Browse research from the School of Society and Culture.
Submissions from 2024
‘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
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, Jim Hordern, Katherine Evans, Pete Kelly, and Nick Pratt
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, Jason Lowther, Lydia Koehler, Ioannis Giovos, Jennifer M. Pytka, 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
Collaboration, relationships and fleeting opportunities: growing the future early childhood music education workforce, Karen Wickett and Jane Parker
Listening to young children with disabilities, 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
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
Ethnic inequalities in sentencing: Evidence from the crown court in England and Wales, Kitty Lymperopoulou
”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
Teacher professionalism, expertise and the jurisdictional struggle, Jim Hordern
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
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
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
Trust, Transgression and Surrender, James Tarling
Strongholds of Liberalism? The Reaction of Regional Integration Institutions to the Pandemic Trade Crisis, Patrick Holden
A Safer Keyham: Independent Academic Evaluation, C Watson, K McBride, Z James, and D Gilling
Surveying communities after major incidents, Caroline Watson, Katie McBride, Zoe James, and Rebekah Southern
Assessing the Impact of Racist Incidents on the community in Plymouth., Chris Pac-Soo and Emma Taylor
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
A space for partnership and empowerment: how the Writing Café negotiates inclusion in Higher Education, Cara Baer and Nina Kearney
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
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
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
Submissions from 2022
An International Review – Carrying the Torch of Anthony D. Smith’s Goal to Map the Field of Nationalism Studies, ET Woods and R Schertzer
Trauma in Transition - Lived experiences of Trauma Informed approaches, Emma Taylor and Katie McBride
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
Students’ perceptions of blended and remote learning and its impact upon sense of belonging, A Syska and C Pritchard
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
Persevering with bandwagoning, not hedging: why European security cooperation still conforms to realism, Lorenzo Cladi
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
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
Writing as liberatory practice: unlocking knowledge to locate an academic field, Alicja Syska and Carina Buckley
‘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
Hateful subjectivities: Using intersectionality to inform a Critical Hate Studies perspective., K McBride and Z James
Crisis and Change in European Union Foreign Policy: A Framework of EU Foreign Policy Change, L Cladi
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
Emerging contradictions in the enforcement of bird hunting regulations in Malta, Bertie Ferns, Brian Campbell, and Diogo Veríssimo
Violent extremism and terrorism online in 2021: The year in review, S Looney, M Conway, and A-L Watkin
Editorial, A Syska
"Using Reflexivity as a Tool to Validate Feminist Research Based on Personal Trauma", Lisamarie Deblasio
Back to the Future? Twenty First Century Extremist and Terrorist Websites, S Looney and M Conway
A Case for Openness – Book Publishing and the Role of Amazon, Antje Kreutzmann-Gallasch and Simone Schroff
Space and/or Time, D Sergeant
Grand Strategy in 10 Words: A Guide to Great Power Politics in the 21st Century, L Cladi
Challenges and Prospects of the Limited Liability Partnership and the Limited Partnership as Vehicles for Business in Nigeria, Chidi Halliday and Goodtime Okara
Company Reconstructions, Goodtime Okara and Chidi Halliday
The application of precaution in elasmobranch conservation and management in the Mediterranean Sea, Lydia Koehler, Ioannis Giovos, and Jason Lowther
Submissions from 2021
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
Geopolitics of Finance in Africa: Birth of financial centres, not monetary unions, Elizabeth Cobbett
The Purpose of Copyright- Moving beyond Theory, Simone Schroff
Posters as Primary Source Documents: Analysing a Twentieth-Century Public Health Poster, A Syska
Using Documentary Film as a Historical Source, A Syska
Compendium of Innovative Practice: Learning Development in a Time of Disruption, A Syska
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
When the flipped classroom disappoints: engaging students with asynchronous learning, A Syska
Keep Learning in a pandemic: podcasts for learning development conversations and informal learning, A Syska and M Mesley
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
Habitats, hamsters and ‘vacant possession’ C 477/19, IE v Magistrat der Stadt Wien, J Sellick
Editorial, A Syska
Introduction: Urban Precarity, Brian Campbell and Christian Laheij
Five steps for astronomers to communicate climate change effectively, Alison Anderson and Gina Maffey
