Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Outputs (2803)

The Effects of Prestige on Collective Performance and Information Flow in a Strictly Hierarchical Institution (2019)
Journal Article
Offord, M., Gill, R., & Kendal, J. (2019). The Effects of Prestige on Collective Performance and Information Flow in a Strictly Hierarchical Institution. Palgrave communications, 5, Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-018-0211-8

Institutions such as the military aim to respond efficiently to complex logistical challenges using a strictly hierarchical structure, where leaders are assigned a rank by senior colleagues and team members are trained to obey leader commands. Anthro... Read More about The Effects of Prestige on Collective Performance and Information Flow in a Strictly Hierarchical Institution.

Group and kin recognition via olfactory cues in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) (2018)
Journal Article
Henkel, S., & Setchell, J. M. (2018). Group and kin recognition via olfactory cues in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1889), Article 20181527. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1527

Primates were traditionally thought to have a reduced sense of smell. Although there is now evidence that olfaction plays a greater role in primate social life than previously assumed, research on the sense of smell in non-human apes is scarce. Chimp... Read More about Group and kin recognition via olfactory cues in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

Insights into the evolution of social systems and species from baboon studies (2019)
Journal Article
Fischer, J., Higham, J. P., Alberts, S. C., Barrett, L., Beehner, J. C., Bergman, T. J., …Zinner, D. (2019). Insights into the evolution of social systems and species from baboon studies. eLife, 8, Article e50989. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.50989

Baboons, members of the genus Papio, comprise six closely related species distributed throughout sub-Saharan Africa and southwest Arabia. The species exhibit more ecological flexibility and a wider range of social systems than many other primates. Th... Read More about Insights into the evolution of social systems and species from baboon studies.

High carnivore population density highlights the conservation value of industrialised sites (2018)
Journal Article
Loock, D. J., Williams, S. T., Emslie, K. W., Matthews, W. S., & Swanepoel, L. H. (2018). High carnivore population density highlights the conservation value of industrialised sites. Scientific Reports, 8(1), Article 16575. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-34936-0

As the environment becomes increasingly altered by human development, the importance of understanding the ways in which wildlife interact with modified landscapes is becoming clear. Areas such as industrial sites are sometimes presumed to have little... Read More about High carnivore population density highlights the conservation value of industrialised sites.

Inequalities in mental health and well-being in a time of austerity: Follow-up findings from the Stockton-on-Tees cohort study (2018)
Journal Article
Akhter, N., Bambra, C., Mattheys, K., Warren, J., & Kasim, A. (2018). Inequalities in mental health and well-being in a time of austerity: Follow-up findings from the Stockton-on-Tees cohort study. SSM - Population Health, 6, 75-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.08.004

In response to the 2007/8 financial crisis and the subsequent ‘Great Recession’, the UK government pursued a policy of austerity, characterised by public spending cuts and reductions in working-age welfare benefits. This paper reports on a case study... Read More about Inequalities in mental health and well-being in a time of austerity: Follow-up findings from the Stockton-on-Tees cohort study.

An experimental investigation into the transmission of antivax attitudes using a fictional health controversy (2018)
Journal Article
Jiménez, Á. V., Stubbersfield, J. M., & Tehrani, J. J. (2018). An experimental investigation into the transmission of antivax attitudes using a fictional health controversy. Social Science & Medicine, 215, 23-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.08.032

Rationale: Although vaccines are an invaluable weapon in combatting diseases, they are often surrounded by controversy. Vaccine controversies usually arise with the claims of some parents or doctors who link vaccines to harmful outcomes. These contro... Read More about An experimental investigation into the transmission of antivax attitudes using a fictional health controversy.

Who ‘Uses’ Smart Grids? The Evolving Nature of User Representations in Layered Infrastructures (2018)
Journal Article
Silvast, A., Williams, R., Hyysalo, S., Rommetveit, K., & Raab, C. (2018). Who ‘Uses’ Smart Grids? The Evolving Nature of User Representations in Layered Infrastructures. Sustainability, 10(10), Article 3738. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10103738

This article addresses the anticipated use and users of smart energy technologies and the contribution of these technologies to energy sustainability. It focuses on smart grids and smart energy meters. Qualitative accounts given by European technolog... Read More about Who ‘Uses’ Smart Grids? The Evolving Nature of User Representations in Layered Infrastructures.

Communicating for Conservation: Circumventing Conflict with Communities over Domestic Dog Ownership in North Morocco (2018)
Journal Article
Waters, S., Watson, T., Bell, S., & Setchell, J. M. (2018). Communicating for Conservation: Circumventing Conflict with Communities over Domestic Dog Ownership in North Morocco. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 64(6), Article 69. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-018-1230-x

Conservationists consider open and direct communication as best practice even when their data conflict with local beliefs. However, ensuring the effective delivery of a controversial message without overtly challenging community identity is difficult... Read More about Communicating for Conservation: Circumventing Conflict with Communities over Domestic Dog Ownership in North Morocco.

Exploring ambivalent oxygen machine–people–world relations through the lens of postphenomenology (2018)
Journal Article
Wainwright, M. (2018). Exploring ambivalent oxygen machine–people–world relations through the lens of postphenomenology. Journal of Material Culture, 23(4), 426-447. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183518799521

Technologies for medicinal oxygen delivery at home are increasingly part of the global health technology landscape in the face of rising rates of chronic lung and heart diseases. From the mere notion of harvesting and privatizing oxygen from the atmo... Read More about Exploring ambivalent oxygen machine–people–world relations through the lens of postphenomenology.