250 datasets found

When deciding whether to blame someone for causing a harmful outcome, it is important to take into account their intentions, and the extent to which they might have foreseen the...

Little research has been conducted on how internal migration of different ethnic groups, in and out of areas, contributes to population patterns. Research that has explored...

Many studies have described a condition called 'prosopagnosia', in which individuals have specific difficulties recognising the faces of familiar people. Despite poor...

We interact with people everyday and much of this interaction requires easy access to information about those people. Particularly important in current research is the influence...

Interruptions are a common feature of the modern task environment leading to a loss of accuracy and efficiency. The project examines two facets of interruption '...

This project considers major forms of external leadership development support which are sought and experienced by present and aspiring leaders of organisations providing...

This project examines perceptions of working for the NHS held by qualified allied health professionals (AHPs) in physiotherapy, occupational therapy, radiography and speech and...

Dr Babajanian's post-doctoral work programme addresses the issue of the effectiveness, accountability and legitimacy of community-based actors in delivering social welfare...

Working memory is the part of the cognitive system that holds the information we are currently thinking about. Thinking often involves the mental manipulation of one mental...

Immigration often causes strong emotions among 'native' majority members, who tend to have firm ideas about how they want immigrants to live. For example, they might want...

This research project focuses on care in business organisations. It examines how these organisations conceptualise 'care' and implement policies concerning both their employees'...

This research explores the relationship between identities and regeneration in the former coalfields of East Durham, UK. It looks at how public policies and funding programmes...

Social power refers to the amount of control that an individual feels he/she has over another. A key attribute that sets apart powerful and powerless people in social settings...

Human communities particularly ethnic-religious and national ones see themselves as having temporal persistence, as entities that move through time. What is it that makes groups...

Our research starts from the question: what does it mean to participate in research as a volunteer? What does it mean to the volunteer? to the researcher? and for the progress...

Humans not only learn from others, but can also build on that knowledge. Cultural change therefore accumulates over generations, and we make use of many behaviours that we could...

Environmental problems cross national boundaries. Answers to these problems often lie outside the politics of nation-states. To be successful in addressing these problems often...

This research looks at the application of the Egan Review in Northern Ireland and the extent to which the region offers a distinctive learning opportunity for the rest of the...

Memory for events may be influenced by other witnesses. If co-witnesses discuss an event, or are exposed to each other's reports of that event, their memories are likely to...

This qualitative research project sets out to examine the real nature of digital literacies for today's undergraduates. These students are often referred to as 'digital...