Grants
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Professor Hilary Thomas | 01 May 2013
The phrase ‘getting back to normal’, often used to describe recovery from an illness or injury, carries with it social expectations that people will recover and that recovery will be a relatively straightforward process. Surprisingly litt ...
Dr Monica Dias | Economics | 01 May 2013
Policies aimed at alleviating poverty and improving children’s opportunities form the backbone of most welfare programmes. But poverty and underachievement are not well understood, often resulting in poorly designed policies that fail to delive ...
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 ...
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 ...
Professor Rachel Gibson | 01 April 2013
The central objective of this research collaboration is to further our understanding of how the quality, quantity and effects of campaign contacting are changing as a result of the use of social media by parties, candidates and their supporters. In p ...
Professor Lucinda Platt | Education | 01 April 2013
The millennium cohort study (mcs) is a unique, multidisciplinary research resource. Following the lives of over 19,000 children born across the uk around the turn of the millennium, it has collected information about and from them at ages nine months ...
Professor Simon Deakin | 31 March 2013
The aim of the project is to understand the role of labour law in alleviating poverty in developing countries and to produce a diagnostic tool or template to assist those who are reforming labour laws to do so in a way which is appropriate to the sta ...
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 ...
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 Melissa Butcher | Human Geography | 11 March 2013
Creating hackney as home (chash) is a two year project collaborating with young people in the london borough of hackney. Using participatory video research methods, the project aims to understand their experience of space and space use in the formati ...
Outputs
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Kelly Hallman | 14 May 2013 | Social Work | Presentation/lecture
Presentation at the population association of america 2012 annual meeting, san franciso, ca, may 3-5 2012
Katharine Sarikakis | 14 May 2013 | Organised event
A two-day collaborative international event with the institute of communication science, university of vienna, involving academics and practitioners from europe and the usa.
Bianca De Stavola | 14 May 2013 | Training course
Lecture 1 gives an introduction to key concepts in causal inference: to the language of counterfactuals (part a) and to causal diagrams (part b), and is accompanied by a pen & paper practical. Lectures 2-5 cover in more detail particular statistical ...
Bianca De Stavola | 14 May 2013 | Training course
To study the influence of socio-economic and socio-demographic factors on health outcomes we must recognise the additional potential biases that are encountered when including factors lying on presumed pathways in regression models. It may be that mo ...
Neil Chakraborti | 09 May 2013 | Network
Focus group and community events where members of the project team have either spoken, run focus groups or had a project stall
Neil Chakraborti | 09 May 2013 | Questionnaire
The questionnaire is the research instrument for the targeted victimisation victimisation survey. It is an extensive questtionnare that covers the nature, extent and effects of hate crime victimisation, as well as victims' expereinces of the criminal ...
Neil Chakraborti | 09 May 2013 | Interview schedule
This is the interview schedule used for the semi-structured interviews with hate crime victims. It acts as a guide only.
Emily Grundy | 09 May 2013 | Demography | Conference paper/presentation
Presentation given at 1st international workshop on mcod analysis in paris in november 2012
Paul Cheshire | 03 May 2013 | Book chapter
Argues that a careful examination of the evidence relating to both the role of neighbourhoods in cities and the form and significance of 'neighbourhood effects' shoes that policies to force 'mixed neighbourhoods treats the symptoms not the causes of ...
Stephani Hatch | 03 May 2013 | No Lead Discipline | Organised event
Slipped-aways is a performance exploration of oral testimonies collected by the health inequalities research network (heron) at king’s college london. Heron collected oral testimonies at faces in focus describing experiences of unfair treatment and d ...
Case Studies
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Case Study | 15 April 2013 | General public, International, Policymakers, Press/media
Recommendations by professor rita de la feria led to reforms implemented in the portugal’s 2012 state budget which boosted the efficiency of tax and generated savings of 1. 2 per cent gdp.
Case Study | 08 May 2012 | Academic, Business, General public, Higher education, Policymakers, Public sector, Schools
The uk government established sure start in 1999 to provide integrated early years services primarily targeted on disadvantaged groups. One of its main architects, norman glass of hm treasury, described it as "an outstanding example of evidence-based ...
