Research Projects

Health, Rehabilitation and Psychology Research Centre Projects


Aided Language Skills in Children Aged 5-15 Years

Augmentative and Alternative Communication Log project

Cardio-Respiratory Physiotherapy for the Critically Ill Patients

Children with Delayed Language Development
Does Temperament Make a Difference?

Cochrane Review of Fatigue in Peripheral Neuropathies

Collaborative Recall (Dyads vs Lone Recall)

Communication and people with the most complex needs - what works and why this is essential

Communication Dictionaries
Communication with People with Learning Disabilities

Distinctiveness Effects in False Memory Using the Category Repetition Paradigm

Effects of Bilateral Eye Movements on Autobiographical Recollection

Effects of Bilateral Eye Movements on Misinformation Reduction

Effects of Bilateral Eye Movements on True and False Memory

Evaluation of the Thinking Skills Assessment Test Used by Cambridge University

Evidence Based Intervention for Pre-School Children with Primary Speech and Language Impairment – Child Talk What Works

Examining the Urban Learning Disability Workforce: Health Related Knowledge, Lifestyle Choices, and Working Practices (Pilot Study)

Experiences of Ageing in Individuals with a Learning Disability: Their Experiences and Concepts of Health and Changing Roles

Experiences of Attendance at a NeuroMuscular Centre - A Client's Perspective

Exploring the Origins and Personality Correlates of Paranormal Belief(s)

fMRI in Cognitive-Neuroscience Research

Manchester First Episode Psychosis Cohort

Mental Health Liaison within Substance Misuse Services

Mentoring staff to develop services for people with communication disabilities in Uganda

Nature and Role of Phonological Skills in Adolescent Learners in Mainstream Education

Outcome evaluation of the Greater Manchester Single Practice Assessment Tool

Part-Set Cuing and Recall Inhibition (Hypermensia and Reminiscence)

Passive Movements in Critically Ill Patients

Personality Factors Affecting False Memory

Pilot Study to Investigate Speech and Language Therapists', Health Visitors' and Early Years Practitioners' Beliefs and Reported Practices, Regarding Environmental Influences on Speech and Language Development and Delay

Qualitative Data Collection of Services and Networks Available for People with Communication Disabilities in Bolivia

Recall of Chess Positions
Expert vs. Novice Differences: Cuing Effects

Role of Visuo-Spatial Working Memory in Concreteness Effects

Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults in East Cheshire

Schizotypy and False Memory

Schools Stand Up 2 Racism

Scoping Study for the Public Health Practitioner Workforce in the NW of England

SLT Service Evaluation of the Needs of Parents with Learning Disabilities
Communication with Vulnerable Adults

Specific Genetic Polymorphisms, Patterns of Cognitive Dysfunction, and Functional Imaging in High and Low Schizotypes

Systematic Review of Environmental Influences on Speech, Language and Communication Difficulties in Children

Tonguing and Lingual Articulation for Speech in Wind Instrumentalists

Twenty Year Follow-up of the Manchester First Episode Psychosis Cohort
FEPFUTY

Social Change and Well-being Research Centre Projects


Active and Positive Fatherhood in Black and African Communities and Community Cohesion in Liverpool

Active Parenting: Intergenerational understanding between African Muslim men of different generations

Adapted Resources and Teaching Strategies

Birley Fields Development: Lived Experiences of Local People

BME Health Research

Community Activism, Participation and Poverty
Participation and Social Deprivation

Delivering Public Services in the Mixed Economy of Welfare

Direction of the New Dynamics of Ageing Network on Older People's Experience of the Use of New Technology

Does Every Child Matter, Post-Blair: Interconnections of Disabled Childhoods

Engage - Stimulating Third Sector Organisations in the Health Sector Supply Chain

ESRC Festival in Social Science

ESRC Seminars Competition 2007/2008
Re-mixing the Economy of Welfare: What is Emerging beyond the Market and the State?

