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Modelling the Impacts of the Water Framework Directive, 2008
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The study is part of the Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) programme. The Modelling the Impacts of the... -
National Awareness and Early Diagnosis Initiative: Cancer Awareness Measure, ...
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The Cancer Awareness Measure (CAM) was developed in 2007-8 to address the absence of a validated measure... -
Annual Population Survey Household Dataset, January - December, 2008
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The Annual Population Survey (APS) household datasets are produced annually and are available from 2004... -
Welsh Health Survey, 2008: Special Licence Access
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. Background to the series The Welsh Health Survey (WHS), which ran from 1995-1998 and then from... -
National Survey of Young People's Well-Being, 2008
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The 2008 survey was the first in the series. It was conducted as part of a collaborative project by The... -
Evaluation of a digital transcription of English parochial registers, 1538-18...
This pilot proposal has five main objectives - To assess the accuracy of the transcription of a machine-readable version of 129 baptismal, marriage and burial registers from... -
Smart qualitative data: Methods and community tools for data mark-Up (SQUAD)
SQUAD - Smart Qualitative Data: Methods and Community Tools for Data Mark-Up is a demonstrator project that will explore methodological and technical solutions for exposing... -
Trust in advisors: Origins, effects, and implications for risk communication
It is now well recognised that trust in sources of advice is important for effective risk communication. To maintain some influence over peoples opinions and risk-taking... -
Financial reporting in the small firm: Is the Financial Reporting Standard fo...
This project aims to create a more academic analysis, building on existing practitioner and professional literature, of the merits and de-merits of FRSSE (Financial Reporting... -
An investigation of genres of assessed writing in British higher education
This project aims to identify genres of assessed writing at university level, and to investigate textual variation across disciplines and years of study in the context of... -
Learning and Teaching for Social Diversity and Difference
This project will explore the experience and expectations that university students and teachers bring with them to higher education and how this impacts on and creates the... -
Learning as an explanation of behavioral adaptation in social settings: A pil...
How do people understand social interaction and adapt behavior to the requirements of each unique interaction? This project tests the idea that the processes that support... -
Linguistic development in L2 Spanish: Creation and analysis of a learner corpus
This project had two aims: to establish a small scale, high quality database of spoken learner Spanish, and to undertake a short programme of substantive research into L2... -
Becoming a problem: How and why children acquire a reputation as 'Naughty' in...
This classroom-focused study will trace the emergence of challenging behaviour amongst children in their earliest years at school. Based in four mainstream schools in Greater... -
Inhibitory mechanisms in memory for action
In our every-day life we are surrounded by objects with which we have to interact. Objects, however, have different uses under different circumstances. For instance, one can use... -
The learnability of linguistic irregularities: A simplicity-based approach
There is currently a significant divide in researchers views on language acquisition. Linguists have often posited that a strong innately born knowledge of language structure is... -
Rescue Geography: developing methods for public geographies
The idea of public geographies, inspired by Burawoy's call for public sociologies, places an emphasis on the co-construction of research data, accessible writing and the use of... -
Social Studies of Finance
Financial markets might seem to be a subject matter appropriate only for economists, or perhaps also for behavioural finance specialists, who draw upon psychology to analyze... -
Identity, Performance and Social Action: Community Theatre Among Refugees
This research project is part of the ESRC research programme on Identities and Social Action. It aims to explore how the use of specific experimental community theatre... -
A simplicity model of concept difficulty
Feldman in Nature: One of the unsolved problems in ... concept learning concerns the factors that determine the subjective difficulty of concepts: why are some concepts...