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Digital Economy Industries, the Logic of Globalisation, and the Engineered and Entangled Cultures of Production and Consumption Behind the China-Africa Nexus (2025)
Book Chapter
Mutibwa, D. (2025). Digital Economy Industries, the Logic of Globalisation, and the Engineered and Entangled Cultures of Production and Consumption Behind the China-Africa Nexus. In H. Bao, & D. Mutibwa (Eds.), Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter discusses China-Africa relations in the development of digital economy industries within the context of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Digital Silk Road (DSR) flagship. In doing so, the chapter explores related encounters, en... Read More about Digital Economy Industries, the Logic of Globalisation, and the Engineered and Entangled Cultures of Production and Consumption Behind the China-Africa Nexus.

Introduction: Entangled Histories and Ambivalent Feelings in Africa-China Relations (2025)
Book Chapter
Bao, H., & Mutibwa, D. (2025). Introduction: Entangled Histories and Ambivalent Feelings in Africa-China Relations. In H. Bao, & D. H. Mutibwa (Eds.), Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture. Routledge

Two prominent developments in global geopolitics in the twenty-first century have been the rise of Africa and China, and the growing prominence of their entangled histories and present. But these histories, and the present they have engendered, are... Read More about Introduction: Entangled Histories and Ambivalent Feelings in Africa-China Relations.

The Queer Global South: Transnational Video Activism Between China and Africa (2025)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2025). The Queer Global South: Transnational Video Activism Between China and Africa. In H. Bao, & D. H. Mutibwa (Eds.), Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture. Routledge

In this chapter, I examine grassroots cinematic connections and video activism between China and Africa by using Queer University as a case study. Through semi-structured online interviews with some Queer University organisers and participants in 202... Read More about The Queer Global South: Transnational Video Activism Between China and Africa.

Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture (2025)
Book
Bao, H., & Mutibwa, D. H. (Eds.). (2025). Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture. Routledge

This book explores the ambivalent relationship between China and the Global South from literary, media and cultural perspectives. It underlines the rich histories and complex processes of cultural exchange, cross-cultural communication, and transcult... Read More about Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture.

A Periodical Masquerade: The History of the Book in Nineteenth Century America, Unbound (2025)
Book Chapter
Pethers, M. (2025). A Periodical Masquerade: The History of the Book in Nineteenth Century America, Unbound. In The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies (186-202). Cambridge University Press

This essay uses concepts drawn from the field of New Materialism, which posits that material objects possess forms of agency that shape human culture rather than just being passively acted upon, to move the history of the book beyond common assumptio... Read More about A Periodical Masquerade: The History of the Book in Nineteenth Century America, Unbound.

British India in the 1850s (2025)
Book Chapter
Ni Fhlathuin, M. (2025). British India in the 1850s. In G. Marshall (Ed.), Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: the 1850s (225-249). Cambridge University Press

Donor Variability Alters the Characteristics of Human Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells (2025)
Journal Article
Ya, J., & Bayraktutan, U. (in press). Donor Variability Alters the Characteristics of Human Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells. Current Issues in Molecular Biology, 47(2), Article 73. https://doi.org/10.3390/cimb47020073

Primary brain microvascular endothelial cells (BMECs) are widely used in a large number of in vitro studies each year to better mimic their physiological characteristics in vivo. However, potential changes in primary endothelial cells stemming from d... Read More about Donor Variability Alters the Characteristics of Human Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells.

The impact of an educational intervention on undergraduate students' knowledge, acceptability, and willingness to pay for dapivirine vaginal ring in Nigeria's first indigenous university: a single-arm, non-randomized study (2025)
Journal Article
Isah, A., Ezenri, G., Obi, O., Okibe, N. A., Usman Ma’aji, H., Ugochukwu, E. J., Eze, C. C., Amoke, C. M., Ezeodimegwu, A., Idabor, C. C., Abubakar, M. M., Iloabuchi, F., Ugwu, I. J., Asogwa, C. M., Ukwe, C. V., & Ukoha‑kalu, B. O. (2025). The impact of an educational intervention on undergraduate students' knowledge, acceptability, and willingness to pay for dapivirine vaginal ring in Nigeria's first indigenous university: a single-arm, non-randomized study. Discover Social Science and Health, 5, Article 8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44155-025-00153-0

Background This study aimed to assess the impact of an educational intervention on knowledge, acceptability, and willingness to pay (WTP) for dapivirine vaginal ring (DPV-VR) by undergraduate female students at the University of Nigeria (UNN).

Me... Read More about The impact of an educational intervention on undergraduate students' knowledge, acceptability, and willingness to pay for dapivirine vaginal ring in Nigeria's first indigenous university: a single-arm, non-randomized study.

