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Item Metadata only Urban policy in Belfast: an evaluation of Department of the Environment’s Physical Regeneration Initiatives(Central Statistics & Research Branch, 1995) Cebulla, A.; Department of the Environment for Northern IrelandItem Metadata only Urban policy in Londonderry: an evaluation of Department of the Environment’s Urban Regeneration Initiatives(Central Statistics and Research Branch (DOE N.I.), 1995) Cebulla, A.; Department of the Environment of Northern IrelandItem Metadata only One Clear Objective: Poverty Reduction through Sustainable Development(Australian Government Publishing Service and AusAID, 1997) Simons, Paul; Hart, Gaye; Walsh, Cliff; South Australian Centre for Economic StudiesItem Metadata only Opportunities Out of Kyoto: The Economic Impact of Climate Change Policy on South Australia(SA Centre for Economic Studies, 1998) Coombs, G. J.; Lindsay, S. A.; South Australian Centre for Economic StudiesItem Metadata only The Birdwood Classic: A classic car rally for the car enthusiasts and others(School of Tourism and Hospitality, La Trobe University, 2000) Molloy, J.; Kirchner, K.; Peak Performance in Tourism and Hospitality Research Program (2 Feb 2000 : Victoria, Australia); Michael, D.Item Metadata only Monitoring the quality of life: A public policy tool for small regional economies facing globalisation(National University of Singapore, 2000) O'Neil, M.; International Conference on Quality of Life in Cities (2nd : 2000 : Singapore); South Australian Centre for Economic StudiesItem Metadata only Wagner's Ring Cycle: An insight into an international high quality special event(School of Tourism and Hospitality, La Trobe University, 2000) Molloy, J.; Kirchner, K.; Peak Performance in Tourism and Hospitality Research Program (2000 : Victoria, Australia); Michael, D.Item Metadata only Unemployment and the insurance compensation principle in Britain and Germany(Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society (April 2001), 2001) Cebulla, A.; Heinelt, H.; Walker, R.; Anglo-German FoundationItem Metadata only From job seekers to job keepers: job retention, advancement and the role of in-work support programmes(Corporate Document Services, 2002) Kellard, K.; Adelman, L.; Cebulla, A.; Heaver, C.; UK Department for Work and Pensions Research Report No.170Item Metadata only Drugs and alcohol as barriers to employment : final report(UK Department for Work and Pensions, 2004) Cebulla, A.; Heaver, C.; Smith, N.; Sutton, L.; UK Department for Work and PensionsItem Metadata only Drug and alcohol use as barriers to employment: a review of the literature(Loughborough University, 2004) Sutton, L.; Heaver, C.; Cebulla, A.; Smith, N.; UK Department for Work and PensionsItem Metadata only Report on a meta-analysis of US welfare-to-work programs(Institute for Research on Poverty, 2005) Greenberg, D.; Cebulla, A.; Bouchet, S.; US Department of Health and Human ServicesItem Metadata only Young people from ethnic minority backgrounds: evidence from the education maintenance allowance pilots database(UK Department for Education and Skills, 2005) Middleton, S.; Rennison, J.; Cebulla, A.; Perren, K.; De-Beaman, S.; UK Department for Education and SkillsThis report is one of three that are being prepared for the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), exploiting data from the large scale surveys of young people that have formed part of the evaluation of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) Pilots. Data from the large scale longitudinal surveys, undertaken as part of the evaluation of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) pilots, allow comparisons to be made between the experiences of white, Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi and black young people as they reflect on their experiences during school years 10 and 11 in the months following the end of compulsory education. This research report explores the transitions made by young people from ethnic minority backgrounds from compulsory education, and their subsequent education and labour market experiences.Item Metadata only Welfare-to-work: new labour and the US experience(Gower Publishing, 2005) Cebulla, A.; Ashworth, K.; Greenberg, D.; Walker, R.In this timely work the authors track the influence of US ideology and experience on New Labour's reforms.Item Metadata only When welfare-to-work programs seem to work well: explaining why Riverside and Portland shine so brightly(Sage Publishing, 2005) Greenberg, D.; Ashworth, K.; Cebulla, A.; Walker, R.Of welfare-to-work programs evaluated by random assignment, two stand out as having exceptionally large estimated effects: one in Riverside, California, and the other in Portland, Oregon. The authors use data from 24 evaluations and the tools of meta-analysis to examine why. The findings indicate that the apparently superior performance of these two programs in increasing the earnings of participants is only partly attributable to program design (for example, the type of services provided, the use of sanctions, and the quality of program administration). Differences in caseload characteristics and site