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“Never Say Never?”: Heterosexual, bisexual, and lesbian women’s accounts of being childfree (2019)
Journal Article
Hayfield, N., Terry, G., Clarke, V., & Ellis, S. (2019). “Never Say Never?”: Heterosexual, bisexual, and lesbian women’s accounts of being childfree. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 43(4), 526-538. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361684319863414

Feminist scholars have identified a “motherhood imperative” in Western cultures, where heterosexual women are understood to both want, and have, children. However, social shifts have resulted in a decrease in pronatalism as well as an increase in soc... Read More about “Never Say Never?”: Heterosexual, bisexual, and lesbian women’s accounts of being childfree.

Rape, inequality and the criminal justice response in England: The importance of age and gender (2019)
Journal Article
Lilley-Walker, S., Hester, M., McPhee, D., Patsios, D., Williams, A., Bates, L., & Rumney, P. (2021). Rape, inequality and the criminal justice response in England: The importance of age and gender. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 21(3), 297-315. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895819863095

© The Author(s) 2019. This article draws upon quantitative and content analysis of 585 reports of rape recorded within two police force areas in England in 2010 and in 2014 tracking individual incidents to eventual outcome to examine the impact, if a... Read More about Rape, inequality and the criminal justice response in England: The importance of age and gender.

The Over-Extended Mind? Pink Noise and the Ethics of Interaction-Dominant Systems (2018)
Journal Article
Meacham, D., & Prado Casanova, M. (2018). The Over-Extended Mind? Pink Noise and the Ethics of Interaction-Dominant Systems. NanoEthics, 12(3), 269-281. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-018-0325-x

© 2018, The Author(s). There is a growing recognition within cognitive enhancement and neuroethics debates of the need for greater emphasis on cognitive artefacts. This paper aims to contribute to this broadening and expansion of the cognitive-enhanc... Read More about The Over-Extended Mind? Pink Noise and the Ethics of Interaction-Dominant Systems.

The citizen and trust in the (trustworthy) state (2018)
Thesis
Brown, R. The citizen and trust in the (trustworthy) state. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/862735

Public sector modernisation has focused on achieving greater efficiency within the institutions and agencies of the state. In comparison the relationship between citizen and state as a basis for service improvement has received less attention. This s... Read More about The citizen and trust in the (trustworthy) state.

Understanding former heroin users' experience of change: An interpretative phenomenological analysis (2018)
Thesis
Tye, A. Understanding former heroin users' experience of change: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/876217

This study aimed to explore the experiences of those who have been involved in change from problematic heroin use and how they have made sense out of their experiences. Seven participants, who had been abstinent from heroin for a minimum of two year... Read More about Understanding former heroin users' experience of change: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.

How can the international decade for people of African descent be used to move Africans forward? (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Olaiya, H. B. A. (2017, August). How can the international decade for people of African descent be used to move Africans forward?. Presented at Remembering Aug. 23: International day of African resistance against enslavement, London, England

This presentation was made to the audience at an event hosted by Harrow BHM, in celebration of the International Day Of African Resistance Against Enslavement, otherwise known as the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Ab... Read More about How can the international decade for people of African descent be used to move Africans forward?.

Corrado Alvaro and the Calabrian mafia: A critical case study of the use of literary and journalistic texts in research on Italian organized crime (2016)
Journal Article
Phillips, A. (2017). Corrado Alvaro and the Calabrian mafia: A critical case study of the use of literary and journalistic texts in research on Italian organized crime. Trends in Organized Crime, 20(1-2), 179-195. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-016-9285-0

The Calabrian mafia, or ‘Ndrangheta, is a hugely powerful international crime syndicate, with origins that can be traced back to the late nineteenth century. By far the least studied of Italy’s ‘big three’ mafias, socio-historical research on the ear... Read More about Corrado Alvaro and the Calabrian mafia: A critical case study of the use of literary and journalistic texts in research on Italian organized crime.

On The World Soul and Other Naturephilosophical Writings (2016)
Book
Grant, I. H. (2016). On The World Soul and Other Naturephilosophical Writings. New York: State University Press of New York. Manuscript submitted for publication

Contains new and complete translations of four of Schelling's major works on the Philosophy of nature, spanning 1798-1844. The volume contains a major introduction alongside thematic and orienting introductions to each of the four texts.

