All Outputs (12)

Design for Safety (DfS) implementation in the construction industry: A study of design professionals in Northern China (2025)
Journal Article

Purpose: Design for Safety (DfS) has been studied as an effective method to reduce injuries and fatalities in construction. Although the benefits of implementing DfS are gradually being recognised, there is limited research on DfS in developing count... Read More about Design for Safety (DfS) implementation in the construction industry: A study of design professionals in Northern China.

A systematic review of occupational safety and health in modular integrated construction (2025)
Journal Article

The construction industry is facing increased pressure to enhance efficiency and safety, owing to its high incident rates. Modular integrated construction (MiC) has gained significant attention from scholars and practitioners as a viable means of enh... Read More about A systematic review of occupational safety and health in modular integrated construction.

Targets and terror (2025)
Book Chapter

The concept of "targets and terror" (T&T) originates from the 1930s Soviet Union, where production targets enforced through deterrence and unpredictable punishments drove dramatic results. Similar performance metrics emerged in the 1950s U.S. militar... Read More about Targets and terror.

Transforming disaster risk reduction with AI and Big Data: Legal and interdisciplinary perspectives (2025)
Journal Article

Managing complex disaster risks requires interdisciplinary efforts. Breaking down silos between law, social sciences, and natural sciences is critical for all processes of disaster risk reduction. It is essential to explore how AI enhances understand... Read More about Transforming disaster risk reduction with AI and Big Data: Legal and interdisciplinary perspectives.

The state and the labour process: Bureaucratic flexibility and constrained autonomy in the Indian information technology industry (2025)
Journal Article

ABSTRACTThis paper examines the connections between state regulation and the labour process, an underdeveloped area within labour process analysis. It explores the interaction between state employment regulation and bureaucratic control mechanisms in... Read More about The state and the labour process: Bureaucratic flexibility and constrained autonomy in the Indian information technology industry.

From social justice to social value: The changing fortunes of using public purchasing for social ends (2025)
Journal Article

This aim of this article is to trace the concept of ‘social value’ in public procurement (purchasing by the public sector from private and third sector contractors of goods, services and works) in the UK through four decades of the incorporation of s... Read More about From social justice to social value: The changing fortunes of using public purchasing for social ends.

Rethinking economic growth: The impact of media narratives on inequality, wealth and growth (2025)
Digital Artefact

High levels of inequality are harmful to economic growth (Alesina & Perotti, 1996) yet claims about growth often focus on increases at the ‘top’, which can lead to increased inequality (Phillips, 2020). By exploring how talk about poverty, wealth and... Read More about Rethinking economic growth: The impact of media narratives on inequality, wealth and growth.

Deep Huber quantile regression networks (2025)
Journal Article

Typical machine learning regression applications aim to report the mean or the median of the predictive probability distribution, via training with a squared or an absolute error scoring function. The importance of issuing predictions of more functio... Read More about Deep Huber quantile regression networks.

Moderating effects of coping behaviors on stressors–Stress relationships of ethnic minority construction workers (2025)
Journal Article

To overcome the shortage of construction workers in developed countries, the construction industry recruits a minority workforce from developing countries. However, ethnic minority construction workers (EM-CWs) experience numerous stressors in the h... Read More about Moderating effects of coping behaviors on stressors–Stress relationships of ethnic minority construction workers.

Falling risk analysis at workplaces through an accident data-driven approach based upon hybrid Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques (2025)
Journal Article

This study proposed an accident data-driven approach using hybrid AI techniques for the quantification of falling risks at workplaces. Six machine learning models and one ensemble learning model were deployed for automatic extraction of causal factor... Read More about Falling risk analysis at workplaces through an accident data-driven approach based upon hybrid Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques.

Women in Industry Wave 1 Evaluation Report 2024 (2025)
Report

The Engineering and Construction sectors are cornerstone employers in the West of England and need both greater numbers and greater diversity of new entrants to sustain growth in these industries. Through focussing on both recruitment and retention s... Read More about Women in Industry Wave 1 Evaluation Report 2024.

Teaching essentials for responsible land administration: Considerations for future education and training (2025)
Report

The Teaching Essentials for Responsible Land Administration (TERLA), developed between 2015 and 2018 under the patronage of the Global Land Tools Network (GLTN), marked a pivotal step in advancing the understanding, unity, and practice of land admini... Read More about Teaching essentials for responsible land administration: Considerations for future education and training.