Browse research from the School of Society and Culture.
Submissions from 2017
Florentine Women and Vendetta: The Origin of Guelf-Ghibelline Conflict in Giovanni Villani’s Nuova Cronica, Peter Bokody
‘CHILDREN OF A VERY TENDER AGE HAVE VICIOUS PROPENSITIES’: CHILD WITNESS TESTIMONIES IN CASES OF SEXUAL ABUSE, KA Stevenson
‘A fluctuating relationship with nature’: Tom Raworth's ecopoetics, Mandy Bloomfield
Online Jihadi Instructional Content: The Role of Magazines, S Looney, J Parker, and M Conway
Creating the Virtuous Panopticon: Moral dimensions of Everyday Offending in Plymouth 1880-1910, KA Stevenson and J rowbotham
Sexting and sexting behaviour - "Oh you're all children, children do silly things. You'll be fine. Get over it!"., AD Phippen and C Kennedy
The Impossible Quest - Problems with Diligent Search for Orphan Works, Simone Schroff, Marcella Favale, and Aura Bertoni
Commentary: "I do remember being hungry," Ophelia's i-poem, J Parsons
Invisibly Blighted The Digital Erosion of Childhood, SL Gray and A Phippen
The politics of the Digital Single Market: culture vs. competition vs. copyright, Simone Schroff and John Street
‘Liminal identities’ and power struggles, reflections on the regulation of everyday foodways at a homeless centre and the use of creative participatory research as a tool of empowerment and resistance, J Parsons and C Pettinger
The Legal Vilification of the Vulnerable Child Witness: Some Historical Perspectives, KA Stevenson
The Significance of Union Street in the Unification of Plymouth’s Three Towns, KA Stevenson
The European Commission and fiscal governance reform: a strategic actor?, Thomas Warren, Patrick Holden, and Kerry E. Howell
"Doing more" to end sexting - facts, fictions and challenges in the policy debate on young people's sexting behaviour, AD Phippen and M Brennan
‘A hundred thousand welcomes’? Unionism, nationalism, partition and the arrival of American forces in Northern Ireland in January 1942, Simon Topping
Fort Greene, N Bonet
Cooking with offenders to improve health and well-being, Julie M. Parsons
The hotel in history: evolving perspectives, Kevin J. James, A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, Daniel Maudlin, Maurizio Peleggi, Cédric Humair, and Molly W. Berger
‘A matter of opinion’: British attempts to assess the attrition of German manpower, 1915–1917, Louis Halewood
Dockyard, Naval Base and Town: The social and political dynamics of plymouth 1800-1950, GH Bennett
Introduction, Angela K. Smith and Krista Cowman
The Sexual Constitution of Political Authority: The 'Trials' of Same Sex Desire, KA Stevenson
Submissions from 2016
K. Cairns and J. Johnston, 2015, Food and Femininity, JM Parsons
All at sea: When duty meets austerity in scheduling monuments in english waters, J Lowther, D Parham, and MV Williams
Children’s Online Behaviour and Safety Policy and Rights Challenges, A Phippen
ESRC Festival of Social Science 2016 Piracy and Plymouth: privateering, profiting and policing, K stevenson and J Lowther
Pirates, Visionaries or Entrepreneurs, KA Stevenson
The Impact of Fibre Connectivity on SMEs: Benefits and Business Opportunities, AD Phippen and H Lacohee
The resettlement of women offenders: learning the lessons: a research project focusing on the experience of the female offender., PM Gray, L Simmonds, and J Annison
Constructing accounts of organisational failure: Policy, power and concealment, Mike Sheaff
The New Normal? Young People, Technology & Online Behaviour., A Phippen and M Brennan
Source Influence on Journalistic Decisions and News Coverage of Climate Change, AG Anderson
Between Autonomy and Effectiveness: Reassessing the European Union’s Foreign Policy Towards the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, L Cladi and M Webber
Embedding sustainability literacy in the legal curriculum: reflections on the Plymouth model, Jason Lowther and Joanne Sellick
Deviant leisure: A criminological perspective, Oliver Smith and Thomas Raymen
LandWorks Interim Evaluation Report, June 2016, J Halliday, T Wilkinson, and J Parsons
Sonification of Dark Matter: Challenges and Opportunities, N Bonet, A Kirke, and ER Miranda
What future for the Global Aid for Trade Initiative? Towards an assessment of its achievements and limitations, William Hynes and Patrick Holden
‘Child friendly’ international human rights standards and youth offending team partnerships, P Gray
The potential impact of local commissioning on victim services in England and Wales, Lesley Simmonds
Regulating for Creativity and Cultural Diversity: the Case of Collective Management Organisations and the Music Industry, John Street, Dave Laing, and Simone Schroff
