Browsing by Classification "H"
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Access to Higher Education for Scottish rural communities : an exploratory analysis
(University of St Andrews, 2015-08-28) - ReportTraditional socio-economic factors cannot solely explain why state secondary schools located in Scottish rural communities tend to have (i) greater variation of progressions to Higher Education (HE) year on year than other ... -
Anxiety and cosmopolitan futures : Brexit and Scotland
(2017-04-27) - Journal articleTwo themes, temporality and cosmopolitanism, repeatedly arose during conversations in Scotland with people who favored remaining in the European Union. The 2016 referendum’s result in favor leaving the EU has affected how ... -
Audience research and social media data : Opportunities and challenges
(2015-05) - Journal articleThe widespread adoption of social media platforms and other information and communication technology innovations not only pose new challenges for audience researchers but also provide exciting opportunities to re-invigorate ... -
Australia : a land of missed opportunities?
(2017-05-02) - Journal articleComprehensive Investment (CI) may provide an indicator of future changes in a country’s per capita consumption. We explore the utility of the CI indicator for Australia by constructing CI data since 1861 and by estimating ... -
Choosing on Influence
(2017-05-26) - Journal articleInteraction, the act of mutual influence, is an essential part of daily life and economic decisions. This paper presents an individual decision procedure for interacting individuals. According to our model, individuals ... -
Choosing to remain childless? A comparative study of fertility intentions among women and men in Italy and Britain
(2017-02-03) - Journal articlePathways to childlessness may differ not only between individuals but also at the population level. This paper investigates differences in childlessness by comparing two countries – Britain and Italy – where levels of ... -
Co-producing a post-trafficking agenda : collaborating on transforming citizenship in Nepal
(2015-05-19) - Journal articleThis article discusses how a new agenda on post-trafficking is gaining momentum through academic and activist anti-trafficking collaborations focused on co-producing knowledge with women who have returned from trafficking ... -
Conceptualising energy prosumption : exploring energy production, consumption and microgeneration in Scotland, UK
(2016-10) - Journal articleEnergy prosumption has become a common phrase as more householders and communities are producing and consuming their own electricity and heat. Prosumption is a combination of two words: production and consumption, and ... -
Coordinating the household retirement decision
(University of St Andrews, 2017-05-11) - Working or discussion paperThis paper explores the sources of retirement synchronisation in dual career households. Empirical evidence suggests that majority of the couples exit the labor force within a short period of time, too tight to be explained ... -
The cost of political intervention in monetary policy
(School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews., 2001) - Working or discussion paperData from a unique monetary ‘experiment’ conducted in the UK during the period 1994-97 are used to investigate the cost of political intervention in monetary policy. The paper finds that the difference between government ... -
Data craft: integrating data into daily practices and shared reflections
(2017-05-07) - Conference paperWe explore data craft as a means to create mementos that integrate data about personal and shared experiences into people’s everyday lives. Digital mementos, e.g., in form of visualizations, aim to support personal and ... -
Do hospital boards matter for better, safer, patient care?
(2017-03) - Journal articleManifest failings in healthcare quality and safety in many countries have focused attention on the role of hospital Boards. While a growing literature has drawn attention to the potential impacts of Board composition and ... -
Encountering misrecognition : being mistaken for being Muslim
(2017-02-28) - Journal articleExploring both debates about misrecognition and explorations of encounters, this paper focuses upon the experiences of ethnic and religious minority young people who are mistaken for being Muslim in Scotland. We explore ... -
Ethnic differences in realising desires to leave urban neighbourhoods
(2016-08-09) - Journal articleSelective mobility into and out of urban neighbourhoods is one of the main driving forces of segregation. Earlier research has found group differences in who wants to leave or who leaves certain types of neighbourhoods. A ... -
EU-Pacific Climate Change Policy and Engagement : a Social Science and Humanities review
(University of St Andrews, 2013) - ReportThis short report provides an overview and review of EU-Pacific Climate Change Policy and Engagement from a Social Science and Humanities perspective. Alongside an outline of the historical background and contemporary ... -
European policies for social inclusion of Roma : Catch 22?
(2015-09-29) - Journal articleThe article analyzes contemporary political discourses with regard to social inclusion of Roma on the basis of comparison with achievements and failures in the previous historical period of the communist rule in Eastern ... -
An evaluation of a Scottish higher education ‘Student Transitions’ Enhancement Theme : stakeholders’ perceptions and recommendations for future activities
(2017) - Journal articleThe Quality Assurance Agency Enhancement Themes identify specific development themes to enhance the student learning experience in Scottish higher education (HE). This evaluation explored the second year of the ‘Student ... -
Good politicians' distorted incentives
(University of St Andrews, 2017-05-06) - Working or discussion paperI construct a political agency model that provides a new explanation for sub-optimal policy making decisions by incumbents. I show that electoral incentives can induce politicians to address less relevant issues, disregarding ... -
Growing through subsidies
(School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews., 2001) - Working or discussion paperWe consider an overlapping generation model based on Matsuyama (1999) and show that, whenever actual capital accumulation falls below its balanced growth path, subsidising innovators by taxing consumers has stabilising ...