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The feasibility of a Comprehensive Resilience-building psychosocial Intervention (CREST) for people with dementia in the community: protocol for a non-randomised feasibility study (2020)
Journal Article
Casey, D., Gallagher, N., Devane, D., Woods, B., Murphy, K., Smyth, S., …Doyle, P. (2020). The feasibility of a Comprehensive Resilience-building psychosocial Intervention (CREST) for people with dementia in the community: protocol for a non-randomised feasibility study. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 6(1), Article 177. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-020-00701-2

Background: A dementia diagnosis can prevent people from participating in society, leading to a further decline in cognitive, social and physical health. However, it may be possible for people with dementia to continue to live meaningful lives and co... Read More about The feasibility of a Comprehensive Resilience-building psychosocial Intervention (CREST) for people with dementia in the community: protocol for a non-randomised feasibility study.

COMPLEX-IT: A Case-Based Modelling and Scenario Simulation Platform for Social Inquiry (2020)
Journal Article
Schimpf, C., & Castellani, B. (2020). COMPLEX-IT: A Case-Based Modelling and Scenario Simulation Platform for Social Inquiry. Journal of Open Research Software, 8, Article 25. https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.298

COMPLEX-IT is a case-based, mixed-methods platform for applied social inquiry into complex data/systems, designed to increase non-expert access to the tools of computational social science (i.e., cluster analysis, artificial intelligence, data visual... Read More about COMPLEX-IT: A Case-Based Modelling and Scenario Simulation Platform for Social Inquiry.

Atrocity stories and access to elite universities: chickens at the station (2020)
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Hillyard, S., Tummons, J., & Winnard, S. (2021). Atrocity stories and access to elite universities: chickens at the station. Symbolic Interaction, 44(3), 533-554. https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.513

The article explores the interactional management of class relations using atrocity stories as a conceptual device vis‐à‐vis new case study data. We argue that interactionist ideas are well placed to comment on the hidden injuries of class in the hig... Read More about Atrocity stories and access to elite universities: chickens at the station.

Being Earthbound: Arendt, Process, and Alienation in the Anthropocene (2020)
Journal Article
Belcher, O., & Schmidt, J. J. (2020). Being Earthbound: Arendt, Process, and Alienation in the Anthropocene. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 39(1), 103-120. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775820953855

Hannah Arendt developed a twofold account of ‘being earthbound’ directly relevant to Anthropocene debates regarding the political. For Arendt, both senses of ‘being earthbound’ arose as humans began to act into nature, not merely upon it. The first s... Read More about Being Earthbound: Arendt, Process, and Alienation in the Anthropocene.

Climate Smart City: New Cultural Political Economies in the Making in Malmö, Sweden (2020)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., & Stripple, J. (2021). Climate Smart City: New Cultural Political Economies in the Making in Malmö, Sweden. New Political Economy, 26(6), 937-950. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2020.1810219

The question of how the urgent transformation in fossil fuel based economies might be realised has come to occupy an increasingly prominent place within the social sciences. The challenge here is often cast in terms of how one or more existing system... Read More about Climate Smart City: New Cultural Political Economies in the Making in Malmö, Sweden.

Higher education, theory, and modes of existence: thinking about universities with Latour (2020)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (2021). Higher education, theory, and modes of existence: thinking about universities with Latour. Higher Education Research & Development, 40(6), 1313-1325. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2020.1804337

In this article, I pick up established critical explorations of the role and use of theory in higher education research, focusing on the theoretical affordances of the work of Bruno Latour, one of the architects of actor-network theory. Actor-network... Read More about Higher education, theory, and modes of existence: thinking about universities with Latour.

Reassembling teachers' professional practice: an ethnography of intertextual hierarchies in primary mathematics (2020)
Journal Article
Unsworth, R., & Tummons, J. (2021). Reassembling teachers' professional practice: an ethnography of intertextual hierarchies in primary mathematics. Ethnography and Education, 16(1), 109-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2020.1788405

The formation of teachers’ professional practice has been discussed in relation to a wide variety of influences, with government prescription of practice often criticised as oppressing professional agency. Set within an ethnographic study within one... Read More about Reassembling teachers' professional practice: an ethnography of intertextual hierarchies in primary mathematics.