This is one of the key findings of the latest 24-7 survey – a national research project conducted by the Work Life Balance Centre, Leicestershire, UK, and the…
Germany has become only the fourth country to transpose the EU law on scientific visas into national law, following Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia. Greece and…
A Durham University researcher, working with colleagues at US universities, looked at the popularity of baby names, music and dog breeds and found that their…
The study found that parents were the source of pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, in 55 percent of infants. In all, household members including…
Staffordshire University academic Derek Beeston from the Centre for Ageing and Mental Health was commissioned to look at the issue by Care Services Improvement…
And just as gaggles of modern day adolescents might pass round their copy of the latest lads’ mag, the reading of erotic literature was already a social…
And report author Professor Peter John from The University of Manchester says most of them – 68 per cent – do it out of a sense of community.The surprising…
New research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) clearly shows that anyone using the Web to make their information available must now pay…
Three seemingly unrelated questions but, at their heart, is the issue being addressed by a major new research project, which will be launched by Kumi Naidoo,…
“The state is dead. Long live the state.” This saying, which was used in the past to refer to the continuity of monarchies, has not lost any of its relevance…
Combining competitiveness and growth with a high level of social services, the so-called Nordic model is attracting international attention. When European…
“Homeless people associate oral health with feelings of human dignity,” says Patricia De Palma, dentist and author of a new doctoral thesis on homelessness and…
Faced with a minefield of information of variable quality, health consumers subject websites to an initial weeding-out process that will eliminate most NHS and…
The investigation into social networks by the University’s Research Centre for Socio-Cultural Change found that men are more fickle and calculating about who…
The University of Bradford will host Britain's second annual 'PeaceJam' event on 3 and 4 March 2007. To open the event, Jody Williams, who won the 1997 Nobel…
Philosophers, psychologists and spiritual thinkers offer happiness counsel, but their widely differing views have never been empirically scrutinized. The…
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