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Crawling Open-Source Data for Indicators of Human Trafficking (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Brewster, B., Ingle, T., & Rankin, G. (2014). Crawling Open-Source Data for Indicators of Human Trafficking. In 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. https://doi.org/10.1109/ucc.2014.116

Information available from open-source mediums such as the web and social media are increasingly being used to aid the response to emergent crimes and reinforce existing Law Enforcement Agency intelligence capability. In this paper we discuss the rat... Read More about Crawling Open-Source Data for Indicators of Human Trafficking.

From publics to practitioners: invention power and open technoscience (2014)
Journal Article
Papadopoulos, D. (2015). From publics to practitioners: invention power and open technoscience. Science as Culture, 24(1), (108-121). doi:10.1080/09505431.2014.986322. ISSN 0950-5431

There are more publics involved in science than one would imagine at first sight. In technoscientific conditions what counts as knowledge creation is not primarily the individual experimental achievement that gives coherence to scientific practice an... Read More about From publics to practitioners: invention power and open technoscience.

Examining user comments for deliberative democracy: a corpus-driven analysis of the climate change debate online (2014)
Journal Article
Collins, L. C., & Nerlich, B. (2014). Examining user comments for deliberative democracy: a corpus-driven analysis of the climate change debate online. Environmental Communication, 9(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2014.981560

The public perception of climate change is characterized by heterogeneity, even polarization. Deliberative discussion is regarded by some as key to overcoming polarization and engaging various publics with the complex issue of climate change. In this... Read More about Examining user comments for deliberative democracy: a corpus-driven analysis of the climate change debate online.

Material hardship and 529 college savings plan participation: the mitigating effects of Child Development Accounts (2014)
Journal Article
Wikoff, N., Huang, J., Kim, Y., & Sherraden, M. (2015). Material hardship and 529 college savings plan participation: the mitigating effects of Child Development Accounts. Social Science Research, 50, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.11.017

Experience of material hardship can adversely affect a family’s ability to make long-term investments in children’s development. We examine whether material hardship is associated with one indicator of such investments: participation in a tax-advanta... Read More about Material hardship and 529 college savings plan participation: the mitigating effects of Child Development Accounts.

Communicating employability: the role of communicative competence for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK (2014)
Journal Article
Madziva, R., McGrath, S., & Thondhlana, J. (2014). Communicating employability: the role of communicative competence for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-014-0403-z

Skilled migration is an increasingly important topic for both policy and research internationally. OECD governments in particular are wrestling with tensions between their desire to use skilled migration to be on the winning side in the ‘global war f... Read More about Communicating employability: the role of communicative competence for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK.

Drones for Good: Technological Innovations, Social Movements, and the State (2014)
Journal Article
Choi-Fitzpatrick, A. (2014). Drones for Good: Technological Innovations, Social Movements, and the State. Journal of International Affairs, 68(1), 19-36

The increased use of and attention to drones, or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles led to a widespread debate about their application. Much of this debate has their use by governments, often for the purpose of surveillance and warfare. T the state's use obscu... Read More about Drones for Good: Technological Innovations, Social Movements, and the State.

Metaphor as a mechanism of global climate change governance: a study of international policies, 1992–2012 (2014)
Journal Article
Shaw, C., & Nerlich, B. (2015). Metaphor as a mechanism of global climate change governance: a study of international policies, 1992–2012. Ecological Economics, 109, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.11.001

This paper explores the emergence of a global climate change mitigation regime through an analysis of the language employed in international science-policy reports. We assume that a global climate regime can only operate effectively on the basis of a... Read More about Metaphor as a mechanism of global climate change governance: a study of international policies, 1992–2012.

Researching social work practice close up: using ethnographic and mobile methods to understand encounters between social workers, children and families (2014)
Journal Article
Ferguson, H. (in press). Researching social work practice close up: using ethnographic and mobile methods to understand encounters between social workers, children and families. British Journal of Social Work, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcu120

Research into child and family social work has largely stopped short of getting close enough to practice to produce understandings of what goes on between social workers and service users. This is despite the known problems in social worker engagemen... Read More about Researching social work practice close up: using ethnographic and mobile methods to understand encounters between social workers, children and families.

The observers and the observed: The ‘dual vision’ of Mass Observation Project (2014)
Journal Article
Kramer, A. (2014). The observers and the observed: The ‘dual vision’ of Mass Observation Project. Sociological Research Online, 19(3), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.3455

In Summer 2008 I commissioned a Part 1 Directive on ‘Doing Family History Research’ from the Mass Observation Project as part of a Leverhulme-funded project[1] on the status and significance of genealogy and its role and consequences in personal and... Read More about The observers and the observed: The ‘dual vision’ of Mass Observation Project.

Economic intervention and parenting: a randomized experiment of statewide child development accounts (2014)
Journal Article
Nam, Y., Wikoff, N., & Sherraden, M. (2016). Economic intervention and parenting: a randomized experiment of statewide child development accounts. Research on Social Work Practice, 26(4), 339-349. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731514555511

Objective: We examine the effects of Child Development Accounts (CDAs) on parenting stress and practices. Methods: We use data from the SEED for Oklahoma Kids (SEED OK) experiment. SEED OK selected caregivers of infants from Oklahoma birth cer... Read More about Economic intervention and parenting: a randomized experiment of statewide child development accounts.

