Decolonising Medical Knowledge - the case of breast cancer and ethnicity in the UK. (2022)
Journal Article
Lau, L., Workman, S., & Thompson, M. (2022). Decolonising Medical Knowledge - the case of breast cancer and ethnicity in the UK. Journal of Cancer Policy, 36, Article 100365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcpo.2022.100365

National and global efforts have led to significant improvements in breast health and diagnosis, globally (Lukong, 2017). These achievements, however, are not even. Focusing on the case of breast cancer in the UK, we argue that enduring forms of medi... Read More about Decolonising Medical Knowledge - the case of breast cancer and ethnicity in the UK..

Planet Patrolling: A citizen science brand audit of anthropogenic litter in the context of national legislation and international policy. (2022)
Journal Article
Law, A. (2022). Planet Patrolling: A citizen science brand audit of anthropogenic litter in the context of national legislation and international policy. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 129118 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.129118

Anthropogenic Litter (AL) is ubiquitous in distribution and diverse in type and impact. Citizen science AL clean-ups engage citizens with the environment and have the potential to generate data that can inform policy. Here we present a detailed citiz... Read More about Planet Patrolling: A citizen science brand audit of anthropogenic litter in the context of national legislation and international policy..

Gendered Rage (2022)
Journal Article
Lau, L., & Mendes, A. (2022). Gendered Rage. https://doi.org/10.5744/jgps.2021.0005

<jats:p>This article brings the concept of anger, particularly gendered anger, to bear on a postcolonial and intersectional reading of the apparent ragelessness of working-class Indian women who act as surrogates in the international commercialgestat... Read More about Gendered Rage.

The opportunities and challenges of governing mobility in the rural-urban fringe - a study of Warrington, UK (2022)
Thesis
Peacock, A. J. (2022). The opportunities and challenges of governing mobility in the rural-urban fringe - a study of Warrington, UK. (Thesis). Keele University

The rural-urban fringe is a complex space, yet one increasingly being viewed as a unique, positive opportunity space (Scott et al., 2013). It is characterised by a flexible, contextspecific spatial form and is subject to governance pressures by both... Read More about The opportunities and challenges of governing mobility in the rural-urban fringe - a study of Warrington, UK.

Geographical distribution of trace elements (selenium, zinc, iron, copper) and case fatality rate of COVID-19: a national analysis across conterminous USA (2022)
Journal Article
Chen, Y., Ma, Z., Yu, D., Jiang, Z., Wang, B., & Yuan, L. (2022). Geographical distribution of trace elements (selenium, zinc, iron, copper) and case fatality rate of COVID-19: a national analysis across conterminous USA. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 44, 4423–4436. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-022-01204-0

Severe outcome particularly death is the largest burden of COVID-19. Clinical observations showed preliminary data that deficiency in certain trace elements, essential for the normal activity of immune system, may be associated with worse COVID-19 ou... Read More about Geographical distribution of trace elements (selenium, zinc, iron, copper) and case fatality rate of COVID-19: a national analysis across conterminous USA.

Precarity as a Mode of Enquiry (2022)
Book Chapter
Lau. (2022). Precarity as a Mode of Enquiry. In Precarity in South Asian Literature in English

The affective economy of vaping: a qualitative analysis of responses to an online questionnaire (2021)
Journal Article
Lucherini. (2021). The affective economy of vaping: a qualitative analysis of responses to an online questionnaire. Critical Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2021.1950638

E-cigarettes are believed to be less harmful than combustible tobacco. However, e-cigarettes have created divisions in public health: within and between academia, policy and practice. As e-cigarettes proliferate, and public health debates intensify,... Read More about The affective economy of vaping: a qualitative analysis of responses to an online questionnaire.

A holistic framework for reshaping urban energy infrastructure in Global South cities, a case study of the Greater Cairo Region, Egypt (2021)
Journal Article
Khalofa, Y., George, S., & Catney, P. (2021). A holistic framework for reshaping urban energy infrastructure in Global South cities, a case study of the Greater Cairo Region, Egypt

Exploring Welfare Bricolage in Europe’s Superdiverse Neighbourhoods (2021)
Book
Pemberton. (2021). Exploring Welfare Bricolage in Europe’s Superdiverse Neighbourhoods. (1). Taylor and Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003111504

Migration-driven diversity means European cities are becoming increasingly superdiverse. Some European neighbourhoods have become places where newcomers arrive from across the world, speaking many different languages, from a range of socio-economic b... Read More about Exploring Welfare Bricolage in Europe’s Superdiverse Neighbourhoods.

EU migrant retention and the temporalities of migrant staying: A new conceptual framework (2021)
Journal Article
Pemberton, S., Hof, H., & Pietka-Nykaza, E. (2021). EU migrant retention and the temporalities of migrant staying: A new conceptual framework. Comparative Migration Studies, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-021-00225-5

Challenges of weak economic growth, population decline, and labour shortages led many countries across the world to introduce immigration policy changes in order to attract foreign migrants. This paper focuses on Japan (Tokyo) and the UK (Birmingham,... Read More about EU migrant retention and the temporalities of migrant staying: A new conceptual framework.

