Browse research from the School of Society and Culture.
Submissions from 2024
A relational approach to knowledge exchange in higher education, Harriet Dismore, Verity Campbell-Barr, Rachel Manning, and Paul Warwick
Submissions from 2023
Missing the point- the disappointed hope of self- publishing authors, Simone Schroff
The Battle for the Soul of the Nation: Nationalist Polarization in the 2020 American Presidential Election and the Threat to Democracy, Eric Taylor Woods, Alexandre Fortier-Chouinard, Marcus Closen, Catherine Ouellet, and Robert Schertzer
Weapon of choice: a neoliberal institutional perspective on Italy’s decision to procure a sixth generation fighter aircraft, Lorenzo Cladi
Archaeology in 2022: Counter‐myths for hopeful futures, M Berihuete‐Azorín, Chelsea Blackmore, Lewis Borck, James L. Flexner, Catherine J. Frieman, Corey A. Herrmann, and Rachael Kiddey
Content moderation through removal of service: Content delivery networks and extremist websites, Seán Looney
Poetry and COVID-19: the benefit of poetry and the poetryandcovidarchive.com website to mental health and wellbeing, Anthony Caleshu, Rory Waterman, and Sam Kemp
Food Systems Under Pressure, Julie M. Parsons and A Draper
A Safer Keyham: Independent Academic Evaluation, C Watson, K McBride, Z James, and D Gilling
Actor training underwater in the future, John Matthews
Strongholds of Liberalism? The Reaction of Regional Integration Institutions to the Pandemic Trade Crisis, Patrick Holden
Of Ice Cream, Potatoes, and Kimono-Clad Japanese Women: Forgetting and Remembering the Japanese Racialization of Lethbridge’s Sensuous Geographies, D Aoki and C Adams
Animals Other than Human Animals and Their Claim to Equal Consideration in Coronavirus and Criminological Study: Examining Harm to Domesticated Dogs during COVID-19 in the UK, Rebekah Kim Gregory
The rural enterprise crime complex: ‘undefendable rural space’ and the threat from the fortress farm, Orlando Goodall
Coping flexibly: role reorientation and the UK’s military cooperation with European allies after Brexit, Lorenzo Cladi
Failures in regulating discharges of untreated sewage into rivers • R (Wild Justice) v Water Services Regulation Authority [2023] EWCA Civ 28, N Zubowicz, J Lowther, and J Sellick
River water quality in agricultural areas • R (Sahota) v Herefordshire Council and another [2022] EWCA Civ 1640, B Coupland, J Sellick, and J Lowther
Submissions from 2022
Beyond hegemony, world order as domination: Iran’s Green Movement and the nuclear sanctions regimes, Shabnam J. Holliday
Editorial, A Syska
The unexceptional im/mobilities of gender-based violence in the Covid-19 pandemic, Lesley Murray, Amanda Holt, Sian Lewis, and Jessica Moriarty
Writing as liberatory practice: unlocking knowledge to locate an academic field, Alicja Syska and Carina Buckley
Persevering with bandwagoning, not hedging: why European security cooperation still conforms to realism, Lorenzo Cladi
Harmonizing Open Licenses among Online Databases of Enthusiast Communities: Challenges for the Legal Integration of Databases in the Japanese Visual Media Graph Project, S Schroff, M Pfeffer, Z Kacsuk, and M Roth
Policy making for sharks and the role and contribution of non-governmental organisations in the fulfilment of international legal obligations, Lydia Koehler and Jason Lowther
Renewing Historical Criminology: Scope, Significance, and Future Directions, Iain Channing, David Churchill, and Henry Yeomans
‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information, Alan Petersen, Allegra Schermuly, and Alison Anderson
Silent Footsteps: Renga Poetry as a Collaborative, Creative Research Method Reflecting on the Immobilities of Gender-Based Violence in the Covid-19 Pandemic, Mel Parks, Amanda Holt, Sian Lewis, Jessica Moriarty, and Lesley Murray
Violent extremism and terrorism online in 2021: The year in review, S Looney, M Conway, and A-L Watkin
Back to the Future? Twenty First Century Extremist and Terrorist Websites, S Looney and M Conway
Period, Break, Form, David Sergeant
Emerging contradictions in the enforcement of bird hunting regulations in Malta, Bertie Ferns, Brian Campbell, and Diogo Veríssimo
A Case for Openness – Book Publishing and the Role of Amazon, Antje Kreutzmann-Gallasch and Simone Schroff
Conceptualising Work as a ‘Safe Space’ for Negotiating LGBT Identities: Navigating Careers in the Construction Sector, Sarah Barnard, Andrew Dainty, Sian Lewis, and Andreas Culora
"Using Reflexivity as a Tool to Validate Feminist Research Based on Personal Trauma", Lisamarie Deblasio
An International Review – Carrying the Torch of Anthony D. Smith’s Goal to Map the Field of Nationalism Studies, ET Woods and R Schertzer
Editorial, A Syska
Editorial, A Syska
Grand Strategy in 10 Words: A Guide to Great Power Politics in the 21st Century, L Cladi
