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Early Childhood Sustainable Pedagogy into and beyond the 21st Century (2025)
Book Chapter
Lee, K., Boyd, D., & Scollan, A. (2025). Early Childhood Sustainable Pedagogy into and beyond the 21st Century. In A. Bradbury, R. Swailes, & P. Thompson (Eds.), A Manifesto for Early Childhood (23-37). SAGE Publications

This chapter investigates levels of sustainability awareness and early childhood professionals confidence to engage with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in practice. It explores how understanding and knowledge of Education for Sustainable Develo... Read More about Early Childhood Sustainable Pedagogy into and beyond the 21st Century.

What active engagement with my community taught me about driving professional scholarship (2025)
Book Chapter
Fallin, L. (2025). What active engagement with my community taught me about driving professional scholarship. In A. Syska, C. Buckley, G. Sedghi, & N. Grayson (Eds.), Transformative Practice in Higher Education: Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning (79-86). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003503149-11

Professional associations and learned societies are valuable resources, offering Third Space practitioners networking, connection, support, and scholarly opportunities. External pressures, however, often limit the time available for professional scho... Read More about What active engagement with my community taught me about driving professional scholarship.

Public Procurement Regulation in EU and UK (2025)
Book Chapter
Bovis, C. (2025). Public Procurement Regulation in EU and UK. In E. Guinchard, & C. Panara (Eds.), The New Relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union (163-179). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70652-3_9

The application of public procurement regulation in the UK prior to its departure from the EU was based on the judicial activism of the CJEU which has been the most influential factor in developing and honing the concepts of the public procurement ac... Read More about Public Procurement Regulation in EU and UK.

The police have acted as 'moral guardians' since the early 19th century (2025)
Book Chapter
Laverick, W., & Joyce, P. (2025). The police have acted as 'moral guardians' since the early 19th century. In J. Lamb, M. Hart, J. Treadwell, A. Lynes, & C. Kelly (Eds.), 50 Facts Everyone Should Know About the Police. Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447370499

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Have you ever wondered whether crime dramas reflect the reality of police work? Or what the future of policing could look like in the context of recent controversies?

Offering thought-provoking insights into understanding, addressin... Read More about The police have acted as 'moral guardians' since the early 19th century.

Scaling up and automating formative assessment in computer science (2025)
Book Chapter
Gordon, N. (2025). Scaling up and automating formative assessment in computer science. In S. Elkington, & A. Irons (Eds.), Formative Assessment and Feedback in Post-Digital Learning Environments: Disciplinary Case Studies in Higher Education (172-178). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003360254-22

The rise in student numbers in computer science creates a challenge for delivery. Computer science has some of the worst attainment and retention profiles across subjects. Given its technology focus, it is a subject where digital technologies have lo... Read More about Scaling up and automating formative assessment in computer science.

Marxism and the Political Economy of Abolition (2025)
Book Chapter
Burnett, J. (2025). Marxism and the Political Economy of Abolition. In D. G. Scott (Ed.), Abolitionist Voices (121–137). Bristol University Press

This chapter examines the ways Marxist and neo-Marxist thought has contributed to abolitionist praxis. In doing so, it first explores Marx’s early writings in the 1840s, demonstrating how these were foundational to his later critique of political eco... Read More about Marxism and the Political Economy of Abolition.

Play and Sustainability (2025)
Book Chapter
Scollan, A., Lee, K., Boyd, D., Auger, S., & Mason, G. (2025). Play and Sustainability. In A. Bradbury (Ed.), Play Matters: Why Play Matters in Early Childhood (70-79). Early Years Reviews

This chapter discusses the concept of sustainability as a lens to understand how the world of play enables adults to engage and learn about sustainability with and for young children in environments that enable. Scollan and Farini introduce environme... Read More about Play and Sustainability.

Crni Srbi and Ron Holsey (2025)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2025). Crni Srbi and Ron Holsey. In T. Beasley-Murray, W. Bracewell, & M. Murawski (Eds.), Anti-Atlas: Critical Area Studies from the East of the West (213-218). UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800087811

In this essay, YouTube music videos operate as one of those grey areas
between the closely policed borders of the Greater Europe described above: a space where Black and Serbian hip-hop artists collaborate in narratives that suggest a transnational... Read More about Crni Srbi and Ron Holsey.

