Browse research from the School of Society and Culture.
Submissions from 2025
‘The Truth Was, Most Biodiversity Was Redundant’: Caring About Mass Extinction in Ned Beauman’s Venomous Lumpsucker, David Sergeant
’We are teachers too’: reclaiming professionalism in early childhood education from within, Vicky Bamsey and Lewis Fogarty
(Un)just transitions for youth and the disabled? The exclusionary pressures facing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, Elizabeth Done, Helen Knowler, Irina Lazar, Sylvia Hayes, Joshua Lait, and Andrea Perez-Porres
Letters, emotions and the experience of separation in the early modern world, James Daybell
Illustration as a participatory tool for diverse(queering) discussions on the climate crisis: Exploring the workshop method, Devon Tipping
Newspapers and Schooling: A Comparative Field Analysis of England and Germany, Christian Herzog and Peter Kelly
Mathematics in the Early Years Curriculum, Mehmet Mart and Verity Campbell Barr
Dinah Between Rape and Seduction: Maarten van Heemskerck and Renaissance Attitudes Towards Gender and Conflict, Péter Bokody
'Under the Strategic Command of One Admiralissimo': British Visions of Leadership and International Co-operation at Sea, Louis Halewood
Early Childhood Education – A Unique and Quasi-Hidden Curriculum, Verity Campbell-Barr
The construction of mathematical reasoning as a pedagogical object, Nick Pratt and Julie Alderton
Why deliberate practice is not a basis for teacher expertise, Jim Hordern, Nick Pratt, Peter Kelly, and Katherine Evans
Time For Change: The Importance of Copyright for Manga and Anime, Simone Schroff
The transformative effect of a foundation year: ‘I’m a totally changed person’, Louise Webber and Jessica Austin
The Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage: Past, Present and Future, Jason Lowther, Joanne Sellick, and Mike Williams
The United Kingdom, Jason Lowther, Mike Williams, Joanne Sellick, and Georgia Holly
Notes on Dis-ease and death, Elizabeth Done
Criminalising rough sleeping in England and Wales: way forward or backward? Possible solutions to homelessness, Goodtime Okara
Setting Sail for Resilience and Ocean Sustainability, Alun Morgan and Charlotte Braungardt
Case Note - Tousi v Gadydukova: Are you transferring your joint tenancy?, Goodtime Okara
Small things / bigger picture: Foucault, Vygotsky and exclusionary practices in schools, Elizabeth Done and Vicky Bamsey
Responsible research impact: Ethics for making a difference, Eric Allen Jensen, Mark S. Reed, James Daybell, Louise Rutt, Aaron M. Jensen, Gabriella Arrigoni, Marta Ballesteros, Sadiq Bhanbhro, Bethann G. Merkle, Caitlin Hafferty, Philly Iglehart, Sawsan Khuri, Andrzej Klimczuk, Ian D. Marder, Daniel Milosavljevic, Josmel Pacheco-Mendoza, Ursula Pool, Simon Robinson, Lindsay C. Stringer, Steve Taylor, Anne H. Toomey, Daniela Martin, Lisa Louise Taylor-Sayles, Andrew N. Makohon-George, and Russell T. Rodrigo
Comparing school leaders’ experiences of research use in England, Scotland and Germany, Peter Kelly, Anna Beck, and Susann Hofbauer
The Lynmouth Flood Disaster as a ‘Rural Enterprise Metabolic Rift’ and Securitising Rural Regions Against Future Hazards of Planetary Collapse, Orlando Goodall
Beyond the Ceiling, Péter Bokody, Musaab Garghouti, Peter Quinn Davis, and Sophie Aldred
The ITTECF and educational research: the next version of a flawed vision?, Jim Hordern and Clare Brooks
What podcasting taught me about writing: Revelations from behind the mic, Alicja Syska
How research into citizenship education at university might enable transformative human rights education, Piers Von Berg
3D prints of biblical scenes (Long Gallery, Lanhydrock), Péter Bokody, Musaab Garghouti, and Peter Quinn Davis
An immanent postfoundational methodology for researching the violent trans-sections of ableism, classism and sexism, Elizabeth Done and Cara Baer
Epistolary Technologies of Separation and Archives of Emotion, James Daybell
Languaging the infrathin of the everyday un/clear, Edward Reardon and Claire Walsh
Shedding light to the rights to light in England and Wales: the need for reform, Goodtime Okara
Submissions from 2024
“Religion’s Firm-rooted Truths:” Richard Polwhele, Pulpit Oratory And Loyalist Romanticism In The English Province, Dafydd Moore
Non(belonging) of ethnic minority communities in Britain: Researcher reflections, Suparna Bagchi
Beyond bindis, bhajis, bangles and bhangra: Promoting multiculturalism in primary schools in predominantly white British places, Suparna Bagchi
Book review: Upstream Oil and Gas in Africa by Eduardo G Pereira and Damilola S Olawuyi, Goodtime Okara
