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Pharmacology of non-psychoactive phytocannabinoids and their potential for treatment of cardiometabolic disease. (2025)
Book Chapter
WAINWRIGHT, C.L. and WALSH, S.K. 2025. Pharmacology of non-psychoactive phytocannabinoids and their potential for treatment of cardiometabolic disease. In Wainwright, C. and Schini-Kerth, V. (eds.) Natural products as sources of novel drugs. Handbook of experimental pharmacology, 287. Cham: Springer [online], pages 61-93. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/164_2024_731

The use of Cannabis sativa by humans dates back to the third millennium BC, and it has been utilized in many forms for multiple purposes, including production of fibre and rope, as food and medicine, and (perhaps most notably) for its psychoactive pr... Read More about Pharmacology of non-psychoactive phytocannabinoids and their potential for treatment of cardiometabolic disease..

CCUS in the United Kingdom. (2025)
Book Chapter
BABAJIDE, N. 2025. CCUS in the United Kingdom. In Pereira, E.G., Fossa, A.J. and Muinzer, T.L. (eds.) Carbon capture utilization and storage: law, policy and standardization perspectives. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan [online], chapter 21, pages 535-555. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81272-9_21

Carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) remains one of the useful tools for reducing GHGs emissions and decarbonising the economy at national and regional levels. Given its distinctive geological advantage and net-zero investment plans, this ch... Read More about CCUS in the United Kingdom..

Conceptions of sustainability and their impact on practices in oil and gas corporations operating in the Niger Delta. (2025)
Book Chapter
RICHARD-OSU, O.J. and BUCKLER, S. 2025. Conceptions of sustainability and their impact on practices in oil and gas corporations operating in the Niger Delta. In Idowu, S.O. and Vertigans, S. (eds.) Sustainability in global companies: theory and practice. Cham: Springer [online], pages 261-277. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-77971-8_12

Sustainability is a slippery term which can mean different things to different people. This slipperiness creates challenges in organisations that seem to want to adopt sustainable business practices but make little headway in actually doing so, or at... Read More about Conceptions of sustainability and their impact on practices in oil and gas corporations operating in the Niger Delta..

Head shot! Artefatti del giocare interventista. Le schermate estese di Joseph DeLappe. (2025)
Book Chapter
DELAPPE, J. and LEUZZI, L. 2025. Head shot! Artefatti del giocare interventista. Le schermate estese di Joseph DeLappe. In Bittanti, M. and De Mutiis, M. (eds.) Fotoludica: fotografia e videogiochi tra arte e documentazione. Milan: Mimesis Edizioni [online], pages 459-491. Available from: https://milanmachinimafestival.org/fotoludica-book

In this chapter DeLappe and Leuzzi argue that screenshots and other artefacts created to document Joseph DeLappe's performative, activist, and interventionist actions within contemporary game spaces are at once inspired by war photography while also... Read More about Head shot! Artefatti del giocare interventista. Le schermate estese di Joseph DeLappe..

Women's use and abuse of the news media during the COVID-19 pandemic on Mumsnet. (2025)
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PEDERSEN, S. and BURNETT, S. 2025. Women's use and abuse of the news media during the COVID-19 pandemic on Mumsnet. In Quandt, T. and Wahl-Jorgensen, K. (eds.) Journalism and the coronavirus pandemic. New York: Routledge [online], pages 176-192. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032647807-10

This article analyses news sources used by women to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic on the UK parenting website Mumsnet. By using a non-political online "third space" aimed at women, Mumsnetters are able to avoid the aggression women face when they att... Read More about Women's use and abuse of the news media during the COVID-19 pandemic on Mumsnet..

Public health and the promotion of wellbeing. (2024)
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BAGULEY, F. and WILSON, D. 2025. Public health and the promotion of wellbeing. In Chilton, S. and Bain, H. (eds.) A textbook of community nursing. Third edition. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 3, pages 56-78. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003347545-4

This chapter introduces public health, health and wellbeing and identifies the factors that influence individuals and communities across their lifespans. Students will be able to discuss these and understand the relevance of community nursing and ser... Read More about Public health and the promotion of wellbeing..

