200 datasets found

Tax incentives to encourage retirement saving in the UK are relatively complex and have changed frequently. The research will investigate how these facts affect individual and...

This project investigates the ENP’s effectiveness in Eastern Europe (EE), in the light of a growing tension between Europeanisation and Securitisation. Although Europeanisation...

This research is concerned with how the Embera - an indigenous Amerindian group, who have historically inhabited relatively inaccessible rainforest environments - reach out to...

Attentional biases have been demonstrated by individuals with chronic pain, who show a selective preference for pain-related information (ie words and pictures) compared to...

This project follows a two year study funded by the New Dynamics of Ageing Programme, entitled Detecting and preventing elder financial abuse: decision making by professionals...

The feminist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) wrote novels, allegories, social commentary and political treatises and is widely considered one of the key...

A small percentage of the population report a lifelong failure to recognize familiar tunes or tell one tune from another, frequently complain that music sounds like a “din” and...

This project aims to use and extend a novel and remarkably comprehensive dataset on food retailing to analyse new questions regarding firms' pricing behaviour at a highly...

The contemporary Burmese state, (Union of Myanmar), recognises thirteen ethnic 'families', of which the ethnic Burman peoples are but one. Since independence from Britain in...

This climate change leadership fellowship addresses the need for new ways of framing problems of climate change, consumption and demand. To date, governments have sought to...

Schools' role in British society is changing. Rather than being viewed simply as spaces of education for children, contemporary policy developments such as the Extended Services...

The main aims of this research are 1) engagement with theoretical debates, 2) data collection and 3) advancement of research methods: The research engages with theoretical...

The ability to recall and manipulate information about objects and locations is known as visuospatial working memory (VSWM). One controversial idea is that the ability to form...

Prospering, internationally competitive small firms are crucial for the UK and its regions' economic and social well being. Yet there are widespread and longstanding concerns...

This 4-year project aims to answer fundamental and applied questions concerning the nature and effects of emotion regulation. Emotion regulation describes the mental and...

Cities are critical sites for responding to climate change. With over half the world’s population, cities are large sources of emissions of greenhouse gases and are vulnerable...

The question of individual identity lies at the heart of human psychology. The most distinguishing physical feature of most individuals is the face. My face belongs to me and is...

This project follows on from a national survey completed by the lead researcher in 2002 that investigated the attitudes towards politics held by British 18 year olds. That...

The aim of this study is to explore and compare the consequences of recent rapid social change for women's intimate and family lives in East Asia (primarily Hong Kong) and the...

Resilience is the ability of a system to absorb disturbance and still retain its basic function and structure. It involves three properties: the amount of change a system can...