Adult numeracy: a review of research

This report provides an overview of existing research on adult numeracy, with a strong focus on the United Kingdom but also including other countries. The emphasis is on poor numeracy: its antecedents and effects, teaching and learning to overcome it, and the potential use of ICT and mobile technologies in that pursuit

Adult numeracy: a review of research

This report provides an overview of existing research on adult numeracy, with a strong focus on the United Kingdom but also including other countries. The emphasis is on poor numeracy: its antecedents and effects, teaching and learning to overcome it, and the potential use of ICT and mobile technologies in that pursuit

The geochemical quality of soils in the Clyde basin, Scotland, UK : main controls and anthropogenic impacts [abstract only]

Recently, the British Geological Survey’s (BGS) Geochemical Baseline Survey of the Environment (G-BASE) project carried out extensive surveys of rural and urban soil quality in the River Clyde catchment (Clyde basin) on the west coast of Scotland. The Clyde basin is interesting as it extends from a rural upland environment in the south, to the River Clyde estuary in the north. The catchment contains an historic lead mining area known as Leadhills that was active until the mid 20th century. In addition, the estuary and lower reaches of the river formed the transport and shipping links that drove the development of Scotland’s main conurbation – the city of Glasgow, which is centred on the River Clyde. Although heavy industry and mining have now declined, the newly available G-BASE soil datasets demonstrate the impacts of urbanisation and the post-industrial legacy of the Glasgow conurbation as well as of historical mining activities on environmental quality

A school-based resilience intervention to decrease tobacco, alcohol and marijuana use in high school students

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Despite schools theoretically being an ideal setting for accessing adolescents and preventing initiation of substance use, there is limited evidence of effective interventions in this setting. Resilience theory provides one approach to achieving such an outcome through improving adolescent mental well-being and resilience. A study was undertaken to examine the potential effectiveness of such an intervention approach in improving adolescent resilience and protective factor scores; and reducing the prevalence of adolescent tobacco, alcohol and marijuana use in three high schools.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>A non-controlled before and after study was undertaken. Data regarding student resilience and protective factors, and measures of tobacco, alcohol and marijuana use were collected from grade 7 to 10 students at baseline (n = 1449) and one year following a three year intervention (n = 1205).</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Significantly higher resilience and protective factors scores, and significantly lower prevalence of substance use were evident at follow up.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>The results suggest that the intervention has the potential to increase resilience and protective factors, and to decrease the use of tobacco, alcohol and marijuana by adolescents. Further more rigorous research is required to confirm this potential.</p

Swinging Sixties

This collection of essays was produced to accompany the V&A exhibition ‘Sixties Fashion’ (June 2006-Feb 2007), the key public output of the ‘Cultures of Consumption’ project ‘Shopping Routes: Networks of Fashion Consumption in London’s West End 1945-1979’. While previous studies of British fashion in the 1960s had chosen to focus on designer-centered accounts of innovation or subcultural responses to shifting social and economic circumstances, the exhibition and the book offered a new reading of the design, production, promotion, retailing and wearing of clothing in London during the period that emphasized the importance of place and the persistence of a number of design, manufacturing and selling traditions that affected local ecologies of fashion in significant ways. Through harnessing the cross-disciplinary expertise of a geographer, design historians, a dress curator, an architectural historian and a media theorist, the project opened up the examination of fashion to a wider range of methods and benefited from an analysis of sources that included surviving dress, planning and touristic literatures, newly commissioned oral histories, film and magazines, offering a richness of interpretation that is rare in fashion centered displays and publications aimed at a broad general-interest audience