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Auditing, the state and democracy in a ‘new’ machine age of digitalisation: The UK Supreme Audit Institution (2025)
Journal Article
Ferry, L., Midgley, H., & Ahrens, T. (in press). Auditing, the state and democracy in a ‘new’ machine age of digitalisation: The UK Supreme Audit Institution. Public Administration,

Many promises have been made about digitalisation in the public sector, from its potential to revolutionise government, to its emancipating properties as a new conduit for democracy. In this paper, the case of a leading Supreme Audit Institution (SAI... Read More about Auditing, the state and democracy in a ‘new’ machine age of digitalisation: The UK Supreme Audit Institution.

‘A Practice of Fairness’: Social Equity Budgeting in Freedom City (2025)
Journal Article
Ferry, L., & Ahrens, T. (in press). ‘A Practice of Fairness’: Social Equity Budgeting in Freedom City. Public Administration,

Social justice is often theorised as fairness and expressed in equity as part of public administration and associated budgeting practices. Whereas much literature contrasted deontological positions, emphasising a procedural justice with fairness base... Read More about ‘A Practice of Fairness’: Social Equity Budgeting in Freedom City.

Nodal counts for the Robin problem on Lipschitz domains (2025)
Journal Article
Gittins, K., Hassannezhad, A., Léna, C., & Sher, D. (in press). Nodal counts for the Robin problem on Lipschitz domains. Pure and Applied Functional Analysis,

An introductory note on the difference-in-differences and regression discontinuity design for the accounting and finance research (2025)
Book Chapter
He, G., Li, A. Z., & Shen, D. (2025). An introductory note on the difference-in-differences and regression discontinuity design for the accounting and finance research. In Handbook of Financial Econometrics, Statistics, Technology, and Risk Management (143-174). World Scientific. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789819809950_0004

As more emphasis is put on the endogeneity issues of accounting and finance research nowadays, a great number of studies exploit the observational data in a quasi-experimental setting to validate a causal relationship. This chapter provides an introd... Read More about An introductory note on the difference-in-differences and regression discontinuity design for the accounting and finance research.

Igneous layering and magma dynamics in alkaline intrusions: textural evidence for gravitational settling and compaction within cumulates (2025)
Journal Article
Jones, E., McCarthy, W., Magee, C., Mattsson, T., Piazolo, S., Hutchison, W., & Humphreys, M. C. (in press). Igneous layering and magma dynamics in alkaline intrusions: textural evidence for gravitational settling and compaction within cumulates. Journal of the Geological Society, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2024-181

Mechanisms responsible for igneous layering and the concentration of critical minerals within alkaline intrusions remain debated. The Ilímaussaq complex, South Greenland, is a layered alkaline intrusion containing economically important rare earth el... Read More about Igneous layering and magma dynamics in alkaline intrusions: textural evidence for gravitational settling and compaction within cumulates.