In the arena: contesting disaster creation in cities by Wesley Webb Cheek, Ksenia Chmutina, Jason von Meding

“…Space is a feature of all disasters, and it is through decisions on how space is developed, used, and reproduced that disasters manifest themselves. …”
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The role of the design practice as an arena for innovation by Toru Eguchi, Robert Schmidt III, Andrew Dainty

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Players and arenas: strategic interactionism in social movements studies by Aidan McGarry, Robert J. Davidson, Guya Accornero, James M. Jasper, Jan W. Duyvendak

“…Critical interventions from Aidan McGarry, Robert J. Davidson and Guya Accornero raise a number of questions relating to the core arguments of the books, the key findings and the conceptual advances. …”
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What’s in a research agenda? An evaluation of research developments in the arena of skilled international migration by Allan M. Findlay, Sophie Cranston

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Sustainable Future Flight Business Models (Presentation Slides at Transport Research Arena 2024, Dublin) by Chenyi Liao, Christopher J. Parker, Graham Parkhurst, Magdalena Oldziejewska, Ram Ramanathan, Mohammad Uddin

“…A conference presentation by Dr Chenyi Liao on Sustainable future flight business models: Motivations and Barriers.Presented at technical session Sustainable Aviation, at Transport Research Arena 2024 in Dublin, on 16th April, 2024.Images on second slide have been redacted due to copyright restrictions. …”
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Making qualitative research accessible and acceptable in the scientific management arena: a life-world perspective by Clive Trusson

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Material tools, strategic arenas and temporal openness: Emerging phenomena linking information systems and strategy practice research by Josh Morton, Alex Wilson, Louise Cooke

“…In doing so, we highlight facets of potential collaboration between IS and strategy researchers, and how this can encourage new novel research encounters to be brought to the forefront in the study of materiality and technologies in strategy.…”
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Modelling and optimisation of a product recovery network by Jennifer Harding, Rahul Swarnkar

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Ocean literacy gamified: A systematic evaluation of the effect of game elements on students’ learning experience by Rui Leitão, Martin Maguire, Sarah Turner, Francisco Arenas, Laura Guimarães

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Career concepts in the 21st century by John Arnold

“…These need to be explored rather than bypassed by a new orthodoxy. Exploration can lead to innovative and balanced analyses of how people and their careers develop, how the notion of career success can be construed, how career is an inherently social process, and how career and other arenas of life interact.…”
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Developing the concept of 'leadership for all' in library and information services : exploring the rationale and making it happen by Graham Walton

“…The aim of the paper is to look at the concept of leadership for all within both the wider management and library management arenas. The main driver for leadership for all is the rate and level of change in the 21st century. …”
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From rhetoric to realpolitik: the optimism of design commons discourse by Sharon Prendeville, Cindy Kohtala

“…Urban commons refers to the collective maintenance of urban spaces, sustaining their ecologies, and defending them from privatization;2 the digital commons involves efforts that range from maintaining free and open access to knowledge, information, and cultural production, to self-organizing the socio-ecological collaborative design of open hardware and software.3 In these design settings, social groupings engage in commoning, ‘the social practices and traditions that enable people to discover, innovate and negotiate new ways of doing things for themselves’.4 Academic design research on/with groups in the wild often adopts commons framings to differentiate from market-oriented service design: that is, as a community-oriented process articulated as autonomous, relational, situated, and locally sensitive.5…”
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In search of ergonomics expertise by Claire Williams

“…There is some opinion that the 'softer' skills (such as active listening and empathy) which are key to client-advisor relationships do not generally form part of ergonomics taught courses, whereas the 'harder' knowledge content and technical skills do. …”
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The barriers and possible solution to achieve sustainable development by Israel O. Adetunji, Andrew Price, Paul Fleming, Pamela Kemp

“…The paper reinforces the drawbacks of the current societal conflict resolution mechanism: market and political arenas. As a possible solution, it suggest the urgent need for a shift to the third arena, which facilitates integration of public debates, scientific evidence and policy, and extensive use of innovative tools such as precautionary principle to ensure a high-quality decision-making process.…”
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Visual interactions with strategy tools: producing strategic knowledge in workshops by Sotirios Paroutis, Luis Alberto Franco, Thanos Papadopoulos

“…Following this approach, we examine how a top management team creates a strategy tool during a workshop (using primarily video data). …”
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Navigating contested memories in a commercialised setting: conflict avoidance strategies in Kyiv city tour guiding by Simon Schlegel, Alena Pfoser

“…Drawing on participant observations of 20 guided city tours and interviews with 18 tour guides, the article identifies a wide range of narrative strategies that guides adopt to navigate pasts that have been subject to memory conflicts. …”
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Phenotyping single-cell motility in microfluidic confinement by Samuel A Bentley, Hannah Laeverenz-Schlogelhofer, Vasileios Anagnostidis, Jan Cammann, Marco Mazza, Fabrice Gielen, Kirsty Y Wan