Food in/securities and mutual interdependencies in a Kenyan "slum": a study of the social impacts of an urban farming programme. (2024)
Book Chapter
VERTIGANS, S. and MUELLER-HIRTH, N. 2024. Food in/securities and mutual interdependencies in a Kenyan "slum": a study of the social impacts of an urban farming programme. In Lever, J., Smith Maguire, J. and Kapek-Goodridge, A. (eds.) Towards an Eliasian understanding of food in the 21st century: established foundations and new directions. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer [online], chapter 10, pages 183-200. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65774-0_10

Drawing upon fieldwork undertaken in a "slum" in Nairobi, this chapter explores how experiences of food in/securities contribute to mutual interdependencies. The longitudinal research commenced in March 2020, immediately prior to Covid being identifi... Read More about Food in/securities and mutual interdependencies in a Kenyan "slum": a study of the social impacts of an urban farming programme..

Support systems and welfare measures to encourage physical and mental wellbeing. (2024)
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TAIT, J.-A., RODRÍGUEZ-JIMÉNEZ, R.-M., WILSON, S.A. and JENSEN, K. 2025. Support systems and welfare measures to encourage physical and mental wellbeing. In Kandakatla, R., Kulkarni, S. and Auer, M.E. (eds.) Academic leadership in engineering education: learnings and case studies from educational leaders around the globe. Lecture notes in networks and systems (LNNS), 1097. Cham: Springer [online], pages 353-371. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68282-7_19

The focus on engineering students' health and wellbeing has increased due to a global rise in mental health issues and the increased need for more engineers. The engineering industry grapples with recruitment and retention challenges, partly attribut... Read More about Support systems and welfare measures to encourage physical and mental wellbeing..

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..

Behaviour change. (2024)
Book Chapter
BROOKMAN, M. and SMITH, D. 2024. Behaviour change. In Sawyer, M. and Tomson, M. (eds.) Environmentally sustainable primary care: good for the planet, good for practices, good for patients. Abingdon: CRC Press [online], chapter 17, pages 245-255. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003491583

The chapter starts with a clinical case looking at reasons behind habits, lack of motivation for change, and what internal and external motivations may help. The chapter is about personal behaviour change: what the most effective motivator is; whethe... Read More about Behaviour change..

Parasitic projects and the politics of research-creation. (2024)
Book Chapter
CLARKE, J. 2025. Parasitic projects and the politics of research-creation. In Sansi, R. and Tinius, J. (eds.) The trouble with art: an anthropology beyond philistinism. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 9, pages 171-190. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003283683-13

This chapter considers the possibility of a 'symmetrical' anthropology by examining three 'parasitic' projects – collaborative, public projects at the borders of art and anthropology, which address the politics of authorship, intimacy and knowledge –... Read More about Parasitic projects and the politics of research-creation..

I tape therefore I am: excavating digital journalism's lieux de memoire through oral history. (2024)
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SILVER, C. 2024. I tape therefore I am: excavating digital journalism's lieux de memoire through oral history. In Tofalvy, T. and Vobič, I. (eds.). Histories of digital journalism. London: Routledge [online], chapter 3, pages 35-46. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003492436-5

This chapter explores the methodological and thematic parallels between digital journalism and oral history. Oral historian and "guerilla journalist" Studs Terkel’s statement "I tape therefore I am" frames an initial discussion of journalism history... Read More about I tape therefore I am: excavating digital journalism's lieux de memoire through oral history..

Spatial interferences: site-specific strategies for immersive regeneration. (2024)
Book Chapter
MARTINEZ SANCHEZ, M.J. [2025]. Spatial interferences: site-specific strategies for immersive regeneration. In the Routledge companion to immersive media. Abingdon: Routledge. (Forthcoming)

This chapter explores immersive approaches to site-specific performance and architecture within the context of placemaking and regeneration. Performativity plays an essential role in spatial practices, as it is always involved in generating meaning a... Read More about Spatial interferences: site-specific strategies for immersive regeneration..

Nurturing entrepreneurs: designing child-friendly workshops for refugee women. (2024)
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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..

