Work Incentives: The Implications of the UK's Working Tax Cr...
The project aimed to explore the motivations of Working Tax Credit recipients and their understanding of the UK scheme. This was done through in-depth face-to-face interviews... -
Promoting Social Engagement and Well-Being in Older People Through Community ...
This research explored the potential for participation in community music making to enhance older people’s social, emotional and cognitive well-being. It comprised of three UK... -
The retirement transition and the Celtic fringe: Mobility trends and migrant ...
The project focused on the mobility patterns of the 50-64 year old age group and the existence of a “retirement transition” affecting the residential preferences and... -
Hungarian and Romanian Migrant Workers in the UK: Racism without Racial Diffe...
This research examines the ways in which recent East European migration to the UK has been racialised. 48 in-depth face-to-face interviews were carried out with 25 individual... -
Making law in rural Kenya
The data set consists of a 65 minute video which provides direct insight into the origin and current functioning of the iritongo vigilante movement in Kuria East District in... -
British Pakistani Moslems, infertility and the new reproductive technologies:...
In this 2 phase study, 100 individual birth histories will be collected in order to situate infertility within the full range of fertility experiences among British Pakistanis.... -
The Oxford Aesop Corpus 2010
The aim of our project is to systematically test and improve these rhythm measurements to be more reliable, easier, and robust enough to use outside the laboratory. This corpus... -
Gender and the Conservative Party
This research project provides a comprehensive gendered analysis of the contemporary UK Conservative party. Face-to-face semi-structured interviews were carried out with... -
Religious nurture in Muslim families
This research project aimed to describe and explain how children of primary school age and under are brought up to be Muslims. The project began with secondary quantitative... -
Negotiating Managed Consumption: Young People, Branding and Social Identifica...
This project brought together debates in Marketing, Social Geography and research from the Social Psychology of Consumption to investigate how young people negotiate and... -
Women in the Russian Penal System: the role of distance in the theory and pra...
This project aimed to explore how the isolation that women in Russia's penal institutions suffer shapes their experiences of custody and re-entry into society. 65 prisoners, 21... -
Developing Skills for Government: Political Mentoring
Focusing on the introduction of a national programme of political mentoring for local government this research investigated why formal development is rare in politics and how...