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Off white: Central and Eastern Europe and the global history of race (2024)
Book
Baker, C., Iacob, B. C., Imre, A., & Mark, J. (Eds.). (2024). Off white: Central and Eastern Europe and the global history of race. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526172211

This volume foregrounds racial difference as a key to an alternative history of the Central and Eastern European region, which revolves around the role of whiteness as the unacknowledged foundation of semi-peripheral nation-states and national identi... Read More about Off white: Central and Eastern Europe and the global history of race.

Introduction: Racial disavowals-Historicising whiteness in Central and Eastern Europe (2024)
Book Chapter
Mark, J., Imre, A., Iacob, B. C., & Baker, C. (2024). Introduction: Racial disavowals-Historicising whiteness in Central and Eastern Europe. In C. Baker, B. C. Iacob, A. Imre, & J. Mark (Eds.), Off White: Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (1-30). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526172211.00007

Central and Eastern Europe has long been removed from global histories of race: this introduction firstly explores the regional and global forces which have forged this capacity for disavowal, and analyses what has been long at stake in doing so. Sec... Read More about Introduction: Racial disavowals-Historicising whiteness in Central and Eastern Europe.

Decolonising UK Earth Science (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine
Williams, R., Mills, K., & Lawrence, A. (2024). Decolonising UK Earth Science

Header:
Rebecca Williams, Keely Mills and Anya Lawrence reflect on the recent Decolonising UK Earth Science workshop and how examining our past can shape the future of geoscience.

Universals of legal reasoning by judges: A plea for candour in decision-making (2024)
Book
Lundmark, T. (2024). Universals of legal reasoning by judges: A plea for candour in decision-making. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198785675.001.0001

Universals in Legal Reasoning by Judges explores and expounds the usage of rules to justify judicial decisions. Inspired by Savigny's canons of interpretation, and informed by the author's years of study and teaching in Germany, the book constructs a... Read More about Universals of legal reasoning by judges: A plea for candour in decision-making.

Settler Colonialism and early American History (2024)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T., & Delahaye, A. (2024). Settler Colonialism and early American History. In E. Peyrol-Kleiber, L. Roper, B. Van Ruymbeke, & A. Delahaye (Eds.), Agents of European Overseas Empires: Private Colonisers, 1450-1800 (153-178). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526167347.00016

Agents of European overseas empires involves contributors who specialise on often overlooked aspects of imperial endeavour: 'private' European interests, companies, merchants or courtiers, who conducted their own activities both with and without the... Read More about Settler Colonialism and early American History.

The Serious Side of Fun (2024)
Digital Artefact
Ornella, A., & Orton, B. (2024). The Serious Side of Fun. [Podcast]

The Ludicast: Ludic Pedagogy Lab

Podcast
Our guests today are Dr. Alexander Ornella and Dr. Bev Orton from Hull University in the United Kingdom. Dr. Ornella is a Senior Lecturer in Religion and the Director for Education and Student Experience.... Read More about The Serious Side of Fun.

Wage Theft and the Contours of Accumulation (2024)
Journal Article
Burnett, J., & Chebe, F. (2024). Wage Theft and the Contours of Accumulation. Justice, power and resistance, 7(1), 39-59. https://doi.org/10.1332/26352338Y2024D000000009

This article examines the theft of migrant workers’ wages in England by their employers, drawing from original accounts and testimonies of a sample of workers employed between 2018 and 2023. It builds on and establishes new conceptual understandings... Read More about Wage Theft and the Contours of Accumulation.

Culture and Heritage in Constitutional Law (2024)
Book Chapter
Vaivade, A., & Deacon, H. (2024). Culture and Heritage in Constitutional Law. In L. Lixinski, & L. K. Morisset (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and the Law. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003149392

The chapter will analyze the way states deal with culture and heritage in their constitutions, in relation to nation building, identity and human rights, and will provide insights into examples coming from different regions of the world. Considering... Read More about Culture and Heritage in Constitutional Law.

A Programme for Women achieving Excellence in Research (PoWER): theoretically informed intervention design and evaluation (2024)
Journal Article
Dyson, J., Westoby, C., Collins, T., Vakaj, E., Millman, C., Akinbobola, Y., Skinner, J., Windsor, E., & Cowdell, F. (in press). A Programme for Women achieving Excellence in Research (PoWER): theoretically informed intervention design and evaluation. International Journal for Academic Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2023.2293873

Academics in Higher Education are often expected both to teach and to research; this is a particular challenge for women both structurally and individually. Initiatives to address structural issues include AdvanceHE. Here, we focus on individual issu... Read More about A Programme for Women achieving Excellence in Research (PoWER): theoretically informed intervention design and evaluation.

