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Cultural complexity and demography: The case of folktales (2017)
Journal Article
Acerbi, A., Kendal, J., & Tehrani, J. (2017). Cultural complexity and demography: The case of folktales. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38(4), 474-480. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.03.005

We investigate the relationship between cultural complexity and population size in a non-technological cultural domain for which we have suitable quantitative records: folktales. We define three levels of complexity for folk narratives: the number of... Read More about Cultural complexity and demography: The case of folktales.

Designing an Internationalised Curriculum for Higher Education: Embracing the Local and the Global Citizen (2017)
Journal Article
Clifford, V., & Montgomery, C. (2017). Designing an Internationalised Curriculum for Higher Education: Embracing the Local and the Global Citizen. Higher Education Research & Development, 36(6), 1138-1151. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2017.1296413

In this article, differing interpretations of the internationalisation of higher education curriculum are explored analysing the structural and cultural aspects of the curriculum. Voices of tertiary staff from around the world taking part in a four-w... Read More about Designing an Internationalised Curriculum for Higher Education: Embracing the Local and the Global Citizen.

Oceans and seas, Human geography (2017)
Book Chapter
Steinberg, P. E. (2017). Oceans and seas, Human geography. In D. Richardson (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0759

The world's oceans have attracted increasing attention from geographers since the 1990s. Post-1990 engagements with the sea by human geographers are traced through four waves, each of which has reflected and contributed to emergent foci in human geog... Read More about Oceans and seas, Human geography.

Making the case for qualitative comparative analysis in geographical research: a case study of health resilience (2017)
Journal Article
Cairns, J., Wistow, J., & Bambra, C. (2017). Making the case for qualitative comparative analysis in geographical research: a case study of health resilience. Area, 49(3), 369-376. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12327

This paper critically discusses the utility of using qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) in geographical research following the ‘complexity turn’. Although QCA methodology has increasingly been applied in other social science disciplines, it is no... Read More about Making the case for qualitative comparative analysis in geographical research: a case study of health resilience.

Adaptation to extreme weather events in complex health and social care systems: The example of older people’s services in England (2017)
Journal Article
Curtis, S., Oven, K., Wistow, J., Dunn, C., & Dominelli, L. (2018). Adaptation to extreme weather events in complex health and social care systems: The example of older people’s services in England. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 36(1), 67-91. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654417695101

Our findings contribute to a growing international literature on how conceptual models from complexity theory may be relevant to inform planning in health and social care systems, helping to adapt and improve preparedness and resilience to extreme we... Read More about Adaptation to extreme weather events in complex health and social care systems: The example of older people’s services in England.

Using technology to accomplish comparability of provision in distributed medical education in Canada: an actor–network theory ethnography (2017)
Journal Article
Tummons, J., Fournier, C., Kits, O., & Macleod, A. (2018). Using technology to accomplish comparability of provision in distributed medical education in Canada: an actor–network theory ethnography. Studies in Higher Education, 43(11), 1912-1922. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2017.1290063

This article is derived from a three-year ethnography of distributed medical education at one Canadian University across two Canadian provinces. It explores the ways in which students and staff work inside the technologically rich teaching environmen... Read More about Using technology to accomplish comparability of provision in distributed medical education in Canada: an actor–network theory ethnography.

ICTs and the internet as a framework and field in ethnographic research (2017)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (2017). ICTs and the internet as a framework and field in ethnographic research. Acta paedagogica Vilnensia (Spausdinta), 39, 132-143. https://doi.org/10.15388/actpaed.2017.39.11488

In this article, I offer a reflexive account drawing on my role as co-investigator based on a three-year institutional ethnography: Medical Education in a Digital Age. Three problematic issues are discussed: first, the ways by which a reliance on dig... Read More about ICTs and the internet as a framework and field in ethnographic research.