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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 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 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 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
Barrow Youth Re: action Team
The Youth Re: action Team (YRAT) is a group of upper secondary school students from Barrow-in-Furness who have been involved in researching local peop ... Read more»
Project staff: Steven Dempster, Ann-Marie Houghton
Keywords: Regeneration, Research methods
Basic Skills Awards
The Basic Skills Learner Awards Ceremony was held on 20th May 2004 during Adult Learners Week and managed by The Network. ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt
Keywords: Language, Literacy, Numeracy, Skills for life
Basic Skills in Construction
Action research project into literacy, language and numeracy support in construction for the LSC Black Country ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt
Keywords: Language, Literacy, Numeracy, Skills for life, Workplace learning, Workplace skills
BBC News School Report 2007-2008
BBC News ran a project in the 2006 to 2007 school year that provided young people in secondary schools (12 to 13 years of age) with support and opport ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
BBC News Schools Report 2008-2009
Following the initial study in the 2007-2008 school year, BBC News have commissioned a follow-on study, allowing researchers the chance to explore in ... Read more»
Project staff: Julia Gillen, Don Passey
BBC Project Merseyside Bus Evaluation
The BBC Merseyside Bus was set up to support and engage young people aged 14 to 25 years who were not in full time education or employment. This engag ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Compulsory education, Education technology, E-learning
BBC Project Merseyside: WebActive Evaluation
The overall aim of WebActive was to provide community groups with the tools to build and publish web pages. The BBC Project Merseyside pilot followed ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Education technology, E-learning
BBC Video Clip Library Evaluation
Video clips were made accessible by the BBC to a wide range of schools within Hull and across the Merseyside region. The independent evaluation explor ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Compulsory education, Education technology, E-learning
Beyond the Divide: Jurisprudence, Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment Thought This project critically investigates the presence of both enlightenment and counter-enlightenment thought
Beyond the Divide: Jurisprudence, Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment Thought This project critically investigates the presence of both enlight ... Read more»
Project staff: David M. Seymour
Keywords: Critical theory, Enlightenment, Jurisprudence, Political philosophy, Social theory
Bilingual Literacy Practices of Welsh speakers
This is a detailed ethnographic study of the bilingual literacy practices of people living in a small town in north east Wales, studying how people us ... Read more»
Keywords: Bilingualism, Literacy
Bioethical Implications of Globalisation Processes (BIG)
Bioethical implications of globalisation processes is a project that aims to anticipate the major reasons for bioethical concern surrounding globalisa ... Read more»
Project staff: Ruth Chadwick, Mairi Levitt
Keywords: Bioethics, Genetics, Genomics, Globalisation
Bioethics Today
This project is an electronic bioethics resource for all those interested in ethical, legal and social aspects of biotechnology, with particular refer ... Read more»
Project staff: Richard Twine
Keywords: Bioethics, Genetics, Genomics, Medical ethics
Biomedical Constructions of Time
How and why has the biomedical understanding of time changed during the past half-century? I will answer the question by investigating the historical ... Read more»
Project staff: Paolo Palladino
Keywords: Aging, Genomics, History, Medicine
Biometric Identification Technology Ethics (BITE)
The BITE Project is a unique combination between academia, industry and international organisations which aims to prompt research and to launch a publ ... Read more»
Project staff: Ruth Chadwick
Keywords: Biotechnology, Ethics, Ethics of genetics, Genetics, Genomics
Black and Asian offenders: criminogenic needs and experiences of probation
This was a large scale survey by a team from the universities of Glamorgan, Lincoln and Swansea as well as Lancaster. It explored the ways in which 'B ... Read more»
Project staff: David Smith
Keywords: Criminal justice, Race, Social exclusion
Blackpool City Learning "The Big Experiment"
From June 25th to July 6th 2007 Blackpool CLC: "will be turning the CLC into the school of the future. Using the best of current modern technology we ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Blackwell Companion to Crime Fiction
The co-editors of the Blackwell Companion are Charles J. Rzepka, Boston University, and Lee Horsley, Lancaster University. This one-volume overview o ... Read more»
Project staff: Lee Horsley
Keywords: American literature, Crime fiction, Crime films, Detective fiction, English, Genre fiction, Literature, Twentieth-century popular culture
Book - Gender, Law, Violence (work in progress)
A sole authored monograph examining some of the ways in which legal discourse creates gendered identitites. The proposal is currently under considera ... Read more»
Project staff: Sarah Beresford
Keywords: Family law, Gender, sexuality and the law, Law and society
Book: The Kosovo Precedent
I am currently editing a collection on the implications of Kosovo's declaration of independence for international law. This will, in particular, consi ... Read more»
Project staff: James Summers
Keywords: International law, Self-determination
BRIGIT Follow-on Study
BRIGIT follow-on study. Following the successful completion of a two year ESRC funded study led by Professor Sue White, follow-on work is in progress ... Read more»
'BSL: QED British Sign Language: Quality Embedding of the Discipline'
The projects aims to develop the curriculum, associated pedagogical skills and learning resources for the teaching of all aspects of BSL with a partic ... Read more»
Project staff: Birgit Smith
Buddhism and Violence
The research examines the concept of 'fundamentalism' in Buddhist societies; Sri Lanka, Thailand and Myanmar-Burma, in their religious narratives and ... Read more»
Building Basic Skills in the Workplace Initiative
The initiative was aimed at providers of basic skills/workplace basic skills and consisted of 32 projects. The majority of the projects started in aut ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt
Keywords: Language, Literacy, Numeracy, Skills for life, Workplace learning, Workplace skills
Building Capacity in Workplace Basic Skills(LIF Project)
This project included a wide range of activities including CPD courses, mapping survey of workplace provision and professsional development needs, pro ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt, Sandra Pegum
Building Professional Capacity in Workplace Basic Skills (LID Project)
The project included a range continuing professional development courses, survey of brokerage model and survey of employers. ... Read more»
Burnley Project: Evaluating the Contribution of Interfaith Dialogue to Community Cohesion
The Burnley Project is an action-based project involving a three-way partnership between Building Bridges Burnley (a local interfaith group), the Depa ... Read more»
Project staff: Alan Billings (external), Paul Heelas, Ian Reader
Can Complexity Improve European Health Policy?
Can complexity improve European health policy? is an ESF funded workshop that was held at Lancaster University on 23-25 September 2009. Prof. Robert G ... Read more»
Keywords: Complexity, Complexity theory, European Union, European Union social policy, Health, Health care
Candidates and Candidate Selection in the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly Elections
Candidates and Candidate Selection in the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly Elections ... Read more»
Project staff: L Bennie (external), J Bradbury (external), David Denver, J Mitchell (external)
Capacity Building and Sharing Good Practice
Capacity Building and sharing good practice to support Lancashire ETP training for brokers and providers. Including a Good Practice Event. ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt
Careers, Education and Guidance
CSET has an impressive record in evaluating careers education and guidance, and in recent years it has worked with schools, colleges and careers compa ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Davies
Care needs of parents with children on the child protection register
Qualitative interviews with parents, children and practitioners. ... Read more»
Project staff: Ian Paylor, Cheryl Simmill-Binning
CARGO (Comparison of Approaches to Risk Governance)
The CARGO Project (Comparison of Approaches to Risk Governance) is organized within the Science and Society area of the European Union Sixth Framework ... Read more»
Project staff: Larry Reynolds, Bronislaw Szerszynski
Keywords: Governance, Public policy, Technology
CETL Evaluation
The Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) initiative has two main aims: to reward excellent teaching practice, and to further invest ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Ashwin, Joan Machell, Murray Saunders, Paul Trowler, Sadie Williams
Keywords: Higher education HE, Innovation, Learning technologies, Teaching and learning
Changing Cultural Tastes: Writers and the Popular in Modern Germany
Changing Cultural Tastes offers a critical survey of the taste wars fought over the past two centuries between the intellectual establishment and the ... Read more»
Project staff: Anthony Waine
Changing English across the 20th Century: A Corpus-based Study
The main aim of the research is to carry out an investigation of areas of change in grammatical usage in 20th Century British English, focussing on th ... Read more»
Project staff: Geoffrey Leech, Paul Rayson, Nick Smith (external), Michael Wynne (external)
Changing Faces of Adult Literacy, Numeracy & ESOL
This project takes a historical look at policy and practice in the field of Adult literacy, Language and Numeracy (ALLN). By bringing together the per ... Read more»
Project staff: Yvon Appleby, Mary Hamilton
Keywords: Adult basic education, Education, ESOL, Literacy
CHEXIT - Consortium for Higher Education eXchange in Instructional and Information Technologies.
Six institutions of higher education have formed this consortium to promote a student centered US/EU dimension to education and training in the field ... Read more»
Project staff: Christine Smith
Child Disability and the Dynamics of Family Poverty, Hardship and Financial Strain
The aim of this ESRC funded study is to examine the association between the presence/absence of child disability in families and: (1) the proportion o ... Read more»
Child Pornography and Sexual Grooming: Legal and Societal Responses
Child pornography and sexual grooming provide case study exemplars of problems that society and law have sought to tackle to avoid not only actual, bu ... Read more»
Project staff: Suzanne Ost
Keywords: Child abuse and neglect, Children, Criminal justice, Criminal law, Law, Law and society, Sexual offences
Children and Healthcare Research
This symposium on the involvement of children in healthcare research is sponsored by the Modern Law Review Seminar Series and supported by the Lancast ... Read more»
Children and imprisonment
Considered the changes to the Youth Justice System and the future of the current system, in particular the use of imprisonment in relation to young of ... Read more»
Project staff: Georgina Firth
Keywords: Children, Criminal justice, Criminal justice policy, Criminal law, Law, Young people and crime, Youth justice, Youth offending
Children in horror fiction and film
This research project is concerned with 'children in horror fiction and film'. The project will involve looking at how and why the figure of the child ... Read more»
Project staff: Jayne Steel
Keywords: Children, Cultural theory, Culture and media, English, Film, Film adaptation, Gothic film, Gothic literature, Hollywood cinema, Literary and cultural theory, Literature, Psychoanalytic criticism, Psychoanalytic film theory, Romanticism, Twentieth-century literature, Twentieth-century popular culture, Victorian literature
Children missing from education in Blackpool
The first two stages of the study involved desk top research to review policies and practices in tracking missing children within the authority and in ... Read more»
Project staff: Karen Broadhurst, Corinne May-Chahal
Children's Involvement in an Child Protection Online Project
This paper, which will be an output of the ISIS project, explores the obligations owed to children who participate in, and whose data is used in, rese ... Read more»
Project staff: Suzanne Ost
Keywords: Child abuse and neglect, Children, Computerised corpora, Computer-mediated communication, Cybercrime, Ethics, Law, Law and society, Policing, Research ethics, Society
Choice, class and community: the policy implications of educational placelessness
This postdoctoral fellowship contributes to understanding class, lifestyle and locale in relation to the educational market place by disseminating the ... Read more»
Keywords: Community, School choice, Social class
Circumvention of Technological Measures
Examination of recent cases, including R. v Gilham (Christopher Paul) [2009] EWCA Crim 2293, in which convictions were confirmed for the sale of 'modc ... Read more»
Project staff: Angus MacCulloch
Keywords: Commercial law, Enforcement, Intellectual property rights
Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-Based Society
Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-Based Society ... Read more»
Project staff: Bob Jessop, Ngai-Ling Sum
CKnoC: researching collaborative knowledge construction
The aim of this small scale research is to help gather data and try out an innovative research method for researching collaborative knowledge construc ... Read more»
Project staff: Maria Zenios
CLEO Content Strategy Development
CLEO (Cumbria and Lancashire Education Online) fulfil an important function with regard to broadband implementation, tackling the national DfES remit ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Compulsory education, Education technology, E-learning
COGS
The COGS project was described in early project literature as: "A Test Bed Project sponsored by the ICT in Schools Division and the City Academies Uni ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Compulsory education, Education, Education technology
Comfort in a Lower Carbon Society
Comfort in a lower carbon society Elizabeth Shove, Heather Chappells and Loren Lutzenhiser have edited a special issue of Building Research and Infor ... Read more»
Project staff: Elizabeth Shove
Keywords: Everyday life culture, Science, technology and society
Community-Based Evaluation of 'Preferred Place of Care' (PPC) in the North West of England
Communication about death and dying continues to be difficult for patients, family and staff. The Preferred Place of Care document (PPC), now called P ... Read more»
Community Learning
Our community learning provided the basis of an extensive range of research and development cycles which informed our own provision and has generated ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton
Keywords: Adult learning, Community development, Education
Community, Society and Identity in 19th- and 20th-Century Gibraltar
This project was concerned with the demographic, economic and social history of Gibraltar. It explored especially the manner in which and the extent t ... Read more»
Project staff: Martin Blinkhorn, Stephen Constantine
Comparison of Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of Human Genetic Databases in Europe
This research has been proposed, and will be funded by, the EU in the light of current initiatives in (for instance in Iceland, Estonia and the UK) to ... Read more»
Comprehensive Contract Theory
This project is an attempt to produce a "streamlined" version of Ian Macneil's essential contract theory, and proposes a four norm model of contract r ... Read more»
Project staff: Richard Austen-Baker
Keywords: Commercial law, Contract, Law
Computer Examples and Simulations in the Psychology of Music
The outcome of the project will be a set of simple and small pieces of software, written specifically to be as widely usable as possible, which provid ... Read more»
Project staff: Alan Marsden
Keywords: Learning technologies, Music psychology and cognition, Music technology
CONCERTED ACTION: Environmental Valuation in Europe (EVE)
The purpose of this concerted action is to analyse effective methods for expressing the values associated with environmental goods and services, ecosy ... Read more»
Constituency Campaigning in the 1997 general election
Constituency Campaigning in the 1997 general election ... Read more»
Project staff: David Denver, Gordon Hands
Constituency Campaigning in the 2001 general election
Constituency Campaigning in the 2001 general election ... Read more»
Project staff: David Denver, Gordon Hands
Constraints in Law and Literature: An exploration of regulation, justice and ethics
The School of Law at the University of Manchester will be holding a one-day colloquium at the University's Conference Centre in conjunction with the L ... Read more»
Project staff: Suzanne Ost
Keywords: Ethics, Law and literature, Regulation, Shakespeare
Consumer Construction Law
Acting as UK Reporter for a project to compare the law on consumer construction contracts in Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Switzerland. This w ... Read more»
Project staff: Richard Austen-Baker
Keywords: Consumer, Consumer contracts, Consumer law, Contract, Law
Contemporary British Artists' Sketchbooks: researching the use and relevance of notational practice in contemporary fine art
No details at present. ... Read more»
Keywords: Art
Contested Common Land: Environmental Governance, Law and Sustainable Land Management c.1600-2006
This collaborative and interdisciplinary project brought together researchers in the History Department at Lancaster University, Newcastle Law School ... Read more»
Project staff: Eleanor Straughton, Angus Winchester
Keywords: Common land, Cumbria, Environmental history, Farming, History, Lake District, Landscape, Legal history, Rural history
Contexts, Meanings, Motivations and Consequences of British GHB and GBL Use (British Academy funded project)
Research objectives of proposed study: 1. To investigate the contexts of GHB and GBL use amongst British young people participating in EDM scenes (' ... Read more»
Project staff: Fiona Measham, Karenza Moore
Keywords: Drugs, Drugs and criminal justice, Harm reduction, Youth, Youth subculture
Continental Journeys in Victorian Fiction
In this project, I'm interested in analysing episodes of continental travel in Victorian fiction. Questions I'll be asking are: what effect does the t ... Read more»
Project staff: Tess Cosslett
Keywords: Europe, European, Literature, National identities, Nineteenth-century culture, Nineteenth-century literature, Travel, Victorian culture, Victorian literature
Contracting & Marketing - Lancaster-Helskinki
Corporations are nowadays increasingly seen as networks of contracts both in legal and in economic doctrine. Markets are seen as interconnected networ ... Read more»
Project staff: Richard Austen-Baker
Keywords: Commercial law, Contract, Contract law, Law, Law and society, Legal
Contrasting English and Chinese
As an extension of the ESRC project "Contrast aspect and tense in English and Chinese" (RES-000-220135), this project compares and contrasts aspect-re ... Read more»
Project staff: Tony McEnery, AcSS, FRSA, Richard Xiao
Co-ordination Action on Human Rights Violations: Addressing human rights violations in the context of interpersonal relationships
Violence against women is recognized as a serious challenge to democracy and social cohesion; this needs to be extended to the victimisation of men, c ... Read more»
Project staff: Corinne May-Chahal
Copyright and E-Learning in European Laws
I am joint coordinator of a network of European scholars developing a comparative analysis of the implications of intellectual property law, especiall ... Read more»
Project staff: Sol Picciotto
Keywords: E-learning, European law, Intellectual property rights, Public policy
Creating a resource for policy, practitioners and researchers
A large amount of data and other research-related resources of many different kinds are being generated by NRDC projects. This project aims to ensure ... Read more»
Project staff: Jessica Abrahams, David Barton, Karin Tusting
Keywords: Adult basic education, Adult learning, ESOL, Numeracy, Skills for life
CREATOR: New Research Models and Processes for the Creative Industries
CREATOR is a joint EPSRC/AHRC/ESRC Digital Economies research cluster fostering collaborative research in creative organisations. ... Read more»
Project staff: Kirk Woolford
Keywords: Collaborative processes and methods, Computing, Creative industries
Crime and Security in Post-Communist Europe
The puzzling notion of security has been the recent subject of socio-legal scholarship. This is especially interesting when investigating post-totalit ... Read more»
Project staff: Agata Fijalkowski
Keywords: Crime and society, Crime control, Post-communist states, Security
Criminal Confessions
The proposed book, by Lee and Katharine Horsley, will provide a selection of criminal confessions from four centuries of British and American criminal ... Read more»
Project staff: Kate Horsley, Lee Horsley
Keywords: Crime fiction, Eighteenth century, Law and literature, Legal history, Life-writing, Literature, Nineteenth century, Seventeenth century, Twentieth century
Criminal Damage in the North West
ASSURE (Applied Social Science Unit for Research and Evaluation) were commissioned in February 2007 to conduct a short piece of research on young peop ... Read more»
Project staff: Jill Anderson
Criminal Genes and Public Policy
This project provided the first consideration of the policy implications of behavioural genetics in one specific area through a consultation with prof ... Read more»
Project staff: Mairi Levitt
Keywords: Bioethics, Criminal justice policy, Genetics, Public policy, Responsibility
Criminalisation of Cartels
Following on from my previous work, 'The Cartel Offence and the Criminalisation of UK Competition Law' (2003) and 'Honesty, Morality and the Cartel Of ... Read more»
Project staff: Angus MacCulloch
Keywords: Cartels, Competition law, Enforcement
Criminalising Fabricated Images of Child Pornography: A Matter of Harm or Morality?
