All Outputs (326)

Revisiting sample bias in the UK's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, with implications for estimates of low pay and the bite of the National Living Wage (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) is based on an annual one per cent sample of employee jobs and provides many of the UK’s official earnings statistics. These statistics are generated using official weights designed to make the achieved... Read More about Revisiting sample bias in the UK's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, with implications for estimates of low pay and the bite of the National Living Wage.

Peak complexity – Why nothing works any more (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

How many times have system failures – technical, human or both – caused you loss, frustration or wasted time? Have you ever dealt with customer services or technical support who seemed powerless to fix the problem? Could these growing frustrations of... Read More about Peak complexity – Why nothing works any more.

The impact of a rising wage floor on labour mobility across firms (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

In April 2016, a National Living Wage replaced the National Minimum Wage for employees in the UK aged 25 and above, raising their statutory wage floor by 50 pence per hour. This uprating was almost double any in the previous decade and expanded the... Read More about The impact of a rising wage floor on labour mobility across firms.

Evolution of NHS-based health psychology training in Scotland and England (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Way back in 2006, a British Psychological Society briefing paper stated:

'Given the current demands on the NHS for the expertise that Health Psychologists can offer, there is a clear need for a consolidated career pathway and designated funding fo... Read More about Evolution of NHS-based health psychology training in Scotland and England.

Design as emergent making design as emergent making (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Through design practice, this research seeks mutually beneficial possibilities and connections that can be made between making and architecture. It asks how space can be discovered and accrued through full scale making, rather than pre-imagined via s... Read More about Design as emergent making design as emergent making.

Exchange rates and sovereign risk: A nonlinear approach based on local Gaussian correlations (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Restorative Justice and Harmful Sexual Behaviour (RJHSB): A commentary (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Restorative Justice (RJ) has been practiced around the world in various settings, including criminal justice,
for many years (Shapland et al., 2004; 2006). In the UK, there has been a long history of its use with the
intent to allow those who have... Read More about Restorative Justice and Harmful Sexual Behaviour (RJHSB): A commentary.

Written evidence from Dr Emmanuel Nsiah Amoako (UKR0065) (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

This is a written response to the House of Lords' Industry and Regulators Committee's inquiry into UK regulators, with a focus on their roles, remit, independence, and accountability. This submission focused on the role of the Forensic Science Regula... Read More about Written evidence from Dr Emmanuel Nsiah Amoako (UKR0065).

Ghana ecological risks: A space law and science education approach to the management frameworks (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

This article discusses what Ghana needs to do to progress its space programme to aid the development of legal and scientific education programmes for the management framework of biodiversity and the ecosystem. The first part of the article examines p... Read More about Ghana ecological risks: A space law and science education approach to the management frameworks.

Issues, challenges and opportunities for trauma-informed practice (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

This report was kindly produced by Dr Sarah Senker, Dr Anne Eason, Dr Chris Pawson and Professor Kieran McCartan, building upon previous Academic Insights papers and highlighting some of the key issues, challenges and opportunities for trauma-informe... Read More about Issues, challenges and opportunities for trauma-informed practice.

The art of blurring the lines: From passive spectatorship to activating immersion for innovative and inclusive climate-neutral and Smart Cities (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

The paper seeks to clarify the ways in which art could help empowers the residents with higher agency and two-way communication as part of a Green Transition and more open smart cities governance (i.e. the dimension that examines bringing multiple st... Read More about The art of blurring the lines: From passive spectatorship to activating immersion for innovative and inclusive climate-neutral and Smart Cities.

The making of the liveable city; the overlooked aspects of smart cities design (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

This article examines the real potential of smart cities to offer a better experience to residents as people with more than just basic needs. This is done through a lens of design, urban encounters and on-site sensations. The topic is presented and d... Read More about The making of the liveable city; the overlooked aspects of smart cities design.

Response to home affairs committee inquiry into fraud (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

This submission provides an analysis of the Home Office’s progress to date on tackling fraud. The recently published Fraud Strategy is examined, with particular reference to corporate criminal liability and the failure to prevent fraud offence, whic... Read More about Response to home affairs committee inquiry into fraud.

Experiences of ‘citizen science’, Pushing the boundaries: Exploring ‘citizen science’ and community participation across research (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

This is the first in a series of short discussion papers, sharing learnings and reflections from the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)-funded Citizen Science Collaboration Grants (CSCG). It focuses on the experience of doing ‘citizen science’.1 This... Read More about Experiences of ‘citizen science’, Pushing the boundaries: Exploring ‘citizen science’ and community participation across research.

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in higher education: A comprehensive review of opportunities, challenges and implications (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

This paper explores recent advancements and implications of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, with a specific focus on Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT 3.5 within the realm of higher education. Through a comprehensive review of academ... Read More about Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in higher education: A comprehensive review of opportunities, challenges and implications.

Estimating defection in subscription-type markets with down-sampled representation: Analysis from the scholarly publishing industry (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

We explore the subscription-type market within the context of customer churn, and provide analysis on the business model of such markets, and how these characterise the academic publishing business. The proposed method attempts to provide inference o... Read More about Estimating defection in subscription-type markets with down-sampled representation: Analysis from the scholarly publishing industry.

Written evidence to the climate change, environment and infrastructure committee of the Welsh Government on the infrastructure (Wales) bill (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

The role of local planning authorities in delivering brownfield land - case study reports (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

The Planning Advisory Service commissioned the University of West of England (UWE) to research the role that Local Planning Authorities (LPA) can play in delivering housing-led development on brownfield land. The research resulted in a set of case st... Read More about The role of local planning authorities in delivering brownfield land - case study reports.

Policy fellowship schemes as a vehicle for co-production – insights from Welsh Government Fellowships (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

Engagement between academic researchers and policy makers is becoming increasingly common. Although approaches to the so-called Science-Policy Interface (SPI) can vary substantially – based on disciplines, different degrees of engagement and focus on... Read More about Policy fellowship schemes as a vehicle for co-production – insights from Welsh Government Fellowships.

Arts and humanities shaping the AI future (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

The organisation of this event was motivated by the view there should be more Arts and Humanities (A&H) perspectives, methods and approaches involved in shaping our future relationship with AI technology.

Our invitation was sent to the most diver... Read More about Arts and humanities shaping the AI future.