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Gendered and classed graduate transitions to work: How the unequal playing field is constructed, maintained and experienced (2018)
Book Chapter
Bradley, H., & Waller, R. (2018). Gendered and classed graduate transitions to work: How the unequal playing field is constructed, maintained and experienced. In R. Waller, N. Ingram, & M. R. Ward (Eds.), Higher Education and Social Inequalities: University admissions, experiences and outcomes (210-230). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

A recent Institute of Fiscal Studies report (Crawford and Vignoles, 2014) of 200,000 graduates showed those who had attended independent schools on average earned 18% more than peers from state schools 3.5 years after university. Even for graduates f... Read More about Gendered and classed graduate transitions to work: How the unequal playing field is constructed, maintained and experienced.

Towards a poetic economics: Studies in Ezra Pound's Poetry with a Hammer (2018)
Book Chapter
Berger, S. (2018). Towards a poetic economics: Studies in Ezra Pound's Poetry with a Hammer. In R. Luefter, & R. Preda (Eds.), A Companion to Ezra Pound’s Economic Thought. Traugott Bautz Verlag

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Towards complete property–level flood protection of domestic buildings in the UK (2018)
Book Chapter
Beddoes, D. W., Booth, C. A., & Lamond, J. E. (2018). Towards complete property–level flood protection of domestic buildings in the UK. In S. Hernandez, S. Mambretti, & D. Proverbs (Eds.), Urban Water Systems & Floods II (27-38). ashurst: WIT Press

Property flood resilience (PFR) is an important aspect within an integrated approach to flood risk reduction. In the UK this has resulted in a plethora of products and recommended measures to minimise the ingress of water to the millions of propertie... Read More about Towards complete property–level flood protection of domestic buildings in the UK.

European spatial planning policy (2018)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, R., & Zimmermann, K. (2018). European spatial planning policy. In H. Heinelt, & S. Munch (Eds.), Handbook on EU Policies. Edward Elgar

In this chapter we argue that there has been a growing interest in spatial planning policies supported by the European Commission and a limited number of member states across Europe for several decades and that its roots lie in the planning systems a... Read More about European spatial planning policy.

Area-based initiatives – a facilitator for participatory governance? (2018)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, R., & Zimmermann, K. (2018). Area-based initiatives – a facilitator for participatory governance?. In H. Heinelt, & S. Münch (Eds.), Handbook on Participatory Governance. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

Area-based initiatives (ABI) emerged in the 1980s and 1990s as a new policy tool in the context of urban regeneration in various European countries, most notably Denmark, the Netherlands, the UK, France and - somewhat later – Germany. The wider appli... Read More about Area-based initiatives – a facilitator for participatory governance?.

From linguistic preparation to developing a translingual orientation – possible implications of plurilingualism for researcher education (2018)
Book Chapter
Andrews, J., Fay, R., & White, R. (2018). From linguistic preparation to developing a translingual orientation – possible implications of plurilingualism for researcher education. In J. Choi, & S. Ollerhead (Eds.), Plurilingualism in teaching and learning (220-233). London: Routledge

A chapter discussing what researchers need to know about linguistic diversity before engaging in their research.

Discovering Boolean gates in slime mould (2018)
Book Chapter
Adamatzky, A. (2018). Discovering Boolean gates in slime mould. In A. Adamatzky (Ed.), Inspired by nature. Springer

Slime mould of Physarum polycephalum is a large cell exhibiting rich spatial non-linear electrical characteristics. We exploit the electrical properties of the slime mould to implement logic gates using a flexible hardware platform designed for inves... Read More about Discovering Boolean gates in slime mould.

Computers from plants (2018)
Book Chapter
Adamatzky, A. (2018). Computers from plants. In A. Adamatzky (Ed.), Inspired by Nature. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67997-6_17

Plants are highly intelligent organisms. They continuously make distributed processing of sensory information, concurrent decision making and parallel actuation. The plants are efficient green computers per se. Outside in nature, the plants are progr... Read More about Computers from plants.

Metacommenting in English and French: A variational pragmatics approach (2018)
Book Chapter
Beeching, K. (2018). Metacommenting in English and French: A variational pragmatics approach. In K. Beeching, C. Ghezzi, & P. Molinelli (Eds.), Positioning the Self and Others (127-153). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.292.06bee

© 2018 John Benjamins Publishing Company. Metacommenters allow speakers to take some distance from a particular lexical selection, or enter into a negotiation with their interlocutors. A variational pragmatics approach is taken to the investigation o... Read More about Metacommenting in English and French: A variational pragmatics approach.