Dr Peter Davis, of the Centre for Development Studies based in the University’s Department of Economics & International Development, has been investigating the…
You've probably heard it lots of times: It's the under 24s or the over 70s, besides the motorcyclists and drug users who cause the most traffic accidents….
“The Centre will bring together experts from a wide range of disciplines;” explained Professor Alcock “It is dedicated to analysing the impact of the sector's…
Professor Ian Hutchby, Professor of Sociology at the University of Leicester, will present his paper: Revealing revelations: ‘Performed retellings’ of…
Researcher Minna van Gerven argues that this is the result of ongoing legislative reforms within the welfare state. On 17 October she will be awarded her…
Academic research supported by the Economic and Social Research Council and Arts and Humanities Research Council shows that most members of the baby boom…
The number of young people aged between 16 and 29 living on their own earnings alone has almost doubled since 1997, standing at 26.3% in 2006. In addition, the…
The report, “Alcohol and Violence: Exploring Patterns and Responses,” examines the association between alcohol and violence through the disciplines of…
The figures are clear: It’s not Scandinavia, but Germany, France, Switzerland and the Benelux countries that have the smallest disparities in the health of the…
Nearly 200 million people now live outside their country of birth. But the patterns of migration that got them there have proven difficult to project.Now…
Dutch researcher Mirjam Moerbeek used a Veni grant to investigate how best to design a study with nested data at a reasonable cost. An examples includes an…
A detailed analysis of the incidence of these four different kinds of cancer, carried out on more than 300,000 English cancer patients and published today in…
The research, sponsored by the International Center for Alcohol Policies (ICAP), also finds striking similarities about drinking among young people in…
Many companies use CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) in their marketing and therefore want to find a simple company-friendly way to use the concept. But…
Around one in ten children have symptoms which place them at high risk of becoming seriously depressed. If left unmanaged, these symptoms could have a…
Dr Samson, from the Department of Sociology, will look at a clandestine operation 60 years ago when 100 Innu were transported to an Inuit settlement, Nutak,…
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