Social Research - Social Trends Analysis - The Social Issues Research Centre was established to conduct research and promote debate on all aspects of lifestyles and social behaviour. SIRC aims to provide new insights on current social and cultural trends, and to present a balanced perspective on key social issues.

  • http://www.sirc.org/../articles/articles.html SIRC Articles Page 1 - Recent articles. The Social Issues Research Centre was established to conduct research and promote debate on all aspects of lifestyles and social behaviour.
  • http://www.sirc.org/../articles/archive.html SIRC Archives - Archive of bulletins, The Social Issues Research Centre was established to conduct research and promote debate on all aspects of lifestyles and social behaviour. SIRC aims to provide new insights on current social and cultural trends, and to present a balanced perspective on key social issues.
  • http://www.sirc.org/../links/linkfront.html Worthwhile Links - This page contains links to sites recommended by SIRC. To view a much longer list of links that SIRC uses in its research and monitoring activities.
  • http://www.sirc.org/publik/motherhood_in_western_europe.shtml Contemporary Motherhood in Western Europe - Following on from the Changing Face of Motherhood in the UK report, SIRC was commissioned to examine aspects of contemporary motherhood in Western Europe. The accompanying reports combine a review of existing literature with an analysis of original quantitative data derived from a poll of 9,582 mothers from 12 countries in Western Europe, making it one of the largest studies of this kind ever conducted.
  • http://www.sirc.org/publik/child_obesity_and_health.shtml Child Obesity and Health - The evidence provided by the Health Survey for England unequivocally shows a decline over the most recent six years for which data are available in both the average Body Mass Index and the incidence of obesity in English children. There is also clear evidence to show that children are increasingly adopting healthier lifestyles, with fewer smoking or drinking alcohol and even more engaging in the recommended levels of physical exercise.
  • http://www.sirc.org/publik/Future_of_Freemasonry.shtml The Future of Freemasonry - Freemasonry cannot forever be associated with the secret society syndrome. It is not a secret society, though when persecuted it has been sensible to be discreet. But a healthy society will promote greater openness and understanding for all. It is not good for Freemasonry to hide itself; it has no more trade secrets to defend
  • http://www.sirc.org/publik/changing_face_of_motherhood.shtml Changing face of motherhood - Can mothers in the 21st century, with all the advanced technology and communication systems and the modern conveniences that we now take for granted, now dispense with alloparents (or their equivalent) and happily raise their children single-handedly (or with just one male partner) within the much diminished ‘nuclear’ family size? Or do mothers have the same ‘primeval’ needs for support in their role as the primary guarantors of the future of the human species that they have always had?
  • http://www.sirc.org/publik/impact_of_the_commercial_world.shtml The Impact of the Commercial World on Children's Wellbeing - DCSF, DCMS, Children's Plan, family life, children's wellbeing, commercial world, children and families, advertising to children, family spending, David Buckingham, SIRC, social issues, social trends, family demographics, demographic changes, statistics on children and families.
  • http://www.sirc.org/publik/recession_generation.shtml Recession Generation - Recession. There can be very few people in Britain who are unaware that we have been living in times of recession - economic 'crisis', fiscal 'meltdown', call it what you will, it has been until very recently the central theme of TV news and newspaper headlines.
  • http://www.sirc.org/about/funding.html Sources of funding - SIRC is a non-profit organisation, funded partly by income from our sister organisation MCM Research, which specialises in applying social science to problems faced in both the commercial and public sectors.
  • http://www.sirc.org/news/guidelines.shtml Guidelines on Science and Health Reporting - A draft of the SIRC/Royal Institution Code of Practice and Guidelines on the Communication of Science and Health issues in the Media is now posted on the SIRC web site as a starting point for public discussion and comment.
  • http://www.sirc.org/messenger/ Guidelines for scientists on communicating with the media - MESSENGER is a 12-month project funded by the European Union to develop European Guidelines on Science and Health Communication. This project is at the heart of the EU Science and Society sixth framework programme focusing on the communication of scientific advice and the role of this communication on public acceptance of innovation and the process of government decision-making.

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