characteristics are probably more important. However, Riverside and Portland's relatively large effects in reducing the percentage of participants on the AFDC rolls appear mainly attributable to the design of the programs run in these sites.Item Metadata only Student income and expenditure survey 2004/05(DfES Publications, 2006) Finch, S.; Jones, A.; Parfrement, J.; Cebulla, A.; Connor, H.; Hillage, J.; Pollard, E.; Tyers, C.; Hunt, W.; Loukas, G.; UK Department for Education and SkillsThe 2004/05 Student Income and Expenditure Survey (SIES), commissioned by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and the National Assembly of Wales (NAW) was conducted jointly by a research team from the National Centre for Social Research and the Institute for Employment Studies (NatCen/IES). The survey covered a random sample of a little over 3,700 full-time and part-time (including Open University, OU) students in higher education (HE) in England and Wales at 88 institutions and was conducted between January and April 2005, using face-to-face interviews and expenditure diaries (telephone interviews for OU students). It was the first comprehensive assessment since 1998/99 and designed to set a baseline against which future changes, following the 2004 Higher Education Act, could be monitored. The survey collected data on students income, expenditure, debt, savings and financial hardship and a range of personal information.Item Open Access Risk perception and the presentation of self: Reflections from fieldwork on risk(Freie Universität Berlin, 2006) Smith, N.; Cebulla, A.; Cox, L.; Davis, A.The growth of sociological interest in how people perceive and experience everyday risk needs to be matched with more empirical research. This paper reflects on such a study, and discusses one of the methodological challenges this involved. The study adopts a narrative biographical method (loosely defined) to examine participants' decision-making in relation to their careers. To avoid prejudicing participants' responses about the extent to which notions of risk impact on their worldviews, explicit reference to "risk" was withheld in the interviews. Participants were not preoccupied with risk and, ostensibly, tended to distance themselves from their roles as agents. However, their stories provided examples of decision-making and risk-awareness. The paper argues that participants' presentation of self—or, in the context of the interviews, their narrative construction of identity—obscures their roles as life-planners. Thus, a challenge for empirical research of everyday risk is to disentangle how people identify and present themselves, and how they perceive themselves as agents in risk society.Item Metadata only The new deal for lone parents, lone parent work-focused interviews and working families tax credit - a review of impacts(Department for Work and Pensions, 2008) Cebulla, A.; Flore, G.; Greenberg, D.; UK Department for Work and PensionsThis research report compares the findings of a number of published evaluations of New Deal for Lone Parents (NDLP), Lone Parent Work Focused Interviews (LPWFIs) and Working Families' Tax Credit (WFTC). These policies have all been subject to separate evaluations at different points in time between 2003 and 2006. The aims of this evaluation were to: bring the wealth of evidence together into a single, comprehensive report; consider the range of impact estimates available; report on the effectiveness of the policies. The impact assessments have typically used different methods and impact indicators, so a key aspect of reconciling the evidence was to establish the extent to which the different estimates were compatible. The research was also concerned with extracting information from the existing studies about the interaction or linkages between the policies, including the impact of LPWFIs on referrals to NDLP.Item Metadata only Feeling able to influence local decision making; understanding, barriers, facilitators and strategies for increasing empowerment(Department for Communities and Local Government, 2008) Kotecha, M.; Graham, J.; Cebulla, A.; UK Department for Communities and Local GovernmentItem Metadata only The influence of gaming expenditure on crime rates in South Australia: A local area empirical investigation(Human Sciences Press, Inc., 2008) Wheeler, S.; Round, D.; Sarre, R.; O'Neil, M.Although there has been much speculation about the possible links between gambling and crime rates, relevant quantitative evidence has been practically non-existent in Australia to date. This paper reports the results of research that utilised a model designed to investigate the potential relationship between electronic gaming machine expenditures and property (income-generating) crime rates reported to police in local areas in South Australia in 2002–2003. The research found that the higher the expenditures on gaming machines in a particular local area per adult, the higher the income-generating crime rate in that area. No such relationship was found between gaming machine expenditure and non-income-generating crime rates. However, further research is required before any policy-relevant conclusions can be drawn.