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Gendering “The Hidden Injuries of Class”: In‐Work Poverty, Precarity, and Working Women Using Food Banks in Britain (2025)
Journal Article
Spellman, C., & McBride, J. (online). Gendering “The Hidden Injuries of Class”: In‐Work Poverty, Precarity, and Working Women Using Food Banks in Britain. Gender, Work & Organization, https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13237

This paper presents the lived experience of white working‐class women in the UK experiencing in‐work poverty and dependent on food banks to survive. Although the precarious labor market emerges as a significant driver in the women's need for food cha... Read More about Gendering “The Hidden Injuries of Class”: In‐Work Poverty, Precarity, and Working Women Using Food Banks in Britain.

Transitioning from responsible and reactive to deeply responsible and proactive international business (2024)
Journal Article
Jones, G. G., Lopes, T. D. S., Pananond, P., van Tulder, R., Sinkovics, N., & Sinkovics, R. R. (2025). Transitioning from responsible and reactive to deeply responsible and proactive international business. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 21(2), 196-225. https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-08-2024-0092

Purpose
This paper aims to explore the role of multi-national enterprises in addressing grand societal challenges, emphasising the need for integrating environmental and social aspects into business models. Drawing on the books of Geoffrey Jones (20... Read More about Transitioning from responsible and reactive to deeply responsible and proactive international business.

Financialisation of Islamic finance: a Polanyian approach on the hegemony of market logic over Islamic Logic (2024)
Journal Article
Asutay, M., & Yilmaz, I. (online). Financialisation of Islamic finance: a Polanyian approach on the hegemony of market logic over Islamic Logic. New Political Economy, https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2024.2424170

The significant rise of finance in emerging economies evidenced that financialisation is not limited to advanced economies. While financial capitalism spreads to every corner, financialisation appears in emerging economies in the form of variegated f... Read More about Financialisation of Islamic finance: a Polanyian approach on the hegemony of market logic over Islamic Logic.

‘Relocating Adolescents’: The Costs of Out-of-Area Placements as a Response to Extra-Familial Risk/Harm (2024)
Journal Article
Holmes, L., Pinto, V. S., Wroe, L. E., Peace, D., & Firmin, C. (online). ‘Relocating Adolescents’: The Costs of Out-of-Area Placements as a Response to Extra-Familial Risk/Harm. The British Journal of Social Work, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae109

In the UK, there has been increased awareness of the harm adolescents face beyond their families. There is no national strategy for safeguarding adolescents. One intervention that comes with particularly high costs is relocation placements by childre... Read More about ‘Relocating Adolescents’: The Costs of Out-of-Area Placements as a Response to Extra-Familial Risk/Harm.

The Case For Embedding Futures Thinking in University Teaching & Learning (2024)
Journal Article
Hirst, J., & Spellman, C. (2024). The Case For Embedding Futures Thinking in University Teaching & Learning. Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 1, 97-109. https://doi.org/10.62512/etlhe.1

This paper addresses a critical need for Higher Education, and Business Schools in particular, to embed Futures Thinking skills into their curricula in order to prepare the incoming generations of leaders for the radical change that the world is faci... Read More about The Case For Embedding Futures Thinking in University Teaching & Learning.

The Child of the North: Building a fairer future after COVID-19 (2021)
Report
Pickett, K., & Taylor-Robinson, D. (2021). The Child of the North: Building a fairer future after COVID-19. London: Northern Health Science Alliance and N8 Research Partnership

Children in the North are more likely to live in poverty than those in the rest of England – and increasingly so. Poverty is the lead driver of inequalities between children in the North and their counterparts in the rest of the country, leading to w... Read More about The Child of the North: Building a fairer future after COVID-19.

Beyond Allyship: Motivations for Advantaged Group Members to Engage in Action for Disadvantaged Groups (2020)
Journal Article
Radke, H. R., Kutlaca, M., Siem, B., Wright, S. C., & Becker, J. C. (2020). Beyond Allyship: Motivations for Advantaged Group Members to Engage in Action for Disadvantaged Groups. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 24(4), 291-315. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868320918698

White Americans who participate in the Black Lives Matter movement, men who attended the Women’s March, and people from the Global North who work to reduce poverty in the Global South—advantaged group members (sometimes referred to as allies) often e... Read More about Beyond Allyship: Motivations for Advantaged Group Members to Engage in Action for Disadvantaged Groups.