Recently Completed Research

Brief details of recently completed funded research projects in the Department of Sociology are listed here. Further details can be obtained either by visiting the relevant websites or by contacting those involved in the research.

Title
Access Grid Node: New Technologies, New Applications
Agent Based Simulations of Market and Consumer Behaviour
Autonomy and governance in European Universities – an international comparison
Beyond Nimbyism: a multidisciplinary investigation of public engagement with renewable energy technologies
Communities within Communities: a longitudinal approach to minority/majority relationships and social cohesion
Domestic Abuse Programmes in Prisons: Implementation in probation areas and Her Majesty's Prison Service
EMIL: Emergence in the Loop
EU Marie Curie Research Training Network in ‘Sociology of Sleep’
European Indicators, Cyberspace and the Science-Technology-Economy System (EICSTES)
Flood Warning for Vulnerable Groups
Food preparation and consumption amongst older people
Innovations in Social Research Methods: an international perspective
Negotiating Sleep: Gender, age and social relationships among couples
Network Models, Governance and R&D collaboration networks (NEMO)
New and Emergent World models Through Individual, Evolutionary, and Social Learning (NEW TIES)
Older people and their families: autonomy and decision- making in Later Life
PATRES: Pattern Resilience
Policing Private Lives
PPOP - Pilot Project on Online Pedagogy
Practice and Process in Integrating Methodologies (PPIMs)
Public Attitudes to Genomics
Public Response to Flood Warnings
Question Bank
QUIC: Qualitative Innovations in CAQDAS - Research Node
Regulation Information and the Self: Ownership and Mobile Environments (RIS:OME)
SaPT: Social and Political Trust: a longitudinal and comparative perspective
Signal Crimes National Roll Out Phase One
SimWeb
Sleep in Ageing Women
SocSimNet
SomnIA: Optimising Quality of Sleep Among Older People in the Community and Care Homes: An integrated approach
Spinning Science: The Nanotech Industry and Financial News
Survey Link Scheme
The Shaping of Cyberscience
Using Lay Environmental Knowledge in Industry
Virtual collaboration: affordances and engagement - Thales Virtual Desk