Evaluation of the Integrated Services Project

Evaluation of the Manchester Partnerships for Older People Project (POPP)

Evaluation of the Short Term Team Project

Experiences of Forced Labour amongst Chinese Migrant Workers

Gambling and Debt: Can a Reciprocal Link be Established?
A Pathfinder Study

Generations Together
The Creation of Intergenerational Evaluation Teams

Impact of Changing Services for People with Long Term Neurological Conditions

Intergenerational Work in Schools, Social Capital and Wellbeing

Internal Evaluation of the Manchester Beacons for Public Engagement

Marsh Farm Organisational Workshop

Promoting Deaf Issues

Smart Distress Monitors

Towards a Culturally Sensitive Disability Studies
Interconnections of Disability Studies in and Across Malaysia and the UK

Understanding Health and Well-Being within the Context of Urban Regeneration
A Participatory Action Research Approach

Urban Learning Study

Urban Regeneration: Making a Difference (UR-MAD)
Community Cohesion

Qualitative Research, Subjectivity and Critical Theory Research Centre Projects


'Japan' in Developmental Psychology and Therapeutic Practice
Feminist and post-colonial interventions

Child Development and International Economic Development Policy
Development in Development

Emotions and Gender in Feminist Research Practice
Reflexivity, Feminisation and the Professionalisation of Emotional Labour

Flesh and Blood, Psychoanalysis, Politics, Resistance and Transformation

Group Analysis and Social Theory

Intersectionality: Gender, Culture and Mental Health
Reconfiguring Psychotherapeutic Models and Practices

Pakistani Women Asylum Seekers and Domestic Violence

Psychopathology in Academic, Professional and Community Contexts

Role of Lacan's Work in Anglo-American Psychological Theory and Practice

Older RIHSC Projects

- For more details about these email rihsc@mmu.ac.uk

Active Learning for Active Citizenship Pilot

Arts for Health: Developing an Evaluation Methodology

Assessment of the Development of Dental Students' Manual Dexterity

Cannabis Experiences in Individuals with a Diagnosis of Functional Psychosis
CEQ/Psychosis/Danger signs

Capability Building for Evaluation in Community Health Projects
Development of Evaluation Capability

Capacity Building for Collaborative Research on Learning Disability Services
Collaborative Learning Disability Research

Changing Community Perceptions of Economic Migration

Children's Emotional Well-Being in School

Cochrane Systematic Review of Speech and Language Therapy for Children with Cerebral Palsy

Cognitive and Behavioural Mechanisms Underpinning Long-Term Adjustment to Chronic Low Back Pain

Community Participation in Decision Making in Town and District Centre Developments

Conditions for Psychoanalysis in Japan

Contraception: Condoms and Young People

Creativity and Embodied Mind in Digital Fine Art

Critical Psychology Across Cultural Contexts

Deafness and Offending

Designing for the 21st Century: The View of the Child
Explorations of the Visual Culture of the Made Environment

Developing an Inclusive Literacy Curriculum for Pupils Who Will Not Read or Write.

Development of Research Capability in a Learning Disability Service

Dietry Intake in Pregnant Adolescents

Domestic Violence and Minoritisation
Supporting Women to Independence

Early Intervention and Prevention of Neighbourhood Nuisance

Effect of Position on Arterial Oxygen Saturation in Adults with Severe and Profound Learning and Physical Disabilities

Emotional Intelligence and Young Prisoners

EnableAge

Establishment of a Centre for Social Policy in the Republic of Urdmurt, Russian Federation

Evaluation of Condom Vending Service for Young People

Evaluation of Headstart

Evaluation of the Communications for the Future Project

Evaluation of the Role of Internet in the Development of Community Development Practice
SCCD Evaluation

Evaluation of Training and Development Programmes Commisioned by Stockport Training, Education and Development for Inclusion (STEDI)

Exploration of the Psycho-Social Impact of Participating in a Holistic Therapies Programme for People with Parkinson's Disease, Volunteer Therapists and Family Members

Exploring Practice and Participation

Exploring Practice and Participation in Transition to Postgraduate Social Science Study

Exploring the Role of Community Case Managers

Eye-Movements in Elite Shooters

Factors Associated with Alcohol Users' Retention in Residential Treatment

Family Based Interventions for Children with Cerebral Palsy and Inclusion in the Community (Kolkata).

