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Emergent imaginaries : place, struggle and survival (2018)
Book Chapter
Gibbons, A. (2018). Emergent imaginaries : place, struggle and survival. In C. Lindner, & M. Meissner (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries. Routledge

This chapter looks at the emergent urban imaginaries implicit and explicit in three national US struggles around place engaged in by poor and working-class communities and communities of color. This examination of key urban movements for survival its... Read More about Emergent imaginaries : place, struggle and survival.

Realising the threshold of employability in higher education (2018)
Book Chapter
Procter, C., & Harvey, V. (2018). Realising the threshold of employability in higher education. In J. Carter, M. O'Grady, & C. Rosen (Eds.), Higher Education Computer Science : A Manual of Practical Approaches (203-220). Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98590-9

A substantial body of work has tested and developed ‘Threshold Concepts’. A Threshold Concept may be considered “akin to a portal, opening up a new and previously inaccessible way of thinking about something . . . it represents a transformed way of u... Read More about Realising the threshold of employability in higher education.

Nonlinear multiphysical laminar nanofluid bioconvection flows : models and computation (2018)
Book Chapter
Beg, O. (2018). Nonlinear multiphysical laminar nanofluid bioconvection flows : models and computation. In A. Sohail, & Z. Li (Eds.), Computational Approaches in Biomedical Nano-Engineering (113-145). Germany: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527344758.ch5

Bioconvection has been familiar to biological science for over a century. This phenomenon occurs due to average upwardly swimming micro-organisms which are a little denser than water in suspensions. The upper surface of the suspensions is destabilize... Read More about Nonlinear multiphysical laminar nanofluid bioconvection flows : models and computation.

Estimating embodied carbon emissions of buildings in developing countries : a case study from Sri Lanka (2018)
Book Chapter
Nawarathna, A., Alwan, Z., Fernando, N., & Gledson, B. (2018). Estimating embodied carbon emissions of buildings in developing countries : a case study from Sri Lanka. In L. Scott, & C. Gorse (Eds.), SEEDS 2018: 4th International SEEDS Conference 2018 Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (821-831). Dublin, Ireland: Dublin Institute of Technology

Even with the increasing attention on reduction of Embodied Carbon (EC) emissions in the global built environment sector, yet most of the developing countries focus only on reduction of Operational Carbon (OC) through improved operational energy per... Read More about Estimating embodied carbon emissions of buildings in developing countries : a case study from Sri Lanka.

Listening to black students… a critical review of practice education (2018)
Book Chapter
Hesk, G., McCaughan, S., & Stanley, A. (2018). Listening to black students… a critical review of practice education. In S. Taplin (Ed.), Innovations in Practice Learning. St Albans, UK: Critical Publishing

In Higher Education Institutions we embrace the notion of having a diverse and international presence in our Universities, the University of Salford strives towards, ‘Aligning our offer to best support students to secure a place at the University and... Read More about Listening to black students… a critical review of practice education.

“No one ever sees the Angel" : adapting The Phantom of the Opera (2018)
Book Chapter
McMurtry, L. (2018). “No one ever sees the Angel" : adapting The Phantom of the Opera. In L. Raw (Ed.), Adapted from the Original : Essays on the Value and Values of Works Remade for a New Medium (41-58). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company

Textual practice as intersectional practice : situated caste and gender knowledge in India (2018)
Book Chapter
Nayak, S., & Rekha, S. (2018). Textual practice as intersectional practice : situated caste and gender knowledge in India. In S. Nayak, & R. Robbins (Eds.), Intersectionality in Social Work : Activism and Practice in Context (9-22). Abingdon: Routledge

Literary texts are marked with multi-layered, interdependent sensibilities that challenge binary positions of social conditioning. Literary texts, both in terms of composition and content are intersectional. Thus, the practice of writing and reading... Read More about Textual practice as intersectional practice : situated caste and gender knowledge in India.

Contextual intersectionality (2018)
Book Chapter
Nayak, S., Montenegro, M., & Pujol, J. (2018). Contextual intersectionality. In S. Nayak, & R. Robbins (Eds.), Intersectionality in Social Work : Activism and Practice in Context (230-250). Abingdon: Routledge

This chapter is structured by a series of questions that could be used as a social work framework for critical intersectional reflexivity. Applying a contextual intersectional lens to issues of social justice in the Spanish context, foregrounds issu... Read More about Contextual intersectionality.

