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Exploring the Pentecostal faith—sustainability—entrepreneurship nexus in Zimbabwe (2018)
Book Chapter
Anderson, A. H., Clifford, M., Madziva, R., Thondhlana, J., & Goronga, P. (2018). Exploring the Pentecostal faith—sustainability—entrepreneurship nexus in Zimbabwe. In W. L. Filo, & A. C. McCrea (Eds.), Sustainability and the humanities (225-237). Cham: Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95336-6_13

The aim of this paper is to explore the intersection between sustainability and the humanities, specifically the Pentecostal faith—entrepreneurship—sustainability nexus in Zimbabwe. It focuses on The Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa (ZAOGA) and asso... Read More about Exploring the Pentecostal faith—sustainability—entrepreneurship nexus in Zimbabwe.

Does ethnicity and culture affect the non- compliancy of cervical cancer screening? (2018)
Journal Article
Hennessey, L., Shaw, I., Okyere, S., & Adams, G. G. (2018). Does ethnicity and culture affect the non- compliancy of cervical cancer screening?. MOJ Public Health, 7(4), 219-227. https://doi.org/10.15406/mojph.2018.07.00233

Background: Globally, an estimated 528,000 women develop cervical cancer (CC) each year, 266,000 of whom die from the disease. CC is the fourth most-common cancer in women worldwide and fourteenth in the UK, where 3,200 cases are diagnosed each year.... Read More about Does ethnicity and culture affect the non- compliancy of cervical cancer screening?.

Social housing providers as unlikely low-carbon innovators (2018)
Journal Article
Cauvain, J., & Karvonen, A. (2018). Social housing providers as unlikely low-carbon innovators. Energy and Buildings, 177, 394-401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.08.012

Social housing providers have recently emerged as unlikely innovators of low carbon transitions in the UK residential sector. They tend to have a significant amount of influence over large housing stocks, opportunities to access funding to retrofit o... Read More about Social housing providers as unlikely low-carbon innovators.

Getting Out: Early Release in England and Wales, 1960 - 1995 (2018)
Book
Guiney, T. (2018). Getting Out: Early Release in England and Wales, 1960 - 1995. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803683.001.0001

Getting Out explores the evolution of early release in England and Wales between 1960 and 1995. In the past three decades crime has become a highly contested political issue with implications for the humanity, fairness, and effectiveness of the crimi... Read More about Getting Out: Early Release in England and Wales, 1960 - 1995.

Getting Out: Early Release in England and Wales, 1960 - 1995 (2018)
Book
Guiney, T. (2018). Getting Out: Early Release in England and Wales, 1960 - 1995. Oxford University Press (OUP)

Getting Out offers the first systematic account of the evolution of early release as a public policy concern in England and Wales between 1960 and 1995. At a time when public discourse on crime has focused, to a significant degree, upon the powers of... Read More about Getting Out: Early Release in England and Wales, 1960 - 1995.

Policy frameworks and supply?chain accounting (2018)
Book Chapter
Thornley, P., & Mohr, A. (2018). Policy frameworks and supply?chain accounting. In C. Gough, P. Thornley, S. Mander, N. Vaughan, & A. Lea-Langton (Eds.), Biomass energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS): unlocking negative emissionsWiley

Restorative policing for the 21st century: Historical lessons for future practice (2018)
Book Chapter
Clamp, K. (2018). Restorative policing for the 21st century: Historical lessons for future practice. In T. Gavrielides (Ed.), Routledge International Handbook of Restorative Justice. Routledge

Restorative policing has experienced somewhat of a tumultuous journey within the international criminal justice landscape. The practice first emerged in Wagga Wagga, Australia in the early 1990s where its architects drew inspiration from both the New... Read More about Restorative policing for the 21st century: Historical lessons for future practice.

Raymond Williams and the possibilities of ‘committed’ late Marxism (2018)
Journal Article
Stevenson, N. (2018). Raymond Williams and the possibilities of ‘committed’ late Marxism

After the end of the Cold War Marxist thought entered into a long crisis from which it is only just beginning to emerge. After 1989 it was no longer clear, apart from a few revolutionary outposts, what a commitment to Marxism meant. Not surprisingly... Read More about Raymond Williams and the possibilities of ‘committed’ late Marxism.

The VOICE study – a before and after study of a dementia communication skills training course (2018)
Journal Article
O’Brien, R., Goldberg, S. E., Pilnick, A., Beeke, S., Schneider, J., Sartain, K., …Harwood, R. H. (2018). The VOICE study – a before and after study of a dementia communication skills training course. PLoS ONE, 13(6), Article e0198567. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198567

Background A quarter of acute hospital beds are occupied by persons living with dementia, many of whom have communication problems. Healthcare professionals lack confidence in dementia communication skills, but there are no evidence-based communic... Read More about The VOICE study – a before and after study of a dementia communication skills training course.

Refugees’reception in Italy: past and present of a humanitarian crisis (2018)
Book Chapter
D'Angelo, A. (2018). Refugees’reception in Italy: past and present of a humanitarian crisis. In A. Petroff, G. Milios, & M. Pérez (Eds.), Refugiados en movimiento: retos políticos, legales y sociales = Refugees on the move: political, legal and social challenges in times of turmoil (92-106). Bellaterra: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Risk in synthetic biology: views from the lab (2018)
Journal Article
McLeod, C., Saille, S. D., & Nerlich, B. (2018). Risk in synthetic biology: views from the lab. EMBO Reports, 19(7), Article e45958. https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.201845958

How do synthetic biologists think about the risks in their research? This paper reports on a novel elicitation method that got surprising answers. Participants reflected not only on technical, but also on societal and psychological risks and responsi... Read More about Risk in synthetic biology: views from the lab.

The arts as a medium for care and self-care in dementia: arguments and evidence (2018)
Journal Article
Schneider, J. M. (2018). The arts as a medium for care and self-care in dementia: arguments and evidence. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(6), Article 1151. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15061151

The growing prevalence of dementia, combined with an absence of effective pharmacological treatments, highlights the potential of psychosocial interventions to alleviate the effects of dementia and enhance quality of life. With reference to a manifes... Read More about The arts as a medium for care and self-care in dementia: arguments and evidence.

Italy: the ‘illegality factory’? Theory and practice of refugees’ reception in Sicily (2018)
Journal Article
D’Angelo, A. (2019). Italy: the ‘illegality factory’? Theory and practice of refugees’ reception in Sicily. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45(12), 2213-2226. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2018.1468361

The recent surge of migrants crossing the Mediterranean in search of protection has presented a major challenge for the whole European Union. What has been labelled as a ‘refugee crisis’ is first and foremost a crisis of international politics and th... Read More about Italy: the ‘illegality factory’? Theory and practice of refugees’ reception in Sicily.