378 datasets found

The reproductive dimensions of rapidly increasing rural-urban migration and its linkages with changes in wellbeing have been rather poorly understood. However serious concerns...

The aim is to forecast the chief components of inflation (such as changes in fuel prices, food prices and prices of durable goods) for the USA, UK and South Africa, and to test...

Dialogue has been shown to be an effective means for the development of pupil learning, critical thinking and reading comprehension. But although recent policies have promoted...

The project is concerned with primary school children's explicit and tacit understanding of object motion. Explicit understanding is the knowledge that is engaged when reasoning...

Self-concept refers to how people feel about themselves. In self-concept research there is ongoing debate about the relative importance of self-concept in specific areas (eg,...

With age, object-location memory performance has been shown to reduce, and older adults recall fewer object locations than younger adults. However, to date, no research has...

This study addresses whether ecstasy, a widely used recreational drug, adversely affects sleep, because any marked shortening of sleep could contribute to the emotional, social...

The main objective of this research project is to understand how people negotiate and what aspects of the situation they use as an aid to reach an agreement. Any aspect of a...

In this project we will investigate our ability to assess the recency of occurrence of stimuli. We will use a simple immediate memory probe task: on each trial a list of between...

Innovation is usually seen to take place in urban areas which offer many opportunities for interaction between different individuals and organisations, including firms,...

The collective action of social movements is often said to be one of the most effective strategies that the poor can use in addressing their poverty. However, little is known...

The aim of this project is to support children aged 11-14 in coming to understand themselves and their world through a new approach of scripted inquiry learning. With the aid of...

The most natural and basic form of language use is dialogue, in which two or more interlocutors are engaged in both production and comprehension. But psycholinguistics focuses...

In recent research Robinson and colleagues identified a difference between children's responses to uncertainty depending on the point in time at which the response is...

The project responds to the current UK Government strategy for the third sector where there is an evidence gap in relation to understanding the size and characteristics of...

This project is focused on combining two under-researched elements: First, despite recognition that innovation in services is distinct from manufacturing, there is still very...

This research investigates how differences in dyslexic and non-dyslexic readers' fluency are related to differences in how they process multiple items. When people read, they...

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The International Passenger Survey (IPS) aims to collect data on both credits and debits for the travel...

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. BackgroundThe Labour Force Survey (LFS) is a unique source of information using international definitions...

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. Background The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is a unique source of information using international...