Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (9)

Ontology, ‘hauntology’ and the ‘turn’ that keeps anthropology turning (2016)
Journal Article
Argyrou, V. (2017). Ontology, ‘hauntology’ and the ‘turn’ that keeps anthropology turning. History of the Human Sciences, 30(1), 50-65. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695116684310

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Twentieth-century anthropology has been operating with the assumption of one nature and many cultures, one reality experienced and lived in many different ways. Its primary job, therefore, has been to render the othernes... Read More about Ontology, ‘hauntology’ and the ‘turn’ that keeps anthropology turning.

Convergence in a dynamic Heckscher–Ohlin model with land (2015)
Journal Article
Guilló, M. D., & Pérez-Sebastián, F. (2015). Convergence in a dynamic Heckscher–Ohlin model with land. Review of development economics, 19(3), 725-734. https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.12158

Convergence among nations that share the same preferences and technologies is a key result of the closed-economy neoclassical growth framework that has received substantial support in the data. However, Heckscher–Ohlin versions of the two-sector neoc... Read More about Convergence in a dynamic Heckscher–Ohlin model with land.

Identifying patient problems and devising care pathways with the neurogenic bowel dysfunction score (2014)
Journal Article
Gardiner, A., & Wallace, E. (2014). Identifying patient problems and devising care pathways with the neurogenic bowel dysfunction score. Gastrointestinal Nursing, 12(Sup2), S17-S23. https://doi.org/10.12968/gasn.2014.12.Sup2.S17

© MA Healthcare Limited 2014. Neurogenic bowel dysfunction (NBD) is a consequence of dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system leading to impairment of sensory and/or motor control; it includes constipation, incontinence, and disordered defaecation... Read More about Identifying patient problems and devising care pathways with the neurogenic bowel dysfunction score.

Squaring the circle: a new alternative to alternative-assessment (2014)
Journal Article
Williams, P. (2014). Squaring the circle: a new alternative to alternative-assessment. Teaching in higher education, 19(5), 565-577. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2014.882894

Many quality assurance systems rely on high-stakes assessment for course certification. Such methods are not as objective as they might appear; they can have detrimental effects on student motivation and may lack relevance to the needs of degree cour... Read More about Squaring the circle: a new alternative to alternative-assessment.

Enablers and barriers in German online food retailing (2014)
Journal Article
Grant, D., Fernie, J., & Schulz, B. (2014). Enablers and barriers in German online food retailing. Supply chain forum : an international journal / ISLI, Institute for Supply Chain Excellence, 15(3), 4-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/16258312.2014.11517346

This article discusses enablers and barriers in online food retailing in Germany. The German food retail sector is one of the largest in Europe; however, its online or Internet provision for customers lags way behind the United Kingdom and France. Pr... Read More about Enablers and barriers in German online food retailing.

Slavery is bad for business: analyzing the impact of slavery on national economies (2013)
Journal Article
Datta, M. N., & Bales, K. (2013). Slavery is bad for business: analyzing the impact of slavery on national economies. Brown Journal of World Affairs, 19(2), 205-224

Public discourse on human trafficking and modern-day slavery is reaching a tipping point -- it is coming to be understood as a global problem with economic and policy implications far beyond simple reports of cross-border human trafficking. A decade... Read More about Slavery is bad for business: analyzing the impact of slavery on national economies.

"In the middle of everywhere" : a phenomenological study of mobility and dwelling amongst rural elders (2012)
Journal Article
Todres, L., & Galvin, K. T. (2012). "In the middle of everywhere" : a phenomenological study of mobility and dwelling amongst rural elders. Phenomenology and Practice, 6(1), 55-68. https://doi.org/10.29173/pandpr19854

This study aimed to investigate the phenomenon of the meaning of mobility for elders living in rural areas. A phenomenological study was undertaken with older people living in rural South West England and Wales. Ten interviews were undertaken in peop... Read More about "In the middle of everywhere" : a phenomenological study of mobility and dwelling amongst rural elders.

Freelancing in the kingdom: Filipino migrant domestic workers crafting agency in Saudi Arabia (2011)
Journal Article
Johnson, M. (2011). Freelancing in the kingdom: Filipino migrant domestic workers crafting agency in Saudi Arabia. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 20(3-4), 459-478. https://doi.org/10.1177/011719681102000310

This paper examines how Muslim Filipino domestic workers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia creatively assert agency and solicit recognition despite their precarious position in that country. One way that they do so is by leaving their legal employers to... Read More about Freelancing in the kingdom: Filipino migrant domestic workers crafting agency in Saudi Arabia.

Narrativising contract law (2009)
Journal Article
Mitchell, C. (2009). Narrativising contract law. Legal Studies, 29(1), (19-46). doi:10.1111/j.1748-121x.2008.00109.x. ISSN 0261-3875

Socio-legal scholarship in contract maintains that the classical law is ineffective in regulating commercial agreements, and that the law should be more attentive to the role played by relational norms of cooperation and implicit understandings in bu... Read More about Narrativising contract law.