The Economic and Social Research Council recently put out a call for evidence to find out where they need to build knowledge and skills to improve the UK’s social science capability and capacity. The focus is on strategically important knowledge and skills required to ensure the world-leading status of UK social science research and the continued competitiveness of the UK
» Read moreLed by Professor John MacInnes and involving Dr Jan Eichhorn and Professor Susan McVie (all University of Edinburgh), this project aimed to introduce participants to some of the major datasets and promote the use of Scottish and UK data infrastructure. As part of this work, the research team created a series of workshops covering a number of the Scottish and
» Read moreAbstract In this article the authors ask what it would mean to think sociologically about the window as a specific material and symbolic object. Drawing on qualitative analysis of a series of comparative interviews with residents in three different streets in a diverse local area of Glasgow, they explore what the use and experience of windows tells us about their
» Read moreThis event took place on 26-27th October 2016 at the John McIntyre Conference Centre, University of Edinburgh. You can view the presentations from the keynote speakers at this event here. You can also view the plenary sessions in full via the The aim of the conference was to offer a forum for researchers, policy makers and practitioners to discuss and
» Read moreAbstract Housing markets are unlikely to be impervious to the preferences and prejudices associated with urban segregation. For example, two neighbourhoods with very different religious attributes are unlikely to be perceived as close substitutes by homebuyers that have a strong preference for neighbours of a particular religion. This paper offers a new framework for the conception and measurement of social
» Read moreThis area of research and the three individual projects within it collectively garnered more than 70 pieces of media coverage including print, broadcast and on-line. Here are just a few of the pieces of coverage about this research, which remains highly topical: Hard evidence: who are Scotland’s undecideds on independence? The Conversation, Feb 2014 – Jan Eichhorn blogs on the
» Read moreMost EU citizens want UK to remain, study suggests – Guardian 10th March 2016 Voters in six European Union countries are overwhelmingly in favour of Britain remaining in the 28-nation bloc – but if it votes to leave, many also feel the UK should be punished by exclusion from the single market. According to a study of 8,000 voters in
» Read moreCrime has fallen nationally, but this research by Susan McVie, Paul Norris and Rebecca Pillinger aims to establish whether crime has fallen to the same extent within all local authority areas and the extent to which there is variation between areas. Using small area level police recorded crime data, this project investigates the differences in crime trends across local communities
» Read moreESRC Britain in 2015 magazine published research findings from Susan McVie, Paul Norris and Rebecca Pillinger in relation to their work around examining the crime drop. Read the Britain in 2015 article in full. You can also read more about this research in AQMeN research briefing 3 – Local differences in the crime drop: are there winners and losers?
» Read moreA stable finding of research on civic participation is the correlation between overall educational attainment and various attributes that are relevant to democracy, such as propensity to be active, to vote, and to hold views on important public issues. But research since the 1990s has suggested that we should be cautious about this inference. The most important question is that
» Read more