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Talk like an expert : the construction of expertise in news comments concerning Climate Change (2020)
Journal Article
Coen, S., Meredith, J., Woods, R., & Fernandez, A. (2021). Talk like an expert : the construction of expertise in news comments concerning Climate Change. Public Understanding of Science, 30(4), 400-416. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662520981729

This paper explores how readers of UK newspapers construct expertise around climate change (CC). It draws on 300 on-line readers’ comments on news items in The Guardian, Daily Mail and The Telegraph, concerning the release of the IPCC report calling... Read More about Talk like an expert : the construction of expertise in news comments concerning Climate Change.

Inter- and intra-agency intelligence liaison during ‘the Troubles’ (2020)
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Newbery, S. (2021). Inter- and intra-agency intelligence liaison during ‘the Troubles’. Small Wars and Insurgencies, 32(4-5), 687-713. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2020.1853998

Intelligence is crucial to success in counter-terrorism, and successful intelligence work involves effective liaison between and within all the organisations involved. Scholars rarely address intelligence in counter-terrorism other than through case... Read More about Inter- and intra-agency intelligence liaison during ‘the Troubles’.

‘The magnetic pull of the metropolis’ : the Manchester Guardian, the provincial press and ideas of the north (2020)
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O'Reilly, C. (2020). ‘The magnetic pull of the metropolis’ : the Manchester Guardian, the provincial press and ideas of the north. Northern History, 57(2), 270-290. https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172X.2020.1800932

The newspaper globally known as the Guardian began its life in Manchester as the Manchester Guardian. This paper examines the reactions of readers of the newspaper in the context of the decision to remove the word ‘Manchester’ from the its title in 1... Read More about ‘The magnetic pull of the metropolis’ : the Manchester Guardian, the provincial press and ideas of the north.

“Soldiers with stiff bodies” : rumors, stereotypes and the Chinese image of the British army during the First Opium War (1839-1842) (2020)
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Searle, D., & Zhang, Y. (2020). “Soldiers with stiff bodies” : rumors, stereotypes and the Chinese image of the British army during the First Opium War (1839-1842). Journal of Modern Chinese History, 14(1), 86-110. https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2020.1759307

One of the more curious aspects of the First Opium War was the circulation of two claims about British soldiers among Chinese officials, instigated by Commissioner Lin Zexu: their uniforms were so tight, if they were to stumble they would not be able... Read More about “Soldiers with stiff bodies” : rumors, stereotypes and the Chinese image of the British army during the First Opium War (1839-1842).

Does the understanding of complex dynamic events at 10 months predict vocabulary development? (2020)
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Durrant, S., Jessop, A., Chang, F., Bidgood, A., Peter, M., Pine, J., & Rowland, C. (2021). Does the understanding of complex dynamic events at 10 months predict vocabulary development?. Language and Cognition, 13(1), 66-98. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2020.26

By the end of their first year, infants can interpret many different types of complex dynamic visual events, such as caused-motion, chasing, and goal-directed action. Infants of this age are also in the early stages of vocabulary development, produci... Read More about Does the understanding of complex dynamic events at 10 months predict vocabulary development?.

Panzerkampfwagen V Panther (2020)
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Searle, D. (2020). Panzerkampfwagen V Panther. Desperta ferro. Especial, 4(XXIV), 20-27

Who's in charge? Changing character agency in early Doctor Who (2020)
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Hewett, R. (2020). Who's in charge? Changing character agency in early Doctor Who. Series: International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, 6(1), 5-15. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2421-454X/9805

This article investigates the impact of production process upon character agency in early Doctor Who, focusing on the period between 1963 and 1966, during which time William Hartnell starred as the Doctor. As originally conceived by Sydney Newman, Ve... Read More about Who's in charge? Changing character agency in early Doctor Who.

Strangled at birth : the One Nation ideology of Theresa May (2020)
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Hickson, K., Page, R., & Williams, B. (2020). Strangled at birth : the One Nation ideology of Theresa May. Journal of Political Ideologies, 25(3), 334-350. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2020.1773074

Contemporary and retrospective evaluation of Theresa May’s premiership inevitably focuses on the division, drift and indecision which characterized it. However, this article argues that although such narratives have considerable validity, they miss a... Read More about Strangled at birth : the One Nation ideology of Theresa May.

Picturing resistance and resilience : South Asian identities in the work of Chila Kumari Burman (2020)
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Correia, A. (2020). Picturing resistance and resilience : South Asian identities in the work of Chila Kumari Burman. Visual Culture in Britain, 21(2), 199-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2020.1760128

The issues of migration and the allocation of passports is a contentious issue in twenty-first-century Britain. This paper offers a timely assessment of Chila Kumari Burman’s diptych, Convenience, Not Love, 1986–7, which uses the passport motif to pr... Read More about Picturing resistance and resilience : South Asian identities in the work of Chila Kumari Burman.

Rich kids : a history of shopping malls in Tehran and the believers are but brothers - digital lack and excess in a postdigital age (2020)
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Scott, J. (2020). Rich kids : a history of shopping malls in Tehran and the believers are but brothers - digital lack and excess in a postdigital age. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 16(2), 134-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2020.1761680

This article addresses two recent performances by Javaad Alipoor and Kirsty Housley - Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran (2019) and The Believers are but Brothers (2017). It argues that they represent a fresh, stripped back and interrog... Read More about Rich kids : a history of shopping malls in Tehran and the believers are but brothers - digital lack and excess in a postdigital age.

On the completeness of interface descriptions and the consistency of blocked forces obtained in-situ (2020)
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Meggitt, J., & Moorhouse, A. (2020). On the completeness of interface descriptions and the consistency of blocked forces obtained in-situ. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 145, 106850. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2020.106850

Blocked forces can be used to describe, independently, the operational characteristics of a vibratory source. Their use within a computational model avoids the need to represent explicitly the complex mechanisms that lead to vibratory excitation. T... Read More about On the completeness of interface descriptions and the consistency of blocked forces obtained in-situ.

Security, scandal and the security commission report, 1981 (2020)
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Lomas, D. (2020). Security, scandal and the security commission report, 1981. Intelligence and National Security, 35(5), 734-750. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2020.1740387

This research note introduces the December 1981 report of the Security Commission. This report was never released with the main conclusions forming the basis of a statement by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, published in May 1982. But the 1981 repo... Read More about Security, scandal and the security commission report, 1981.

Turds, traitors and tossers : the abuse of UK MPs via Twitter (2020)
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Ward, S., & Mcloughlin, L. (2020). Turds, traitors and tossers : the abuse of UK MPs via Twitter. Journal of Legislative Studies, 26(1), 47-73. https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2020.1730502

There has been growing public attention around the abuse of MPs online including criminal convictions for violent threats, regular coverage of racist and misogynistic language directed at representatives. Yet, the extent of the problem and patterns o... Read More about Turds, traitors and tossers : the abuse of UK MPs via Twitter.