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From Science to Storytelling: Advancing a climate knowledge-action framework through reflections on youth-focused, participatory action research in Vietnam (2025)
Journal Article
Jones, L., Lê, H., Parsons, K. J., Võ, T., & Halstead, F. (online). From Science to Storytelling: Advancing a climate knowledge-action framework through reflections on youth-focused, participatory action research in Vietnam. British Educational Research Journal, https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.70004

Climate change presents urgent global challenges that demand swift and transformative responses. However, current efforts often fall short, revealing a crisis not only of environmental concern but also of social action. Responses to this have include... Read More about From Science to Storytelling: Advancing a climate knowledge-action framework through reflections on youth-focused, participatory action research in Vietnam.

Place-based and intergenerational storytelling for youth climate action: moving beyond participation and towards momentum (2025)
Journal Article
Halstead, F., Parsons, K. J., Vo, T., Lloyd Williams, A., Jones, L., Le, H., Nguyen, A., Hackney, C., & Parsons, D. (2025). Place-based and intergenerational storytelling for youth climate action: moving beyond participation and towards momentum. Children's Geographies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2025.2519027

The urgency of the climate crisis necessitates inclusive approaches that engage marginalised groups, particularly youth, in meaningful and sustained ways. This paper explores the transformative potential of place-based and intergenerational storytell... Read More about Place-based and intergenerational storytelling for youth climate action: moving beyond participation and towards momentum.

Bridging the ‘sport/culture silo’: the Eurovision Song Contest and its lessons for sporting and cultural mega-events (2025)
Journal Article
Baker, C., Atkinson, D., Grabher, B., & Howcroft, M. (2025). Bridging the ‘sport/culture silo’: the Eurovision Song Contest and its lessons for sporting and cultural mega-events. International Journal of Cultural Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2025.2521115

The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) uniquely exhibits features of both sporting and cultural events. Its tradition of awarding hosting rights to the previous year’s winning broadcaster has persisted even as its scale has approached that of sporting and... Read More about Bridging the ‘sport/culture silo’: the Eurovision Song Contest and its lessons for sporting and cultural mega-events.

Machine learning-based predictive modelling of renewable energy adoption in developing countries (2025)
Journal Article
Ossai, W., & Fagbola, T. M. (2025). Machine learning-based predictive modelling of renewable energy adoption in developing countries. Energy Reports, 14, 66-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2025.05.066

This study explores global renewable energy trends in alignment with the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Employing and fine-tuning the ExtraTreesRegressor, models were developed to predict adoption levels of electricity from solar, wind, hydro, a... Read More about Machine learning-based predictive modelling of renewable energy adoption in developing countries.

The ethics of travel: how can computing help to ensure transport is safe, sustainable and acceptable? (2025)
Journal Article
Gordon, N., Akindele, T., & Morel, P. (2025). The ethics of travel: how can computing help to ensure transport is safe, sustainable and acceptable?. Itnow, 67(2), 14-15. https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwaf039

Transport is key to modern life – we travel for work, we depend on the transport industry to move food, resources and products. We travel for family and for leisure. In countries like the UK, we spend significant time and resource on travel. Computin... Read More about The ethics of travel: how can computing help to ensure transport is safe, sustainable and acceptable?.

A Feminist Political Ecology of household waste management in an urban township, South Africa (2025)
Journal Article
Pewa, M., Robson, E., & Deutz, P. (2025). A Feminist Political Ecology of household waste management in an urban township, South Africa. South African Geographical Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2025.2496264

In the Global South, women disproportionately shoulder the burden of household waste management. Development Studies suggest that this persistent feminization of waste-related activities is rooted in cultural, social, and economic factors that confin... Read More about A Feminist Political Ecology of household waste management in an urban township, South Africa.

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.

Sustainable Pedagogy in Early Childhood and Beyond (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Boyd, D., Lee, K., & Scollan, A. (2025, January). Sustainable Pedagogy in Early Childhood and Beyond. Presented at Middlesex University Childhood and Society Seminar Series 2025, online

The seminar will consider how adults and children are preparing to manage sustainability in the 21st Century. UNESCO (2017) reminds us of the urgency of the current planetary situation. Gunther and colleagues (2024) stress the need for children to ha... Read More about Sustainable Pedagogy in Early Childhood and Beyond.

Community Waterscapes: Uncovering tangible and intangible heritage of watery landscapes through community engagement in the Hull region (2025)
Newspaper / Magazine
Velentza, K., Worthen, H., & Brookes, E. (2025). Community Waterscapes: Uncovering tangible and intangible heritage of watery landscapes through community engagement in the Hull region

Excerpt:
Community Waterscapes, funded by the University of Hull and supported by Hull Maritime, the Living with Water Partnership and an endorsed action of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, is carrying out community-driven... Read More about Community Waterscapes: Uncovering tangible and intangible heritage of watery landscapes through community engagement in the Hull region.

Conservation priorities for development: survey of UK public's views on brownfield sites and biodiversity (2024)
Journal Article
Macgregor, C., Deutz, P., Bunting, J., & Mayes, W. (2024). Conservation priorities for development: survey of UK public's views on brownfield sites and biodiversity. People, Place and Policy, 18(3), 135-163. https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2024.4947649325

Policies prioritising the repurposing of abandoned land ('brownfield sites'), in order to spare undeveloped sites, are widely perceived to limit damage to biodiversity. However, brownfield sites can be of significant ecological value, providing scarc... Read More about Conservation priorities for development: survey of UK public's views on brownfield sites and biodiversity.

