378 datasets found

Explicit prejudice and discrimination is arguably less prevalent in today's society. One form of prejudice that is still acceptable is stereotype-based humour, for example,...

High Emotional Intelligence (EI) is associated with prosocial behavior. This claim is based on self-reports or reports of behaviour assessed by others: there is as yet no...

The project explores high-achieving pupils' constructions and performances of gender and learning. A large body of work has established how educational achievement is bound up...

This research will conduct two studies. In study one participants' trait empathy will be assessed and then state empathy will be induced in half the sample. The other half will...

This project will examine the impacts of the AIDS pandemic on the livelihoods of young people in rural Malawi and Lesotho. Several southern African countries with exceptionally...

The main objective of this exploratory study was to assess the effects of the NHS reforms on the motivations and performance of doctors and nurses at the University College...

Previous research has demonstrated that old-new recognition memory is better for dynamic stimuli than for static stimuli. The proposed research aims: to confirm that the...

This study will compare the effectiveness of three interventions designed to improve the text comprehension skills of poor comprehenders. Poor comprehenders show difficulties...

There is a hot debate on the advantages of different initial public offerings (IPOs) mechanisms. In her PhD thesis, the award holder examined two different mechanisms used for...

The production of numerical estimates is an important component of children's developing mathematical skills, and is included in the national curriculum in the UK. Previous...

A primary objective of secondary school mathematics is to develop students' proof competencies, that is, their abilities to investigate whether and why "things work" in...

This project aims to assess the role and effectiveness of early and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in one of the most conflict-producing areas of educational provision and...

The project aims to understand how different pedagogical practices in mathematics at school (GCSE) and in transition to college (AS level) impact on students' dispositions and...

Although political parties in modern democracies are to a growing extent regulated by public law, there is very little comparative research on the legal regulation of parties,...

The project aims to cover new data investigating the acquisition of Tense and Aspect by English learners of Spanish. The aim is to analyse both oral production and...

Handwriting is an important skill in literate societies. This project investigates two intricately related theoretical issues, namely the extent to which handwriting is...

Working memory is a system for holding in mind information in the face of potentially distracting activity, and is often assessed using tasks in which participants maintain...

This project involved an investigation of executive functioning (EF) abilities in children with specific language impairment (SLI). SLI is a common neurodevelopmental disorder...

This study aims to inform policy that sustains the social networks of older people. Previous research shows that the availability of social networks improves the quality of life...

Our research is concerned with the underlying causes of reading difficulty. There is good evidence that some cases of reading difficulty (termed dyslexia) are caused by...