SILTFLUX

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The SILTFLUX project aims to unravel pollution challenges for a set of Irish rivers.

Are personal budgets always the best way of delivering personalised social care services to older people?

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This NIHR/School for Social Care Research funded project aimed to examine whether personal budgets are always the best way of delivering personalised social care services to older people. 

ifeed: User-centred development of an online and mobile phone intervention to support infant feeding choice and confidence to sustain breastfeeding and/or safe formula feeding

Project

Ifeed was launched in August 2018 to coincide with World Breastfeeding week.  In the first week it had 800 views and was shared by organisations supporting mothers and babies across the UK and globally.  We are currently seeking further feedback from parents about how the site influences their feeding choices and are preparing to evaluate the site for its influence on infant feeding behaviours. 

Learning Gains: A study of the use of the standardised test CLA+ for undergraduates in four institutions

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Learning Gains: A study of the use of the standardised test CLA+ for undergraduates in four institutions

Culture Moves

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CultureMoves is a user-oriented project that aims to develop a series of digital tools and services that will enable new forms of touristic engagement and educational resources by leveraging the re-use of Europeana content. The project stands on 3 pillars: technology for content re-use adaptation and sharing, real-life use cases for tourism and education, intangible cultural heritage and more specifically dance.

A new spelling test for primary school children

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Influences on and Impact of Mathematical Resilience in Year 1 Children

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Somatic practice, chronic pain and self-care technology

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This network brings together experts from dance and somatic practices, health and digital design to explore the living, sensate and subjectively experienced body in context as a means of understanding chronic pain and self-care strategies. 

Social Choreography network

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What does social choreography mean today, and to what extent can this field provide new frameworks to help address the issue of cultural stereotyping of refugees?
Violent military conflict, environmental crises, breakdown of social, racial or ethnic integration, are some of the many reasons why millions of peoples are being displaced across the world. Immigration is regarded today as arguably one of the most pressing political issues by voters and the wider public, and not only in a post-Brexit UK. Whilst the problem of forced migration is typically addressed from within the social sciences (e.g. migration and diaspora studies, sociology, political science, or development studies), little is known about the way in which the movement arts and bodily perspectives are responding to such crises. The gap in knowledge that the network is aiming to address concerns a lack of understanding of embodied socio-choreographic practice at a regional and cross-national level. 

AgroecologyNow!

Project

Agroecology Now! is a research, action and communications project convened by the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience that focuses on understanding and supporting the societal transformations necessary to enable agroecology as a model for sustainable and just food systems.

Payday futures: sub-prime credit markets in transition?

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The project will investigate the impact of the regulation of High-Cost, Short-Term Credit (HCSTC) and how this is reshaping credit markets. Join the discussion on Twitter using #Paydayfutures

Refugee resettlement: politics, practices, rhetoric

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This project explores resettlement in countries of destination as well in those which host large numbers of forcibly displaced persons. Drawing evidence from a select group of case-studies, we analyse the ways in which the politics of resettlement are translated on the ground through the practices and narratives of the staff of intermediary organisations such as UNHCR, IOM and the NGOs involved in resettlement; and government officials as well as their main respective donor governments. Using decolonising methodologies, we also aim to study the intertwined narratives, storytelling and rhetoric about resettlement of the women and men who have been forcibly displaced.

A data-driven approach to sustainable operation, maintenance and development of the railway electrification system

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Funded by Network Rail, this project seeks to use a data-driven approach to sustainable operation, maintenance and development of the railway electrification system.

Researching Farmer Perspectives on the Impact of a Potential Increase in Nitrate Vulnerable Zones in Wales

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This research aims to assess the impact of this policy change on farmers through environmental, technical and economic perspectives.

Better Work, Better Businesses: Making the Case for Ethical Trade in the South African Fruit Industry

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This project will seek to: advance understandings of how labour standards improvements are connected to improvements in business performance.

Sport Mega-events in Brazil: Foreigners’ perceptions about tourism and event management

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An Examination of Customer Engagement on Mobile Apps

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The objective of the study is to examine the factors that drive customer engagement on mobile phones apps. The study assesses the role of mobile apps in two mega events; Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Innovation to Support Those at Risk of Falling

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This project aimed to identify areas of good practice, service innovation and whole system thinking within falls prevention and response service delivery across the region, an in-depth case study approach was used where the researchers involved practitioners to capture this data, evaluate practice and highlight best practice service delivery. 

Evaluation of the Master Gardener programme at Rye Hill prison: A horticultural intervention with substance misusing offenders

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Exploring prisoners’ personal experiences of engaging in the horticultural intervention and understanding the processes by which the intervention is provided. 

Civic Epistemologies

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The Civic Epistemologies project is about the participation of citizens in research on cultural heritage and humanities.