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Food riots and food rights: The moral and political economy of accountability...
There are two types of data being submitted. 1) Political Events Catalogue: The Political Events Catalogues are a compilation and coding of media reports on food-related... -
Life journeys: The role of interior dialogue and expression in negotiating te...
Data, including video and audio recordings, including of (i) people’s everyday lives and activities, and (ii) performative fieldwork techniques, that was generated through a... -
Chronic Illness and Online Networking: expectations, assumptions, and everyda...
Semi-structured interviews with 36 individuals with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes. The interviews address their diagnosis and current life with diabetes, their use of... -
Consumer perceptions of energy and clothes shopping: a focus group study
Written transcripts from 5 qualitative, semi-structured focus groups held with consumers as part of the TRANSFER project. The focus groups were conducted in July 2014 at... -
Consumer perceptions of energy and clothes shopping: a high street survey
SPSS data file and questionnaires from a High Street survey conducted as part of the TRANSFER project. A total of 138 members of the general public (mix of genders and ages)... -
Assuming identities online: Experimental chatlogs
Research taking a computational approach to the analysis of online communications has thus far focused overwhelmingly on the structural elements of Computer Mediated Discourse... -
DCAL Research Data Archive 2006-2016
DCAL is the largest deafness and sign language research centre in Europe, bringing together leading Deaf and hearing researchers in the fields of sign linguistics, psychology,... -
Use of data in the 2015 British general election campaign
This data collection consists of interviews with 32 figures across six British political parties - Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish National Party (SNP),... -
The current and future use of social media technologies by military personnel...
Social media has become central to military life, making it a critical component of future policy development, strategic thinking and welfare planning. Platforms such as... -
Birmingham Elsevier interdisciplinary research discourse datasets
This project investigated the discourse of interdisciplinary research (IDR) through comprehensive linguistic analyses of the full holdings of a successful IDR journal, Global... -
An investigation of genres of assessed writing in British higher education
This project aims to identify genres of assessed writing at university level, and to investigate textual variation across disciplines and years of study in the context of... -
Linguistic development in L2 Spanish: Creation and analysis of a learner corpus
This project had two aims: to establish a small scale, high quality database of spoken learner Spanish, and to undertake a short programme of substantive research into L2... -
The learnability of linguistic irregularities: A simplicity-based approach
There is currently a significant divide in researchers views on language acquisition. Linguists have often posited that a strong innately born knowledge of language structure is... -
Rhythmic timing and dyslexia: A causal connection?
How well children will learn to read is determined in part by their phonological awareness. Phonological awareness refers to the child’s awareness of the sound structure of... -
Cross-language differences in pitch range
British speakers are thought to vary their pitch range more (their voice goes more up and down) than German speakers do, but this has never been systematically compared. The... -
Serial processing in reading aloud: an investigation across three languages
Recent years have seen significant advancement in our understanding of the mental processes involved in reading. However, serious controversies remain. One of the most... -
New word learning in Down syndrome
Individuals with Down syndrome have particular difficulties in language acquisition, and also show relatively poor verbal short-term memory skills. These deficits may be... -
Contrasting English and Chinese
As an extension of the ESRC project Contrasting aspect and tense in English and Chinese (RES-000-22-0135), this project will be comparing and contrasting aspect-related... -
Effects of processing load on speech segmentation
The goal of this research project is to improve our understanding of the perceptual and cognitive factors contributing to the segmentation of fluent speech. Speech-segmentation... -
Talking cleanliness in health and agriculture
The threat to human and animal health posed by a rise in infectious diseases, a decrease in antimicrobial resistance and the risk of zoonoses (diseases transmitted continuously...
