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Unpacking Diversity in UK Commuter Students' Experiences (2024)
Book Chapter
Maslin, E. (2024). Unpacking Diversity in UK Commuter Students' Experiences. In V. Boliver, & N. Siddiqui (Eds.), Researching Social Inequalities in Higher Education: Access, Diversity and Inclusion (81-99). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003452430-8

In the United Kingdom around a quarter of undergraduate students are considered ‘commuters'. Despite this little is known about this group, partly due to a lack of a wider UK Higher Education (HE) sector definition. Existing research has focused on w... Read More about Unpacking Diversity in UK Commuter Students' Experiences.

Do Supported Progression and Bursary Initiatives Improve Student Outcomes? (2024)
Book Chapter
Siddiqui, N. (in press). Do Supported Progression and Bursary Initiatives Improve Student Outcomes?. In V. Boliver, & N. Siddiqui (Eds.), Researching Social Inequalities in Higher Education: Access, Diversity and Inclusion. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003452430-3

Financial incentives have been widely implemented for the improvement of participation and subsequent educational outcomes of disadvantaged and underrepresented students in education. This chapter presents an evaluation of a well-designed and careful... Read More about Do Supported Progression and Bursary Initiatives Improve Student Outcomes?.

The Islamic State's Drone Innovation (2024)
Book Chapter
Archambault, E., & Veilleux-Lepage, Y. (2024). The Islamic State's Drone Innovation. In J. P. Rogers (Ed.), De Gruyter Handbook of Drone Warfare (243-254). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110742039-017

This chapter provides a survey of IS’ drone program, how it came to embody this most salient menace, and how IS innovated in its use of drones. To this end, we outline how IS built structures to centralise drone development and modification, as well... Read More about The Islamic State's Drone Innovation.

An evaluation of Code Club (2024)
Report
Siddiqui, N., Gorard, S., See, B. H., & Gazmuri, C. (2024). An evaluation of Code Club. Durham University Evidence Centre for Education

Code Club is a volunteer-led initiative run by the Raspberry Pi Foundation (RPF). The club activities are usually after-school programmes which offer opportunities for young people aged 9 to 13 to learn and develop skills for coding. The Raspberry Pi... Read More about An evaluation of Code Club.

Subjective Experience, Gestational Preferences and Justice: Valuing Both Uterus Transplantation and Ectogestation (2024)
Book Chapter
Romanis, E. C., & Kendal, E. (in press). Subjective Experience, Gestational Preferences and Justice: Valuing Both Uterus Transplantation and Ectogestation. In N. Hammond-Browning, & N. J. Williams (Eds.), International Legal and Ethical Perspectives on Uterus Transplantation (Elgar Studies in Health and the Law) (104-123). Edward Elgar Publishing

There is a growing body of literature exploring whether uterus transplantation and emerging ectogestation technologies provide desirable alternatives for persons who cannot achieve genetic parenthood without access to gestational surrogacy. This chap... Read More about Subjective Experience, Gestational Preferences and Justice: Valuing Both Uterus Transplantation and Ectogestation.

Minimizing BER for RIS-assisted wireless broadcast communication systems with dynamic network topology without CSI (2024)
Journal Article
Gong, B., Huang, G., & Tu, W. (online). Minimizing BER for RIS-assisted wireless broadcast communication systems with dynamic network topology without CSI. Computer Networks, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2024.110729

This paper studies a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted broadcast communication system with dynamic network topology where a transmitter broadcasts information to multiple receivers with time-varying locations via a RIS. The goal is to... Read More about Minimizing BER for RIS-assisted wireless broadcast communication systems with dynamic network topology without CSI.

State-owned Enterprises (2024)
Book Chapter
Du, M. (in press). State-owned Enterprises. In J. Chaisse, & C. Herrmann (Eds.), The International Law of Economic Integration. Oxford University Press

Despite three decades of extensive state reform and privatization, State-owned enterprises (SOEs) remain key players in the global economy. The expansion of SOEs’ global footprint has caused widespread concerns about their implications for fair compe... Read More about State-owned Enterprises.

