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‘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.

Neutral Nihilism (2024)
Journal Article
Tartaglia, J. (in press). Neutral Nihilism. Journal of Philosophy of Life,

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.

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.

The Role and Impact of the Prison Chaplain: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis (2024)
Journal Article
Jarrett, M., Skinner, J., Busulwa, R., Dyson, J., & Brooke, J. (in press). The Role and Impact of the Prison Chaplain: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis. The journal of pastoral care & counseling : JPCC, https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050241296487

While the relationship between crime, prisons and religion has been the subject of extensive research, the contemporary role and impact of prison chaplaincy remains a relatively under-explored area of study. This systematic literature review explored... Read More about The Role and Impact of the Prison Chaplain: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis.

Is Attoe’s Neutral Nihilism Neutral Enough? (2024)
Journal Article
Tartaglia, J. (in press). Is Attoe’s Neutral Nihilism Neutral Enough?. Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions,

In this paper I analyse and critique Aribiah David Attoe’s position in The Question of Life’s Meaning: An African Perspective (2023). While highly sympathetic to his project, since I also defend an evaluatively neutral form of nihilism, I argue that... Read More about Is Attoe’s Neutral Nihilism Neutral Enough?.

Supervising criminalised women in the community in England and Wales: A brief history of (un)changing attitudes (2024)
Journal Article
Vanstone, M., & Worrall, A. (2024). Supervising criminalised women in the community in England and Wales: A brief history of (un)changing attitudes. The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12584

There has not been a specific history of supervising women in the community. This article, therefore, describes the early neglect of work with women and the period of change from the 1970s when women became more visible and the criminal justice syste... Read More about Supervising criminalised women in the community in England and Wales: A brief history of (un)changing attitudes.

Extinction Rebellion’s disobedient environmental citizenism (2024)
Journal Article
Hayes, G., Cammiss, S., Doherty, B., & Saunders, C. (in press). Extinction Rebellion’s disobedient environmental citizenism. Environmental Politics, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2024.2406183

We examine the public protest of Extinction Rebellion (XR) in the UK as a specific political practice. We do so through our observation of the plea hearings of activists charged with public order offences during the April 2019 London ‘Rebellion’, foc... Read More about Extinction Rebellion’s disobedient environmental citizenism.

Anatomising the Chinese State and Theorising It in Policymaking (2024)
Journal Article
Wu, J. (2024). Anatomising the Chinese State and Theorising It in Policymaking. China: An International Journal, 22(3), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.56159/chn.2024.a936306

Conceptualising the contemporary Chinese state remains problematic due to its authoritarian attributes, its inextricable Party-state structure and its position within a political system that places emphasis on the normative and discursive aspects of... Read More about Anatomising the Chinese State and Theorising It in Policymaking.

Imagining the negentropic university: The madness of computation, the possibility of the uncomputable, and thinking otherwise (2024)
Journal Article
Featherstone, M. (2024). Imagining the negentropic university: The madness of computation, the possibility of the uncomputable, and thinking otherwise. Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/10714413.2024.2391603

In this piece I outline the history of the university in terms of a shift from a place concerned with the contemplation of the unknowable and the infinite to a machine focused on instrumental rationality, calculation, and computation. Reading this hi... Read More about Imagining the negentropic university: The madness of computation, the possibility of the uncomputable, and thinking otherwise.

Activism as technology of the posthuman self: towards a more relevant school (2024)
Journal Article
Barnard, M. (in press). Activism as technology of the posthuman self: towards a more relevant school. Educational Review, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2024.2383896

This paper aims to make a theoretical contribution to the field of student activism in relation to the school. In an age marked by ecological, economic and technological change, and where certainties based on Humanism and anthropocentricism continue... Read More about Activism as technology of the posthuman self: towards a more relevant school.

Evaluating Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Settings-Let Us Not Reinvent the Wheel. (2024)
Journal Article
Cresswell, K., de Keizer, N., Magrabi, F., Williams, R., Rigby, M., Prgomet, M., …Ammenwerth, E. (in press). Evaluating Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Settings-Let Us Not Reinvent the Wheel. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 26, Article e46407. https://doi.org/10.2196/46407

Given the requirement to minimize the risks and maximize the benefits of technology applications in health care provision, there is an urgent need to incorporate theory-informed health IT (HIT) evaluation frameworks into existing and emerging guideli... Read More about Evaluating Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Settings-Let Us Not Reinvent the Wheel..

Proverbial teachings on sustainability: critical dialogues on traditional proverbs and zine-making in higher education (2024)
Journal Article
Anuar, A. M., & Mun, O. (2024). Proverbial teachings on sustainability: critical dialogues on traditional proverbs and zine-making in higher education. Teaching in Higher Education, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2024.2366916

What ethical and political considerations does zine-making raise in teaching and learning across knowledge systems and artful expression? This question guides the critical dialogue about a research project on teaching sustainability through tradition... Read More about Proverbial teachings on sustainability: critical dialogues on traditional proverbs and zine-making in higher education.

Powers, persistence, and the problem of temporary intrinsics (2024)
Journal Article
Allen, S. R. (in press). Powers, persistence, and the problem of temporary intrinsics. Philosophical Studies, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-024-02157-z

David Lewis uses the problem of temporary intrinsics to motivate a perdurantist account of persistence in which four-dimensional individuals consist of temporal parts. Other philosophers use his argument to conclude that apparently persisting individ... Read More about Powers, persistence, and the problem of temporary intrinsics.

Powers, persistence, and the problem of temporary intrinsics (2024)
Journal Article
Allen, S. (2024). Powers, persistence, and the problem of temporary intrinsics. Philosophical Studies, Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Persistence and (De Re) Modality, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-024-02157-z

David Lewis uses the problem of temporary intrinsics to motivate a perdurantist account of persistence in which four-dimensional individuals consist of temporal parts. Other philosophers use his argument to conclude that apparently persisting indivi... Read More about Powers, persistence, and the problem of temporary intrinsics.

The Role of Higher Education in the Post-Truth Era (2024)
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Parker, J. (2024). The Role of Higher Education in the Post-Truth Era. Journal of Political Science Education, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/15512169.2024.2354972

The rise in populism and movements that threaten trust in science and expertise has been labelled a post-truth world. What challenges does this environment present for higher education, and how should it respond? This article examines the character... Read More about The Role of Higher Education in the Post-Truth Era.

On the Insurability of Cyber warfare: An Investigation into the German Cyber Insurance Market (2024)
Journal Article
Cremer, F., Sheehan, B., Mullins, M., Fortmann, M., Ryan, B. J., & Materne, S. (2024). On the Insurability of Cyber warfare: An Investigation into the German Cyber Insurance Market. Computers and Security, 124, Article 103886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2024.103886

Insurance is an important part of a constellation of institutions that assist in the provision of security, resilience and welfare. This is true across a range of threats, including those in the cyber domain. Cyber risks, particularly those associate... Read More about On the Insurability of Cyber warfare: An Investigation into the German Cyber Insurance Market.