Press releases from our research investments (including centres, programmes and ventures).

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May 2013

• Almost a quarter of jurors confused about rules on internet use during a trial (University College London, 15 May 2013)
• Reframing school food policy (Cardiff University, 15 May 2013)
• Lancaster University makes a double Impact at awards (Lancaster University, 15 May 2013)
• Seminar examines the anxieties we have for our children today (University of Bath, 15 May 2013)
• School Professor Joins ESRC Council (University of Stirling, 14 May 2013)
• Research which makes a difference recognised by new awards (University of Sheffield, 14 May 2013)
• Supporting poor communities through ecosystem services in Mozambique and Kenya (University of Exeter, 13 May 2013)
• New study will investigate why our dialects are changing (University of Glasgow, 7 May 2013)
• More than a game: exploring new digital frontiers (University of York, 3 May 2013)

April 2013

• £4m study of key social issues to help build better public services (Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN) Research Centre, 30 April 2013)
• Centre for Diet and Activity Research renewed for five years (CEDAR, 29 April 2013)
• Improved care needed for mothers from ethnic minority groups (University of Leeds, 26 April 2013)
• Discovering the gender of an unborn baby and giving him or her a name, may help fathers bond with their offspring (University of Birmingham, 24 April 2013)
• Light drinking during pregnancy not linked to developmental problems in childhood (University College London, 17 April 2013)
• How have young people's experiences of unemployment changed since the 1980s? (University of Leicester, 17 April 2013)
• Tobacco companies keep people smoking despite tax increases (University of Bath, 16 April 2013)
• Art can change your world (Newcastle University, 9 April 2013)
• Volunteers show little enthusiasm for the Big Society, research says (Third Sector Research Centre, 3 April 2013)
• Autism hub launched (Cardiff University, 2 April 2013)

March 2013

• The impoverishment of the UK (Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK, 28 March 2013)
  
• Forecasting the future (Cardiff University, 22 March 2013)
  
• British Election Study finds new home (University of Manchester, 21 March 2013)
• Picturing China exhibition opens in Beijing (University of Bristol, 21 March 2013)
• Two thirds of adults gain new qualifications, study finds (Institute of Education, University of London, 15 March 2013)
• Money worries are keeping us from a good night's sleep (Institute of Education, University of London, 13 March 2013)
• Stirling researchers in five year welfare study (University of Stirling, 11 March 2013)
• Event to examine how digital technology is resulting in the "evaporation" of real "things" (ESRC Genomics Policy & Research Forum, 11 March 2013)
• Ability grouping in primary school may reinforce disadvantage of summer-born children, study finds (Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, 8 March 2013)
• Workers urged to have a 'Walking Lunch' by Loughborough researchers (Loughborough University, 8 March 2013)
• Disabled employees more likely to experience ill-treatment at work (Cardiff School of Social Sciences, 5 March 2013)
• The generation gap - who is responsible? (University of St Andrews, 4 March 2013)
• Study investigates welfare conditions and behavioural change (University of Salford, 1 March 2013)

February 2013

• Uncovering Britain's hidden links to slavery (UCL/AHRC, 27 February 2013)
• Reappointment of Economic and Social Research Council Chair (Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, 25 February 2013)
• Entrepreneurs really do matter as study shows 60 per cent sales drop after founders die (Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy, 25 February 2013)
• Brightest English pupils fall two years behind Far Eastern peers between ages 10 and 16 (Institute of Education, University of London, 22 February 2013)
• Queen's study shows psychotropic drug dispensing increases on entry to care homes (Centre of Excellence for Public Health Northern Ireland, 21 February 2013)
• Governing pollution from ships (Cardiff University, 20 February 2013)
• Work Programme excludes specialist provision, says research (Third Sector Research Centre, 19 February 2013)
• Schooled to fail? (Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods WISERD, 19 February 2013)
• Living in an urban environment reduces our ability to concentrate on tasks (Goldsmiths, University of London, 18 February 2013)
• £5 million to expand knowledge on human health, life and space (ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, 18 February 2013)
• Academics lead high level talks on the future of the High Street (University of Southampton, 15 February 2013)
• Retribution and restoration: Bosnia on trial (University of Cambridge, 15 February 2013)
• Leicester launches hate crime survey (University of Leicester, 12 February 2013)
• Can third sector leaders find a unified voice, asks Third Sector Research Centre (Third Sector Research Centre, 11 February 2013)
• Renewable energy targets unachievable in an independent Scotland experts warn (University of Birmingham, 11 February 2013)
• Exhibits from Surgeons' Hall Museum "brought to life" at public event (ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum, 11 February 2013)
• Tell them our stories (ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum, 11 February 2013)
• IFS Green Budget 2013 (Institute for Fiscal Studies, 6 February 2013)
• Oral health gap research receives funding boost (Newcastle University, 5 February 2013)
• New school-university projects to engage young people in research (EGENIS, University of Exeter, 4 February 2013)
• Want a baby? Move nearer to Granny (Institute for Social and Economic Research, 3 February 2013)
• Piecing together the productivity puzzle (Institute for Fiscal Studies, 1 February 2013)

January 2013

• People born abroad more 'likely to speak English and feel British' (University of Manchester, 31 January 2013)
• 'Overwhelming scepticism to Big Society shows government must offer a more compelling and realistic vision (Third Sector Research Centre, 29 January 2013)
• Lessons of the 1953 East Coast flood disaster (Lancaster University, 29 January 2013)
• Pandemic controversies: the global response to pandemic influenza must change (STEPS Centre, 28 January 2013)
• First ever UK based language tool to decode baby talk (Lancaster University, 28 January 2013)
• RCUK demonstrates impact of working together (Research Councils UK, 24 January 2013)
• Support for Scottish independence at lowest level since devolution (NatCen Social Research, 24 January 2013)
• £2.4 million to connect communities in key decision making (University of Bristol, 23 January 2013)
• Welsh Crucible in Europe (Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods, 23 January 2013)
• Edinburgh young people to engage with nature conservation (ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum, 22 January 2013)
• ESRC Network for Integrated Behavioural Science (University of Nottingham, 21 January 2013)
• Research centre questions suggestion that charities are being overwhelmed by government and the market (Third Sector Research Centre, 18 January 2013)
• UK plc - sweat shop, worker's paradise or somewhere in-between? (Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies LLAKES), 18 January 2013
• New centre to change how language in society is researched (Lancaster University, 17 January 2013)
• The greatest show on earth (Universities of Dundee and St Andrews, 17 January 2013)
• Lap-dance clubs near homes and local schools give cause for concern (University of Kent, 17 January 2013)
• Criminologists hope to tailor best security measures in bid to cut home burglary (Nottingham Trent University, 16 January 2013)
• Researchers urge government to cap cigarette profits (University of Bath, 15 January 2013)
• New Year Honours for Research and Diversity (University of Nottingham, 3 January 2013)