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Public Adoption of and Trust in the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Quantitative Online Survey Study (2021)
Working Paper

Background: Digital contact tracing is employed to monitor and manage the spread of COVID-19. However, to be effective the system must be adopted by a substantial proportion of the population. Studies of mostly hypothetical contact tracing apps show... Read More about Public Adoption of and Trust in the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Quantitative Online Survey Study.

Dumber energy at home please: Perceptions of Smart Energy Technologies are dependent on home, workplace, or policy context in the United Kingdom (2021)
Journal Article

Smart energy technologies (SETs) are being developed around the world to support using energy more efficiently and to smooth our consumption over time, helping us to meet our carbon reduction targets. Notably, SETs will only be effective with support... Read More about Dumber energy at home please: Perceptions of Smart Energy Technologies are dependent on home, workplace, or policy context in the United Kingdom.

Telling their own stories: Encouraging veterinary students to ethically reflect (2021)
Journal Article

Background: Veterinary practice raises complex and unique professional ethical dilemmas. There is increasing discussion of how best to deliver ethics education to veterinary students, so that they are fully prepared to address ethical conflicts in pr... Read More about Telling their own stories: Encouraging veterinary students to ethically reflect.

Government strategies for supporting the adult worker model in European countries: mixed implications for defamilisation (2021)
Journal Article

Purpose – This article explores the link between defamilisation studies and studies of the adult worker model and discusses the mixed implications that government strategies for supporting the adult worker model have for defamilisation. The adult wor... Read More about Government strategies for supporting the adult worker model in European countries: mixed implications for defamilisation.

Silencing Touch and Touching Silence? Understanding the Complex Links between Touch and Silence in Residential Child Care Settings (2021)
Journal Article

Touch and silence are neglected across most disciplines, including within child-specific academic literature, and their interconnections have not been studied before. This article focuses on touch/silence convergences in residential childcare in Engl... Read More about Silencing Touch and Touching Silence? Understanding the Complex Links between Touch and Silence in Residential Child Care Settings.

Using large text news archives for the analysis of climate change discourse: some methodological observations (2021)
Journal Article

This paper explores the contribution of software-based tools that are increasingly used for the semi-automated analysis of large volumes of text, especially Topic Modelling and Corpus Linguistics. These tools highlight the potential of getting intere... Read More about Using large text news archives for the analysis of climate change discourse: some methodological observations.

Orwell as Public Intellectual: Anarchism, Communism and the New Left (2021)
Journal Article

This article seeks to recover the importance of George Orwell as a critical public intellectual. Orwell remains a controversial figure for both The New Left and Anarchists during the post-war period. Here I seek to recover the complexity of Orwell’s... Read More about Orwell as Public Intellectual: Anarchism, Communism and the New Left.

Matarenda/Talents in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism: Empowerment, Gender and Development in an African Movement (2021)
Book

In Matarenda/Talents in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism, the fourteen contributors to this multidisciplinary collection reflect on how Pentecostalism contributes to the empowerment of marginalised societies, how it empowers women in particular through the... Read More about Matarenda/Talents in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism: Empowerment, Gender and Development in an African Movement.

Fostering Local Enterprise Development in Resource-Constrained Developing Countries: Matarenda and Microcredit Compared (2021)
Book Chapter

Movement as Method: Some Existential and Epistemological Reflections on Dance in the Health Humanities (2021)
Journal Article

The embodied creative practice of dance facilitates a particular kind of awareness or attunement which can inform both the therapeutic and the intellectual work of the Health Humanities. This paper therefore considers dance as a way of 'doing' Health... Read More about Movement as Method: Some Existential and Epistemological Reflections on Dance in the Health Humanities.