Browse research from the School of Society and Culture.
Submissions from 2017
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 fluctuating relationship with nature’: Tom Raworth's ecopoetics, Mandy Bloomfield
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
Constructing accounts of organisational failure: Policy, power and concealment, Mike Sheaff
Dockyard, Naval Base and Town: The social and political dynamics of plymouth 1800-1950, O Auge, D Tillmann, and GH Bennett
Florentine Women and Vendetta: The Origin of Guelf-Ghibelline Conflict in Giovanni Villani’s Nuova Cronica, Peter Bokody
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
The Development of the Tenora, N Bonet
The Impossible Quest - Problems with Diligent Search for Orphan Works, Simone Schroff, Marcella Favale, and Aura Bertoni
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
Knowledges for the Early Childhood Education and Care Workforce, P Sorzio and Barr VJG Campbell
The New Normal? Young People, Technology & Online Behaviour., A Phippen and M Brennan
Change management and the SENCo role: developing key performance indicators in the strategic development of inclusivity, Liz Done, Mike Murphy, and Mia Watt
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
Microplastics in personal care products: Exploring perceptions of environmentalists, beauticians and students, A. G. Anderson, Jane Grose, Sabine Pahl, Richard Thompson, and Kayleigh Wyles
Engaging parents with sex and relationship education: A UK primary school case study, P Alldred, N Fox, and R Kulpa
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
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
LandWorks Interim Evaluation Report, June 2016, J Halliday, T Wilkinson, and J Parsons
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
Continental workforce, Verity Campbell-Barr
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
‘Child friendly’ international human rights standards and youth offending team partnerships, P Gray
Decolonizing Queer Epistemologies: Section Introduction, R Kulpa and JM Silva
Embedding sustainability literacy in the legal curriculum: reflections on the Plymouth model, Jason Lowther and Joanne Sellick
Examination Feedback, Joanne Sellick, K Stephenson, Jonathan Clark, and Wendy Miller
K. Cairns and J. Johnston, 2015, Food and Femininity, JM Parsons
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
The Impact of Fibre Connectivity on SMEs: Benefits and Business Opportunities, AD Phippen and H Lacohee
"The worst dreams that ever I have": Capitalism and the Romance in R. L. Stevenson's Treasure Island, David Sergeant
What future for the Global Aid for Trade Initiative? Towards an assessment of its achievements and limitations, William Hynes and Patrick Holden
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
The Unsettlement of America: Translation, Interpretation, and the Story of Don Luis de Velasco, 1560–1945, Daniel Maudlin
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
Submissions from 2014
When convenience is inconvenient: ‘healthy’ family foodways and the persistent intersectionalities of gender and class, Julie M. Parsons
‘Oh Man of Learning! Victorian Public Education in Matters Legal, KA Stevenson
‘Oh Man of Learning! Victorian Public Education in Matters Legal, KA Stevenson
Palimtextual Tracts: Susan Howe’s Rearticulation of Place, Mandy Bloomfield
Post-World War II Jazz in Britain: Venues and Values 1945–1970, KA Williams
On attachment and belonging: Or why queers mourn homophobic president?, R Kulpa
‘Once upon a time, Santos was reading about the Sahuayo zombies when…’: performances of (post)modernity and nationalism by Mexican zombies, Ladron Ramirez and V de Guevara
‘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
OUTRAGEOUS VIOLATIONS: ENABLING STUDENTS TO INTERPRET NINETEENTH CENTURY NEWSPAPER REPORTS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AND RAPE, KA Stevenson
Strategizing Britain's role in the world, J GASKARTH
“A Human Bundle”: The Disaggregated Other at the Fin de Siècle, R Sweet
Carbon Monoxide Screening in Pregnancy: An Evaluation Study of a Plymouth Pilot Intervention, EA Stenhouse, G Letherby, O Corrigan, L Adams, and A Bendall
Determinants of State Level Support for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, David Brockington
Introduction: The no-man’s-land of displacement, AK Smith and S Barkhof
Key Attitudinal Competences for Early Childhood Practitioners: Exploring European Approaches to Teaching and Learning, Verity Campbell Barr and Jan Georgeson
Turbo Island, Bristol: excavating a contemporary homeless place, Gillian Crea, Andrew Dafnis, Jane Hallam, Rachael Kiddey, and John Schofield
War and displacement in the twentieth century: Global conflicts, Sandra Barkhof and Angela K. Smith
Submissions from 2013
Youth Offending Team Partnerships and the Social Context of Youth Crime, P Gray
‘RUSSIA WINS SPACE RACE’, N Barnett
Digital capital and inclusion: an exploration of the technology and e-learning experiences of disabled university and college students, Jane Seale, Jan Georgeson, and Julie Swain
Interaction and influence in culturally-mixed groups., DRE Cotton, R George, and M Joyner
L’Est Visto Dall’Ovest. Dei Discorsi Occidentali sull’Omofobia nell’Europa Centro-Orientale, R Kulpa
Plymouth Families Project Evaluation 2012, Z James
