The Development of a Holistic and Quantitative Tool for the Assessment and Improvement of Survey Quality.
Thesis
Chen, T. The Development of a Holistic and Quantitative Tool for the Assessment and Improvement of Survey Quality. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4404
There are a variety of guidelines and methods available to measure and assess survey quality. Most of these are based on qualitative descriptions. In practice, they are not ea...
The capabilities approach as a framework for labour market information on young people.
Book Chapter
Lindsay, C., & McQuaid, R. W. (2010)
The capabilities approach as a framework for labour market information on young people. In C. Larsen, J. Kipper, & A. Schmid (Eds.), Regional Monitoring Approaches for the Reduction and the Prevention of Youth Unemployment in Europe, 152-159. Rainer Hampp Verlag, Muenchen
This paper considers some of the potential uses of the capabilities approach to widen and deepen the labour market information that we collect on youth employment and unemploy...
Financial Capability: Evidence Review - Report of the Scottish Government Social Inclusion Division
Report
McQuaid, R. W. & Egdell, V. (2010)
Financial Capability: Evidence Review - Report of the Scottish Government Social Inclusion Division
This report provides a brief overview of current evidence on financial capability as it relates to disadvantage in Scotland.
Recruiting Women into Scottish Wood Chain Industries
Journal Article
Ridley-Ellis, D., MacPherson, S., & Thomson, E. (2008)
Recruiting Women into Scottish Wood Chain Industries. Timber Engineering, 1, 477-485
In common with many countries, the composition and attitudes of Scotland’s population are changing. It is the regions where the industries in the wood products value chain are...
Is this a Brave New World? A postcolonial review of The Tempest.
Book
Fraser, B. (2005)
Is this a Brave New World? A postcolonial review of The Tempest. In G. Tapati, & B. Salil (Eds.), To Times in Hope: Essays in Memory of Professor S.C. Sengupta, 111-120. Blue Pencil
Road user charging: Theory and practice
Journal Article
Saleh, W. (2005)
Road user charging: Theory and practice. Transport Policy, 12(5), 373-376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2005.06.001
In 1999 the DETR became concerned that there was a general shortage of research projects looking at innovatory approaches to road user charging and so it launched a programme ...
Good jobs, McJobs and skills: job seekers’ attitudes to low-skilled service work.
Journal Article
Lindsay, C. (2005)
Good jobs, McJobs and skills: job seekers’ attitudes to low-skilled service work. Human Resource Management Journal, 15, 50-65. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-8583.2005.tb00146.x
This article focuses on unemployed job-seekers' attitudes towards entry-level jobs in three areas of the service sector – retail, hospitality and call-centre work. The article...
Unemployment duration and employability in remote rural labour markets.
Journal Article
Lindsay, C., McCracken, M. G., & McQuaid, R. W. (2003)
Unemployment duration and employability in remote rural labour markets. Journal of Rural Studies, 19, 187-200. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0743-0167%2802%2900067-0
This paper analyses the barriers to work faced by long- and short-term unemployed people in remote rural labour markets. Applying a broad concept of 'employability' as an anal...
Dissolving the people.
Book
Turner, M. (2002)
Dissolving the people. In N. Pun, & L. Yee (Eds.), Narrating Hong Kong Culture and Identity, 24-51. Oxford University Press
News cultures and new social movements: radical journalism and the mainstream media.
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2002)
News cultures and new social movements: radical journalism and the mainstream media. Journalism Studies, 3, 491-505. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670022000019209
Radical media can be viewed as an extremely democratic form of communication, where people normally denied access to the mainstream media are able to speak on issues that conc...