The challenges of consulting the public on science policy: examining the development of European risk assessment policy for genetically modified animals (2014)
Journal Article
Hartley, S., & Millar, K. M. (2014). The challenges of consulting the public on science policy: examining the development of European risk assessment policy for genetically modified animals. Review of Policy Research, 31(6), https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12102

With the growing importance of public engagement in science policy-making and declining levels of public trust in food production, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has attempted to embed ‘good governance’ approaches to strengthen scientific... Read More about The challenges of consulting the public on science policy: examining the development of European risk assessment policy for genetically modified animals.

Constructing a social subject: autism and human sociality in the 1980s (2014)
Journal Article
Hollin, G. (2014). Constructing a social subject: autism and human sociality in the 1980s. History of the Human Sciences, 27(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695114528189

This article examines three key aetiological theories of autism (meta-representations, executive dysfunction and weak central coherence), which emerged within cognitive psychology in the latter half of the 1980s. Drawing upon Foucault’s notion of ‘fo... Read More about Constructing a social subject: autism and human sociality in the 1980s.

Material returns: cultures of valuation, biofinancialisation and the autonomy of politics (2014)
Journal Article
Lilley, S., & Papadopoulos, D. (2014). Material returns: cultures of valuation, biofinancialisation and the autonomy of politics. Sociology, 48(5), (972-988). doi:10.1177/0038038514539206. ISSN 0038-0385

The ascent of biofinancialisation since the 1980s brought with it a culture of valuation that spread well beyond financial markets and came to pervade everyday life, subjectivity, ecology and materiality. At the same time, and as a response to the so... Read More about Material returns: cultures of valuation, biofinancialisation and the autonomy of politics.

Fracking on YouTube: exploring risks, benefits and human values (2014)
Journal Article
Jaspal, R., Turner, A., & Nerlich, B. (2014). Fracking on YouTube: exploring risks, benefits and human values. Environmental Values, 23(5), https://doi.org/10.3197/096327114X13947900181473

Shale gas is a novel source of fossil fuel which is extracted by induced hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” This article examines the the socio-political dimension of fracking as manifested in the UK press at three key temporal points in the debate... Read More about Fracking on YouTube: exploring risks, benefits and human values.

Responsible Research and Innovation: responding to the new research agenda (2014)
Report
Pearce, W., Hartley, S., & Taylor, A. (2014). Responsible Research and Innovation: responding to the new research agenda

Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is concerned with the nature and trajectory of research and innovation: what it can do for society and who gets to decide. RRI has been embedded in key funding institutions such as EPSRC (Engineering and Phys... Read More about Responsible Research and Innovation: responding to the new research agenda.

‘You can never cross the same river twice’: climbers’ embodied quests for ‘original adventure’ in southern Thailand (2014)
Journal Article
Bott, E. (2015). ‘You can never cross the same river twice’: climbers’ embodied quests for ‘original adventure’ in southern Thailand. Tourist Studies, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797614550959

This article presents ethnographic research into individual narratives of adventure in a small, undeveloped bay called Ton Sai in southern Thailand’s Krabi Province. Ton Sai is extremely popular with Western rock climbers and increasingly with other... Read More about ‘You can never cross the same river twice’: climbers’ embodied quests for ‘original adventure’ in southern Thailand.

Experiences of youth justice: youth justice discourses and their multiple effects (2014)
Journal Article
McAlister, S., & Carr, N. (2014). Experiences of youth justice: youth justice discourses and their multiple effects. Youth Justice, 14(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1473225414549694

Interventions within youth justice systems draw on a range of rationales and philosophies. Traditionally demarcated by a welfare/justice binary, the complex array of contemporary rationales meld different philosophies and practices, suggesting a muta... Read More about Experiences of youth justice: youth justice discourses and their multiple effects.

Trends in the management of registered sexual offenders across England and Wales: a geographical approach to the study of sexual offending (2014)
Journal Article
Hudson, K., Taylor, C., & Henley, A. (2015). Trends in the management of registered sexual offenders across England and Wales: a geographical approach to the study of sexual offending. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 21(1), (56-70). doi:10.1080/13552600.2014.949314. ISSN 1355-2600

Social scientists, and geographers in particular, have long been interested in examining spatial patterns of offending in order to generate a “geography” of crime and criminality. This paper examines what value, if any, a geographical approach to the... Read More about Trends in the management of registered sexual offenders across England and Wales: a geographical approach to the study of sexual offending.

Climate change and poverty: a new agenda for developed nations (2014)
Book
Fitzpatrick, T. (2014). Climate change and poverty: a new agenda for developed nations. Policy Press

Climate change and poverty offers a timely new perspective on the 'ecosocial' understanding of the causes, symptoms and solutions to poverty and applies this to recent developments across a number of areas, including fuelpoverty, food poverty, housin... Read More about Climate change and poverty: a new agenda for developed nations.