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Contract cheating and academic literacies: Exploring the landscape (2022)
Thesis
Thacker, E. J. (2022). Contract cheating and academic literacies: Exploring the landscape. (Thesis). Keele University

The phenomenon of contract cheating in higher education is complex and a growing concern for those invested in the delivery of high-quality education and positive educational outcomes. This research explores the academic literacies practices, exchang... Read More about Contract cheating and academic literacies: Exploring the landscape.

A solution to the Problem of Evil: Advaita Vedanta and the challenge of horrendous evil (2022)
Thesis
O’Neill-Adkins, H. E. (2022). A solution to the Problem of Evil: Advaita Vedanta and the challenge of horrendous evil. (Thesis). Keele University

The problem of evil is possibly the most difficult question facing the theist. How are we to resolve the presence of evil in the world with the belief in an all loving, all powerful, God? For generations Western theists have offered possible solution... Read More about A solution to the Problem of Evil: Advaita Vedanta and the challenge of horrendous evil.

Religious symbols in public spaces: the politics of regulation in England and France (2022)
Thesis
Ibiši, S. (2022). Religious symbols in public spaces: the politics of regulation in England and France. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis examines the regulations of religious symbols in public spaces in England and France. It contends that these cannot be understood just by reference to historical and cultural contexts, and argues they can only be more fully explained by t... Read More about Religious symbols in public spaces: the politics of regulation in England and France.

comaw Staff and hms Fearless 1982 (2022)
Journal Article
Parr, H. (2022). comaw Staff and hms Fearless 1982. International Journal of Military History and Historiography, 43(1), 14-44. https://doi.org/10.1163/24683302-43010003

Combatant memoirs are a valuable source for historians of conflict in general and of the Falklands War in particular, revealing experiences of war that would otherwise be beyond recovery. This chapter provides a previously unpublished memoir (written... Read More about comaw Staff and hms Fearless 1982.

Interrogating the deployment of ‘risk’ and ‘vulnerability’ in the context of early intervention initiatives to prevent child sexual exploitation (2022)
Journal Article
Mythen, G., & Weston, S. (2022). Interrogating the deployment of ‘risk’ and ‘vulnerability’ in the context of early intervention initiatives to prevent child sexual exploitation. Health, Risk and Society, 1 - 19. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698575.2022.2150750

This article draws on data collected from a qualitative study designed to assess the effectiveness of an early intervention programme aimed to raise awareness of Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) among young people. The programme was implemented by a l... Read More about Interrogating the deployment of ‘risk’ and ‘vulnerability’ in the context of early intervention initiatives to prevent child sexual exploitation.

Supervision of Chinese social work students during field practice: Harmonising a student-focused, egalitarian approach with traditional teaching and learning (2022)
Journal Article
Yeung, E. Y. W., Jie, Z., Liu, B. C. P., & Shardlow, S. M. (2022). Supervision of Chinese social work students during field practice: Harmonising a student-focused, egalitarian approach with traditional teaching and learning. International Social Work, 67(2), 469-484. https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728221136974

This article explores the extent to which approaches to supervision developed outside of China fit with Chinese cultural approaches to learning and teaching. Qualitative data were collected from students and supervisors from three different regions i... Read More about Supervision of Chinese social work students during field practice: Harmonising a student-focused, egalitarian approach with traditional teaching and learning.

Letters on Suspension (2022)
Book Chapter
Lim, E., & Anuar, A. M. (2022). Letters on Suspension. In International Student Mobilities and Voices in the Asia-Pacific (191-200). Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3675-3_14

I often think about my last flight back to Boston from Singapore in Jan 2020. Six months before, I visited Chicago in August, and Houston in September. Despite having classes and a teaching assistantship, I flew to India to attend my friend’s wedding... Read More about Letters on Suspension.

