Grants
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Dr Stephan Collishaw | 11 April 2013
Maternal depression is common and can have a major impact on the whole family. The study objective is to understand why some children and adolescents of depressed mothers show better than expected developmental outcomes, while others develop serious ...
Dr Alex Mesoudi | 06 April 2013
Until recently, psychologists assumed that people from different societies all think in the same way as we do in the west. However, when psychologists started testing non-western people, they found intriguing cultural differences. For example, when v ...
Professor Tony Mcenery | 31 March 2013
Corpus linguistics uses computers to permit the analysis of millions, or even billions, of words of data to look for patterns of usage that are not necessarily observable otherwise. It was pioneered largely in the uk. It has revolutionised linguistic ...
Dr Kimberly Quinn | 29 March 2013
"behavioural synchrony" occurs when two or more people move together in time and space. The importance of behavioural synchrony lies in its ability to support the formation and maintenance of social bonds: being "in synch" with others boosts interper ...
Professor Antony Manstead | Social psychology | 18 March 2013
Formal education has a large influence on social status, and educational achievement is seen as a personal responsibility. The resulting status hierarchy could therefore be seen as legitimately based on individual achievement. Less educated people th ...
Dr Paul Iverson | Phonetics | 15 March 2013
the aim of this research is to understand why and how accent differences among british english speakers and listeners can make speech recognition difficult in noisy conditions. The project will assess whether:
listeners are multidialectal (ie ...
Dr Kate Wilmut | 01 March 2013
During everyday life we walk around busy environments, negotiating stationary and moving obstacles. This is usually performed effortlessly but actually involves complex skills to visually monitor the environment and control body movements. For indivi ...
Professor Martin Eimer | Psychology | 01 March 2013
For most people, face perception is fast and effortless. However, some people without perceptual or intellectual impairments and without neurological damage find face recognition extremely difficult. In the past three years, we have recruited a large ...
Professor Robert Walker | Social Policy | 01 February 2013
Helping to shape global conversations on poverty to 2015 and beyond: a shame-proofing toolkit. This project implements a multi-media, multi-agency dissemination and utilisation strategy developed from the findings of the esrc/dfid research project: s ...
Professor Michael Lamb | Psychology | 02 January 2013
The study will explore the early social experiences and development of infants raised from birth by gay fathers in the uk, france, and the netherlands. Infants and parents will be observed interacting when the infants are four months old, and the par ...
Outputs
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Caroline Rooney | 18 May 2013 | No Lead Discipline | Impact Report
Professor rooney’s research programme investigates both the ‘radical distrust’ of political islam on the part of the west and ‘radical distrust’ as a characteristic of extremist formations. The research set out to explore how such forms of mutually r ...
Caroline Rooney | 18 May 2013 | No Lead Discipline | Impact Report
Professor rooney’s research programme investigates both the ‘radical distrust’ of political islam on the part of the west and ‘radical distrust’ as a characteristic of extremist formations. The research set out to explore how such forms of mutually r ...
Caroline Rooney | 18 May 2013 | No Lead Discipline | Impact Report
Professor rooney’s research programme investigates both the ‘radical distrust’ of political islam on the part of the west and ‘radical distrust’ as a characteristic of extremist formations. The research set out to explore how such forms of mutually r ...
Caroline Rooney | 18 May 2013 | No Lead Discipline | Impact Report
Professor rooney’s research programme investigates both the ‘radical distrust’ of political islam on the part of the west and ‘radical distrust’ as a characteristic of extremist formations. The research set out to explore how such forms of mutually r ...
Caroline Rooney | 18 May 2013 | No Lead Discipline | Impact Report
Professor rooney’s research programme investigates both the ‘radical distrust’ of political islam on the part of the west and ‘radical distrust’ as a characteristic of extremist formations. The research set out to explore how such forms of mutually r ...