Where do successful populations originate from? (2021)
Journal Article
Andras, P., & Stanton, A. (2021). Where do successful populations originate from?. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 524, Article ARTN 110734. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2021.110734

In order to understand the dynamics of emergence and spreading of socio-technical innovations and population moves it is important to determine the place of origin of these populations. Here we focus on the role of geographical factors, such as land... Read More about Where do successful populations originate from?.

A UK perspective on tackling the geoscience racial diversity crisis in the Global North (2021)
Journal Article
Rogers. (2021). A UK perspective on tackling the geoscience racial diversity crisis in the Global North. Nature Geoscience, 14, 256-259. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00737-w

Geoscientists will play key roles in the grand challenges of the twenty-first century, but this requires our field to address its past when it comes to diversity and inclusion. Considering the bleak picture of racial diversity in the UK, we put forwa... Read More about A UK perspective on tackling the geoscience racial diversity crisis in the Global North.

Twenty-First-Century Antigones: The Postcolonial Woman Shaped by 9/11 in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire (2021)
Journal Article
Lau, L., & Mendes, A. (2021). Twenty-First-Century Antigones: The Postcolonial Woman Shaped by 9/11 in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire. Studies in the Novel, 54 - 68. https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2021.0004

Set in the early 2010s, the backdrop of Kamila Shamsie's novel Home Fire (2017) is a familiar one to contemporary readers, colored by the rise of farright populist movements and the increase in anti-Muslim initiatives. This article examines how the n... Read More about Twenty-First-Century Antigones: The Postcolonial Woman Shaped by 9/11 in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire.

Using Google Trends to assess the impact of Global Public Health Days on online health information-seeking behaviour in Arabian Peninsula (2021)
Journal Article
Ajbar, A., Shepherd, T. A., Robinson, M., Mallen, C. D., & Prior, J. A. (2021). Using Google Trends to assess the impact of Global Public Health Days on online health information-seeking behaviour in Arabian Peninsula. Journal of Egyptian Public Health Association, 94, Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42506-020-00063-w

BACKGROUND: Global Public Health Days (GPHD) are public health interventions which serve to improve public awareness of specific health conditions. Google Trends is a publicly available tool that allows the user to view the popularity of a searched k... Read More about Using Google Trends to assess the impact of Global Public Health Days on online health information-seeking behaviour in Arabian Peninsula.

The environmentally impacts of digital health. (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). The environmentally impacts of digital health. Digital Health, 20552076211033421 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076211033421

Digital health interventions are widely celebrated due to their low-cost nature and ability to provide tailored person-centred care in communities worldwide. As coronavirus disease-19 has rapidly accelerated their growth and reach, interest in global... Read More about The environmentally impacts of digital health..

On global plasticity: framing the global through affective materiality (2020)
Journal Article
McKay. (2020). On global plasticity: framing the global through affective materiality. New Global Studies, https://doi.org/10.1515/ngs-2020-0039

As a pervasive, material element of the global, plastics raise potent social and environmental questions. More than merely the ‘stuff’ of potential global prosperity, plastics are substances people inscribe with varied cultural meanings. Deploying co... Read More about On global plasticity: framing the global through affective materiality.

The Housing Response to New Refugee Flows in Amsterdam: a Governance Perspective (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). The Housing Response to New Refugee Flows in Amsterdam: a Governance Perspective. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/j4dg-dw16

To-date, little research has been conducted regarding the governance of long-term housing solutions for refugees. As such, a critical gap remains within academia. This research aims to investigate the importance of housing governance for new refugees... Read More about The Housing Response to New Refugee Flows in Amsterdam: a Governance Perspective.

Mental mapping and multinational migrations: a geographical imaginations approach (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Mental mapping and multinational migrations: a geographical imaginations approach. Geographical Research, https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12435

Researching migration decision-making raises certain methodological issues due to complexity of these practices and the diversity of possibilities that exist for aspiring migrants. Migrants are increasingly engaging in multiple migrations, moving bet... Read More about Mental mapping and multinational migrations: a geographical imaginations approach.

4. 'The Only Blond Girl in Manila’: Challenges and Opportunities as a White Western Young Woman Postgraduate Researching in Asia (2020)
Book Chapter
(2020). 4. 'The Only Blond Girl in Manila’: Challenges and Opportunities as a White Western Young Woman Postgraduate Researching in Asia. In Handbook on Gender in Asia

Exploring gender as a fundamental factor in the way that lives of individuals, families and societies across Asia are organized, this timely Handbook studies the importance of modernization and globalization for understanding gender in Asia ...

Inequalities, harm reduction and non-combustible nicotine products: a meta-ethnography of qualitative evidence (2020)
Journal Article
Lucherini, M., Hill, S., & Smith, K. (2020). Inequalities, harm reduction and non-combustible nicotine products: a meta-ethnography of qualitative evidence. BMC Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09083-9

Background
We sought to review qualitative evidence on how smokers in different socioeconomic groups engage with non-combustible nicotine products (NCNP), including electronic cigarettes and nicotine replacement therapies, in order to provide insigh... Read More about Inequalities, harm reduction and non-combustible nicotine products: a meta-ethnography of qualitative evidence.