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We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. You can change your cookie settings at any time. Otherwise, we'll assume you're OK to continue. Research into the new Life in the UK citizenship test has exposed major flaws in the exam. The test, which is taken by some 150,000 would-be British citizens each year, has been scrutinised by Durham University academic Dr Thom Brooks, a US immigrant who has combined first-hand knowledge about the test with his expertise in citizenship and politics.

A new statistical analysis shows the world population could reach nearly 11 billion by the end of the century, according to a United Nations report issued June 13. That's about 800 million, or about 8 percent, more than the previous projection of 10.1 billion, issued in 2011. The projected rise is mostly due to fertility in Africa, where the U.N. had expected birth rates to decline more quickly than they have.

New research suggests public health in developing countries may be better improved by reducing illiteracy rather than raising average income. Economic policies narrowly focused on growth are insufficient when it comes to public health in less developed countries Lawrence King Pro-market policies for developing countries have long been based on the belief that increasing average income is key to improving public health and societal well-being.

ANN ARBOR-Latino kids who spend unstructured leisure time with friends, participate in certain nonschool activities and have part-time jobs may encounter high levels of violence in their communities.

Patients with more timely access to GP appointments make fewer visits to accident and emergency departments, suggests a study published today. In the largest analysis of its kind to date, researchers at Imperial College London related A&E attendance figures in England to responses from a national survey of patients' experience of GP practices in 2010-11.

An international expert in marine debris says that schoolchildren will be a driving force in bringing about a sea change in attitude towards marine pollution, which has reached crisis proportions across the globe in the past decade.

ANN ARBOR-Facebook is a mirror and Twitter is a megaphone, according to a new University of Michigan study exploring how social media reflect and amplify the culture's growing levels of narcissism. The study, published online in Computers in Human Behavior, was conducted by U-M researchers Elliot Panek, Yioryos Nardis and Sara Konrath.

Despite politicians' best efforts to reduce immigration, Britain has already entered an era of superdiversity that is here to stay.

10 June 2013 A landmark study of the Swedish population has given a clearer picture of important risk factors for suicide.

President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia joined ministers and officials from around 20 governments to launch a network with Oxford University that aims to help emerging countries tackle global poverty.

New research by the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine (SSHM) will examine how experiences of urban living shape the human body and brain.

Posted under: Health and Medicine , Research , Social Science , UW and the Community Survivors of sexual violence have long gone without treatment and suffered debilitating symptoms of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. But a randomized controlled study of 405 rape survivors in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo proves that short-term therapy delivered by paraprofessionals is effective at reducing mental health symptoms, according to a study released June 6 in the New England Journal of Medicine .

Mother cares for her twins while on nationally-mandated maternity leave in Stockholm, Sweden. Photo by Caity Collins, Department of Sociology AUSTIN, Texas - Various Western nations' work-family policies leave many working mothers feeling unsupported as both caretakers and workers, according to a comparative study of working mothers in multiple countries by The University of Texas at Austin.

Lund University has premiered two brand new research institutes within a week of one another, in a major boost to what is already a vibrant technology and innovation hub.

King's College London, in partnership with the Science Museum and BP, has today launched Enterprising Science , the largest UK-wide science learning programme of its kind.

MEDIA ADVISORY ANN ARBOR-Leaders of China and the U.S. plan to meet Friday in California for a two-day discussion that's expected to touch on some of the most contentious issues between the two countries: cybersecurity, North Korea and maritime disputes in Asia.

MEDIA ADVISORY ANN ARBOR-A wave of unrest has spread across Turkey as Twitter and other forms of social media have been used to share images and updates of clashes between protesters and police.

AUSTIN, Texas — Founders of successful companies tend to exhibit personality traits that make them more socially engaging, creative and able to handle stress than nonentrepreneurs, according to new research from the University of Jena in Germany and The University of Texas at Austin.

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Rev. Andrew Greeley, a leading sociologist of religion, social change, ethnic groups, the priesthood and other subjects at the independent research organization NORC at the University of Chicago, died Wednesday in his apartment at the John Hancock Center.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Sexual assault has almost as much to do with age as it does with gender, according to Penn State criminologists. Young people - both male and female - are the most likely targets of rape and other sexual assaults, said Richard Felson , professor of criminology and sociology. The most frequent victims of those assaults are 15 years old, regardless of gender, or the age of the offender, he said.

30 May 2013 Government pressure on schools to abandon programmes which promote wellbeing will have disastrous effect on vulnerable pupils, according to University of Manchester research.

College-aged women judge promiscuous female peers - defined as bedding 20 sexual partners by their early 20s - more negatively than more chaste women and view them as unsuitable for friendship, finds a study by Cornell developmental psychologists.

UCL Occupational Health would like to remind UCL staff that 10 June is the beginning of Men's Health Week.

UAlberta sociology researcher dials up demographic profile of people who use cellphones behind the wheel.

By Lisa Lapin The Stanford faculty is more diverse today than it was five years ago, and programs to recruit and develop a more diverse professoriate are contributing to gradual growth in the number of underrepresented minority faculty members.

That's the takeaway from a new study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research that found that Californians who jump from provider to provider rather than seeing a regular doctor who coordinates

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A database of Welsh tweets is being used to identify the characteristics of an evolving language.

Charities could benefit from an additional £40 million per year if a new intervention designed to automatically enroll donors to a scheme that increases their donations by three per cent a year is implemented.

Alex Ellis, the next British Ambassador to Brazil, spoke at King's last night on UK-Brazil relations and the changing nature of diplomacy in the 21st century.

Four out of five residents of Glasgow's east end think the Commonwealth Games will have a positive impact in their area according to a study published today.

Research on Egypt is looking at how to read revolution and grass roots opposition through social media.

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Study finds the bulk of shoes' carbon footprint comes from manufacturing processes. A typical pair of running shoes generates 30 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, equivalent to keeping a 100-watt light bulb on for one week, according to a new MIT-led lifecycle assessment. But what's surprising to researchers isn't the size of a shoe's carbon footprint, but where the majority of that footprint comes from.

Maori paddles presented to Captain Cook's crew on their first voyage of discovery capture the spirit of a first encounter between two cultures. they enter'd into a traffick with our people.. giving in exchange their padddles William Monkhouse, Ship's Surgeon, HMS Endeavour Living in a multicultural, globalised world, it's hard to imagine the moment when different cultures first met, or a time when people's knowledge of each other's worlds was nonexistent.

Research by Stanford scholar Emma Seppala at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education found that post-traumatic stress disorder decreased in veterans who participated in a weeklong breathing, yoga and meditation workshop, and remained lower a year later.

ANN ARBOR-For growing numbers of Americans, the new retirement may really mean no retirement. That's the conclusion of an article in the current issue of the ISR Sampler, the annual magazine of the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research.

21 May 2013 Shadow Health Secretary, Andy Burnham MP, believes the proposed Leveson model for press regulation should be used to regulate English football.

Posted under: News Releases , Politics and Government , Research , Social Science Members of tea party claim the movement springs from and promotes basic American conservative principles such as limited government and fiscal responsibility.