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Biosecurity borderlands: Making biosecurity work in a complex landscape
Biosecurity Borderlands seeks to investigate the practices, understandings and pressures created as biosecurity is extended into the British food system and landscape. The... -
Engaging hairdressers in pro-environmental behaviours
The proposed study explores the efficacy of an innovative bottom-up social marketing approach to encourage pro-environmental behaviour, using hairdressers as 'catalytic... -
Global uncertainties: Security in an Africa of networked, multi-level governance
The programme of research centres on how the various institutions responsible for the production of security and the management of conflict in Sub-Saharan African societies do,... -
Can Self-affirmation Enhance Health Promotion?
Despite extensive efforts to promote active lifestyles, young people are becoming increasingly sedentary. One of the reasons for the failure of attempts to increase physical... -
The scrutiny universe: The House of Commons select Committees and the Psychol...
It is a frequent complaint in British politics that government is too strong and not properly held to account by parliament. The House of Commons departmental select committees... -
Enduring Love? Understanding long-term adult couple relationships in contempo...
Enduring Love? is a psycho-social qualitative investigation into long-term adult couple relationships in contemporary Britain. The project will examine the ways in which gender,... -
Performing child protection: Social worker's experiences of home visiting and...
Public concern about the capacity of social workers and other professionals to protect children from abuse and death has never been higher. The aim of this research is to deepen... -
Great transformations: A cultural political economy of crisis-management
Economic crisis management has concerned governments and other responsible authorities from 2008. Yet crises are complex and subject to many attempts to interpret and explain... -
Endometriosis: improving the well being of couples
This is a qualitative study in three phases. Phase One is a contextual phase consisting of interviews with key informants including healthcare providers, patients, and support... -
Betting on a revolution. The valuation of venal offices in France in the late...
This project studies the expectations and behaviour of investors in a very particular financial market–the market for venal offices in France before the Revolution. Venality was... -
Household survey on agency and governance in Maharashtra, India
This is a socio-economic household survey dataset which was collected in urban centres in the state of Maharashtra, India. The dataset covers information about social capital... -
Sustainable flood memories and the development of community resilience to fut...
This research will investigate the extent to which local communities with histories of past extreme flooding events are better equipped practically and psychologically to cope... -
A follow-up study of the experiences and psychological health of surrogate mo...
Surrogacy, the practice whereby one woman bears a child for another woman, remains a controversial method of assisted reproduction. In 2003 the PI published findings from a... -
Testing the JANUS model of noun-phrase anaphor interpretation
In well-written text the same people, places, and things are referred to a number of times. Such repeated references often use different linguistic expressions "the person in... -
Improving teacher development and educational quality in China: Examining sch...
This study will investigate the nature and extent of teachers' professional development and learning in China as well as the significance of the concept of professional learning... -
Language, Performance and Region: Discourse and Sociocultural Identity in the...
This project seeks to investigate the relationship between a specific discourse practice - imaginative and stylized performance - and connections performance may have with... -
Strategic scripts for the Twenty-First Century
Strategic Scripts for the Twenty-First Century involves three linked strands, each geared to developing the idea of 'strategic scripts' as a means of addressing a broad range of... -
Alcohol control, poverty and development in South Africa
This research explores how the lived relationships between alcohol control (as a debate, field of study, policies and practices), poverty and development in South Africa (SA)... -
From communication disorders research to conversation-based interventions for...
There are approximately 1.1 million stroke survivors living in the UK, and 33 per cent have aphasia (a communication disorder that affects speaking, understanding, reading and... -
Young carers for AIDS-ill parents: social, health and educational impacts 201...
Children who act as young carers for their AIDS-unwell parents or guardians are potentially highly vulnerable. They provide both domestic and emotional support, and often also...