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Exploring environmental value action gap and education research: A semi-systematic literature review (2024)
Journal Article
Portus, R., Aarnio-Linnanvuori, E., Dillon, B., Fahy, F., Gopinath, D., Mansikka-Aho, A., …McEwen, L. (in press). Exploring environmental value action gap and education research: A semi-systematic literature review. Environmental Education Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2024.2314060

Despite rising levels of interest in global environmental challenges, progress towards the widespread adoption of pro-environmental behaviours remains slow and inconsistent. Previous literature identifies the importance of education for working to ad... Read More about Exploring environmental value action gap and education research: A semi-systematic literature review.

Learning from young people’s experiences of climate change education (2024)
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Reilly, K., Dillon, B., Fahy, F., Phelan, D., Aarnio-Linnanvuori, E., De Vito, L., …McEwen, L. (2024). Learning from young people’s experiences of climate change education. Geography, 109(1), 44-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/00167487.2024.2297616

This article centres on young people’s experiences of climate change education (CCE). There is much written on CCE (e.g. what it is, what it should be, how it should be taught, where it should be taught), but there is little exploring young people’s... Read More about Learning from young people’s experiences of climate change education.

Voices in a Pandemic: Using deep mapping to explore children’s changing sense of place during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK (2024)
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Webber, A., Jones, V., McEwen, L., Deave, T., Gorell Barnes, L., Williams, S., …Gopinath, D. (in press). Voices in a Pandemic: Using deep mapping to explore children’s changing sense of place during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK. Children's Geographies,

Children’s sense of place is important for wellbeing, development and belonging in a community or place. The VIP-CLEAR (Voices in a Pandemic – Children’s Lockdown Experiences Applied to Recovery) project used creative methods and repeat engagement t... Read More about Voices in a Pandemic: Using deep mapping to explore children’s changing sense of place during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK.

The tree(s) of hope and ambition: An arts-based social science informed, participatory research method to explore children's future hopes, ambitions and support in relation to COVID-19 (2023)
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Williams, S., McEwen, L. J., Gorell Barnes, L., Deave, T., Webber, A., Jones, V., …Hobbs, L. (2023). The tree(s) of hope and ambition: An arts-based social science informed, participatory research method to explore children's future hopes, ambitions and support in relation to COVID-19. Children & Society, 37(5), 1356-1375. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12767

This paper offers a new child-centred methodology that explores children's visions of their futures, encourages self-reflection and depth and shares children's voices with peers and researchers, as unbrokered as possible. This final stage of a longit... Read More about The tree(s) of hope and ambition: An arts-based social science informed, participatory research method to explore children's future hopes, ambitions and support in relation to COVID-19.

Learning from children’s experiences of lockdown: Talking about invisible threats (2023)
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Jones, V., McEwen, L., Webber, A., Williams, S., Deave, T., Hobbs, L., …Gorell Barnes, L. (2023). Learning from children’s experiences of lockdown: Talking about invisible threats. Primary Science, 7-9

In this article, the Voices in a Pandemic: Children’s Lockdown Experiences Applied to Recovery (VIP- CLEAR) team talk about the research they have undertaken in schools during the COVID-19 pandemic and how the voices of children need to be listened t... Read More about Learning from children’s experiences of lockdown: Talking about invisible threats.

Multicriteria evaluation of the quality of service of informal public transport: An empirical evidence from Ibadan, Nigeria (2021)
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Olowosegun, A., Moyo, D., & Gopinath, D. (2021). Multicriteria evaluation of the quality of service of informal public transport: An empirical evidence from Ibadan, Nigeria. Case Studies on Transport Policy, 9(4), 1518-1530. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cstp.2021.08.002

Developing countries experience a decline in bus public transport investments. Yet informal public transport has continued to grow rapidly. Previous studies have evaluated the Quality of Service (QoS) provided by such informal transport but a multi-c... Read More about Multicriteria evaluation of the quality of service of informal public transport: An empirical evidence from Ibadan, Nigeria.

Designing ‘youth master plans’ in a CLE space: Lessons from using Minecraft in secondary school outreach project in Scotland (2021)
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Gopinath, D. (2021). Designing ‘youth master plans’ in a CLE space: Lessons from using Minecraft in secondary school outreach project in Scotland. International Journal of Society Systems Science, 13(2), 110 - 124. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSSS.2021.116371

In response to problems of neoliberal urbanism agenda, Lefebvre (1991) argued for a 'right to the city' so that more people are involved in the (re-) production of urban spaces (Purcell 2002). The challenge being to translate this ‘right’ into practi... Read More about Designing ‘youth master plans’ in a CLE space: Lessons from using Minecraft in secondary school outreach project in Scotland.

Airbnb – another argument for a revised, not compromised, spatial management approach (2021)
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Sheppard, A., West, H., Cole, S., Gopinath, D., & Sonjak, M. (2021). Airbnb – another argument for a revised, not compromised, spatial management approach. Town and Country Planning -London- Town and Country Planning Association-, 90(5/6), 160-165

Adam Sheppard, Harry West, Stroma Cole, Deepak Gopinath and Mojca Sonjak outline the findings of research on the extent, distribution and impact of Airbnb short-term letting in Bristol, and on whether regulatory intervention is required.

Waste management in England and the 'circular economy' model (2020)
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Gopinath, D. (2020). Waste management in England and the 'circular economy' model. Geography, 105(1), 39-46

By tracing the emergence of waste strategy in England, leading up to the most recent strategy launched in 2018, this article aims to aid the development of a shared understanding of what 'waste' means. It also looks at emerging and competing interpre... Read More about Waste management in England and the 'circular economy' model.

