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Participatory democracy and the governance of smart cities (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Ludlow, D., & Khan, Z. (2012, July). Participatory democracy and the governance of smart cities. Paper presented at 26th Annual AESOP Congress, Ankara, Turkey

Citizens’ participation in urban planning and policy-making develops the traditional top-down governance model via promotion of bottom-up approaches to policy development and decision-making. This evolution drives social innovation in support of pl... Read More about Participatory democracy and the governance of smart cities.

What's trust got to do with it? (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Wilkinson, J. (2012, July). What's trust got to do with it?. Presented at SCOS, Barcelona, Spain

This paper draws on interview and questionnaire data gathered from remote workers in order to explore the social constructs through which these remote workers attribute meaning to trust and so demonstrate their trustworthiness (Flores and Solomon, 19... Read More about What's trust got to do with it?.

CEOs in India: How leadership and management philosophies drive innovation (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Prabhakar, G. P., & Liddle, J. (2012, July). CEOs in India: How leadership and management philosophies drive innovation. Paper presented at Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy (GIKA) conference, Valencia, Spain

This work highlights the corporate and non-corporate leadership practices in India, the effect of culture and religion on such practices and how these drive innovation. Many qualities of a good leader, as defined by Indian CEOs were derived from the... Read More about CEOs in India: How leadership and management philosophies drive innovation.

Angela Carter's bohemian Bristol (2012)
Journal Article
Brennan, Z. (2012). Angela Carter's bohemian Bristol

An exploration of Carter's use of Bristol in the 'Bristol trilogy'

Journeying and the experiential gaze in research (2012)
Presentation / Conference
French, R., Gaggiotti, H., & Simpson, P. (2012, July). Journeying and the experiential gaze in research. Paper presented at Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Barcelona

In this paper we consider the implications of the ideas of journeying and the experiential gaze for research practice. We do so by drawing first upon Plato’s analogy of the Cave as a mythical representation of the journey of the philosopher to see ul... Read More about Journeying and the experiential gaze in research.

Performance of a large building rainwater harvesting system (2012)
Journal Article
Ward, S., Memon, F. A., & Butler, D. (2012). Performance of a large building rainwater harvesting system. Water Research, 46(16), 5127-5134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2012.06.043

Rainwater harvesting is increasingly becoming an integral part of the sustainable water management toolkit. Despite a plethora of studies modelling the feasibility of the utilisation of rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems in particular contexts, there... Read More about Performance of a large building rainwater harvesting system.

Flood histories, flood memories and informal flood knowledge in the development of community resilience to future flood risk (2012)
Presentation / Conference
McEwen, L., Krause, F., Garde-Hansen, J., & Jones, O. (2012, July). Flood histories, flood memories and informal flood knowledge in the development of community resilience to future flood risk. Paper presented at 11th British Hydrological Society National Hydrology Symposium

This research emphasises the importance of informal/local/lay flood knowledges, flood memories and shared flood histories/heritage in developing community resilience to flooding. How do these knowledges relate to communities’ capacities to prepare fo... Read More about Flood histories, flood memories and informal flood knowledge in the development of community resilience to future flood risk.

Engaging employers as partners in work-based learning assessment: Proposal for a quality enhancement framework (2012)
Presentation / Conference
McEwen, L., Mason O’Connor, K., Williams, C., & Higson, H. (2012, July). Engaging employers as partners in work-based learning assessment: Proposal for a quality enhancement framework. Paper presented at 11th British Hydrological Society National Hydrology Symposium, Dundee

This paper seeks to advance research and practice related to the role of employers in all stages of the assessment process of workbased learning (WBL) within a tripartite relationship of higher education institution (HEI), student and employer. It pr... Read More about Engaging employers as partners in work-based learning assessment: Proposal for a quality enhancement framework.

Lessons from the tea party: What happens when you can't please everyone all the time (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Lloyd, J. (2012, July). Lessons from the tea party: What happens when you can't please everyone all the time. Paper presented at IPSA XXII World Congress of Political Science, Madrid, Spain

This paper explores the extent to which it is possible to achieve a ‘market orientation’ in the field of politics when the stakeholders that comprise those markets appear to have ‘needs’ and ‘wants’ that are not only diverse but sometimes also contra... Read More about Lessons from the tea party: What happens when you can't please everyone all the time.

The use of virtual worlds in schools: A methodology and framework (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Newbutt, N., & Parsons, S. (2012, July). The use of virtual worlds in schools: A methodology and framework. Poster presented at 1st International Conference: Information Technology for Autism Spectrum Disorders, Valencia, Spain

A healthy turn in urban climate change policies; European city workshop proposes health indicators as policy integrators (2012)
Journal Article
Keune, H., Ludlow, D., Van Den Hazel, P., Randall, S., & Bartonova, A. (2012). A healthy turn in urban climate change policies; European city workshop proposes health indicators as policy integrators. Environmental Health, 11(SUPPL.1), https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-11-S1-S14

Background: The EU FP6 HENVINET project reviewed the potential relevance of a focus on climate change related health effects for climate change policies at the city region level. This was undertaken by means of a workshop with both scientists, city r... Read More about A healthy turn in urban climate change policies; European city workshop proposes health indicators as policy integrators.

The challenge of social networking in the field of environment and health (2012)
Journal Article
Van Den Hazel, P., Keune, H., Randall, S., Yang, A., Ludlow, D., & Bartonova, A. (2012). The challenge of social networking in the field of environment and health. Environmental Health, 11(SUPPL.1), https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-11-S1-S15

Background: The fields of environment and health are both interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary, and until recently had little engagement in social networking designed to cross disciplinary boundaries. The EU FP6 project HENVINET aimed to establis... Read More about The challenge of social networking in the field of environment and health.

Numerical modeling of ADA system for vulnerable road users protection based on radar and vision sensing (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Ruiz Garate, V., Bours, R., & Kietlinski, K. (2012). Numerical modeling of ADA system for vulnerable road users protection based on radar and vision sensing. In 2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV). , (1150-1155). https://doi.org/10.1109/ivs.2012.6232273

The protection of vulnerable road users (VRU) remains one of the most challenging problems for our society and several governmental and consumer organization has set targets to reduce the VRU fatality and injury rates. The automotive industry is, the... Read More about Numerical modeling of ADA system for vulnerable road users protection based on radar and vision sensing.

Large-scale context provisioning: A use-case for homogenous cloud federation (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Liaquat Kiani, S. (2012, July). Large-scale context provisioning: A use-case for homogenous cloud federation. Paper presented at The 6th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS), Palermo, Italy

—The ability to seamlessly bridge clouds across organisational and administrative boundaries will play a vital role in establishing the utility of cloud computing for large-scale collaborative processes. Managing human and environmental contexts acr... Read More about Large-scale context provisioning: A use-case for homogenous cloud federation.