Browse research from the School of Society and Culture.
Submissions from 2025
'Under the Strategic Command of One Admiralissimo': British Visions of Leadership and International Co-operation at Sea, Louis Halewood
Submissions from 2024
Non(belonging) of ethnic minority communities in Britain: Researcher reflections, Suparna Bagchi
“It’s not because they’re Gypsy”: Practitioners perspectives of Gypsies, Travellers and Crime and Justice, Raegan Booth, Kirsty Koral, and Kitty Lymperopoulou
Future-oriented science learning and its effects on students’ emotions, futures literacy and agency in the Anthropocene, Sibel Erduran and Jessica Chan
waves of flickering murmurs in everyday life: playing between ages, Joanna Haynes, Jan Georgeson, Karen Wickett, Mandy Andrews, Dani Landau, Kathrin Paal, Emma Bush, Magda Costa Carvalho, Viktor Johansson, Tiago Almeida, Lois Peach, Giovanna Caetano-Silva, Rose-Anne Reynolds, Bakhtawar Khosa, Patricia Hannam, Arthur C Wolf, Claudia Blandon, Georgios Petropoulos, and Hanna Oester-Barkey
Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authorities: Fisheries Regulator or Environmental Backstop? The complexities of section 153 Marine & Coastal Access Act 2009, Emma Bean, Jason Lowther, and Michael Williams
Ethnic inequalities in sentencing: Evidence from the crown court in England and Wales, Kitty Lymperopoulou
‘Release them into the wild, but how far can they go?’ Improving social and emotional mental health through teaching bushcraft skills to children with special educational needs and disability: a preliminary case series evaluation study, James Tonks, Ian Frampton, Ben Edwards, Kai Tonks, and Harriet Dismore
Hybrid researching race-related issues during COVID-19: Methodological conundrums, Suparna Bagchi
Grounded in liquidity: writing and identity in third space, Alicja Syska, Carina Buckley, and L Heggie
Post-neoliberalism? The strange case of the new English Freeports, Patrick Holden and Nichola Harmer
Scotland in the Forefront of Property Law Reforms in the UK: Potential Implications for the Scottish People, Goodtime Okara
"I am here" - the collective experience, impacts and sense-making from a shared Summer School experience, Joana Pereira de Magalhães Cruz, Shelbi A. Taylor, Julia Römer, Deepti R. Bhat, Álmos Szőcs, Kathrin Paal, and Betina Lopes
An Expert System on Flimsy Foundations: Teaching Expertise and the Early Career Framework, Jim Hordern, Katherine Evans, Pete Kelly, and Nick Pratt
The Harms of Imprisonment and Envisioning a Desistance-Supporting ‘Good Society’, Patricia Gray and Julie Parsons
INTERPOL and the rule of law, Giulio Calcara
On the intellectual horizons of social realism: a response to Barton, Jim Hordern
Conservation and management of chondrichthyans in the Mediterranean Sea: gaps, overlaps, inconsistencies, and the way forward, Ioannis Giovos, Jennifer M. Pytka, Jason Lowther, Lydia Koehler, Monica Barone, Camille Loth, Dimitirios K. Moutoploulos, Simone Niedermuller, and Carlotta Mazzoldi
Habit and the potential for actor training with immersive and virtual production technology, John Matthews
Signed, Sealed, but Not Delivered: the Credibility of Nigeria’s Climate Change Act 2021 in Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change in Nigeria, Goodtime Okara and Ruth Innocent
Croning academics: menopause matters in higher education, Marie Lavelle, Joanna Haynes, and Emma Macleod-Johnstone
The Cases of Environmental and Sustainability Education in the United Kingdom, Alun Morgan and Paul Warwick
Collaboration, relationships and fleeting opportunities: growing the future early childhood music education workforce, Karen Wickett and Jane Parker
International Summer Schools as a Platform of Inclusive Education for Doctoral Students, Suparna Bagchi
Listening to young children with disabilities: Experiences of quality in mainstream primary education, Katherine Gulliver
Security at sea, cyber space, and the governance of the global commons, Louis Halewood and Rory Hopcraft
What's the future of Interpol?, Giulio Calcara
Sea-ing Differently, Kayla Parker, Marie Lavelle, Karen Wickett, and Stuart Moore
‘In This Prison We Have Our Main Meal at 11:30 AM’. The Significance of ‘Time’ For Food Among People Serving Custodial Sentences in England and Wales, Julie M. Parsons
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
Community policing and recovery: a case study following a mass shooting in the UK, Dan Gilling, Caroline Watson, Katie McBride, and Zoe James
”When we speak faculty listen:” exploring potential spaces for students to support lecturer academic development, Rebecca Turner, Lucy Spowart, Harriet C. Dismore, E. A. Beckmann, Rachael A.J. Carkett, and Tashmin Khamis
A relational approach to knowledge exchange in higher education, Harriet Dismore, Verity Campbell-Barr, Rachel Manning, and Paul Warwick
Higher Education and ableism: experiences of disabled students’ in England during the Covid-19 pandemic – stepping into inclusion, Suanne Gibson
Teacher professionalism, expertise and the jurisdictional struggle, Jim Hordern
A Sense of Danger: Gender-Based Violence and the Quest for a Sensory Criminology, Amanda Holt and Sian Lewis
