Browse research from the School of Society and Culture.
Submissions from 2019
Ageing, Temporality and Performance: Joan Rivers’ Body of Work, RA Mock
Ageing, Temporality and Performance: Joan Rivers’ Body of Work, Roberta Mock
What Happens in the Beginning, Matters in the End: Achieving Best Evidence with Child Suspects in the Police Station, P Von Berg and K Gooch
Secrecy, Privacy & Accountability: Challenges for Social Research, M Sheaff
Increasing Local Salience of Climate Change: The Un-tapped Impact of the Media-science Interface, Candice Howarth and Alison Anderson
Musical Borrowing in Sonification, Núria Bonet
Natural Law and the ‘Resistance’: A Normative Approach to the Skywalker Narrative in The Last Jedi, J Gould
Narrative re-scripting: Reconciling past and present lives, J Parsons
Fathers, sons, and monsters: Rousseau, Blake, and Mary Shelley, Joshua Schouten De Jel
Concealment of Birth: Time to Repeal a 200-Year-Old “Convenient Stop-Gap”?, E Milne
Finding common ground? The European Union and European Civil Society framing of the role of trade in the Sustainable Development Goals, Patrick Holden
Where to draw the line: the difference between a fan and a pirate in Japan, Simone Schroff
Diplomatic Security in Times of Austerity: The Case of Italy, L Cladi
Redressing the balance: Lived experiences of the harms of visually mediated transgender identity, Katie McBride
Accommodating Nomadism and Mobility: Challenging the sedentarist binary approach to provision for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma., Zoë James and Rebekah Southern
Integrating outdoor learning into the curriculum: an exploration in four nations, RA Passy, P Bentsen, T Gray, and S Ho
The First Step to a Nation? The Irish postal service and the Home Rule Crisis, Claire Fitzpatrick
The Genre of the Near Future: Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140, David Sergeant
Enhancing Protection of Underwater Heritage Assets, J Lowther, S Gall, M Williams, and E Bean
Deviant Leisure: A Critical Criminological Perspective for the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Raymen and Oliver Smith
Foraging Performance, Prosociality, and Kin Presence Do Not Predict Lifetime Reproductive Success in Batek Hunter-Gatherers, Thomas S. Kraft, Vivek V. Venkataraman, Ivan Tacey, Nathaniel J. Dominy, and Kirk M. Endicott
The Enigma of Social Harm and the Barrier of Liberalism: Why Zemiology needs a theory of the Good, TW Raymen
National Menace: Mediating Homo/sexuality and Sovereignty in the Polish National/ist Discourses, R Kulpa
Miranda July, AP Caleshu
Exploring school leadership in coastal schools: 'getting a fair deal' for students in disadvantaged communities, RA Passy and T Ovenden-Hope
Populism, the international and methodological nationalism: global order and the Iran-Israel nexus, Shabnam J. Holliday
Climate Change Communication in the United Kingdom, AG Anderson
“The Lions of Tomorrow”: A News Value Analysis of Child Images in Jihadi Magazines, Amy Louise Watkin and Seán Looney
An alternative universe? Authors as copyright owners- the case of the Japanese Manga Industry, S Schroff
The urban inn: gathering space, hierarchy and material culture in the eighteenth-century British town, Daniel Maudlin
Africa Starts at the Pyrenees: Humor, Laughter, and Financial Recession in a Spanish Enclave in Morocco, B Campbell
A Supreme Matter of Conscience: Lady Hale's Engagement with Article 9 ECHR, JP Gould
The UK Government Internet Safety Strategy – Time to Listen to the Youth Voice?, AD Phippen
Using FOI to explore governance and decision-making in the UK, M Sheaff
Submissions from 2018
The shifting politics of patient activism: from bio-sociality to bio-digital citizenship, Alison Anderson, Alan Petersen, and Allegra Clare Schermuly
Virtual social media spaces, a relational arena for ‘bearing witness’ to desistance, JM Parsons
‘Commensality’ as a theatre for witnessing change for criminalised individuals working at a resettlement scheme., Julie M. Parsons
Ivory trade: Poicy and law change, Jason Lowther
Auditions and..., de Guevara VM Ladron and John Matthews
Poems for the Earth System Model, BOS Smith
Boundary crossing ahead: perspectives of entrepreneurship by sustainability educators in Higher Education, LD Wyness and P Jones
‘More than scaling-up’: Sustainability contexts, competencies, and consequences - a critical inquiry, Stephen Sterling, Paul Warwick, Wendy Miller, Harold Glasser, and Marco Rieckmann
'Austen’s late-nineteenth-century afterlives: 1890s introductions to her novels', AB Bautz
‘Bicentennial Essays on Jane Austen’s Afterlives’, A Bautz and S Wootton
Linking legal scenarios to empirical data: process- tracing as a methodology in law, S Schroff
Scottish compositor poets and the typographical trade press, 1850-1880, D Finkelstein
