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RWAAI: Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage
The Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage (RWAAI) is a digital multimedia resource dedicated to the maintenance of research materials documenting the intangible heritage of the Austroasiatic communities of Mainland Southeast Asia and India. It is the first resource dedicated to a specific language family in this diverse and dynamic region.
RWAAI...
Ziakas, Little Moscow of Grevena
Ethnography of the community of Ziaka Grevena for the 1940s. It explores the meaning that the residents of the village gave to EAM's message in the civil war that followed the liberation. Key to the interpretation were the events of the interwar period and the politicization of the inhabitants through the lines of the Rural Party and the KKE. After the end of the Civil War,...
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...
Organisations, staff support and the dynamics and quality of social work practice: a qualitative longitudinal study of childprotection work 2017-2018
This was an ethnographic study of social work organisations, how social workers and service users interact in child protection practice and the experiences of service users. Ethnographic data in the form of observations of social workers in their organisations and transcripts of observations of interactions between social workers and service users. Transcripts of interviews...
Pioneers of Social Research, 1996-2018
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is a qualitative data collection. The Pioneers of Social Research collection includes the full interview transcripts, interview summaries, edited thematic highlights, short biographies and links to audio extracts from detailed life story interviews conducted with some fifty pioneers of social...
Garden and Demographic Surveys of the Was Valley, Southern Highlands of Papua, New Guinea, 1973-1997
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This research project had the following five interrelated objectives:to further understanding of political and economic arrangements in noncapitalist
contexts (or more narrowly, political and economic anthropology) to contribute to comparative political-economic thought by testing Western
philosophical...
Adult Perceptions of Schistosomiasis, Mass Drug Administration and Praziquantel - An Ethnographic Study, 2019
Elimination of schistosomiasis as a public health problem in all endemic countries is the international goal stated in the WHO Neglected Tropical Disease Roadmap for 2021–2030. The primary method of schistosomiasis control for meeting this goal is preventative chemotherapy programmes that utilise community or school based Mass Drug Administration of the drug praziquantel....
Health Governance After Brexit: Street Ethnography and Elite Interviews, 2019-2021
Street ethnography was conducted through street interviews in the North of England (Sheffield, Rochdale and Rotherham) and Northern Ireland (Newry, Derry/Londonderry) designed to elicit public understandings of accountability for post-Brexit realities, and hence legitimacy of post-Brexit governance. Ethnographic street interviews are useful for capturing a diffuse public...
Mental Health, Migration and the Chinese Mega-City, 2016-2019
The data has been generated by ethnographic observations, interviews and interactions with migrant workers in two sites in Shanghai in 2017/2018: Songjiang District on the south-western outskirts, and the inner-city Huangpu District, in proximity to some of the city’s most famous tourist attractions, such as the Bund or Nanjing Road. Ethnography, with its focus on everyday...
Ethnographic documentary: De-Commodifying food ways
How proceeds the daily life of those who have taken the step to realize their dream to life in the countryside? This documentary offers an ethnographic eye on the joys, perils and challenges of those who life from sustainable agriculture and food production. Diving deep into the everyday rhythm of a couple of goat keepers, a collective of cheesemakers, a Marxist-inspired...
Small-holder irrigation in Malawi: Survey data
The field data collection was conducted over a period of nine months commencing June 2013. The researcher was resident within the communities hosting the irrigation schemes over this period. The timing of the fieldwork coincided with the cropping calendars for the winter and summer crops this allowing an observation of a range of farming systems from which data was...
An ethnography of advice: between market, society and the declining welfare state 2015-2018
This dataset results from an anthropological project that investigated the mediations that advice enables between the state, the market, charitable initiatives, families and ordinary citizens in the UK as well as selected European sites affected by austerity politics, namely Spain and Switzerland. The welfare state is not just a political-economic but a moral formation,...
Observations of surgical operations
Surgical operations in a major hospital were observed and video recorded. Data coding involved transcription of sequences of instrument requests by surgeons and responses to these requests by nurses. A total of 1649 such pairs were identified. For each request and response we transcribed what was said (e.g. ‘Scissors please’) and what bodily actions (e.g. ‘passes scissors’)...
Performing With the Database: Art Geography Approaches to Research on the Data, Trade, Place, Values Nexus, 2015-2017
This qualitative data collection comprises eight interviews and two group conversations collected as part of the doctoral study: Museum of Contemporary Commodities (MoCC): a research performance. The project worked with partners in London and Exeter between 2015-17 to co-produce a series of site responsive, digitally interactive and relational encounters that were devised...
Multimorbidity and Knowledge Architectures: An Interdisciplinary Global Health Collaboration (KnowM): Qualitative Dataset, Zimbabwe (2021-2024)
Multimorbidity, commonly defined as the co-occurrence of two-or-more long-term conditions in one individual, has been argued to be among the greatest global health challenges of our time. Health systems remain largely organised around specialist rather than generalist knowledge, which in many African nations translates into ‘siloed’ organisation of care, fuelled by...
