250 datasets found

This is a proposal for pure basic research whose aim is to contribute to the development of social theory and its central problem of structure and agency. Basically this problem...

Film and Television industries tend to cluster in a very small number of places around the world, moreover, they appear to be rooted to these places. These locales tend to be...

Categorization is dividing the world into groups of things. Our ability to do this is central to our mental life, but how do we come to form the categories that we have?...

This project investigates the relationship between self-inhibition processes in low-level motor control, assumed to be mediated by basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical circuits, and...

According to many influential theories of memory, successful retrieval depends on the degree to which the processes used when attempting to retrieve information overlap with the...

The Fellowship programme advances a new field within hazards research geared to enhancing understanding of how people and institutions in developing countries respond to the...

This project will examine how the development of technological capability in Chinese firms is affected by the type of ownership and by the structures of corporate governance....

One of the difficulties in learning to read English is that the relationship between spelling and sound is not always consistent (eg 'ck' is always pronounced as in tick, but...

This research seeks to connect the development of environmental skills and knowledges for young people to the production of a socially viable and economically regenerative...

This project will establish an interdisciplinary network in order to develop strategies for technology-enhanced teaching and learning of 'threshold concepts' in higher...

There is a large body of evidence showing that a child's speech processing skills are vitally important for language and literacy development. Difficulties in speech processing...

Visual information from a talker's mouth and face plays an important role in the perception and understanding of spoken language. Despite the importance of speechreading,...

This research sought to examine whether adult participants in workplace learning programmes demonstrate substantive changes in measured basic skills and other life course...

A project on worker identity transformation in a South Wales town, which has lost its major employer, a steel works, undertaken by the applicants, revealed that while some young...

The twentieth century saw significant educational expansion and reform in all Western societies. Within this context, sociological interest has focussed on the determinants of...

The sustainability of communities will be closely associated with their use of water. In particular, people will need to have a well-informed relationship with their local...

Respect for people has often been considered a fundamental aspect of our dealings in the social world. One indication of its importance is the frequent demand for respect made...

Gambling is a popular recreational pastime that becomes excessive in a minority of the population. Problem gamblers typically display a number of distorted cognitive beliefs...

"Suggestibility" is the extent to which misleading information is incorporated into reports of a witnessed event, and is typically measured using a three-stage paradigm....

One of the major tasks facing cognitive psychologists is to understand how humans recognise words. Models of word recognition are influenced heavily by experimental research,...