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Showing 1 to 20 of 120 for “"HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform"”.
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The Experience of Social Policy Reform for Voluntary Advice Organisations: A Multi-Site Case Study in Liverpool
Social policy reform following the Welfare Reform Act 2012 has led to a shift in demand for voluntary advice organisations that are both advising on and dealing with issues related to these changes simultaneously. The existing body of literature focusses on the operations of advice organisation …
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Exploring the Experiences of Vulnerable Families: A Critical Reflection on the Participatory Research Approach
… thesis documents research undertaken to understand the experience of families who have lived with domestic violence, substance misuse and subsequent child protection intervention. Initially a participatory methodology was adopted, which presented significant challenges. This thesis presents a …
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Opportunities and challenges in new survey data collection methods using apps and images.
… established as an effective way of collecting social science data. However, they may lack the detail, or not measure the concepts, necessary to answer a wide array of social science questions. Supplementing survey data with data from other sources offer opportunities to overcome this. The use …
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Spiritual Agency and Sustainability Transitions Exploring Food Practices in Three Hare Krishna Eco-Communities
… explores connections between spirituality, diet and system-wide Sustainability Transitions. The pivotal role of food in greenhouse gas emissions is widely acknowledged across disciplines, yet it is under-researched by Sustainability Transitions scholars. Likewise, while sustainable diets …
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The Russian migration regime and migrants' experiences: the case of non-Russian nationals from former Soviet republics
… regime is reflected in migrants' experiences and identities. The conceptual framework developed in the thesis is informed by the theory of structuration. On the basis of this theory and the analysis of primary empirical data, the thesis seeks to refine the understanding of the concepts of …
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Statutory and Non-Statutory service-users experiences of gender-responsive practice in a post-Corston (2007) Women's Centre
This thesis is concerned with the aims, operation and impact of one case study Women’s Centre (WC) in the North of England, functioning as a post-Corston (2007), gender-responsive, non-custodial arena for women serving unpaid work (UW) sentences and women attending voluntarily due to social and …
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The British press and the origins of the Cold War
… first by Churchill at Fulton from Opposition and pursued subsequently at the policy-making level by Ernest Bevin and the Foreign Office. These newspapers looked in particular with sympathy upon the security aspirations of the Soviet Union in eastern Europe and were not therefore predisposed to …
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Food Insecurity in the UK: A Critical Narrative Analysis
Food-insecurity is a serious and growing problem in the UK. The following research details the levels and causes of the problem and sets this in the context of the biggest contributors to food-insecurity, namely poverty and welfare-reform. The existing psychological research in the area is …
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Innovation policy in Canada’s agri-food system: The functional food and natural health products’ segment
… increase economic returns. Innovation capacity and ability to capture opportunities appear to be limiting factors. This research therefore conducted a general review of the food system in Canada with a specific focus on innovation in the functional food and natural health products’ …
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The 'manufacture' of mental defectives in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Scotland
… studies of mental deficiency in late nineteenth and early twentieth century England, exploring the subject within its administrative, medical, educational and social contexts. This thesis contributes to the history of mental deficiency by describing developments that took place in Scotland. It …
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Perceptions of emigration in southern Scotland, c1770 - c1830
The dissertation examines the personal and public reactions to the emigration taking place in the Border region of Scotland at the turn of the nineteenth century. Separated into four parts—the landed, the church, the press and the families left behind—it explores the perceptions of each group and …
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Contempt, sympathy and romance': lowland perceptions of the Highlands and the clearances during the famine years, 1845-1855
This thesis examines Lowland public opinion towards the Highlanders in mid-nineteenth century Scotland. It explores attitudes present in the contemporary newspaper press, and shows that public opinion was divided by three basic perceptions: 'contempt', 'sympathy' and 'romance'. An analysis of the …
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Judicial reform in Ethiopia
The main theme of this thesis is judicial reform program in Ethiopia. It examines the three basic issues which are central to the administration of justice in Ethiopia, namely efficieny, access to justice as well as accountability and independence. In spite of the wider scope of the reform efforts …
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Differing responses to an industrialising economy: occupations in rural communities in the Heart of England from the Restoration to the Railway Age (c. 1660 – c. 1840). Male occupational structure in the hinterland of the market town of Alcester, Warwickshire
… of male occupational structure in the hinterland of the market town of Alcester, Warwickshire, c.1660 – c.1840. Various primary sources are used including the 1841 census, probate records, marriage licences and parish registers in order to compare occupations in thirty-six rural parishes …
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'Street children' and education: a comparative study of European and third world approaches
… in the light of NGO experience. European history depicts a situation equatable with that of the present-day. This provides a basis to compare the relevance of Europe's arrival at a minimised incidence of street existence, with the present third world situation. Current ethnography provides …
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Injury and blessing: a challenge to current readings of biblical discourse concerning impairment
… impairment was common knowledge: archaeological and written material demonstrate that people with impairments were included in society. Impairment was well understood and, in the rhetorical dynamic between author and reader, it was imaginatively used. The Early Church, for instance, developed …
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Independent Labour Party men and women's suffrage in Britain, 1893-1914
… the attitudes towards women's enfranchisement, and involvement within the British women's suffrage movement, of the male members of the Independent Labour Party, a mixed sex socialist organisation. The period covered ranges from 1893, the year of the party's foundation, to the outbreak of the …
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