Plastic Packaging in People's Lives: Consumer Insights, 2021-2022
The overarching purpose of PPiPL is to fundamentally rethink consumer attitudes and behaviours around food plastic packaging.
The data deposited rerpresents part of the data collected for the Consumer Insights work package of the PPiPL project, centred on the factors that influence consumer households’ consumption and disposal of plastic packaging. This includes the...
Connecting Agropastoral Food Culture Research to Livestock Commercialisation Policy, 2021-2023
This research project aimed to define a new research agenda for connecting policy on livestock sector development to research on agropastoralist food cultures. The project brought together a group of relevant stakeholders - policy makers and implementers, researchers, development actors, and local community representatives - from East and West Africa. Researchers performed a...
Ethnography of Practical Nurse Education: Field Notes 2007-2010
The data consist of field notes in which the everyday life of practical nurse students was observed in an educational institution for social and health care in the capital area of Finland. The field notes include 120 days of observations throughout the three-year education programme. In addition to classes, the researcher also observed social situations outside them. In...
Ethnography of Practical Nurse Education: Teacher Interviews 2007-2010
The data are part of a wider ethnographic study in which the everyday life in an educational institution for social and health care in the capital area of Finland was observed. The study also included student interviews (FSD2736) and field notes (FSD2575). The data consist of 14 interviews. The interviewees were teachers whose classes were observed (see FSD2575) and one...
Ethnography of Practical Nurse Education: Student Interviews 2007-2010
The data are part of a wider ethnographic study in which the everyday life in an educational institution for social and health care in the capital area of Finland was observed. The study also included teacher interviews (FSD2735) and field notes (FSD2575). The dataset comprises 35 student interviews, 18 of which were individual interviews, 16 paired interviews and one an...
Urban Classroom Culture and Interaction, 2005-2007
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is a qualitative data collection.
Taking ethno-linguistic difference and popular culture as two of the most salient features in the urban landscape, this research aimed to produce a new view of contemporary schools and classrooms by:
i) charting the inter-animation of ethnic, popular-cultural and...
Pregnancy and Substance Misuse: an Ethnographic Study of Maternity Services, 2008-2009
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is a qualitative data collection. The study set out to address two research questions: how are pregnant substance-misusing women and their foetuses assessed and monitored?how do substance-misusing women describe their response to the treatment they are offered and to the supervision and surveillance...
Foreign Ethnographic Collections in Scotland, 18th-20th Century
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of the study was to examine foreign ethnographic material in Scotland, and record it and its environmental conditions. The main disciplines covered include ethnography, social anthropology, fine arts and decorative arts.Main Topics:Location, description, acquisition and provenance of...
World Ethnographic Atlas, 1967-1971
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.To provide a register of information on 863 cultures or cultural types.Main Topics:Variables
Regional identification, estimated relative dependence on each of 5 major types of subsistence economy, prevailing mode of obtaining a wife, prevailing form of domestic or familial organisation, profile of marital...
Asylum appeal hearing observations at First-tier Tribunal hearing centres in the UK, 2013-2016
Quantitative collection of observations of 240 First-Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) substantive asylum appeal hearings and 50 First-Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) substantive Detained Fast Track asylum appeal hearings in the UK. For each individual hearing, observations of 809 and 889 variables resp. were recorded. The data collection...
Conservation, markets and justice - Part 2: Ethnographic participatory video data
Our project on Conservation, Markets and Justice explores conceptions of environmental justice as a means to understand the tensions between biodiversity conservation and local livelihoods of people in the tropics. It does so through a three-pronged methodological approach, including semi-structured surveys, experimental games and ethnographic studies (including...
Children's play, war toys, and geopolitics
The data deposited here consists of four main types of data generated by the project;
(1) Transcripts of a series of interviews undertaken with those working in the toy trade - more specifically, with those that worked for Palitoy and were involved in the production of the Action Man range; (2) Photographs of comment cards filled in by visitors to the 'War Games' exhibition,...
Social and Political Effects of Large-scale Infrastructures in Kenya, 2019-2020
The concept of 'development corridors' is increasingly used to support economic growth in Africa, driven by international as well as national interests. Development corridors have tremendous development potential yet they face significant challenges. These include uneven development impacts, traversing so-called "underutilised" lands that are generally already populated and...
Qualitative Data on Integrating Social Science in Community Engagement for Vaccine Hesitancy in Sierra Leone, 2019-2020
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This project, funded by the SABIN Vaccines Institute, aimed to roll out an experimental social science research training program for community health workers in border areas in Kambia District, Sierra Leone, that have experienced particular vaccination challenges, including reported hesitancy. CHWs were...
HomeSense UK household data 2017-2018
This dataset is generated from 20 households in the south east of England, as part of a trial that used digital sensors for observational purposes in social research. While sensor-generated data is omitted from this dataset, the trial produced interviews, questionnaires, time-use diaries and ethnographic notes covering various aspects of the trial, including household...