Patrick Sturgis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors challenge the de facto orthodoxy that has connected the deficit model and contextualist perspectives with quantitative and qualitative research methods respectively, pointing out the clear importance of knowledge as a determinant of attitudes toward science.

TL;DR: The authors found a small positive correlation between general attitudes towards science and general knowledge of scientific facts, after controlling for a range of possible confounding variables, and suggested that PUS research needs to focus on understanding the mechanisms that underlie the clear association that exists between knowledge and attitudes about science.

TL;DR: The level of professional identity when students commence their professional studies is investigated; the differences in the level ofprofessional identity between students from a range of professions; and the factors which may affect the initial levels of professional identification are investigated.

TL;DR: The authors found that neighborhood structural characteristics, visual signs of disorder, and recorded crime all have direct and independent effects on individual-level fear of crime, and individual differences in fear are strongly moderated by neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics; between-group differences in expressed fear of crimes are both exacerbated and ameliorated by the characteristics of the areas in which people live.

TL;DR: This paper used a multi-level modeling approach to estimate the effect of ethnic diversity on measures of generalized and strategic trust using data from a new survey in Britain with a sample size approaching 25,000 individuals.