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Exploring the dynamics of socio-technical transitions: advancing grid-connected wind and solar energy adoption in Nigeria. (2024)
Journal Article
ADEDOKUN, R., STRACHAN, P.A., SINGH, A. and VON MALMBORG, F. 2025. Exploring the dynamics of socio-technical transitions: advancing grid-connected wind and solar energy adoption in Nigeria. Energy research and social science [online], 119, article number 103850. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103850

Globally, countries are transitioning their national electricity grid system to meet the obligations of the Paris Agreement. National grid-connected renewable electricity provides an opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Specifically, in a... Read More about Exploring the dynamics of socio-technical transitions: advancing grid-connected wind and solar energy adoption in Nigeria..

The faster the better? Comparing sustainability performance information in fast and luxury fashion. (2024)
Journal Article
ZAPPAROLI, M., TICKLE, M. and HANNIBAL, C. [2024]. The faster the better? Comparing sustainability performance information in fast and luxury fashion. International journal of productivity and performance management [online], EarlyCite. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPPM-06-2024-0404

Fashion brands, including fast and luxury segments, receive harsh criticism for engaging in unethical practices such as poor working conditions and environmental damage. As a result, fashion supply chains are pressured by stakeholders to publicly dis... Read More about The faster the better? Comparing sustainability performance information in fast and luxury fashion..

Lebanon: fig holding and SDG#1 no poverty. (2024)
Book Chapter
NG, P.Y., BASTIAN, B.L. and WOOD, B. 2025. Lebanon: fig holding and SDG#1 no poverty. In Birththistle, N. (eds.) Attaining the 2030 sustainable development goal of no poverty. Leeds: Emerald [online], pages 55-68. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83608-570-620241005

Poverty reduction is pivotal for sustainable development and has been identified as the first sustainability goal (SDG#1) by the United Nations. Poverty has remained a key challenge for countries in the Arab world, which is characterised by persistin... Read More about Lebanon: fig holding and SDG#1 no poverty..

The challenges of decision-making in emergency management, the cognitive aids people use and the decision-making training they receive. (2024)
Journal Article
BEARMAN, C., HAYES, P., MCLENNAN, J., PENNEY, G., BUTLER, P.C. and FLIN, R. 2024. The challenges of decision-making in emergency management, the cognitive aids people use and the decision-making training they receive. Australian journal of emergency management [online], 39(4), pages 10-12. Available from: https://tinyurl.com/2bsett7b

Emergency management is a complex socio-technical system in which people operate in hierarchies of teams (Bearman et al. 2023). At the heart of this system are people making decisions to achieve the best outcomes possible for the community. In this c... Read More about The challenges of decision-making in emergency management, the cognitive aids people use and the decision-making training they receive..

Emergency management decision-making in a changing world: 3 key challenges (2024)
Journal Article
BUTLER, P.C., FLIN, R., BEARMAN, C., HAYES, P., PENNEY, G. and MCLENNAN, J. 2024. Emergency management decision-making in a changing world: 3 key challenges. Australian journal of emergency management [online], 39(4), pages 23-32. Available from: https://doi.org/10.47389/39.4.23

Managing emergencies is taxing for individuals due to the stress of making decisions in dangerous, high-stakes and time-constrained environments. These complex, dynamic environments also make it difficult to coordinate as other responders perform dif... Read More about Emergency management decision-making in a changing world: 3 key challenges.

Training to improve emergency management decision-making: what the research literature tells us. (2024)
Journal Article
MCLENNAN, J., HAYES, P., BEARMAN, C., PENNEY, G., BUTLER, P.C. and FLIN, R. 2024. Training to improve emergency management decision-making: what the research literature tells us. Australian journal of emergency management [online], 39(4), pages 33-45. Available from: https://doi.org/10.47389/39.4.33

The importance of training for effective performance in high-stakes, high-risk work settings is well-known. Successful training is the systematic acquisition of skills, rules, concepts or attitudes that result in improved work performance. Simply exp... Read More about Training to improve emergency management decision-making: what the research literature tells us..

