During apartheid, Transkei, present-day Eastern Cape Province, was a so-called homeland in South Africa, a sort of reservation where portions of the black…
We are happy to announce our second Policy Brief “Pension Policy in EU25 and its Possible Impact on Elderly Poverty”, by Asghar Zaidi. This Policy Brief…
A new study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) finds that not only childless women but also mothers of five or more children, teenage…
How should the UK’s occupational health challenges best be addressed? The booklet ‘Public Policy Seminar on Health and Well-being of Working Age People’,…
The research, which will be discussed at today’s Diverse Britain: Social Practice and Social Policy conference, found that in a survey of 1112 parents of…
The experiment, which gained global media attention, found that people put nearly three times as much money into a unsupervised coffee room cash collection box…
Dr Sara Connolly, of UEA’s School of Economics, has undertaken research which reveals for the first time what proportion of the pay disparity is due to women…
The Braintuning project aims to find out, among other things, why music has such a profound effect on our emotional life and how enjoying music and the…
Risk researchers say the answer lies in emotions, not reason, especially when the perceived risk is related to health, the environment, new technologies and…
Post war Britain saw a transformation in the way people shopped for food: the counter service shop with attendant was gradually replaced by the self service…
The first Policy Brief “Poverty of elderly People in EU25″, by Asghar Zaidi, arises out of our work for the European Commission under the Community Action…
In a survey of 1,337 individuals, Dr Tina Harrison and Kathryn Waite have found that less than a quarter of self-employed individuals know that their pension…
Experts estimate that 35 per cent of Spanish workers between the ages of 25 and 40 will have to face the “post-holiday syndrome”: a general feeling of…
As airline passenger profiling is introduced to the UK under a mist of speculation, panic and alleged discrimination, forensic psychologist Dr Jeremy Quayle…
Language disorders in children are the main objective of study of the research group called “Experimental and Applied Speech Therapy” headed by Elvira Mendoza…
After the Second World War, Finnish psychiatrists felt that soldiers had readapted to civilian society very well. The reason was not that Finnish soldiers were…
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