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Dr Monica Dias | Economics | 01 May 2013
Policies aimed at alleviating poverty and improving children’s opportunities form the backbone of most welfare programmes. But poverty and underachievement are not well understood, often resulting in poorly designed policies that fail to delive ...
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 ...
Professor Lucinda Platt | Education | 01 April 2013
The millennium cohort study (mcs) is a unique, multidisciplinary research resource. Following the lives of over 19,000 children born across the uk around the turn of the millennium, it has collected information about and from them at ages nine months ...
Dr Dirk Schubotz | Social Policy | 01 April 2013
This knowledge exchange project is a joint activity between ark – a joint initiative by queen’s university belfast and the university of ulster - and brook northern ireland (brook ni). It is based on data collected in the 2010 and 2011 yo ...
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 Ricardo Sabates | Education | 04 March 2013
This project investigates the role of education in the determination of social benefits for young people. in particular, the project will follow the educational trajectories of young people in england and in germany, focusing on academic and v ...
Mr Jonathan Portes | 07 January 2013
This exchange fellowship has two strands:
the engagement focus aims to increase government use of academic work, by increased engagement between bis, niesr and the wider academic community through:
a series of seminars for those working on policy wi ...
Dr Alex Mesoudi | 01 January 2013
The aim of this project is to compare the learning styles of western (british) and east asian (chinese) participants. In particular, this project will test whether there is a cross-cultural difference in the tendency to copy others’ solutions t ...
Professor Gareth Rees | Education | 01 January 2013
The overall aim of the research is to analyse how individuals who are resident in wales progress through secondary school, into sixth forms and further education colleges for post-16 education and on to higher education (he). It will also explore wha ...
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