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Conscientious objection, professional duty and compromise: A response to Savulescu and Schuklenk (2017)
Journal Article
Hughes. (2017). Conscientious objection, professional duty and compromise: A response to Savulescu and Schuklenk. Bioethics, 126-131. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12410

In a recent article in this journal, Savulescu and Schuklenk defend and extend their earlier arguments against a right to medical conscientious objection in response to criticisms raised by Cowley. I argue that while it would be preferable to be less... Read More about Conscientious objection, professional duty and compromise: A response to Savulescu and Schuklenk.

Transnational repertoires (2017)
Book Chapter
Devadason, R. (2017). Transnational repertoires. In Re-Living the Global City (80-96). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315717586-6

In this chapter I draw on Dürrschmidt’s concept of ‘extended milieux’ in Living the global city (1997) to explore how transnational professionals actively construct a sense of being at home whilst on the move. They self-consciously develop – what I c... Read More about Transnational repertoires.

Keeping up, and keeping on: Risk, acceleration and the law-abiding driving offender (2017)
Journal Article
Wells, H., & Savigar, L. (2019). Keeping up, and keeping on: Risk, acceleration and the law-abiding driving offender. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 19(2), 254-270. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895817738555

Roads policing is the most likely generator of an adverse-outcome encounter between the general public and the police and is therefore one of the most likely situations in which individuals are confronted with their own ‘law-abidingness’, or lack of... Read More about Keeping up, and keeping on: Risk, acceleration and the law-abiding driving offender.

Older people, loss and loneliness: The troublesome nature of increased contact with adult children (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Older people, loss and loneliness: The troublesome nature of increased contact with adult children. Illness, Crisis and Loss, https://doi.org/10.1177/1054137317742235

Older people may experience considerable loss when they endure emotional or social loneliness. Emotional loneliness is related to the loss or absence of a confidant whilst social loneliness describes the discrepancy between the nature of one’s desire... Read More about Older people, loss and loneliness: The troublesome nature of increased contact with adult children.

Overcoming ethical barriers to research with hidden social groups (2017)
Journal Article
Machin, H., & Shardlow, S. M. (2017). Overcoming ethical barriers to research with hidden social groups. Research Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1177/1747016117739938

Researchers engaged in studies about “hidden social groups” are likely to face several ethical challenges. Using a study with undocumented Chinese migrants in the UK, challenges involved in obtaining approval by a University Research Ethics Committee... Read More about Overcoming ethical barriers to research with hidden social groups.

Testing times. Success, failure and Fiasco in education policy in Wales since devolution (2017)
Journal Article
Howlett, J. (2018). Testing times. Success, failure and Fiasco in education policy in Wales since devolution. British Journal of Educational Studies, 66(2), 278-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2017.1400286

Wales, as Philip Dixon in this engaging and occasionally waspish account makes clear, has long been regarded as the Ugly Sister. Too often, educational narratives claiming to represent the United Kingdom in reality have meant just ‘England’ with Wale... Read More about Testing times. Success, failure and Fiasco in education policy in Wales since devolution.

Collingwood, scientism and historicism: introduction (2017)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2017). Collingwood, scientism and historicism: introduction. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 275-288. https://doi.org/10.1163/18722636-12341374

The philosophy of history is undergoing something of a revival. Much has happened since its heyday in the 1960s when methodological discussions concerning the structure of explanation in history and the natural sciences were central to the philosophi... Read More about Collingwood, scientism and historicism: introduction.

Collingwood, Historicism and Scientism (2017)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2017). Collingwood, Historicism and Scientism. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 275-288. https://doi.org/10.1163/18722636-12341374

The philosophy of history is undergoing something of a revival. Much has happened since its heyday in the 1960s when methodological discussions concerning the structure of explanation in history and the natural sciences were central to the philosophi... Read More about Collingwood, Historicism and Scientism.

The Teaching Excellence Framework in the UK: an opportunity to include international students as ‘equals’? (2017)
Journal Article
Hayes. (2017). The Teaching Excellence Framework in the UK: an opportunity to include international students as ‘equals’?. Journal of Studies in International Education, 21(5), 483-497. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315317720768

Research on international students in British higher education points to marginalization of their unique perspectives in university classrooms. The aim of the article is to consider how the most recent policy changes, particularly the teaching excell... Read More about The Teaching Excellence Framework in the UK: an opportunity to include international students as ‘equals’?.

Solitude in NYC (2017)
Journal Article
Loewenthal, J. (2017). Solitude in NYC. North American Dialogue, 20(2), 31-31. https://doi.org/10.1111/nad.12061

Conducting an ethnography of university graduates in New York City, it has emerged that many lack a sense of group belonging. The relationship between individualism as a cultural trait, solitude as an aspect of social organization, and loneliness as... Read More about Solitude in NYC.