This paper is concerned with the new offence of possessing 'non-photographic pornographic images of children' under the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, ... Read more»
Project staff: Suzanne Ost
Keywords: Child abuse and neglect, Children, Crime and society, Criminal law
Cross-cultural voyages to the Pacific
This three-year project was sponsored by the Royal Society of New Zealand for NZ$496,000. The interdisciplinary work that we undertook looks at the ... Read more»
Project staff: Mercedes Camino
Keywords: Cross-cultural encounters, Ethnography, Exploration, History, History of cartography, Sixteenth-century, Voyages
Cultural Crisis of Modernity
Dr Tim Hickman's research is concerned with the cultural and intellectual history of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. He is engaged in an investiga ... Read more»
Project staff: Tim Hickman
Cumbria Direct Payments Scheme Evaluation
The Cumbria Direct Payments Project (DPP) was established in 2000 with the aims: To promote and increase greater independent along with greater choic ... Read more»
Project staff: Bob Sapey
Keywords: Disability, Disability and welfare
Cumbrian Manorial Records Project
In 2004. the Department of History was awarded a grant of £46,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund for a project to raise awareness of the importance ... Read more»
Project staff: Eleanor Straughton, Angus Winchester
Keywords: Access to archives, Cumbria, History, Local history, Lordship, Manor, Manuscripts
'Day in the Life'
A 'Day in the Life' is an ecological investigation of aspects of culture in the interactional construction of childhood in diverse global communities. ... Read more»
Project staff: Julia Gillen
Keywords: Children, Culture, Ecology, Everyday life culture, Families, Family, Literacy, Psychology, Qualitative methods, Qualitative research methods, Video
Debt enforcement procedures outside bankruptcy
There is evidence that creditors are looking at alternative methods of debt enforcement outside bankruptcy. This project will examine that hypothesis ... Read more»
De-Communisation Measures in Poland
Generous support awarded by the FASS Research and Development Fund will enable me to carry out two sets of interviews in Warsaw, Poland (in 2010)conce ... Read more»
Keywords: Comparative criminal justice, Law in transition
De-Communisation Measures in Poland
Generous support from the FASS Research and Enterprise Fund will enable me to carry out two sets of interviews in Warsaw, Poland in 2010, concerning d ... Read more»
Project staff: Agata Fijalkowski
Keywords: Comparative criminal justice, Law in transition
Defamation and sexuality
I am currently working on a project interrogating aspects of defamation law and sexuality, and the construction of identity. ... Read more»
Project staff: Bela Bonita Chatterjee
De-medicalising assisted death
I have just finished writing a paper on the de-medicalisation of assisted death as part of my work for the AHRC funded project The Impact of the Crimi ... Read more»
Project staff: Suzanne Ost
Keywords: Assisted dying, Death, Dying, Ethics, Euthanasia, Medical ethics, Medical law, Medicine
Design for a culture of change in secondary schools
This project is a pilot study with a secondary school in North West England aimed at testing service and participatory design theory and practice in s ... Read more»
Project staff: Sabine Junginger, Daniela Sangiorgi, Roger Whitham
Keywords: Design as vehicle for organisational change four orders of design
, Participatory design, Service design
Design for Flexibility and Change within Health Service Providers (DFC)
This project explores how medical practitioners can mobilize local and expert domain knowledge and dovetail it with new design and managerial skills t ... Read more»
Keywords: Design and innovation, Ethnography, Health services research, Human-centered design
Designing an Inclusive Curriculum in Higher Education (DICHE)
The project, commissioned by the Higher Education Academy, aims to develop guidance that offers a range of practical ways to embed the requirements of ... Read more»
Project staff: Amy Burgess, Steven Dempster, Ann-Marie Houghton, Rebecca Marsden, Hannah Morgan
Design in Practice. Flexibility and Change within Health Service Providers
18 month research project as part of an EPSRC funded innovation centred called HACIRIC (Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre) ... Read more»
Project staff: Monika Büscher, Rachel Cooper, Sabine Junginger, Daniela Sangiorgi
Keywords: Health services research, Service design
Developing web-based curriculum data management systems
The aim of this long-term research project has been to explore ways in which school and national data could be handled, and a system could be produce ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Compulsory education, Education, E-learning
Developmental State and East Asian Crisis
Developmental State and East Asian Crisis ... Read more»
Project staff: Ngai-Ling Sum
DIALANG
This Project has developed diagnostic language tests in 14 European languages, delivered over the Internet. The test system is based on the Common Eur ... Read more»
Project staff: J. Charles Alderson
Keywords: Language testing
Digital resource for the study of spoken Nepali language: the Bandhu Collection
In January 2006, Lancaster was awarded a grant by the British Academy (SG-42148) to develop a digital resource for the investigation of spoken Nepali. ... Read more»
Project staff: Andrew Hardie
Keywords: Corpus linguistics, Digital humanities, Linguistics, Multilingual corpora, South Asia
Disability Effective Inclusive Policies
The Disability Effective Inclusive Policies (DEIP) Project is funded by the European Social Fund and co-ordinated by the Centre for Continuing Educati ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton, Linda Piggott
Keywords: Disability, Employment, Participation, Transition
Discourse of the School Dinners Debate
The 'Discourse of the School Dinners Debate' is a one year ESRC funded project. Professor Guy Cook of the Open University is the Principal Investigat ... Read more»
Project staff: Julia Gillen
Keywords: Corpora and sociolinguistics/discourse, Corpus linguistics, Discourse, Discourse analysis, Education, Focus groups and interviewing, Food
Discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press, 1996-2006
Refugees and asylum seekers seeking entry into the UK have become the focus of intense media and political discussion. On this project, we explore the ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Baker, Costas Gabrielatos, Majid KhosraviNik, Michal Krzyzanowski, Tony McEnery, AcSS, FRSA, Ruth Wodak
Domestication of Death
Prof Sue Wise, Applied Social Science, Lancaster University Prof Liz Stanley, Sociology, University of Edinburgh. Do most deaths now take place in ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Wise
Keywords: Bereavement, Death, Dying, End of life, e-research, Memorialisation, Photography
Drug Related Deaths
Study of drug related deaths and 'near misses' ... Read more»
Project staff: Ian Paylor, Alison Wilson
East Asian Economies: Regulationist Perspectives
East Asian Economies: Regulationist Perspectives ... Read more»
Project staff: Ngai-Ling Sum
E-China
The eChina Phase 2 project on intercultural professional development for e-learning involves three UK Universities: Lancaster University, the lead Uni ... Read more»
Project staff: David McConnell, Andrew Jianhua Zhao
EDNER
EDNER - the formative evaluation of the UK higher education sector's Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) - was a three year project being ... Read more»
Project staff: Bob Kemp, Maria Zenios
Education and Work
A list of Education and Work related projects over a 10 year period from 1990 to 2000. ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
EFX
The EFX Project was a short-term measure providing support for projects funded under the Joint Information Systems Committee's FAIR and X4L Programmes ... Read more»
ELAC
European and Latin American Consortium for IST Enhanced Continued Education in Environmental Management and Planning We provided evaluative framew ... Read more»
Project staff: Bob Kemp, Murray Saunders
E-LEN
The E-LEN project is a project under the Socrates Programme which aims to create a Network of E-Learning Centres and leading organisations in the lear ... Read more»
Project staff: Christine Smith, Maria Zenios
Keywords: E-learning, Teaching and learning
ELPAC Validation
Following an extensive review, in 2003 the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) strengthened the provisions relating to language proficien ... Read more»
Project staff: J. Charles Alderson, Jayanti Banerjee, Tania Horak, Dianne Wall
EMEDIATE: Media and Ethics of the European Public Sphere: From the Treaty of Rome to the 'War on Terror'
EMEDIATE: Media and Ethics of the European Public Sphere: From the Treaty of Rome to the 'War on Terror' EU-Sixth-Framework Specific Targeted Resear ... Read more»
Project staff: Michal Krzyzanowski, Ruth Wodak
E-mentoring in schools
In summer 2005, the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust set up a pilot e-mentoring project. This pilot project involved 39 schools, at varying stag ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Education technology, E-learning
Emotions and the Heart in History
Provisionally entitled The Heart and the Matter, this book will explore the complex historical relationships between the heart, the brain, subjectivit ... Read more»
Project staff: Fay Bound Alberti
Employer Learning Centre Research
The Network provided consultancy for LSC Greater Manchester in the resourcing of selected Employer Learning Centres in the Greater Manchester area ... Read more»
Project staff: Eddie Little
Enhancing the Teaching-Research Nexus
Universities and departments often characterise their learning, teaching, assessment and curriculum (LTAC) practices in relation to research. Some cla ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Trowler
Keywords: Academic cultures, Higher education HE, Higher education policy, Teaching and learning
ENLTA (European Network for Language Testing and Assessment)
Funded until December 2005, the project is intended to establish a network of individuals involved in language testing and assessment in Europe. ... Read more»
Project staff: J. Charles Alderson
EQUEL
EQUEL stands for e-quality in e-learning and is a virtual centre of excellence for innovation and research in networked learning in higher and post-co ... Read more»
Error, Blame and Responsibiltiy in Child Welfare: Problematics of Governance in an Invisible Trade
A persistent theme of child welfare inquiries in the last 30 years has been flawed decision-making and related error, attributed to problems of inform ... Read more»
Project staff: Karen Broadhurst, Sue White
Keywords: Child abuse and neglect, Ethnography, Ethnomethodology, Institutional talk, Social work, Tacit knowledge
ESRC Health Variations Programme
This is an interdisciplinary research programme funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The Programme aims to: advance understanding of ... Read more»
ESRC Research Bid
This research will investigate the effectiveness of leave to remove applications (LTR) made by parents wishing to permanently relocate themselves and ... Read more»
ESRC study of metalinguistic knowledge and proficiency in French
This research project was funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council. The research was intended to investigate the belief that incoming und ... Read more»
Project staff: J. Charles Alderson
Ethical Frameworks for Telecare Technologies (EFORTT)
This research asks what are the normative reasons for and implications of, the introduction of remote care technologies for frail elderly people, for ... Read more»
Project staff: Christine Milligan, Maggie Mort, Celia Roberts
Keywords: Ageing, Ethics, Ethnography, EU law and policy, Gender, Governance, Health and Older People, ICT, Identity, Public participation, Science and technology studies, Telecare, Telemedicine
Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of Human Genetic Databases; a European Comparison (ELSAGEN)
The ELSAGEN project will look at the ethical, legal, social and fundamental issues raised by recent developments in genetics research with special foc ... Read more»
Project staff: Ruth Chadwick
Keywords: Ethics of genetics, Genetics, Genomics
Ethical, Legal and Social Dimensions of Genetics
Lancaster University is a partner in the North West Genetics Knowledge Park (Nowgen) network. CESAGen is responsible for one of Nowgen's key research ... Read more»
Project staff: Elisa Pieri, Sarah Wilson
Keywords: Ethics of genetics, Genetics, Genomics, Public policy, Public understanding of science
Ethics and Ethnographic Research
Co-awarded, 'ESRC Research Training Programme: Ethics and Ethical Practice in Social Science, 2006-2009' ... Read more»
Project staff: David Archard, Hazel Biggs, Christine Milligan, Nayanika Mookherjee
Keywords: Conflict, Ethnography, Human rights, Research ethics, Sociology, Violence, War
Ethnicity and the Construction of Prejudice in Premodern Europe c.1200-1700
The network brings together individual research on the identification of cultural and ethnic minorities, the relationship between dominant and sub-dom ... Read more»
Project staff: Sarah Barber, Gunlog Fur (external), Andrew Jotischky, Kimmo Katajala (external), Nabil Matar (external), David Nirenberg (external), Johannes Pahlitzsch (external), John Tolan (external)
ETOILE: Environment for Team, Organisational and Individual Learning in Emergencies
ETOILE (Environment for Team, Organisational and Individual Learning in Emergencies) is an academia-industry collaborative project funded by the Europ ... Read more»
Project staff: Julie-Ann Sime
European and Latin America Collaboration
ELAC aimed to use ICT as a mechanism to support learning in environmental management in Costa Rica, Mexcio and Nicaragua. CSET's roles was to provide ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
Keywords: Evaluation
European Information Network Ethics in Medicine and Biotechnology (EURETHNET)
EURETHNET has been set up with the aim of developing an information network and knowledge base in the field of ethics in medicine and biotechnology. ... Read more»
Project staff: Ruth Chadwick, Richard Twine
Keywords: Biotechnology, Genetics, Genomics, Medical ethics, Medical law, Medical law and ethics
European Patient Organizations in Knowledge Society (EPOKS)
EPOKS is a large European project examining a variety of patient organisations. At Lancaster University we are focusing on childbirth organisations, a ... Read more»
Project staff: Celia Roberts, Candice Satchwell, Imogen Tyler
Keywords: Choice, Everyday literacy practices, Knowledge, Knowledge exchange
European Private Law
Geraint Howells participates in the ACQUIS group which forms part of the COPECL network of excellence working towards developing a Common Frame of Ref ... Read more»
European Project on Stem Cell Research (EuroStem)
EUROSTEM forms part of the European Union's Fifth Framework Programme on Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources. This project is concerned ... Read more»
Project staff: Richard Twine
Keywords: Ethics of genetics, Genetics, Genomics, Medical ethics, Public policy
Evacuees: Children and Adults During the Second World War
Based on the stories of 12 children and adults, Evacuees is a social history of the evacuation of schoolchildren in Britain during the Second World Wa ... Read more»
Project staff: John Welshman
Evaluating Education Action Zones
CSET is trialing an innovative approach to evaluation in one of the UK's Education Action Zones. This five year project collaborative project involvin ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
Keywords: Education Action Zones, Evaluation
Evaluating the Scottish HE policy on quality (QEF)
This project is evaluating the enhancement led approach to the development of quality within the HE sector in Scotland. The project is running from 20 ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
Keywords: Evaluation
Evaluation and Quality
A list of projects related to Evaluation and Quality, which took place between 1990 - 2001. ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
Evaluation Capacity Building
The project provides for evaluation capacity building for HEI widening participation teams (WPTs) in the form of a development initiative involving re ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Davies, Ann-Marie Houghton, Rebecca Marsden, Lesleyann Morgan, Linda Pearce, Murray Saunders
Keywords: Evaluation
Evaluation of Aston Pride ICT Development
The Aston Pride ICT Project has and is incorporating a range of ICT pilots and developments to support education for the community. There has been a r ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Compulsory education, Education technology, E-learning
Evaluation of Barrow Community Gym: User Involvement, processes and outcomes