The Future of Geoenergy - A Perspective (2024)
Journal Article
Gluyas, J. G., & Fowler, N. (2024). The Future of Geoenergy - A Perspective. Geoenergy, 2(1), Article geoenergy2023-058

Energy from Earth resources (geoenergy) in the form of coal, oil and gas has fueled global society since the Industrial Revolution began. Amongst the consequences of fueling society and associated population growth, is climate change, driven by the e... Read More about The Future of Geoenergy - A Perspective.

Fluctuations in Prejudice Do Not Track Fluctuations in Ordinary Contact in Three 5-wave “Shortitudinal” Studies Examining Daily, Weekly, or Monthly Intervals (2024)
Journal Article
Shulman, D., Meleady, R., Hodson, G., & Crisp, R. J. (in press). Fluctuations in Prejudice Do Not Track Fluctuations in Ordinary Contact in Three 5-wave “Shortitudinal” Studies Examining Daily, Weekly, or Monthly Intervals. Social Psychological and Personality Science,

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), because of their dual plasmonic and catalytic functionalities, are among the most promising nanomaterials for the development of therapeutic and diagnostic tools for severe diseases such as cancer and neurodegeneration. Ba... Read More about Fluctuations in Prejudice Do Not Track Fluctuations in Ordinary Contact in Three 5-wave “Shortitudinal” Studies Examining Daily, Weekly, or Monthly Intervals.

The dynamic threat from landslides following large continental earthquakes (2024)
Journal Article
Arrell, K., Rosser, N., Kincey, M., Robinson, T., Horton, P., Densmore, A., Oven, K., Shrestha, R., & Pujara, D. (2024). The dynamic threat from landslides following large continental earthquakes. PLoS ONE, 19(8), Article e0308444. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0308444

Earthquake-triggered landslides show three important characteristics: they are often responsible for a considerable proportion of the damage sustained during mountain region earthquakes, they are non-randomly distributed across space, and they contin... Read More about The dynamic threat from landslides following large continental earthquakes.

Introduction: ‘The best living woman poet’ (2024)
Book Chapter
Riddell, F., Girdwood, M., & Bratton, F. (in press). Introduction: ‘The best living woman poet’. In Charlotte Mew: Poetics, Bodies, Ecologies (1-22). Palgrave Macmillan

The 2008 Short-Selling Ban's Impact on Tail Risk (2024)
Journal Article
Bartl, J., Bostandzic, D., Irresberger, F., Weiß, G., & Yang, R. (online). The 2008 Short-Selling Ban's Impact on Tail Risk. Journal of Empirical Finance, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jempfin.2024.101532

We examine how the 2008 U.S. short-selling ban on the stocks of financial institutions impacted their equity tail risk. Using propensity score matching and difference-indifference regressions, we show that the ban was not effective in restoring finan... Read More about The 2008 Short-Selling Ban's Impact on Tail Risk.

Reckoning with landscape tensions, reflecting on creative methodologies (2024)
Journal Article
Robson, A. (online). Reckoning with landscape tensions, reflecting on creative methodologies. Cultural Geographies, https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740241274281

In this paper landscape painting is developed as a mode of enquiry through which to explore the tensions inherent to landscape. Set on the high street in a small market town and undertaken by individuals with varying artistic experience, this methodo... Read More about Reckoning with landscape tensions, reflecting on creative methodologies.

A Tale of Terror: Autoethnography and the Study of Terrorism (2024)
Journal Article
Taylor, S. D. (online). A Tale of Terror: Autoethnography and the Study of Terrorism. Terrorism and Political Violence, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2024.2387628

Although terrorism is the only form of violence named after an emotion, terror, there appears to be negligible attention paid to comprehending and analysing this core emotion. Due in large part to the unique subjective factors of terror, there is imm... Read More about A Tale of Terror: Autoethnography and the Study of Terrorism.