Extended Collective Licensing for the Use of Out-of-Commerce Works in Europe: A Matter of Legitimacy vis-à-vis Rights Owners, S Schroff and L Guibault
LandWorks Evaluation Report, Final, August 2018, J Halliday, J Parsons, and T Wilkinson
The Scottish Printing Diaspora, 1840–1914, D Finkelstein
Parody Playbills: The Politics of the Playbill in Britain in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, J Gregory
Why did Italy contribute to UNIFIL II? An analytical eclectic analysis, Lorenzo Cladi and Andrea Locatelli
"The ability to get a job": Student understandings and definitions of employability in a Marine Sport Science context, SJ Gedye and E Beaumont
The changing shape of youth justice: Models of practice, R Smith and P Gray
The Lived Experience of 'Carrots' and 'Risks': Voices from within the Criminal Justice System., JM Parsons and S Hocking
Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World, D Maudlin
Introduction, Angela K. Smith and Sandra Barkhof
A Plymouth Contribution: The development of the Cowpox Vaccine, KA Stevenson
‘Conscientous Objectors: A Matter of Conscience or Freedom Expression?, KA Stevenson
Caradura: Migration, Informal Labor, and the Problem of Enacting Trust in a Spanish Enclave in Morocco, Brian Campbell
The impact of local commissioning on victim services in England and Wales: an empirical study, LA Simmonds
The Burnsian Palimpsest: Robert Burns in American Cultural Memory, c. 1840-1866, A Sood
Empires of Print: Adventure Fiction in the Magazines, 1899–1919. By Patrick Scott Belk., D Finkelstein
“Youth-Involved Sexual Imagery” – A Better Term to Challenge Blame Culture in Youth Sexting Cases?, M Brennan and A Phippen
Policing Extreme Political Protest: A Historical Evaluation of Police Prejudice, Iain Channing
Deviant leisure: A criminological perspective, Oliver Smith and Thomas Raymen
Christopher Smart and the Cartographic Imagination, Min Wild
‘A hundred thousand welcomes’? Unionism, nationalism, partition and the arrival of American forces in Northern Ireland in January 1942, Simon Topping
A Very Different Experience: Merchant Seamen on British Coastal Convoys 1940-45', GH Bennett
Being T/here, R Mock
Demonstration and Damnation: William Blake's Eternal Death of Unbelief, Joshua Schouten De Jel
Introduction, Angela Smith and Sandra Barkhof
One strike and you are out? Judicial review of criminal matters and interpretation of the procedural rule on "totally without merit" applications, PD Von Berg and B Rich
Proof of Ownership of Land in Nigeria by Documents of Title: A Critical Analysis, Uzodinma Frank-Igwe and Goodtime Okara
Protecting yourself from revenge pornography - share your images before your abuser does!, AD Phippen and M Brennan
Regulating for Creativity and Cultural Diversity: the Case of Collective Management Organisations and the Music Industry, John Street, Dave Laing, and Simone Schroff
The Credibility Gap: The Objectification of Child Victims of Sexual Abuse 1880-1980, KA Stevenson
The politics of the Digital Single Market: culture vs. competition vs. copyright, Simone Schroff and John Street
Submissions from 2017
O'erwhelmed by Noise: Soundhouses and Sonic Experiments in Ben Jonson's Epicene, BS Frost
Decrying Drunkenness in Devonport, KA Stevenson
Devonport – Building a Purposed Community: Who lived in Plymouth Dock?, KA Stevenson
Devonport – Building a Purposed Community: Who lived in Plymouth Dock?, KA Stevenson
FIT FOR PURPOSE: INSTITUTIONS FOR DISPENSING LAW AND JUSTICE: Devonport Police, KA Stevenson
FIT FOR PURPOSE? INSTITUTIONS FOR DISPENSING LAW AND JUSTICE Devonport Prison: The most efficient establishment of its kind, KA Stevenson
FIT FOR PURPOSE? INSTITUTIONS FOR DISPENSING LAW AND JUSTICE Devonport Prison: The most efficient establishment of its kind, KA Stevenson
Purposeful Collaborations in Devonport – Police and Services in the Community, KA Stevenson
PURPOSEFUL INSTITUTIONS FOR DISPENSING LAW AND JUSTICE: Devonport Magistrates, KA Stevenson
(Re)Purposed Communities: Law, History and Heritage in Devonport Exploring historical and contemporary Crime and Everyday Offending in Devonport, C Newbery-Jones and KA Stevenson
Constructing accounts of organisational failure: Policy, power and concealment, Mike Sheaff
Way of Life Propaganda? The Anglo-Soviet Trade Fairs of 1961, NJ Barnett
The Sexual Constitution of Political Authority: The 'Trials' of Same Sex Desire, KA Stevenson
Who owns the broadcasting archives? Unravelling copyright ownership of broadcast content, S Schroff
Fort Greene, N Bonet
Homophobia, Brexit and constitutional change, Iain Channing and Jonathan Ward
Leading the Police A History of Chief Constables 1835-2017, I Channing, K Stevenson, and DJ cox
Commentary: "I do remember being hungry," Ophelia's i-poem, J Parsons
