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Student Performance in National Examinations: the dynamics of language in sch...
The project involves a systematic review of research, quantitative analysis of examination performance over 10 years, qualitative analysis of the processes of examination... -
Assessment of pre-proceedings processes in children's social care
The Public Law Outline (PLO), introduced in April 2008 changed what was required of local authorities seeking to protect children through court proceedings. It imposed a... -
Survey of Probationary Teachers in their First Year of Service, 1966-1970
SN:14 includes two questionnaires (A1 and B1) distributed to probationers in one rural and three urban areas in July 1969. These probationers had completed their probationary... -
Maintaining Dignity in Later Life: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study of Older ...
The aim of this study was to examine preparations for the end of life made by older people with supportive care needs and the factors that support or undermine a sense of... -
Survey of Racial Attitudes, 1955-1956
This research, conducted in 1956, examined the attitudes of the general population towards newly-arrived immigrants from the colonies. Three hundred white men and women were... -
GP Consultations and Concepts of Illness : Asians in Bristol, 1987-1989
Conducted between 1987 - 1989, this study aimed to document and interpret conceptions of health and illness used by doctors and patients; and to show that the way in which... -
Hungarian and Romanian Migrant Workers in the UK: Racism without Racial Diffe...
This research examines the ways in which recent East European migration to the UK has been racialised. 48 in-depth face-to-face interviews were carried out with 25 individual... -
Attitudes to Inheritance, 2004
The issue of inheritance has, until recent decades, concerned only a small percentage of the population, because only this group has been rich enough to have assets to leave to... -
Dynamics of Transformative Ideas in Contemporary Public Discourse, 2002-2003
This project sought to address the changing role of ideas and intellectuals in the public discourses of contemporary 'knowledge societies'. To this end, the ethos and... -
Poverty and Social Exclusion in the United Kingdom: Qualitative Research Phas...
Focus group interviews were conducted between November and December 2010 in five different locations, including in each of the four territories comprising the UK: Bristol,... -
National Front Electoral and Constituency Census Data for the GLC, 1973-1977
The purpose of this study was to carry out an ecological analysis of the National Front vote, with a view to examining the social bases of National Front support. -
Community Response to Marital Violence, 1977-1979
Data about cases of marital violence coming to the notice of a number of agencies in the city of Bristol were collected in 1977/79, as were the attitudes towards the subject of... -
Geographically Varying Correlates of Car Non-Ownership in Census Output Areas...
Standard indexes of poverty and deprivation are rarely sensitive to how the causes and consequences of deprivation have different impacts depending upon where a person lives.... -
Risk, Trust and Betrayal: A Case Study of Social Housing
This project will examine ways organisations use contracts or agreements to govern relationships, balance risks and maintain trust. The contract is a key medium through which... -
United Kingdom Omnibus: Poverty and Social Exclusion Module, 2012
The UK Omnibus Poverty and Social Exclusion Module attitudinal survey aimed to identify what the population as a whole think are 'necessities': things that everyone should be... -
Generational Contract Between Care and Inheritance in Britain and Japan, 2002...
Under a traditional inter-generational contract, Japanese adult children provided care to their parents within co-residency and, in return, inherited family wealth. In Britain,... -
Poverty and Social Exclusion Living Standards Survey, 2012
The Poverty and Social Exclusion Living Standards Survey provided crucial information about the living standards experienced by UK households, with particular interest in issues... -
Building Institutions in a Vacuum: Devolution and England's South East, 2002
The South East region has long been seen as peripheral to the process of devolution in England. Claims that the region lacks a clear identity of its own, that it is in fact a... -
Weekly British Grain Prices from the London Gazette, 1770-1820
The period of the study was characterised by major improvements in financial institutions and transport. The objectives of the study were to see how pricing behaviour changed as... -
1834 Parisian deaf-mute banquet
Commentaried English translation of the official published account of the 1834 Parisian Deaf-Mute banquet. Traduction commentée en anglais du récit official du banquet de...