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Cyber-enabled tradecraft and contemporary espionage: assessing the implications of the tradecraft paradox on agent recruitment in Russia and China (2023)
Journal Article
Cunliffe, K. S. (in press). Cyber-enabled tradecraft and contemporary espionage: assessing the implications of the tradecraft paradox on agent recruitment in Russia and China. Intelligence and National Security, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2023.2216035

The acquisition of clandestine human sources – or agents – inside Russia and China likely remains the key priority for Western HUMINT agencies, and yet their ability to do this safely is quickly waning. This paper considers the utility of cyberspace... Read More about Cyber-enabled tradecraft and contemporary espionage: assessing the implications of the tradecraft paradox on agent recruitment in Russia and China.

The 2010–15 coalition government and the legacy of free schools in England (2023)
Journal Article
Williams, B. (2023). The 2010–15 coalition government and the legacy of free schools in England. Policy Futures in Education, https://doi.org/10.1177/14782103231176360

Free schools were a flagship policy of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition (2010–15), aligned with the broader academisation programme, yet both consolidating and transcending New Labour’s educational narrative between 1997 and 2010. Driven b... Read More about The 2010–15 coalition government and the legacy of free schools in England.

The role of medical officers of health in civil defence and how they influenced modern emergency medical practice (2023)
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Hazlehurst, N. (2023). The role of medical officers of health in civil defence and how they influenced modern emergency medical practice. Public Health, 219, 31-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2023.03.016

Objectives: The article will examine the role of the Medical Officer of Health within United Kingdom Local Authorities in the period preceding the Second World War, the war itself, the residual impact of their work on emergency medical and public hea... Read More about The role of medical officers of health in civil defence and how they influenced modern emergency medical practice.

Alma’s (Not) Normal: Normalising Working-Class Women in/on BBC TV Comedy (2023)
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Minor, L. (2023). Alma’s (Not) Normal: Normalising Working-Class Women in/on BBC TV Comedy. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 20(2), 137-161. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2023.0665

This article examines the BBC sitcom Alma’s Not Normal and its representation of white
working-class femininities in/on British TV comedy. After The Royle Family creator Caroline
Aherne’s death in July 2017, the BBC created a bursary in memory of t... Read More about Alma’s (Not) Normal: Normalising Working-Class Women in/on BBC TV Comedy.

Building a timeline for LGBTQ+ Global Cinemas (1895-2019): Movie Production Trends from a Collaborative Internet Cinema Database (2023)
Journal Article

This paper examines the role of cinema as a reflection of reality and social change. IMDb (Internet Movie Database) was employed as the main data source in order to examine the representation of LGBTQ+ in global cinema in parallel with the analysis o... Read More about Building a timeline for LGBTQ+ Global Cinemas (1895-2019): Movie Production Trends from a Collaborative Internet Cinema Database.

Building a timeline for LGBTQ+ global cinemas (1895-2019):movie production trends from a collaborative internet cinema database (2023)
Journal Article
Hernandez Perez, M., & Sanchéz Soriano, J. (2023). Building a timeline for LGBTQ+ global cinemas (1895-2019):movie production trends from a collaborative internet cinema database. Journal of Film and Video, 75(1), 46–61. https://doi.org/10.5406/19346018.75.1.04

This paper examines the role of cinema as a reflection of reality and social change. IMDb (Internet Movie Database) was employed as the main data source in order to examine the representation of LGBTQ+ in global cinema in parallel with the analysis o... Read More about Building a timeline for LGBTQ+ global cinemas (1895-2019):movie production trends from a collaborative internet cinema database.

Journal Article: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students’ learning at the Institute of Tourism Studies (Malta) (2023)
Journal Article

This paper discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the learning
experience of students at a VET (Vocational Educational Training) Higher Education Institution in tourism education, namely the Institute of Tourism Studies (ITS) in Malta (EU)... Read More about Journal Article: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students’ learning at the Institute of Tourism Studies (Malta).

“You’ve been living here for as long as you can remember”: trauma in OMORI's environmental design (2023)
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Younis, A., & Fedtke, J. (2023). “You’ve been living here for as long as you can remember”: trauma in OMORI's environmental design. Games and Culture, 19(3), 309-336. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120231162982

Developed by Omocat and released in December 2020, OMORI is a surreal psychological horror role-playing game. The game follows the titular protagonist Omori as it examines such sensitive topics as suicide, grief, death, and depression. Such traumatic... Read More about “You’ve been living here for as long as you can remember”: trauma in OMORI's environmental design.

Public service media and race relations in postcolonial Britain: BBC and immigrant programming, 1965–1988 (2023)
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This article explores how British Asians negotiated the politics of race in the formative years of British broadcasting from the 1960s to the 1980s. Marked by significant changes within the BBC and British society at large, this period saw the first... Read More about Public service media and race relations in postcolonial Britain: BBC and immigrant programming, 1965–1988.

The ‘milf’: a brief cultural history, from Mrs Robinson to Stifler’s mom (2023)
Journal Article
Minor, L. (in press). The ‘milf’: a brief cultural history, from Mrs Robinson to Stifler’s mom

The release of reality television series Milf Manor in January 2023 has added to the pantheon of milfs (“Mothers I’d Like to Fuck”) on screen. But from Stacy’s mum to Stifler’s mum: why is our cultural fascination with and fetishisation of the milf s... Read More about The ‘milf’: a brief cultural history, from Mrs Robinson to Stifler’s mom.

Dominant discourses in higher education. Book review: Kinchin, I. M. and Gravett, K. (2022) Dominant discourses in higher education: critical perspectives, cartographies and practice. London: Bloomsbury. (2023)
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Scott, M. (2023). Dominant discourses in higher education. Book review: Kinchin, I. M. and Gravett, K. (2022) Dominant discourses in higher education: critical perspectives, cartographies and practice. London: Bloomsbury. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 26, https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi26.1000

Gender and democratic resilience against autocratisation: the case of Romania’s ‘gender identity’ bill (2023)
Journal Article
Chiva, C. (2023). Gender and democratic resilience against autocratisation: the case of Romania’s ‘gender identity’ bill. European Journal of Politics and Gender, 6(3), 395–413. https://doi.org/10.1332/251510821x16735398665628

This article argues that, given the centrality of gender for recent processes of autocratisation, it has become imperative to understand and theorise the conditions underpinning democratic resilience against opposition to gender equality. I conceptua... Read More about Gender and democratic resilience against autocratisation: the case of Romania’s ‘gender identity’ bill.