“…Comparing two model species - Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (freshwater, 2 cilia), and Pyramimonas octopus (marine, 8 cilia), we detail their highly-stereotyped yet contrasting swimming behaviours and environmental interactions. …”
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Colonial legacies and the British Geological Survey in cold war South Asia: 1960s-80s by Rakesh Ankit

“…It traces how and why its proposals prioritised certain interactions over others and tracks the ways-and-means through which it pursued geological and attendant commercial aims. …”
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Discussing the weather: digital stories, communities and the climate change conversation by Michael Wilson, Karen Lewis

“…Thus it explores notions of authority and credibility within personal storytelling and the potential for creating deeper levels of public engagement in complex policy-making areas such as climate change, whilst interrogating the democratizing potential of both storytelling as a form and Web 2.0 as a platform.…”
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Health and safety management of offsite construction - how close are we to production manufacturing? by Lawrence J. McKay, Alistair Gibb, Roger Haslam, Martyn Pendlebury

“…This work formed part of a UK government funded project, HASPREST.…”
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Feasability of using shredded tyres as a drainage material in geotechnical applications by C.C. Miller, Matthew Frost

“…Worldwide there are at least 1.6 billion scrap tyres produced each year. Of these Britain is responsible for 50 million, equating to an annual production of 700,000 tonnes of waste. …”
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Living links and gender resources: the social construction of masculinities in teaching physical education by David H.K. Brown

“…The study draws on the empirical data to illustrate and develop conceptual understandings of the problematic. In so doing, it highlights the social importance of remote and current gendered biography as a resource for action in teaching. …”
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Sustainable aviation futures: crises, contested realities and prospects for Change by Lucy Budd, Steven Griggs, David Howarth

“…By mapping out the current fault lines of aviation politics and policy, the chapter is also able to delineate four main scenarios regarding the future of aviation, which we name the ‘post-carbon’, ‘high-modernist’, ‘market regulation’ and ‘demand management’ projections respectively. …”
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Beyond the Spanish state? Relations between the EU, central government and domestic actors in Spain by Rachel Jones

“…The analysis of the high level of state autonomy during the EC accession negotiations acts as an essential baseline for an examination of the policy process during EC/EU membership when the state's autonomy is expected to be reduced by a more open opportunity structure. …”
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Risk management at the local authority level : improving the technical-institutional-public interface by Judith Petts

“…Finally, it has examined practical means by which stakeholders in risk management decisions can participate in informed decision-making so as to achieve consensus. In seeking to understand the dynamics of processes and the interrelationships between experts, decision-makers and the public at the interface, the research has examined real decisions in the respective arenas of study. …”
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Inter-organisational relationships in construction projects: an analysis of inter-organisational relationships over time through the theoretical lens of trust and power by Ivan Bondin

“…The multi-faceted aspect of trust is rarely incorporated in such studies. Also, its benefits go completely unquestioned. Moreover, the aspect of power and its relevance to trust did not draw considerable attention. …”
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Young people negotiating embodied subjectivities through (dis)engagement in physical education by Joanne L. Hill

“…Data were generated over one school year with a cohort of students in Year 9 of an ethnically diverse secondary school in the East Midlands, UK. …”
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Collective mobilisations among immigrant workers in low-skilled sectors: a study of community organising of immigrant workers in the UK by Zhe Jiang

“…In contrast to such union-centred research, this study adopts a social movement perspective to explore whether and how community organizing approach can empower immigrant workers and enhance union organizing when globalization compromises its validity. …”
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Fields of experience: young people's constructions of embodied identities by Rachel A. Holroyd

“…Hendry et al, 1996), and one that, while acknowledging societal influences on young people's practices, does not deny their potential to act agentically (e. g. …”
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Key myths about corruption (Briefing Paper) by Edward D. Brown, Jonathan M.P. Cloke, M. Sohail

“…Here, they are organized into four broad sections dealing with (a) basic definitions, (b) states and markets, (c) actors and anticorruption initiatives and (d) economic factors.…”
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Physiological status monitoring and dynamic risk prediction for operators in extreme environments by Stephen Ward

“…When both evaluation frameworks are considered, the mean aggregate scores produced by both frameworks over the sessions were significantly different (p < 0.001), NEWS = 7.17(±1.33), EXTREMIS = 3.27(±1.70). …”
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Wearable Words: a case study applying jewellery theory and practice to the education of fine art, textiles, graphic communication and illustration students [conference paper] by Roberta Bernabei

“…It aims to determine whether the theoretical issues of jewellery and jewellery technologies can bring an innovative research method and new practical tools to students who are not familiar with the jewellery arena. The paper examines the preliminary challenges, weaknesses and successes of the project, which was delivered to 26 second year BA students between February and June 2016 at a UK University. …”
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Integrated stakeholder analysis for effective urban flood management in a medium-sized city in China: a case study of Zhuji, Zhejiang province by En-Cheng

