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The experiences of marginalised families with autistic children

The experiences of marginalised families with autistic children
Description
The project investigated the key challenges faced by marginalised autistic children and their families and identified examples of effective working practices with these groups.
Date:
14/03/2023
Categories:
Social Sciences

Measuring Brexit uncertainty and understanding the causes

Measuring Brexit uncertainty and understanding the causes
Description
The project constructs novel measures of Brexit-related uncertainty based on textual analysis and unsupervised machine learning methods.
Date:
23/09/2022
Categories:
Social Sciences

Shifting Shapes: how can local care markets support personalised outcomes?

Description
This research sought to understand how local authorities have responded to duties placed on them to shape social care markets and support individual choice and control through 'personalisation'.
Date:
02/11/2020
Categories:
Social Sciences

Derogating from the European Convention on Human Rights in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

Description
This briefing paper argues that Article 15 ECHR should be used to accommodate what has become known as 'lockdown' powers necessary to confront the coronavirus pandemic.
Date:
22/07/2020
Categories:
Social Sciences

Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment during COVID-19

Description
Although no published studies to date have tracked the national trends in domestic violence, several indicators point to a marked increase in domestic violence during the COVID-19 crisis.
Date:
29/06/2020
Categories:
Social Sciences

Forced migration, sexual and gender-based violence and COVID-19

Description
The "Forced migration, SGBV and COVID-19" project was initiated in response to information suggesting that forced migrant survivors' suffering increased in the COVID-19 crisis.
Date:
22/05/2020
Categories:
Social Sciences

Poverty, household debt and COVID-19

Description
Professor Karen Rowlingson undertakes research focused on the effects of Covid-19 on household debt and recommends short term measures to avoid an increase in poverty and household debt in the next few months.
Date:
24/04/2020
Categories:
Social Sciences

Fathers in the Workplace Toolkit 2020

Description
The Equal Parenting Project have created an evidence based 'Fathers in the Workplace Toolkit', a practical guide for organisations to better support fathers across their organisations.
Date:
23/03/2020
Categories:
Social Sciences
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