A review of cognitive aids and their application to emergency management in Australia (2024)
Journal Article
PENNEY, G., BEARMAN, C., HAYES, P., MCLENNAN, J., BUTLER, P.C. and FLIN, R. 2024. A review of cognitive aids and their application to emergency management in Australia. Australian journal of emergency management [online], 39(4), pages 13-22. Available from: https://doi.org/10.47389/39.4.13

Decision-making in disasters and major crises faced by emergency services globally is a difficult combination of science and art to master. To assist decision-makers in these environments, a number of cognitive aids have been developed and subsequent... Read More about A review of cognitive aids and their application to emergency management in Australia.

Investigating the role of diversity and inclusion in STEM education in the UK. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ABOLLE-OKOYEAGU, C.J., ONOSHAKPOR, C., AKERELE, E. and OKPU, A. 2024. Investigating the role of diversity and inclusion in STEM education in the UK. Presented at the 6th Global conference on education and teaching 2024 (GLOBALET 2024), 25-27 October 2024, Nice, France.

Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is a very important driver in progressing the ever-evolving fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). This aspect of EDI has become increasingly prominent in the professional societies... Read More about Investigating the role of diversity and inclusion in STEM education in the UK..

COIL Match Maker: a new software application to facilitate COIL collaboration. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
CRAWFORD, I. and EZENKWU, P. [2024]. COIL Match Maker: a new software application to facilitate COIL collaboration. To be presented at the 6th International virtual exchange conference (IVEC 2024), 21-24 October 2024, [virtual event].

COIL Match Maker is proposed as a new AI-powered software application that is designed to make the process of finding a COIL partner and creating a COIL project faster, simpler and more accessible - regardless of location, prior experience, or availa... Read More about COIL Match Maker: a new software application to facilitate COIL collaboration..

Climate change projects and youth engagement: empowerment and contested knowledge. [Preprint] (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
STAVRIANAKIS, K., NIELSEN, J.A.E. and MORRISON, Z. 2024. Climate change projects and youth engagement: empowerment and contested knowledge. [Preprint]. Hosted on Earth ArXiv [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.31223/X5R40M

This study investigated youths' empowerment through EU-funded climate change projects (CCPs), and the role that social research and public engagement have in that process. The importance of considering youth empowerment in a time of climate change is... Read More about Climate change projects and youth engagement: empowerment and contested knowledge. [Preprint].

Talking about prisons: making sense of difficult heritage at Peterhead Prison Museum. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
IRONSIDE, R. and ROITERSHTEIN, A. 2024. Talking about prisons: making sense of difficult heritage at Peterhead Prison Museum. Presented at the Roots revived conference: memory, legacy, heritage and tourism, 17 October 2024, Edinburgh, UK.

Prison museums have become an increasingly popular tourist attraction. Presenting visitors with stories and exhibits pertaining to countries' penal history, they engage with difficult and often dissonant heritage. Peterhead Prison Museum ceased opera... Read More about Talking about prisons: making sense of difficult heritage at Peterhead Prison Museum..

Destabilising the home: place making, dark tourism and the spectral. (2024)
Journal Article
IRONSIDE, R. and SMITH, F. [2024]. Destabilising the home: place making, dark tourism and the spectral. Tourism geographies [online], Latest Articles. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2412547

Ghosts, hauntings and the spectral are intrinsically linked to sites of dark tourism. Supernatural stories commonly emerge in places connected with tragedy, death and the macabre, forming spectral geographies in which the past and present intertwine.... Read More about Destabilising the home: place making, dark tourism and the spectral..

Nurturing entrepreneurs: designing child-friendly workshops for refugee women. (2024)
Book Chapter
STREET, C.P. and NG, P.Y. 2024. Nurturing entrepreneurs: designing child-friendly workshops for refugee women. In Ranabahu, N., de Vries, H.P. and Hamilton, R.T. (eds.) Refugee entrepreneurship: a research companion. London: Routledge [online], pages 269-286. Available from: http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003368540-20

This chapter proposes a rethinking of how entrepreneurship workshops for marginalised women are designed and actualised, focusing on the process of a two-day entrepreneurship workshop for refugee women. Four refugee women with established businesses... Read More about Nurturing entrepreneurs: designing child-friendly workshops for refugee women..

