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The Magic of Plants and Animals (2025)
Book Chapter
Parish, J., & Lowell, J. (in press). The Magic of Plants and Animals. In Cultural History of Magic (20). Bloomsbury

Neutral Nihilism (2025)
Journal Article
Tartaglia, J. (in press). Neutral Nihilism. Journal of Philosophy of Life, 15(1), 1-20

I defend an evaluatively neutral interpretation of nihilism against the negative and positive alternatives, arguing that Negative Nihilism and Sunny Nihilism fail to grasp the significance of nihilism's claim that there is no cosmic goal to human lif... Read More about Neutral Nihilism.

Contemporary Disunity Among Congressional Republicans (2025)
Book Chapter
Herbert, J. (in press). Contemporary Disunity Among Congressional Republicans. In The Changing Character of the American Right, Volume II. (1). London: Palgrave Macmillan

From The Changing Character of the American Right, Volume II
Edited By, Joel D. Aberbach, Bruce E. Cain, Desmond King & Gillian Peele

While scholarship on the US Congress emphasizes increasing levels of party unity in the late 20th and early 21st... Read More about Contemporary Disunity Among Congressional Republicans.

‘To whom am I speaking?’; Public responses to crime reporting via live chat with human versus AI police operators (2025)
Journal Article
Bradford, B., Kyprianides, A., Andrews, W., Aston, E., Clayton, E., O’Neill, M., & Wells, H. (in press). ‘To whom am I speaking?’; Public responses to crime reporting via live chat with human versus AI police operators. Policing and Society, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2025.2453437

Driven by social and technological change and the imperative to enhance efficiency, police have in recent years adopted various technologies to transform their interactions with the public. In the UK, these initiatives often fall under ‘transformatio... Read More about ‘To whom am I speaking?’; Public responses to crime reporting via live chat with human versus AI police operators.

Philosophy as an Instrument of Anti-Authoritarianism: On Ramberg’s Dialogical Metaphilosophy (2025)
Book Chapter
Tartaglia, J. (in press). Philosophy as an Instrument of Anti-Authoritarianism: On Ramberg’s Dialogical Metaphilosophy. In Pragmatism, Metaphysics and Method: Essays for Bjørn Ramberg, edited by Yvonne Hütter-Almerigi and Robert Sinclair. Nordic Studies in Pragmatism

This paper centres on an analysis of Ramberg’s early paper, “Rorty and the Instruments of Philosophy”, which I see as presenting Ramberg’s own original and explicitly Platonic dialogical metaphilosophy, one which I have been greatly influenced by. Th... Read More about Philosophy as an Instrument of Anti-Authoritarianism: On Ramberg’s Dialogical Metaphilosophy.

Operationalising ‘vulnerability’: how the police are informed about, identify and respond to individuals categorised as ‘vulnerable’ (2024)
Thesis
Briody, L. J. Operationalising ‘vulnerability’: how the police are informed about, identify and respond to individuals categorised as ‘vulnerable’. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1012506

‘Vulnerability’ has become an increasing area of business within contemporary policing, (HMIC, 2015; HMICFRS, 2016). What ‘vulnerability’ means within a police framework and policing practice, however, has been elusive (Keay & Kirby, 2018). Researche... Read More about Operationalising ‘vulnerability’: how the police are informed about, identify and respond to individuals categorised as ‘vulnerable’.

Analysing power dynamics in teachers’ understanding of policies through storytelling about refugees in the East Midlands region (2024)
Thesis
Hewitt, S. Analysing power dynamics in teachers’ understanding of policies through storytelling about refugees in the East Midlands region. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1012522

The aim of this thesis was to use storytelling to determine how five teachers in the East Midlands assimilated conflicting discourses into practice and whether they aligned policy with personal and professional beliefs, ultimately identifying if they... Read More about Analysing power dynamics in teachers’ understanding of policies through storytelling about refugees in the East Midlands region.