How can reported data be used: analysis, ratios, and limitations. (2024)
Book Chapter
COULL, M. and DOUGLAS, S. 2024. How can reported data be used: analysis, ratios, and limitations. In Smith, S., Murphy, R. and Rose, J. (eds.) Principles of accounting. Accounting Streams [online], Unit 16. Available from: https://accounting-streams.org/principles-of-accounting/16.html

This unit considers how and why users of financial statements might seek to analyse them to gain insights into the performance and financial structure of different businesses. Many interested parties rely on published financial information to make de... Read More about How can reported data be used: analysis, ratios, and limitations..

Transformative masculinities: re-examining the role of the male in Red Riding Hood. (2024)
Book Chapter
SMITH, F. and MCKAY, F. 2024. Transformative masculinities: re-examining the role of the male in Red Riding Hood. In Le Clue, N. (ed.) Gender and the male character in 21st century fairy tale narratives: from enchanted heroes to modern masculinities. Leeds: Emerald Publishing Limited [online], chapter 6, pages 75-86. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83753-788-420241007

Red Riding Hood is said to have been assembled from folktales that pre-date the collector Charles Perrault's 1697 re-telling and initial publishing (Dundes, 1989; Zipes, 1993). Since then, it is a story that has been re-told and re-imagined many time... Read More about Transformative masculinities: re-examining the role of the male in Red Riding Hood..

Virtual afterlife: dark tourism in the hereafter. (2024)
Book Chapter
IRONSIDE, R. and LEITH, C. 2024. Virtual afterlife: dark tourism in the hereafter. In Stone, P.R. and Wright, D.W.M. (eds.). The future of dark tourism: enlightening new horizons. The future of tourism, 8. Bristol: Channel View Publications Ltd [online], Chapter 2, 27-37. Available from: https://www.channelviewpublications.com/page/detail/?k=9781845418984

"…you are now travelling to the Virtual Afterlife…". It is Sunday afternoon in the year 2040. Charlotte reaches for her virtual headset and waits to connect with her friend, Becca. Today they have chosen to connect virtually in a small café in the ce... Read More about Virtual afterlife: dark tourism in the hereafter..

Environmentalities of Namibian conservancies: how communal area residents govern conservation in return. (2024)
Book Chapter
SCHNEIDER, R. 2024. Environmentalities of Namibian conservancies: how communal area residents govern conservation in return. In Sullivan, S., Dieckmann, U. and Lendelvo, S. (eds.). Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast conservation histories, policies and practices in north-west Namibia. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers [online], Chapter 5, pages 167-190. Available from: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0402.05

This chapter explores how communal area residents in north-west Namibia experience, understand, and respond to their conservancies. Drawing on philosopher Michel Foucault's concept of 'governmentality' and specifically its 'environmentality' variant,... Read More about Environmentalities of Namibian conservancies: how communal area residents govern conservation in return..

Provenance and production in Scotland's fashion sector: shifting stories. (2024)
Book Chapter
CROSS, K., STEED, J. and JIANG, Y. 2024. Provenance and production in Scotland's fashion sector: shifting stories. In Schramme, A. and Verboven, N. (eds.) Sustainability and the fashion industry: can fashion save the world? Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 4, pages 56-69. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032659053-4

As part of Augmented Fashion, an interdisciplinary research project involving fashion, textiles and computing disciplines, a series of workshops were facilitated; this chapter discusses the emergent themes from the 'Redesigning for Creative Recovery'... Read More about Provenance and production in Scotland's fashion sector: shifting stories..

Impact of healthy eating among residents in Aberdeen using exploratory data analysis. (2024)
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SALAMI, J.S. and BANO, S. 2024. Impact of healthy eating among residents in Aberdeen using exploratory data analysis. In Lee, R. (ed.) Computer and information science and engineering, volume 16. Studies in computational intelligence, 1156. Cham: Springer [online], pages 1-16. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57037-7_1

This survey research uses Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) to examine how the impact of healthy eating can affect Aberdeen residents and how excessive consumption of junks food can cause weight gain, raise the risk of obesity, heart disease, type 2 di... Read More about Impact of healthy eating among residents in Aberdeen using exploratory data analysis..