Section: Current Research
Social studies of finance is the application to financial markets of social-science disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, and social studies of science. The intrinsically multidisciplinary area is one of increasing research interest. This project aims at building a platform that helps scholars to become aware of each other across disciplines, and to enhance the sharing and exchange of resources. More
Funded by the Edinburgh Development Trust and the University of Edinburgh Development Trust Research Fund this project looked at a number of protest activities around the summit of 'G8' world leaders in Gleneagles in July 2005. More
This ongoing and open-ended project investigates the policing of 'crowd events', and in particular the inter-relation between political protest and protest policing. More.
This project explored the views and experiences of young men and women, aged 18-24, concerning their identity, citizenship and attachment to locality, nation and Europe. More
Tracing pharmaceuticals in South Asia: Regulation, Distribution, and
Consumption, Funder: DFID/ESRC.
Demographic Change In North India: A Longitudinal Micro-Study was a Wellcome funded project involving Professors Patricia and Roger Jeffery. It was a restudy of two villages (one Hindu and one Muslim in Bijnor district in north-west Uttar Pradesh, India) first studied in 1982-83. A primary focus of our work was to investigate the significance of changes that have taken place in several indicators of women's status (kind and extent of work outside the home, young women's schooling,prevalence and scale of dowry payments). The project was completed March 2006.
For further details e-mail Professor Patricia Jeffery P.Jeffery@ed.ac.uk
Aditya Bharadwaj was a co-investigator on the ESRC funded projects, Public Perceptions of Gamete Donation in British South Asian Communities, with Dr. L Culley, Prof. MRD Johnson (De Montfort University); Dr. F Rapport (Swansea);and Curating and Husbandry in the UK Stem Cell Bank with Prof. Paul Atkinson,Prof. Peter Glasner (Cardiff University). Both ran from 2005-2006.
Educational Outcomes for the poor. This is a £2.5 million project running from Oct. 2005 until Sept. 2010 involving Roger Jeffery, Neil Thin, Patricia Jeffery from the Centre of South Asian Studies and colleagues in the Centre for African Studies in Edinburgh and others at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and four partners in India, Pakistan, Kenya and Ghana. More
This project is researching and developing blended learning resources for Social Science Research Students in the Graduate School of Social and Political Studies. More
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