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The Indirect Health Effects of COVID-19: Emerging Findings from Kenya, the Philippines, South Africa, and Uganda (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper
Bayani, D., Krubiner, C., Barasa, E., Biribawa, C., Broadbent, A., Casas, L., Chalkidou, K., Chi, Y., Combrink, H., Denis, O., Kaakyo, M., Kabia, E., Kasera, K., Kazungu, J., Ogero, M., Organi, S., Paterno, A., Regan, L., Smart, B., Streicher, P., …Walker, D. The Indirect Health Effects of COVID-19: Emerging Findings from Kenya, the Philippines, South Africa, and Uganda

What Counts as a 'Good Metaphysical Language'? (2021)
Book Chapter
Miller, J. (2021). What Counts as a 'Good Metaphysical Language'?. In J. Miller (Ed.), The Language of Ontology (102-118). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192895332.003.0007

The objectively best language is intended to refer to some metaphysically privileged language that ‘carves reality at its joints’ perfectly. That is, it is the kind of language that various ‘metaphysical deflationists’ have argued is impossible. One... Read More about What Counts as a 'Good Metaphysical Language'?.

No such thing as sociological excuses? Performativity, rationality and social scientific expertise in late liberalism (2021)
Journal Article
Bacevic, J. (2021). No such thing as sociological excuses? Performativity, rationality and social scientific expertise in late liberalism. European Journal of Social Theory, 24(3), 394-410. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310211018939

This article examines a frequent assumption of sociological accounts of knowledge: the idea that knowledge acts. The performativity of knowledge claims is here analysed through the prism of ‘sociological excuses’: the idea that sociological explanati... Read More about No such thing as sociological excuses? Performativity, rationality and social scientific expertise in late liberalism.

Menopausal symptoms and work: A narrative review of women's experiences in casual, informal, or precarious jobs (2021)
Journal Article
Yoeli, H., Macnaughton, J., & McLusky, S. (2021). Menopausal symptoms and work: A narrative review of women's experiences in casual, informal, or precarious jobs. Maturitas: An international journal of midlife health and beyond, 150, 14-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2021.05.007

Governments, employers, and trade unions are increasingly developing “menopause at work” policies for female staff. Many of the world’s most marginalised women work, however, in more informal or insecure jobs, beyond the scope of such employment prot... Read More about Menopausal symptoms and work: A narrative review of women's experiences in casual, informal, or precarious jobs.

The evolution, devolution and distribution of UK Biometric Imaginaries (2021)
Journal Article
Lawless, C. J. (2022). The evolution, devolution and distribution of UK Biometric Imaginaries. BioSocieties, 17(3), 506-526. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-021-00231-x

This article critically examines UK biometric policymaking by charting the bodies identified by the 2018 Home Office Biometric Strategy as playing key roles in the oversight of biometric data used in law enforcement and other related functions. The a... Read More about The evolution, devolution and distribution of UK Biometric Imaginaries.

Time through time: its evolution through western philosophy in seven ideas (2021)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2021). Time through time: its evolution through western philosophy in seven ideas. Think, 20(58), 23-38. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1477175621000038

What is time? Just like everything else in the world, our understanding of time has changed continually over time. This article tracks this question through the history of Western philosophy and looks at major answers from the likes of Aristotle, Kan... Read More about Time through time: its evolution through western philosophy in seven ideas.

Science in the Age of Invincible Surmise: Nuclear Optimism and the Michigan Memorial–Phoenix Project (2021)
Journal Article
Martin, J. D. (2021). Science in the Age of Invincible Surmise: Nuclear Optimism and the Michigan Memorial–Phoenix Project. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 51(2), 179-208. https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2021.51.2.179

The Michigan Memorial–Phoenix Project at the University of Michigan was an unusual specimen of the post–World War II nuclear research initiative. Its origins were modest; it sprang from a student-led effort to construct a living war memorial—a missio... Read More about Science in the Age of Invincible Surmise: Nuclear Optimism and the Michigan Memorial–Phoenix Project.

Special Issue Introduction: Historical Peculiarity and the Order of the Phoenix (2021)
Journal Article
Martin, J. D., Mateos, G., Munns, D. P., & Suárez-Díaz, E. (2021). Special Issue Introduction: Historical Peculiarity and the Order of the Phoenix. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 51(2), 169-178. https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2021.51.2.169

This special issue, “Revealing the Michigan Memorial–Phoenix Project,” highlights the Michigan Memorial–Phoenix Project at the University of Michigan, a program of civilian nuclear research established after World War II that also memorialized Michig... Read More about Special Issue Introduction: Historical Peculiarity and the Order of the Phoenix.

The Benefits of Music Workshop Participation for Pupils’ Wellbeing and Social Capital: The In2 Music Project Evaluation (2021)
Journal Article
Ward, S., James, S., James, K., Brown, C., Kokotsaki, D., & Wigham, J. (2023). The Benefits of Music Workshop Participation for Pupils’ Wellbeing and Social Capital: The In2 Music Project Evaluation. Arts Education Policy Review, 124(1), 37-47. https://doi.org/10.1080/10632913.2021.1903640

This paper reports on the evaluation of the In2 music project in Darlington, England. The project ran for seven weeks from January – March 2020 and involved Year 6 pupils from four primary schools (n = 103) and Year 7 pupils from one secondary school... Read More about The Benefits of Music Workshop Participation for Pupils’ Wellbeing and Social Capital: The In2 Music Project Evaluation.

Multisite educational trials: estimating the effect size and its confidence intervals (2021)
Journal Article
Singh, A., Uwimpuhwe, G., Li, M., Einbeck, J., Higgins, S., & Kasim, A. (2022). Multisite educational trials: estimating the effect size and its confidence intervals. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 45(1), 18-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727x.2021.1882416

In education, multisite trials involve randomisation of pupils into intervention and comparison groups within schools. Most analytical models in multisite educational trials ignore that the impact of an intervention may be school dependent. This stud... Read More about Multisite educational trials: estimating the effect size and its confidence intervals.