Understanding Policy-Making in an Authoritarian State: An Ontology-Driven Framework for Analyzing Chinese Higher Education Policymaking (2022)
Book Chapter
Wu, J. (2022). Understanding Policy-Making in an Authoritarian State: An Ontology-Driven Framework for Analyzing Chinese Higher Education Policymaking. In Theory and Method in Higher Education Research (61-81). (Vol. 8). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s2056-375220220000008004

Studying Chinese higher education internationalization policy-making requires paying attention to the political ontology of China's top-designed policy-making system before proceeding to methodological approaches. The ontology is two-fold: a fixed re... Read More about Understanding Policy-Making in an Authoritarian State: An Ontology-Driven Framework for Analyzing Chinese Higher Education Policymaking.

Securing sustainability and access to energy in low- and middle-income countries: opportunities for the ‘Hayah Karima’ programme in Egypt (2022)
Journal Article
George. (2022). Securing sustainability and access to energy in low- and middle-income countries: opportunities for the ‘Hayah Karima’ programme in Egypt

“Hayah Karima” or “Decent Life” is a national initiative that aims to improve the quality of life and provide better services in rural and unplanned settlements in Egypt within the framework of the Sustainable Development Strategy: Egypt Vision 2030.... Read More about Securing sustainability and access to energy in low- and middle-income countries: opportunities for the ‘Hayah Karima’ programme in Egypt.

Securing sustainability and access to energy in low- and middle-income countries: opportunities for the ‘Hayah Karima’ programme in Egypt (2022)
Report
Catney, P., Khalifa, Y., & George, S. (2022). Securing sustainability and access to energy in low- and middle-income countries: opportunities for the ‘Hayah Karima’ programme in Egypt. https://climatecompatiblegrowth.com/wp-content/uploads/Opportunities-for-the-Hayah-Karima-Programme_COP27-Policy-Brief.pdf: COP27

“Hayah Karima” or “Decent Life” is a national initiative that aims to improve the quality of life and provide better services in rural and unplanned settlements in Egypt within the framework of the Sustainable Development Strategy: Egypt Vision 2030.... Read More about Securing sustainability and access to energy in low- and middle-income countries: opportunities for the ‘Hayah Karima’ programme in Egypt.

‘Channel shift’: Technologically mediated policing and procedural justice (2022)
Journal Article
Wells, H. M., Aston, E. V., Bradford, B., O'Neill, M., Clayton, E., & Andrews, W. (2023). ‘Channel shift’: Technologically mediated policing and procedural justice. International Journal of Police Science and Management, 25(1), 42-52. https://doi.org/10.1177/14613557221132962

In recent years, police forces in the United Kingdom have introduced various technologies that alter the methods by which they interact with the public. In a parallel development, many forces have also begun to embrace the concept of procedural justi... Read More about ‘Channel shift’: Technologically mediated policing and procedural justice.

The British Conservative Party: What just happened? And what now? (2022)
Journal Article
Carter, E. (2022). The British Conservative Party: What just happened? And what now?. Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften, https://doi.org/10.24338/mip-2022340-347

This piece examines the events that shook politics in the UK in the summer of 2022. It begins by chronicling what exactly happened. Then, it explores the background and the longer-term causes of the political and financial crisis that beset the count... Read More about The British Conservative Party: What just happened? And what now?.

Ecoaesthetics: Environmental aesthetics and Kant's deduction (2022)
Thesis
Kings, A. E. (2022). Ecoaesthetics: Environmental aesthetics and Kant's deduction. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis is designed to develop an understanding of the problems, limitations and potential uses of Kant's aesthetic deduction. Motivated by an interest in environmental aesthetics, this thesis offers a critical analysis of Kantian aesthetics in o... Read More about Ecoaesthetics: Environmental aesthetics and Kant's deduction.

Coloniality, expert knowledges and the 'war on terror': a survey of three think tanks' discourses 2001-2015 (2022)
Thesis
Khan, S. (2022). Coloniality, expert knowledges and the 'war on terror': a survey of three think tanks' discourses 2001-2015. (Thesis). Keele University

Informed by the critique of Eurocentrism in the discipline of International Relations, this thesis investigates the relationship between knowledge production defined as expertise, the ‘global war on terror’, and coloniality. It conducts a critical su... Read More about Coloniality, expert knowledges and the 'war on terror': a survey of three think tanks' discourses 2001-2015.