“…By combining stakeholder salience analysis with social network analysis, this study tries to create a more nuanced insight into the stakeholder arena, so that stakeholder participation in urban flood management can be improved. …”
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Wearable words: a case study applying Jewellery theory and practice to the education of Fine Art, Textiles Innovation and Design, Graphic Communication and Illustration students by Roberta Bernabei

“…It aims to determine whether the theoretical issues of jewellery and jewellery technologies can bring an innovative research method and new practical tools to students who are not familiar with the jewellery arena. In so doing, Wearable Words symbolises the non – verbal communications of body related objects. …”
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Conductive core/shell polymer nanofibres as anode materials for direct ethanol fuel cells by Alexandros Symillidis, Stella Georgiadou, Wen-Feng Lin

“…Pd was then electrodeposited on the fibres and the catalysts were tested for the EOR via cyclic voltammetry (CV) in a half-cell configuration and in a temperature range between 25 and 60 °C. …”
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Beyond the comfort zone: internal crisis and external challenge in the European Union's response to rising powers by Michael Smith

“…It argues that in recent years the EU has, in a variety of ways, been taken outside its comfort zone and that while the European Union can and must seek to re-establish negotiated order in its external relations, the challenge of doing so is severe.…”
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Measuring the impact of information management: an outcome-based approach in local government by Adam Steventon

“…The purpose of this research was to gain an understanding of how to measure the impact of information management (IM), to demonstrate its added value. The study is undertaken within UK local government and seeks to introduce an outcomes based way of thinking, mainly through the application of Outcomes Mapping (OM), taken from the overseas development arena. …”
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Spot kick on racism: Marcus Rashford and criminally damaging penalty shoot-outs by Matt Long, Catherine Armstrong

“…According to Carrington, ‘sport provides a contested arena through which competing definitions of race, gender, sexuality, class, and region are articulated’ (2008: 424). …”
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United they stand by Md. Ayub Ali, J. Hadler

“…Community-managed programme implemen­tation is a new concept in the development arena of Bangladesh. …”
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The European Union’s ‘Ideal Self’ in the Post-Soviet space by Cristian Nitoiu

“…© 2018 University of Glasgow During the last two decades, one of the cornerstones of the foreign policy of the European Union (EU) has been the development of a strong presence in its neighbourhood. …”
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The design and delivery of stress management in professional sport by James L. Rumbold

“…By understanding the ways in which these individuals interact and adapt to their professional environment, this can inform the design and evaluation of organizational stress management interventions aimed to optimise performers’ well-being and performance. In so far that the evidence base for effective organizational interventions is limited, evaluating the effectiveness of organizational stress management interventions in sport organizations will make a strong contribution to psychologists’ knowledge of the conditions by which such initiatives may be effective in this organizational context. …”
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Tutorial on means of hybrid simulation by Tillal Eldabi, Antuela Tako, David Bell, Andreas Tolk

“…As a result HS has recently generated more attention from within the Modeling and Simulation arena. …”
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Developments in construction-scale additive manufacturing processes by Sungwoo Lim, Richard Buswell, Thanh T. Le, Simon Austin, Alistair Gibb, Tony Thorpe

“…The wet properties of the material are critical to the success of manufacture and a number of new criteria have been developed to classify these process specific parameters. …”
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Determinants of CSR disclosure in Mexico [Abstract] by Claudia Arena, Yanira Petrides, Petros Vourvachis

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Determinants of CSR disclosure in Mexico [Abstract] by Claudia Arena, Yanira Petrides, Petros Vourvachis

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The holistic frame of designing smart, connected products: A systematic literature review and expert interview by Sylvia Xihui Liu, Mengting Zhang, Cees De-Bont

“…As a result, 20 attributes and 44 sub-attributes were obtained and classified into four clusters—Appearance, Function, Experience and Meaning. …”
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Donor–NGO relations: the dynamics of European Community development co-operation policy by Lynette A. O'Hare

“…The heightened interest in NGOs was accompanied by an increased availability of funds and presaged a significant growth in the size of the NGO sector. …”
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Jives, jeans and Jewishness? Moral geographies, atmospheres and the politics of mixing at the Jewish Lads’ Brigade & Club 1954–1969 by Sarah Mills

“…Furthermore, it pushes at ideas about meaningful encounters through the consideration of the JLB & C as a meeting space and arena for visitors. Overall, the paper examines how the JLB & C acted as both a mirror to the wider social changes of the post-war era, while also being an active contributor in shaping those same processes of social change.…”
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Women, war and sport: The battle of the 2019 Solheim cup by Ali Bowes, Alan Bairner, Stuart Whigham, Niamh Kitching

“…Results highlights that national identity is a key descriptor of the female competitors, legitimising their position in the battlefield of international sport. …”
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