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Remaking higher education for the post-COVID-19 era: Critical reflections on marketization, internationalization and graduate employment (2021)
Journal Article
Mok, K., & Montgomery, C. (2021). Remaking higher education for the post-COVID-19 era: Critical reflections on marketization, internationalization and graduate employment. Higher Education Quarterly, 75(3), 373-380. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12330

This Special Issue was conceived and developed following a series of international conferences held in Asia, with a particular focus on critically reflecting upon higher education development in the region from broader social and political economy pe... Read More about Remaking higher education for the post-COVID-19 era: Critical reflections on marketization, internationalization and graduate employment.

Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets (2021)
Journal Article
Langley, P., Bridge, G., Bulkeley, H., & van Veelen, B. (2021). Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets. Economy and Society, 50(3), 494-516. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2021.1860335

rivate investment capital is now widely regarded as strategically significant to the governance of climate change. A dedicated and dynamic carbon finance sector has emerged that features techniques and practices for decarbonizing capital, facilitatin... Read More about Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets.

Exploring the local policy context for reducing health inequalities in children and young people: an in depth qualitative case study of one local authority in the North of England, UK (2021)
Journal Article
Holding, E., Fairbrother, H., Griffin, N., Wistow, J., Powell, K., & Summerbell, C. (2021). Exploring the local policy context for reducing health inequalities in children and young people: an in depth qualitative case study of one local authority in the North of England, UK. BMC Public Health, 21(1), Article 887. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10782-0

Background Improving children and young people’s (CYP) health and addressing health inequalities are international priorities. Reducing inequalities is particularly pertinent in light of the Covid-19 outbreak which has exacerbated already widening in... Read More about Exploring the local policy context for reducing health inequalities in children and young people: an in depth qualitative case study of one local authority in the North of England, UK.

A secondary analysis of the childhood obesity prevention Cochrane Review through a wider determinants of health lens: implications for research funders, researchers, policymakers and practitioners (2021)
Journal Article
Nobles, J., Summerbell, C., Brown, T., Jago, R., & Moore, T. (2021). A secondary analysis of the childhood obesity prevention Cochrane Review through a wider determinants of health lens: implications for research funders, researchers, policymakers and practitioners. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 18(1), Article 22. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-021-01082-2

Background Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are often regarded as the gold standard of evidence, and subsequently go on to inform policymaking. Cochrane Reviews synthesise this type of evidence to create recommendations for practice, policy, and f... Read More about A secondary analysis of the childhood obesity prevention Cochrane Review through a wider determinants of health lens: implications for research funders, researchers, policymakers and practitioners.

Climate Changed Urban Futures: Environmental Politics in the Anthropocene City (2021)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H. (2021). Climate Changed Urban Futures: Environmental Politics in the Anthropocene City. Environmental Politics, 30(1-2), 266-284. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2021.1880713

In the 30 years since the journal Environmental Politics was founded, we have witnessed a profound shift in how we understand climate from its initial framing as global problem, to one that is increasingly understood as transnational, personal, urban... Read More about Climate Changed Urban Futures: Environmental Politics in the Anthropocene City.

Turbulent waters in three parts (2021)
Journal Article
Lehman, J., Steinberg, P., & Johnson, E. (2021). Turbulent waters in three parts. Theory and Event, 24(1), 192-219

While scientific accounts of ocean dynamics draw public attention to the turbulence of earthly matter, the science alone tells a truncated story. The ocean's turbulent materiality is more than material: practices of scientific knowledge and historica... Read More about Turbulent waters in three parts.

Justified Stories with Agent-Based Modelling for Local COVID-19 Planning (2021)
Journal Article
Badham, J., Barbrook-Johnson, P., Caiado, C., & Castellani, B. (2021). Justified Stories with Agent-Based Modelling for Local COVID-19 Planning. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 24(1), Article 8. https://doi.org/10.18564/jasss.4532

This paper presents JuSt-Social, an agent-based model of the COVID-19 epidemic with a range of potential social policy interventions. It was developed to support local authorities in North East England who are making decisions in a fast moving crisis... Read More about Justified Stories with Agent-Based Modelling for Local COVID-19 Planning.

Cased-based modelling and scenario simulation for ex-post evaluation (2021)
Journal Article
Schimpf, C., Barbrook-Johnson, P., & Castellani, B. (2021). Cased-based modelling and scenario simulation for ex-post evaluation. Evaluation, 27(1), 116-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/1356389020978490

Despite 20 years of increasing acceptance, implementing complexity-appropriate methods for ex-post evaluation remains a challenge: instead of focusing on complex interventions, methods need to help evaluators better explore how policies (no matter ho... Read More about Cased-based modelling and scenario simulation for ex-post evaluation.