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The Sensational Katherine Cecil Thurston: An investigation into the life and publishing history of a ‘New Woman’ author

Thesis
An investigation into the life and publishing history of a ‘New Woman’ author. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2808
This thesis investigates the publishing history of a significant New Woman author of the Edwardian period, Katherine Cecil Thurston (1875-1911). Until now Thurston’s literary ...

Gender identity and Scottish law: the legal response to transsexuality

Journal Article
Macfarlane, L. B. (2007)
Gender identity and Scottish law: the legal response to transsexuality. Edinburgh Law Review, 11, 162-187
The relatively recent emergence of transsexuality into the public forum has generated a diverse legal response worldwide. This article argues that evolving medical opinion and...

Intergroup contact and the potential for post-conflict reconciliation: Studies in Northern Ireland and South Africa.

Journal Article
Tropp, L. R., Hawi, D. R., O'Brien, T. C., Gheorghiu, M., Zetes, A., & Butz, D. A. (2017)
Intergroup contact and the potential for post-conflict reconciliation: Studies in Northern Ireland and South Africa. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 23(3), 239-249. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000236
With surveys of Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland, and Whites and Blacks in South Africa, this research examines how both contact quality and exposure to intergrou...

Ageism

Presentation / Conference
Kydd, A., Fleming, A., Gardner, S., & Hafford-Letchfield, T. (2017, July)
Ageism. Paper presented at International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics
The developed world has an increasing number of people who are classed as the ‘old’, with the largest increase being those aged over eighty-five years. Population ageing is a ...

Banking and gender: sex equality in the financial services in Britain and Turkey.

Book
Ozbilgin, M., & Woodward, D. (2004)
Banking and gender: sex equality in the financial services in Britain and Turkey. I.B. Tauris
Drawing comparisons from Turkey and Britain, countries which are at the margins of the European continent, 'Banking and Gender' argues that most of the gendered inequalities i...

Long-term care for the aged: critical issues and challenges to China’s sustainable development.

Journal Article
Zhang, J. (2006)
Long-term care for the aged: critical issues and challenges to China’s sustainable development. World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, 2, 126-143. https://doi.org/10.1504/WREMSD.2006.009080
How to finance Long-term Care (LTC) has become a major policy issue in China. The provision of LTC finance is vital to sustain China's long-term economic development as the ag...

Demographic change in Scotland-older workers in the Scottish labour market.

Conference Proceeding
Hollywood, E., Brown, R., Danson, M., & McQuaid, R. W. (2003)
Demographic change in Scotland-older workers in the Scottish labour market

Mating effort correlates with self-reported delinquency in a normal adolescent sample.

Journal Article
Charles, K. E. & Egan, V. (2005)
Mating effort correlates with self-reported delinquency in a normal adolescent sample. Personality and Individual Differences. 38, 1035-1045. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2004.06.021. ISSN 0191-8869
Previous research on males, undergraduates and delinquents has shown that high mating effort is significantly correlated with delinquency, promiscuity and coercive sexual beha...

“What is strange is that we don't have more children coming to us”: A habitography of child psychiatrists and scholastic pressure in Kolkata, India

Journal Article
Ecks, S., & Kupfer, C. (2015)
“What is strange is that we don't have more children coming to us”: A habitography of child psychiatrists and scholastic pressure in Kolkata, India. Social Science and Medicine, 143, 336-342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.11.048
The mental health of Indian school children could be expected to be a major topic of research. More people below 15 years are living in India than in any other country in the ...

Scottish older people's assembly (SOPA) seminars 2014 evaluation report. Report to the Scottish Older People’s Assembly Committee.

Report
Egdell, V. & Graham, H. (2014)
Scottish older people's assembly (SOPA) seminars 2014 evaluation report. Report to the Scottish Older People’s Assembly Committee. Edinburgh, Scotland: Scottish Government
This document presents a summary of the findings of the evaluation of the Scottish Older People's Assembly Seminars 2014 (SOPA Seminars 2014) on the impact of welfare reform o...