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Academic Literacy
We are studying various aspects of the literacies required in higher education, with a view to helping students understand the demands made on them. W ... Read more»
Project staff: Roz Ivanic
Keywords: Literacy
A corpus-based study of split words in Chinese
Split words are a type of constructions in Chinese that consist of two parts which are separable by some interposing elements, though they behave like ... Read more»
Project staff: Anna Siewierska, Jiajin Xu
Keywords: Chinese, Corpus linguistics, Morphology
Action Research Project - Teenage Health Scrutiny
Action Research approach looking at the health needs of young people in Cumbria ... Read more»
Project staff: Ian Paylor, Cheryl Simmill-Binning
Adapting 'Shirley' For the Screen
Charlotte Bronte's final completed novel, 'Shirley' has only been adapted once for the screen - a slient movie in 1922 - and the print no longer seems ... Read more»
Project staff: Jo Baker
Keywords: Creative writing, Fiction, Film adaptation, Screenplays
A Decade of Private International Law in African Courts 1997-2007
If the voice of African academics and institutions on issues of private international law at the international level has historically remained inactiv ... Read more»
Project staff: Richard Frimpong Oppong
Keywords: International economic law, International law, Private international law (with emphasis on Africa)
Adult Learners' Lives
Adult Learners' Lives is a major project funded by the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy. The aim is to underst ... Read more»
Adult Learners' Lives
Adult Learners' Lives was a major project funded by the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy. The aim was to under ... Read more»
Project staff: Yvon Appleby, David Barton, Rachel Hodge, Roz Ivanic, Karin Tusting
Keywords: Adult basic education, Learner voices, Literacies, Literacy, Practitioner research
Adult Learning, Basic Skills and Literacy
Development work in this area includes seminars, workshops, short courses and supported research-in-practice opportunities for tutors and students in ... Read more»
Project staff: Mary Hamilton
Keywords: Evaluation
Adults learning new forms of writing
This preliminary research, funded by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, explored the various means by which adults learn to deal with new forms ... Read more»
Project staff: Amy Burgess, Karin Tusting
Keywords: Literacy, Literacy learning, Literacy practices, Writing (general)
Advance Care Planning in Care Homes for Older People
This study addresses the issue of advance care planning in care homes for older people. Care homes are places where people live until they die. How t ... Read more»
Project staff: Katherine Froggatt, Suzanne Vaughan
Keywords: Advance care planning, Care homes, End of life care
Advertising in the City: Making the Political and Symbolic Economies of Urban Spaces
This is an ESRC funded project which examines the UK outdoor advertising industry and its relationhship to urban space. It involves ethnographic resea ... Read more»
Project staff: Anne Cronin
Keywords: Advertising and the media, Cities, Representation, Spatiality, Urban studies
Aesthetics and Environmental Management Funders British Council Finnish Institute
This research project adopts a philosophical approach to address the role of aesthetics in environmental planning and decision-making. In this context ... Read more»
Keywords: Aesthetics, Conservation, Environment
Aesthetics of the Natural Environment: A Study in Aesthetic Appreciation
This project examines a range of central problems in environmental aesthetics, including: aesthetic experience; nature, art and culture; theories of a ... Read more»
Aesthetic Value in UK Environmental Conservation Funders Lancaster University
This project examines the role of aesthetic value in UK environmental conservation, from a philosophical perspective. Research questions include: How ... Read more»
Keywords: Aesthetics, Environment, Landscape, Philosophy
Affective Apparatus, Senses and the Nation-state
This project seeks to explore the configuration of the nation-state through the evocation of senses by various affective apparatus (like museums, memo ... Read more»
Project staff: Nayanika Mookherjee
Keywords: Aesthetics, Embodiment, Emotions, Ethnography, Memorials, Memory, Museums, Nation, Political Anthropology, South Asia, Utopia, Violence, War
Affective citizenship
