Employability of Older People.
Conference Proceeding
McQuaid, R. W. (2009)
Employability of Older People
[A Scottish demographic study concerning employability of older people in an aging population.]
Youth participation through distributed discussion.
Presentation / Conference
Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, P., Taylor-Smith, E., & Kimpeler, S. (2011, September)
Youth participation through distributed discussion. Paper presented at 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, Tallinn, Estonia
The paper describes an eParticipation project, piloted in four EU countries: Estonia, Germany, Ireland and the UK. HUWY, Hub Websites for Youth Participation, was an initiativ...
Discordant lifestyle mobilities in East Asia: privilege and precarity of British retirement in Thailand
Journal Article
Botterill, K. (2016)
Discordant lifestyle mobilities in East Asia: privilege and precarity of British retirement in Thailand. Population, Space and Place, 23(5), e2011. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2011
This paper explores the lifestyle mobilities of British retirees in Thailand, drawing on empirical research conducted in 2012. Thailand is a host to a significant number of Br...
"There's no place like home": the public/private distinction in children's theorising of risk and safety.
Journal Article
Harden, J. (2000)
"There's no place like home": the public/private distinction in children's theorising of risk and safety. Childhood, 7, 43-59. https://doi.org/10.1177/0907568200007001005
This article explores children's theorizing around risk and safety in relation to the public/private distinction. While there has been considerable debate within sociology ove...
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...
Instant messaging: using log files to identify patterns of interaction in group of teenage users.
Conference Proceeding
Davison, B., & Buckner, K. (2005)
Instant messaging: using log files to identify patterns of interaction in group of teenage users. In A. Sloane (Ed.), Home-oriented informatics and telematics : proceedings of the IFIP WG 9.3 HOIT2005 conference. , (277-290). https://doi.org/10.1007/11402985_20
This paper presents preliminary findings on teenagers’ use of instant messaging (IM) as an example of an Internet technology. The results are quantitative, being drawn from th...
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 ...
Scary faces, scary places: children's perceptions of risk and safety.
Journal Article
Harden, J., Backett-Milburn, K., Scott, S., & Jackson, S. (2000)
Scary faces, scary places: children's perceptions of risk and safety. Health Education Journal, 59, 12-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/001789690005900103
Risks to children have been defined from an adult perspective with little or no space given to hearing from children themselves. In this paper we discuss children's perception...
The role of online social networks in the wellbeing of highly skilled migrants: a case-study of an online forum for Russian-speaking migrants in the UK
Thesis
Loginova MacFarlane, N. The role of online social networks in the wellbeing of highly skilled migrants: a case-study of an online forum for Russian-speaking migrants in the UK. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2682673
This study aims to investigate the role of online social networks in highly skilled migrants’ wellbeing. The research focused on Russian-speaking migrants in the UK. It was de...