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War, industrial mobilisation and society in Northern Ireland, 1939-1945 (2007)
Journal Article

Archive-based regional studies can contribute much that is new to the economic, political and social history of the Second World War. This paper considers the process of industrial mobilisation in Northern Ireland, a politically divided region which... Read More about War, industrial mobilisation and society in Northern Ireland, 1939-1945.

Anticipating an altered appearance: Women undergoing chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer (2007)
Journal Article

Chemotherapy treatment for cancer can have a profound impact on appearance, and is often experienced as distressing. Few qualitative studies explore experiences of chemotherapy, and seldom focus on the process of anticipation and preparation for an a... Read More about Anticipating an altered appearance: Women undergoing chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer.

Chapter 23 Screen-printed electrochemical (bio)sensors in biomedical, environmental and industrial applications (2007)
Journal Article

This chapter describes a number of approaches for the fabrication of prototype screen-printed electrochemical (bio) sensors together with selected applications in the areas of biomedical, environmental and industrial analyses. Novel methods of immobi... Read More about Chapter 23 Screen-printed electrochemical (bio)sensors in biomedical, environmental and industrial applications.

Researching resistance to neoliberal globalization: Engaged ethnography as solidarity and praxis (2007)
Journal Article

In this paper we investigate the process of carrying out ethnographic studies of organized resistance to neoliberal globalization. We do so by drawing upon the critical and public social science of Bourdieu and Santos, two highly influential opponent... Read More about Researching resistance to neoliberal globalization: Engaged ethnography as solidarity and praxis.

Female friendship, idealisation and the "need" for violence in Crush (2007)
Journal Article

This article develops a feminist critical approach capable of responding to the uniquely pessimistic portrayal of female friendship in Crush (Alison Maclean 1992, NZ). Crush questions the possibility of supportive or empathetic relationships, disclos... Read More about Female friendship, idealisation and the "need" for violence in Crush.

'You think you know? ... You have no idea': Youth participation in health policy development (2007)
Journal Article

This paper draws on research in the United Kingdom which set out to explore young people's understandings and experiences of health as experienced in their everyday lives and according to their own terms of reference, rather than in response to polic... Read More about 'You think you know? ... You have no idea': Youth participation in health policy development.

Gilles Deleuze and the history of philosophy (2007)
Journal Article

A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information (2007)
Journal Article

Throughout the 1990s the relationship between culture and technology was sharply focused in a debate about whether digital technologies signalled the death or radical displacement of photography. The case for the cultural continuity of photography ce... Read More about A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information.

Degrees of distribution: Towards an understanding of variations in the nature of distributed leadership in schools (2007)
Journal Article

The research reported on in this article explores how degrees of leadership distribution in schools might be differentiated. Data were collected from ten schools - eight primary and two secondary schools - / which were identified as exhibiting 'good... Read More about Degrees of distribution: Towards an understanding of variations in the nature of distributed leadership in schools.

Capital mobility, job loss, and union strategy: The case of the UK aerospace industry (2007)
Journal Article

Drawing on case study data, this article analyzes contrasting workplace union responses to organizational restructuring in the United Kingdom's aerospace industry. It critically evaluates two distinct union strategies that resonate with contemporary... Read More about Capital mobility, job loss, and union strategy: The case of the UK aerospace industry.

Estimating infectious disease in UK asylum seekers and refugees: A systematic review of prevalence studies (2007)
Journal Article

Background The prevalence of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB), HIV and hepatitis B in the UK asylum seeker and refugee population is currently uncertain. Methods Systematic review of published and unpublished studies. Results Five studie... Read More about Estimating infectious disease in UK asylum seekers and refugees: A systematic review of prevalence studies.

Towards an integrated CADCAM process for the production of forming shoulders with exact geometry (2007)
Journal Article

This paper considers the application of advanced CADCAM techniques for the production of the complex machine tooling used in packaging fast-moving consumer goods. In particular, the paper discusses the practical considerations and design issues that... Read More about Towards an integrated CADCAM process for the production of forming shoulders with exact geometry.

A 'pataphysics engine: Technology, play, and realities (2007)
Journal Article

This article plays a game with Jean Baudrillard's thought and the intellectual traditions on which it draws. Or rather, it plays Baudrillard's game but with a cheat code. The game or program here is the hyperreality of the contemporary world-Baudrill... Read More about A 'pataphysics engine: Technology, play, and realities.

Representativeness and humanitarian intervention (2007)
Journal Article

Dionysiac machines: Videogames and the triumph of the simulacra (2007)
Journal Article

This article rethinks concepts of the simulational and the simulacral for popular digital culture. It plays concepts of the modern world as hyperreal against the more modest, pragmatic, but vital, insights of game studies into the literally simulatio... Read More about Dionysiac machines: Videogames and the triumph of the simulacra.

Using photographs to capture women's experiences of chemotherapy: Reflecting on the method (2007)
Journal Article

This article examines the value of using the photo-elicitation method for generating health-related narratives. Drawing on research in which women kept a photographic record of their experiences of chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer, this resea... Read More about Using photographs to capture women's experiences of chemotherapy: Reflecting on the method.

Total knee replacement: Is it really an effective procedure for all? (2007)
Journal Article

Total knee replacement (TKR) is considered an effective intervention for the treatment of chronic knee pain and disability. Yet there is increasing evidence, based on research using patient-based outcome measures, that a significant proportion of pat... Read More about Total knee replacement: Is it really an effective procedure for all?.

Managing built heritage (2007)
Book

Buying a better world: Sustainable public procurement (2007)
Report

Emerging Themes: Analysis of data related to helping families with children with intellectual disabilities (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution