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Economics | 01 October 1990
Levels of self employment in the northern region are the lowest in britain, whereas unemployment remains high, despite recent falls. On wesrside, where this study takes place, the problems are particularly acute. The government has promoted the small ...
Dr Hall | 01 October 1987
Aims and objectives (as at end of award:). To examine in detail local perceptions of, and responses to, the introduction of a minibus service into a peripheral low status urban housing estate (pennywell, sunderland, tyne and wear). Specific objective ...
Professor E Shove | Sociology | 01 October 1991
Application abstract: knowledge of energy efficient building technology does not ensure its use and standards of energy efficiency appear to have more to do with organisational, financial and cultural constraints than with the knowledge or enthusiasm ...
Sociology | 01 November 1992
Application abstract: economic and political changes over the past two decades have posed difficulties for trade unions, forcing them to reconsider their role and policies. Most union leaders acknowledge the need for more effective representation of ...
Professor KEITH PRINGLE | Social Policy | 01 March 2001
The overall aim was: using child welfare as a case study, to produce new data on issues that have critical importance concerning the swedish welfare system including the systems problematic response to social divisions such as racism/ethnic ...
Professor E Shove | Sociology | 01 April 1994
Abstract: building construction depends upon a combination of specialist expertise. This study examines different methods of dividing and co-operating building professional knowledge in france and britain. These arrangements have important implicatio ...
Professor Catherine Donovan | Sociology | 07 October 2012
Building on the growing literature about same-sex and trans domestic violence, this project uses mixed methods to collect data from people who have behaved abusively in same-sex and/or trans relationships and practitioners who work with (heterosexual ...
Dr Elizabeth Atkinson | Education | 01 November 2005
This series of one-day events will bring together researchers, practitioners, interest groups and policy makers to discuss how issues of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality impact on young children and their families within and beyond sch ...
Dr Peter Hayes | Political Science | 01 October 2006
There is international consensus over the principle that intercountry adoption is an acceptable method of augmenting domestic adoption programmes, provided that it does not replace or undermine domestic adoptions. However, there is controversy over w ...
Dr Rosalind Crawley | Psychology | 22 November 2004
Many women perceive a decline in their cognitive abilities during pregnancy yet their perceptions have not always been supported by evidence from laboratory tasks. This project investigated two possible explanations for this discrepancy that there a ...
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