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Evolving science communication: learn, adapt, collaborate
Preprint / Working Paper

In March 2009 the Science Communication Unit (SCU) at the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE) hosted a symposium to investigate key issues around transferability and sustainability in science communication and public engagement. The symp... Read More about Evolving science communication: learn, adapt, collaborate.

Preparatory study for a seminar on rural-urban linkages fostering social cohesion
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Paper discusses the ways in which urban-rural linkages can be conceptualised, can be supported through public policy and can support the policy outcome of both social and territorial cohesion.

'Girls into physics - action research' research briefing
Preprint / Working Paper

The New Price Makers: An investigation into the impact of financial investment on coffee price behaviour
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The collapse of the international commodity agreements in the 1980s, together with the liberalisation of marketing systems in commodity exporting developing countries under structural adjustment programs have removed the role of the state in the pric... Read More about The New Price Makers: An investigation into the impact of financial investment on coffee price behaviour.

Shared spaces: Social innovation in urban health and environment
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UK company statistics reconciliation project
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Working Paper 13. Varieties of collectivism among Britain's low-paid unorganised workers with problems at work
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This is the thirteenth working paper of the Centre for Research and Employment Studies at UWE. It was a paper given at the Industrial Relations in Europe Conference, Istanbul, July 22nd – 23rd 2009.

Teaching artificial intelligence with pac-man
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Somerset PCT insights: Smokefree homes
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Censorship, state restrictions and democracy in Belarus
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The role of international commodity exchanges in the formation and transmission of prices and price risk along international coffee chains
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The 1990s has seen a shift in policy from multilateral price stabilisation schemes towards market liberalisation and private risk management strategies in the context of income stabilisation for agro-commodity exporting low-income countries. This pap... Read More about The role of international commodity exchanges in the formation and transmission of prices and price risk along international coffee chains.

Report into the establishment of marine protected areas in UK waters under existing legislation
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The purpose of this report is to put into plain English the legal issues, which underlie the establishment of marine protected areas (MPAs). Though there are numerous legal vehicles for regulating marine activities, the creation of closures for purel... Read More about Report into the establishment of marine protected areas in UK waters under existing legislation.

Persuading consumers to make healthy nutritional decisions
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Working Paper 12. A trans-disciplinary (proto) model of labour markets
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Building upon trans-disciplinary insights from the ‘socio-economics of labour markets’ tradition and drawing upon critical realist meta-theory, this paper outlines a trans-disciplinary (proto) model of labour markets as an alternative to the orthodox... Read More about Working Paper 12. A trans-disciplinary (proto) model of labour markets.

Working Paper 8. Where do organisations end and labour markets begin?
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The division of labour between labour economists and organisation theorists results in there being little or no (epistemic) connection between the disciplines of labour economics and organization theory, and little or no recognition of the (ontic) co... Read More about Working Paper 8. Where do organisations end and labour markets begin?.

Working Paper 9. Insitutions and social structures: some clarifications
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The objective of this paper is to continue the important task of clarifying two terms that are central to a great deal of social science, but often mired in confusion, namely, ‘institutions’ and ‘social structures’. The opening part of the paper uses... Read More about Working Paper 9. Insitutions and social structures: some clarifications.

Shared space: Social innovation in urban health and environment
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The unorganised worker: problems at work, routes to support and views on representation. The unrepresented worker survey 2004. Working Paper 11. Who experiences problems at work, what problems do they experience, what do they do about them and what happens as a result?
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This is the eleventh working paper from a project that explored the experience of problems at work and sources of support and advice of non-unionised workers in Britain. It explored ‘concerns’ at work – what these were, how they were perceived, wheth... Read More about The unorganised worker: problems at work, routes to support and views on representation. The unrepresented worker survey 2004. Working Paper 11. Who experiences problems at work, what problems do they experience, what do they do about them and what happens as a result?.

Working Paper 10. Organsing unions, organising communities? Trades unions councils and community union politics in England and Wales
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The division of labour between labour economists and organisation theorists results in there being little or no (epistemic) connection between the disciplines of labour economics and organization theory, and little or no recognition of the (ontic) co... Read More about Working Paper 10. Organsing unions, organising communities? Trades unions councils and community union politics in England and Wales.

Costing, funding and budgetary control in UK hospitals: An historical reflection
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