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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Midlands region"”.
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The Contextual Variety existing between English primary school Special Educational Needs Coordinators (SENCOs) within the East-Midlands Region
… schools in eleven local authorities in the East Midlands, comparing their professional practice and experiences with the requirements of national legislation and statutory guidance relating to SEND. This study was based on the premise that the Contextual Variety across individual schools created …
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An examination of adverse drug reaction reporting to the yellow card scheme
… analysis of reporting trends within the West Midlands region from 1994, showed increasing or stable reporting rates for most sectors of reporters, except for general practitioners (GPs). The West Midlands region maintained higher ADR reporting rates than the rest of the UK. National reporting …
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Understanding the past to conserve the future long-term environmental and vegetation change in the Karoo Midlands, South Africa over the 20th century
… extent and rate vegetation change in the Karoo Midlands region of South Africa at multiple spatial and temporal scales in relation to local and global drivers. This is important because changes in land cover have major implications for the conservation and management of biodiversity in the …
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The process of developing innovative capabilities in biotechnology: the case of UK firms
… five cases of bio-tech firms from the East Midlands region of the United Kingdom which have an entrepreneurial flair synonymous with born-global firms. The findings from within and across cases, secondary data analysis and results from a ‘pilot study’ led to the construction of a new …
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The doctor-patient relationship: an exploration of trainee doctors’ views
… (ear, nose and throat surgery, ENT), in the West Midlands region of the United Kingdom. Following a scoping exercise in 2002, interviews with 20 trainees (10 GP and 10 ENT) in 2004 and questionnaires from 16 ENT and 89 GP trainees in 2007 explored trainees’ views of the doctor-patient …
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Universities and Regional Advantage in the Knowledge Economy: Markets, Governance and Networks as Developing in English Regions
… developing between the universities and their regions in the globalising knowledge economy as observed in the UK. It examines institutional responses to two realms of policies, namely, higher education policy and regional development policy. The diversifying missions of universities, …
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Working 9 to 5? Complex patterns of time allocation among managers and professionals in dual career households
… a major employment centre of the East Midlands region of the UK. The case study comprises a series of interviews with Human Resource Managers (HRMs) and a survey of managerial and professional workers. It allows analysis at two reference points, using primary data collected as part of …
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The internationalisation of the small-to-medium sized enterprise (SME): a critical realist approach
… the internationalisation of SMEs in the East Midlands region of the United Kingdom. The research adopts a critical realist philosophy, used by researchers to explain the decision-making process, and applies it in a different context to provide insights into the internationalisation process of …
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The perceptions of Heads, middle leaders and classroom teachers about the effects of distributed leadership on teaching and learning: A study in selected schools in the West Midlands of England
… primary and two secondary schools in the West Midlands region of England. From these semi-structured interviews with eighteen participants, the study captures their perceptions of distributed leadership: what it means to them, how it is practised in schools and the perceived effects on teaching …
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ECONOMIC AND STRATEGIC BEHAVIOUR IN DYNAMIC BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS: THE CASE OF THE EX-SUGAR BEET FARMERS OF THE WEST MIDLANDS
… to a sample of ex-sugar beet farmers in the West Midlands region of the UK to investigate the way in which these individuals adjusted to the Sugar Regime reform introduced on 20th February 2006. As a consequence of this reform, the sugar beet factory located in Allscott in Shropshire was closed …
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Listening to the voices of boys in dance
… data from two case study schools in the West Midlands region of England. The study built on the ‘write, draw, show and tell’ (WDST) method (Noonan et al., 2016) and added the innovative use of ‘emojis’ to create the write, draw, show, tell and emoji’ (WDSTE) approach. Over a four month …
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Business start-up dilemma: support nascent entrepreneurs or deliver contracts?
… in the creation of new ventures in the East Midlands. The BLSS was part of the region’s £70m annual investment in business support (2007-10). THE BLSS was delivered in the five counties of the East Midlands region and included the four Business Link Contractors (BLCs). The study uses a …
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A COMPARISON OF STRESS AND COPING FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE UNITED STATES
… treatment for cancer at a hospital in the Midlands region of England in the UK and at a hospital in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used within a grounded theory approach (Glaser & Strauss, 1967), and included six instruments: (a) …
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The potential of restored landfill sites for biodiversity conservation in the UK
… sites and paired reference sites in the East Midlands region of the UK during 2007 and 2008. Plant species data were collected by random quadrats along two 100m transects from each site; carabid beetles were censused by pitfall traps; land snails were investigated by hand searches along the …
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The British Union of Fascists in the Midlands, 1932 – 1940
… Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists in the Midlands between 1932 and 1940. It charts the fascist presence in four major cities: Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent, Coventry and Leicester. The BUF is the largest and most important fascist movement to have ever existed in Britain. Mosleyite fascism in …
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Developing and integrating cultural competence into nursing education curricula: a qualitative grounded theory approach
… mental health nurse training in the West Midlands Region. Analysis of the research findings resulted in an emergent conceptual framework that explains how cultural competence is developed in the undergraduate mental health nursing curriculum in terms of content, processes, strategies, …
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An empirical investigation into the uptake, motivations and constraints and the factors affecting farmers’ renewable energy investment intentions
… through a sample of 2000 farmers in the West Midlands Region of the UK. Of the 393 farmers who responded, 14% adopted RE enterprises, with half of adopters reporting slight to significant improvements in farm business performance in 2009. Solar panels were the most popular of the RE …
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Opening dialogues between mindfulness and education: Exploring existing mindfulness-based activities in UK schools and perceptions of mindfulness in education with teachers, teacher trainers and mindfulness-based curricula developers
… currently taking place in schools in the South Midlands region of the UK. The Mindfulness in Schools Questionnaire (MiSQ), a 22-item qualitative questionnaire, was created and implemented to survey educational settings from pre-school to further education colleges. The MiSQ gathered data about …