This research study was set up to establish an integrated and informative research base,to evaluate the first two years of the gym in its community se ... Read more»
Evaluation of learning and e-learning aspects of WMNet
Evaluation of learning and e-learning aspects of WMNet ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Classroom interaction, Classroom learning, Classroom research, Compulsory education, Education, Education technology, E-learning, Evaluation, Evaluation studies, Learning, Learning technologies, Teaching and learning, Technology enhanced learning
Evaluation of 'Outlook', Support Project, East Manchester
Evaluation of a service for people who are in drug treatment, on a reduction programme or recently detoxed from drugs or alcohol who are ready to make ... Read more»
Project staff: Ian Paylor, Alison Wilson
Evaluation of pilot schemes for witness support in Sheriff Courts
An evaluation of pilot schemes for witness support in Sheriff Courts ... Read more»
Project staff: David Smith
Evaluation of pilot schemes of electronic monitoring of offenders
An evaluation of pilot schemes of electronic monitoring of offenders ... Read more»
Evaluation of Police Reform Accountability Project
Qualitative examination of the pilot of a police initiative to involve the public in strategic decision making ... Read more»
Project staff: Ian Paylor, Cheryl Simmill-Binning
Evaluation of Preferred Place of Care: Towards Quality Improvement
This evaluation study examines patient, family member and health care professional perspectives on the Preferred Priorities for Care (PPC; formerly, P ... Read more»
Project staff: Iris Cohen Fineberg, Katrina Stengel
Keywords: Advance care planning, Preferred place of care, Preferred priorities for care
Evaluation of Sal's (safe at last) Place project
Multi-method evaluation of a 'one-stop' domestic violence initiative serving the Lancaster and District area ... Read more»
Project staff: Ian Paylor, Cheryl Simmill-Binning
Evaluation of SchoolNet Global
Evaluation of SchoolNet Global ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Evaluation of the Apex CueTen project for persistent juvenile offenders
An evaluation of the Apex CueTen project for persistent juvenile offenders ... Read more»
Project staff: David Smith
Evaluation of the BBC Radio-in-Schools project
Evaluation of the BBC Radio-in-Schools project ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Evaluation of the Blackpool Bail Support Scheme
Multi-method evaluation of the bail support scheme run by Blackpool YOT ... Read more»
Project staff: Ian Paylor, Cheryl Simmill-Binning
Evaluation of the Fishwick and St. Matthews Sure Start Scheme
Multi-method evaluation of the Sure Start scheme in the Preston area ... Read more»
Project staff: Ian Paylor, Cheryl Simmill-Binning
Evaluation of the impact of IT Academies
Evaluation of the impact of IT Academies ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Classroom learning, Compulsory education, Education, E-learning, Evaluation, ICT, Innovation, Professional development, Teaching and learning, Technology, Technology enhanced learning, Training
Evaluation of the Lancashire Bail Support Scheme
Multi-method evaluation of the bail support scheme run by Lancashire YOTs ... Read more»
Project staff: Ian Paylor, Cheryl Simmill-Binning
Evaluation of the Ribbleton Sure Start Scheme
Multi-method evaluation of the Sure Start scheme in the Preston area ... Read more»
Project staff: Ian Paylor, Cheryl Simmill-Binning
Evaluation of the use of Lay assessors in Social Care Inspection
A multi-method examination exploring the use of lay assessors in the inspection process ... Read more»
Project staff: Ian Paylor, Cheryl Simmill-Binning
Evaluation of the witness service.
The research evaluated the witness service in Scottish Sheriff Courts. It followed our evaluation of the pilot schemes for a witness support service f ... Read more»
Project staff: David Smith
Keywords: Criminal justice, Voluntary sector
Evaluation of the WMnet climate change in the curriculum programme
WMnet are contracted to undertake two areas of project development for the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). These areas ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Children's values and attitudes, Classroom learning, Compulsory education, Education, Evaluation, ICT, Innovation, Learning, Professional development, Project evaluation, Teaching and learning
Existential suffering and lay assisted death in the Netherlands
Together with my PhD student Alex Mullock (School of Law, University of Manchester), I am writing a journal paper on existential suffering and lay-ass ... Read more»
Project staff: Suzanne Ost
Keywords: Assisted dying, Bioethics, Comparative, Comparative criminal justice, Death, Dying, Ethics, Health, Health and Older People, Law, Medical and health-care law, Medical law, Suicide
Experimentality
Experimentality is the the 2009-10 Annual Research Programme of the Institute For Advanced Studies, Lancaster University. Taking the form of a series ... Read more»
Project staff: Bronislaw Szerszynski
Exploring and Expanding the Student Experience
This project aims to help Lancaster University students and the institution itself to better understand the ways in which students can increase their ... Read more»
Project staff: Gordon Clark, Leanne Thompson, Marion Walker, Duncan Whyatt
Keywords: Employment, Skills for life, Workplace skills
Exploring explicit knowledge about language among undergraduate students of Linguistics
Exploring explicit knowledge about language among undergraduate students of Linguistics ... Read more»
Project staff: J. Charles Alderson, Jayanti Banerjee, Jonathan Culpeper, Florencia Franceschina, Andrew Hardie, Willem Hollmann, Sarah Jackson, Alan Waters
Keywords: Grammar, Language
Exploring Health Care Law's Recognition of Autonomy and Rights 16th March 2009
A Centre for Bioethics and Medical Law half-day seminar event on the way in which health care law recognises and responds to matters of autonomy and r ... Read more»
Project staff: Hazel Biggs, Sara Fovargue, Suzanne Ost
Keywords: Autonomy, Ethics, Health care, Human rights, Medical and health-care law, Medical ethics, Medical law, Medical law and ethics
Exploring Public Images Of Literacy
Following earlier work on visual images of literacy, our current study analyses a corpus of newspaper photographs of literacy practices using software ... Read more»
Project staff: Mary Hamilton
Keywords: Literacy
Exploring social inequity issues using a large online data bas
SAM Learning is a leading provider of online revision resources for students in the United Kingdom (UK). Over a number of years SAM Learning has gath ... Read more»
Project staff: Catherine Fritz, Don Passey
Extraterritorial Obligations in International Human Rights Law
This project will result in an edited book (with Prof. Mark Gibney, University of NorthCarolina - Asheville) entitled Extraterritorial Obligations and ... Read more»
Project staff: Sigrun Skogly
Keywords: Economic, social and cultural rights, Human rights, Human rights obligation
Face Value: British Fiction and the Rise of the Picture ID
Picture identification (defined as matching an embodied face to a represented face to verify a proper name) is everywhere in global culture and yet no ... Read more»
Project staff: Kamilla Elliott
Keywords: Eighteenth century, English, Globalisation, Identity, Immigration law, Law, Literature, Literature and politics, Literature and power, Nineteenth century, Photography, Terrorism, Victorian literature
Families And Higher Education Decision-making - FAHED
FAHED was an action research project concerned with raising awareness and identifying barriers to participation in higher education. The principles an ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton
Keywords: Family, Higher education HE, Parent-school relations, Partnership, Professional development, Widening participation
Families in Context
This is a collaborative project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, with colleagues at the University of California at Riverside, University of Sydney ... Read more»
Project staff: Eric Emerson, Chris Hatton
Family Farming Practices
Considering the relationships between national policy and local practices on family farms in NW UK. ... Read more»
Project staff: John Law, Vicky Singleton
Keywords: Farming, Science and technology studies
Fatal Attraction of Nationalist Socialism
This research addresses the important question of how a totalitarian regime could find mass support for its inhumane policies. It thus deals with an i ... Read more»
Project staff: Thomas Rohkrämer
Features of written language production typical at different IELTS band levels
This study is documenting the linguistic markers of the different levels of foreign language proficiency defined by IELTS band levels. ... Read more»
Project staff: Jayanti Banerjee, Florencia Franceschina, Anne-Margaret Smith
Feminist Media Studies reading group
The main purpose of the first meeting of the reading group is to think about how the group will develop over the next academic year. Our proposed foc ... Read more»
Project staff: Rebecca Coleman, Debra Ferreday, Imogen Tyler
Keywords: Femininities, Feminist and critical race theory, Feminist literary and cultural theory, Feminist philosophy, Feminist research methodologies, Feminist theory, Gender, Gender identities, Women's studies
Film, Memory and the Legacy of the Spanish Civil War
A monograph on films about the Spanish guerrilla fight in the 1940s. ... Read more»
Keywords: Film, Hispanic studies, Historiography, Memorialisation, Memorials, Memory, War
Forthcoming book: Performing the Modern Self: Discourses on Acting at the Beginning and the End of the Gutenberg Galaxy
Her book project is provisionally entitled Performing the Modern Self: Discourses on Acting at the Beginning and the End of the 'Gutenberg Galaxy' and ... Read more»
Project staff: Karen Juers-Munby
Gender and Asylum
Assessing whether the Refugee Convention definitions remain valid in the 21st Century ... Read more»
Project staff: Georgina Firth
Keywords: Gender, Immigration law, Refugee
Gender and Religion
The Blackwell Companion to Gender and Religion Edited by Deborah Sawyer, Lancaster University, and Sîan Hawthorne, School of Oriental and African Stu ... Read more»
Project staff: Deborah Sawyer
Keywords: Gender and religion
Gender in Cultural Practice
This is a research project with colleagues at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) and Lancaster University funded primarily by the Dutch governm ... Read more»
Project staff: Anne Cronin, Alison Findlay, Hilary Hinds
Keywords: Cities, Culture, Gender, Spatiality
Genetic Databases
The overall objective of this project is to explore the ethical, regulatory and governance issues arising out of the use of genetic databases. This pr ... Read more»
Project staff: Ruth Chadwick, Mairi Levitt
Keywords: Genetics, Genomics
Genomics and Benefit Sharing with Developing Countries (BeSha)
The growing interest of academics and businesses in the potential of genomic research in developing countries has been accompanied by an increasing aw ... Read more»
Project staff: Ruth Chadwick
Keywords: Genetics, Genomics
Global Citizenship and the Environment
The aim of the project was to explore whether there was any empirical basis for the emergence of an awareness of "global citizenship", a sense of belo ... Read more»
Project staff: Greg Myers, Bronislaw Szerszynski, John Urry
Global Governance, Conflict and Resistance
Global Governance, Conflict and Resistance ... Read more»
Project staff: Feargal Cochrane, Rosaleen Duffy, Jan Selby
Global Governance, Environmental Resources and the Impact of State Collapse in Africa: The Case of Madagascar
Global Governance, Environmental Resources and the Impact of State Collapse in Africa: The Case of Madagascar ... Read more»
Project staff: Christopher Clapham, Feargal Cochrane, Rosaleen Duffy
Global Mobility and Diaspora Communities: Irish-America, September 11th and the 'War on Terror'
Global Mobility and Diaspora Communities: Irish-America, September 11th and the 'War on Terror'. ... Read more»
Project staff: Feargal Cochrane, Rosaleen Duffy, Hugh Miall
Global Welcome? Migrant workers, service cultures, tourist places.
The project will undertake a socio-cultural analysis of the welcome provided to and by migrant workers employed in hospitality venues in the English L ... Read more»
Project staff: Viv Cuthill
Keywords: Cultural geography, Hospitality, Migration, Mobilities, Service work, Sociology, Tourism
GNVQs
The two main aims of this report were to identify the factors which influence and motivate individuals to take-up NVQs and to identify how TECs can he ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
Gothic Portrait Identification
This project researches connections between portrait identification in first-wave Gothic fiction (1764-1835) and changing iconographies of identity in ... Read more»
Keywords: Identity, Identity politics, Literature, Political theory, Portraiture
Grammar of Lancashire Dialect
The project aims to investigate what makes lancashire dialect distinct from other dialects in the UK. While dialectologists have traditionally concern ... Read more»
Project staff: Willem Hollmann, Anna Siewierska
Green Man Evaluation
The Birmingham Botanical Gardens are running a project intended to improve appreciation of the interdependency of the plant and human worlds by childr ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Compulsory education, Education technology, E-learning
Growing Places
Growing places: a study of change in The National Forest' was undertaken by social scientists John Urry and Jake Morris from the Social Science Depart ... Read more»
Project staff: John Urry
Growing up with Disability in Australia
This is a collaborative project with colleagues at the University of Sydney that is using data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children to e ... Read more»
Project staff: Eric Emerson
Guidance on making placements accessible for disabled social work students
This project evaluated the access that disabled students had to placements within social work courses. The evaluation included a review of the literat ... Read more»
Project staff: Bob Sapey
Guide to Cumbrian Historical Sources
Cumbria is fortunate to have a wide and varied range of archives available to the local, family and house historian. This book introduces the new (and ... Read more»
Project staff: Rob David, Michael Winstanley
Hate Crime and the City
The impression often conveyed by the media about 'hate crime' offenders is that they are hate-fuelled individuals who, in acting out their extremely b ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Iganski
Haunted Spaces: A Cultural Geography of the Ghost Story
This research project examines the conjunction of ghosts with particular locations in the heyday of the British ghost story, !850-1914, and the genre' ... Read more»
Project staff: Catherine Spooner
Keywords: Contemporary literature, Contemporary popular culture, Cultural geography, Cultural Studies, Fiction, Genre fiction, Ghosts, Gothic literature, Lancashire, Literature, Locality, Nineteenth-century literature, Television, Victorian literature
HEA (Higher Education Academy)
The Higher Education Academy has the mission of helping HE institutions, discipline groups and all staff to provide the best possible learning experie ... Read more»
Project staff: Joan Machell, Murray Saunders, Sadie Williams
Healthcare at home ? new technologies and responsibilities across diverse EU systems and cultures
To draw together social science studies and findings about technological and spatial shifts which project the home as a site of healthcare provision f ... Read more»
Project staff: Christine Milligan, Maggie Mort, Celia Roberts
Healthcare Research Ethics and Law: Regulation, Review and Responsibility
This book will focus on the process of the ethical review of biomedical research. It includes an overview of the history of research ethics, the philo ... Read more»
HE and FE
Members of CSET have developed a series of courses for Lancaster University undergraduates on Education and Work, Educational Policy Making and Univer ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
Home/Work: The Roles of Education, Literacy and Learning in the Social Networks and Mobility Patterns of Migrant Carers
This project focuses on the human geographies of skilled migration, specifically the practices, dispositions, relationships, and resources of professi ... Read more»
Project staff: Sondra Cuban
Homicide and the Media
The overall aim of this research was to investigate the reporting of homicide in the British press in the period from 1977 to 1999. ... Read more»
Project staff: Brian Francis, Moira Peelo
Housing Decisions in Old Age
The aim of this 3 year study is to develop a model of housing and care to bridge the gap between "very special housing" and "residential/nursing" care ... Read more»
How can cancer services best meet the psychosocial needs of patients and their main carers?
