Research Expertise
Humanities and Social Science
The following highlights our research expertise in this area:
Applied Social Psychology:
Addictions/substance misuse; human factors errors in the railway and nuclear
industries; racism among young people; social cognition models and health
behaviours; attributional style; future directed thinking and suicidal behaviour;
anxiolytic and pain reducing effects of music.
Applied Urban Geography
and Public Policy:
Poverty, deprivation and public policy in the city.
Barometer Surveys:
Development of unique Barometer sample surveys of politics, economics,
social behaviour and attitudes.
Brain and Cognition:
Perception and action; psychopharmacology; neuropsychology; measures of
personality change after dementia and traumatic brain injury; cognitive
neuropsychiatry; rehabilitation after head injury.
Community Studies:
Community involvement; participation and social inclusion.
Developmental and
Education:
Language acquisition, e.g. syntactic development, reference and communication
skill; early identification and treatment of language delay; use of acoustically
modified speech to help children with specific language impairment; children's
negotiation skills; children's understanding of issues concerning their
own safety from physical and sexual abuse, e.g. secrecy and stranger-danger;
bullying, antisocial behaviour, and the promotion of prosocial thinking;
parental perspectives on preschool provision. Development of disabled children,
e.g. evaluation of intervention, parenting and psychosocial factors
Education and Training
in the UK:
Effects of opportunity structures and policy initiatives on the in-school
development of occupational intentions; teachers; lifelong learning provision;
sustainable development provision in higher education institutes.
English:
American literature and culture, 1800 to the present; creative writing;
feminist literary theory and women's writing; gendering the nation: Britain,
Scotland, Ireland, 1700-2000; Irish literature and culture, 1700 to the
present; journalism, media and popular culture; literary linguistics; literary
theory; literature 1880-1920; literature, philosophy and political discourse
in the enlightenment and romantic periods; postcolonial literature and theory;
renaissance literature, rhetoric and visual culture; restoration and eighteenth-century
English literature; Scottish literature and culture, 1700 to the present;
Scottish, English and international modernism; the construction of Englishness
in literature and culture, 1500 to the present; the impact of the First
World War on English culture and literature.
Environmental Geography:
Effects of global warming; agricultural development; water conservation
and resource management.
European Policies
Research:
Regional development policies of Western European countries; EU structural
and cohesion policies; internationalisation and European integration; regional
restructuring and technology transfer; economic development and the environment;
regional restructuring in the transition countries; competition and subsidy
discipline; regional development in central and East Europe and Russia;
mainstreaming gender equality in public policy and main streaming equality.
French:
Literary and cultural studies from the 16th to the 20th century; lexicography
and lexicology; translation studies/ comparative literature/francophone
literature; contemporary French society; 19th century French poetry; dictionary
writers of the 17th and 18th centuries; methodology of language teaching
using media material; cinema, television and communication policy in France;
Swiss studies.
German:
19th century romantic literature; 19th century realism; 17th century German
literature; foreign language acquisition; modern German history.
History:
European and Third World societies: Eastern Europe and central European
history; comparative analysis of complex changes; Indian history. Modern
British History: social conditions; industrial and labour history; Scottish
historical studies; history of churches; popular culture; gender history;
nationalism; history of drugs. Oral History: Tudor England; Weimar Germany;
economic history of India. Scottish History: history of Scottish nationalism;
Celtic dimensions of the British civil wars. Social History: Integration
of minorities; problems of class, gender, race and religion. Urban History:
History of Glasgow; housing conditions in Glasgow (1832-1911); Urban Quality
of Life: residential satisfaction, poverty deprivation; place marketing.
Interactive Learning:
Learning that occurs through social interaction, e.g. scientific concepts,
interpersonal awareness and perspective taking; dialogue analysis; collaborative
problem solving and mutual tutoring; gender effects and online communication;
gender and classroom interaction; higher education teaching of psychology;
face-to-face interaction.
Italian:
Theatre studies; Sicilian studies; theory and practice of translation; legacy
of the Italian resistance movement; Swiss studies; contemporary Italian
language. Language, Cognition and
Communication:
Language comprehension within dialogue; processes involved in establishing
mutual understanding; the effect of technological mediation (e.g. videoconferencing,
e-mail) on communication; reference in dialogue; earwitnessing; argumentative
reasoning.
Linguistics:
Functional syntax; neurolinguistics; psycolinguistics, sociolinguistics.
Local Governance:
Public sector finance; public sector management; local and regional
government; local economic policy; local government and devolution; urban
governance; urban regeneration; infrastructure development.
Migration and Population
Geography:
Irish scattering in Scotland; urban migration.
Politics:
Elections, parties and political behaviour; British government and public
policy; European Union; comparative public policy; local and regional governance;
political theory.
Popular Culture
and the Media:
Media economics and media culture; media and media industries; media
regulation; media democracy and the nation state.
Road User Behaviour:
Psychological skills required for pedestrian interaction with traffic and
their development; effectiveness of education and training in promoting
pedestrian competence in children; cross-cultural differences in traffic
behaviour; driving behaviour in the elderly; risk-taking behaviour in adolescents;
driver-cyclist interactions; causal modeling of traffic-related injuries.
Russian:
Literary and critical theory; Slavonic, Baltic and comparative linguistics;
Soviet and Post-Soviet area studies; Russian and Soviet cinema; interdisciplinary
and cross-cultural research; 19th and 20th century Russian poetry; contemporary
Russian society.
Sociology:
Gender, sexuality and the body; civil societies and social change; social
movements and collective action; sociology of gender and women's studies;
nations, states and civil societies in transition; crime deviance and violence;
sociology, race and ethnicity.
Sociology of Gender:
Women and popular fiction; the family; feminism; identity; gender 'mainstreaming'
Spanish and Latin
American Studies:
Literary, historical and cultural studies; socio and applied linguistics;
19th and 20th century Spanish prose fiction; 19th and 20th century history
of Spain; 20th century; Spanish American literature; Spanish studies; Latin
American studies.
Departments and Specialist Centres:
These areas of research
represent the activities of a number of University Departments and Specialist
Centres:
Centre for the Study of Public Policy
English
Environmental
Planning
European Policies Research
Centre
Geography
Government
History
Modern Languages
Psychology
