1,142 datasets found

The research aims to contribute to current research and theoretical understandings of how family lives and childhood experiences help to constitute adult lives and to illuminate...

The project had two main dimensions: the first is theoretical and the second is empirical, focusing on three case studies (Moscow, Tatarstan and Dagestan). The theoretical...

The purpose of this research was to find out what Polish immigrants do with the variation that exists in the English language around them. Do they attach social meanings to it?...

The main purpose of this research is to investigate how youth may be 'rationed out' of HAART use by better understanding rationing and access mechanisms and their interaction....

The study explored the role of clothing and dress in the constitution of age through 33 face-to-face interviews.. It addressed questions of the persistence or otherwise of age...

This research project analysed the experiences, social interactions and meaning of disruptive pupils in mainstream education. This was done through in-depth interviews with 42...

The objectives of the research were as follows: (1) to identify and measure a series of ‘sustainable travel behaviours’ using a sample of individuals from the general public;...

The key objectives of the research are to: 1) Explore the ways in which gender recognition brings new meanings to gendered, sexual, intimate and embodied identities. 2) Analyse...

(a) Transcribed and translated indigenous vernacular accounts of how life-cycle rituals should be performed, paying particular attention to kin relations and transfers of money...

This project aimed to determine the mechanisms and strategies used by older people to navigate unfamiliar spaces as drivers, pedestrians and users of public transports. 48...

This project investigates how animal disease is regulated by veterinarians in England and Wales. The research focuses on bovine tuberculosis (TB) and the process by which...

The aim of this research project was to investigate the cultural, social and emotional implications of how we treat people after their death and specifically the development of...

This collaborative project involved the University of Oxford and two universities in Papua, Universitas Cenderawasih and Universitas Negeri Papua, in the creation of an on-line...

This data collection consists of 45 biographical narrative interviews conducted by Skype and face-to-face with participants who either self-identified as asexual, or felt the...

This project aimed to encourage consideration about how socio-ethical values are or could be translated into legal rules. It examined the conduct and motivating values of...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...