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How much does school matter for children’s cognitive and non-cognitive learning? Findings from a natural experiment in Pakistan and India (2025)
Journal Article
Siddiqui, N., Gorard, S., Bulsari, S., See, B. H., Dixon, P., Saeed, S., Hamza, S., & Pandya, K. (in press). How much does school matter for children’s cognitive and non-cognitive learning? Findings from a natural experiment in Pakistan and India. British Educational Research Journal,

This paper reports on the findings of a natural experiment based on a sample of 1,123 children aged 4 to 8 from the provinces of Punjab in Pakistan, and Gujarat in India. It looks at the impact of attendance (or not) in early schooling on the cogniti... Read More about How much does school matter for children’s cognitive and non-cognitive learning? Findings from a natural experiment in Pakistan and India.

Inspiring Future Organ Donors: A Literature Review of Positive Messaging and Developing the Case for Mighty Organs (2025)
Journal Article
Ahmed, W., Hardey, M., Randhawa, G., Yates, L., Siddiqui, Z. K., Makita, M., Fagbola, T. M., & Vidal-Alaball, J. Inspiring Future Organ Donors: A Literature Review of Positive Messaging and Developing the Case for Mighty Organs. Manuscript submitted for publication

Fatphobia as a form of gender-based violence: Fat women, public space and body belonging work (2025)
Journal Article
Mohr, E., Jamie, K., & Hockin-Boyers, H. (in press). Fatphobia as a form of gender-based violence: Fat women, public space and body belonging work. Fat Studies,

In this article we propose bringing together theoretical frameworks from fat studies and research into street harassment, as a form of gendered violence, to provide a novel lens for thinking about fat women’s experiences of public space. By focusing... Read More about Fatphobia as a form of gender-based violence: Fat women, public space and body belonging work.

If you want the university to change, don’t theorise – organise! (2025)
Journal Article
Gamsu, S. (in press). If you want the university to change, don’t theorise – organise!. British Journal of Sociology,

There is no way out of the decaying colonial, neoliberal morass of universities in our crisis-riven societies which does not involve some transformation of how university workers, some of whom are ‘academics’, relate to our work. We cannot write, res... Read More about If you want the university to change, don’t theorise – organise!.

Development and patterning of a highly versatile visual system in spiders (2025)
Journal Article
Baudouin Gonzalez, L., Schönauer, A., Harper, A., Arif, S., Leite, D. J., Steinhoff, P. O. M., Pechmann, M., Telizhenko, V., Pande, A., Schultz, Z. X., Kosiol, C., Aase-Remedios, M., McGregor, A. P., & Sumner-Rooney, L. (in press). Development and patterning of a highly versatile visual system in spiders. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences,

Visual systems provide a key interface between organisms and their surroundings, and have evolved in many forms to perform diverse functions across the animal kingdom. Spiders exhibit a range of visual abilities and ecologies, the diversity of which... Read More about Development and patterning of a highly versatile visual system in spiders.