Grants
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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 ...
Dr William Housley | 31 March 2013
This project aims to study the 'social media ecosystem' to better understand how the complex combination of user behaviours, global communication networks, and flows of information interact to promote hateful and socially disruptive content. The proj ...
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 David Denney | 01 March 2013
The project aims to investigate the use of social media technologies (smt) by military personnel currently serving in the royal marines, and their families. The project will also analyse and assess the operational and managerial challenges alon ...
Dr Michael Bourne | 01 March 2013
This research maps and analyses how new security technologies are developed in practice through inter-disciplinary collaborative research between social scientists and engineers. It will contribute to cross-disciplinary and applied knowledge about th ...
Dr David Vinson | Psychology | 01 January 2013
Successful communication involves integrating multiple types of information. In sign languages, linguistic information is provided by the hands, but also by the body, face and mouth. In spoken languages, speech sounds are combined with visible mouth ...
Dr Katherine Smith | Social Policy | 01 January 2013
This project will explore: how individuals involved in developing uk public health policies are experiencing efforts to increase/improve the use of evidence (eg what policymakers think about ‘research impact’ agendas and guidelines for in ...
Professor Susan Banducci | Political Science | 31 December 2012
The traditional media play a privileged role in informing citizens through their provision of news and current affairs programming. Contemporary developments in media and political structures, such as the expansion of commercial broadcasting and weak ...
Dr Jean Clarke | Management & Business Studies | 01 December 2012
In the wake of the global economic crisis entrepreneurship is increasingly seen as a means to enhance economic performance in the context of scarce public funds and recent discussions have centred on the idea that governments should develop policy wh ...
Professor Martin Walker | Management & Business Studies | 01 December 2012
This is an interdisciplinary project involving researchers from three leading accounting groups (mbs, lums, and lse), and lancaster’s university centre for computer corpus research on language. The project will combine state of the art natural ...
Outputs
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Marta Troya Martinez | 14 May 2013 | Economics | Working paper
This paper analyzes the incentives of a seller to provide (un)biased and (im)precise advice about a complex product such as insurance, banking and telecommunication services. Misleading the buyers by biasing the advice upwards increases the revenues ...
Marta Troya Martinez | 14 May 2013 | Economics | Seminar/workshop
This paper uses a vertical relational contract between two firms to explore the implications of trade credit when the ability to repay is not observed by the supplier. Trade credit limits the supplier's possibilities to punish the cashless downstream ...
Marta Troya Martinez | 14 May 2013 | Economics | Seminar/workshop
This paper uses a vertical relational contract between two firms to explore the implications of trade credit when the ability to repay is not observed by the supplier. Trade credit limits the supplier's possibilities to punish the cashless downstream ...
Marta Troya Martinez | 14 May 2013 | Economics | Working paper
This paper uses a vertical relational contract between two firms to explore the implications of trade credit when the ability to repay is not observed by the supplier. Trade credit limits the supplier's possibilities to punish the cashless downstream ...
Marta Troya Martinez | 14 May 2013 | Economics | Degree/other honour
Appointed as a non-stipendiary junior research fellow
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.
Elaine Millard | 14 May 2013 | Education | Journal article
This paper seeks to widen discussion about which forms of literacy are most appropriate for the education of children in the twenty-first century. It outlines the current debate about the changes to children's literacy practices, which are described ...
Jacqueline Marsh | 14 May 2013 | Education | Book chapter
Chapter presenting findings from a study which was reported in the seminar series. Considers the relationship between gender, literacy and popular culture, drawing from an empirical study conducted n a primary classroom.
Jacqueline Marsh | 14 May 2013 | Education | Journal article
Critical analysis of the primary literacy curriculum and the marginalisation of media and popular culture, based on presentation given at seminar series.
Hilary Geoghegan | 08 May 2013 | Human Geography | Presentation/lecture
Invited departmental seminar introducing my research to human and physical geographers, offering feedback on initial fieldwork on a tree health survey for the public.
Case Studies
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Case Study | 16 November 2012 | Academic, General public, Higher education, Policymakers, Schools
Researchers from bristol university's centre for market and public organisation evaluated school performance tables as predictors of children's likely exam performance. Their proposed alternative approach, offering improvements in functionality, was ...
Case Study | 26 January 2011 | Business, General public, Press/media, Schools, Voluntary sector
The charity alternative futures group developed an improved information and communications infrastructure through a ktp partnership with the liverpool john moores university.
Case Study | 26 January 2011 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
The uk children go online project has had a substantial impact on the design of safeguards to protect children from harmful material on the internet.
Features
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Feature | 23 April 2013 | Academic, Press/media
The new instruments for research into second language learning (iris) database allows any language researcher to upload and download materials free of charge.
Feature | 12 April 2013 | Academic, Business, General public, Press/media
The google data analytics social science research initiative will explore how publicly accessible online data, analytical and presentational tools can answer pressing social science questions.
Feature | 07 March 2013 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media
Professor david newberry argues that public investment in the right areas will fuel uk economic growth - with the short-term impact of giving work to domestic private companies who will create jobs.
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 | 05 February 2013 | General public, Press/media, Schools
The visualisation and other methods of expression (vome) project developed new methods to raise public awareness about internet security, an issue highlighted with today's celebration of safer internet day.
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 | 30 July 2012 | Academic, General public, Press/media, Public sector, Schools
The great british public toilet map has been developed as part of an esrc-funded research project tackling ageing continence through theory tools and technology (tact3), automatically tracking councils' open data on public toilet facilities and displ ...
Feature | 01 March 2011 | Academic, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
Professor helen margetts assesses how the internet has made a difference to collective action, participation and protest.
Feature | 26 January 2011 | Academic, Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
The expanding market of plastic electronics is identified as a key area of development for the uk.
Press Releases
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Press Release | 27 January 2011 | Academic, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
The esrc's new web portal is launched today, thursday 27 january 2010, with straight to the point easy navigation and dynamic research content on important topics some of the new features. The new website will be the first port of call for anyone int ...
Press Release | 14 July 2010 | General public, Press/media, Public sector
Data visualisation techniques that generate sophisticated graphics could bring a fresh dimension to communications and decision-making by public bodies like local councils, according to research completed for the economic and social research council ...
Press Release | 18 March 2010 | General public, Press/media
A fascinating event looking at sign language research is to be held at university college london on 20 march as part of the economic and social research council's (esrc) festival of social science (21-21 march).
Press Release | 15 March 2010 | Higher education, Press/media, Schools
A film created by secondary school children from sheffield is giving them a chance to have their views heard on a topic close to their hearts: the design of their school. The film also offers practical recommendations on how to get children engaged i ...
Press Release | 09 March 2010 | General public, Press/media
The event 'communicating with your baby' has been organised by professor karen pine from the university of hertfordshire. Members of her team, neil howlett and dr liz kirk, will be sharing their findings on 'baby-sign'- a form of non-verbal communica ...
Press Release | 04 March 2010 | General public, Press/media
The youth of london have an urgent message for the world about life in the capital and what the olympic games and its legacy will really mean for those living in its shadow. Generation 2012, an event which is part of the economic and social research ...
Press Release | 07 August 2009 | Policymakers, Press/media, Public sector
Giving people a sense of being in control is an important element in health messages, according to researchers at nottingham and de montfort universities.
