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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 Simon Deakin | 31 March 2013
The aim of the project is to understand the role of labour law in alleviating poverty in developing countries and to produce a diagnostic tool or template to assist those who are reforming labour laws to do so in a way which is appropriate to the sta ...
Dr Rose Lindsey | Social Policy | 01 March 2013
Much emphasis is being placed on the role of the volunteer in british society. The coalition government's policies envisage that more needs can be met through community initiative, relying on voluntary effort. This project looks at volunteering betwe ...
Professor Peter Dwyer | 01 March 2013
The use of conditional welfare arrangements that combine elements of sanction and support in order to influence the behaviour of certain welfare recipients is an established element within welfare, housing, criminal justice and immigration systems. T ...
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 Robert Walker | Social Policy | 01 February 2013
Helping to shape global conversations on poverty to 2015 and beyond: a shame-proofing toolkit. This project implements a multi-media, multi-agency dissemination and utilisation strategy developed from the findings of the esrc/dfid research project: s ...
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 ...
Dr John Goodwin | Sociology | 01 February 2013
In the uk, as elsewhere in europe, levels of youth unemployment are disturbing and currently stand at a rate of 22. 2 per cent among 16-24 year-olds, with significantly higher rates among vulnerable populations such as early school-leavers. However, ...
Dr Jayant Ganguli | Economics | 18 January 2013
Ambiguity or knightian uncertainty - the absence of objectively given probabilities for future events - is pervasive. Economic crashes and recoveries or war in west asia are arguably ambiguous events unlike the outcome of a fair coin toss. Jm keynes ...
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