Adults enterprise and new forms of work in a depressed area of g. B.

Professor Frank Coffield | Education | 01 January 1990

Application abstract: the project will build upon the research carried out by professor coffield and dr macdonald (see growing up at the margins, 1986, open university press) during the 1980s into youth unemployment and the enterprise culture. New fo ...

Residence abroad and the cultural perceptions of students of foreign languages in higher education

Dr G Alred | Education | 01 June 1988

Students of foreign languages, many of whom later become teachers, are normally required to spend an extended period abroad as part of their degree course. This experience forms an important basis of their knowledge of other countries which can influ ...

The use of base-rates in category-based induction

Dr Aidan Feeney | Psychology | 17 September 2001

This research project will examine the role played by simple statistical beliefs in how people evaluate and test arguments concerning categories. Categorical arguments such as (premise) tigers have an ulnary artery, therefore (conclusion) all mammals ...

Earnings and mobility in an international labour market

Prof Greedy | 01 January 1985

This study examines the nature of the mobility of professional scientists over their working lives. An important aspect of mobility is the extent to which, and paths by which, professionally trained scientists move into positions of responsibility in ...

Leadership in bureaucracy

Professor R Chapman | 01 September 1980

This is a study of leadership in the british civil service. It reviews the extensive literature on leadership so far as it is relevant to top management posts in the civil service; surveys the available information about the careers of top managers ( ...

The life and work of harold hotelling;(1895-1973)

Mr Darnell | 01 January 1987

The object of this research is to produce a comprehensive study of the life and work of harold hotelling (1895-1973). Hotelling was a leading mathematical economist and statistician and, although he published very few papers in economic theory, his c ...

The civil service commission 1855-1991

Professor R Chapman | Political Science and International Relations | 01 February 1998

The civil service commission, an initiative in public administration widely admired in the united kingdom and many other countries, was created in 1855 to administer open competitive examinations so that recruitment according to publicly known fixed ...

British local governance in the transition from fordism

Professor Joe Painter | Political Science and International Relations | 01 September 1993

Application abstract: during the three decades after the second world war, elected local authorities had the effect (among other things) of promoting and regulating growth in ways which were compatible with policies base ...

Fr-brit. Prog. Ph3 european community policies and regional development

Mr Lewis-Et-Al | 01 July 1988

Negotiation and mining in papua new guinea

Professor Paul Sillitoe | Social Anthropology | 01 November 2000

Large mines dominate the export and taxation revenues of many pacific states. In the last decade, the state and multinational mining companies have continued to encroach on communities in papua new guinea (png). Local people and mining companies face ...