The unspoken value of water infrastructure (2025)
Journal Article
Valero, D., Pummer, E., Heller, V., Kramer, M., Bung, D. B., Mulligan, S., & Erpicum, S. (2025). The unspoken value of water infrastructure. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 212, Article 115378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2025.115378

Water infrastructure forms the backbone of development, being pivotal for water, food and energy security. Both existing and new infrastructure must cope with global climatic challenges and increased human activity. Continuous investment in water inf... Read More about The unspoken value of water infrastructure.

Self-reported and task-based impulsivity, aggression, and childhood trauma in the general population: A United- Kingdom-based online survey (2025)
Journal Article
Aubrey, O., Jones, K. A., & Paddock, E. (2025). Self-reported and task-based impulsivity, aggression, and childhood trauma in the general population: A United- Kingdom-based online survey. Journal of Criminal Psychology,

Purpose
The societal, economic and personal costs of aggression are indisputable. Impulsivity and childhood trauma (CT) play a role in aggression but less is known about the potential mechanisms underlying these associations. This study aimed to inv... Read More about Self-reported and task-based impulsivity, aggression, and childhood trauma in the general population: A United- Kingdom-based online survey.

What do We Know About How Processes of Desistance Vary by Ethnicity? (2025)
Journal Article
Farrall, S., Warr, J., Shaw, A., & Sharma, K. (in press). What do We Know About How Processes of Desistance Vary by Ethnicity?. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice,

This paper reviews what is known about ethnic identity and the processes by which people cease offending. Whilst the past 30 years have seen dramatic growths in what is known about desistance, in many jurisdictions there is a paucity of research whic... Read More about What do We Know About How Processes of Desistance Vary by Ethnicity?.

Probing and manipulating the Mexican hat-shaped valence band of In2Se3 (2025)
Journal Article
Felton, J., Harknett, J., Page, J., Yang, Z., Alghofaili, N., O'Shea, J. N., Eaves, L., Kohama, Y., Greenaway, M. T., & Patanè, A. (2025). Probing and manipulating the Mexican hat-shaped valence band of In2Se3. Nature Communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56139-8

Ferroelectrics based on van der Waals semiconductors represent an emergent class of materials for disruptive technologies ranging from neuromorphic computing to low-power electronics. However, many theoretical predictions of their electronic properti... Read More about Probing and manipulating the Mexican hat-shaped valence band of In2Se3.

On Face Value: A Ghost Driver Field Study Investigating Interactions Between Pedestrians and a Driverless Vehicle with Anthropomorphic Displays (2025)
Journal Article
Large, D., Harvey, C., Hallewell, M., Li, X., & Burnett, G. (2025). On Face Value: A Ghost Driver Field Study Investigating Interactions Between Pedestrians and a Driverless Vehicle with Anthropomorphic Displays. Ergonomics, https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2025.2454927

In a novel, on-road study, using a ‘Ghost Driver’ to emulate an automated vehicle (AV), we captured over 10 hours of video (n=520) and 64 survey responses documenting the behaviour and attitudes of pedestrians in response to the AV. Three prototype e... Read More about On Face Value: A Ghost Driver Field Study Investigating Interactions Between Pedestrians and a Driverless Vehicle with Anthropomorphic Displays.

Probation, Technical Compliance and the 'Drowning' of Hope (2025)
Journal Article
Philips, J., Lewis, S., Stevens, K., Ali, M., Dockley, A., & Farrall, S. (in press). Probation, Technical Compliance and the 'Drowning' of Hope. British Journal of Criminology,

Hope and optimism are central to processes of reform. However, in the context of the dramatic restructuring and reorganisations which the probation service in England and Wales has undergone in the past decade, there are questions over the extent to... Read More about Probation, Technical Compliance and the 'Drowning' of Hope.

Efficient post-selection in light cone correlations of monitored quantum circuits (2025)
Journal Article
Li, J., Jack, R. L., Bertini, B., & Garrahan, J. P. (2025). Efficient post-selection in light cone correlations of monitored quantum circuits. Physical Review B, 111(2), Article 024309. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.111.024309

We consider how to target evolution conditioned on atypical measurement outcomes in monitored quantum circuits, i.e., the post-selection problem. We show that for a simple class of measurement schemes, post-selected light cone dynamical correlation f... Read More about Efficient post-selection in light cone correlations of monitored quantum circuits.

Timeism (2025)
Book Chapter
Georgiadou, A., & Damianidou, E. (2025). Timeism. In J. Helms Mills, A. J. Mills, K. S. Williams, & R. Bendl (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia on Gender and Management (445-447). Edward Elgar Publishing