Launching from adolescence to adulthood:a study of the impact of family life

Prof Brown | Sociology | 01 January 1990

The concept of an underclass 1880s-1980s

Prof Macnicol | Sociology | 01 October 1989

Commodity culture and south asian transnationality

Professor Philip Crang | Human Geography | 01 July 2000

This project will examine the relationships between questions of transnational cultural identity and transnational business practice, by studying the transnational identities associated with british south asian businesses with transnational connectio ...

Developing institutional capital in the neo-liberal era: caribbean environmental planning

Dr Jonathan Pugh | Environmental Planning/Planning | 01 January 2002

The programme examines environmental planning in the caribbean. The first part of the research will involve a general review of caribbean nations’ planning strategies and documents. The second area will focus upon two detailed case studies the folkes ...

The public controversy over animal experimentation since 1960

Dr Mary Elston | Sociology | 01 February 1993

Seminar series on social context of animal experimentation.

Strategic use of working memory resources in children and adults

Dr John Towse | Psychology | 01 September 1995

Application abstract: the developmental increase in childrens thinking (particularly during the primary school years) is self-evident. Not just in terms of the knowledge they possess, but in the style and capacity of their reasoning and thoughts. Ho ...

Willingness to travel and environmental valuation.

Dr Liston-Heyes | Economics | 03 October 1996

Abstract: in recent years two major methodologies - the travel-cost method (tcm) and the contingent valuation method (cvm) - have been developed for the estimation of the benefits derived by users of wilderness areas, national parks and other areas o ...

An investigation of the status of recovered memories of childhood trauma

Professor Bernice Andrews | Psychology | 01 September 1995

Although there is still much controversy, recent evidence suggests that recovery of traumatic memories from amnesia is possible. However, the nature and validity of such memories is largely unresearched. This project aims to investigate the nature, c ...

Urban policy and local economic regeneration: the case of cardiff bay.

Professor Rob Imrie | Environmental Planning/Planning | 01 March 1992

One of the more distinctive features of urban policy in britain during the 1980s was the return of large scale, comprehensive, redevelopment led by the urban development corporations (udcs). It is clear that udcs will sustain a lead in urban policy u ...

The british agricultural engineering industry since 1850

Peter Dewey | Economic and Social History | 23 February 1998

This project is an enquiry into the business and industrial history of the uk firms making farm machinery and implements since the mid-nineteenth century. It is largeley based on the records of the firms, which are located in county record offices an ...