The community and voluntary sector is a complex web of service and information providers, ranging from government agencies to small, single issue support groups. This presents a number of challenges for those working (and volunteering) in the sector and for citizens looking for a particular service. There is a clearly articulated need amongst both providers and local government to coordinate su...

Building research-capacity is an important element in the contemporary political economy of social science research. For example, the principal funding body, the ESRC, continues to invest substantially in the development of researchcapacity through, for example, its Research Methods Programme and its recently announced National Centre for Research Methods, to be located at Southampton Universit...

The question how agent and patient roles are assigned to causal participants has largely been neglected in the psychological literature on force dynamics. Inspired by the linguistic theory of Dowty (1991), we propose that agency attributions are based on a prototype concept of human intervention. We predicted that the number of criteria a participant in a causal interaction shares with this pro...