Outputs (46)

Cybercrime: Attack Motivations and Implications for Big Data and National Security (2015)
Book Chapter

Organizations are increasingly turning to the immeasurable quantities of data available through open-source mediums such as the web and social media to enhance their analytical capability and ultimately improve the quality and quantity of the informa... Read More about Cybercrime: Attack Motivations and Implications for Big Data and National Security.

Inovação responsável através de fronteiras: tensões, paradoxos e possibilidades (2015)
Journal Article

In March 2014 a group of early career researchers and academics from São Paulo state and from the UK met at the University of Campinas to participate in a workshop on ‘Responsible Innovation and the Governance of Socially Controversial Technologies’.... Read More about Inovação responsável através de fronteiras: tensões, paradoxos e possibilidades.

Participants' use of enacted scenes in research interviews: a method for reflexive analysis in health and social care (2015)
Journal Article

In our study of a workforce intervention within a health and social care context we found that participants who took part in longitudinal research interviews were commonly enacting scenes from their work during one-to-one interviews. Scenes were defi... Read More about Participants' use of enacted scenes in research interviews: a method for reflexive analysis in health and social care.

Work and social theory (2015)
Book Chapter

This chapter identifies some of the most important theoretical debates within the sociology of work and employment. It provides an historical context by introducing the key theoretical approaches that marked the birth of sociology. The chapter shows... Read More about Work and social theory.

Climate skepticism (2015)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines the changing use and meaning of the term ‘skeptic’ in the US elite press. Based on an analysis of the New York Times, it appears that the meaning of the word skeptic changed from a synonym of legitimate critic to an illegitimate... Read More about Climate skepticism.

Picturing probation: exploring the utility of visual methods in comparative research (2015)
Journal Article

A previous review of research on the practice of offender supervision identified the predominant use of interview-based methodologies and limited use of other research approaches (Robinson and Svensson, 2013). It also found that most research has t... Read More about Picturing probation: exploring the utility of visual methods in comparative research.

A gift exchange relationship?: reflections on doing qualitative research with vulnerable migrants (2015)
Journal Article

Recent reflections on the study of forced migration stress the importance of constructing ethically sound research relationships that both respect research participants as autonomous agents and protect them from all forms of harm in the research proc... Read More about A gift exchange relationship?: reflections on doing qualitative research with vulnerable migrants.

A violent legacy: policing insurrection in South Africa from Sharpeville to Marikana (2015)
Journal Article

Fifty-two years separate the fatal shootings by police of 69 anti-apartheid protestors at Sharpeville on 21st March 1960 and of 34 striking miners at Marikana on 16th August 2012. The parallels between the two ‘massacres’ are easy to overstate; but... Read More about A violent legacy: policing insurrection in South Africa from Sharpeville to Marikana.

Work-life balance/imbalance: The dominance of the middle class and the neglect of the working class (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 London School of Economics and Political Science. The paper was stimulated by the relative absence of the working class from work-life debates. The common conclusion from work-life studies is that work-life imbalance is largely a middle-class... Read More about Work-life balance/imbalance: The dominance of the middle class and the neglect of the working class.

Austria's post-Holocaust Jewish community: a subaltern counterpublic between the ethics and morality of memory (2015)
Book Chapter

In The Ethics of Memory, Avishai Margalit argues that memory and ethics are features of the ‘thick relations’ that bind ‘families, clans, tribes, religious communities and nations’ internally. This he contrasts to the ‘thin relations’ that connect hu... Read More about Austria's post-Holocaust Jewish community: a subaltern counterpublic between the ethics and morality of memory.