Taking the right course: The possibilities and challenges of offering alternatives to prosecution for drivers detected using mobile phones while driving. (2022)
Journal Article
Wells, H., Briggs, G., & Savigar-Shaw, L. (2022). Taking the right course: The possibilities and challenges of offering alternatives to prosecution for drivers detected using mobile phones while driving. Accident analysis and prevention, 106710 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2022.106710

There is a considerable body of literature that outlines the dangers of mobile phone use by drivers. However, there is very little research that explores the role and effectiveness of attempts to tackle this specific road user problem. Generally, nor... Read More about Taking the right course: The possibilities and challenges of offering alternatives to prosecution for drivers detected using mobile phones while driving..

Remembering the Falklands war in Britain: From Division to Conviction? (2022)
Journal Article
Parr, H. (2022). Remembering the Falklands war in Britain: From Division to Conviction?. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 15(3), 266-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2022.2078543

This article examines how the Falklands war has been remembered in Britain. By looking at how ideas of the Falklands war reached public audiences, the article traces changing British understandings of the composition of the conflict. In the 1980s, th... Read More about Remembering the Falklands war in Britain: From Division to Conviction?.

'We did everything we could': An account of toxic leadership (2021)
Journal Article
Paton, C. (2021). 'We did everything we could': An account of toxic leadership. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 36(6), 1972-1989. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3264

BACKGROUND: The UK government's reckless and incompetent response to Covid-19 has produced an outcome which is amongst the worst in the world, and arguably the worst in terms of deaths per 100,000 population of major countries (especially when one me... Read More about 'We did everything we could': An account of toxic leadership.

The Demands of Substantive Decolonisation: Brexit and Ireland as a Matter of Justice (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). The Demands of Substantive Decolonisation: Brexit and Ireland as a Matter of Justice. Irish Political Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2021.1877899

Although the impact Brexit might have on Ireland has generated a vast array of critical analyses, insufficient attention has been paid to this project as a question of justice or a matter of potential injustice. It is suggested here that the relative... Read More about The Demands of Substantive Decolonisation: Brexit and Ireland as a Matter of Justice.

On order and disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic. (2020)
Journal Article
Stott. (2020). On order and disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic. British Journal of Social Psychology, 694 - 702. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12398

In this paper, we analyse the conditions under which the COVID-19 pandemic will lead either to social order (adherence to measures put in place by authorities to control the pandemic) or to social disorder (resistance to such measures and the emergen... Read More about On order and disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic..

Insouciance and inexperience: A deadly combination when dealing with COVID-19. (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Insouciance and inexperience: A deadly combination when dealing with COVID-19. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.2991

This article gives key reasons for the UK's tardy and confused attempts to react to the COVID-19 pandemic. It explains very poor outcomes in the UK (in terms of the spread of the virus and high mortality, already striking at the time of writing), in... Read More about Insouciance and inexperience: A deadly combination when dealing with COVID-19..

The coalition government and liberal intervention: Britain’s response to the crises in Libya and Syria (2020)
Thesis
Morgan, P. W. (2020). The coalition government and liberal intervention: Britain’s response to the crises in Libya and Syria. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis is a study of the response of the Coalition government (2010-2015) to the crises in Libya and Syria. It examines the key drivers of British policy in both cases, focusing particularly on government attitudes towards the use and non-use of... Read More about The coalition government and liberal intervention: Britain’s response to the crises in Libya and Syria.

Change in the Political Economy of Land Value Capture in England (2019)
Journal Article
Catney. (2019). Change in the Political Economy of Land Value Capture in England. Town Planning Review, 339-358. https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2019.24

Variations in the character, performance and impact of policies and practices to capture land value for the community are usually examined by analysing experience in different countries. Such international comparative research is cross-sectional and... Read More about Change in the Political Economy of Land Value Capture in England.

‘Brexit means Brexit’: On the Horror of the Other in (Neo)Liberal Britain (2017)
Journal Article
featherstone. (2017). ‘Brexit means Brexit’: On the Horror of the Other in (Neo)Liberal Britain. CTheory,

Social Movement Studies in Britain: No Longer the Poor Relation? (2016)
Book Chapter
Doherty. (2016). Social Movement Studies in Britain: No Longer the Poor Relation?. In Social Movement Studies in Europe: The State of the Art (191-213)

London's Dispossessed: Questioning the Neo-Victorian Politics of Neoliberal Austerity in Richard Warlow's Ripper Street (2016)
Journal Article
McWilliam. (2016). London's Dispossessed: Questioning the Neo-Victorian Politics of Neoliberal Austerity in Richard Warlow's Ripper Street. Victoriographies, 6(1), 42 - 61. https://doi.org/10.3366/vic.2016.0210

The moral justification for the rollback of benefits and services under the austerity programme unleashed by George Osborne since 2010, when he was first appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer by British Prime Minister David Cameron, is predicated on... Read More about London's Dispossessed: Questioning the Neo-Victorian Politics of Neoliberal Austerity in Richard Warlow's Ripper Street.

Public entrepreneurship and the politics of regeneration in multi-Level governance (2015)
Journal Article
Catney. (2015). Public entrepreneurship and the politics of regeneration in multi-Level governance. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, https://doi.org/10.1177/0263774X15613357

The paper uses a case study of urban regeneration policy in Sheffield, UK, to explore local public entrepreneurship in a system of multi-level governance. Recent analyses of public entrepreneurs have directed attention to the macro-political structur... Read More about Public entrepreneurship and the politics of regeneration in multi-Level governance.

Statecraft, scalecraft and local government reorganisation in Wales (2015)
Journal Article
Pemberton, S. (2015). Statecraft, scalecraft and local government reorganisation in Wales. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, https://doi.org/10.1177/0263774x15610581

Since the inception of local government in the UK, there have been continuous attempts to reorganise and revise its distinctive characteristics, with successive reforms differing in their intended effects. In Wales, a further round of local governmen... Read More about Statecraft, scalecraft and local government reorganisation in Wales.

All you need is love and £18,600: class and the new UK family migration rules (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). All you need is love and £18,600: class and the new UK family migration rules. Critical Social Policy, 228-247. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018314563039

In July 2012 the Conservative–Liberal Democrat Coalition government introduced a new set of family migration rules. These rules set a sharp increase in the minimum income threshold for people sponsoring partners and children to join them in the UK. C... Read More about All you need is love and £18,600: class and the new UK family migration rules.

Conflict, Commerce and Franco-Scottish Relations, 1560-1713 (2014)
Book
Talbott. (2014). Conflict, Commerce and Franco-Scottish Relations, 1560-1713. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315654614

Using untapped archival sources from Britain, France and America, Talbott presents a comparative view of British relations with France over the long seventeenth century.

The politics of industrial change: government involvement in the U.K. shipbuilding industry 1959-73
Thesis
Hogwood, B. W. (1977). The politics of industrial change: government involvement in the U.K. shipbuilding industry 1959-73

This study uses a policy analysis approach to examine the development of government policy towards the UK shipbuilding industry in the period 1959-73 as a case study of government involvement in an industry undergoing change. The focus is primarily a... Read More about The politics of industrial change: government involvement in the U.K. shipbuilding industry 1959-73.

Public policy and local interest groups in Britain: three case-studies
Thesis
Jacobs, B. D. (1978). Public policy and local interest groups in Britain: three case-studies

The themes developed in this study address themselves to the following questions:
1) The degree to which local interest groups are able to gain access to decision-makers and participate in the making and implementation of public policy.
2) The nat... Read More about Public policy and local interest groups in Britain: three case-studies.