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Community engagement with English devolution (2025)
Report
McCabe, H. Community engagement with English devolution. Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology

Successive governments have promoted greater devolution in England, but challenges remain about community engagement with the policy and local decision-making.

A little less conversation, a little more action: Schools and the prevention of violent extremism through reasoned engagement (2025)
Journal Article
Stevens, D. (2025). A little less conversation, a little more action: Schools and the prevention of violent extremism through reasoned engagement. Theory and Research in Education, https://doi.org/10.1177/14778785241309278

Many liberal democratic countries have enacted policy programmes aimed at preventing support for violent extremism. In countries such as the United Kingdom, part of this responsibility falls upon state-maintained schools. Teachers are charged with –... Read More about A little less conversation, a little more action: Schools and the prevention of violent extremism through reasoned engagement.

The Anglo-American military relationship: arms across the ocean (2024)
Book
Rees, W. (2024). The Anglo-American military relationship: arms across the ocean. Oxford University Press

This book focuses on Anglo-American military cooperation since the end of the Cold War. It argues that military cooperation has been an important source of ballast underpinning the broader ‘Special Relationship’. This cooperation has been relatively... Read More about The Anglo-American military relationship: arms across the ocean.

Can Policy Succeed through Inactivity? A Case Study of UK Foreign Policy after the Gulf War (2024)
Journal Article
Kettle, L. (2025). Can Policy Succeed through Inactivity? A Case Study of UK Foreign Policy after the Gulf War. Foreign Policy Analysis, 21(1), Article orae036. https://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/orae036

Can policy succeed through inactivity? Why does some inactivity lead to policy success, whilst others lead to policy failure? Whilst traditional approaches to policy success and failure have focused upon the impact of active policy interventions, thi... Read More about Can Policy Succeed through Inactivity? A Case Study of UK Foreign Policy after the Gulf War.

Predicting the replicability of social and behavioural science claims in COVID-19 preprints (2024)
Journal Article
Marcoci, A., Wilkinson, D. P., Vercammen, A., Wintle, B. C., Lou Abatayo, A., Baskin, E., Berkman, H., Buchanan, E. M., Capitán, S., Capitán, T., Chan, G., Cheng, K. J. G., Coupé, T., Dryhurst, S., Duan, J., Edlund, J. E., Errington, T. M., Fedor, A., Fidler, F., Field, J. G., …van der Linden, S. (2024). Predicting the replicability of social and behavioural science claims in COVID-19 preprints. Nature Human Behaviour, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01961-1

Replications are important for assessing the reliability of published findings. However, they are costly, and it is infeasible to replicate everything. Accurate, fast, lower-cost alternatives such as eliciting predictions could accelerate assessment... Read More about Predicting the replicability of social and behavioural science claims in COVID-19 preprints.

Excavating the Underground: How to Study the Ideologies of Radical Groups (2024)
Book Chapter
Fleming, S. (in press). Excavating the Underground: How to Study the Ideologies of Radical Groups. In Routledge Handbook of Ideology Analysis (26). Routledge

Studying the ideologies of radical groups presents unique methodological and practical challenges. Whereas political parties have published platforms, recognized leaders, and authorized spokespeople, radical groups tend to operate in decentralized an... Read More about Excavating the Underground: How to Study the Ideologies of Radical Groups.

Fact or Fiction? UK Intelligence Agencies’ Representation in the Press (2024)
Journal Article
Ward, S., & Lomas, D. W. (2024). Fact or Fiction? UK Intelligence Agencies’ Representation in the Press. International Journal of Intelligence and Counter Intelligence, https://doi.org/10.1080/08850607.2024.2399627

In recent years, much has been written about the ‘openness’ of modern-day intelligence agencies and the role of the press. It has been argued that openness and wider engagement fits a pattern of manipulation, presenting a soften image of agencies to... Read More about Fact or Fiction? UK Intelligence Agencies’ Representation in the Press.

Skinfolk, but Not Kinfolk? Paradoxical Representation Among Ethnic Minority Conservative Political Elites in the UK (2024)
Journal Article
Begum, N., Bankole, M., Briscoe-Palmer, S., Godshaw, D., & Saini, R. (2024). Skinfolk, but Not Kinfolk? Paradoxical Representation Among Ethnic Minority Conservative Political Elites in the UK. Politics and Gender, 20(3), 745 - 750. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x24000278

As the number of ethnic minority politicians increase across countries like the United Kingdom and the United States, so too have instances in which these officeholders act against the communities they descriptively represent. In this contribution, w... Read More about Skinfolk, but Not Kinfolk? Paradoxical Representation Among Ethnic Minority Conservative Political Elites in the UK.