Browsing School of Applied Social Sciences by Title
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Race and ethnicity
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Race, Ethnicity and Young People
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Racism and young people in the United Kingdom
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Rational decision-making in medicine: implications for overuse and underuse
(Article)In spite of substantial spending and resource utilization, today's health care remains characterized by poor outcomes, largely due to overuse (over-testing/treatment) or underuse (under-testing/treatment) of services. To ... -
Re-engineering Higher Education: The Subsumption of Academic Labour and the Exploitation of Anxiety
(Article)This article analyses the political economy of higher education, in terms of Marx and Engels’ conception of subsumption. It addresses the twin processes of formal and real subsumption, in terms of the re-engineering of the ... -
Re-engineering research, teaching and learning with digital technologies: how AAOU (Asian Association of Open Universities) members might collaborate for the benefit of teachers and learners in their societies
(Article)If universities are to be relevant In today’s digitally connected world, ways of working which may have been established centuries ago urgently need to be reviewed and new practices adopted. This is a challenge not just ... -
Re-framing egg 'donation' in Europe: socio-technical transformations and the emergence of new markets.
(Conference)The expansion of the use of donor eggs in fertility treatment has been exponential. Whilst the majority of egg donation historically took place in the US, donor eggs are used in over 56, 000 cycles of fertility treatment ... -
Re-thinking egg donation in Europe: expanding practice, extending boundaries.
(Conference)The expansion of the use of donor eggs in fertility treatment has been exponential. Whilst the majority of egg donation historically took place in the US, donor eggs are used in over 56, 000 cycles of fertility treatment ... -
Reaching consensus on a ‘vegetables first’ approach to complementary feeding
(Other)On 5 May 2016, the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) invited leading infant feeding experts to discuss and debate the strength of the evidence base on a ‘vegetables first’ approach to complementary feeding. Consensus was ... -
A Reader in promoting public health: challenge and controversy
(Book)A Reader in Promoting Public Health brings together a selection of readings that reflect and challenge current thinking in the field of multidisciplinary public health. The chapters address issues that are high on the ... -
Reading Bronson from deep on the inside: An exploration of prisoners watching prison films
(Book chapter)This chapter reports on a small scale project screening contemporary British prison films to people serving sentences in British prisons. In particular, this will focus on one of the films, Bronson (UK 2008, Dir. Nicolas ... -
Reading Dickens’s characters: Employing psycholinguistics methods to investigate the cognitive reality of patterns in texts.
(Article)This article reports the findings of an empirical study that uses eye-tracking and follow-up interviews as methods to investigate how participants read body language clusters in novels by Charles Dickens. The study builds ... -
Reading emotions from faces in two indigenous societies
(Article)That all humans recognize certain specific emotions from their facial expression—the Universality Thesis—is a pillar of research, theory, and application in the psychology of emotion. Its most rigorous test occurs in ...