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US Presidential campaign strategy 1960 - 2012: observing and explaining change in rhetoric (2019)
Thesis
Tiplady, S. (2019). US Presidential campaign strategy 1960 - 2012: observing and explaining change in rhetoric. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413134

This thesis investigates core aspects of campaign strategy, through content analysis of campaign rhetoric, to assess whether there is evidence that campaign strategy changes, rather than remains fixed, during presidential general election campaigns.... Read More about US Presidential campaign strategy 1960 - 2012: observing and explaining change in rhetoric.

Preventing mobile phone use while driving: Appreciating the equivocal nature of identity, safety and legality in an uncertain world (2019)
Thesis
Savigar, L. (2019). Preventing mobile phone use while driving: Appreciating the equivocal nature of identity, safety and legality in an uncertain world. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413091

Mobile phone use while driving is a major concern for, but is also performed by, many drivers on UK roads (RAC, 2017b), with 40% of drivers admitting to using a mobile phone illegally (Ibid). This thesis presents a mixed methods exploration of mobile... Read More about Preventing mobile phone use while driving: Appreciating the equivocal nature of identity, safety and legality in an uncertain world.

‘We’re still together’: a biographical study of sibling relationships in later life (2019)
Thesis
Ogden, H. L. (2019). ‘We’re still together’: a biographical study of sibling relationships in later life. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413082

My thesis explores the nature of older adults’ sibling relationships, which are best appreciated from a life-course perspective due to their enduring nature. Despite recognition that sibling relationships are important for emotional support and remin... Read More about ‘We’re still together’: a biographical study of sibling relationships in later life.

Efficiency of the English criminal courts in a time of austerity. Exploring courtroom lawyers' assessment of government policy (2010-2017) (2019)
Thesis
Nicklas-Carter, C. M. (2019). Efficiency of the English criminal courts in a time of austerity. Exploring courtroom lawyers' assessment of government policy (2010-2017). (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413074

Against the background of financial cuts this thesis examines the effects of the measures pursued by the government to improve the efficiency of the English criminal courts and the English and Welsh Criminal Justice System (EWCJS). An initial examina... Read More about Efficiency of the English criminal courts in a time of austerity. Exploring courtroom lawyers' assessment of government policy (2010-2017).

An investigation into how professionals in English schools adapt to changes in careers information, advice and guidance policy (2019)
Thesis
Hackfath, I. R. (2019). An investigation into how professionals in English schools adapt to changes in careers information, advice and guidance policy. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413068

This research explores the process by which school senior leaders and careers advisers received and enacted a change in Careers Information, Advice and Guidance (CIAG) policy. In 2012 the statutory responsibility to provide independent CIAG transferr... Read More about An investigation into how professionals in English schools adapt to changes in careers information, advice and guidance policy.

A collaborative approach to developing a shared morality to protect the natural environment (2019)
Thesis
Udrea, L. I. (2019). A collaborative approach to developing a shared morality to protect the natural environment. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413066

Given the limitations of current governmental approaches in influencing people to take pro-environmental action, especially in the longer term, this thesis explores whether a shared morality towards nature can be developed. Focusing on one community... Read More about A collaborative approach to developing a shared morality to protect the natural environment.

Standing Acts: The Political Aesthetics of Defiant Resistance (2019)
Journal Article
Ryan. (2019). Standing Acts: The Political Aesthetics of Defiant Resistance. International Political Sociology, 13(2), 111-127. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olz003

We most commonly encounter the word defiance when used as an adverb to classify a peculiarly courageous or risky act of resistance. However, the use of the word defiance in this way is a departure from the historical meaning of the word. Moreover, it... Read More about Standing Acts: The Political Aesthetics of Defiant Resistance.

State, community community and the negotiated construction of energy markets: Community energy policy in England (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). State, community community and the negotiated construction of energy markets: Community energy policy in England. Geoforum, 21 -31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.02.006

This article provides fresh insight on the political construction of markets through empirical analysis of community energy in the UK. It considers the diverse actors, understandings, processes and technologies enrolled in market creation, stabilisat... Read More about State, community community and the negotiated construction of energy markets: Community energy policy in England.

Challenging bias in ecological education discourses: Emancipatory development education in developing countries (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Challenging bias in ecological education discourses: Emancipatory development education in developing countries. Ecological Economics, 373-381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.11.020

This paper uses a critical framework integrating Capability, Feminist and Critical Pedagogic theories to challenge the reductive focus within sustainability discourses on the physical environment, and education's typical 'development' focus on econom... Read More about Challenging bias in ecological education discourses: Emancipatory development education in developing countries.

