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Access to the Countryside for Recreation and Sport, 1983-1985; Household Interview Survey
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aims of the Access to the Countryside for Recreation and Sport, 1983-1985 studies were: to assess the nature and scale of the demands for access to the countyside for recreation and sport; to develop a better understanding of the complex processes by which access is achieved, sustained or modified...
National Survey of Countryside Recreation, 1977
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aims of this survey were:
1. To discover who uses the countryside, how often, and what they do there;
2. To investigate attitudes to the countryside;
3. To look at participation/non-participation in terms of various explanatory variables - age, sex, class, income, car ownership, attitudes,...
ONS Omnibus Survey, September 2004
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (formerly known as the ONS Opinions Survey or Omnibus) is an omnibus survey that began in 1990, collecting data on a range of subjects commissioned by both the ONS internally and external clients (limited to other government departments, charities, non-profit...
Deprived White Community? Social Action in Three Norwich Estates, 1940-2005
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is a qualitative data collection.
The project charted changes since 1940 in the interface between official descriptions of three Norwich council estates (North Earlham, Larkman and Marlpit) as deprived, and residents' own social and spatial identity practices.
It looked critically at the extent to...
Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, 2009
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Scottish Social Attitudes (SSA) survey was launched by ScotCen Social Research (formerly the Scottish Centre for Social Research) in 1999, following the advent of devolution. Based on annual rounds of interviews of between 1,200 to 1,500 people drawn using probability sampling (based on a stratified,...
Narrative interviews with internally displaced people in four Somali cities 2017-2019
Narrative Interviews were conducted with 114 Internally Displaced People (IDPs) who settled in Mogadishu (26), Baidoa (26), Bosaaso (27) and Hargeysa (35). Additional interviews with local authorities including members of the district government and municipality, local and international NGOs, active members in the host community including 'gatekeepers' were conducted in...
Improving wellbeing through urban nature: Qualitative interviews and analysis 2016-2019
IWUN (Improving Wellbeing through Urban Nature) was an interdisciplinary project taking a deep case study approach to the characteristics, perceptions, and management of parks and other natural spaces in Sheffield, a city of nearly 500,000 people in northern England. The project aimed to identify how ‘urban nature’ could contribute to mental wellbeing and what could be done...
Mapping Spatial Practices and Social Distancing in Smart Schools: Sensory and Digital Ethnographic Method, 2006-2022
This dataset is connected to the ESRC-funded project “Mapping Spatial Practices and Social Distancing in Smart Schools: Sensory and Digital Ethnographic Methods” (March 2021- February 2023). This project was funded in an Innovative Methods call to develop new methods of researching lived experience in secondary schools and with an emphasis on new learning environments (OECD,...
Imagine project Rotherham: Revisiting the modernist dream at the Park Hill flats in Sheffield 2014-2017
This data set comprises of interview transcripts, which relate to interviews conducted as part of a project called 'Revisiting the modernist dream: Park Hill revisited', which was part of the cultural work package (WP3) of the Imagine Project Rotherham.
This project was concerned with how the new residents of the regenerated Park Hill flats in Sheffield felt about their...
Sexual Spaces Interview Data, 2016-2018
The data herein represent the raw interview data with over 100 sex workers in Rio interviewed between 2016 and 2018. Data collection took place in conjunction with the Prostitution Policy Watch [Observatório da Prostituição], an extension project of the Metropolitan Ethnographic Lab (LeMetro/IFCS) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro which draws together an...
Graffiti in Latin America 2005-2007: Photographs
The data contain 176 photographs of graffiti taken in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. The graffiti represent political opinions and slogans, political party names, commercial notices, religious messages, philosophical thoughts, election campaigning, symbols and logos etc. Most textual graffiti are in Spanish. In...
Changing of public transport arrangement in Ljubljana and Ljubljana region, 2008
The survey is the second (comparative) study, which was carried out as a part of the analysis of "Changes of public transport in Ljubljana and the Ljubljana region." The research is based on the examination of the ability to maintain the existing relatively high quality of life in the city while promoting sustainable transport solutions at the same time. For this purpose,...
Sociolospatial analysis of Prešern Square in Ljubljana
The purpose of this research was to analyze the public reaction of local residents at the public presentation of Prešernov trg project in Ljubljana 1988. The key action of the renewal project was the expected building of a fountain in the heart of the Prešeren's square. But because of the symbolic attachments and the significant identity of inner city space, the project...
Slovene Public Opinion Survey 1994/1
Beginning part of the questionnaire deals with the thesis that social development goes in two directions at the same time: individuations and globalization. The emphasis is put on the territorial identity and related habits. Second part of the questionnaire contain opinions about health insurance system reform and other aspects of health conditions of the population.
Places of Togetherness
Europe has never been homogenous and is increasingly becoming more culturally, ethnically, and religiously diverse over the last century. The diversification of European cities can be an opportunity for increased tolerance and bilateral exchange or might lead to conflict and fear. Understanding how our urban neighborhoods and their public spaces facilitate tolerance, rather...