Focusing on service users' perspectives, this research project had the following objectives: To identify and document patient and main informal carer ... Read more»
Project staff: Brian Francis
How impersonal can personal pronouns get
In this study we will focus on the morpho-syntax, the semantics and the discourse functions of pronominal and verbal non-referential 3rd person plural ... Read more»
Project staff: Anna Siewierska
Keywords: Cognitive linguistics, Language typology, Linguistics, Linguistic typology, Semantics, Spoken language corpora, Syntax, Syntax/discourse interface
How impersonal can personal pronouns get: a cross-linguistic study of impersonal constructions.
The project (PI: Anna Siewierska; RA: Maria Papastathi) aimed to provide sound empirical support to a proposed five-way typology of third person plura ... Read more»
Project staff: Maria Papastathi, Anna Siewierska
Keywords: Corpus linguistic methodology, European languages, Impersonality, Linguistics, Linguistic typology, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/discourse interface
Humans in the Land: The Ethics and Aesthetics of the Cultural Landscape Funders British Council
This project is a philosophical study of cultural landscapes, focusing on the cultural landscape from an evaluational point of view, as a guide to the ... Read more»
IDEFICS - Identification and prevention of dietary and lifestyle-induced health effects in children and infants
IDEFICS is a European Union-funded project, designed to run for five years from September 2006. The project is coordinated by the University of Bremen ... Read more»
Project staff: Garrath Williams
Identities and Missions: Political and Cultural Reconfigurations of Central Europe after the Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
Research to date has been largely conceptualised according to national histories, and is teleologically determined by the German expansion into Austri ... Read more»
Project staff: Corinna Peniston-Bird, Thomas Rohkrämer, Derek Sayer
IELTS Impact Study
This research project, funded by the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, developed research instruments suitable for the investigati ... Read more»
Project staff: J. Charles Alderson, Jayanti Banerjee
Keywords: Language testing
IiP and Skills for Life Resource
IiP and Skills for Life Resource - Production of a DVD on IiP and Skills for Life entitled Natural Allies ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt, Eddie Little
Keywords: ESOL, Language, Literacy, Numeracy, Skills for life, Workplace learning, Workplace literacy, Workplace skills
Immigrant Protest
Call for Papers Citizenship Studies Special Issue: IMMIGRANT PROTEST Guest co-editors: Katarzyna Marciniak (Ohio University, USA) and Imogen Tyler ... Read more»
Project staff: Imogen Tyler
Keywords: Activism, Cartography, Class politics, Cultural theory, Identity politics, Migration and diaspora, Mobilities, National identities, Political theory, Postcolonial theory, Psychosocial interventions, Racialisation, Refugee, Social inequalities
Impact and uses of Espresso resources on teaching and learning
Impact and uses of Espresso resources on teaching and learning ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Classroom interaction, Classroom learning, Compulsory education, Creative practice and technology, Education, E-learning, Evaluation, ICT, Learning, Learning technologies, Pedagogical applications , Social contexts of learning, Teaching and learning, Technology enhanced learning
Impact Evaluation
This was a project involved an evaluation of all Skills for Life training programmes for practitioners and managers that the LSC had funded from 2003 ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt, Sandra Pegum
Impact of Companies Act 2006
This project will examine the broad impact of the new Companies Act, the longest statute in English Law. Professor Milman is part of a team working w ... Read more»
Project staff: David Milman
Keywords: Corporate law
Impact of developing criminal justice interventions relative to a cohort of substance misuse related offenders
ESRC CASE (MPhil/PhD) Studentship. ... Read more»
Project staff: Fiona Measham, Ian Paylor
Impact of video-conferencing trial on teaching and learning
Impact of video-conferencing trial on teaching and learning ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Classroom interaction, Classroom learning, Compulsory education, Computer-mediated communication, Education, E-learning, Evaluation, ICT, Innovation, Learning, Learning technologies, Professional development, Social contexts of learning, Teaching and learning, Technology enhanced learning, Video
Implied Terms
Research into the law concerning implied terms in contracts. This project began with an investigation into the history of The Moorcock as a precedent ... Read more»
Project staff: Richard Austen-Baker
Keywords: Commercial law, Contract, Law, Legal history
Impoliteness: Using language to cause offence
Impoliteness plays a central role in many contexts (e.g. military recruit training, exploitative TV shows) and is often of great interpersonal signifi ... Read more»
Project staff: Jonathan Culpeper
Improving the Life Chances of Young Disabled Australians
This project, funded by the Australian Research Council, is examining the predictors of different trajectories of the well-being of disabled Australia ... Read more»
Independent evaluation of the West Berkshire LA Online Reporting Pilot Project
West Berkshire LA are piloting the implementation of an online reporting system giving teachers, parents and pupils access to online reports in real t ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Indigenous Peoples and Globalisation of Genomics in Amazonia
Indigenous Peoples throughout Amazonia possess sophisticated knowledge of the ecology, management and uses of plants and other species. This knowledge ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Oldham, Brian Wynne
Keywords: Genomics, Globalisation, Intellectual property rights, Knowledge
Indigenous peoples' rights in the aftermath of the Declaration: (Intellectual) Property and Self-Determination
This is a one-day inter-disciplinary conference held at Lancaster University to discuss the developments within indigienous rights protection with a s ... Read more»
Project staff: Israel Butler, Nina Caspersen, Emilie Secker, Sigrun Skogly, James Summers
Keywords: Human rights, Indigenous peoples' knowledge, Intellectual property rights, International human rights law, Self-determination
Innovative Media for a Digital Economy EPSRC Digital Economy cluster
Our research on digital economies investigates practices of exchange that are emerging around the capabilities of social, pervasive and mobile technol ... Read more»
Project staff: Monika Büscher, Daniela Sangiorgi
Keywords: Digital technologies, Everyday life culture, Social technologies
Innovative Media for a Digital Economy (IMDE)
In this research cluster, we investigate digital economy practices that are emerging around the capabilities of social, mobile and pervasive technolog ... Read more»
Keywords: Design and innovation, Technology
Inspiring Communities Project. Barrow in Furness
A Baseline Report on Perceptions of its Purpose and Potential Achievements. ... Read more»
Institutionalisation of Ethics in Science Policy: Practices and Impact (INES)
INES (The Institutionalisation of Ethics in Science Policy: Practices and Impact) is an EU-funded project that has brought together a group of leading ... Read more»
Project staff: Ruth Chadwick, Floris Tomasini
Keywords: Ethics, Ethics of genetics, EU law and policy, Genetics, Genomics, Public policy, Science and technology
Intel Evaluation Project
An evaluation of Intel Foundation's online programme 'Intel Teach - Advanced Online'. ... Read more»
Project staff: Bob Kemp, Christine Smith, Maria Zenios
Interactive resources review
Interactive resources review ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Interactive whiteboards as pedagogic tools in primary classrooms
In 2006 I was co-investigator of a one year ESRC funded project (RES-000-22-1269) 'Interactive whiteboards as pedagogic tools in primary classrooms' d ... Read more»
Project staff: Julia Gillen
Keywords: Classroom interaction, Classroom learning, Classroom research, Education technology, Interactive whiteboard, Teaching and learning, Technologies, Technology, Technology enhanced learning
Interculture Project
The project was directly linked to two other HEFE projects, run respectively by the Universities of Oxford Brookes and Portsmouth. The collective aim ... Read more»
Intermediality in Elfriede Jelinek
Together with other international experts on Elfriede Jelinek and focused around the Elfriede Jelinek Research Centre at the University of Vienna, thi ... Read more»
Project staff: Allyson Fiddler
Keywords: Literature and politics
International Social Exclusion Project
Combating Social Exclusion through the Provision of Workplace Language Programmes ... Read more»
Project staff: Sandra Pegum
Keywords: Skills for life, Workplace learning, Workplace skills
International Study of Peace/Conflict Resolution Organisations (ISPO)
International Study of Peace/Conflict Resolution Organisations (ISPO). ... Read more»
Project staff: Feargal Cochrane, Seamus Dunn (external)
International Workshop on Transnational High Tech Strategies in a Globalized World
International Workshop on Transnational High Tech Strategies in a Globalized World ... Read more»
Project staff: Bob Jessop, Ngai-Ling Sum
Invention of Altruism
This research project looks at a particular modern keyword as a piece of verbal technology, asks how and why this word was used by some and resisted b ... Read more»
Project staff: Thomas Dixon
Investigating impacts of uses of retrieval and practice software facilities
phase-6 have commissioned this study to explore learning affordances, outcomes and impacts arising from uses of their software and resource facilities ... Read more»
Project staff: Catherine Fritz, Peter Morris, Don Passey
(In)Visibility in African Cultures conference stream
A conference stream, co-organised by Charlotte Baker (Lancaster), Zoe Norridge (Oxford) and Elleke Boehmer (Oxford), for the African Studies Associati ... Read more»
Project staff: Charlotte Baker
IRIS Evaluation
External independent evaluation of the Islington Refugree Integration Strategy. ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Davies, Linda Pearce, Murray Saunders
Keywords: Evaluation, Integration, Refugee
Irish experience of the criminal justice system. With Sam Lewis and Peter Raynor.
The study involved interviews with men who identified themselves as Irish and were under probation supervision about their experiences of probation an ... Read more»
Project staff: Sam Lewis (external), David Lobley (external), Peter Raynor (external), David Smith
Keywords: Crime control, Criminal justice, Social work with offenders
ISIS Protecting Children in Online Social Networks
I am involved in the EPSRC/ESRC funded Isis project (Lancaster University, Middlesex University and Swansea University), which aims to develop ethics- ... Read more»
Project staff: Suzanne Ost
Keywords: Child abuse and neglect, Children, Computerised corpora, Computer-mediated communication, Crime and new technologies, Crime and society, Cybercrime, Ethics, Policing
Is it working for you? An independent evaluation of St Helens Children's Fund
As independent evaluators we suggested that the following key questions should be addressed: Are Children's Fund services reaching the right childre ... Read more»
Project staff: Corinne May-Chahal
Islington Integrated Refugee Strategy Evaluation Project
The project is an external independent evaluation the Islington Refugee Integration strategy. It provides a framework for how the evaluation of IRIS i ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Davies, Linda Pearce, Murray Saunders
Isolus II
Intermediate Storate of Laid-Up Submarines. The focus of the project was to provide a variety of mechanisms in support of public consultation on the o ... Read more»
Project staff: Mike O'Donoghue
ITEMS
ITEMS - Identifying Trends in European Medical Space The Lancaster workpackage involved investigating the training needs of PhDs and post-doctoral fe ... Read more»
Project staff: Dawn Goodwin, Christine Milligan, Maggie Mort, Celia Roberts, John Welshman
'It's not me, it's you' - Law's Performance Anxiety over Gender Identity and cohabitation
Key words: Gender, Law, Constructive trusts, Judith Butler, Perfomativity, Feminist. Abstract In situations where the legal title to property i ... Read more»
Jack Hylton and France
Lancaster University's Jack Hylton Archive offers a unique opportunity to research dance bandleader Jack Hylton's association with France, especially ... Read more»
Project staff: Deborah Mawer
Keywords: Dance, France, Jazz, Music, Music business
Jewishness in the Life and Work of Anna Seghers
Anna Seghers was the most significant and productive German female writer of the 20th century. Forced to flee Germany in 1933, she spent the next 15 y ... Read more»
Jewishness in the Life and Work of Anna Seghers
Anna Seghers was the most significant and productive German female writer of the 20th century. Forced to flee Germany in 1933, she spent the next 15 y ... Read more»
Keywords: Antisemitism, Capitalism, Comparative literature, Fascism, Genocide, German language, culture and society, German studies and text analysis , Germany, Holocaust, Identity, Literature, Literature and migration, Literature and politics, Literatures of migration and diaspora, Memory, Migration and diaspora, Modernity, Novel, Political ideologies, Race, Socialist literature, Totalitarianism, Twentieth-century literature
John Denton's History of Cumberland
To publish a new critical edition of the earliest history of Cumberland, compiled by John Denton of Cardew c.1600. ... Read more»
Project staff: Angus Winchester
Keywords: Cumberland, History, Local history, Lordship, Manor, Manuscripts, Place-names, Regional history
John Ruskin, Cultural Travel and Popular Access
This triangulated project, funded by the AHRC and based at the Universities of Lancaster, Leeds Metropolitan and Salford, will reconstruct and analyse ... Read more»
Project staff: Rachel Dickinson, Brian Maidment (external), John Walton (external)
Keywords: Access, Cultural geography, Literature, Nineteenth century, Nineteenth-century culture, Nineteenth-century literature, Tourism, Travel
Jurisdiction in international human rights law
The question of jurisdiction in international human rights law has been contentious over a period of time. The International Courts, Committees and C ... Read more»
Project staff: Sigrun Skogly
Keywords: Economic, social and cultural rights, International human rights law, International law, Jurisdiction, Public international law
Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope is a Network of Excellence which brings together European teams in technology-enhanced learning. Its goal is to integrate 76 research uni ... Read more»
Kendal Project
The Kendal Project was a major collaborative project funded by the Leverhulme Trust between October 2000 and June 2002. Its aim was to investigate 'Pa ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Heelas, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Linda Woodhead
Kidnapped! Victorians, Edwardians, and Unpleasant Encounters with Mediterranean Brigands, 1837-1910
The relationships of captors and captives, the responses of British and Mediterranean governments to these awkward encounters, the reactions of Britis ... Read more»
Project staff: Martin Blinkhorn
KTP The Knowledge Transfer Partnership
KTP The Knowledge Transfer Partnership Learning through partnership in South Lakes area of Barrow. This three year project is funded by the ESRC thro ... Read more»
Project staff: Katie Carr, Murray Saunders
Kurt Schwitters and Interdisciplinarity' Schwitters - whose last years were spent near Lancaster - and his influence on interdisciplinarity in the 20th century to the present
Kurt Schwitters and Interdisciplinarity: Schwitters - whose last years were spent near Lancaster - and his influence on interdisciplinarity in the 20t ... Read more»
Project staff: Nigel Whiteley
Keywords: Art
Laddishness and self-worth protection
Concerns about 'laddish' cultures in schools are pervasive. Evidence that 'laddish' anti-learning and/or anti-school approaches are impeding some boys ... Read more»
Project staff: Carolyn Jackson
Lancashire Aimhigher Disability
This is one of the Theme 2 and 3 projects funded by Aimhigher Lancashire. The aim is to identify and dissemination good practice and support for disab ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton
Keywords: Disability and widening access, Higher education HE
Lancashire dialect
In this project we aim to investigate what makes the Lancashire dialect distinct from other dialects in the UK. ... Read more»
Project staff: Willem Hollmann, Anna Siewierska
Lancaster Corpus of Academic Written English (LANCAWE)
LANCWAE is an on-going project aiming to collect a coherent set of academic writing samples from non-native speakers of English. The corpus is freely ... Read more»
Project staff: Jayanti Banerjee, Florencia Franceschina
Keywords: Language education, Language testing, Second language acquisition, Second language syntax
Lancaster Newsbooks Corpus
The Lancaster Newsbooks Corpus is a one-million-word collection of news text from the 1650s. This resource has been developed for the study of the lan ... Read more»
Project staff: Andrew Hardie, Tony McEnery, AcSS, FRSA
Keywords: Corpus linguistics, Critical discourse analysis, Digital humanities, Early modern English, English, English language, Historical and diachronic corpora, History, Humanities computing, Language, Linguistics, Seventeenth century
Lancaster Patient Safety Research Unit
The Unit was founded in January 2008: http://www.lpsru.org.uk/ The unit is a collaboration between the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Tr ... Read more»
Lancaster University African Studies Group
The African Studies Group was established in September 2008 to bring together researchers at Lancaster University with a shared interest in African St ... Read more»
Project staff: Charlotte Baker
Keywords: Africa, African Literature, African theatre, East Africa, Economic integration in Africa, Emergent African writing, English language in Africa, North African literature in French, Private international law (with emphasis on Africa), Sociolinguistics in Africa
Landscapes in Time
Landscapes in Time: A Psychotherapeutic Intervention, was presented at the University of California, LA, at the International Conference of the Image. ... Read more»
Language and Gender in African Contexts
This project is related to my National Teaching Fellowship, awarded in 2007, which is to be used for my personal professional development. I have chos ... Read more»
Project staff: Jane Sunderland
Keywords: Africa, Discourse analysis, Gender
Language and gender in children's fiction
I am writing a book on this topic. I aim to look at a selection of modern children's fiction by adopting a linguistic focus, while treating fiction as ... Read more»
Project staff: Jane Sunderland
Keywords: Children's literature, Discourse analysis, Fiction, Gender
Language of shoes: verbal and non-verbal reflections of the Self
The 'Language of Shoes' project, based in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK, is primarily concerned with ... Read more»
Project staff: Amei Koll-Stobbe (external), Olga Mudraya, Andrew Wilson
Keywords: Fashion, Footwear, Lexicology, Non-verbal communication, Onomasiology, Personality, Semiotics
Latin America Research Cluster
