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A sociology of values and value

Professor Beverley Skeggs | Sociology | 22 April 2013

There has been a great deal of interest in how capital has intervened in almost every area of life, leading some to propose new forms of capital eg ‘emotional capitalism’, and others to suggest that processes of valuation are now the majo ...

Understanding the dynamics of ethnic identity and inequality in the uk

Professor James Nazroo | 08 April 2013

Centre on dynamics of ethnicity (code) will transform understanding of the patterning of ethnic inequalities, investigate how inequalities relate to the ways in which ethnic identities are perceived, acted upon and experienced, and provide the knowle ...

Esrc centre for corpus approaches to social science (cass)

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 ...

Enterprise research centre (erc)

Professor Stephen Roper | Entrepreneurship | 01 February 2013

The enterprise research centre (erc) is an independent research centre which aims to provide trusted, robust and independent commentary on sme research and policy. Erc has six core research programmes focussing on entrepreneurial intentions, sme lead ...

Critical diversities@ the intersection: policies, practices, perspectives

Professor Yvette Taylor | Sociology | 18 January 2013

The overall aim of the critical diversities@ the intersection: policies, practices, perspectives seminar series is to stimulate discussion and critical thinking around the construction, debates and enduring divisions in ‘diversity’ as a c ...

The public life of private law.

Miss Mairead Enright | Socio Legal Studies | 17 January 2013

Our series explores the role of private law in shaping political struggle. We are interested in mapping the ways in which engagement with private law might by turns enhance and restrict political engagement between opposing groups and between the cit ...

Outputs

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Researching domestic violence with children and young people

David Gadd | 18 May 2013 | Socio Legal Studies | Organised event

Second project event held at the university of manchester - presentation of research findings from phase 2 of the from boys to men project, other speakers from edinburgh napier university, keele university and university of linköping, sweden.

Preventing domestic abuse: working with children and young people

David Gadd | 18 May 2013 | Socio Legal Studies | Organised event

First project event held at keele university - presentation of research findings from phase 1 of the from boys to men project. Other speakers included representatives from: arch north staffs, tender, barnardos, nidas and respond.

In-depth life history interview schedule

David Gadd | 18 May 2013 | Socio Legal Studies | Interview schedule

In-depth interviews are a powerful means of generating data that better help us address ‘why’ questions about violence and were used in the from boys to men research project to explore young men’s accounts of violence: what had happened to them? what ...

Focus group schedule

David Gadd | 18 May 2013 | Socio Legal Studies | Interview schedule

The topics for focus group discussion were broadly centred around the causes of domestic abuse: the nature of abuse according to different couple types (as a result of age, ethnicity, sexual orientation); abuse in teenage relationships; domestic abus ...

Attitudes towards domestic violence (adv) questionnaire - in urdu

Claire Fox | 18 May 2013 | Socio Legal Studies | Questionnaire

The attitudes towards domestic violence (adv) questionnaire was specifically designed to assess children’s attitudes to domestic abuse and was intended to evaluate the effectiveness of a six week educational prevention programme, called ‘relationship ...

Attitudes towards domestic violence (adv) questionnaire - three month follow-up

Claire Fox | 18 May 2013 | Socio Legal Studies | Questionnaire

The attitudes towards domestic violence (adv) questionnaire was specifically designed to assess children’s attitudes to domestic abuse and was intended to evaluate the effectiveness of a six week educational prevention programme, called ‘relationship ...

Attitidues towards domestic violence (adv) questionnaire post-test

Claire Fox | 18 May 2013 | Socio Legal Studies | Questionnaire

The attitudes towards domestic violence (adv) questionnaire was specifically designed to assess children’s attitudes to domestic abuse and was intended to evaluate the effectiveness of a six week educational prevention programme, called ‘relationship ...

Attitudes towards domestic violence (adv) questionnaire pre-test

Claire Fox | 18 May 2013 | Socio Legal Studies | Questionnaire

The attitudes towards domestic violence (adv) questionnaire was specifically designed to assess children’s attitudes to domestic abuse and was intended to evaluate the effectiveness of a six week educational prevention programme, called ‘relationship ...

Feminist judgments: making a difference

Rosemary Hunter | 14 May 2013 | Socio Legal Studies | Presentation/lecture

Paper considering the contribution of the feminist judgments project to debates on judicial diversity.

The feminist judgments project

Rosemary Hunter | 14 May 2013 | Socio Legal Studies | Seminar/workshop

Invited seminar about the project to a group of swedish feminist legal scholars.

Case Studies

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Regulation of the erotic dancing industry

Case Study | 22 June 2012 | Academic, Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media

Researchers at the university of leeds, carried out the largest study to date of the erotic dancing industry in the uk night-time economy to assess the realities of negative claims about the industry. Following co-operation with the researchers, loca ...

Features

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Female surgeons: cutting the gender gap

Feature | 10 May 2013 | General public, Press/media, Public sector

Despite more women than men studying at uk medical schools, women are far less likely than male colleagues to pursue a career in surgery. Esrc-funded researchers have partnered with rcs and surgical society scalpel to encourage women to become surgeo ...

The demographic push to democracy

Feature | 19 March 2013 | General public, Press/media, Schools

When life spans increase, people become more concerned with their rights, pushing societies towards democracy, argues tim dyson of the london school of economics. While this demographic transition has taken 200 years in europe, china might be through ...

Financial skills key for female executives

Feature | 10 December 2012 | Business, Further education, General public, Higher education, Postgraduate, Press/media, Schools

Having a financial background can greatly enhance the career prospects of women in business - helping them to converse in the 'language of business' and prove their credibility, according to a new study.

Bottling it up or talking it over?

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.

The fashion of faith

Feature | 28 June 2011 | General public, Press/media, Schools

The market of 'modest fashion' is growing ever larger, with women - mostly for religious reasons - using mainstream fashion to achieve their definition of modesty.

Press Releases

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Myths of man-hating feminists make feminism unpopular

Press Release | 07 March 2013 | Academic, Policymakers, Press/media

New research funded by the economic and social research council (esrc) suggests that, in rejecting feminism, women are often seeking to position themselves within conventional norms of femininity and heterosexuality

New policies recognise needs of vulnerable sexual communities

Press Release | 02 November 2012 | Academic, Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Voluntary sector

Following the implementation of new legislation equalities policy, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (lgbt) community is now an aspect of staff training in local government according to research at the universities of newcastle and huddersfi ...

Working mothers and the effects on children

Press Release | 22 July 2011 | Academic, Business, Further education, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Public sector, Schools

Parents struggling to combine paid work with bringing up their children now have some positive news thanks to a new study funded by the economic and social research council (esrc) on maternal employment and child socio-emotional behaviour in the uk

Look at me!

Press Release | 22 March 2011 | Business, General public, Press/media

Findings from the project entitled 'look at me! images of women and ageing' have revealed the complexity of women's feelings about the images of ageing. These findings are presented in various exhibitions in sheffield, which runs from 9 march to 15 a ...

2010 michael young prize winner announced

Press Release | 11 March 2010 | Academic, International, Press/media

The winner of the 2010 michael young prize has been announced as dr ann le mare for her work on the impact of fair trade on the wellbeing of women, businesses and organisations in bangladesh. This prestigious prize is awarded for excellence in the so ...