Beyond Decline: Heathland and the Dynamics of Cultural and Environmental Change in Bronze Age Orkney (2025)
Book Chapter
Farrell, M., & Bunting, J. (2025). Beyond Decline: Heathland and the Dynamics of Cultural and Environmental Change in Bronze Age Orkney. In M. Løvschal, & K. Grønneberg (Eds.), A place for the heathlands?: human-heath relations in deep-time and contemporary perspectives. Jutland Archaeological Society

In this paper, we explore how Enlightenment thinking might have influenced environmental archaeological narratives about heathland development, and human interactions with heathlands, using Orkney as a case study. The archaeological record of Orkney... Read More about Beyond Decline: Heathland and the Dynamics of Cultural and Environmental Change in Bronze Age Orkney.

Designing for structural, social and political viability in national-scale systemic interventions (2025)
Book Chapter
Foote, J., Nicholas, G., & Midgley, G. (2025). Designing for structural, social and political viability in national-scale systemic interventions. . Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003501039-12

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This chapter contains methodological reflections on a participatory design approach undertaken in New Zealand to develop a national response to family violence pre‑vention. Family violence significantly affects the wellbeing of indi... Read More about Designing for structural, social and political viability in national-scale systemic interventions.

Doing qualitative data analysis (2025)
Book Chapter
Ives, B., Clayton, B., Gale, L., Holdom, T., & Nichol, A. (2025). Doing qualitative data analysis. In L. Nelson, R. Groom, & P. Potrac (Eds.), Research Methods in Sports Coaching (245-253). (2nd edition). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003381891-30

This chapter discusses how to analyse, make sense of, and write up qualitative data in sport coaching research. It starts by introducing qualitative data analysis, its overarching goal, and different forms of analysis used in sport coaching research.... Read More about Doing qualitative data analysis.

Torrefaction, carbonization and pyrolysis: Valorising woody wastes towards energy generation via solid biofuels production. (2025)
Book Chapter
Skoulou, V., & Arcelus-Arillagha, P. (2025). Torrefaction, carbonization and pyrolysis: Valorising woody wastes towards energy generation via solid biofuels production. In B. Török (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Green Chemistry (39). (Elsevier). Elsevier

To align with international policies regarding climate change, resource efficiency and environmental protection when using woody biomass wastes for energy generation, wastes need upgrading to acquire better characteristics as energy carriers. In this... Read More about Torrefaction, carbonization and pyrolysis: Valorising woody wastes towards energy generation via solid biofuels production..

Panic, Loss, Gratitude, and Sanity: The Impact of COVID-19 Gym Closures on the Experience of Community in CrossFit (2025)
Book Chapter
Ornella, A. D. (2025). Panic, Loss, Gratitude, and Sanity: The Impact of COVID-19 Gym Closures on the Experience of Community in CrossFit. In M. Quidu, B. Favier-Ambrosini, & M. Delalandre (Eds.), À la conquête de la forme: Regards sociologiques sur le marché du fitness (83-104). Presses universitaires de Grenoble

“Welcome to CrossFit: Join the World’s leading platform for health, happiness, and performance” – the CrossFit.com website advertises in bold letters. The background image features a group of athletes running, working out together, smiling. Health, h... Read More about Panic, Loss, Gratitude, and Sanity: The Impact of COVID-19 Gym Closures on the Experience of Community in CrossFit.

‘To novels and plays not inclined’: Patrick and Maria Brontë and the Arts (2024)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2024). ‘To novels and plays not inclined’: Patrick and Maria Brontë and the Arts. In A. K. Regis, & D. Wynne (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to the Brontës and the Arts (89-101). Edinburgh University Press

The Brontë family produced and consumed art across a range of media and genres. Haworth Parsonage and the local region proved a crucible of inspiration not only for Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne, but also for their parents. Here were fostered t... Read More about ‘To novels and plays not inclined’: Patrick and Maria Brontë and the Arts.

The Emerging Legal Framework for Ecological Restoration under International Environmental Law (2024)
Book Chapter
Nsoh, W., & Muzan, M. (2024). The Emerging Legal Framework for Ecological Restoration under International Environmental Law. In R. C. Brears, & J. Lindley (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook on Environmental Policy and Law. Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30231-2

Ecological restoration has only become legal as an international environmental law (IEL) obligation within the last half-century. However, the practice of ecological restoration is not an entirely new phenomenon historically. The evolution of the int... Read More about The Emerging Legal Framework for Ecological Restoration under International Environmental Law.