The Latin American Research Cluster (LARC) was founded in the summer of 2009 over a series of informal meetings between members of staff across the un ... Read more»
Project staff: Mark Bailey, Javier Caletrío, Andrew Dawson, Rebecca Ellis, Cornelia Graebner, Julie Hearn, Michael R. Kräetke, Paul Oldham, David Sugarman, Amit Thakkar
Keywords: Colonialism, Contemporary literature, Development, Globalisation, Latin America, Literature and politics, Literature and power, Modernity, Political literature, Political philosophy, Theories of modernity
Law, Antisemitism and the Holocaust
This work discuses critical thoughts propositions and formulations of the links between political emancipation, juridical rights and antisemitism and ... Read more»
Project staff: David M. Seymour
Keywords: Antisemitism, Critical theory, Holocaust, Jurisprudence, Law, Political philosophy, Social theory
Law, Ethics and Management in the Life Sciences (ASEAN-EU Lemlife)
Recent developments in biotechnology are in the process of revolutionising societal attitudes toward such essentials as food and medicine, yet there i ... Read more»
Project staff: Ruth Chadwick
Keywords: Biotechnology, Genetics, Genomics
Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (LFHE) Baseline Leadership Development Research Project
Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (LFHE) Baseline Leadership Development Research Project Subtitle: A study of the higher education sector ... Read more»
Project staff: John Burgoyne, John Mackness, Murray Saunders, Sadie Williams
Leading edge partnership evaluation study
Bishop Rawstorne Language College have led a partnership with four other schools. The partnership was planned to run for a 3 year period, from Septemb ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Compulsory education, Education technology, E-learning
Learners' Journeys in Workplace Basic Skills in Brazil
Fiona Frank visited a workplace literacy class in Brasilia Cleaning Services in 1997 and returned in 2002 to find out what learners had achieved. LSDA ... Read more»
Legal and Ethical Issues Surrounding the Involvement of Children in Health Care Research
Professor Hazel Biggs and I have been awarded significant funding for a one day seminar from the prestigious Modern Law Review's Seminar Series, to be ... Read more»
Project staff: Hazel Biggs, Sara Fovargue
Keywords: Children, Clinical research, Ethics, Health care
Legal Aspects of Economic Integration in Africa
This project examines how relational issues of law in economic integration are being approached in Africa. At their core, relational issues deal with ... Read more»
Project staff: Richard Frimpong Oppong
Lenition in 'old Scouse': a corpus study of Liverpool English plosives
Liverpool English (LE) shares many phonological characteristics with neighbouring accents, but also has a number of features which are more or less un ... Read more»
Project staff: Kevin Watson
Keywords: Phonetics, Phonology, Sociolinguistics
Level 2 Contextualisation
Contextualising the Skills for Life Level 2 Certificate in Adult Learner support to reflect the needs and aims of local government. ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt, Malcolm Richmond
Keywords: Adult learning, Language, Literacy, Numeracy, Skills for life, Workplace learning, Workplace literacy, Workplace skills
LIME (Lancashire Intergenerational Multicultural Education) Project
LIME contributed to Lancashire County Council's Adult and Community Programme of Family Learning. It worked to extend understanding about the factors ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton
Keywords: Action research, Capacity building, Community development, Informal learning, Parenting
Linguistic innovators: the English of adolescents in London
This project is a study of the spoken English of London, the first to be undertaken for some time and the first taking full and explicit account of th ... Read more»
Project staff: Jenny Cheshire (external), Sue Fox (external), Paul Kerswill, Eivind Torgersen
Keywords: Adolescent, Grammar, Language variation and change, Morphology, Sociolinguistics, Sociophonetics, Syntax
Link ER
The Link ER project undertook formative evaluation of the JISC DiVLE programme, a series of nine short projects each addressing some aspect of these t ... Read more»
Project staff: Bob Kemp
Literacies At Work In A Multilingual City
This is a one year ethnographic study of workplace literacies which is being completed in Leicester. The research is being carried out in selected wor ... Read more»
Keywords: Literacy
Literacies for Learning in FE - LFLFE
The Literacies for Learning in Further Education (LfLFE) project was a collaboration between two universities - Stirling and Lancaster - and four coll ... Read more»
Project staff: David Barton, Roz Ivanic
Keywords: Everyday literacy practices, Literacies
Literacy in the Digital University
This ESRC seminar series is a collaboration between the Open University, Lancaster University, Glasgow Caledonian and Edinburgh. The aims are to: Cri ... Read more»
Project staff: David Barton
Keywords: Digital literacies, Higher education HE, Literacies
Literacy, Learning and Health
This project, which was funded by the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC), investigated the relations betw ... Read more»
Project staff: Uta Papen
Keywords: Health, Learning, Literacy
Liverpool ACPC Serious Case Reviews
The review includes reading and coding all series case reviews conducted over the past 10 years, a sample of cases screened out and a sampe of SUDI ca ... Read more»
Project staff: Corinne May-Chahal, Sue Wise
LLP ILT Project
A significant part of the Lifelong Learning Partnership (LLP) Information and Learning Technologies (ILT) Project of the North West Lancashire College ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Education technology, E-learning, Professional development
lnternal and External Aspects of Self-determination
I am currently working on an article which explores the internal and external aspects of self-determination, their historical evolution and role in in ... Read more»
Project staff: James Summers
London Regional Workplace Basic Skills Forum
The project sought to increase the quality and quantity of workplace basic skills programmes in London by providing continuing professional developmen ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt, Sandra Pegum
Lost in Translation: Complexity, Risk and Resilience in Animal Disease Strategies
Lost in Translation: Complexity, Risk and Resilience in Animal Disease Strategies - an inter-disciplinary evaluation of the natural and societal effec ... Read more»
LPSA 6, Action research into increasing the employment rate of people with disabilities in west Cumbria
In October 2003, Cumbria County Council's Community, Economy and Environment department commissioned Lancaster University and the Disability associati ... Read more»
Project staff: Linda Piggott, Bob Sapey
Keywords: Disability, Disability and employment, Disability studies
LTSN (Learning and Teaching Support Network)
Members of the Department are undertaking the national evaluation of the LTSN which is the national framework for supporting, promoting, transfer and ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
LUCID: Library Understanding and Curriculum enhancement to Inform Decision-making
The LUCID project aims to provide young people with an academically focused awareness and achievement raising package of activities. It brings togethe ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton
Keywords: Education
Maestro
In 2003 RM established a three year long project, to look at the long term uses and outcomes of MathsAlive in a number of schools across England. Math ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Compulsory education, Education technology, E-learning, Mathematics
MATCH: Learning Needs Analysis of Trade Union Trainers
As the Europeanization of industrial relations is rapidly increasing, it will be necessary to redefine the European dimension of trade union education ... Read more»
Project staff: Sondra Cuban, Mary Hamilton
Materialities of Animals and Farming
Farming is a practical activity, messy and material. It involves interactions between people, technologies, animals, and natural forces. I'm working o ... Read more»
Project staff: John Law, Vicky Singleton
Keywords: Agriculture, Farming, Materiality, Science and technology studies, Science studies, Science, technology and society, Technoscience
Media, Culture and Genomics
Cultural representations of the human genome have become ubiquitous in the fifteen years since the launch of the Human Genome Project. This project ma ... Read more»
Project staff: Maureen McNeil
Keywords: Culture and media, Genomics, Media
Mediterranean Mobilities Network
mediterranean mobilities is an international collective of researchers that takes the form of a network. By different entry points and through diverse ... Read more»
Mediterranean Research Network
Medmobilities is an international collective of researchers that takes the form of a network. By different entry points and through diverse perspectiv ... Read more»
Project staff: Javier Caletrío, John Urry
Keywords: Environment, Europe, European identity, European society, Migration, Migration and diaspora, Mobilities, Tourism, Travel
Melancholic States - International Conference
International Inter-disciplinary Conference 'Melancholic States', 27-29 September 2007. The concept of melancholia has assumed widespread and varie ... Read more»
Project staff: Anne-Marie Fortier, Gail Lewis, Maureen McNeil, Nayanika Mookherjee, Celia Roberts, Jackie Stacey, Imogen Tyler
Keywords: Aesthetics, Embodiment, Emotions, Ethnography, Feminist theory, Hauntings, Memory, Postcolonial theory, Violence
Messianic Now
No details at present. ... Read more»
Keywords: Religion
Metalinguistic knowledge
This project follows on from a study entitled "Metalinguistic knowledge, language aptitude and language proficiency", funded by the UK Economic and So ... Read more»
Project staff: J. Charles Alderson
Methods for Researching Non-Coherent Realities
If the social world is not coherent, then how might we research and represent it? Many social science methods assume that descriptions of the world th ... Read more»
Project staff: John Law
Keywords: Method, Qualitative methods, Qualitative research methods, Research methods
Migrants and Settlers in the British Empire and Commonwealth since 1815
This is the title of a book, now submitted to Oxford University Press, written by Dr Stephen Constantine in collaboration with Dr Marjory Harper, Univ ... Read more»
Project staff: Stephen Constantine, Marjory Harper (external)
Minorités en vue
Minorités en vue, a one day colloquium organised by the Department of European Languages and Cultures, is supported by the Yves-Hervouet Fund for Angl ... Read more»
Project staff: Charlotte Baker, Greg Kerr
Minority Shareholder Protection; A Comparative Perspective
This project examines the law relating to minority shareholder protection in several jurisdictions including former British Colonies such as Hong Kong ... Read more»
Mobilities futures for a Digital Economy (MODE)
Current debates, and especially Dennis and Urry's thesis in 'After the car' (Polity), suggest that the current automobility system of privately-owned, ... Read more»
Keywords: Design and innovation, Mobilities, Technology
Monasticism in the Crusader States, c.1050-1300
A collaborative project by Professor Bernard Hamilton (University of Nottingham, Emeritus) and Dr Andrew Jotischky (Lancaster University), this study ... Read more»
Project staff: Bernard Hamilton (external), Andrew Jotischky
MONET 2: Network of Excellence
MONET 2 is a European Network of Excellence connecting academics and industrialists interested in qualitative reasoning and model based systems and in ... Read more»
Project staff: Julie-Ann Sime
Keywords: Adult learning, Education technology, E-learning, ICT, Learning technologies, Professional learning, Teaching and learning, Technology enhanced learning, Workplace learning
MONET: Network of Excellence
MONET and MONET2 are European Networks of Excellence connecting academics and industrialists interested in qualitative reasoning and model based syste ... Read more»
Project staff: Julie-Ann Sime
Monitoring the Well-Being of Disabled Children
These two collaborative projects are based at the University of Sydney. The first, with funding from the Australian Research Alliance for Children and ... Read more»
'Moving Manchester' - Written narrative and immigrant identity in Greater Manchester since 1960
The 'Moving Manchester' project, which is based in the Literacy Research Centre of the Institute for Advanced Studies, began in January 2006. It is ex ... Read more»
Project staff: Robert Crawshaw, Corinne Fowler, Graham Mort, Lynne Pearce
Multimodal text-making and learning in online social spaces: The case of Flickr.com
This project is funded by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The overall aim is to analyze the relationship between words and images in Web 2.0 medi ... Read more»
Project staff: David Barton
Keywords: Digital literacies
Multiplicity and Disaster: Foot and Mouth 2001
Foot and mouth came to the UK in 2001 with devastating consequences for many, especially in rural communities. This project is exploring many aspects ... Read more»
Project staff: John Law
Keywords: Farming, Materiality, Science and technology studies, Science, technology and society
Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy
This project will investigate legal, ethical and biomedical aspects of Munchausen's syndrome by proxy through an analysis of legal cases involving thi ... Read more»
MUSCLE
The MUSCLE project was a JISC funded project to develop a vertical learning space across Schools, Colleges and University. ... Read more»
Project staff: Bob Kemp, Mike O'Donoghue
Muslim Community in Lancashire - Weaving a History for the Future
A pilot project funded by Lancaster University's Small Grants Scheme. The research was carried out in 2005 in the north west of England. Interviews we ... Read more»
Project staff: Mammad Aidani (external), Linda Woodhead
Keywords: Emotions, Identity, Islam, Religion
National Corporate Law and the Challenge of Globalisation
National Corporate Law and the Challenge of Globalisation. This is a new monograph which was written for Edward Elgar Publishing. It examines how UK ... Read more»
Project staff: David Milman
Keywords: Corporate law
National Evaluation of the CETL Programme
The Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) initiative has two main aims: to reward excellent teaching practice, and to further invest ... Read more»
Project staff: Dave Allaway, Joan Machell, Murray Saunders, Sadie Williams
National Evaluation: Peer Support Programme for CWDC
A team of researchers (Dr Karen Broadhurst, Dr Cheryl Simmill-Binning, Ms Claire Mason and Professor Corinne May-Chahal) have been commissioned by the ... Read more»
Project staff: Karen Broadhurst, Claire Mason, Corinne May-Chahal, Cheryl Simmill-Binning
National Reassurance Policing Programme
Qualitative study of this community reassurance initiative ... Read more»
Project staff: Ian Paylor, Cheryl Simmill-Binning
Needle Exchange Situation Report
Study of drug related deaths and 'near misses' ... Read more»
Project staff: Ian Paylor, Alison Wilson
NEETs Intervention Study
Following the initial study, Becta have commissioned a follow-on study, which incorporates aspects of development as well as research. Changing Media ... Read more»
NeLRaLEC
Nepali Language Resources and Localization for Education and Communication (NeLRaLEC) is a major European-Nepali joint project to develop language tec ... Read more»
Project staff: Andrew Hardie, Tony McEnery, AcSS, FRSA
Keywords: Corpus linguistics, Language, Linguistics, Multilingual corpora, South Asia
Networked Learning 2008
The conference is an opportunity to participate in a forum for the critical examination and analysis of reseach in networked learning ie learning and ... Read more»
Project staff: David McConnell, Maria Zenios
Networked Learning Conference 2010
The Networked Learning Conference is an international, research-based conference. Since its inception in 1998 the conference has developed a strong fo ... Read more»
Networked Learning for Educational Leaders
The Networked Learning for Educational Leaders research project will studied information and communication technologies as they impact upon networked ... Read more»
Networked Learning In Higher Education
The project is designed to create a coherent picture of students' experiences of networked learning in UK higher education, and to provide an analysis ... Read more»
New Discourses in Contemporary China
The historic economic, social and political changes taking place in China are bound up with changing discourses, reflecting new practices, identities, ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Chilton, Ruth Wodak
Keywords: Discourse
New Wave SF and the 1960s
This project will develop already published work on Michael Moorcock, J.G. Ballard and others into a book-length consideration of the 'New Wave' of sc ... Read more»
Project staff: Brian Baker
Keywords: Film studies, Genre fiction, Literature, Popular culture, Science fiction, Twentieth-century popular culture
NGOs and the Rule of Law in International Law
Paper in preparation for presentation at the 2008 meeting of the French Society of International Law which will subsequently be published in its Frenc ... Read more»
Project staff: Israel Butler
Norman Edge,The: Identity and State Building on the Frontiers of Europe
The project addresses the historical development of political cultures in three areas on the periphery of the 'Norman world': middle Britain (northern ... Read more»
Project staff: Ewan Johnson, Andrew Jotischky, Alex Metcalfe, Keith Stringer
Keywords: Colonialism, Crusades, Diaspora, Governance, History, Middle Ages, Migration, State-building
Observing Nature/Performing Ecology
Observing Nature/Performing Ecology: a cross-disciplinary project exploring how photography, video, and interactive installation can create an expande ... Read more»
Project staff: Richard Bardgett, Carl Lavery, Kirk Woolford
Ohrenhoch project - Berlin
The piece 'Sarnath' will be showcased during two weekends at the Ohrenhoch gallery.This piece was created as part of the project The Buddha's Footprin ... Read more»
One day conference on NGOs in National and International Governance
This conference is intended to gather three sets of actors to explore the role of non-governmental organisations in policy making at the national, EU ... Read more»
Project staff: Israel Butler
Keywords: European Union social policy, International human rights law, International relations, New social movements, Public international law, Public participation, Voluntary sector social work
PACT: Promoting Art and creative industries Collaboration through social Technology systems
PACT (Promoting Art and creative industries Collaboration) is a pilot study funded by the EPSRC Innovative Media for a Digital Economy cluster. The a ... Read more»
Project staff: Monika Büscher, Daniela Sangiorgi
PAGANINI (Participatory Governance and Institutional Innovation)
PAGANINI is investigating the ways in which participatory practices contribute to problem solving in a dynamic cluster of policy areas concerning the ... Read more»
Project staff: Larry Reynolds, Bronislaw Szerszynski
Keywords: Biotechnology, EU law and policy, Governance, Public policy, Technology
PalCom: Making computing palpable
As computing technologies become an ever more 'invisible' and powerful part of our lives, it is crucial that people are supported in understanding wha ... Read more»
