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Student fears of oral presentations and public speaking in higher education: A qualitative survey (2021)
Journal Article
Grieve, R., Woodley, J., Hunt, S., & McKay, A. (2021). Student fears of oral presentations and public speaking in higher education: A qualitative survey. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 45(9), 1281-1293. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877x.2021.1948509

Oral presentations and public speaking are an important aspect of the student experience in the United Kingdom higher education. Many modules (self-contained units normally within a programme of study) use presentations as a form of assessment and re... Read More about Student fears of oral presentations and public speaking in higher education: A qualitative survey.

Prospects for Kurdish ecology initiatives in Syria and Turkey: Democratic confederalism and social ecology (2017)
Journal Article
Hunt, S. E. (2019). Prospects for Kurdish ecology initiatives in Syria and Turkey: Democratic confederalism and social ecology. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 30(3), 7-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2017.1413120

This paper surveys the nascent experiments in political ecology underway in predominantly Kurdish areas of south-eastern Turkey, known as Bakûr, and Rojava (northern Syria). The Kurdish freedom movement is attempting to consolidate a social revolutio... Read More about Prospects for Kurdish ecology initiatives in Syria and Turkey: Democratic confederalism and social ecology.

Skill up! Supporting academic success at UWE Bristol (2016)
Journal Article
Hunt, S. E., Lethaby, B., & Sebire, L. (2016). Skill up! Supporting academic success at UWE Bristol. Aliss Quarterly, 11(4),

The University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) Library Services launched Skill up!, a new online learning platform to support Academic Success in September 2015.

Negotiating equality in the equality act 2010 (United Kingdom): Church-state relations in a post-Christian society (2013)
Journal Article
Hunt, S., & Hunt, S. E. (2013). Negotiating equality in the equality act 2010 (United Kingdom): Church-state relations in a post-Christian society. Journal of Church and State, 55(4), 690-711. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/css078

Few recent legislative enactments in the United Kingdom have wrought so much controversy as the Equality Act 2010. The far-ranging legislation, aiming to enhance civil rights and social inclusion, provides a unique opportunity to analyze how equality... Read More about Negotiating equality in the equality act 2010 (United Kingdom): Church-state relations in a post-Christian society.

The echoing greens: The neo-romanticism of earth first! and reclaim the streets in the U.K. (2013)
Journal Article
Hunt, S. E. (2013). The echoing greens: The neo-romanticism of earth first! and reclaim the streets in the U.K. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 24(2), 83-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2013.784526

Influenced by American naturalist William Bartram, Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge provided much of the literary heritage for American Transcendentalists, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and succeeding nature appreciators Henry David Thoreau and W... Read More about The echoing greens: The neo-romanticism of earth first! and reclaim the streets in the U.K..

“Free, bold, joyous”’: the love of seaweed in Margaret Gatty and other mid-Victorian writers (2005)
Journal Article
Hunt, S. E. (2005). “Free, bold, joyous”’: the love of seaweed in Margaret Gatty and other mid-Victorian writers. Environment and History, 11(1), 5-34

With particular reference to Gatty’s British Sea-Weeds and Eliot’s ‘Recollections of Ilfracombe’, this article takes an ecocritical approach to popular writings about seaweed, thus illustrating the broader perception of the natural world in mid-Victo... Read More about “Free, bold, joyous”’: the love of seaweed in Margaret Gatty and other mid-Victorian writers.