Previous Research Projects |
The projects listed below are ones that the Institute have worked upon which are now closed. |
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This research will use an experimental method, popular in scientific research, in order to try to understand whether these 'Get-Out-The-Vote' campaigns are an effective way of encouraging electors to turn out. |
Support and Opposition to Migration (SOM)
Large-scale migration caused all sorts of tensions in the receiving countries, particularly when it became clear that immigrants planned to settle permanently and eventually claimed to participate socially and politically in their countries of settlement. |
The Political Representation of Ethnic Minorities in the UK in Comparative Perspective The series will explore the prospects for ethnic minority representation in Britain and the barriers to achieving it. |
Extreme Right Party Support, Population change and the 'defended neighbourhoods' hypothesis
Examines the relationship between ethnic composition and levels of BNP voting and as such is able to speak more convincingly to national and local policy and academic debates. |
Constituency Campaigning at the 2010 General Election This project is a joint venture by academics from Brunel University and the University of Manchester. |
An online centre for British data on religion The British religious landscape has changed dramatically in the past four hundred years. |
A Transatlantic Comparison of Religion’s Role in Society
The Harvard-Manchester project on the Transatlantic Comparison of Religion’s Role in Society aims to accomplish three important goals: 1) to test the robustness of Putnam et al.’s earlier work measuring religious beliefs 2) to explore similarities and differences in religion’s role in contemporary society; and 3) to construct first class new datasets in the UK and Ireland. |
Intergenerational transmission of churchgoing in England and Australia Transmission of religious adherence is a crucial topic from both theoretical and practical perspectives. It is useful for testing different theories of religious change, in studying the nature of identity, and in forecasting the future size and composition of the churchgoing population. |
Transmission of Religiosity in England in historical perspective
The digitisation and analysis of a unique survey of youth religiosity, conducted in 1957. |
Quality of Life, Subjective Well-Being and Policy Intervention Social science has traditionally examined economic welfare, such as GDP per capita or various measures of deprivation. But richer does not necessarily mean we are subjectively happier, or objectively having a better quality of life. |
The Access to the legal Bar of England and Wales
Examining equal opportunities in access to pupillage |
Patterns of admission in elite higher education
In this project the admissions process is studied within an individual-level, mixed methods framework, including statistical analyses, interviews with admissions tutors and observations of admissions meetings. |
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This project studies the connection between grassroots activism in local associations, the emergence and development and social capital, and democratic governance in a comparative perspective. |
Applying hyperlink analysis tools to track and analyse online networks formed by political parties |
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to study multicultural democracy at the local level by analyzing the level of political integration of immigrant residents, in its attitudinal and behavioural dimensions, in six European cities: Lyon (France), Budapest (Hungary), Milan (Italy), Madrid (Spain), Zurich (Switzerland), and London (United Kingdom). |
Modelling Voter Preferences: A Multilevel, Longitudinal Approach
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The aims of the review were to establish whether higher levels of education, employment, income or socio-economic class protect against group-based inequalities. |
Social mobility and the middle classes: latent growth models of class careers
The project focuses on class career, understood as a sequence of occupational classes that an individual occupy in the labour market. |
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This project investigated the ‘ethnic penalty’ in employment, examining changes between and within generations |