Case Study | 26 January 2011 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
Project add-up, a three-year research project examining differences in pay between local workers and expatriate workers, was instrumental in setting up the first global task force to tackle the issue.
Case Study | 26 January 2011 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
Findings from professor thomas scharf's research into older people and social exclusion has informed a charity campaign and encouraged co-operation between charity and community groups in manchester and liverpool.
Case Study | 26 January 2011 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
Findings from the research centre on micro-social change have informed policies against child poverty and reform of the uk tax system.
Case Study | 26 January 2011 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
Research from the centre for market and public organisation has been referenced in government strategy papers and informed us anti-poverty strategy.
Case Study | 26 January 2011 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
Research from the new dynamics of ageing programme is highlighting the means india's older population have to support themselves.
Features
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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 ...
Feature | 07 May 2013 | General public, International, Policymakers, Press/media
A study supported by the esrc and the department for international development presents some surprising results of the controversial zimbabwean land reform - and challenges five particular myths.
Feature | 11 April 2013 | General public, International, Partnerships, Press/media, Schools
Muslim ethnic minority communities have been integrating into british and german cities for some time, according to research presented at the norface migration conference at university college london this week.
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 | 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.
Feature | 06 November 2012 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
As the us presidential election day has arrived, the esrc centre for economic performance (cep)'s series of us election analyses offers insights into key election issues.
Feature | 28 September 2012 | General public, Press/media, Schools
Servant lives a century ago consisted of backbreaking work, long hours, low pay and often complete segregation from their superiors, says dr pamela cox, director of the esrc doctoral training centre at essex university and presenter of a new bbc seri ...
Feature | 02 November 2011 | Academic, Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media
Pay over the last decades have risen fastest for those at the very top of the income distribution - and most of the gains have gone to the financial sector through bonuses, according to research from the centre for economic performance.
Feature | 17 May 2011 | Academic, Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media
Despite the recession average take-home incomes continued to grow in 2009-10, according to an ifs report - but reduced income and increased poverty is predicted for the future.
Feature | 14 April 2011 | Academic, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
The number of 16 to 24-year-olds out of work rose to 963,000 in the three months to february, while the total number of unemployed went down by 17,000. Esrc-funded research has examined how recession affects the job market, and the health effects on ...
Press Releases
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Press Release | 19 August 2011 | Academic, General public, International, Policymakers, Press/media, Public sector, Voluntary sector
Malawi’s public radio station broadcasts are providing an alternative programme of news stories. The programme features contributions by ordinary malawians, highlighting their everyday experiences of abuse and violation.
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
Press Release | 11 May 2011 | Academic, Policymakers, Postgraduate, Public sector, Voluntary sector
Resettlement services over the last few years have helped many homeless people make positive changes in their lives. The largest study in the uk of the resettlement of single homeless people has found that 81 per cent were still living independently ...
Press Release | 01 September 2010 | Press/media
New research from the institute for criminal policy research at king's college, london, examines whether the police and the youth justice system treat young people from different ethnic groups in different ways.
Press Release | 05 July 2010 | General public, International, Policymakers, Press/media
New research, presented at a major international conference in london, demonstrates how inequality in education, skills and incomes reduces opportunity and undermines social cohesion. In education, for example, the social and ability mix of the schoo ...
Press Release | 22 June 2010 | General public, Press/media, Public sector, Schools
Progress towards teaching children to have positive attitudes towards disabled people has been slow and 'patchy', according to a new study funded by the economic and social research council (esrc).
Press Release | 17 March 2010 | Academic, General public, Press/media
Those most vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the uk may be those who have contributed least to the problem, according to climate change experts.
Press Release | 05 March 2010 | General public, Press/media
About 300 residents from st. Ann's in nottingham are expected to take part in a one day programme of interactive workshops during the economic and social research council's (esrc) festival of social science.
Press Release | 25 September 2009 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media
Teenagers' attitudes to diet and weight are shaped by their social class, according to new research funded by the economic and social research council.
Press Release | 07 May 2009 | Policymakers, Press/media
The impact that wealth and social class has on people's well-being in old age is far greater than is often assumed. New research from the economic and social research council reveals just how great the difference really is in people's health and well ...
