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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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Cased-based modelling and scenario simulation for ex-post evaluation (2021)
Journal Article
Schimpf, C., Barbrook-Johnson, P., & Castellani, B. (2021). Cased-based modelling and scenario simulation for ex-post evaluation. Evaluation, 27(1), 116-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/1356389020978490

Despite 20 years of increasing acceptance, implementing complexity-appropriate methods for ex-post evaluation remains a challenge: instead of focusing on complex interventions, methods need to help evaluators better explore how policies (no matter ho... Read More about Cased-based modelling and scenario simulation for ex-post evaluation.

Policy evaluation for a complex world: Practical methods and reflections from the UK Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity across the Nexus (2021)
Journal Article
Barbrook-Johnson, P., Castellani, B., Hills, D., Penn, A., & Gilbert, N. (2021). Policy evaluation for a complex world: Practical methods and reflections from the UK Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity across the Nexus. Evaluation, 27(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1356389020976491

The Complex Global Crisis of Population and Public Health. (2020)
Book Chapter
Castellani, B. (2020). The Complex Global Crisis of Population and Public Health. In Y. Apostolopoulos, M. K. Lemke, & K. Hassmiller Lich (Eds.), Complex Systems and Population Health: A Primer. Oxford University Press

The Politics of Academic Life: Professional Identities and Intellectual Selves in Neo-Liberal Times (2020)
Book Chapter
Costa, C. (2020). The Politics of Academic Life: Professional Identities and Intellectual Selves in Neo-Liberal Times. In M. Murphy, C. Burke, C. Costa, & R. Raaper (Eds.), Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education: Critical Perspectives on Institutional Research (87-96). Bloomsbury Academic

Evaluation of the 2019 holiday activities and food programme (2020)
Report
Campbell-Jack, D., Bertolotto, E., Williams, M., Vicentini, L., Seymour, M., Smith, R., & Summerbell, C. (2020). Evaluation of the 2019 holiday activities and food programme. Department for Education (DfE)

Studies in Archaeological Conservation (2020)
Book
Caple, C., & Garlick, V. (Eds.). (2020). Studies in Archaeological Conservation. Routledge

Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education: Critical Perspectives on Institutional Research (2020)
Book
Murphy, M., Burke, C., Costa, C., & Raaper, R. (Eds.). (2020). Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education: Critical Perspectives on Institutional Research. Bloomsbury Academic

Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education. Critical Perspectives on Institutional Research (2020)
Book
Murphy, M., Burke, C., Costa, C., & Raaper, R. (Eds.). (2020). Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education. Critical Perspectives on Institutional Research. Bloomsbury

‘Why Do We Think We Are Doing Everything Right [Just] Because We Do It’: What Transforms Chinese and Scottish Student-teachers’ Taken-for-granted Views in Study Abroad Experiences (2020)
Journal Article
Li, H., & Costa, C. (2022). ‘Why Do We Think We Are Doing Everything Right [Just] Because We Do It’: What Transforms Chinese and Scottish Student-teachers’ Taken-for-granted Views in Study Abroad Experiences. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 52(7), 1170-1188. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2020.1852915

This paper reports on how varied study abroad experiences transformed understanding of difference of student-teachers from two universities. Data were collected through a qualitative questionnaire and semi-structured interviews with 14 Chinese and Sc... Read More about ‘Why Do We Think We Are Doing Everything Right [Just] Because We Do It’: What Transforms Chinese and Scottish Student-teachers’ Taken-for-granted Views in Study Abroad Experiences.

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., Newell, J., Murphy, A. W., Clarke, C., Foley, T., Timmons, F., Dröes, R.-M., O’Halloran, M., Windle, G., Irving Lupton, K., Domegan, C., O’Shea, E., Dolan, P., & 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.

"The Eye of War, Review by Oliver Belcher" (2020)
Journal Article
Belcher, O. (in press). "The Eye of War, Review by Oliver Belcher"

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.

Exploring the Networking of Academic Health Science Leaders (2020)
Journal Article
Lieff, S. J., Baker, L., Poost-Foroosh, L., Castellani, B., Hafferty, F. W., & Ng, S. L. (2020). Exploring the Networking of Academic Health Science Leaders. Academic Medicine, 95(10), 1570-1577. https://doi.org/10.1097/acm.0000000000003177

Atrocity stories and access to elite universities: chickens at the station (2020)
Journal Article
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.