Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Intensive Support Tackles Antisocial Behaviour Effectively

Interim findings from a three year evaluation of ASB Intensive Family Support Projects indicate that in 85 per cent of cases intensive support resulted in…

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Early Life Key To Handling Dilemmas For UK’s Community Regeneration Workers

'Negotiating Ethical Dilemmas in Contested Communities' explores how professionals negotiate the conflicting interests and attitudes of local residents and…

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Money Can Buy Happiness: Insights on Love and Wealth

And it seems that money can even buy you love. Although 15 per cent of winners classed themselves as single in their previous lives, this dropped to 12 per…

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Community Groups: Embrace ICT or Risk Being Overlooked

It warns that failing to embrace information and communications technology (ICT) risks having their work overshadowed by those who do draw on this new source…

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The 'Vicious Triangle’ Affecting Productivity In Our Public Services

Professor Iain McLean and Dr Dirk Haubrich will say that local public services in England are being affected by a ‘vicious triangle’ present in the way that…

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Innovative Support Initiative for Older Adults in Rural Areas

That’s one of the recommendations of an innovative initiative for developing support for older people in rural areas, funded by the Big Lottery Fund.The…

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North East Universities Unite to Tackle Depression Research

The grant from the Leverhulme Trust will bring together researchers from Northumbria University and the University of Sunderland to look at the subject of…

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Maternity Leave Insights from Dr. Lynne Millward’s Research

This is the finding of Dr Lynne Millward of the University of Surrey. She recently revealed her findings in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational…

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Exploring the Work Stress Epidemic: Insights from UK Employees

The researchers behind the 24-7 survey into working life, hope employees in the UK will share their good and bad experiences in an attempt to discover more…

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You can't scare people into getting fit or going green

Recent years have seen increasing efforts to encourage people to do more for their health and for the environment, for example by recycling more, using cars…

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Russian Students Emigrate: Economic and Social Influences

This new wave of emigration of the country citizens is conditioned not by political factors as it was formerly, but by economic, social and psychological…

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Eating Challenges Among Older Hospital Patients: Study Insights

Researchers from the University of Adelaide, Australia, spent two weeks studying 48 hospital patients and 50 nurses during mealtimes on two medical wards. They…

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What makes business people see red?

When asked what made them most irate, bureaucracy and form-filling were cited by more than two-thirds of business advisers and more than a third of businessmen…

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You don't need a big lottery win for long term happiness… but a few thousand helps

In work to be published in the Journal of Health Economics, researchers Professor Andrew Oswald from the University of Warwick and Dr Jonathan Gardner from…

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Musical Training Boosts Brain Development in Young Children

The findings, published today (20 September 2006) in the online edition of the journal Brain [1], show that not only do the brains of musically-trained…

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Explore Sex In The City: Insights From Special Collections

Dorothy Sheridan, Head of Special Collections and Research Services at the University, will appear at the lecture, Sex In The Archives, on 30th September,…

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