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Professor Hilary Thomas | 01 May 2013
The phrase ‘getting back to normal’, often used to describe recovery from an illness or injury, carries with it social expectations that people will recover and that recovery will be a relatively straightforward process. Surprisingly litt ...
Professor Peter Lloyd-Sherlock | Social Policy | 01 January 2013
There is an urgent need to identify policies that are effective in promoting the health, economic security and quality of life of older people in poorer countries. The world health organisation sage surveys look at these issues in china, ghana, india ...
Professor Amandine Garde | 31 December 2012
Food marketing has been associated with growing rates of obesity, a problem which has taken ‘pandemic’ proportions worldwide and entails heavy social and economic costs. This project aims to achieve a better understanding of the need and ...
Dr Jonathan Read | Sociology | 31 December 2012
Assortativity is the property describing when individuals tend to mix with others who have similar (social or demographic) properties to themselves. The extent to which interactions between individuals are assortative has important implications for c ...
Dr David Gurnham | Socio Legal Studies | 03 December 2012
Should a person that passes on an infection such as hiv/aids or herpes or causes a child to inherit a genetic disease be treated as a criminal, in the same way as someone that injures another? For many people the criminal law might appear to be an ap ...
Dr Julius Mugwagwa | Area & Development Studies | 23 November 2012
This project focuses on two countries in africa (south africa and zimbabwe), and is being conducted by a researcher based in the uk who has current and on-going links with the study countries. The research targets two global health funders, the gates ...
Professor Roger Jeffery | Environment & Health | 01 October 2012
This project is designed to stimulate cross-disciplinary discussions, writing and research proposals on social science aspects of public health, involving specialists from medical sociology, medical anthropology, public health sciences (including soc ...
Professor Celia Kitzinger | Sociology | 01 October 2012
Respect for patient autonomy and the right of individuals to make their own healthcare decisions where possible lies at the core of the recent mental capacity act 2005.
the act gives statutory authority to “advance decisions” (ads) ...
Dr Laia Becares | Sociology | 01 October 2012
Ethnic minorities in the uk, the us and new zealand (nz) have worse health and die younger than the white majority. There are important differences in the processes that have led to the ethnic makeup of the populations in these countries, including e ...
Dr Matthew Woollard | 01 October 2012
The uk data service will provide a "one-stop-shop" for suppliers and users of social science data. Users will come to the ukds website to search for and browse data collections created by a wide range of data suppliers, including government data, dat ...
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