418 datasets found

Antisocial behaviours such as injuring opposing players are common in sport. This project aims to examine whether: frequency of antisocial sport behaviours is associated with...

Proficiency with numbers is important for everyday life, employment, and the study of natural and social sciences. One component of number proficiency is basic calculation, the...

In the context of unprecedented uses of digital technologies in everyday life, this research explores the range of literacy skills and practices that 3 and 4 year old children...

Primetime television programming does not function as mere entertainment for viewers, but a site in which contemporary social issues are considered and negotiated. This project...

Ageing is generally associated with a decrease in mobility and social interaction and this decrease can be dependent upon various health and social factors. However sustained...

The objective of the project is to determine the perceptual and memory processes and eye movement differences which mediate performance with own and other-race faces, and how...

Periphrasis is a widespread and significant phenomenon, and a valuable indicator of how a language functions. It reveals how the construction of meaning in language is...

A crucial issue in addressing the problem of climate change is the impact of trade flows on any one country's domestic emissions generation (what governments are responsible for...

The primary aim of the project is to address the important question of the potential diversity of, and constraints on, culturally transmitted human behaviours. Human cultures...

There is evidence from the United States that the legalisation of abortion has led to a significant reduction in neonatal and infant mortality. However, no research to date has...

Goal setting is a widely used psychological skill for enhancing performance in various life domains, including sport. Previous goal setting research has primarily focused on the...

Arabic script is essentially alphabetic, that is it uses different characters based on the pronunciation of words. However, much Arabic writing only includes the consonants,...

Anxiety disorders are the most common psychological problem of childhood. Far from being an innocuous childhood trait, anxiety is now known to have a serious impact on...

The project is a comparative analysis of how ideas of race and ethnicity interact with genomic research in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil, where geneticists are mapping local...

A direction of travel in NHS policy is to increase patient involvement through the introduction of 'choice'. UK antenatal genetic screening programmes have policies stating that...

This research project will produce an account of play, learning and technology in the everyday lives of young children. Children will be three years old at the start of the...

In 1991, the Indian economy underwent major economic reforms, after several decades of following an inward looking development strategy. This project will examine whether the...

This research examines the question of parental choice of secondary schools in Manchester and Stockport. In particular, it will explore the extent to which parents are seeking...

This study explores the integration of corpus linguistic and sociolinguistic approaches for the analysis of a unique 4-million word longitudinal corpus of messages posted to the...

Social preferences (concern that people have for others' well-being) are potentially very relevant to understanding the decision to work in the public sector, such as health...