Peer reviewing as community building, A Syska
Students’ perceptions of blended and remote learning and its impact upon sense of belonging, A Syska and C Pritchard
Submissions from 2021
Posters as Primary Source Documents: Analysing a Twentieth-Century Public Health Poster, A Syska
Using Documentary Film as a Historical Source, A Syska
The Purpose of Copyright- Moving beyond Theory, Simone Schroff
Compendium of Innovative Practice: Learning Development in a Time of Disruption, A Syska
The application of precaution in elasmobranch conservation and management in the Mediterranean Sea, Lydia Koehler, Ioannis Giovos, and Jason Lowther
Five steps for astronomers to communicate climate change effectively, Alison Anderson and Gina Maffey
Critical Hate Studies: A new perspective, Zoë James and Katie McBride
Keep Learning in a pandemic: podcasts for learning development conversations and informal learning, A Syska and M Mesley
Rural criminal collaborations and the food crimes of the countryside: realist social relations theory of illicit venison production, Orlando Goodall
Recommender systems and the amplification of extremist content, Joe Whittaker, Seán Looney, Alastair Reed, and Fabio Votta
Images of wartime sexual violence in the chronicles of Giovanni Villani and Giovanni Sercambi☆, Péter Bokody
When the flipped classroom disappoints: engaging students with asynchronous learning, A Syska
Introduction: Urban Precarity, Brian Campbell and Christian Laheij
'Peace throughout the oceans and seas of the world': British maritime strategic thought and world order, 1892-1919, Louis Halewood
Covid-19 and evolutionary pressure: can we predict which genetic dangers lurk beyond the horizon?, L Cladi and S Green
Covid-19 and evolutionary pressure: can we predict which genetic dangers lurk beyond the horizon?, L Cladi and S Green
Plastic Waste and the Environmental Crisis Industry, Oliver Smith and Avi Brisman
Doing more for less? Status insecurity and the UK's contribution to European security after Brexit, Lorenzo Cladi
COVID-19, politics, economics and how the future pans out are inseparable, Stephen Thomas Green and Lorenzo Cladi
Pax Regis, Brian Campbell
From PhD Thesis to Monograph, L Deblasio
LandWorks Evaluation Report (2019-2020), J Grose and J Parsons
Editorial, A Syska
Illegal waste exports: misdescription at point of export, J Lowther
Section Editorial: Embodied learning in an online world, A Syska
Section Editorial: Innovations in teaching and course delivery, A Syska
Section Editorial: Prioritising wellbeing through community and connection, A Syska
The Longest Year, T Raymen, A Lloyd, T Kuldova, and O Smith
The Post-Covid Future of the Environmental Crisis Industry and its Implications for Green Criminology and Zemiology, T Raymen and O Smith
The Reality of Rural Crime: The unintended consequences of rural policy in the co-production of badger persecution and the illegal taking of deer, Orlando Goodall
Submissions from 2020
Captains of War, Louis Halewood and David Morgan-Owen
SAFE Brief Manual, Becky Stancer and Rudi Dallos
Habitats, hamsters and ‘vacant possession’ C 477/19, IE v Magistrat der Stadt Wien, J Sellick
Beyond wildlife crime: Towards the concept of ‘mundane fauna crime’, Orlando Goodall
Covid-19: Should the UK mandate more stringent workplace protection for older people?, L Cladi and S Green
Nuclear weapons and American grand strategy, L Cladi
‘I’m not an activist!’: digital self-advocacy in online patient communities, Allegra Clare Schermuly, Alan Petersen, and Alison Anderson
Finishing Time, i-Poems and 'the pains of release' into the community after punishment, J Parsons
On peer reviewing: how to nourish an author’s mind and win a JLDHE editor’s heart, E Loughlin, A Syska, G Sedghi, and C Howell-Richardson
Towards a post-imperial and Global IR?: Revisiting Khatami’s Dialogue among Civilisations, Shabnam Holliday and Edward Wastnidge
Italy in the EU after Brexit: carrying through or taking a bet?, L Cladi and A Locatelli
Damned if you do and damned if you don't: the use of prime ministerial discretion and the royal prerogative, Lorenzo Cladi
Covid-19: the humanities and social sciences have much to contribute to beating this pandemic and the next, L Cladi and S Green
Covid-19: does the UK spend a large enough proportion of its national wealth on the provision of healthcare?, Lorenzo Cladi and Stephen T. Green
Dartmoor Dialogues: An Exploration of HMP Dartmoor’s Journey Towards Becoming an Integrated Prison Underpinned by Restorative Practices, P Gray, Santos G Hanley, Idrissi A Jalili, and C Kennedy
Children and Crime: In the Moment, K Haines, S Case, R Smith, Laidler K Joe, N Hughes, C Webster, T Goddard, J Deakin, D Johns, K Richards, and P Gray
Irreconcilable tensions? The EU’s development policy in an era of global illiberalism, Patrick Holden