'They like you to pretend to be something you are not' : an exploration of working with the intersections of gender, sexuality, 'race', religion and 'refugeeness', through the experience of Lesbian Immigration Support Group (LISG) members and volunteers (2018)
Book Chapter
Held, N., & McCarthy, K. (2018). 'They like you to pretend to be something you are not' : an exploration of working with the intersections of gender, sexuality, 'race', religion and 'refugeeness', through the experience of Lesbian Immigration Support Group (LISG) members and volunteers. In S. Nayak, & R. Robbins (Eds.), Intersectionality in social work : activism and practice in context (142-155). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315210810-11

This chapter looks at the intersections of gender, sexuality, ‘race’, religion and ‘refugeeness’. By drawing on research conducted with members of the Lesbian Immigration Support Group (LISG) in Manchester, it discusses current issues faced by bisexu... Read More about 'They like you to pretend to be something you are not' : an exploration of working with the intersections of gender, sexuality, 'race', religion and 'refugeeness', through the experience of Lesbian Immigration Support Group (LISG) members and volunteers.

Football 2.0? The (un)changing nature of football and its possible futures (2018)
Book Chapter
Lawrence, S., & Crawford, G. (2018). Football 2.0? The (un)changing nature of football and its possible futures. In S. Lawrence, & G. Crawford (Eds.), Digital Football Cultures: Fandom, Identities and Resistance. London: Routledge

Football is changing. Then again, it always has been; nothing ever stays the same. But at another, deeper level, much also stays the same. The introduction and the subsequent chapters in this book have primarily focused on the changing nature of foot... Read More about Football 2.0? The (un)changing nature of football and its possible futures.

The hyperdigitalization of football cultures (2018)
Book Chapter
Lawrence, S., & Crawford, G. (2018). The hyperdigitalization of football cultures. In S. Lawrence, & G. Crawford (Eds.), Digital Football Cultures: Fandom, Identities and Resistance. London: Routledge

Promoting shifts in personal narratives and providing structures of support : transitions of incarcerated children in England and Wales (2018)
Book Chapter
Bateman, T., & Hazel, N. (2018). Promoting shifts in personal narratives and providing structures of support : transitions of incarcerated children in England and Wales. In S. O'Neill (Ed.), Incarcerated Youth Transitioning Back To Community: International Perspectives (167-185). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0752-2_11

Recidivism rates for children leaving custody in England and Wales have remained stubbornly high, despite intense policy interest and some promising short-term initiatives. In this chapter, it is argued that the major challenge to improved outcomes h... Read More about Promoting shifts in personal narratives and providing structures of support : transitions of incarcerated children in England and Wales.

From zero problems with neighbors to zero neighbors without problems : Turkish-Iranian relations before and after the Syrian Crisis (2018)
Book Chapter
Pieper, M. (2018). From zero problems with neighbors to zero neighbors without problems : Turkish-Iranian relations before and after the Syrian Crisis. In P. O. Amour (Ed.), The Middle East Reloaded : Revolutionary Changes, Power Dynamics, and Regional Rivalries Since the Arab Spring. Academica Press

Turkish-Iranian relations are the product of overlapping tapestries of sometimes competing, and partially converging national identities and interests. It is Turkey’s location at a geopolitical crossroads that informed Turkey’s ‘Zero problems with ne... Read More about From zero problems with neighbors to zero neighbors without problems : Turkish-Iranian relations before and after the Syrian Crisis.

Fiction from Northern Ireland, 1921-2015 (2018)
Book Chapter
Magennis, C. (2018). Fiction from Northern Ireland, 1921-2015. In C. O'Gallchoir, & H. Ingman (Eds.), A History of Modern Irish Women’s Literature (365-382). Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Chapter 1 – Introduction : setting the scene (2018)
Book Chapter
Christie, F., & Burke, C. (2018). Chapter 1 – Introduction : setting the scene. In C. Burke, & F. Christie (Eds.), Graduate Careers in Context : Research, Policy and Practice. Abingdon, UK: Routledge (Taylor & Francis)