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Identifying linguistic correlates of power (2015)
Journal Article

Previous work on social power modelling from linguistic cues has been limited by the range of available data. We introduce a new corpus of dialogues, generated in a controlled experimental setting where participant roles were manipulated to generate... Read More about Identifying linguistic correlates of power.

Sustainability and transferable skills in a digital age (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Keynote Speech: Sustainability & Transferable Skills in a Digital Age:

My talk looked at technology and its impact on sustainability, exploring how Higher Education institutions leveraged technology in the last decade.

A cultural case study for social marketing (2015)
Book Chapter

The starting point for this study was that obesity in the UK, as elsewhere in the West, is socio-economically patterned. This is thought to be due to the low rates of physical activity within lower socio-economic groups and the social-patterning of o... Read More about A cultural case study for social marketing.

The ‘other half’ of the public debt-economic growth relationship: A note on reinhart and rogoff (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. Reinhart/Rogoff (2010) and Reinhart et al. (2012) document a negative relationship between public debt and economic growth. However, by classifying the observations of their data set into public debt categories and... Read More about The ‘other half’ of the public debt-economic growth relationship: A note on reinhart and rogoff.

Human resource management practices and performance link: Applying critical realist meta-theory (2015)
Thesis

Abstract
Many of those who conduct empirical research in the field of human resource management (HRM) believe that a quantifiable and statistical, relation, association or link exists between HRM practices and organizational performance, and can b... Read More about Human resource management practices and performance link: Applying critical realist meta-theory.

Historical pathways to a green economy: The evolution and scaling-up of solar PV in Ghana, 1980-2010 (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier Inc. Although scaling up of renewable technologies is essential in creating opportunities for sustainable economic development to flourish, our understanding of the historical trajectory of government policies in facilitating this pro... Read More about Historical pathways to a green economy: The evolution and scaling-up of solar PV in Ghana, 1980-2010.

The measurement of apprentice pay: Report commissioned by the Low Pay Commission (2015)
Report

This report considers the measurement of apprentice pay, both the accuracy of that measurement and what can be said about compliance with the National Minimum Wage. In summary, there are substantial problems with accurately identifying apprentice pay... Read More about The measurement of apprentice pay: Report commissioned by the Low Pay Commission.

Wales, the land that banks forgot (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The aim of the presentation was to provide a contemporary update and commentary on access to credit in Wales in light of the 2008 financial crisis. Particular attention was made to the evolution of the consumer credit market, levels of debt, irrespon... Read More about Wales, the land that banks forgot.

The Intervention Initiative: Student feedback February 2015 (2015)
Report

The Intervention Initiative is Bystander Education Programme that was taught to 1st year Law students in 2014/2015. This document outlines the students' feedback on the programme.

The financial war on terrorism: A review of counter-terrorist financing strategies since 2001 (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The aim of this presentation is to critically review the impact of the financial war on terrorism in the United States of America and the United Kingdom.

Analysing cycling as a social practice: An empirical grounding for behaviour change (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Despite significant national and local efforts over the last decade to stimulate uptake of cycling in the UK, levels of cycling (particularly utility cycling) remain at around 2% of journeys. Understandi... Read More about Analysing cycling as a social practice: An empirical grounding for behaviour change.

The impact of analyst sentiment on UK stock recommendations and target prices (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between narrative sentiment in analysts' company reports and their recommendation and target price outputs. We study an industry-balanced sample of 275 UK quoted comp... Read More about The impact of analyst sentiment on UK stock recommendations and target prices.

Managerial engagement with scenario planning: A conceptual consumption approach (2015)
Journal Article

Scenario development is widely used to reduce uncertainty while making decisions in high velocity environments. Despite this fact, managerial fixation on short term performance objectives, their penchant fear of the unpredictable future and their she... Read More about Managerial engagement with scenario planning: A conceptual consumption approach.

Access to finance to SMEs at a regional level – the case of Finance Wales (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Since the economic recession of 2008, there is increasing evidence that small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have found it increasingly difficult to access funding from conventional sources such as banks. As a result, t... Read More about Access to finance to SMEs at a regional level – the case of Finance Wales.

National innovation and knowledge performance: the role of higher education teaching and training (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014 Society for Research into Higher Education. This paper investigates the role of the higher education system (HES) in the production of national innovation. We focus on the issue of institutional diversity of HESs and its impact on national inn... Read More about National innovation and knowledge performance: the role of higher education teaching and training.

Special briefing: The financing of terrorism and the role of oil and organised crime (2015)
Journal Article

Open Briefing: Postings on Transnational Organised Crime.

The fight against fraud: A critical review and comparative analysis of the Labour and Conservative government’s anti-fraud policies in the United Kingdom (2015)
Journal Article

This article identifies the new trends and policies adopted by the Labour and Conservative governments towards the prevention of fraud and critiques their effectiveness.

Coevolutionary and genetic algorithm based building spatial and structural design (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© Cambridge University Press 2015. In this article, two methods to develop and optimize accompanying building spatial and structural designs are compared. The first, a coevolutionary method, applies deterministic procedures, inspired by realistic des... Read More about Coevolutionary and genetic algorithm based building spatial and structural design.

Is there a role for marketing in community development? (2015)
Journal Article

© Oxford University Press and Community Development Journal. 2014. All rights reserved. Social marketing is the application of marketing theory to social issues. A significant drawback, though, is that practitioners are encouraged to assume high leve... Read More about Is there a role for marketing in community development?.

Foreword (2015)
Journal Article

Following the drafting of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, 2005, it would seem that a more victim focussed, victim-centric approach is being taken toward the individuals who fall foul of this transnation... Read More about Foreword.