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Race, genomics and mestizaje (mixture) in Latin America: a comparative approach
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... -
Bilateral Australia: The role of households, neighbourhoods and networks in s...
This project will determine the importance of accounting for households, geographical groups and social networks in the design, estimation and analysis of social statistics.... -
The commodity chain of the household: from survey design to policy planning
Household surveys are essential for the production of data for policy design and interventions in developing countries. Little attention is paid by commissioners, producers and... -
Harmonised households: The implications of standardised data tools for unders...
This study investigates whether the term 'household' as used in household surveys generates misunderstandings between and within cultural and linguistic contexts, because... -
Foreign policy attitudes and support for war among the British public
In recent years, UK forces have been deployed abroad in diverse places, for various reasons, and with sharply diverging degrees of success. Given growing competition over... -
Public perceptions of threat in Britain: Security in an age of austerity
No longer are British interests at home and abroad considered to be under threat from one particular state, but rather from a complex web of threats. Yet, despite a tripling of... -
The Grief Study: Sociodemographic determinants of poor outcomes following dea...
The primary data source for this study is the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study (NILS), which in 2001 defined a representative cohort of c.28% of the population. It is formed... -
Transcription textGrids for the audio edition of the British National Corpus ...
This collection comprises the Praat TextGrids for time-aligned transcriptions of the Audio BNC sound files. Transcriptions are time-aligned at the word and phoneme levels. The... -
Carstairs Index 2011 for Lower-layer Super Output Areas
The Carstairs Deprivation Index calculated for the Census 2011, for Lower-layer Super Output Areas, based on Paul Norman's previous methods for 2001.Existing evidence indicates... -
Diversity and the white working class focus group data
Four focus groups of 15 individuals each were conducted in greater London and Birmingham in adjacent locales, one diverse, one more homogeneous. Locations were Croydon and... -
Survey on immigration attitudes, voting and 'white flight'
This is a late July 2013 YouGov political tracker survey combining data on attitudes to race and immigration with questions on mobility history as well as voting intention,... -
Deprivation-adjusted distance-weighted local P* exposure indices of socio-eco...
The dataset consists of two exposure indices which were developed to reflect people's lived experience of inequality in South Africa. The two indices measure exposure to... -
Linked spatial-attitudinal dataset for South Africa
This dataset consists of the individual-level survey data (from the South African Social Attitudes Survey 2009) plus linked area-level data concerning exposure to socio-economic... -
1991 UK local area disability free life expectancy aligned to 2001 geography ...
Between 1991 and 2001, the census question underlying the calculation of disability free life expectancy (DFLE) changed, which initially made it impossible to follow over time... -
Post-conflict Identities: Practices and Affiliations of Somali Refugee Children
Drawing on case study research with Somalis in Sheffield and Aarhus the research explored the the complex influences on young Somali refugee and asylum seeker's identity... -
Transforming experiences: Re-conceptualising identities and 'non-normative' c...
The research aims to contribute to current research and theoretical understandings of how family lives and childhood experiences help to constitute adult lives and to illuminate... -
Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) rationing and access mechanisms ...
The main purpose of this research is to investigate how youth may be 'rationed out' of HAART use by better understanding rationing and access mechanisms and their interaction.... -
Hungarian and Romanian Migrant Workers in the UK: Racism without Racial Diffe...
This research examines the ways in which recent East European migration to the UK has been racialised. 48 in-depth face-to-face interviews were carried out with 25 individual... -
The retirement transition and the Celtic fringe: Mobility trends and migrant ...
The project focused on the mobility patterns of the 50-64 year old age group and the existence of a “retirement transition” affecting the residential preferences and... -
The politics of Chinese engagement with African 'development': Case studies o...
The project examined the impacts of China's enhanced global role on African politics (and other donors) through case studies of Angola and Ghana and organised the research...