waves of flickering murmurs in everyday life: playing between ages, Joanna Haynes, Jan Georgeson, Karen Wickett, Mandy Andrews, Dani Landau, Kathrin Paal, Emma Bush, Magda Costa Carvalho, Viktor Johansson, Tiago Almeida, Lois Peach, Giovanna Caetano-Silva, Rose-Anne Reynolds, Bakhtawar Khosa, Patricia Hannam, Arthur C Wolf, Claudia Blandon, Georgios Petropoulos, and Hanna Oester-Barkey
“It’s not because they’re Gypsy”: Practitioners perspectives of Gypsies, Travellers and Crime and Justice, Raegan Booth, Kirsty Koral, and Kitty Lymperopoulou
Future-oriented science learning and its effects on students’ emotions, futures literacy and agency in the Anthropocene, Jessica Chan and Sibel Erduran
Military Roads and King's Houses: spaces of conflict, mobility and cultural assimiliation in the Scottish Highlands, Daniel Maudlin
Writing to learn: creative LD perspectives for Learning Developers and students, Sandra Abegglen, Carina Buckley, Tom Burns, Sandra Sinfield, and Alicja Syska
Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authorities: Fisheries regulator or environmental backstop? The complexities of section 153 Marine & Coastal Access Act 2009, Emma Bean, Jason Lowther, and Mike Williams
Tracking implementation of shark-related measures and actions in the Mediterranean Region in the context of international law, Jason Lowther and Lydia Koehler
Ethnic inequalities in sentencing: Evidence from the crown court in England and Wales, Kitty Lymperopoulou
‘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
Hybrid researching race-related issues during COVID-19: Methodological conundrums, Suparna Bagchi
Grounded in liquidity: writing and identity in third space, Alicja Syska, Carina Buckley, and L Heggie
Post-neoliberalism? The strange case of the new English Freeports, Patrick Holden and Nichola Harmer
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: Teaching Expertise and the Early Career Framework, Jim Hordern, Katherine Evans, Pete Kelly, and Nick Pratt
The Harms of Imprisonment and Envisioning a Desistance-Supporting ‘Good Society’, Patricia Gray and Julie Parsons
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
The Case(s) of Environmental and Sustainability Education in the United Kingdom, Alun Morgan and Paul Warwick
Collaboration, relationships and fleeting opportunities: growing the future early childhood music education workforce, Karen Wickett and Jane Parker
Higher Education and ableism: experiences of disabled students’ in England during the Covid-19 pandemic – stepping into inclusion, Suanne Gibson, Jen Shute, Zeta Williams-Brown, and Mette Westander
International Summer Schools as a Platform of Inclusive Education for Doctoral Students, Suparna Bagchi
Listening to young children with disabilities: Experiences of quality in mainstream primary education, 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
Covid stories: A narrative exploration of experiences of the pandemic among members of an academic research group, Becky Stancer, Jan Georgeson, Suparna Bagchi, Craig Myhill, Katherine Gulliver, Tara Vassallo, Mandy Andrews, GULSAH SELIN TUMKAYA, Vivien Southall, and Ramazan Merk
Sea-ing Differently, Kayla Parker, Marie Lavelle, Karen Wickett, and Stuart Moore
‘In This Prison We Have Our Main Meal at 11:30 AM’. The Significance of ‘Time’ For Food Among People Serving Custodial Sentences in England and Wales, Julie M. Parsons
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
Community policing and recovery: a case study following a mass shooting in the UK, Dan Gilling, Caroline Watson, Katie McBride, and Zoe James
”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
Nest/ing: an emergent (un)methodology for becoming otherwise, Claire Walsh and Jayne Osgood
Teacher professionalism, expertise and the jurisdictional struggle, Jim Hordern
A Sense of Danger: Gender-Based Violence and the Quest for a Sensory Criminology, Amanda Holt and Sian Lewis
Climate change and sustainability literacy: A mixed-methods study of attitudes to climate education in secondary schools, Alison Anderson
Creatures Who Advocate: An Ecocritical Reading of Jubilate Agno, Min Wild
Croning academics: menopause matters in higher education, Marie Lavelle, Joanna Haynes, and Emma Macleod-Johnstone
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
Content moderation through removal of service: Content delivery networks and extremist websites, Seán Looney
Weapon of choice: a neoliberal institutional perspective on Italy’s decision to procure a sixth generation fighter aircraft, Lorenzo Cladi
How to Be a Learning Developer in Higher Education (Introduction), Alicja Syska and Carina Buckley
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
Confirming the Ultra Low Emission Zone: another step towards cleaner air for London, J Lowther and J Sellick
