Browse research from the School of Society and Culture.
Submissions from 2017
Facing reality: the growth of virtual reality and health sciences libraries, S Lessick and M Kraft
Online technology and very young children: Stakeholder responsibilities and children’s rights, AD Phippen
Introduction to the Special Edition: Brexit Criminology, Zoë James and Oliver Smith
Roma inclusion post Brexit: a challenge to existing rhetoric?, Zoë James and David Smith
Auditions and stress, John Matthews and de Guevara V Ladron
The ‘universal favourite’: Daniel Terry’s Guy Mannering; or, The Gipsey’s Prophecy (1816), A Bautz
Creating the Virtuous Panopticon: Moral dimensions of Everyday Offending in Plymouth 1880-1910, KA Stevenson and J rowbotham
Creating the Virtuous Panopticon: Moral dimensions of Everyday Offending in Plymouth 1880-1910, KA Stevenson and J rowbotham
Florentine Women and Vendetta: The Origin of Guelf-Ghibelline Conflict in Giovanni Villani’s Nuova Cronica, Peter Bokody
The Gods of the Hunt, Brian Campbell
Chief Constables as ‘moral heroes’ and guardians of public morality, KA Stevenson
Rethinking Gender and Justice in South Asia, 1772–2013, P Anagol and DJR Grey
‘CHILDREN OF A VERY TENDER AGE HAVE VICIOUS PROPENSITIES’: CHILD WITNESS TESTIMONIES IN CASES OF SEXUAL ABUSE, KA Stevenson
‘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
Blurring Boundaries in the Cold War World, N Barnett
The Significance of Union Street in the Unification of Plymouth’s Three Towns, KA Stevenson
Online Jihadi Instructional Content: The Role of Magazines, S Looney, J Parker, and M Conway
Importing Gendered Legal Reasoning from England: Wife Murders in Early Colonial India, 1805–1857, DJR Grey
Retirement, Pensions and Justice: A Philosophical Analysis, M Hyde and R Shand
Introduction, Angela K. Smith and Krista Cowman
Cooking with offenders to improve health and well-being, Julie M. Parsons
Sexting and sexting behaviour - "Oh you're all children, children do silly things. You'll be fine. Get over it!"., C Kennedy and AD Phippen
The Impossible Quest - Problems with Diligent Search for Orphan Works, Simone Schroff, Marcella Favale, and Aura Bertoni
‘A matter of opinion’: British attempts to assess the attrition of German manpower, 1915–1917, Louis Halewood
‘Peace with a Capital P’: The Spectre of Communism and Competing Notions of ‘Peace’ in Britain, 1949–1960, N Barnett and E Smith
Source Influence on Journalistic Decisions and News Coverage of Climate Change, AG Anderson
Invisibly Blighted The Digital Erosion of Childhood, SL Gray and A Phippen
The Legal Vilification of the Vulnerable Child Witness: Some Historical Perspectives, KA Stevenson
"Doing more" to end sexting - facts, fictions and challenges in the policy debate on young people's sexting behaviour, AD Phippen and M Brennan
The European Commission and fiscal governance reform: a strategic actor?, Thomas Warren, Patrick Holden, and Kerry E. Howell
Back to (con)textuality: using chat services to teach legal reasoning, N Gervassis and XP Voyatzis Hernandez
‘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 Development of the Tenora, N Bonet
All at sea: When duty meets austerity in scheduling monuments in english waters, J Lowther, D Parham, and MV Williams
The risk environment of anabolic–androgenic steroid users in the UK: Examining motivations, practices and accounts of use, G Hanley Santos and R Coomber
Popular Fiction after Richardson, B Latimer
The importance of community context within Scottish lifelong learning: a case study, D Finkelstein and J Hoy
The hotel in history: evolving perspectives, Kevin J. James, A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, Daniel Maudlin, Maurizio Peleggi, Cédric Humair, and Molly W. Berger
A University for All Ages? An exploration of age-stereotyping and unconscious bias and its impact on the student experience., Marie Lavelle, Cath Gristy, and Joanna Haynes
Dockyard, Naval Base and Town: The social and political dynamics of plymouth 1800-1950, GH Bennett
Mature women and the EdD: changing identity and family relationships, Louise Webber, Nick Pratt, and John Hilsdon
Racial Tensions and U.S. Military (In)Justice in Northern Ireland During World War II, Simon Topping
