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Improving sessional teachers’ reliability and consistency in marking through processes of standardisation and moderation (2025)
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It is rare, but quite possible, that a mark that is low by just a few percentage points in one module can alter a student’s final degree classification. Consequently, seeking consistency across a marking team assessing a cohort of students is as much... Read More about Improving sessional teachers’ reliability and consistency in marking through processes of standardisation and moderation.

What and where are urban left mayors delivering in England? (2025)
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The chapter explores the delivery and impact of urban left mayors in England, focusing on the mayoralties of London, Bristol, and Greater Manchester. The study provides a comprehensive analysis of the political strategies and policy implementations o... Read More about What and where are urban left mayors delivering in England?.

Targets and terror (2025)
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The concept of "targets and terror" (T&T) originates from the 1930s Soviet Union, where production targets enforced through deterrence and unpredictable punishments drove dramatic results. Similar performance metrics emerged in the 1950s U.S. militar... Read More about Targets and terror.

Pension funds, bonds and gilt market stability (2025)
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In September 2022 UK gilt yields rose by 130 basis points over the course of a couple of days. Fearing broader financial instability, the Bank of England intervened. These events showcased in spectacular fashion an irony of modern market-based financ... Read More about Pension funds, bonds and gilt market stability.

Do we have time for this?: Time and critical management education (2025)
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We examine what happens to critical management education (CME) and its educators where intense measurement and regulation of time in higher education leave little room for ‘temporal autonomy’ which are crucial for critical processes of management edu... Read More about Do we have time for this?: Time and critical management education.

The possible worlds of VR documentary (2025)
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Producers have been drawn to virtual reality (VR) for its potential to render vivid experiences of nonfiction content. The politics of the platform’s affective operation, particularly in relation to distant human others, has been analysed and critiqu... Read More about The possible worlds of VR documentary.

In England and Wales, no suspect is identified in 74.2% of residential burglary cases (2025)
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Connecting people and planet through reading for pleasure (2025)
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This chapter reflects on research using MG Leonard’s Beetle Boy to consider how reading for pleasure has the potential to impact upon social and environmental action. Research with children and teachers revealed how reading the book supported them to... Read More about Connecting people and planet through reading for pleasure.

The transformative potential of Ricoeur's narrative self (2025)
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This chapter explores how Paul Ricoeur’s concept of narrative identity responds to the problem of identifying a self through change by developing a dynamic concept of the self which is always open to transformation. Ricoeur aims to provide a descript... Read More about The transformative potential of Ricoeur's narrative self.

Navigating vulnerability and resilience: Pregnant women's experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic (2025)
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The chapter examines the labelling of pregnant women as vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, examining its implications and the broader concept of vulnerability. While the labelling aimed to protect pregnant women, it also reinforced ge... Read More about Navigating vulnerability and resilience: Pregnant women's experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Scrutinizing the archetypical relation between vulnerability, organizing and women (2025)
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Vulnerability has become a focal point of ethical, philosophical, social, and environmental debates, with its usage extending across various fields of inquiry to describe both human and non-humans. Often, "vulnerable" is used to refer to others —whet... Read More about Scrutinizing the archetypical relation between vulnerability, organizing and women.

Introduction (2025)
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The book you are about to read focuses on examining women’s organizational vulnerability both conceptually and empirically, contributing to theory, methods, and cross-disciplinary knowledge. Understanding “vulnerability” is conceptually rich and comp... Read More about Introduction.

Polarity (2025)
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Challenges to national frameworks of minority integration in Western Europe minority accommodation, transnationalism and dual citizenship (2025)
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The accommodation of post-war ethno-cultural and ethno-religious communities has been exclusively framed within the boundaries of nation-states. National frameworks of diversity governance across Western Europe often overlook mobilities and transnati... Read More about Challenges to national frameworks of minority integration in Western Europe minority accommodation, transnationalism and dual citizenship.

‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization (2025)
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It is ironic that the iconoclastic Angela Carter was ‘canonized’ as the ‘Good Witch’ of English literature following her death which raises the question of whether this form of commemoration actually contained or limited her reception? This chapter... Read More about ‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization.

Misfitting Together (2025)
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The megamachine and its social costs (2025)
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This preface discusses the social costs of capitalism as megamachine. The focus is on linking the book's main thesis on capitalist double-entry book keeping as essence of the megamachine with the heterodox economics theory of social costs. The social... Read More about The megamachine and its social costs.

The gendered nature of vulnerability in higher education: The case of Türkiye (2025)
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Vulnerability and exclusion have been explored from a career lens, with concepts such as the glass ceiling (Cotter et al., 2001), glass chains (Arifeen and Gatrell, 2020), glass cliffs (Ryan and Haslam, 2007), sticky floors (Booth et al., 2003), and... Read More about The gendered nature of vulnerability in higher education: The case of Türkiye.

"Before we open our mouths, society has labelled us": Double jeopardy and the identity of Black, female trailblazers (2025)
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The notion of vulnerability characterises the separated nature of cultural contexts, uniting women through the pernicious need for coping mechanisms. Confronting the ‘double jeopardy’ of race and gender (Beal, 2008), female minorities are at highest... Read More about "Before we open our mouths, society has labelled us": Double jeopardy and the identity of Black, female trailblazers.

Connecting environment and community: Teaching and learning for a sustainable future (2025)
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