Outputs (22)

Establishing the effectiveness of technology-enabled dementia education for health and social care practitioners: a systematic review (2021)
Journal Article
Muirhead, K., Macaden, L., Smyth, K., Chandler, C., Clarke, C., Polson, R., & O’Malley, C. (2021). Establishing the effectiveness of technology-enabled dementia education for health and social care practitioners: a systematic review. Systematic Reviews, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-021-01781-8

Background Dementia prevalence is increasing globally and yet evidence suggest that gaps exist in dementia-specific knowledge among health and social care practitioners. Technological modes of educational delivery may be as effective as traditional e... Read More about Establishing the effectiveness of technology-enabled dementia education for health and social care practitioners: a systematic review.

On The Educational Mode of Existence: Latour, Meta-Ethnography, and the Social Institution of Education (2021)
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Tummons, J. (2021). On The Educational Mode of Existence: Latour, Meta-Ethnography, and the Social Institution of Education. Social Anthropology, 29(3), 570-585. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13087

This article constitutes an argument for both the use and expansion of the philosophical anthropology of Bruno Latour, as established in his recent work An Inquiry into Modes of Existence (AIME). Drawing on ethnographies of education as a methodology... Read More about On The Educational Mode of Existence: Latour, Meta-Ethnography, and the Social Institution of Education.

Impact of cuts to local government spending on Sure Start children’s centres on childhood obesity in England: a longitudinal ecological study (2021)
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Mason, K. E., Alexiou, A., Bennett, D. L., Summerbell, C., Barr, B., & Taylor-Robinson, D. (2021). Impact of cuts to local government spending on Sure Start children’s centres on childhood obesity in England: a longitudinal ecological study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 75(9), 860-866. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2020-216064

Childhood obesity is rising in disadvantaged areas in England. Sure Start children’s centres provide community-based services for children <5 years and their parents, including many services that can support healthy weight, directly or indirectly. Si...

Remaking higher education for the post-COVID-19 era: Critical reflections on marketization, internationalization and graduate employment (2021)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.