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Grants Awarded

Recently awarded Small Grants include:

February 2008 to April 2008

Professor Ian Brown

Faculty of Arts and Humanities, School of Oriental and African Studies
The colonial construction of criminality in Burma
£7,524

Dr Amon Chizema

Business School, Loughborough University
To disclose or not to disclose: An account of German board remuneration
£5,481

Dr Shana Cohen

Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
Social work, social class and public altruism
£7,268

Professor Richard Croucher

Middlesex University Business School, Middlesex University
Minimum wage setting, compliance and enforcement in the UK. A longitudinal perspective
£7,471

Dr Piers Fleming and Dr Daniel John Zizzo

School of Social Work and Psychosocial Studies, University of East Anglia
Do individual differences in social desirability bias imply sensitivity to social pressure and risk?
£7,218

Professor Barry Gunter, Dr Vincent Campbell and Professor Rachel Gibson

Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester
Blogging and the impact of citizen journalism: A pilot study
£5,900

Dr Catherine Hunt

Faculty of Business, Environment and Society, Coventry University
A regional history of the National Federation of Women Workers
£6,896

Dr Mark Jackson

School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
City as exhibition, place as consumption: The world's largest commodity market -Yiwu, China
£7,500

Dr Maria Kavussanu

School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham
Observed antisocial behaviours in sport: Examining age and gender differences and exploring the underlying mechanisms
£9,571

Professor John Kelly

Department of Management, Birkbeck, University of London
Labour and the cold war: Allan Flanders and the history of the field of industrial relations in Britain
£2,678

Dr Wyn Morgan and colleagues

School of Economics, University of Nottingham
Sugar policy reform and world price volatility
£7,256

Dr Tanja R Müller

School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester
'Memories of paradise' - Life journeys of a cohort of young Mozambiqueans after schooling and vocational training in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR)
£6,486

Dr Chris Reynolds

School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University
Re-evaluating French collective memory of the 1968 events
£3,263

Dr Dirk Schubotz

ARK (Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive), Queen's University Belfast
Mental and emotional health of 16-year olds in Northern Ireland
£8,300

Professor Roger Seifert

Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University
The life and times of Bert Ramelson (born Baruch Ramilevich Mendelson, 1910-1994): A very English communist
£8,042

Dr Rachel Smith and Dr Rachael-Anne Knight

Department of English Language, University of Glasgow
Perceptual learning about word boundaries in familiar and unfamiliar accents
£7,491

Dr Harriet R Tenenbaum

Psychology Research Unit, Kingston University
Adolescents' reasoning about the rights of asylum-seeking children
£6,607

Dr Jodi Tommerdahl

School of Education, University of Birmingham
How long does a spontaneous language sample need to be? Testing the reliability of four different sample lengths in grammatical analysis
£7,125

Mr Tim Vollans

Faculty of Business, Environment and Society, Coventry University
Fiscal Justice - an inhibiting experience
£7,500

Dr Aidan While, Professor David C Gibbs and Professor Andrew Jonas

Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield
Planning for new industrial spaces in Asia
£7,416


November 2007 to January 2008

Professor Dominic Abrams

Centre for the Study of Group Processes, University of Kent
Perceived threat, values and prejudice: an experimental test
£7,418

Dr Alexandra Argenti

Department of Anthropology, University College London
Kurdish women, Islamic public spheres and trans-national civil society in North London
£7,200

Dr Paul Chaisty

Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
Particularism and legislative behaviour in the Russian Federation
£7,497

Dr Gareth Dale

Department of Politics and History, Brunel University
Karl Polanyi's Hungarian writings: Discovering the significant texts
£2,857

Dr Jörg Michael Dostal

School of Social Sciences, Brunel University
The political regulation of low-wage labour markets in the Federal Republic of Germany: A public policy perspective
£2,840

Dr T Scarlett Epstein

Royal Anthropological Institute
A follow-up study of south Indian rural to urban migration
£7,325

Dr Steven Frisson

School of Psychology, University of Birmingham
Does stammering affect silent reading?
£7,493

Dr Ana Guinote

Department of Psychology, University of Kent
Power and predictions of time: An exploration of factors that help improve the forecasting accuracy of decision makers
£7,416

Dr Roy Maconachie and Dr Gavin Michael Hilson

Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester
Beyond the resource curse? Diamond mining, global capitalism and local development in post-conflict Sierra Leone
£7,236

Dr Kirsty Newsome

Department of Human Resource Management, University of Strathclyde
Supermarkets, systemic rationalisation and work restructuring in grocery distribution and warehousing
£5,850

Dr I Bruna Seu

Centre for Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London
Apathy towards Human Rights abuses: A comparative study
£8,272

Dr Selina Todd

School of Arts, History and Cultures, University of Manchester
An assessment of working-class 'decline': Crown Street, Liverpool, 1979
£7,045

Professor Alys Young and colleagues

School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Manchester
Trait emotional intelligence questionnaire - British Sign Language version: A pilot project
£11,992

Last Updated Tue, 20 May 2008