Project staff: Monika Büscher, Dan Shapiro
Keywords: Computing, Ethnography, Participatory research
PALETTE (Pedagogically sustained Adaptive Learning through the Expolitation of Tacit and Explicit knowledge
The PALETTE project aims at facilitating and augmenting individual and organisational learning in Communities of Practice (CoPs). ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Ashwin, Joan Machell, Murray Saunders
Papers of Edward Baines and Edwin Butterworth
Baines's four-volume History of Lancashire (1836) is widely recognised as one of the earliest and most significant county histories. The papers he col ... Read more»
Project staff: Leonard MacDonald (external), Robert Poole (external), Michael Winstanley
Papers of James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
Publishing Maxwell's correspondence and manuscript drafts, the edition illuminates his role in establishing and developing the major themes of the phy ... Read more»
Project staff: Peter Harman
Paperwork and Pressure in Educational Settings
This ESRC-funded project explores the impact of increased textualisation in two contrasting educational workplaces, examining the literacy practices a ... Read more»
Project staff: Karin Tusting
Keywords: Ethnography of literacy, Literacy, Stress, Workplace literacy
Paradise of Knaves? Company Fraud in Britain, 1800-1880
This project examines the legal status of joint-stock company fraud in nineteenth-century Britain, focusing on the definition and punishment of fraud. ... Read more»
Project staff: James Taylor
Keywords: Business, Business history, Capitalism, Corporate law, Corporations, Crime and society, Crime fiction, Economic history, Fraud, History, Morality, Nineteenth century, Nineteenth-century culture, Nineteenth-century literature, Twentieth century British history, Twentieth-century culture, Twentieth century history
Patterns and dynamics of political reform in the Gulf States
Rolling research programme (2001- present) on patterns and dynamics of political reform in the Gulf States ... Read more»
Project staff: Gerd Nonneman
Peer Support Programme CWDC
The Child Care Research Group in the department of Applied Social Science, working with the ASSURE evaluation group, have won a contract with the Chil ... Read more»
Performativity and Research Methods
Research methods both describe the world and help to enact it into being. I have a continuing concern in the empirical and political responsibilities ... Read more»
Project staff: John Law
Keywords: Method, Qualitative methods, Qualitative research methods, Research methods
Peripheral Identities
The Peripheral Identities project is concerned with issues related to the relationship between centre and periphery, and the conflict between memory a ... Read more»
Project staff: Frederic Barbera
Persistence, Progression and Achievement
In this countrywide NRDC project looking at persistence in LLN learning we at Lancaster were focusing in particular on priority groups who are said to ... Read more»
Project staff: Rachel Hodge
Keywords: Literacy
Personhood and immigration law
This research looks at how feminist theorists have sought to find ways to fit refugee women into the definitions in the Refugee Convention 1951. It lo ... Read more»
Project staff: Georgina Firth, Barbara Mauthe
Keywords: Asylum, Feminist perspectives, Gender and the law, Immigration law, Law, Migrants, Migration, Policy, Refugee
Personhood and public law
I am currently working on a paper on the concept of personhood and its applicability to public law analysis. ... Read more»
Project staff: Barbara Mauthe
Keywords: Personhood, Public law
Philosophy of Mind and Psychology Research Cluster
A number of people in the Department of Philosophy have research interests in the philosophy of mind, psychology, psychoanalysis and psychiatry, and t ... Read more»
Project staff: Rachel Cooper, Brian Garvey, Neil Manson, Alison Stone, Cain Todd
Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of psychiatry, Psychology
Phonological influences on children's spelling mistakes
In this small scale research project, we aim to investigate the connection between UK children's spelling and their speech and its implications for te ... Read more»
Project staff: Uta Papen, Kevin Watson
Photography In Collaborative Research
We are concerned with 'insider' and 'outsider' images and understandings of multilingual literacy practices. We have used photography in collaboration ... Read more»
Project staff: Rachel Hodge
Keywords: Literacy, Photography
Pilot Study for an Evaluation Research Programme of 'Preferred Place of Care' (PPC)
This pilot study focuses on developing implementation aspects of a qualitative study about PPC. The pilot will include interviews of key figures in t ... Read more»
Project staff: Iris Cohen Fineberg
Keywords: Advance care planning, Preferred place of care, Preferred priorities for care
Pilot Study of Use of Technologies for Educational Purposes at an NHS Trust
This study undertakes an environmental scan of current practices in the use of technology for educational purposes at an NHS Trust. The purpose of thi ... Read more»
Project staff: Gale Parchoma, Maria Zenios
Keywords: Education technology, E-learning, Technology enhanced learning, Workplace learning
Plant Genomics, Commercialization and Environmental Knowledge: Shifting Cultures of Scientific Research
This project is exploring, through qualitative interview and participant observation methods, the way that practicing plant scientists experience shif ... Read more»
Project staff: Mercy Kamara, Katrina Stengel, Jane Taylor, Claire Waterton, Brian Wynne
Keywords: Genomics
Polish Migration to the UK: The Material Effects of Imagined Geographies
This project examines the settlement processes of recent Polish migrants in a number of small towns in Northern England. Preliminary findings indicate ... Read more»
Project staff: Nick Gill
Keywords: East Central Europe, European society, Migration, Migration and diaspora
Political and economic history of Yemen in the republican era
Political and economic history of Yemen in the republican era ... Read more»
Project staff: Gerd Nonneman
Practitioner-Led Research Initiative Impact Study
The aim of this project was to carry out an impact study of the practitioner-led research initiative and to produce a short guide on how to support pr ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Davies, Mary Hamilton, Kathryn James
Keywords: Action research, Adult basic education, Partnership, Practitioner research, Public policy
Pragmatics and Intercultural Communication - The PIC project
This international project, conducted with the support of the Faculty of Education, Cambridge University, The British Council, the Ministhre de l'Educ ... Read more»
Project staff: Robert Crawshaw, Jonathan Culpeper, Julia Harrison (external), Barry Jones (external)
Pregnancy starts with a literacy event: pregnancy and ante-natal care as textually-mediated experiences
This research started as an autoethnographic study of my recent experience of pregnancy. The purpose of this study was to explore the role of reading ... Read more»
Project staff: Uta Papen
Keywords: Ethnography of literacy
Prerogative powers, proroguing Parliament & the new constitutional realities
This project is part of Fergal's ongoing research into the UK constitution. Drawing on his work on extra-constitutionalism within the context of emer ... Read more»
Project staff: Fergal F Davis
Prevention of the proliferation of nuclear weapons
The prevention of the proliferation of nuclear weapons ... Read more»
Project staff: Ian Bellany
Prison Literacy
I am interested in the multiple literacies engaged in by members of the prison community - in particular the literacy events and practices which relat ... Read more»
Project staff: Anita Wilson
Keywords: Literacy
Private International Law in Commonwealth Africa
This project aims at producing a rigorous, systematic, comparative and multi-country study of private international law in Commonwealth Africa. The me ... Read more»
Project staff: Richard Frimpong Oppong
Procedural aspects of insolvency law
There are many interesting issues surrounding the procedural requirements relating to the operation of insolvency regimes. These are dealt with by th ... Read more»
Producing and performing 'communities': Looking at the paradox of public participation and de-politicisation'
This scoping study forms part of the development process of the AHRC's new cross-Research Council programme on 'Connected Communities'. Other councils ... Read more»
Project staff: Judith Tsouvalis, Claire Waterton
Keywords: Community, Environment, Participatory research, Political theory, Science and technology studies, Science studies, Science, technology and society
Producing and performing 'Communities': looking at the paradox of public participation and de-politicization
This three month study is funded by the AHRC under its new cross-research council programme 'Connected Communities' (others involved are the EPSRC, th ... Read more»
Project staff: Judith Tsouvalis, Claire Waterton
Product Liability
Geraint Howells has edited the second edition of Lexis-Nexis Law of Product Liabilty and with David Owen (South Carolina) is writing the chapter on pr ... Read more»
Project staff: Geraint Howells
Professional Development
A list of Professional Development related projects, dating from 1989 - 2001. ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
Professional English Research Consortium (PERC)
Prof. Geoffrey Leech is a member of PERC (the Professional English Research Consortium), an international organisation which aims to create significan ... Read more»
Project staff: Geoffrey Leech, Paul Rayson
Keywords: Corpus linguistics, English language, Language, Linguistics
Progression: life and learning
This is the qualitative part of the wider Progression and Personalisation project. The project is studying people's patterns of progression in life an ... Read more»
Project staff: David Barton, Rachel Hodge
Projects at Key Stage 2
We are studying the 'free projects' done by one class of children in each of Years 4, 5 and 6. We are interested in the way these projects span the di ... Read more»
Project staff: Roz Ivanic
Keywords: Literacy
Promoting Art and Creative Industries Collaboration (PACT)
Researchers at Lancaster University are working with the Storey Gallery in Lancaster to investigate collaboration and synergy between publicly-funded ... Read more»
Project staff: Christopher Boyko, Monika Büscher, Tim Dant, Karenza Moore
Property Regulation in European Science, Ethics and Law (PropEur)
The overall PropEur project objective is to compile and analyse new approaches in ethics and law to tangible and intangible property in the human geno ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Oldham
Keywords: Ethics of genetics, EU law and policy, Genetics, Genomics, Science, technology and society, Sustainable development
Provider Toolkit Phase 1
The 'Language, Literacy and Numeracy Provider Toolkit' website. This was the first phase of the project. ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt
Keywords: ESOL, Language, Literacy, Numeracy, Skills for life, Workplace learning, Workplace skills
Provider Toolkit Phase 3
Development of phase 3 of web-based Provider Toolkit ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt, Eddie Little, Isabel White
Keywords: ESOL, Language, Literacy, Numeracy, Skills for life, Workplace learning, Workplace skills
Puberty: sexed bodies and global change
This project is a critical examination of puberty: what it is thought to be, how it is experienced, and how it is represented. The project has several ... Read more»
Project staff: Celia Roberts
Keywords: Biopolitics, Body image, Feminist theory, Parenting, Psychosocial interventions, Science studies, Science, technology and society
Public and political reaction to two cases of homicide in the UK and Japan. With Kiyoko Sueda. Funded by the Daiwa Foundation (£1,500)
The research examined and compared public and political reactions to the killing of James Bulger in Merseyside in 1993 and that of Jun Hase in Kobe in ... Read more»
Project staff: David Smith
Keywords: Children, Comparative criminal justice, Criminal justice policy, Theories of modernity
Public law and conceptual analysis
I am currently working on a paper that examines how conceptual analysis can be used to widen the parameters of public law. ... Read more»
Keywords: Conceptual analysis
Public law and the value of conceptual analysis
The aim of this work is to demonstrate how conceptual analysis can be used to widen the epistemology of public law. The work specifically considers h ... Read more»
Project staff: Barbara Mauthe
Keywords: Conceptual analysis, Constitutional law, Public law
Public Memories of Gendered/Sexual Violence during wars/conflict situations
This project examines the public memories of sexual violence of the Bangladesh War of 1971 and theoretically explore the various constructions of the ... Read more»
Project staff: Nayanika Mookherjee
Keywords: Citizenship, Class and gender relations, Conflict, Embodiment, Ethnography, Feminist theory, Hauntings, Human rights, Memory, Militarism, Nation, Political Anthropology, Postcolonial theory, Research ethics, Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, South Asia, Utopia, Violence, War
Public Perceptions of Agricultural Biotechnologies in Europe (PABE)
A research team from five European countries directed by Prof. Brian Wynne from Lancaster University (UK) was asked by the European Commission to cond ... Read more»
Project staff: Brian Wynne
Keywords: Biotechnology, Public participation, Public policy
Pupil motivation and ICT research study
Pupil motivation and ICT research study ... Read more»
Project staff: Dave Allaway, Joan Machell, Gilly McHugh, Don Passey, Colin Rogers
Keywords: Children's values and attitudes, Classroom interaction, Classroom learning, Classroom research, Cognition, Education, Education technology, E-learning, ICT, Learning, Learning technologies, Research methods, Teaching and learning, Technologies, Technology enhanced learning
QUING: Gender equality in the European Union
Quing is an Integrated Project funded by the European Union under Framework 6 to investigate gender and citizenship in a multicultural context, 2006-2 ... Read more»
Project staff: Jo Armstrong, Sofia Strid, Sylvia Walby
Keywords: Comparative, Equality, EU law and policy, Gender
QUING: Quality of Gender+ Equality in the EU (
Quing is an Integrated Project funded by the European Union under Framework 6 to investigate gender and citizenship in a multicultural context, 2006-2 ... Read more»
Radiophonics
Developing British Council project to stimulate creative writing for African radio stations in Uganda and Nigeria that explores a range of social and ... Read more»
Project staff: Graham Mort
Keywords: African Literature, Creative writing, Crime and society, Health behaviour, Political culture
, Poverty and deprivation, Social inequalities
Reading Spiritualities
Reading Spiritualities: Constructing and Re-presenting the Sacred Deborah Sawyer and Dawn Llewellyn Reading Spiritualities reflects and encourages t ... Read more»
Project staff: Deborah Sawyer
Keywords: Reading spiritualities
Reconfigurations of Human/Animal Relations in Genomics and Beyond
The ROAR project involves a constellation of interconnected projects. These focus, for example, on the application of genomics to farm animals, GM/Tra ... Read more»
Project staff: Richard Twine
Keywords: Animals, Ethics, Ethics of genetics, Genomics
RECRE@SUP
RECRE@SUP is a European research project with a focus on change in Higher Education Institutions. It is researching the way innovative curriculum chan ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
Keywords: Education
Re-enchantment and Reclamation: New Perceptions of Morcambe Bay through Dance, Film and Sound
'Re-enchantment and Reclamation: New Perceptions of Morecambe Bay through Dance, Film and Sound' is a multi disciplinary project which aims to discove ... Read more»
Project staff: Neil Boynton, Carl Lavery, Emma Rose, Nigel Stewart
Keywords: Art
Referential Hierarchies in Morphosyntax
This project invesigates the effects of referential hierarchies on the morpho-syntax of endangered languages in the America's, Himlayas, and Australia ... Read more»
Refugees Education and Employment
The Refugee Progression and Employment (REPP) Project is funded by the European Social Fund. It was a collaborative project with Universities of Susse ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton
Keywords: Citizenship, Community development, Education, Equity, Ethnicity, Exclusion and disadvantage
Religion, Nature and Modernisation in China
This one year project is researching the connections between nature, technology and the sacred in the context of China's drive for modernization, in o ... Read more»
Project staff: Bronislaw Szerszynski
Keywords: Environment, Religion, Technology
Relocating Innovation: Places and material practices of future-making
This project starts from the observation that current discourses on 'innovation' are surprisingly repetitive in their assumptions. Popular representat ... Read more»
Project staff: Lucy Suchman, Laura Watts
Keywords: Ethnography, Innovation, Science and technology studies
Representing scientific creativity: the Darwin200 celebrations
Taking the form of an ESRC 1+3 CASE PhD project with the Natural History Museum, this project is exploring the representations of Charles Darwin in UK ... Read more»
Project staff: Bronislaw Szerszynski
Reproducing the Centre: Performing Innovation at Xerox PARC
Based on materials developed during my tenure as a researcher at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) between the years 1980 and 2000, this projec ... Read more»
Project staff: Lucy Suchman
Keywords: Cultural anthropology, Design, Ethnography, Feminist cultural studies of science and technology, Information systems, Innovation, Science and technology studies
Research Bid for Equalities and Human Rights Commission - Understanding equality and human rights in relation to Religion or Belief
The bid is being preprared by myself and Dr Mark Butler (also of the Law School). The specific objectives of the project are to: * Identify conc ... Read more»
Research Cluster and International Workshop on Cultural Political Economy
Research Cluster and International Workshop on Cultural Political Economy ... Read more»
Project staff: Ngai-Ling Sum
Researching clubbing and polydrug use
This is an ongoing research project looking at electronic dance music communities, clubbing as a leisure practice, and related polydrug use. Using a ... Read more»
Project staff: Fiona Measham, Karenza Moore
Keywords: Clubbing, Countercultures and spirituality, Drugs, Drugs and criminal justice, Young people and crime, Youth, Youth subculture
Research on European policies towards, and relations with, the Gulf
Research on European policies towards, and relations with, the Gulf: rolling programme ... Read more»
Project staff: Gerd Nonneman
Restuaurants for the Rest of Us
Restaurants for the Rest of Us, to be published by Reaktion Books, asks the question, can restaurants serve as a vehicle for cultural democracy? And ... Read more»
Keywords: Consumerism, Creative nonfiction, Critical Realism, Cultural Studies, Cultural theory
Ruskinian Theatre: The Aesthetics of the Late Nineteenth Century Popular London Stage, 1870-1901
This project examines Ruskin's active engagement with and influence on the Victorian popular theatre. ... Read more»
Project staff: Kate Newey (external), Jeffrey Richards, Peter Yeandle
Keywords: Literature, Ruskin
Ruskin's Venetian Notebooks: Reconstructing the Research Methods and Compositional Practices for The Stones of Venice.