Die Natur der Natur (2016)
Book
Grant, I. H. (2016). E. Lindner (Ed.), Die Natur der Natur. Berlin: Merve

A collection of essays translated into German by Eckardt Lindner (Universitaet Wien) with two unpublished essays.

Family business and crisis: A psycho-social perspective (2016)
Thesis
Brunner, L. D. Family business and crisis: A psycho-social perspective. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/917289

The aim of this research was to answer two initial key research questions: What can a psycho-social beneath-the-surface perspective contribute to a better understanding of and learning about family businesses where the public world (external) and... Read More about Family business and crisis: A psycho-social perspective.

Mental health app design – a journey from concept to completion (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Topham, P., Caleb-Solly, P., Matthews, P., Farmer, A., & Mash, C. (2015, August). Mental health app design – a journey from concept to completion. Paper presented at MobileHCI2015: 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Copenhagen, Denmark

The development of a mental health app, one with significant potential for impacting on and transforming peoples’ lives, requires a diligent approach for integrating and delivering clinical expertise which is to be used by a vulnerable user group. T... Read More about Mental health app design – a journey from concept to completion.

Suprematist ontology and the ultra deep field problem: Operations of the concept (2015)
Book Chapter
Grant, I. H. (2015). Suprematist ontology and the ultra deep field problem: Operations of the concept. In C. Cox, J. Jaskey, & S. Malik (Eds.), Realism Materialism Art (231-242). Berlin/New York: Sternberg Press

Kasimir Malevich's philosophical writings draw not on Schopenhauer, as is usually argued, but on Schelling. Thus his theory of the additional element constitutes an ontological rather than an epistemological intervention which this essay develops.

Everything (2015)
Journal Article
Grant, I. H. (2015). Everything. Monist, 98(2), 156-167. https://doi.org/10.1093/monist/onv003

© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Hegeler Institute. All rights reserved. To picture reality either as not involving its being pictured or as reducible to its being pictured yields inconsistent pictures, since i... Read More about Everything.

Everything is primal germ or nothing is: The deep field logic of nature (2015)
Journal Article
Grant, I. H. (2015). Everything is primal germ or nothing is: The deep field logic of nature. Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, 19(1), 106-124. https://doi.org/10.5840/symposium20151919

In Schelling’s ‘On the Relation between the Real and the Ideal in Nature’ (1806), not only does the titular copula bond real and ideal, but is itself bonded in and by nature. If the copula doesn’t merely bond nature and judgment, but bonds the latter... Read More about Everything is primal germ or nothing is: The deep field logic of nature.

Political Not Generational: Getting Real About Contemporary UK Radical Feminism (2015)
Journal Article
Mackay, F. (2015). Political Not Generational: Getting Real About Contemporary UK Radical Feminism. Social Movement Studies, 14(4), 427-442. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2014.963545

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. In this article, I present data from qualitative research with 30 self-identified radical feminists who are currently active in the British feminist movement. I explore how participants defined their feminism, and threats t... Read More about Political Not Generational: Getting Real About Contemporary UK Radical Feminism.

Inflationary hypotheses: The construction of matter and the deep field problem (2015)
Book Chapter
Grant, I. H. (2015). Inflationary hypotheses: The construction of matter and the deep field problem. In S. Pfeffer (Ed.), Speculations on Anonymous Materials. Berlin: Merve

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field consists of an image, published in 2006 but shot between September 2003 and January 2004, of a tiny part of the Galaxy: the constellation of Fornax, which lies just below Orion in the night sky. The image was constructed b... Read More about Inflationary hypotheses: The construction of matter and the deep field problem.

The long goodbye: An investigation of how personal, professional and social dimensions influence the creation of endings in psychodynamic counselling (2014)
Thesis
Woodend, N. J. The long goodbye: An investigation of how personal, professional and social dimensions influence the creation of endings in psychodynamic counselling. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/807724

This thesis explores the ending stages of psychodynamic counselling. Endings in counselling might be planned from the outset; negotiated through the course of the work; thrust upon participants due to external circumstances; or the work might end if... Read More about The long goodbye: An investigation of how personal, professional and social dimensions influence the creation of endings in psychodynamic counselling.