Browsing Social Policy thesis and dissertation collection by Title
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Assessing the transitional needs of physically disabled school-leavers : a comparative study of inter-disciplinary meetings
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Bologna reform in Ukraine: learning Europeanisation in the post-Soviet context
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)This thesis explores the process of the Bologna reform in the Ukrainian higher education system. Bologna is one of the most well-known and influential European projects for cooperation in the field of higher education. ... -
Canadian Senate : a chamber of sober second thought or an upper house shaped by partisan politics during the first sixty years of Confederation?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2012-11-28)The Canadian Senate is often the target of criticism and there have been countless calls to reform Canada’s upper chamber since its creation in 1867. While much has been written about the Senate’s lacklustre performance ... -
Capable of change? The impact of policy on the reconciliation of paid work and care in couples with children
(The University of Edinburgh, 2012-06-29)This research examines the impact of work-family reconciliation policies on gender inequality in the labour market, and on the division of paid work and care in the household. Policies designed to help families meet their ... -
Challenging interactions: an ethnographic study of behaviour in the youth club
(The University of Edinburgh, 2010-11-26)Young people’s challenging behaviour in the school classroom and elsewhere has long been subject to research and policy attention. Despite inherent definitional difficulties, challenging behaviour is often constructed as ... -
Child abduction and child sexual abuse prevention: an evaluation of the 'feeling yes, feeling no' programme
(The University of Edinburgh, 1995) -
Children, contact and domestic abuse
(The University of Edinburgh, 2014-11-26)In recent years the issue of children’s contact with non-resident parents has been increasingly debated. The policy gaze has focused on contested contact when there are allegations of domestic abuse. Some commentators ... -
Children’s work: experiences of street vending children and young people in Enugu, Nigeria
(The University of Edinburgh, 2009)Concern for children’s safety and protection has become a global issue and has evoked considerable debate since the publication of the United Nations’ widely ratified Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in 1989. ... -
Collaboration between co-resident parents
(The University of Edinburgh, 2013-11-27)The majority of children in the UK live in households with two parents, yet most of the academic research on parenting focuses on the relationship between one parent and one child. More often than not, this one parent ... -
Community involvement in woodlands: Governance and social benefits
(The University of Edinburgh, 2008)This study explores the social benefits resulting from community involvement in forestry in Scotland. Social benefits have been claimed and reported but a review of literature identified a need for further exploration to ... -
Comparative study of carers of older people with dementia in Scotland and Korea
(The University of Edinburgh, 2011)This study aims to explore Scottish and Korean carers‘ attitudes towards the diagnosis of dementia in their relative, family care, community care and to residential care in Scotland and Korea respectively, also under ... -
Complaining, Appealing or Just Getting it Sorted Out: complaints procedures for community care service users
(2007-06-27)The primary aim of this thesis is to consider whether the social work complaints procedure in Scotland is an appropriate means of dealing with dissatisfaction experienced by users of community care services. Debate in the ... -
Complexity, complicity and fluidity: early years provision in Tamil Nadu (India)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2013-11-27)Early years provision, which combines childcare and preschool education, has been considered vital for child development by theorists and practitioners. Within early years provision pedagogy is assumed to be both an ... -
Contribution of a new town environment to educational attainment among primary school children in Glenrothes
(The University of Edinburgh, 1977) -
Critical happiness: examining the beliefs that young Lao volunteers in Vientiane hold about the things that make life good.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-07-01)Happiness is consistently cited as one of the things that people consider most important in their lives and yet is a slippery concept about which it is difficult to establish a shared understanding. There is increasing ... -
Decentralisation, collaboration and diversity in social insurance benefit delivery in Thailand
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-07-01)This research provides a Thai case-study of social insurance benefit delivery (SIBD) and of the tension between the international norm of a standardized and centralised system and recent trends to diversified and locally ... -
Divisive identities, divided foreign policy? Policy makers' discourses on Russia in Germany, Poland and Finland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2014-11-26)Numerous academics and foreign policy practitioners have argued that relations with Russia are one of the most divisive issues within the European Union (cf. Leonard and Popescu 2007, Mandelson 2007). Mainstream explanations ... -
Enquiry into the effectiveness and feasibility of theories of global justice
(The University of Edinburgh, 2010)Theories of global justice are often criticised for being ineffective or unrealisable. The aim of this interdisciplinary thesis is to examine whether this motivational criticism holds regarding Singer’s Principle and Pogge’s ... -
Experience of labour market disadvantage: a comparison of temporary agency workers in Italy and the UK
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)In the past decades, European labour markets have undergone profound changes, witnessing a process of liberalisation and flexibilisation, in part through the spread of various forms of atypical employment. These new forms ... -
Exploring and assessing social research impact : a case study of a research partnership’s impacts on policy and practice
(The University of Edinburgh, 2012-11-28)There is increasing emphasis on the outcomes of research in terms of its impact on wider society. However in the social sciences the ways in which research is taken up and used, discussed, shared and applied in different ...