SPUR - 2012 Award winners

The following 10 projects have been awarded bursaries for 2012:

• Performing Scottish identity on Screen: Language, Identity, and Humour in Scottish Television Comedy at the BBC
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• A social and health legacy of the 2012 Olympics: A qualitative study of community sport and physical activity in the East Midlands
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• Hazard assessment in the restless Campi Flegrei Caldera (Italy) through field and laboratory investigations
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• The British Life of American Women’s Writing 1865 to 1918
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• Textiles/Fashion: Influencing Three Dimensional Manipulation & Transformation
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• Investigating the effectiveness of Oil Red O as an alternative or complimentary treatment in fingerprint recovery
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• Building a Library of Memory: architecture and media in Memory Studies
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• Understanding behaviour at work: From workaholism to healthy engagement to absenteeism and turnover
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• Personality and reproductive success in House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) on the Brackenhurst estate
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• The therapeutic potential of the Victim Personal Statement Scheme
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The School of Social Sciences have awarded a further 4 bursaries using school funding:

• Transitional homes for young people: an evaluation of a prevention project for young people at risk of homelessness in Nottingham
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• Dealing with repeat anti-social behaviour victimisation
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• Measuring change in clinical symptom severity relative to baseline: a meta-analysis of recent randomised controlled trials of pharmacological and psychological interventions for schizophrenia
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• Information processing in visual perception
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