FAMITEL

Feasibility Study for Community-based Witness Support Scheme

Flexible Futures

Further Grant for research into 'Explorations in Creativity and embodied mind in digital fine art'

Generation Project Evaluation

Give Us Back Our Game and the Revolution in Youth Football

How Forensic Psychology Can Enhance the Current Good Practice of the Police Service when Dealing with Adults with Learning Needs: A Cross-Cultural Investigation

Identification of Health Quality Indicators

In-Service Training of Specialist for the Vocational Rehabilitation of the Disabled, Applying Innovatory Activities

Individualized Observation-Based Programme for Stroke Rehabilitation

International Study of Victimisation in School

Investigation into the Cognitive and Behavioural Mechanisms Underpinning Adjustment to Chronic Low Back Pain

Learning and Teaching Support Network Psychology Mini Project

Learning Disability Nursing
Nurse Education: A Contemporary Perspective

Listeners Scheme (in Prisons)

Maintaining Nutritional Status in Patients After Stroke

Manchester Personal Competencies Project

Medicine and Chernobyl

Men's Health Talk

Midwives Attitudes Towards Caesarean Birth

Modelling Analysis of Gun crime NETworks (MAGNET)

Modes of Communication Used by Children with Severe Communication Disabilities and their Families, Prior to the Introduction of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

Motivational Interviewing for Drug Abuse and Schizophrenia (MIDAS) - Add-on study: Therapeutic Alliance

Orientations to Work and Family among Young Europeans

Overseas Students of Speech and Language Therapy

Parents' and Professionals' Explanatory Models of Language Delay

Pathways to Mental Health
Comprehensive Evaluation of a Community Arts Project

Physiological Effects of a Cooling Strategy on Spinal Cord Injured Athletes During Simulated Wheelchair Tennis

Poly-Drug Use at the Street Level in the Northern Quarter and Ancoats Village

Programme Evaluation of the Coming of Age Series

Programme Evaluation of the Third Age Series

Psychology and Social Change

Qualitative Approaches in Cross National Research

Quality of Life in an Changing Europe (QUALITY)

Regular Cannabis Use by Young Adult Males

Retention in Residential Rehabilitation Services
National Survey

Role of Informal Peer Support in the Foundation Year

Scoping Study for Audit of Drug Related Deaths amongst Calderdale Residents

Service Organisation and Delivery in a Special School Setting

Shared Care Project

Signs of Convenience

Sloan Work-Family Network

Social Capital and Internet Use

Social Capital, Health and Gender

Social Organisation of Menstruation

Stalking and Deafness

Stories of Women who Stutter

Student Critical Thinking Development

Study to Investigate the Prevalence of Depression in Older Patients Admitted in Intermediate Care

Subjectivity and Social Work

Survey of Speech and Language Therapists' Use of Pulse Oximetry in the Management of Swallowing Disorders

Survey of the Use of Oral Tastes for People Who are Enterally Fed

Teaching of Community Psychology in UK Higher Education

Transitions
Gender, Parenthood and the Changing European Workplace (EU Framework Five)

Using 'Babysign': Maternal Motivation, Expectation and Experience

Water and Wellbeing: The Therapeutic Role of Landscape and Water

Wellbeing and Regeneration

Wellbeing: Social and Individual Determinants
Seminar series on wellbeing 2001/2

Young Men's Health and Group Participation

Young People, Identity and Conflict


Other projects exist; for more information contact the Administrator rihsc@mmu.ac.uk