Gis-based accessibility measures in indicators of social disadvantage in rural areas: public service prov. In wales

Professor Gary Higgs | Human Geography | 01 December 1996

The development of anti-racism advertisements: effects of attitude ambivalence and attitude function

Professor Gregory Maio | Psychology | 04 January 1999

This research tests whether the effects of anti-racism advertisements depend on properties of the audiences intergroup attitudes. One relevant property is ambivalence towards outgroups. Ambivalence exists when people possess conflicting feelings and ...

Representing public opinion

Professor J Lewis | Interdisciplinary Studies | 30 October 2001

To be able to claim to speak on behalf of public opinion has become a key source of political legitimacy in modem democratic societies. Since most people do not regularly review polling data (or other forms of research into public opinion), the role ...

Bridging time theory and practice: exploring time politics for the food system

Professor Barbara Adam | Sociology | 01 July 1999

This project of applied strategic research seeks to explore together with practitioners in the food system the limits and possibilities for putting into practice some of the insights gained from previous theory-based research into the time-ecology co ...

Use of multimedia techniques in the analysis & dissemination of qulaitative data: a study of a heritage museum

Professor Paul Atkinson | Statistics Computing and Methodology | 01 October 1997

In recent years there has been growing interest in the use of computer software for the analysis of qualitative data - such as interviews or fieldworks - in many fields of social research. The software has become increasingly sophisticated, and its u ...

The formulation and impact of legal agreements to protect global commons

Dr Churchill | Socio-Legal Studies | 01 January 1993

The term global commons refers to an assortment of geographical/physical entities such as the atmosphere, high seas and antarctica, that are linked by their legal status of being outside national jurisdictions. Over the years a number of internationa ...

The impact of the human rights act: a survey of local authorities and travellers

Professor Luke Clements | Socio-Legal Studies | 01 May 2001

The human rights act 1998 came into force in wales with the national assembly legislation in july 1999, and will be effective in england in october 2000. It places on a british legal footing the rights contained in the european convention on human ri ...

Housing research register

Prof Philip Williams | Environmental Planning/Planning | 01 October 1990

Physics in transition: the case of gravity waves

Professor Harold Collins | Sociology | 02 January 1998

What happens when a well-established small science becomes a big science? How does this affect the way the science is managed and the freedom that scientists have to speculate about their findings? The existence of gravitational radiation is predicte ...

Cognitive aspects of auditory distraction.

Professor Dylan Jones | Psychology | 01 October 1993

Application abstract: even if a sound is not loud, it has the capacity to distract particularly if a complex mental task is being undertaken in the presence of irrelevant speech. This project seeks to discover those aspects of the sound which cause t ...