IN BRIEF
Emergency exercises
THE THREATS AND HAZARDS facing the UK currently include not only terrorism but other events such as Avian Flu or flooding. Exercises are one of a number of ways to prepare for such events by providing an opportunity to develop expertise in dealing with a specific hazard or threat and its consequences. But are they worthwhile?
REGULATING FINANCE The UK Government is proposing new regulation to avert future financial crises. How will changes in the financial sector structure affect existing macroeconomic policy tools? New research will examine the interaction between financial regulation and monetary policy transmission and assess the impact of financial regulation on the transmission of fiscal policy. ESRC grant number PTA-053-27-0003 - Post Doctoral Fellowship
HEALTHIER SERVICES This new study aims to improve the efficiency of services for patients with long-term depression in the Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Researchers will develop a model to evaluate potential improvements to the service of care for patients with long- term depression.
ESRC grant number RES-173-27-0244 - Placement Fellowship
NON-EXEC SUPPORT Non-executive directors are a potentially important network support for the owners of small and medium-size enterprises but smaller firms are less likely to have them. This project will investigate how interactions within entrepreneurial networks affect innovation by studying the small business support programme that aims to simulate both having and being a non-executive director. ESRC grant number RES-189-25-0245 - Follow on Fund
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New research based on observation of exercises and interviews with emergency planners finds that exercises are indeed helping develop the forms of knowledge that are necessary to act in emergencies. Building on a dissemination workshop with
emergency practitioners, researchers now aim to develop user guides for practitioners that will aid the process of planning, designing and undertaking exercises. “These will complement existing guides which are now considered too basic for practitioners with existing experience of organising exercises,” says researcher Dr Ben Anderson. n
i Contact Dr Ben Anderson,
University of Durham Email
ben.anderson@
durham.ac.uk Telephone 0191 334 1897 ESRC Grant Number RES-000-22-2970
Families short on information
YOUNG PEOPLE WITH learning disabilities can find it difficult to get the information that they need about relationships and sex, and face numerous barriers to their sexual awareness and development, says a new study. While non-disabled young people
often learn about sexuality from their peers, young people with learning disabilities generally have to rely more on their families for information, especially their mums. “However, mothers in our study
admitted that while they found it hard to talk to all their children about sexual matters, it was even harder with their child with learning disabilities,” says researcher Professor Andrew Jahoda. Mothers often believed their child with learning disabilities had fewer sexual feelings and mothers delayed talking about sex as they felt it was less urgent. “Our research suggests that families
of young people with learning difficulties need to actively provide information about sexual matters,” Professor Jahoda points out. “While young people with learning disabilities may have fewer places to learn about sexual matters, this does not mean they do not have questions or are not interested. Mothers may need help in understanding that this will not encourage risky behaviours. Rather, providing information can help their child stay safe and reduce their vulnerability to abuse.” Information, particularly on the sex education provided at school, should be made more freely available to parents, he concludes. n
i Contact Professor Andrew Jahoda,
University of Glasgow Email
andrew.jahoda@glasgow.ac.uk Telephone 0141 211 0282 ESRC Grant Number RES-000-22-3124
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