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Skills and Employment Survey 2012: Follow-up Survey, 2014
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The Skills Survey is a series of nationally representative sample surveys of individuals in employment... -
London Business Survey, 2014: Secure Access
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The Greater London Authority (GLA) commissioned the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to design and... -
Public Opinion and the Syrian Crisis in Three Democracies: Surveys of French,...
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The research projected was a series of two surveys in the US, UK, and France (an extra post 2014... -
The support priorities of multiply excluded homeless people and their compati...
The research contributes to understandings about the causes of, and solutions to, multiple exclusion homelessness in policy relevant ways by comparing and contrasting the... -
Social networks, target language interaction and second language acquisition ...
Residence abroad is a key experience for university students studying languages, and most benefit from it greatly. However, students' language development during residence... -
Auditory processing and language in children with mild to moderate sensorineu...
The aim of this project is to investigate why some children with permanent mild or moderate hearing loss (MMHL) have impaired language, while others do not. One factor that... -
Using intellectual property protection to capture value from innovation in kn...
Firms employ a variety of means to protect their Intellectual Property (IP), including formal methods (eg patents, trademarks, copyrights), contractual agreements... -
Understanding the dynamics of leadership in professional service firms.
Professional service firms (PSFs) have been largely neglected by leadership scholars yet they pose many distinctive leadership challenges. In PSFs (such as accounting and law... -
Using a word-learning paradigm to investigate three forms of generalisation i...
The ability to generalise knowledge from a limited set of exemplars is at the heart of our language abilities. One example of this productivity arises in the domain of... -
Phonological levelling, diffusion and divergence in Liverpool and its hinterland
It is widely reported in the UK media that English accents are becoming alike. In 2001 a Guardian article claimed "England's distinctive dialects may be doomed to disappear".... -
Embedding quantitative methods in social science teaching
This project investigates how quantitative methods (QM) can be embedded into substantive subject modules in undergraduate sociology. Hitherto most social science research... -
Making space for queer-identifying religious young people
This study explores how religious identity interplays with other forms and contexts of identity, specifically those related to sexuality. It investigates at what points - and... -
Personal Inquiry (PI): Designing for Evidence-based Inquiry Learning across F...
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... -
Knowledge Exchange, Spatial Analysis and Healthy Urban Environments: Integrat...
The Knowledge Exchange, Spatial Analysis and Healthy Urban Environment (KESUE) project has extended previous work from a project that examined the health impacts of a... -
Early childhood development: Identifying successful interventions and the mec...
A key aim of this research is to identify cost-effective and sustainable interventions to promote early childhood development. We will implement two interventions in rural... -
Authoritarian elections: The Russian case, 2011-2012
A series of changes from 2005 onwards have strengthened central control of the electoral process in postcommunist Russia to such an extent that (for some) they should more... -
The social life of achievement and competitiveness in Vietnam and Indonesia
This project will investigate the changing ways in which Indonesian and Vietnamese individuals of divergent backgrounds and experience have understood the idea of 'achievement'... -
Biosecurity borderlands: Making biosecurity work in a complex landscape
Biosecurity Borderlands seeks to investigate the practices, understandings and pressures created as biosecurity is extended into the British food system and landscape. The... -
Engaging hairdressers in pro-environmental behaviours
The proposed study explores the efficacy of an innovative bottom-up social marketing approach to encourage pro-environmental behaviour, using hairdressers as 'catalytic... -
Global uncertainties: Security in an Africa of networked, multi-level governance
The programme of research centres on how the various institutions responsible for the production of security and the management of conflict in Sub-Saharan African societies do,...