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IN BRIEF SCHOOL CHOICES


Analysis of the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England will help evaluate the effect of attending a better school on long- term outcomes for secondary school students. Researchers will study the effect that not going to one’s most preferred school has on educational attainment and on outcomes such as aspirations to higher education, mental health, being bullied and crime. ESRC grant number ES/R003629/1


WOMEN’S VOICES Myanmar and Nepal are countries in transition, both having recently emerged from long-term civil conflicts and natural disasters. Rates of internal displacement in both countries are among the highest in the world. By asking women who have lived through rural-urban displacement to share their personal experiences, researchers will document women’s explanations of how displacement has affected gendered relations and women’s resulting experiences of violence. ESRC grant number ES/R002622/1


FINANCIAL INFORMATION The quality of information provided to investors by corporate management in publicly traded companies in the UK is of central importance to financial market participants. In partnership with the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) – the body responsible for promoting high quality corporate governance and financial reporting – researchers aim to explore the transparency and usefulness of financial information and disclosures. ESRC grant number ES/R003904/1


6 SOCIETY NOW SUMMER 2011 WINTER 2018


Street children gain a voice


LISTENING TO THE voices of young people living in street situations is essential, not only to realise their rights, but to ensure the success of programmes aimed at supporting them, say Professor Lorraine van Blerk and Dr Wayne Shand of the Growing Up on The Streets Knowledge Exchange Programme developed with StreetInvest.


Researchers based in the African cities of Accra – Bukavu and Harare – built the largest ever database of the lives of young street people. Using this expertise, the research team developed a Knowledge Exchange Training Pack


which is engaging many other young people worldwide in policy dialogue and development. In particular, it helped ensure young people’s voices were heard in the drafting of the UN General Comment on Children in Street Situations, 2017. n


i Contact Professor Lorraine van Blerk,


University of Dundee Email guots@dundee.ac.uk Telephone 01382 385445 Web www.streetinvest.org/guots ESRC Grant Number ES/M006107/1


Victory in war needs radical rethink T


HE IDEA THAT war is all about winning is deeply lodged in popular thinking. But how useful is the


notion of ‘winning’ when applied to contemporary warfare? New research into the ethics of war, exit strategies and how wars end suggests we should consider how useful the language of victory is to modern society. Decoupling the idea of military success from the notion of decisive battlefield victories could lead to a more realistic understanding of modern warfare and what it can achieve, say researchers from the University of Glasgow’s Moral Victories project.


“In an age of seemingly unwinnable wars and messy endgame situations such as those in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya we have lost a clear notion of what victory in war looks like or how to end wars well,” says researcher Dr Cian O’Driscoll.


While President Obama was uncomfortable with the idiom of victory, and tried to excise it from US strategic


discourse, the notion of winning is very much hardwired into people’s thinking. “It’s not a concept you can easily erase from people’s consciousness, especially when it comes to war,” says Dr O’Driscoll. Events have borne this out, as the rhetoric of victory has made a comeback under the Trump Presidency. But clear benefits could ensue, the study suggests, if, rather than seeking to pretend that the term victory does not exist, politicians and military minds engaged it in new and creative ways. O’Driscoll says these benefits could be significant: “If we could better tailor what we think war can achieve to the realities of modern warfare then we may produce more realistic objectives rather than mortgage populations to never-ending wars.” n


i Contact Dr Cian O’Driscoll, University


of Glasgow Email cian.o’driscoll@glasgow.ac.uk Telephone 0141 330 2002 Web www.moralvictories.gla.ac.uk ESRC Grant Number ES/L013363/1


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