Countryside 88 video disc

Prof Newby | 01 November 1987

Management versus politics the presdency & the changing role of omb & opm

Prof N/A Mckay | 01 November 1987

Aims and methods (as at end of award) : a study of the changing role of the office of management and budgets regulatory review powers since 1980. The research focusses on the implementation of the 1980 paper reduction act and of executive orders 1229 ...

The future of work: flexible employment, part-time work and career development in britain

Professor Alison Booth | Social Policy | 01 January 1999

The principal aim of the research is to increase our understanding of the impact of various forms of flexible employment on the career development of both men and women, and thereby to provide a basis to inform government policy. The project will pro ...

Researching whitehall a senior practitioners archive on policy and decision

Dr Butler | Political Science and International Relations | 01 May 1989

This was a small pilot project to interview about 12-15 ex- permanent secretaries and ambassadors. Mr seldon was the lead and did a few interviews: mr barker did the rest. Full transcripts were produced from tape recordings and mr seldon arranged to ...

Item and order information in short-term memory

Professor Geoffrey Ward | Psychology | 01 October 1999

The established view of short-term memory (stm) is that a specialised verbal stm is used when recalling a series of words, whereas other memories must be used when recalling a series of non-verbal items, such as abstract visual patterns or spatial lo ...

European attitudes towards the united states

Dr Edwards | Political Science and International Relations | 01 October 1989

The ethnographic method applied to rural transport planning and the elderly

Prof Okely | 01 May 1988

Aims and methods (as at end of award) : the project aimed to make both substantive and methodological contributions to the transport initiative. A specific category of persons, the elderly, many of whom are considered to be a significant proportion o ...

Rrl liason officer

Ms N/A Freed-Taylor | Human Geography | 01 May 1989

Extension of a computerised database of early reading vocabulary

Professor Jackie Masterson | Psychology | 16 April 2001

We have already prepared a computerised database containing the vocabulary from 700 books read by children in reception and year 1 classes. We have successfully used this database in research into the early development of ability to read words. At pr ...

Policy communities and policy networks over time: british transport policy 1945-95

Grey | Political Science and International Relations | 01 April 1995