This study centres on ongoing developments in the politics of 'community cohesion' in Britain, and examines how interethnic proximities are conceived, ... Read more»
Africa: Cultural Translations Conference
Scholars working on Africa-related topics are often faced with social, cultural or linguistic gaps that open up in the translation from one form of cu ... Read more»
Project staff: Charlotte Baker, Paul Kerswill, Lindsey Moore, Graham Mort, John Strachan, Jane Sunderland
African Caribbean and Asian Curriculum Project
The ACA action research project was managed by Lancaster University's Community Access Programme (CAP, now known as REAP) and was initiated in 1995 wi ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton
Keywords: Action research, Adult learning, Community development, Community involvement, Education, Ethnicity, Family
AIDS and the art of survival: African community theatre as HIV prevention
Since 2002, the philosophical and anthropological issues raised by Johansson in his doctoral thesis have been adapted to explore how African community ... Read more»
Project staff: Ola Johansson
Aimhigher Cumbria
REAP are working on a consultancy basis with Aimhigher Cumbria to support evaluation of partnership, area and thematic Aimhigher activities. See also ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton, Rebecca Marsden, Marion Walker
Keywords: Action research, Parent-school relations, Partnership, Practitioner research, Widening participation
Aimhigher Cumbria and the Carlisle Information Advice and Guidance Task Group
Funded by, and on behalf of, Aimhigher Cumbria, REAP have undertaken an evaluation of a multi-agency Task Group established in Carlisle. The task gro ... Read more»
Project staff: Steven Dempster, Ann-Marie Houghton
Keywords: Cumbria, Evaluation, Partnership, Widening participation
Aimhigher Cumbria and the STEM curriculum
An evaluation of Aimhigher Cumbria's Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) funded provision and its contribution to awareness, aspiration ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton, Rebecca Marsden
Keywords: Engineering, Mathematics, Mathematics education, Science and technology, Transition
Aimhigher Lancashire
A collaborative HEFCE, DfES and LSC funded widening participation project involving Higher and Further Education institutions in Lancashire who are wo ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton
Aiming4uni in Furness
REAP is involved with the Aiming4uni in Furness in two ways. Firstly, we contribute to the work with families strand, drawing on our action research ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton, Marion Walker
Keywords: Aiming4Uni, Family, Parents, Summer school, Widening participation
Albinism in Apartheid South Africa
This pilot study seeks to document the experiences of people living with albinism during the apartheid era in South Africa. This collaborative project ... Read more»
Project staff: Charlotte Baker
Alcohol Scoping Study 2005
An examination of provision throughout Lancashire. ... Read more»
Project staff: Ian Paylor, Alison Wilson
Keywords: Alcohol and illicit drug use, Drugs, Gambling
Alternative Automobility Futures
The aim of this research project is to construct various alternative post-car futures taking into account prevailing and potential global economic, te ... Read more»
Project staff: Kingsley Dennis, John Urry
Analysing Musical Structure: Harmonic-Contrapuntal Reduction by Computer
The combinations of notes which make up a piece of music form, in the minds of listeners, interrelated lines and segments somewhat in the manner in wh ... Read more»
Project staff: Alan Marsden
Keywords: Computing in the Humanities, Music information retrieval
Analysis of data from the first national survey of adults with learning disabilities in England
This Department of Health funded survey, undertaken by BMRB, the IHR and Central England People First, involved interviewing 3,000 adults with learnin ... Read more»
Project staff: Eric Emerson, Chris Hatton
Keywords: Intellectual disabilities, Learning disabilities, Poverty, Poverty and deprivation, Social determinants of health, Social exclusion, Social justice
Analysis of spoken London English using corpus tools
The project uses anonymised transcripts of sociolinguistic interviews prepared as part the ESRC-project Linguistic Innovators: the English of adolesce ... Read more»
Project staff: Costas Gabrielatos, Paul Kerswill, Eivind Torgersen