Is there value, and a practical application for the use of ‘risk terrain’ analysis in the rural county of Lincolnshire? (2024)
Thesis
Fox, H. Y. Is there value, and a practical application for the use of ‘risk terrain’ analysis in the rural county of Lincolnshire?. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1012538

Risk terrain modelling (RTM) has been demonstrated to work in identifying locations at future risk of crime, with most published research in highly urbanised areas of the America’s. This research investigates the applicability of RTM, using the Simsi... Read More about Is there value, and a practical application for the use of ‘risk terrain’ analysis in the rural county of Lincolnshire?.

Leading professional learning for sustainability in geography education through curriculum design (2024)
Journal Article
Swift, D., & Rawlings Smith, E. (in press). Leading professional learning for sustainability in geography education through curriculum design. Journal of Professional Capital and Community, https://doi.org/10.1108/jpcc-12-2023-0092

Purpose
International and national education policy identifies the need for young people to develop knowledge and understanding of sustainability and to use this knowledge for positive action. This paper reflects on a larger curriculum investigation... Read More about Leading professional learning for sustainability in geography education through curriculum design.

‘Why aren’t you using Bluetooth?!’ Officer understanding of the dangers of handheld and handsfree mobile phone-use by drivers (2024)
Journal Article
Briggs, G., Savigar-Shaw, L., & Wells, H. (in press). ‘Why aren’t you using Bluetooth?!’ Officer understanding of the dangers of handheld and handsfree mobile phone-use by drivers. Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles, https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258x241309187

Phone-use by drivers contributes to increasing numbers of collisions and deaths worldwide. Despite clear evidence for the equal dangers of handsfree phone-use, most jurisdictions only prohibit handheld use. This mixed-methods study provides an in-dep... Read More about ‘Why aren’t you using Bluetooth?!’ Officer understanding of the dangers of handheld and handsfree mobile phone-use by drivers.

Electoral Systems: A Global Perspective (2024)
Book
Carter, E., Farrell, D. M., & Loomes, G. (2024). Electoral Systems: A Global Perspective. (Third edition). London: Bloomsbury Publishing

How do different electoral systems work to translate votes into seats? What effects do they have on the political system, on political actors, and on voters? Does the choice of electoral system always involve a trade-off between strong and stable gov... Read More about Electoral Systems: A Global Perspective.

“Reconsidering Questions of Principle”: Collingwood and the Revival of Celtic Art (2024)
Book Chapter
Leach, S. (2024). “Reconsidering Questions of Principle”: Collingwood and the Revival of Celtic Art. . Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009337021.014

In his chapter on “Art” in Roman Britain and the English Settlements, Collingwood attempts to explain the revival of Celtic art that occurred in Britain after a period of Roman art of almost four hundred years. In his Autobiography he declared this w... Read More about “Reconsidering Questions of Principle”: Collingwood and the Revival of Celtic Art.

What Defines a Discipline and How We Teach and Study It? The Changing Scope and Role of the Subject Benchmark Statement for Politics and International Relations (IR) and Its Implications For the Teaching and Study of Politics and IR in Higher Education (2024)
Journal Article
Blair, A., Craig, J., Gann, R., Honeyman, V., Bellaby, R., Kolpinskaya, E., …Parker, J. (2024). What Defines a Discipline and How We Teach and Study It? The Changing Scope and Role of the Subject Benchmark Statement for Politics and International Relations (IR) and Its Implications For the Teaching and Study of Politics and IR in Higher Education. Political Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217241297629

The paper asks whether there is a typical Politics and IR curriculum before reviewing the content and design of the revised fifth edition of the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) Politics and IR Subject Benchmark Statement that was launched in March 202... Read More about What Defines a Discipline and How We Teach and Study It? The Changing Scope and Role of the Subject Benchmark Statement for Politics and International Relations (IR) and Its Implications For the Teaching and Study of Politics and IR in Higher Education.