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Professional development consortium in modern languages
The decline in popularity of Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) in England is well-documented, with many areas for improvement in the teaching of the subject identified (OFSTED,... -
Caste out of Development: Civil society activism and transnational advocacy o...
Caste is peripheral to official (state and donor) frameworks for the analysis of poverty and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in South Asia, and yet caste is... -
Challenging the Investment Climate Paradigm: governance, investment and pover...
This project examines a key assumption which underlies one of the main approaches to poverty reduction currently advocated and practised by many international development... -
Localising international law: Examining the outreach strategies of the war cr...
This research explores the relationship between war crimes courts and victim communities. This will be achieved through an examination of the public outreach strategies of the... -
Development of needs-based funding models for the devolved territories in th...
The UK's devolved administrations (DAs) have autonomy over policy and spending decisions for devolved services. To finance this spending they rely almost entirely on a block... -
The contractual governance of drug users
This study will investigate the growing phenomenon of the use of agreements that resemble contracts as a technique for governing the conduct of drug users in treatment. Such... -
Reducing prejudice via indirect intergroup contact
The proposed program of research will integrate and extend research on three aspects of intergroup contact direct, extended and imagined contact, by developing powerful indirect... -
Can competition increase information sharing in groups?
Focus groups are widely used to aggregate consumer preferences in many business and marketing arenas. Social psychological research suggests that this practice is questionable,... -
The uneven impact of the economic crisis on cities and households: Bristol an...
This project will explore the impact of the economic recession on cities and households through a systematic comparison of the experiences of two English cities, Bristol and... -
New urbanisms, new citizens: Children and young people's everyday life and pa...
The UK Government's 2003 Sustainable Communities Plan inaugurated a major programme of investment in urban development creating 260,000 new dwellings in a wave of sustainable... -
The political challenges of 'Devaluing' nuclear weapons in Britain
Momentum for significant progress towards a nuclear weapons-free world to reduce long-term nuclear risk is now a political reality fully supported by the UK. It is widely... -
The middle classes in the city: social mix or just 'people like us'? A Compar...
This comparative study investigates the contemporary social and political characteristics and activities of the urban middle classes in Paris and London. It investigates a range... -
Anthropogenic dark Earths in Africa?
Research from Amazonia reveals how it supported large farming populations in pre-Hispanic times who improved their naturally infertile soils. Modern farmers value these soils... -
A 3d psychological face database and tools
The overall aim of this project is to enable the next generation of research into face perception and recognition by making available a rich database of face images, including... -
Public perceptions of threat in Britain: Security in an age of austerity
No longer are British interests at home and abroad considered to be under threat from one particular state, but rather from a complex web of threats. Yet, despite a tripling of... -
Urban food production and health risk management
Urban agriculture is an emerging field, the comprehensive understanding of which is best achieved through an interdisciplinary research approach. Utilising such a strategy, this... -
Effects of input on early word learning
This study is designed to provide an ecologically valid test of the role of input characteristics on infant word form recognition, the first step in word learning. The input... -
Merchants, Entrepreneurs and Public Piety: A Political Economy of Emergent Fo...
The main objective of this project is to examine the relationship between, on one hand, the emergence of the entrepreneurial and merchant classes as a socio-political force in... -
Developing Media Literacy: From Research to Practice
This project is a programme of knowledge exchange activities following on from a recently completed ESRC-funded research project 'Developing Media Literacy: Towards a Model of... -
A comparative study of language change in Northern Englishes
This 3-year project investigates language change in five urban dialects of Northern England—Derby, Newcastle, York, Leeds and Manchester. The main goal of the project is to...