Climate change and sustainability literacy: A mixed-methods study of attitudes to climate education in secondary schools, Alison Anderson
Creatures Who Advocate: An Ecocritical Reading of Jubilate Agno, Min Wild
Safer Keyham Community Survey: Phase Two Final Report 2024, Caroline Watson, Rebekah Southern, Zoe James, and Katie McBride
Scotland in the Forefront of Property Law Reforms in the UK: Potential Implications for the Scottish People, Goodtime Okara
Submissions from 2023
Evaluating the foundation year – 'Foundation sets you up as a student more than anything!', Louise Webber
Missing the point- the disappointed hope of self- publishing authors, Simone Schroff
Weapon of choice: a neoliberal institutional perspective on Italy’s decision to procure a sixth generation fighter aircraft, Lorenzo Cladi
How to Be a Learning Developer in Higher Education (Introduction), Alicja Syska and Carina Buckley
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
Towards a post-imperial and Global IR?: Revisiting Khatami’s Dialogue among Civilisations, Shabnam Holliday and Edward Wastnidge
Food Systems Under Pressure, Julie M. Parsons and A Draper
Actor training underwater in the future, John Matthews
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
Confirming the Ultra Low Emission Zone: another step towards cleaner air for London, J Lowther and J Sellick
Content moderation through removal of service: Content delivery networks and extremist websites, Seán Looney
The rural enterprise crime complex: ‘undefendable rural space’ and the threat from the fortress farm, Orlando Goodall
Strongholds of Liberalism? The Reaction of Regional Integration Institutions to the Pandemic Trade Crisis, Patrick Holden
Surveying communities after major incidents: A toolkit for practitioners, Caroline Watson, Katie McBride, Zoe James, and Rebekah Southern
On The Making of White American Identity: Ron Eyerman and Eric Taylor Woods in Conversation, Eric Taylor Woods and Ron Eyerman
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
Criminalising Neonaticide: Reflections on Law and Practice in England and Wales, K Brennan and E Milne
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
A space for partnership and empowerment: how the Writing Café negotiates inclusion in Higher Education, Cara Baer and Nina Kearney
Introduction, Elizabeth J. Done and Helen Knowler
“From This Invisible Archipelago”: The Oceanic Ecopoetics of Craig Santos Perez, Mandy Bloomfield
Quality Early Childhood Education and Care in a Time of COVID-19, Barr V Campbell and S Tregenza
Coping flexibly: role reorientation and the UK’s military cooperation with European allies after Brexit, Lorenzo Cladi
Beyond hegemony, world order as domination: Iran’s Green Movement and the nuclear sanctions regimes, Shabnam J. Holliday
Renewing Historical Criminology: Scope, Significance, and Future Directions, Iain Channing, David Churchill, and Henry Yeomans
Assessing the Impact of Racist Incidents on the community in Plymouth., Chris Pac-Soo and Emma Taylor
Book Reviews, L Cladi
Evaluating the implementation of a ‘Child First’ approach within Plymouth’s Youth Justice multi-agency diversion scheme., Emma Taylor, Patricia Gray, Katie McBride, and Zoe James
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
“I certainly didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition!”: Politics of transculturation in a Spanish enclave in North Africa, Stephan Palmié and Brian Campbell
Insights Into a High-Quality Early Years Curriculum, Verity Campbell Barr, Katherine Evans, Jan Georgeson, and Sasha Tregenza
Learning Developers as Writers: The Four Tendencies Framework to Get Writing, Alicja Syska and Carina Buckley
Not hearing, not engaging, not happening: Elusive Inclusive HE, it is time to reconsider sector practices in partnership with disabled student expertise, Suanne Gibson, Zeta Williams-Brown, Jen Shute, and Mette Westander
River water quality in agricultural areas • R (Sahota) v Herefordshire Council and another [2022] EWCA Civ 1640, B Coupland, J Sellick, and J Lowther
The ‘People’s War on Terror’ in Xinjiang: A model for China?, Hannah Theaker
Trans/feminist collaborative autoethnographic storying of gender-based violence, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lesley Murray, Jessica Moriarty, Amanda Holt, Sian Lewis, and Mel Parks
Submissions from 2022
Advocacy leadership and the de-professionalising of the Special Educational Needs Coordinator role, Elizabeth J. Done, Helen Knowler, Hazel Richards, and Stephanie Brewster
An International Review – Carrying the Torch of Anthony D. Smith’s Goal to Map the Field of Nationalism Studies, ET Woods and R Schertzer
‘Gentle humour’ to ‘savage satire’: Austen obituaries on her death, its centenary and bicentenary, A Bautz
Researching ‘off rolling’ as a sensitive topic: ‘Hard’ evidence and experiential accounts, Elizabeth J. Done
‘Gentle humour’ to ‘savage satire’: Austen Obituaries on Her Death, Its Centenary and Bicentenary, Annika Bautz
Period, Break, Form, David Sergeant
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
Editorial, A Syska
Peer reviewing as community building, A Syska
