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Elite interviews: Russia and Islam
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... -
Sociolinguistics and immigration: linguistic variation among adolescents in L...
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?... -
Disruptive Behaviour in the Classroom: Exploring the Social Subjectivity of D...
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... -
Mathematics learning, identity and educational practice: the transition into ...
The hypothesis if that the quality of a student's experience of, and engagement in, mathematics is critical to their developing disposition and 'identity', and so to their... -
The domestic moral economy 1990-2015
(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... -
On-line language documentation for Biak (Austronesian)
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... -
Religious nurture in Muslim families
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... -
Strengthening ODFL systems to increase education access and attainment for yo...
This research aimed to help two project countries (Malawi and Lesotho) increase access to learning for students living in high HIV prevalence areas who were at risk of grade... -
Developing Skills for Government: Political Mentoring
Focusing on the introduction of a national programme of political mentoring for local government this research investigated why formal development is rare in politics and how... -
Lexical retrieval difficulties in children: a new approach combining modellin...
This collection consists of naming accuracy scores from 20 children with word-finding difficulties on 100 items at different stages of an intervention study. We all experience... -
Opportunities afforded by the outdoors for alternative pedagogies as children...
This project aimed to find out how being outdoors changes teaching and learning in Year 1. Four classes in two urban schools (involving children aged 4-6 years old) were... -
Welfare markets and personal risk management in England and Scotland
The project adopted a broad approach, employing quantitative as well as qualitative methods. It covered both public and private forms of risk protection, and it analysed... -
Developing media literacy: towards a model of learning progression
Data collection consists of transcribed interviews with teachers (40) focusing on their history and identity as teachers and specifically their experiences of teaching media.... -
Distributed Leadership and the social practices of school organisation in Eng...
This project aimed to focus in on the analysis of how professional identities are constructed through practice. This was done by undertaking research in five case study schools... -
Creating Child Daycare Policy in Local Authorities
Collection of qualitative interviews with councillors and officers, exploring child daycare policy by local authorities. The research focused on 6 in depth case studies: the... -
Developing a meaningful account of the acquisition of the English past tense.
The data consist of quantitative information on the proportion of children (aged 2-5yrs) who produced correct past tense verb forms, and associated errors, for a large number of... -
Enriching social science teaching with empirical data (ESSTED) - Student sur...
ESSTED aims to help students develop and practice their quantitative skills and learn to evaluate and use quantitative evidence. The project involves an interdisciplinary team... -
Reading comprehension and morphology: English sample
The following measures were administered to children in their classrooms. Children recorded their responses in answer booklets. Three measures of morphological awareness that... -
School accountability: a comparative study of policy and practice across thre...
This data collection includes interviews that were carried out with senior leaders, governors and parents as part of an in-depth, multi-sited, case study investigation of school... -
Child-centred after school and holiday care: case study interviews
Dataset consisting of 24 case study interview transcripts of interviews with children and adults. In a first instance, the research involved statistical analysis of the Kids...