Response to ‘Pathway to driverless cars: consultation on proposals to support advanced driver assistance systems and automated vehicles’., M Channon and H Stones
Submissions from 2016
“Not just the ideas of a few enthusiasts”: Early Twentieth Century Legal Activism and Reformation of the Age of Sexual Consent, KA Stevenson
Between Autonomy and Effectiveness: Reassessing the European Union’s Foreign Policy Towards the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, L Cladi and M Webber
Eternal potential? Temporality, complexity and the incoherent power of the European Union, Patrick Holden
K. Cairns and J. Johnston, 2015, Food and Femininity, JM Parsons
The New Normal? Young People, Technology & Online Behaviour., A Phippen and M Brennan
"The worst dreams that ever I have": Capitalism and the Romance in R. L. Stevenson's Treasure Island, David Sergeant
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
Engaging parents with sex and relationship education: A UK primary school case study, P Alldred, N Fox, and R Kulpa
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
Outsider Positions: Negotiating Gender, Nationality and Memory in the War Writing of Enid Bagnold, Angela K. Smith
Embedding sustainability literacy in the legal curriculum: reflections on the Plymouth model, Jason Lowther and Joanne Sellick
The potential impact of local commissioning on victim services in England and Wales, Lesley Simmonds
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
LandWorks Interim Evaluation Report, June 2016, J Halliday, T Wilkinson, and J Parsons
‘Child friendly’ international human rights standards and youth offending team partnerships, P Gray
Partition, postal services and Ulster unionist politics 1921–27, C Fitzpatrick
The University as a Site of Socialisation for Sustainability Education, Jennie Winter, Debby Cotton, and Paul Warwick
Of Chicks, Lice and Mackerel: Carnival and Transgression in a Cosmopolitan Spanish Enclave in Morocco, Brian Campbell
The legacy of subalternity and Gramsci's national-popular: populist discourse in the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Shabnam J. Holliday
Young people and pornography - legislating our way out of a social problem, AD Phippen
Chile's private pension system at 35: impact and lessons, MB Hyde and S Borzutzky
Blyth – Eastbourne – Wembury: Sonification as a compositional tool in electroacoustic music, N Bonet, ER Miranda, and A Kirke
Regulating CMOs by competition: an incomplete answer to the licensing problem?, M Hviid, S Schroff, and J Street
Requirements for Diligent Search in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Italy, M Favale, S Schroff, and A Bertoni
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
‘Becoming Student’- partnerships and voices. Developing a ‘relationships for academic success and transformation’ model, Suanne Gibson, Melanie Parker, and Ciaran O'Sullivan
California, A Caleshu
Decolonizing Queer Epistemologies: Section Introduction, R Kulpa and JM Silva
Examination Feedback, Joanne Sellick, K Stephenson, Jonathan Clark, and Wendy Miller
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
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
Minimising Risks in Research-informed Teaching, KA Gresty, T Heffernan, W Pan, and A Edwards-Jones
How to Remember: War, Armistice and Memory in post-1918 British fiction, Angela K. Smith
Shopping with violence: Black Friday sales in the British context, Oliver Smith and Thomas Raymen
Gender, Class and Food: Families, Bodies and Health, JM Parsons
Managing Digital Risk, AD Phippen and S Ashby
Chile's “Neoliberal” Retirement System? Concentration, Competition, and Economic Predation in “Private” Pensions, MB Hyde and S Borzutzky
"Good" Food as Family Medicine: Problems of Dualist and Absolutist Approaches to "Healthy" Family Foodways, JM Parsons
Unsettling sustainability: the poetics of discomfort, Mandy Bloomfield
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
Exploring the epistemological and practical experiences of Arts practitioners engaging with an Educational Development programme, Jennie Winter, Colin Searls, and Karen Treasure
Samuel Richardson and the "Jew Bill" of 1753: A new political context for Sir Charles Grandison, B Latimer
What’s Deviance Got to Do with It? Black Friday Sales, Violence and Hyper-Conformity, Thomas Raymen and Oliver Smith