Community Waterscapes Storymap (2024)
Digital Artefact
Velentza, K. (2024). Community Waterscapes Storymap

This digital 'Storymap' presents heritage from Hull Community Waterscapes participants. The stories, photographs, landmarks, experiences and memories on the map represent their relationships with water in the city of Hull and beyond.

Fang experiences in Whitby’s goth/ic theatre (2024)
Journal Article
Wynne, C. (2024). Fang experiences in Whitby’s goth/ic theatre. Punk & Post-Punk, 13(2), 217-235. https://doi.org/10.1386/punk_00251_1

A sign which regularly appears on the door of St Mary’s Church in Whitby, North Yorkshire, alerts visitors that Dracula is not buried in the churchyard. Dracula arrives in Whitby in Bram Stoker’s fiction, exits the stage and finally turns to dust nea... Read More about Fang experiences in Whitby’s goth/ic theatre.

Circular Economy Realities: Critical Perspectives on Sustainability (2024)
Book
Deutz, P., Vermeulen, W. J., Baumgartner, R. J., Ramos, T. B., & Raggi, A. (Eds.). (2024). Circular Economy Realities: Critical Perspectives on Sustainability. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003295631

This book addresses the realities of the circular economy, a resource efficiency concept that has risen to global prominence in academic, policy and business circles over the last decade. Considered an approach to sustainable growth, the volume criti... Read More about Circular Economy Realities: Critical Perspectives on Sustainability.

Between Two Tides: A Practice Research Performance on the South Holderness Coast (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Billing, C. (2024). Between Two Tides: A Practice Research Performance on the South Holderness Coast. [Live Performance]. 9 May 2024 - 10 May 2024

The performance 'Between Two Tides', staged by researchers from the University of Hull in May 2024, considered the intertwined histories of humans and nature along the South Holderness coast, a region grappling with the impacts of climate change. Thi... Read More about Between Two Tides: A Practice Research Performance on the South Holderness Coast.

Taming ‘Black Swans’: A Schmittian Perspective on State-led Crisis Management (2024)
Thesis
Jones, M. Taming ‘Black Swans’: A Schmittian Perspective on State-led Crisis Management. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4500680

Using a design-thinking approach to state-led crisis management, this thesis seeks to resolve the contemporary problem of Black Swans; that is, crises that are unprecedented, unexpected, unpredictable, and uncertain.
Due to their nature and composit... Read More about Taming ‘Black Swans’: A Schmittian Perspective on State-led Crisis Management.

Act of hope: a story of climate change and water puppetry performance along the Red River, Vietnam (2024)
Journal Article
Lloyd Williams, A., Vũ, Q., Lê, H., Jones, L., Võ, T. T., Halstead, F., Parsons, K. J., Nguyễn, A. T., Hackney, C. R., & Parsons, D. R. (2024). Act of hope: a story of climate change and water puppetry performance along the Red River, Vietnam. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 29(2), 278-289. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2024.2319833

This case study explores a collaboration between young people, researchers and artists which captured stories of how people in the Red River Catchment of Northern Vietnam are responding to climate change, and then used the local art of water puppetry... Read More about Act of hope: a story of climate change and water puppetry performance along the Red River, Vietnam.

Urban foxes are bolder but not more innovative than their rural conspecifics (2023)
Journal Article
Morton, F. B., Gartner, M., Norrie, E. M., Haddou, Y., Soulsbury, C. D., & Adaway, K. A. (2023). Urban foxes are bolder but not more innovative than their rural conspecifics. Animal behaviour, 203, 101-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.07.003

Urbanization is the fastest form of landscape transformation on the planet, but researchers' understanding of the relationships between urbanization and animal behaviour is still in its infancy. In terms of foraging, bold and innovative behaviours ar... Read More about Urban foxes are bolder but not more innovative than their rural conspecifics.

Real-time social media sentiment analysis for rapid impact assessment of floods (2023)
Journal Article
Bryan-Smith, L., Godsall, J., George, F., Egode, K., Dethlefs, N., & Parsons, D. (2023). Real-time social media sentiment analysis for rapid impact assessment of floods. Computers & geosciences, 178, Article 105405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2023.105405

Traditional approaches to flood modelling mostly rely on hydrodynamic physical simulations. While these simulations can be accurate, they are computationally expensive and prohibitively so when thinking about real-time prediction based on dynamic env... Read More about Real-time social media sentiment analysis for rapid impact assessment of floods.

Towards achieving net zero by 2050 in the UK – Stakeholder perspectives in integrated urban planning (2023)
Journal Article
Mazumdar, S., Thakker, D., Hayes, J., Matos, N., & Bate, P. (2023). Towards achieving net zero by 2050 in the UK – Stakeholder perspectives in integrated urban planning. Futures: for the interdisciplinary study of futures, visioning, anticipation and foresight, 152, Article 103197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2023.103197

In light of severe risks of extreme conditions arising out of global warming, the push towards sustainable development and management of our resources has been a topic of immense interest globally. The UK's recent promise of reducing all greenhouse g... Read More about Towards achieving net zero by 2050 in the UK – Stakeholder perspectives in integrated urban planning.