Alice in Wonderland: Voluntary sector organisations’ experiences of Transforming Rehabilitation (2019)
Journal Article
Corcoran. (2019). Alice in Wonderland: Voluntary sector organisations’ experiences of Transforming Rehabilitation. Probation Journal, 96 - 112. https://doi.org/10.1177/0264550518820118

This article explores the experience of voluntary sector organisations (VSOs) in the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) experiment. It identifies the motivations, expectations, rationalities and experiences of voluntary sector participants, drawing on... Read More about Alice in Wonderland: Voluntary sector organisations’ experiences of Transforming Rehabilitation.

Abundance in the Anthropocene (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Abundance in the Anthropocene. Sociological Review, 357-373

Numerous attempts have been made to understand the Anthropocene in relation to overwhelming species and habitat loss. However, amidst these losses ecological niches have emerged and been taken as signs of resilience and hope: from mushrooms that flou... Read More about Abundance in the Anthropocene.

The Ordinary Presidency of Donald J. Trump (2019)
Book
Herbert, J., McCrisken, T., & Wroe, A. (2019). The Ordinary Presidency of Donald J. Trump. Springer

The Ordinary Presidency of Donald J. Trump provides a detailed explanation for the discrepancy between Trump’s extraordinary approach and the relative mediocrity of his achievements.

Against the Humiliation of Thought: The university as a space of dystopic destruction and utopian potential (2019)
Journal Article
Featherstone. (2019). Against the Humiliation of Thought: The university as a space of dystopic destruction and utopian potential. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 51(3), 297-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2018.1477044

My objective in this paper is to write a pharmacology of the university by thinking about its relationship to systemic stupidity, intelligence, and the possibility of becoming. Starting with an exploration of the contemporary dystopia of drive-based... Read More about Against the Humiliation of Thought: The university as a space of dystopic destruction and utopian potential.

Introduction: Contemporary policing and non-warranted volunteering (2019)
Journal Article
Millie, A., & Wells, H. (2019). Introduction: Contemporary policing and non-warranted volunteering. Policing and Society, 29(4), 371-375. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2019.1584624

Research on policing has tended to focus on paid and warranted officers, often overlooking the large and, in many jurisdictions, expanding army of volunteers working with or for the police. Where there has been research on police volunteering this ha... Read More about Introduction: Contemporary policing and non-warranted volunteering.

Red capital in Hong Kong (2019)
Journal Article
Wang-Kaeding, H., & Kaeding, M. P. (2019). Red capital in Hong Kong. Asian Education and Development Studies, 8(2), 149-160. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeds-02-2018-0032

Purpose The purpose of this paper is threefold: first, to recount the scale, composition and agents of red capital in Hong Kong; second, to conceptualise the peculiarity of red capital; and third, to explore the impact of red capital on the politica... Read More about Red capital in Hong Kong.

A Cultural Account of Ecological Democracy (2019)
Journal Article
Hammond. (2019). A Cultural Account of Ecological Democracy. Environmental Values, 28(1), 55-74. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327119X15445433913578

In the debate around ecological democracy, a pivotal point of contention has long been the question why democracy should actually be expected, as some claim, to deliver (more) ecological outcomes. This point is empirical as well as conceptual: it is... Read More about A Cultural Account of Ecological Democracy.

DROUGHT: THE ACHILLES HEEL OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN (2019)
Journal Article
Shahi, A. (2019). DROUGHT: THE ACHILLES HEEL OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN. Asian Affairs, 50(1), 18-39. https://doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2019.1567100

Approximately 97% of the country is experiencing drought conditions. Due to gross water mismanagement and its damaging impact on the country, Iran faces the worst situation in water resources of any industrialized nation. Tens of thousands of village... Read More about DROUGHT: THE ACHILLES HEEL OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN.

Collingwood on Philosophical Methodology (2019)
Book
Dharamsi, K., D'Oro, G., & Leach, S. (Eds.). (2019). Collingwood on Philosophical Methodology. Springer: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02432-1

Explores an under-served area: investigates Collingwood's main treatises in specific relation to the field of philosophical methodology Offers currency: shows the relationship between Collingwood and contemporary philosophical pragmatism, and so d... Read More about Collingwood on Philosophical Methodology.