Why a clearer ‘green industrial policy’ matters for India: Reconciling growth, climate change and inequality (2016)
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Gopinath, D. (2016). Why a clearer ‘green industrial policy’ matters for India: Reconciling growth, climate change and inequality. Local Economy, 31(8), 830-835. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269094216675434

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. To ensure a healthy growth of the economy particularly in the manufacturing sector, the Indian Government is more than ever focussed on promoting the use of sustainable and affordable energy resources. Recent initiatives... Read More about Why a clearer ‘green industrial policy’ matters for India: Reconciling growth, climate change and inequality.

‘Poverty’ and ‘place’ through the eyes of the poor: Outlining key strands of a conceptual framework, D-SPACE (2015)
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Gopinath, D., & Nair, M. (2015). ‘Poverty’ and ‘place’ through the eyes of the poor: Outlining key strands of a conceptual framework, D-SPACE. Social Development Issues, 37(3), 1-21

In spite of a range of work on engaging with poverty, particularly in the Global South, the significance of the poor in conceptualizing and responding to the relationship between poverty and place seems to be downplayed. This article addresses this g... Read More about ‘Poverty’ and ‘place’ through the eyes of the poor: Outlining key strands of a conceptual framework, D-SPACE.

Recasting resilience beyond 'failure management': Lessons for planning our cities (2015)
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Gopinath, D. (2015). Recasting resilience beyond 'failure management': Lessons for planning our cities. International Journal of Society Systems Science, 7(2), 127

Much recently, the term 'resilience' has generated considerable interest. But, it is rather hard to pin down what it means. Equally challenging is in knowing what the scope of resilience might be and how/whether such an understanding might help addre... Read More about Recasting resilience beyond 'failure management': Lessons for planning our cities.

Learning to be resilient by moving between ‘poor by chance’ to ‘not-so-poor by intent’ identities: Lessons from conversations with labor migrants in Southern India (2015)
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Gopinath, D., & Nair, M. (2015). Learning to be resilient by moving between ‘poor by chance’ to ‘not-so-poor by intent’ identities: Lessons from conversations with labor migrants in Southern India. Social Development Issues, 37(1), 1-10

Through their engagement with the lives of labor migrants working on construction sites in southern India, the authors advance a critical understanding linking poverty, place, and migration. This article challenges conventional images of poverty asso... Read More about Learning to be resilient by moving between ‘poor by chance’ to ‘not-so-poor by intent’ identities: Lessons from conversations with labor migrants in Southern India.

Discourses and practices in teaching methods and assessment: Insights from an early career academic (2015)
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Gopinath, D. (2015). Discourses and practices in teaching methods and assessment: Insights from an early career academic. SAGE Open, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244015573371

© The Author(s) 2015. Translating the purposes of education into practice is particularly challenging for those who are new or have recently entered academia. By reflecting on my first years of teaching in higher education, I discuss two key aspects... Read More about Discourses and practices in teaching methods and assessment: Insights from an early career academic.

Characterizing Indian students pursuing global higher education: A conceptual framework of pathways to internationalization (2015)
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Gopinath, D. (2015). Characterizing Indian students pursuing global higher education: A conceptual framework of pathways to internationalization. Journal of Studies in International Education, 19(3), 283-305. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315314563783

© 2014 European Association for International Education One might argue that an Indian student entering higher education is faced with a critical question—Where to study, in India or abroad? With a gross enrollment ratio of around 20% in the tertiary... Read More about Characterizing Indian students pursuing global higher education: A conceptual framework of pathways to internationalization.

Re-thinking destitution in the UK: Typologies, spaces and transitions (2014)
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Gopinath, D. (2014). Re-thinking destitution in the UK: Typologies, spaces and transitions. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJHRCS.2014.067881

Destitution, a severe form of poverty still persists in modern, industrialised nations such as the UK despite a robust, social security system in place. Increased use of food banks, inadequate housing provisions, etc., point to evidence that there ar... Read More about Re-thinking destitution in the UK: Typologies, spaces and transitions.

Shifting of the ontological-epistemological balance in contemporary research agendas: A critique (2014)
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Gopinath, D. (2015). Shifting of the ontological-epistemological balance in contemporary research agendas: A critique. Quality and Quantity, 49(5), 1873-1882

With greater calls for public involvement, there are now claims of methodological shifts to ‘bottom-up’, ‘politically informed’ and ‘boundary-less’ approaches. This is not accurate as there is still predominantly an emphasis on epistemological consid... Read More about Shifting of the ontological-epistemological balance in contemporary research agendas: A critique.

Placing Poverty in Context: A Case Study (2014)
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Gopinath, D., & Nair, M. (2014). Placing Poverty in Context: A Case Study. Poverty and Public Policy, 6(2), 135-156

The “poverty-in-context” approach to understanding poverty is shaped by the needs and priorities of a particular context, and it can be used as the basis for identifying pro-poor projects in local strategies such as City Development Plans. A key argu... Read More about Placing Poverty in Context: A Case Study.

Editorial – Special issue on planning and sustainability (2013)
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Gopinath, D., Gazzola, P., & Jackson, T. (2013). Editorial – Special issue on planning and sustainability. International Journal of Society Systems Science, 5(3), 207-212

Guest Editors: Deepak Gopinath, Paola Gazzola, Tony Jackson

Dirigiste and smart growth approaches to urban sprawl: Lessons from Scotland and British Columbia (2012)
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Jackson, T., Gopinath, D., & Curry, J. (2012). Dirigiste and smart growth approaches to urban sprawl: Lessons from Scotland and British Columbia. Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 10(1), 45-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794012.2012.651361

Two communities operating under diverse planning systems, St. Andrews in Scotland and Prince George in British Columbia (BC), provide case studies for examining how planning tools are used in these jurisdictions to address urban containment issues. T... Read More about Dirigiste and smart growth approaches to urban sprawl: Lessons from Scotland and British Columbia.