-
The transformation of a city: Procedures, mechanisms and manifestations of ch...
The present research concerns the recording-composition of the social history of the city of Volos immediately after the Second World War, during the post-war years and in... -
Urban Space and cultural differentiation: the social world of Lakkos brothels...
Biographical, ethnographic and historiographical research in Heraklion, Crete on the social transformation of the city in the first half of the 20th century with emphasis on the... -
Religion, gendered relationship and cultural change and life histories in We...
This research is based on biographical interviews of Muslim residents of a rural settlement in Thrace and explores the ways in which religious and traditional perceptions define... -
Super hero comics fandom and social identity in post modernity
The object of the research is the socio-psychological study of the systematic (fanatical) reading of American superhero comics by readers aged 18-36. Comic book reading is... -
Marriages against the norm. Mixed marriages between Jewish and Christians in ...
On the occasion of oral testimonies of Jews and Christians who are in a mixed marriage, as part of an anthropological study, the book presents a topic in which societies avoid... -
Musical Identities: Life-stories of musicians and bands of the Greek independ...
A. In general The aim of this research (conducted in Athens between 1990 and 1993) is to investigate the meaning and function, at a mainly psychosocial level, of musical... -
Being and Becoming Ethnic in Europe and Africa: State and the Politics of Rec...
The fellowship examines how state institutions in Africa and Western Europe generate identity discourses and political behaviours among young people from minority groups. First... -
If the shoe fits: Footwear, identification and transition
This project investigates the way individuals take on and move between identities, both on a daily basis and throughout their life course. It asks what part the body plays in... -
Dementia and Dress
Data were gathered using innovative ethnographic and qualitative methods including qualitative interviews, 'wardrobe interviews', observations and visual and sensory approaches.... -
Understanding experiences of hate crime victimisation and expectations of cri...
This is a collection of data from the Leicester Hate Crime Project. It includes interview transcripts, survey data, reports, blogs, presentations, end of project conference... -
Mathematics teaching and learning in secondary schools: the impact of pedagog...
We provide two sets of data as a result of the Teleprism project (www.teleprism.com). The quantitative dataset includes the data collected from the student and teacher... -
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... -
Emotional experience and quality of life following a spinal cord injury: An i...
With the aim of finding out what it means to live with a Spinal Cord Injury (SCI), 17 in-depth semi-structured interviews where conducted and transcribed verbatim with... -
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... -
Back to Nature? The cultural, social and emotional implications of natural bu...
The aim of this research project was to investigate the cultural, social and emotional implications of how we treat people after their death and specifically the development of... -
Asexual lives: Everyday experiences, relationships and stories of becoming
This data collection consists of 45 biographical narrative interviews conducted by Skype and face-to-face with participants who either self-identified as asexual, or felt the... -
Language, Performance, and Region: Discourse and Sociocultural Identity in th...
The project collected data from performers across the Black Country – poets, singers and stand-up comedians, as well as from local archives. It examined the notion that within a... -
Assuming identities online: Experimental chatlogs
Research taking a computational approach to the analysis of online communications has thus far focused overwhelmingly on the structural elements of Computer Mediated Discourse... -
Memory and the self in ageing
The data files comprise three collections: A). A database of 2412 self-images (I am statements, e.g. 'I am a sister', 'I am optimistic') indexed by participant age and gender.... -
Physiology, identity and behaviour: A neuropolitical perspective
This data set contains 2 fMRI studies and a combined physiological hormone testing/behavioural game experiment. All three experiments examine the effect of national identity...