Negotiating Toilet Access for Couriers and Food Delivery Drivers, 2021
This is a pilot project from an ESRC postdoctoral research fellowship entitled 'Everyday Life with Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Mobilities, Accessibility and Belonging'. This postdoctoral fellowship was dedicated to dissemination, engagement and developing new research. This dataset is a pilot study exploring toilet access for couriers and food delivery drivers. 8 people who...
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children and Young People, and on Their Access to Food, Education and Play and Leisure in England and the West Midlands, 2020-2024
The project had Four Research Stages
Stage 1 – Global Mapping Exercise
Aim: Map and develop typologies of the pandemic’s impact on the food/education/play-leisure nexus, with a focus on young people’s vulnerabilities globally, based on an international, integrative review of research and policy literatures.
Stage 2: – National and Regional Mapping (Brazil, South Africa,...
National Survey of Countryside Recreation, 1980
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aims of this survey were:
1. To discover who uses the countryside, how often, and what they do there;
2. To investigate attitudes to the countryside;
3. To look at participation/non-participation in terms of various explanatory variables - age, sex, class, income, car ownership, attitudes,...
Relational Spaces of Innovation in Architecture Firms, 2007
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.What are the forms and geographies of the relational spaces of innovation in leading global architecture firms? A British Academy funded research project sought to answer this question and had the following objectives: to map and explore the multiple, scale transcending, networks and circuits of social...
Students’ Experiences of a University Campus for Learning and Socialising, and Impact of COVID-19, 2019-2022
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of this study was to create a student-centred theory of university campus by understanding how students use the physical space for learning and socialising and how this usage changes over time. The study ran for three years at the University of Bradford. The city campus was the site researched and...
Mapping urban energy landscapes, four case studies 2013-2016
This data collection includes a heterogeneous set of qualitative data which was collected to characterise the urban energy landscape in four cities: Bengaluru, India; Hong Kong, PR of China; Concepcion, Chile; and Maputo, Mozambique. Each case study contains data obtained by different methods including different types of semi-structured interviews, workshop transcripts, and...
Planning education research in South Africa 2018
This dataset was gathered primarily in the first quarter of 2018 with planning professionals and planning educators in South Africa. The purpose of the project was to assess the changing needs within planning education as South Africa has evolved over the last 20 years to determine whether planning education is fit for purpose in its current configuration. The data...
Growing up on the Streets: Research with and for young people on the streets, 2012-2016
'Growing up on the streets' was a qualitative, longitudinal, participatory research project following the lives of street children and youth as they grow up on the streets of three African cities: Accra, Ghana; Bukavu, DRC and Harare, Zimbabwe. Street children and youth were participants and researchers alongside street work practitioners, UK academics, a UK charity and...
ProSHARE: Enhancing Diversity, Inclusion and Social Cohesion through Practices of Sharing in Housing and Public Space, 2021-2022
The data uploaded as part of this transnational research relates specifically to the work carried out by the university of Sheffield. ProSHARE data therefore covers research carried out on the London and Paris cases. The project involved gathering of quantitative and qualitative data on sharing practices including; semi-structured qualitative interviews, co-design workshops...
International Studies of Values in Politics, 1966
The ICPSR version of this study includes samples of community leaders from three nations: the United States, India, and Yugoslavia. Respondents were selected from a total of 30 communities in each country. The study attempted a comparative examination of the impact of leaders' values on social change and development at the community level. The interviews yielded an...
Ljubljana area study, 1990
Ljubljana Area Study survey focuses on different aspects of everyday life in urban area. On the whole, the project resembles general principles of empirical social research with a proviso that it is limited on specific (i.e. city) population. Topics addressed in the survey includes, among other, management of the city, communal infrastructure, problem of housing, and other...
Changing of public transport arrangement in Ljubljana and Ljubljana region, 2012
This is the second of two studies that analyze the possibility of improving traffic regulation in Ljubljana based on the public perception of congestion charging. The term congestion charging denotes different models of solving road congestion, in which the road users (especially automobile users) are required to pay financial compensation for the use of a particular segment...
Public opinion poll on the possibilities of improving traffic regulation in Ljubljana, 2011
This is the first of two studies that analyze the possibility of improving traffic regulation in Ljubljana based on the public perception of congestion charging. The term congestion charging denotes different models of solving road congestion, in which the road users (especially automobile users) are required to pay financial compensation for the use of a particular segment...
Public opinion poll on the possibilities of improving traffic regulation in Ljubljana, 2012
The survey is the second (comparative) study, which was carried out as a part of the analysis of "Changes of public transport in Ljubljana and the Ljubljana region." The research is based on the examination of the ability to maintain the existing relatively high quality of life in the city while promoting sustainable transport solutions at the same time. For this purpose,...
Intercultural Urban Public Space in Toronto 2011-2013
The dataset contains transcripts of interviews conducted mainly in Toronto, Canada, during 2011 and 2012. A few interviews were conducted in Vancouver and Guelph as well. The main themes of the interviews were multiculturalism, interculturalism, diversity and public space, and how the participants' perceptions of interculturalism and public space. The interviewees were...