Government Social Research
The framework and background paper was designed to provide a sound theoretical and evidence base to support future government, community and corporate sector activity to prevent violence against women; identifies priority strategies, settings and population targets.
Cannabis supply and young people is a snapshot of how young people in a large city and rural villages obtain cannabis. The study interviewed young people aged 11-19, who had used cannabis and/or been involved in cannabis transactions.
Cannabis supply and young people
Social status, lifestyle and cultural consumption evaluates three existing theories of cultural consumption, using data from the UK, Chile, France, Hungary, Israel, the Netherlands and US. Seeks to refine the differences in the hierarchical arrangement, known as social stratification, of people in society by taking into account the backgrounds of the people surveyed, including education, income and social class. Previous research in this field had used such factors interchangeably, but this project sought to draw a clear distinction between social class and social status.
It concludes that there is little evidence of a ‘cultural elite’ that aspires to ‘high culture’, while turning its back on popular culture; education and social status determine what we listen to and watch.
Social status, lifestyle and cultural consumption
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How local planning authorities are delivering policies for affordable housing is a study on how local planning authorities have been implementing affordable housing policies (Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990) in the context of changing and uncertain policy.
How local planning authorities are delivering policies for affordable housing
Attitudes to Discrimination in Scotland: 2006 explores attitudes across six key equality areas: disability, gender, race, religion or belief, age and sexual orientation. The research, conducted as part of the 2006 Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, addressed two main questions - what is the extent and character of discriminatory attitudes, and why do people hold such attitudes? It follows-up a 2002 study on attitudes to discrimination, so allowing some assessment of whether the incidence of discriminatory attitudes has changed in recent years.
Full report of Attitudes to Discrimination in Scotland
Summary findings of Attitudes to Discrimination in Scotland
The changing demographic picture of the UK: National Statistician's annual article on the population (Population Trends, vol 130 Winter 2007, pp 9-21) which says that the population of the UK is currently growing at its fastest rate since the 1960s, increasing by two and a half per cent between mid-2001 and mid-2006. While life expectancy continues to increase, fertility rates have also been increasing in the last five years and are currently at their highest level since 1980. In addition, international migration has led to the UK population growing by an average of 500 people per day over the last five years. The population is also becoming increasingly diverse and mobile, and these factors make it increasingly challenging to measure population change accurately.
This is the first of a series of annual reports on the population of the UK; these reports will provide an overview of the latest statistics on the population and will also focus on one specific topic - for this report the topic is fertility and, in particular, the impact of migration on fertility.
The changing demographic picture of the UK: National Statistician’s annual article on the population
A total of 19 full proposals were received and the Panel agreed to recommend the following 7 for funding:
Title |
Grant Holder |
Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Qualitative Innovations in CAQDAS (QUIC) * | Professor N Fielding | University of Surrey |
| Structures for Building, Learning, Applying and Computing Statistical Models | Professor JR Rasbash | University of Bristol |
| SIMIAN: Simulation Innovation: A Node | Professor GN Gilbert | University of Surrey |
| Realities (REAL LIfe methods for researching relationaliTIES) * | Professor J Mason | University of Manchester |
| ADMIN: Administrative Data - Methods, Inference and Network * | Professor LM Dearden | Institute of Education |
| Bayesian Methods for Integrated Bias Modelling and Analysis of Multiple Data Sources in Observational Studies (BIAS II) * | Professor NG Best | Imperial College |
| The Lancaster-Warwick-Stirling Node: Developing Statistical Modelling in the Social Sciences Phase 2 * | Professor B Francis | Lancaster University |
Projects marked * are funded on the basis of a satisfactory response to conditions.
NCRM consists of a co-ordinating Hub at the University of Southampton and Nodes based at UK Universities.
For more information about any of these projects please contact the Director of individual Nodes or Chris Skinner Director of the NCRM.
Details of the commissioning process are available on the ESRC website.
6 December 2007: Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) publish Combating child poverty in Wales: are effective education strategies in place? - argues that innovative education policies in Wales aim to combat the effects of child poverty on educational achievement but need to do more to overcome this relationship.
Combating child poverty in Wales: are effective education strategies in place?
3 December 2007: Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) publish Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2007 - the annual report on the state of poverty and social exclusion in the United Kingdom covers low income, work, education, health, housing, disadvantaged children and exclusion from services. Provides a comprehensive analysis of trends and differences between groups; examines the progress being made on reducing poverty and social exclusion, in light of the Government's ambitious target to halve child poverty by 2010.
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2007