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Gender-based violence and institutional responses: Building a knowledge base and operational tools to make universities and research organisations safe (UniSAFE) – survey at the national level. Dataset related to the national laws and policies and RFO policies – 2021
UniSAFE (https://unisafe-gbv.eu/) is a Horizon 2020 funded project on gender-based violence in academia. It has a double objective, to produce robust knowledge on gender-based violence (GBV) in universities and research organisations, and to translate the knowledge into operational tools and recommendations for universities, research organisations and policymakers to reduce...
GENDERACTIONplus benchmarking gender equality policies in Research and Innovation. National and regional policies for gender equality in Research and Innovation
The overall goal of GENDERACTIONplus is to contribute to advancing gender equality in the European Research Area through capacity building, policy exchange and coordination, as well as the provision of strategic policy advice. Through these activities the project contributes to supporting gender equality policy coordination and integration in the new ERA. The project focuses...
Strategic Management of Work Ability and Occupational Healthcare in Municipal Organisations: Personnel Management 2015
This study charted how workplace well-being and occupational healthcare were managed in Finnish municipal organisations in terms of well-being monitoring and measuring, preparedness for situations where an employee's capacity to work has diminished, and cooperation with occupational healthcare providers. First, the study surveyed how regularly the respondents' organisations...
Understanding Health Variations and Policy Variations, 1999
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of this study was to undertake an empirical analysis of the policy process in the NHS, in order to examine how policy towards health inequalities is formulated and how that policy is translated vertically into local policy. How and why local policies differ within health authorities and other...
Strategy and Service Improvement in Local Government, 2002-2003
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.A large literature suggests that strategic management makes a difference to the performance of firms in the private sector. Little attention has been devoted, by contrast, to the impact of organisational strategies in the public sector, despite the recent concern by policy makers and academics to...
British Business and Public Policy: the Informational and Structural Determinants of Political Influence, 2007-2009
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Do organised interests in British society influence policy making in Westminster and Holyrood? Which strategies work and which do not? Are firms and business associations more successful than other groups in getting politicians to enact policies they like?
To answer these questions, this study elaborates...
Mobilising Voluntary Action in the Four UK Jurisdictions: Policy Review, 2010-2021
We have identified, accessed and assembled relevant policy documents. These documents have been born digitally and have been downloaded from websites already in the public domain. Some of the source materials are no longer available online. PDF's can be requested from Professor Ewen SpeedThe overarching aim of this four nation comparative study is to critically evaluate...
Interviews on Trials Transparency at Public Research Institutions in the UK, 2020-2021
Ensuring the reporting of clinical research is essential to informed evidence generation in medicine. The UK has seen politicians, funders, and other stakeholder focus on transparency which has translated to pressure on sponsors to ensure greater transparency of their research. This study aimed to collect the institutional perspective to transparency issues in clinical...
Interrupted Learning, Fragile Attendance and 'Out of School' Children in India, 2023-2024
This project focused on children who are enrolled in school but attend irregularly, so their learning is interrupted in ways that negatively affect their learning outcomes. This form of 'learning poverty' is prevalent across government schools in southern Rajasthan’s Adivasi (tribal) belt where the project was located.
The project was a small, qualitative research study...
GENDERACTIONplus benchmarking gender equality policies in Research and Innovation. Research funding organisation policies for gender equality in Research and Innovation
The overall goal of GENDERACTIONplus is to contribute to advancing gender equality in the European Research Area through capacity building, policy exchange and coordination, as well as the provision of strategic policy advice. Through these activities the project contributes to supporting gender equality policy coordination and integration in the new ERA. The project focuses...
Gender-based violence and institutional responses: Building a knowledge base and operational tools to make universities and research organisations safe (UniSAFE) – survey at the national level. Dataset related to the mapping at the national level of gender based violence policies in universities and research organisations – 2021
UniSAFE (https://unisafe-gbv.eu/) is a Horizon 2020 funded project on gender-based violence in academia. It has a double objective, to produce robust knowledge on gender-based violence (GBV) in universities and research organisations, and to translate the knowledge into operational tools and recommendations for universities, research organisations and policymakers to reduce...
Gender-based violence and institutional responses: Building a knowledge base and operational tools to make universities and research organisations safe (UniSAFE) – survey at the institutional level. Dataset related to the institutional policies – 2022
UniSAFE (https://unisafe-gbv.eu/) is a Horizon 2020 funded project on gender-based violence in academia. It has a double objective, to produce robust knowledge on gender-based violence (GBV) in universities and research organisations, and to translate the knowledge into operational tools and recommendations for universities, research organisations and policymakers to reduce...
Impact of the Human Rights Act : a Survey of Local Authorities and Travellers, 2001-2002
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The research study aimed to examine how the introduction of human rights legislation
has impacted upon the way that local authorities approach their duties and provide
services, in the necessary move from a duty-based to right-based consciousness and
the potential changes that might come about in the...
Trade Unions and the Representation of Non-Standard Workers, 2001-2002
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The project examined trade union representation of workers with non-standard contracts; i.e. part-timers, workers with fixed-term contracts and freelance workers. The purpose of the study was to identify the extent to which unions have developed policy on behalf of these groups and seek to recruit them...
Governance and the Local Integration of Migrants and Europe's Refugees Reports, 2017-2021
Migration and integration, especially the reception of refugees and displaced peoples, are widely shared social and political challenges in across Europe. The purpose of GLIMER is to understand how the governance and local integration of migrants and Europe’s refugees is developing, and in ways that can be utilised through best practice sharing and reporting. Inspired by the...
Second European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks, 2014
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) Second European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks, 2014 (ESENER-2) asks those 'who know best' about safety and health in establishments about the way safety and health risks are managed at their workplace, with a particular focus on...
Impact of Urban Regeneration on the Relationship between Social Exclusion and Health in North West England, 2006
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The overall objective of this study was to estimate the effect of urban regeneration upon the association between social exclusion and various health outcomes.
Access was available to health survey data collected for Primary Care Trusts in 2006, covering ten Local Authority (LA) areas in the North West...
Knowledge Production in Educational Leadership, 2006-2007
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Knowledge Production in Educational Leadership, 2006-2007 explored the relationship between the state, public policy and knowledge by focusing on New Labour's investment in the leadership of schools as a central strategy for delivering reform. Specifically the project focused on identifying and examining...
European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks, 2009
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks (ESENER) was conducted by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA). The survey covered organisations in all 27 European Union countries plus Croatia, Turkey, Switzerland and Norway. It questioned both managers and workers'...
Smart Enforcement in Environmental Legal Systems: A Socio-Legal Analysis of Regulatory Satellite Monitoring in Australia, 2009-2010
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The overall objective of this research project was to explore and demonstrate whether the potential of the new technological capabilities of satellites can actually provide a rigorous, legally-reliable, and cost effective tool in inspection and compliance regimes under contemporary environmental...
Organisational Change, Resistance and Democracy: Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Equalities Initiatives, 2007-2010
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is a qualitative data collection.
This research comprised a study of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equalities work amongst local authorities which was conducted between March 2008 and September 2009. The field of LGBT equalities work at that time was undergoing a period of rapid...