Exploring knowledge and perceptions of level learning outcomes and meta-skills in a creative business school context. (2024)
Journal Article
BREMNER, P.A.M., PIRIE, E., MARCELLA-HOOD, M. and SINGLETON, A. 2024. Exploring knowledge and perceptions of level learning outcomes and meta-skills in a creative business school context. GILE journal of skills development [online], 4(2), pages 3-18. https://doi.org/10.52398/gjsd.2024.v4.i2.pp3-18

Much has been written about the necessity for graduates to be aware of their skill set and transferability for the workplace. Degree programmes in Scotland have long relied on guidance from the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) on the taxonomy or wordin... Read More about Exploring knowledge and perceptions of level learning outcomes and meta-skills in a creative business school context..

Essential skills for a global workplace: revisiting the DINAMITE model for post-pandemic higher education. (2024)
Journal Article
CRAWFORD, I. 2024. Essential skills for a global workplace: revisiting the DINAMITE model for post-pandemic higher education. Advances in online education [online], 3(1), pages 52-68. Available from: https://doi.org/10.69554/GBDC1193

This paper investigates some of the recent terminology and concepts used to describe the type and nature of transferable skills that are developed and nurtured in students in Higher Education, with a particular focus on the DINAMITE model. This model... Read More about Essential skills for a global workplace: revisiting the DINAMITE model for post-pandemic higher education..

Supernatural cities: placing urban identities, memory and cultural crises. (2024)
Journal Article
IRONSIDE, R. and EDWARDS-BOON, A. (eds.) 2024. Supernatural cities: placing urban identities, memory and cultural crises. Revenant [online], 11. Available from: https://tinyurl.com/revenant-11

This special issue builds upon a body of scholarship already developed from the Supernatural Cities project led by Karl Bell at the University of Portsmouth and his edited collection of essays, Supernatural Cities: Enchantment, Anxiety and Spectralit... Read More about Supernatural cities: placing urban identities, memory and cultural crises..

Navigating STEM: challenges faced by Nigerian female secondary school students. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ABOLLE-OKOYEAGU, C.J., ONOJA, O. and ONOSHAKPOR, C. 2024. Navigating STEM: challenges faced by Nigerian female secondary school students. In Proceedings of the 12th European conference on education (ECE 2024), 11-15 July 2024, London, UK. Nagoya: International Academic Forum (IAFOR) [online], pages 617-627. Available from: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2188-1162.2024.49

The persistent gender disparities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields stand as a significant barrier to realising the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly those related to gender equality (... Read More about Navigating STEM: challenges faced by Nigerian female secondary school students..

Virtual exchange (COIL): shaping the tourism workforce of the future. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HARBERT, S. and ROITERSHTEIN, A. 2024. Virtual exchange (COIL): shaping the tourism workforce of the future. Presented at the 32nd Nordic symposium on tourism and hospitality research, 18-20 September 2024, Stavanger, Norway.

Significant and rapid changes in the world's climate, technology and geopolitics has created a new environment for the tourism industry, and for those that rely on it for their livelihoods. These changes create a demand for globally competent, cultur... Read More about Virtual exchange (COIL): shaping the tourism workforce of the future..

COIL and sustainability education in the Arctic region: developing the COIL@UArctic network. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
CRAWFORD, I. [2024]. COIL and sustainability education in the Arctic region: developing the COIL@UArctic network. To be presented at the 2024 European Association for International Education annual conference and exhibition (EAIE 2024), 17-20 September 2024, Toulouse, France.

COIL or Collaborative Online International Learning is a sustained educational approach where groups or individual students from one institution collaborate with groups or individual students from another institution, in a different country and/or cu... Read More about COIL and sustainability education in the Arctic region: developing the COIL@UArctic network..

You’ll come back another day: exploring the challenges of interviewing upper class elites. (2024)
Journal Article
GRANT, G., FULFORD, H. and REID, P. 2024. You'll come back another day: exploring the challenges of interviewing upper class elites. Qualitative research [online], Online First. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941241264461

This article addresses the challenges of undertaking elite interviews with members of the aristocracy and gentry who constitute the upper classes in Great Britain. It reviews the existing guidance on elite interviewing from a number of social science... Read More about You’ll come back another day: exploring the challenges of interviewing upper class elites..