Caroline Rooney | 18 May 2013 | No Lead Discipline | Impact Report
Professor rooney’s research programme investigates both the ‘radical distrust’ of political islam on the part of the west and ‘radical distrust’ as a characteristic of extremist formations. The research set out to explore how such forms of mutually r ...
Caroline Rooney | 18 May 2013 | No Lead Discipline | Impact Report
Professor rooney’s research programme investigates both the ‘radical distrust’ of political islam on the part of the west and ‘radical distrust’ as a characteristic of extremist formations. The research set out to explore how such forms of mutually r ...
Caroline Rooney | 18 May 2013 | No Lead Discipline | Impact Report
Professor rooney’s research programme investigates both the ‘radical distrust’ of political islam on the part of the west and ‘radical distrust’ as a characteristic of extremist formations. The research set out to explore how such forms of mutually r ...
Caroline Rooney | 18 May 2013 | No Lead Discipline | Impact Report
Professor rooney’s research programme investigates both the ‘radical distrust’ of political islam on the part of the west and ‘radical distrust’ as a characteristic of extremist formations. The research set out to explore how such forms of mutually r ...
Caroline Rooney | 18 May 2013 | No Lead Discipline | Impact Report
Professor rooney’s research programme investigates both the ‘radical distrust’ of political islam on the part of the west and ‘radical distrust’ as a characteristic of extremist formations. The research set out to explore how such forms of mutually r ...
Features
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Feature | 17 May 2013 | General public, International, Policymakers, Press/media
The category of 'torture' has been used by western states to distinguish between the civilised and the uncivilised. The moral and political stakes are often simply too high for the british state to admit responsibility for such an act, according to r ...
Feature | 19 April 2013 | General public, Press/media, Schools
New research has established a definite link between the physical condition synaesthesia and the capacity for feeling empathy. Brain scans show that the 'social brain' not directly affected by test stimuli is being activated.
Feature | 05 March 2013 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
Politicians will find it hard to persuade voters to trust them more because there's a big gap between the kinds of behaviour the two camps think of as unethical, according to new research.
Feature | 01 March 2013 | Business, General public, Press/media, Schools
Linguistic studies show that women in senior management think hard about what they say and how they say it.
Feature | 12 October 2012 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
Esrc-funded research shows that feeling anxious can improve the exam result – if the candidate has a good working memory. For candidates with poor memory, however, exam anxiety can have a negative effect.
Feature | 25 September 2012 | General public, Press/media, Schools
A new esrc-funded project chronicles the stories of those who choose to disappear and become a missing person. The findings will be used to train police, inform government policy and design services to support those who disappear and their families.
Feature | 20 September 2012 | General public, International, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
A new survey shows that brits have become less tolerant of immigration in general, but discerning between types of immigrants - corroborating findings from esrc-funded research on public attitudes.
Feature | 24 July 2012 | General public, Press/media, Schools, Voluntary sector
'women talk, men bottle things up' is a popular stereotype. But it's not simply a gender divide; age, generation and class are also important in how we deal with emotional issues, according to recent research.
Feature | 22 May 2012 | General public, Press/media, Schools
Financial problems, marital difficulties, job loss and personal illness can trigger episodes of bipolar depression and mania, according to new research findings.
Feature | 01 May 2012 | General public, Press/media, Schools
A bbc online test uses research from the esrc-funded emotion regulation of others and self network to explore how people handle tasks under stress.
Press Releases
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Press Release | 15 June 2012 | General public, Press/media, Schools
People make complex judgements about a person from looking at their face that are based on a range of factors beyond simply their race and gender, according to findings of new research funded by the economic and social research council (esrc).
Press Release | 08 March 2010 | General public, Press/media
From the ordinary thank-you letter to the great works of fiction, inspiration is something that we all have to find. But why is it so elusive? is there a science to capturing it? or do we still simply follow the classical art of using a muse?
Press Release | 23 June 2009 | Further education, Higher education, Press/media, Public sector, Schools
The effect of anxiety on academic performance is not always obvious but new research funded by the economic and social research council suggests that there may be hidden costs.
