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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 ...
Professor James Nazroo | 08 April 2013
Centre on dynamics of ethnicity (code) will transform understanding of the patterning of ethnic inequalities, investigate how inequalities relate to the ways in which ethnic identities are perceived, acted upon and experienced, and provide the knowle ...
Dr Alex Mesoudi | 06 April 2013
Until recently, psychologists assumed that people from different societies all think in the same way as we do in the west. However, when psychologists started testing non-western people, they found intriguing cultural differences. For example, when v ...
Professor Mike Savage | 01 April 2013
This professorial fellowship will elaborate relational perspectives on social stratification, in three phases of a year each. The first year will involve detailed studies of the bbc’s great british class survey a comprehensive web survey examin ...
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 Antony Manstead | Social psychology | 18 March 2013
Formal education has a large influence on social status, and educational achievement is seen as a personal responsibility. The resulting status hierarchy could therefore be seen as legitimately based on individual achievement. Less educated people th ...
Dr Paul Iverson | Phonetics | 15 March 2013
the aim of this research is to understand why and how accent differences among british english speakers and listeners can make speech recognition difficult in noisy conditions. The project will assess whether:
listeners are multidialectal (ie ...
Dr Melissa Butcher | Human Geography | 11 March 2013
Creating hackney as home (chash) is a two year project collaborating with young people in the london borough of hackney. Using participatory video research methods, the project aims to understand their experience of space and space use in the formati ...
Professor Andrew Steptoe | Psychology | 04 March 2013
There are major demographic shifts throughout the world and the absolute number and proportion of older adults is increasing rapidly not only in the uk and europe but also in middle income nations such as india and china. Promoting the well-being of ...
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