This is an AHRC funded project supported by the Ruskin Centre. The project will examine Ruskin's engagement with Venice (as well as other places visit ... Read more»
Project staff: Roger Garside
Keywords: Literature, Nineteenth century, Nineteenth-century culture, Ruskin, Travel, Victorian culture
Santo Daime in Brazil
This project examines the emergence, spread and domestic consolidation of the Brazilian new religion of Santo Daime. The first nine months of the proj ... Read more»
Project staff: Andrew Dawson
Keywords: Brazil, New religious movements, Religion and society, Sociology of religion
Schome Park
Julia Gillen is a member of the Schome Community - see www.schome.ac.uk - exploring new models of education to meet the needs of society and individua ... Read more»
Project staff: Julia Gillen
Keywords: Literacy
School of the Future
The focus of the project was to examine children's designs for a future school and to compare these to current designs and initiatives. ... Read more»
Project staff: Mike O'Donoghue
Science and Patronage in Early Modern England
The project explores the nature and extent of courtly patronage as a shaper of early modern English science, and it asks whether a specifically Englis ... Read more»
Project staff: Stephen Pumfrey
Keywords: History
Scottish Referendum
Scottish Referendum ... Read more»
Project staff: H Bochel (external), David Denver, J Mitchell (external), C Pattie (external)
Security, Technologies of Risk, and the Political
While risk has permeated current security practices, from migration to terrorism, from the environment to society, theoretical reflection in Internati ... Read more»
Project staff: Luis Lobo-Guerrero
Self: Hindu Responses to Buddhist Critiques
Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Department of Religious Studies, is the Principal Investigator with Professor Jonardon Ganeri, Dept of Philosophy, ... Read more»
Project staff: Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
Keywords: Asian spirituality, Buddhism, Buddhist Studies, Classical exegesis, Cognition, Comparative, Comparative philosophy, Conceptual analysis, Consciousness, Cross-cultural encounters, Culture, Emotions, Epistemology, History, Identity, Impersonality, India, Intercultural studies, Knowledge, Memory, Metaphysics, Moral philosophy, Mysticism, Ontology, Person, Phenomenography, Philosophy, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of religion, Religion
Self verification during transfer to secondary school
I am writing a paper with Janine Muldoon on Self verification during transfer to secondary school for the British Educational Research Journal. ... Read more»
Project staff: Jo Warin
Shakespearean Skins: Reading,Writing and Performing Corporeal Surfaces in Sixteenth-Century Drama.
This project focuses on sixteenth-century drama's use of 'skin' as a means of initiating relationships between 'the visual and the haptic' (Benthien, ... Read more»
Project staff: Liz Oakley-Brown
Keywords: Bodies, Materiality, Performance, Performance and historical studies, Shakespeare, Sixteenth-century, Sixteenth-century literature, Textual criticism, Theatre, The body, Theory
Shaping and Mobilising a Space: The Alps and Collective Identities in the German-Speaking Lands from the mid-19th Century to the Present
This project seeks to illuminate the relationship between a space and collective identity formation. Over the period under investigation, transnationa ... Read more»
Project staff: Corinna Peniston-Bird, Thomas Rohkrämer, Felix Robin Schulz
'Shareholder Democracies?' Corporate Governance in Britain, c. 1720-1844
The project examines the early evolution of governance in British business during the century or so before the advent of company registration and limi ... Read more»
Project staff: James Taylor
Siegfried Kracauer: an intellectual biography
I am presently writing an intellectual biography of the Critical Theorist Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) for publication with Polity Press. The first ... Read more»
Keywords: Critical theory, Cultural theory, Culture, Culture and media, Film studies, Film theory, Social theory, Sociology, Sociology of literature
SIMPLE: Statistics Instruction Modules with Purposeful Learning Emphasis
A new research methods project funded by ESRC at Lancaster This interdisciplinary project will develop a small set of modules and associated delivery ... Read more»
Project staff: David Denver, Andrew Folkard, Brian Francis, Catherine Fritz, Peter Morris, Moira Peelo, Julie-Ann Sime
Keywords: E-learning, Statistics, Virtual learning environment VLE
Social Aspects of Nanomedicine
Nanomedicine is a new, interdisciplinary, and not very integrated set of projects and promises with major implications not only for health, but also f ... Read more»
Project staff: John Law
Keywords: Nano, Nanomedicine
Social Implications of the Increase in Wheelchair Use
In 2001, we were funded by the NHS Executive North West R & D Directorate to undertake a study into the social implications of the increases in wh ... Read more»
Project staff: Bob Sapey, John Stewart, Carol Thomas
Social Processes for Environmental Valuation
This project has now finished, running from June 1996 to May 1998. It involved researchers from the UK, France, Italy and Spain. Its purpose was to de ... Read more»
Social Psychology and Economics in Environmental Research (SPEER)
The central objective of the SPEER Project was to create a European network of active researchers interested in combining economics and social psychol ... Read more»
Social Work Practice Learning
The search for new opportunities for practice learning requires strategic thinking and much preparation. The MAPLE (Multi Agency Practice Learning) Pr ... Read more»
Project staff: Jessica Abrahams, Gina Aylward, Heather Pritchard, John Stewart
SPECIALS
Funded by North Lancashire Teaching Primary Care Trust, the Students' and Professionals', Experience, Concerns and Issues regarding Alcohol use by Lan ... Read more»
Project staff: Steven Dempster, Ann-Marie Houghton
Keywords: Alcohol and illicit drug use, Health behaviour, Higher education HE
Split words
The project is a corpus-based study of split words in Chinese, which has the following aims and objectives: to examine the types of interposing eleme ... Read more»
Project staff: Anna Siewierska, Richard Xiao
Keywords: Corpora and sociolinguistics/discourse, Discourse, Linguistic typology, Literacy, Morphological theory, Morphology, Pragmatic theory
State responsibility, Causality and Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations
This book chapter (to appear in Vandenhole and Langford (eds) "Transnational Human Rights Obligations" (working title)) focuses on the effect of state ... Read more»
Project staff: Sigrun Skogly
Storey Creative Industries Centre
The Storey is Lancaster's new creative industries center opening in December 2008. The Storey Institute has long been central to Lancaster's technical ... Read more»
Project staff: Kirk Woolford
Straight Gate
John Schad is currently working on a novelistic book called 'Straight Gate. Or, Walter Benjamin's Much-Mistaken History of Nowhere Near Watford '. It ... Read more»
Keywords: Creative writing, English, Fiction, Literary theory, Literature
Strategic Development Project Evaluation
This is an evaluative project of a HEFCE-funded strategic development project at an English university. The project aims to make fundamental changes t ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Davies, Paul Trowler
Student Engagement
Funded by the Higher Education Academy, this project elaborates and categorises the different understandings of the term 'student engagement' in highe ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Trowler
Study of the implementation of the Learning Platform LP+ across Wolverhampton LA primary schools
Wolverhampton Local Authority (LA) has been instrumental in seeking effective ways to implement centralised technological facilities to benefit their ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Substitution, enhancement, autonomy
This project is a collaboration with Suzanne Fraser (Monash University, previously UNSW) and kylie valentine (UNSW) and was funded by the University o ... Read more»
Keywords: Autonomy, Drugs, Gender, Medical sociology, Science and technology studies
Supporting Entry to Employment (E2E) and workbased learning providers to deliver quality basic skills
Supporting Entry to Employment (E2E) and workbased learning providers to deliver quality basic skills in South Yorkshire. ... Read more»
Supporting Skills for Life in the Public Sector
To deliver the City and Guilds (9297) Level 2 Award in Learner Support for intermediaries to enable them to identify and screen potential Skills for L ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt, Bronwyn Leonard, Sandra Pegum
Keywords: Language, Literacy, Numeracy, Skills for life, Workplace learning, Workplace skills
Survey of Delivery of Language, Literacy and Numeracy in the Workplace
The aim of this survey was to report to the DfES on effective delivery of language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) in the workplace(England only), and in ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt, Eddie Little, Sandra Pegum, Isabel White
Keywords: ESOL, Language, Literacy, Numeracy, Skills for life, Workplace learning, Workplace literacy, Workplace skills
Sustainable Regeneration- From Evidenced-based Urban Futures to Implementation
Urban Futures is a unique research effort that seeks to establish and test alternative future scenarios, providing insights into the potential sustain ... Read more»
Project staff: Christopher Boyko, Rachel Cooper
Keywords: Design, Regeneration, Urban sustainability
Systems, Complexity and Autopoiesis
There remains a steady volume of interest in the work of Niklas Luhmann, and in autopoietic theory more generally, across all disciplines and sub-disc ... Read more»
Keywords: Autopoiesis, Complexity, Complexity theory, Law, Social-legal studies, Systems theory
Task complexity, input frequency, and efficacy of recasts
In this collaborative research project (with Rebecca Sachs and Mika Hama from Georgetown University), we are examining the combined effects of task co ... Read more»
Project staff: Andrea Révész
Keywords: Language teaching research, Psycholinguistics, Second language acquisition, Task based teaching and task design
Taxonomy at a Crossroads: Science, Policy and Publics in Biodiversity
"Taxonomy at a Crossroads: Science, Publics and Policy in Biodiversity" is a 3 year interdisciplinary research project which brings together social an ... Read more»
Project staff: Rebecca Ellis, Claire Waterton, Brian Wynne
Keywords: Globalisation, Governance, Information society, Innovation, Interdisciplinary collaboration, Knowledge, Knowledge exchange, Sociology, Technoscience
Teaching & Learning Strategies
A list of Teaching and Learning Strategies related projects, dating from 1989 - 2001. ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
Terrorism Before the Letter
Terrorism Before the Letter: Literatures of Political Violence in Britain and France, 1559-1660 is sponsored by the the Leverhulme Trust. It is based ... Read more»
Project staff: Robert Appelbaum
Testing of Proficiency in the Language of Aviation
The main aims of this funded project are to continue previous unfunded research by accessing, describing and evaluating national civil aviation author ... Read more»
Project staff: J. Charles Alderson
Keywords: Language proficiency, Language testing
The Asheville Project - pilot
Pilot Research in Asheville, N. Carolina. Researching mainstream religion and alternative sprituality, and the interactions between the two. A collabo ... Read more»
Project staff: Linda Woodhead
Keywords: Anthropology of Religion, Gender and religion, Religion and society, Sociology of religion
THEATRON
Pedagogic research in virtual reality theatres in Second Life ... Read more»
Project staff: Lisa Whistlecroft
Keywords: Comedia dell’ arte, Hellerau, Pedagogical applications , Performance, Scenography, Second life, Theatre studies, Virtual reality
The Austrian Noughties
Together with Florian Krobb of the University of Ireland, Maynooth, we are editing a special volume of Austrian Studies probing the literature, film, ... Read more»
Project staff: Allyson Fiddler
Keywords: Contemporary literary studies, Contemporary literature, Contemporary popular culture, Periodisation
The century of genocide
This is a web project funded by the Lancaster University Alumni Fund. The purpose of the project is to showcase the work of students who took the cour ... Read more»
Project staff: Aristotle Kallis
Keywords: Violence
The choreography of everyday life: towards an integrative theory of practice
The choreography of everyday life: towards an integrative theory of practice The choreography of everyday life 'This is a collaborative project wit ... Read more»
Project staff: Elizabeth Shove
The chronotope in the age of cinema
The chronotope is a theoretical term used by Mikhail Bakhtin to identify the means by which the cultural and ideological organisation of concepts of s ... Read more»
Project staff: Brian Baker
Keywords: Contemporary literature, Film studies, Genre fiction, Popular culture, Theories of modernity, Twentieth-century culture, Twentieth-century literature, Twentieth-century popular culture
The concept of 'resources' in human rights compliance
This project will culminate in an article that addresses the concept of 'maximum available resources' in international human rights law, arguing that ... Read more»
Project staff: Sigrun Skogly
The Construction of Stance in Social Research Interviews
Qualitative research interviews provide an important basis of social knowledge both for academic researchers and for commercial marketing and public o ... Read more»
Project staff: Sofia Lampropoulou, Greg Myers
Keywords: Discourse analysis, Qualitative methods
The Dutch CEF Construct Project
The Council of Europe's Common European Framework (CEF) is a reference document for curriculum and syllabus development, textbook writing and teacher ... Read more»
Project staff: J. Charles Alderson
Keywords: Assessment, Language testing
The Edwardian Postcard
The early British postcard is a fascinating multimodal communications technology. In the heyday of the postcard during the Edwardian age, (1901-1910 ... Read more»
Project staff: Julia Gillen
Keywords: communication, Literacies, Literacy, Literacy practices, Material culture, Mobilities, Popular culture, Twentieth century history, Twentieth-century popular culture
The experience of complainants in rape trials
I am looking at the new definitions of consent in the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and assessing their impact on the experience of the rape trial for comp ... Read more»
Project staff: Georgina Firth
Keywords: Crime and society, Criminal justice, Criminal justice policy, Criminal law, Feminist perspectives, Gender and criminal justice, Sexual offences
The Impact of the Criminal Process on Health Care Ethics and Practice
The research project (funded by the AHRC) will offer a comprehensive analysis of the role of the criminal justice system in regulating health care pra ... Read more»
Project staff: Suzanne Ost
Keywords: Crime and society, Criminal justice, Criminal justice policy, Criminal law, End of life, Health care, Medical and health-care law, Medical ethics, Medical law, Medical law and ethics
The (im)pure theory of extra-cosntitutionalism: uniting Kelsen & Tushnet?
