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Professionalism in Vocational Education: International Perspectives (2017)
Journal Article
Atkins, L., & Tummons, J. (2017). Professionalism in Vocational Education: International Perspectives. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 22(3), 355-369. https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2017.1358517

This paper explores notions of professionalism amongst vocational teachers in the United Kingdom and Australia, through an analysis of voluntarism/regulatory frameworks and professional body frameworks. In terms of empirical evidence, the paper repor... Read More about Professionalism in Vocational Education: International Perspectives.

Heterotopia and the urban politics of climate change experimentation (2017)
Journal Article
Edwards, G., & Bulkeley, H. (2018). Heterotopia and the urban politics of climate change experimentation. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 36(2), 350-369. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775817747885

Seeking to govern the city in relation to climate change is a political project that at once imagines the present in terms of the future and the future in terms of the present. The urban politics of climate change has brought multiple visions of the... Read More about Heterotopia and the urban politics of climate change experimentation.

Exploring the evidence base for Tier 3 specialist weight management interventions for children aged 2–18 years in the UK: a rapid systematic review (2017)
Journal Article
Brown, T., O’Malley, C., Blackshaw, J., Coulton, V., Tedstone, A., Summerbell, C., & Ells, L. J. (2018). Exploring the evidence base for Tier 3 specialist weight management interventions for children aged 2–18 years in the UK: a rapid systematic review. Journal of Public Health, 40(4), 835-847. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdx166

Background: The impact of specialist weight management services (Tier 3) for children with severe and complex obesity in the UK is unclear. This review aims to examine the impact of child Tier 3 services in the UK, exploring service characteristics a... Read More about Exploring the evidence base for Tier 3 specialist weight management interventions for children aged 2–18 years in the UK: a rapid systematic review.

Impact of extreme weather events and climate change for health and social care systems (2017)
Journal Article
Curtis, S., Fair, A., Wistow, J., Val, D. V., & Oven, K. (2017). Impact of extreme weather events and climate change for health and social care systems. Environmental Health, 16(S1), Article 128. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-017-0324-3

This review, commissioned by the Research Councils UK Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) programme, concerns research on the impacts on health and social care systems in the United Kingdom of extreme weather events, under conditions of climate c... Read More about Impact of extreme weather events and climate change for health and social care systems.

Interventions to change the behaviour of health professionals and the organisation of care to promote weight reduction in children and adults with overweight or obesity (2017)
Journal Article
Flodgren, G., Gonçalves-Bradley, D. C., & Summerbell, C. D. (2017). Interventions to change the behaviour of health professionals and the organisation of care to promote weight reduction in children and adults with overweight or obesity. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2017(11), Article CD000984. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.cd000984.pub3

Background The prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing globally, an increase which has major implications for both population health and costs to health services. This is an update of a Cochrane Review. Objectives To assess the effects of... Read More about Interventions to change the behaviour of health professionals and the organisation of care to promote weight reduction in children and adults with overweight or obesity.

Testing differential use of payoff-biased social learning strategies in children and chimpanzees (2017)
Journal Article
Vale, G., Flynn, E. G., Kendal, J., Rawlings, B., Hopper Lydia, M., Schapiro Steven, J., Lambeth Susan, P., & Kendal, R. (2017). Testing differential use of payoff-biased social learning strategies in children and chimpanzees. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284(1868), Article 20171751. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.1751

Various non-human animal species have been shown to exhibit behavioural traditions. Importantly, this research has been guided by what we know of human culture, and the question of whether animal cultures may be homologous or analogous to our own cul... Read More about Testing differential use of payoff-biased social learning strategies in children and chimpanzees.

Institutional Ethnography, Theory, Methodology, and Research: Some Concerns and Some Comments. (2017)
Book Chapter
Tummons, J. (2017). Institutional Ethnography, Theory, Methodology, and Research: Some Concerns and Some Comments. In J. Reid, & L. Russell (Eds.), Perspectives on and from Institutional Ethnography (147-162). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s1042-319220170000015003

In this chapter, I outline the key tenets of institutional ethnography (IE) as a framework for interpretivist social research. Through drawing not only on the key tenets of IE but also on the key findings and conclusions of the different chapters – e... Read More about Institutional Ethnography, Theory, Methodology, and Research: Some Concerns and Some Comments..

Anatomy of a village razing: Counterinsurgency, violence, and securing the intimate in Afghanistan (2017)
Journal Article
Belcher, O. (2018). Anatomy of a village razing: Counterinsurgency, violence, and securing the intimate in Afghanistan. Political Geography, 62, 94-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.10.006

In autumn 2010, the United States military partially or completely razed several villages in Helmand and Kandahar provinces as part of its counterinsurgency campaign in southern Afghanistan. In the spring 2011, U.S.-led forces rebuilt one of the vill... Read More about Anatomy of a village razing: Counterinsurgency, violence, and securing the intimate in Afghanistan.