January research round-up

Tracy Shildrick, with Rob MacDonald and Andy Furlong (Glasgow) has successfully bid to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation for a further grant to continue the work on poor communities.

The project is entitled Intergenerational Cultures of Worklessness: popular myth or miserable reality? And was one of only five bids funded out of over 600 applications.

Donald Simpson has had an article, Becoming Professional? Exploring Early Years Professional Status and Its Implications for Workforce Reform, accepted for publication in the Journal of Early Childhood Research.

Gavin Oxburgh with Trond Myklebust and T. Grant, has had an article, The question of question types in police interviews: a review of the literature from a psychological and linguistic perspective in the International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law.

Alessandro Soranzo has had an article Von Bezold effect reverses in stroboscopic conditions accepted in the journal Perception.

Louise Wattis with E. Green and J. Radford, has had an article, It’s the type of place you don’t walk round on your own: Women students' negotiation of fear and safety in a high crime neighbourhood in the journal Gender Place and Culture.

Kaz Nakabayashi has been asked to organise a symposium at the prestigious conference fifth International Conference on Memory in York in August 2010.

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