Indigenous Peoples and their Right to Political Participation
""This book proposes a composite right to political participation of indigenous peoples, identifies its recognition in international law and explores its application in two – apparently divergent but...
View ArticleRisk of breaking a bone depends on where you live
Ethnicity, socioeconomic status and place of residence in the UK all influence the risk of breaking a bone, a new Southampton study has shown. Researchers at the Medical Research Council Lifecourse...
View ArticleLoughborough University selected to monitor natural driver behaviour in...
Loughborough University is part of a €10 million collaborative study that will observe natural driver behaviour in the EU. UDRIVE, as it is known, involves the monitoring of cars, trucks and scooters...
View ArticleExercise counteracts sitting time
University of Leicester researchers lead study into benefits of physical activity
View ArticleOvercoming the challenge of being a young manager
Research on the link between age and organisational leadership typically focuses on the difficulties encountered by older managers within a work setting. However, younger managers frequently face...
View ArticlePaper Critically Examines the Politics of Asylum Accommodation in the UK
A new article offers a first examination of recent changes in the nature of asylum accommodation in the UK, arguing that in the model existing today, economic calculations and narratives of...
View ArticleAs Each Country Has Its Own Market Failures, Each One Has Its Own Kind of...
Incubators in different countries offer different services because they address local weaknesses, a study by Nilanjana Dutt and colleagues finds. They provide basic resources in developing countries,...
View ArticleDiscrimination on Facebook: a matter of gender
While young, less educated males are those who share a greater amount of discriminatory content on Facebook, young university females share the least. According to a study conducted by sociologists at...
View ArticleTen Researchers to Receive Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prizes
Most important German award for early career researchers / Award ceremony on 18 May in Berlin This year's recipients of the most important prize for early career researchers in Germany have been...
View ArticleThe systemic design of Politecnico di Torino as a support of regional policies
The Department of Architecture and Design at Politecnico di Torino won the Interreg Europe call with the RETRACE project promoting the adoption of a Systemic Approach for the creation of development...
View ArticleFünf Forscherinnen und fünf Forscher erhalten wichtigsten deutschen...
DFG und BMBF vergeben Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preise 2016 / Verleihung am 18. Mai in Berlin Die diesjährigen Trägerinnen und Träger des wichtigsten Preises für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs in...
View ArticleIl design sistemico del Politecnico di Torino a supporto delle politiche...
Il Dipartimento Architettura e Design del Politecnico di Torino vince il bando Interreg Europe con il progetto RETRACE che propone l’approccio sistemico per l’elaborazione di piani di sviluppo basati...
View ArticleAre Narcissists More Likely to Post Selfies and Care About the Feedback They...
Korean researchers studied how narcissism relates to a person's selfie-posting behavior on Social Networking Sites such as Facebook and interest in the comments they receive back. The authors describe...
View ArticleQuality time rather than study time improves teens’ educational aspirations
Teenagers who spend quality time with their parents are more likely to want to further their studies, according to research from the University of Warwick.
View ArticleTransition to child care easier when parents and providers form partnership
A new University of Illinois study reveals that the transition from home to child care is an important time for creating a partnership between parent and provider that benefits the child's development.
View ArticleResearch into the correlation between beauty and body size shows that women...
Research published in the journal Economics and Human Biology has described the relationship between attractiveness, BMI and gender, showing that while women are both the harshest judges of weight in...
View ArticleReligious freedom more important than women’s rights
The anti-discrimination legislation is more powerful than ever. Yet freedom of faith and religion is still more important than women’s rights in Norway, according to a new PhD thesis. “It is not as...
View ArticleMeasures to increase teachers’ competence have a positive effect on the...
Measures to increase teachers’ competence have a positive effect on the situation in the classroom and students’ grades. This is shown in a report from IFAU.
View ArticleHow to improve school results? Policy design, implementation and evaluation
24/05/2016 — 25/05/2016, The Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU) and Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS) invite researchers and policy makers to a conference. The...
View ArticleMobility and motivation: Job switching stokes competitive behavior
Colleague today, competitor tomorrow: Moving to a rival firm leads to a conflict of identities – and causes movers to focus their competitive impulses on their former employer, as a study by...
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