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Dr Catherine Needham | Social Policy | 15 April 2013
Are care services best delivered through very small, locally-based services that are 'close to the user' or do large organisations offer more efficient and effective care? This project aims to test the relationship between size and performance in org ...
Edward Ferrari | Social Policy | 08 April 2013
How children travel to school is a major public policy concern, reflecting socioeconomic differences among the population. Policies enhancing school choice may contradict public health efforts to promote walking and cycling. Equally, the built form, ...
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 ...
Dr Sue Richardson | Social Work | 13 February 2013
This one year project aims to improve how information is shared between different organisations delivering public services, whether in the public, voluntary or private sectors. It does this by piloting a short multi-agency practitioner development pr ...
Mr Mark Smith | Social Work | 04 February 2013
Child protection systems across the english-speaking world have been subject to damning critique in recent years, to the extent that some commentators conclude that they may be doing more harm than good. Against this backdrop, the recent munro review ...
Professor David Bell | 01 February 2013
This research addresses economic aspects of constitutional change particulalry those associated with tax and spending. This will mainly be done in the context of the forthcoming referendum on independence in scotland. It will examine the change ...
Professor Michael Keating | 01 February 2013
Whether under independence or extended devolution, scotland's ability to manage its own affairs will be constrained. It will be within the european union, have continued links to the rest of the united kingdom and face competitive pressures from worl ...
Professor John Clarke | 29 January 2013
The aim of this project is to construct a new network of connections between researchers in the uk and north america who have been working on similar concerns but whose work has been separated by time and space. The north american group have focused ...
Dr Henry Rothstein | Public Governance | 28 January 2013
‘risk-based’ approaches to governance are increasingly internationally promoted as universally applicable foundations for improving the quality, efficiency, and rationality of governance across policy domains. Premised on the idea that go ...
Professor Susan Mcvie | 01 January 2013
The applied quantitative methods network (aqmen) phase ii is a research centre that aims to develop a dynamic and pioneering set of projects to improve our understanding of current social issues in the uk and provide policy makers and practitioners w ...
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