Soft power, cultural relations and conflict through Eurovision and other mega-events: a literature review (2024)
Report
Baker, C., Atkinson, D., Grabher, B., & Howcroft, M. (2024). Soft power, cultural relations and conflict through Eurovision and other mega-events: a literature review. British Council

First paragraph:
This literature review explores the significance of the Eurovision Song Contest for soft power strategies and cultural relations activities, especially at times of conflict and international aggression.

Culture, place and partnership: the cultural relations of Eurovision 2023 (2024)
Report
Baker, C., Atkinson, D., Grabher, B., & Howcroft, M. (2024). Culture, place and partnership: the cultural relations of Eurovision 2023. British Council

Foreword:
This report tells the story of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023, when the UK found itself as host on behalf of the 2022 winners Ukraine, due to Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country in 2021. As the UK’s 2022 entry Sam Ryder put it... Read More about Culture, place and partnership: the cultural relations of Eurovision 2023.

The Branding of Jihadi Terror: An Organizational Theory Understanding of Jihadi Terrorism (2023)
Journal Article
Farooqi, M., & Dover, R. (2023). The Branding of Jihadi Terror: An Organizational Theory Understanding of Jihadi Terrorism. Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne. New Series, 25-42

Since 2001, jihadism as a socio-political movement of waging jihadi violence has been prominent in international relations and security. The dominant discourse has been that jihadism is a religious phenomenon, in which violence is drawn from 19th and... Read More about The Branding of Jihadi Terror: An Organizational Theory Understanding of Jihadi Terrorism.

Immigration Control, Mystification and the Carceral Continuum (2023)
Book Chapter
Burnett, J. (2024). Immigration Control, Mystification and the Carceral Continuum. In D. G. Scott, & J. Sim (Eds.), Demystifying Power, Crime and Social Harm The Work and Legacy of Steven Box. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46213-9_11

This chapter examines immigration control in the UK as a core site where carceral logics are actualised, drawing on the analytical framework developed in Steven Box’s Power, Crime and Mystification. Box’s seminal text in 1983 provided a compelling ac... Read More about Immigration Control, Mystification and the Carceral Continuum.

The Other British Colonies (2023)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2023). The Other British Colonies. In W. Klooster (Ed.), The Enlightenment and the British Colonies (248-68). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108567671

Britain had a substantial Atlantic empire during the era of the Atlantic Revolutions. Only some of their Atlantic colonies joined in the colonial rebellion that led to the creation of the United States. The end of the American Revolution signaled a n... Read More about The Other British Colonies.

Strategies for making geoscience PhD recruitment more equitable (2023)
Journal Article
Fernando, B., Giles, S., Jackson, C., Lawrence, A., Raji, M., Williams, R., Barclay, J., Brotherson, L., Childs, E., Houghton, J., Khatwa, A., Newton, A., Mills, K., Rockey, F., Rogers, S., Souch, C., & Dowey, N. (2023). Strategies for making geoscience PhD recruitment more equitable. Nature Geoscience, 16(8), 658-660. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01241-z

Admission to doctoral study is a crucial step in the academic pipeline, but discriminatory procedures can disproportionately impact students from ethnic minority backgrounds. We show how these policies contribute to inequity in the geosciences and pr... Read More about Strategies for making geoscience PhD recruitment more equitable.

Living in Misery: Child to Parent and Grandparent Violence and Abuse (2023)
Journal Article
Mills, T., Green, S., & O'Leary, N. (2023). Living in Misery: Child to Parent and Grandparent Violence and Abuse. Temida, 26(2), 163-188. https://doi.org/10.2298/TEM2302163M

This article investigates the hidden and under-researched phenomenon of child/adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse (CAPVA). Despite the attention given to spousal and child abuse, very little is known about why children abuse their parents or wha... Read More about Living in Misery: Child to Parent and Grandparent Violence and Abuse.

Evaluation of Humberside Serious & Organised Crime Community Coordinator (SOC CC) (2023)
Report
Santorso, S., Laverick, W., Kidd, A., & Dal Santo, L. P. Evaluation of Humberside Serious & Organised Crime Community Coordinator (SOC CC). Home Office

Introduction:
The principal purpose of this project was to evaluate the Serious and Organised Crime Community Coordinator (SOC CC) in Grimsby and Hull. The Home Office’s SOC CC project has aimed to bring together all the existing support of the stat... Read More about Evaluation of Humberside Serious & Organised Crime Community Coordinator (SOC CC).

From 'Flood Stories' to 'Flood Actors': Children as Change Agents in Disaster Risk Education (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lloyd Williams, A., & Parsons, K. (2023, June). From 'Flood Stories' to 'Flood Actors': Children as Change Agents in Disaster Risk Education. Presented at XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2022) emphasises the urgent threat of climate change and the need to adapt societies in order to enhance resilience. In England, 1 in 6 households are at risk of flooding and this is set to increa... Read More about From 'Flood Stories' to 'Flood Actors': Children as Change Agents in Disaster Risk Education.