Keywords: Computerised corpora, Corpus linguistic methodology, Corpus linguistics, Corpus tools, English grammar, English language, Grammar, Language variation and change, Sociolinguistics
An evaluation of the 'Promoting Human Dignity' programme
'Promoting Human Dignity' is a programme for people convicted of racially aggravated offences in Merseyside. Managed and staffed by the probation serv ... Read more»
Keywords: Probation, Race and racism
An evaluation of the Promoting Human Dignity programme
An evaluation, with Julia Palmer, of the 'Promoting Human Dignity' (formerly 'Against Human Dignity') programme for racially motivated offenders, fund ... Read more»
Keywords: Criminal justice, Evaluation, Probation, Race and racism
An investigation into the development of studio based learning resources
There were several aims in this projects, the main being to investigate the feasibility of studio based production of learning resources for single an ... Read more»
Project staff: Mike O'Donoghue, Julie-Ann Sime
Anthropology of writing: understanding textually-mediated worlds
This is a project to bring together French and British research on reading and writing. Through a series of research visits and invited talks by both ... Read more»
Project staff: David Barton, Uta Papen
Keywords: Ethnography of literacy, Writing (general)
Arabic Documents of Norman Sicily: The Monreale Census Lists
Approximately eighty documents containing Arabic survive from the period of Norman and Hohenstaufen rule in Sicily (circa 1060 - circa 1250). They in ... Read more»
A Relational Theory of Economic Integration and Its Implications for Africa's Economic Integration Initiatives
The thesis of this research is that economic integration is the product of structuring and managing vertical and horizontal relationships among multip ... Read more»
Project staff: Richard Frimpong Oppong
Keywords: International economic law, International institutional law, International law, International political economy
ARGONA (Arenas for Risk Governance)
Argona is a project within the sixth Euratom research and training Framework Programme (FP6) on nuclear energy of the European Commission. The project ... Read more»
Project staff: Larry Reynolds, Bronislaw Szerszynski
Keywords: Governance, Public policy, Technology
Assessing the potential of e-learning to support re-engagement amongst young people with NEET status
This project aims to assess the potential of e-learning to support re-engagement of young people with NEET (Not in employment, education or training) ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey, Colin Rogers, Sadie Williams
ASSIST: Automated Semantic Assistance for Translators
Translators have access to a wealth of information during the process of translating a text. This includes monolingual dictionaries to examine the sen ... Read more»
Project staff: Roger Garside, Tony McEnery, AcSS, FRSA, Paul Rayson, Nick Smith (external), Andrew Wilson
A systematic evaluation of the modernisation of day services for disabled adults
The study will provide a comprehensive picture of the nature and effectiveness of day service modernisation in the Halton Borough Council (HBC). The s ... Read more»
Project staff: Hannah Morgan
Keywords: Community care, Disability, Disability and welfare, Disability studies, Learning disabilities, Social policy, Social work
A-TEAM: Advanced Training system for Emergency Management
The aim of A-TEAM is to improve the learning process in complex technical domains such as technological emergency management. Improved learning is ach ... Read more»
Project staff: Bob Kemp, Julie-Ann Sime
A-TEAM Evaluation
Pedagogical evaluation of a computer based training system for emergency response management ... Read more»
Project staff: Julie-Ann Sime
ATHENA (European Women's Studies Network) PhD Handbook
ATHENA is an EU-funded thematic network of Women's Studies academics and students in Europe. The Centre for Gender and Women's Studies is an active me ... Read more»
Project staff: Maureen McNeil, Celia Roberts
Keywords: Feminist research methodologies, Gender, Science studies, Science, technology and society, Women's studies
Autobiography as Ethics
Autobiographies enact a distinctive and valuable form of ethical reflection: the autobiographer steps back from the immediate and quotidian; considers ... Read more»
Project staff: Sam Clark
Keywords: Autobiography, Ethics, Moral philosophy
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