Fergal has been invited to present a paper ("The (im)pure theory of extra-constitutionalism: uniting Kelsen & Tushnet?") at the Institute of Advan ... Read more»
The Legal Status of the Foetus
A summary of the legal status of the foetus for use by clinical ethics committees, ethicists and other interested parties. ... Read more»
Project staff: Sara Fovargue
Keywords: Law, Medical and health-care law
Themes of antisemitic discourse
The Government response to the 2006 report of the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism noted in relation to the Inquiry's concerns about ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Iganski
The Network for workplace language, literacy and numeracy
The Network for workplace language, literacy and numeracy The Network for workplace language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) is a national organisation ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt, Sandra Pegum
The New Interaction Order: A Study of Behaviour in Public Spaces
This collaborative project seeks to study and evaluate key changes (e.g. through ambient, embedded and personal technologies) in 'the interaction orde ... Read more»
Project staff: Monika Büscher, Karenza Moore
Keywords: Technologies, Technology
The Past and Future of the Present
I am examining and contrasting the accounts of the relationship between life, death and governmental techniques offered by Michel Foucault, Giorgio Ag ... Read more»
Project staff: Paolo Palladino
The Politics of Unrecognised States: Democratisation, Self-determination and Contested Identities
Unrecognised states are the places that do not exist in international relations; they are state-like entities that have achieved de facto independence ... Read more»
Project staff: Nina Caspersen
Keywords: Balkans
, Caucasus, Conflict, Conflict and democracy, State-building, State failure, Unrecognised states
The Reintroduction of the Jury to Russia.
This is a joint project with Professor Gennady Esakov, Moscow State Academy of Law. The project is examining the history of the jury in Russia, its r ... Read more»
Project staff: Neil Kibble
The Relevance and Prejudicial Effect of Evidence: Responding to Myths and Stereotypes in Rape Trials
This project examines the impact of rape myths and stereotypes on judicial and academic constructions of the relevance and prejudicial effect of sexua ... Read more»
Project staff: Neil Kibble
The Representation of Islam and Muslims in the UK Press 1998-2008
The project involves corpus linguistics approaches with critical discourse analysis in order to examine how Muslims and Islam are represented in the m ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Baker, Costas Gabrielatos, Tony McEnery, AcSS, FRSA, Linda Woodhead
Keywords: Broadcast talk and media discourse, Corpus linguistics, Critical discourse analysis, Discourse analysis, Language, Language and sexual identities, Linguistics
The Strength of Feminist Civil Society Organisations in the EU27
The project aims to develop a typology to describe and compare variations in strength of feminist civil society organisations in the EU27 and to expla ... Read more»
The Stylistic Analysis of drama and film
I am currently writing a book on the stylistic analysis of drama and film which explores integrating different methods of the stylistic analysis of dr ... Read more»
Project staff: Mick Short
The transformation of English legal education and scholarship since 1945
This project is underpinned by more than 40 interviews with legal scholars and extensive archival research. ... Read more»
Project staff: David Sugarman
Keywords: Education, Englishness, Law, Law and globalization, Law and politics, Law and society, Lawyers and society, Legal history, Social movements, Social policy, States, Structure and agency, Student
The UN Security Council and Human Rights Protection in Europe
This research compares the recent case-law of the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice addressing the applicability of the ... Read more»
Project staff: Israel Butler
Thingmount working papers in the Philosophy of Conservation
The term 'thingmount' has been chosen both for its local significance and for its assocation with debate. It refers to a kind of flat-topped mound ... Read more»
Thomas Churchyard: Travel, Translation and Tudor Identity
Thomas Churchyard (1523?-1604), a prolific, yet critically neglected author, translator and soldier, lurks in the margins of early modern English trav ... Read more»
Project staff: Liz Oakley-Brown
Keywords: Age, Aging, Bodies, Early modern culture, Early modern English, Early modern writing, European, European identity, Gender identities, Identity, Identity politics, Masculinities, Militarism, Ovid, Renaissance biography, Renaissance culture, Renaissance literature, Sixteenth-century culture, Sixteenth-century literature, Translation, Travel, War
Time and the Rhythms of Everyday Life: New Agendas and Directions
Time and the Rhythms of Everyday Life: New Agendas and Directions Editors: Elizabeth Shove (Lancaster University), Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck Colleg ... Read more»
Project staff: Elizabeth Shove
Tobacco litigation and regulation
This Britsh Academy funded project seeks to compare experiences of tobacco litigation and regulation in the USA and Europe. ... Read more»
TOEFL Impact Study: Central and Eastern Europe
This is a longitudinal study looking at the influence of changes in the TOEFL test on teaching and learning in Central and Eastern Europe. The study ... Read more»
Project staff: Tania Horak, Dianne Wall
Touch
Currently compiling a collection of short stories, many with transcultural themes, to be entitled 'Touch'. ... Read more»
Project staff: Graham Mort
Keywords: Creative writing, Fiction, Transcultural writing
Touching War
The Touching War Research Program highlights people's experiences of war more so than issues of military strategies, weaponry, tactics, historical war ... Read more»
Project staff: April Biccum, Feargal Cochrane, Gerry Davies, Victoria Mason, Jayne Steel, Christine Sylvester
Keywords: Art, Bodies, Emotions, Ethics, International relations, Literature and politics, Oral testimony, Politics, War
Tourism, Territory and New Mobilities: Spatial and Cultural Dynamics Through a Comparative Study of Case Studies in Mexico and Spain.
Este proyecto tiene una naturaleza interdisciplinar y se propone analizar desde una perspectiva comparativa entre México y España las nuevas dinámicas ... Read more»
Keywords: Caribbean, Environment, Latin America, Mobilities, Tourism
Towards an Online Conceptual Database of the Latin Vulgate Bible
Since the mid 1990s, I have been working on the concept-based annotation of the Latin Vulgate Bible, with the aim of enhancing access to it at the lev ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Rayson, Deborah Sawyer, Andrew Wilson
Keywords: Bible, Biblical languages, Computer-assisted analysis of Latin and Greek texts, Computing in the Humanities, Conceptual analysis, Corpus tools, Digital humanities, Ecclesiastical Latin, Religion, Theology, Vulgate
Traces
TRACES, a multilingual book series of cultural theory and translation, calls for comparative cultural theory that is attentive to global traces in the ... Read more»
Training Strategies and Management Development
A list of Training Strategies and Management Development related projects, dating from 1992 - 1997. ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
Transcending the Genome: The Paradigm Shift to Proteomics
This project is an exploration of the transformation of knowledge production beyond the HGP through the study of the emergent field of 'proteomics'. P ... Read more»
Project staff: Ruth McNally
Keywords: Genetics, Genomics
Transgenic Animals - a challenge for welfare assessment?
This project is examining how far standard methods of assessing welfare are applicable to transgenic animals and what the implications of this might b ... Read more»
Project staff: Alan Holland, Richard Twine
Keywords: Animals, Genomics
Transitions in Practice
This 3 year ESRC funded climate change leadership fellowship addresses the need for new ways of framing problems of climate change, consumption and de ... Read more»
Project staff: Elizabeth Shove
Keywords: Consumption, Environment, Policy, Social theory, Technologies
UK and Spanish Responses to Terrorism
Prof. Joaquin Alcaide Fernandez (Faculty of Law, University of Seville) and I are collaborating on a research project comparing UK and Spanish respons ... Read more»
Project staff: Alcaide Fernandez (external), Agata Fijalkowski
UK-China Networks of Low Carbon Innovation
Tackling climate change is demanding international collaboration in innovation, yet there are significant constraints on such collaborations. This pr ... Read more»
Project staff: David Tyfield, John Urry, James Wilsdon, Brian Wynne
Keywords: China, Innovation, Low carbon, Science and technology, Science and technology studies
Understanding and Acting within Loweswater: A Community Approach to Catchment Management
Details to follow shortly. Project in collaboration with the Department of Geography and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. ... Read more»
Project staff: Claire Waterton
Keywords: Community, Environment, Farming
Understanding and Acting Within Loweswater: A Community Approach to Catchment Management
How do we move towards the sustainable management of rural land? Are carrot and stick initiatives by government bodies the only option? This project ... Read more»
Keywords: Community, Ecology, Environment, Governance, Science and technology studies, Science studies
Understanding Temporal Changes in Offending Behaviour
The overall aim of this research was to address issues in two important classic debates in criminology which have not yet been fully resolved. These a ... Read more»
Project staff: Brian Francis
Unfair Commercial Practices
Following on from the publication of their book on European Fair Trading Law Geraint Howells, Hans Micklitz(Bamberg/Florence) and Thomas Wilhelmsson ( ... Read more»
Project staff: Geraint Howells, Hans Micklitz (external), Thomas Wilhelmsson (external)
Unfunded research into the quality of aviation English tests
By 5 March 2008, air traffic controllers and pilots were required by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to have a certificate attest ... Read more»
Project staff: J. Charles Alderson
Keywords: Language proficiency, Language testing
Universal Human Rights in Practice
The project is aimed at exploring states' obligations in relation to economic, social and cultural rights when acting outside their own borders. The p ... Read more»
Project staff: Sigrun Skogly
Keywords: Human rights, Human rights obligation, International human rights law
UNSW Gilbert & Tobin Centre for Public Law, Terrorism & Law Expert Roundtable
Fergal has been invited to present a paper at the University of New South Wales, Terrorism and Law Expert Roundtable which will be held in Sydney, Aus ... Read more»
Project staff: Fergal F Davis
Up2Uni
Up2uni is a staff development programme designed to support practitioners advising prospective students about higher education. On behalf of the prog ... Read more»
Project staff: Steven Dempster, Ann-Marie Houghton, Rebecca Marsden, Marion Walker, Jess Walmsley
Keywords: Evaluation, Professional development, Widening participation
User Opinions of Services for People with Visual Impairments
This evaluation was commissioned by Lancashire Social Services as part of their review of services for visually impaired people. It was felt that the ... Read more»
Project staff: Bob Sapey
Keywords: Disability, Evaluation, Social work, Visual impairment
Uses and learning outcomes of BBC jam
The BBC have commissioned this 2 year long study, to explore how BBC jam is used in formal and informal environments to support learning. The study wi ... Read more»
Variability in child language
A feasibility and pilot study on the exploitation of the Child Language Survey ... Read more»
Project staff: Andrew Hardie, Sebastian Hoffmann, Paul Rayson
Keywords: Corpus linguistics, Education, Educational linguistics, English, English language, Language, Learning to write
VEIL - Values and Equality in Liberal Democracies
An EU project looking at the political and public policy debates surrounding the Muslim headscarf in eight European countries. ... Read more»
Project staff: Linda Woodhead
Keywords: Religion, Religion and politics, Religion and society, Religion and the law
Violence in War
This research investigates the dynamics of violence in intra-state conflicts. ... Read more»
Project staff: Amalendu MISRA
Keywords: Conflict, War
VirRAD: the Virtual Radiopharmacy
Aim: To create a readily accessible virtual environment where the Radiopharmacist community can meet to learn, exchange views and discuss best practic ... Read more»
Project staff: Bob Kemp, Julie-Ann Sime
Virtual Workspace Evaluation
Virtual Workspace is an on-line environment to support learning. Pupils can work on-line, taking work from school, and working further on it at home, ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Compulsory education, Education technology
Visual Culture of Climate Change
This project is concerned with the ... Read more»
Visual Intelligences: The investigation of artists' methods and creative decision-making processes
The idea of visual intelligence in the context of creative practice refers to the kinds of thinking that go into envisaging, making and viewing the vi ... Read more»
Project staff: Rebecca Fortnum, Ian Heywood, Nigel Whiteley
Keywords: Art, Visual intelligence
'War-Babies', Contested Citizenship and Transnational Adoption
Funded by the Society for South Asian Studies (British Academy) this project relates to the contested relationship between genetics, and the nation-st ... Read more»
Project staff: Nayanika Mookherjee
Keywords: Adoption, Biopolitics, Children, Citizenship, Conflict, Genetics, Kinship, Migration and diaspora, Nation, Political Anthropology, Postcolonial theory, Socio-Cultural Anthropology, South Asia, Violence, War
What is Bioart?
This collaborative project focusses on the contemporary visibility and proliferation of bioart, 'bioart' being the label for the intersection of the c ... Read more»
Project staff: Adrian Mackenzie, Paolo Palladino
What Works: The Role of Religion in Successful Post-Immigration Integration in the UK
Interview-based study with 100 informants from Hindu, Muslim and Sikh communities. Collaboration between Professor Ram-Prasad and Professor Gwen Griff ... Read more»
Project staff: Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
Wheelchair Housing and the Estimation of Need
Our objectives were to examine and update the reported information on the provision of housing for wheelchair users and to analyse the methodology of ... Read more»
Project staff: Bob Sapey, John Stewart
Keywords: Disability, Disability studies, Housing and health
Widening Participation - Disability
The project was funded by HEFCE Special Initiative 'Students with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities (SLDD) - 1996-1999' to enhance its overall co ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton
Keywords: Disability and teaching and learning, Disability and widening access
Will.0.w1sp
Will.0.W1sp is an interactive installation exploring our ability to recognise human motion without human form. It uses particle systems to create char ... Read more»
Project staff: Kirk Woolford
William Gilbert, De Mundo Nostro Sublunari
Dr. Pumfrey is collaborating with Dr Ian Stewart, King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in the production of an edition and translation with e ... Read more»
Project staff: Stephen Pumfrey, Ian Stewart (external)
Keywords: History, History of medicine, History of philosophy, History of science, Philosophy of science, Translation
Wirelessness: radical empiricism in network cultures
This project aims to develop a post-network theory of mobility and connectivity. It asks: how does the basic concept of the network underpinning liter ... Read more»
Project staff: Adrian Mackenzie
Keywords: Culture and media, Information systems, Mobilities, Science and technology studies, Science studies
Wolverhampton LA ICT Impacts Evaluation
Wolverhampton LA have invested in and supported uses of ICT in schools since 2000. This independent study was commissioned to provide a structure thro ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Compulsory education, Education technology, E-learning
Women's Writing Performance
In 2003, with Professor Elaine Aston, she was awarded a large grant by the AHRC for a three year research project entitled Women's Writing for Perfor ... Read more»
Project staff: Elaine Aston, Geraldine (Gerry) Harris
Working the Aisles: Food, Sex, and the Culture of Consumption
Working the Aisles is part memoir, part cultural studies, part journalism, and part just crazy. It takes the reader on a wild ride through the street ... Read more»
Working with Families
Working with families - involves supporting practitioners working within the community, FE and HE to work more effectively with families who have no e ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton
Workspace
Mobile workers often generate dynamic configurations of spaces, information, and people - within the office, but also beyond. These practices pose gre ... Read more»
Xenotransplantation, the precautionary principle and harm
I have just finished writing a paper on the subject of xenotransplantation, the precautionary principle and harm. See also 'Exploring Health Care Law' ... Read more»
Project staff: Sara Fovargue, Suzanne Ost
Keywords: Biotechnology, Medical and health-care law, Medical ethics, Medical law, Medical law and ethics, Medicine, Research ethics
Young People and Gambling in Britain:
This report critically reviews the state of current research knowledge and systematically reviews the literature on children and young people under 18 ... Read more»
Project staff: Corinne May-Chahal, Fiona Measham
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