The Development of the Tenora, N Bonet
Young people and pornography - legislating our way out of a social problem, AD Phippen
Regulating CMOs by competition: an incomplete answer to the licensing problem?, M Hviid, S Schroff, and J Street
Partition, postal services and Ulster unionist politics 1921–27, C Fitzpatrick
Requirements for Diligent Search in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Italy, M Favale, S Schroff, and A Bertoni
Eternal potential? Temporality, complexity and the incoherent power of the European Union, Patrick Holden
Blyth – Eastbourne – Wembury: Sonification as a compositional tool in electroacoustic music, N Bonet, ER Miranda, and A Kirke
Structural Realism - Balancing, bandwagoning or what?, L Cladi and A Locatelli
A Fat Girl’s Manifesto: A Thin Book on Living FAT in America, by Cyr V. Daniel, JM Parsons
California, A Caleshu
Regulating Collective Management Organisations by Competition: An Incomplete Answer to the Licensing Problem?, M Hviid, S Schroff, and J Street
Supporting an Assessment of the Accommodation Needs of Gypsies and Travellers in Cornwall (2015), ZC James and R Southern
Submissions from 2015
The legacy of subalternity and Gramsci's national-popular: populist discourse in the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Shabnam J. Holliday
Gender, Class and Food: Families, Bodies and Health, JM Parsons
Outsider Positions: Negotiating Gender, Nationality and Memory in the War Writing of Enid Bagnold, Angela K. Smith
Managing Digital Risk, AD Phippen and S Ashby
Reparation for Betrayal of Trust in Child Sexual Abuse Cases: The Christian Duty of Care, Vicarious Liability and the Church of England, KA Stevenson, J Rowbotham, and J Lowther
"The worst dreams that ever I have": Capitalism and the Romance in R. L. Stevenson's Treasure Island, David Sergeant
Shopping with violence: Black Friday sales in the British context, Oliver Smith and Thomas Raymen
How to Remember: War, Armistice and Memory in post-1918 British fiction, Angela K. Smith
"Good" Food as Family Medicine: Problems of Dualist and Absolutist Approaches to "Healthy" Family Foodways, JM Parsons
Bridging the Gap between Academics and Policy Makers: Crime and Punishment: Gypsies, Travellers and Roma in the criminal justice system, M Greenfields, ZC James, and J Berlin
Europeana Sounds and Copyrights: The Need for and Challenges in Licensing Archival Materials, S Schroff
What’s Deviance Got to Do with It? Black Friday Sales, Violence and Hyper-Conformity, Thomas Raymen and Oliver Smith
Submissions from 2014
‘Oh Man of Learning! Victorian Public Education in Matters Legal, KA Stevenson
Of Chicks, Lice and Mackerel: Carnival and Transgression in a Cosmopolitan Spanish Enclave in Morocco, Brian Campbell
Unsettling sustainability: the poetics of discomfort, Mandy Bloomfield
When convenience is inconvenient: ‘healthy’ family foodways and the persistent intersectionalities of gender and class, Julie M. Parsons
‘This ain’t no love-in, this ain’t no happenin’: Misfits, Detroit hardcore and the performance of zombie scenarios, Roberta Mock
Mrs. Carbonate, Mrs. Cuttlefish, Mrs. Conundrum, A Caleshu
Carbon Monoxide Screening in Pregnancy: An Evaluation Study of a Plymouth Pilot Intervention, EA Stenhouse, G Letherby, O Corrigan, L Adams, and A Bendall
OUTRAGEOUS VIOLATIONS: ENABLING STUDENTS TO INTERPRET NINETEENTH CENTURY NEWSPAPER REPORTS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AND RAPE, KA Stevenson
Introduction: The no-man’s-land of displacement, AK Smith and S Barkhof
Submissions from 2013
Palimtextual Tracts: Susan Howe’s Rearticulation of Place, Mandy Bloomfield
Youth Offending Team Partnerships and the Social Context of Youth Crime, P Gray
Plymouth Families Project Evaluation 2012, Z James
Plymouth Family Intervention Project Longitudinal Review: 2008-2013, Z James and T Green
Submissions from 2012
Exploring Prejudice: Mapping Hate Crime in the South West, Z James and L Simmonds
Plymouth Families Project Evaluation 2011, Z James
Submissions from 2010
Plymouth Families Project Evaluation 2010, Z James
Submissions from 2008
The Legal Advice Needs of Gypsies and Travellers in Plymouth., Z James, L Simmonds, and R Browning
Submissions from 2007
Ambiguous Women: Debates Within American Evangelical Feminism, A Syska
Devon-wide Gypsy and Traveller Housing Needs Analysis: Plymouth Analysis, Z James and R Southern
Submissions from 2006
Devon-wide Gypsy and Traveller Housing Needs Assessment, R Southern and Z James
Submissions from 2005
Dialectics of the Banana Skirt: The Ambiguities of Josephine Baker's Self-Representation, A Syska
