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Towards connectivity in a grey and pleasant land? (2014)
Book Chapter
Means, R., Burholt, V., & Hennessy, C. (2014). Towards connectivity in a grey and pleasant land?. In C. Hennessy, R. Means, & V. Burholt (Eds.), Countryside Connections: Older People, Community and Place in Rural Britain (245-276). Bristol: Policy Press

Countryside connections in later life: Setting the scene (2014)
Book Chapter
Hennessy, C., Means, R., & Burholt, V. (2014). Countryside connections in later life: Setting the scene. In C. Hennessy, R. Means, & V. Burholt (Eds.), Countryside Connections: Older People, Community and Place in Rural Britain (1-30). Bristol: Policy Press

Public health profession (2014)
Book Chapter
Scally, G. (2014). Public health profession. In T. Culyer (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Health Economics. UK: Elsevier

Urban water economics (2014)
Book Chapter
Squires, G. (2014). Urban water economics. In C. Booth (Ed.), Water Resources in the Built Environment: Management Issues and Solutions (33-44). Wiley Blackwell

Perceptions of accounting (2014)
Book Chapter
Lucas, U., & Mladenovic, R. (2014). Perceptions of accounting. In R. Wilson (Ed.), Routledge Companion to Accounting Education (125-144). Abingdon, Oxon, UK.: Routledge

Perceptions of accounting can have a powerful impact on how students learn and on the outcomes of their learning. This impact is often negative. Students may enter their studies with stereotypical views of accounting as being dull, boring and associa... Read More about Perceptions of accounting.

‘It’s worse for women and girls’: Negotiating embodied masculinities through weight-related talk (2014)
Book Chapter
Monoghan, L., & Malson, H. (2014). ‘It’s worse for women and girls’: Negotiating embodied masculinities through weight-related talk. In L. Monoghan, R. Colls, & B. Evans (Eds.), Obesity, Discourse and Fat Politics. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315795645

Numerous critical analyses have already established the profoundly gendered nature of normative body ‘ideals’ and weight-management practices in Western cultures. Such studies have, amongst other things, elucidated how body dissatisfaction, ‘dieting’... Read More about ‘It’s worse for women and girls’: Negotiating embodied masculinities through weight-related talk.

Negotiating sexual rights in the UK: Christian constituencies and contested moralities (2014)
Book Chapter
Hunt, S. (2014). Negotiating sexual rights in the UK: Christian constituencies and contested moralities. In H. Shipley (Ed.), Globalized Religion and Sexual Identity (193-213). UK: Brill

This chapter connects with the relevant “progressive” policies in the U.K.around sexual minorities and excavates the contrasting and contesting response by Christian constituencies – mainstream denominations, LGBT caucuses in the churches and outside... Read More about Negotiating sexual rights in the UK: Christian constituencies and contested moralities.

The after-lives of the bride of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley and Shelley Jackson (2014)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2014). The after-lives of the bride of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley and Shelley Jackson. In M. Purves (Ed.), Women and Gothic (81-96). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

This chapter traces how the fragmented female monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is reintegrated within later texts. Her after-lives includes the digital reincarnation of Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl and that of the surgically modified body o... Read More about The after-lives of the bride of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley and Shelley Jackson.

Business and industry (2014)
Book Chapter
Ollerenshaw, P. (2014). Business and industry. In A. Jackson (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History (148-167). Oxford: Oxford University Press

She’s Been Away: Ageing, madness and memory (2014)
Book Chapter
Wilson, S. (2014). She’s Been Away: Ageing, madness and memory. In U. Kriebernegg, R. Maierhofer, & B. Ratzenböck (Eds.), Alive and Kicking at All Ages: Cultural Constructions of Health and Life Course Identity (187-202). Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag

She’s Been Away is a television drama written by Stephen Poliakoff and broadcast in the UK on the BBC in 1989. This paper discusses the ways in which the play unusually presents a feminist critique of contemporary patriarchal structures through the m... Read More about She’s Been Away: Ageing, madness and memory.

The Costs of Flooding on Households (2014)
Book Chapter
Joseph, R., Proverbs, D. G., Lamond, J. E., & Wassell, P. (2014). The Costs of Flooding on Households. In C. Booth, & S. Charlesworth (Eds.), Water Resources in the Built Environment – Management Issues and Solutions, (249-257). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118809167.ch19

© 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved. Costs associated with flooding can be categorised as tangible and intangible. The categorisation of the costs of flooding depends on factors, such as the ease of monetising the impact, when the im... Read More about The Costs of Flooding on Households.

Balancing Flood Risk and Water Scarcity of the Asian Delta Regions (2014)
Book Chapter
Lamond, J. E. (2014). Balancing Flood Risk and Water Scarcity of the Asian Delta Regions. In C. Booth, & S. Charlesworth (Eds.), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118809167.ch28

© 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved. While it is noted that the effect of a changing climate will exacerbate the extreme weather conditions affecting the prevalence of floods and water scarcity, many countries are already facing a cy... Read More about Balancing Flood Risk and Water Scarcity of the Asian Delta Regions.

The Role of Market-Based Flood Insurance in Maintaining Communities at Risk of Flooding: A SWOT Analysis (2014)
Book Chapter
Lamond, J. E. (2014). The Role of Market-Based Flood Insurance in Maintaining Communities at Risk of Flooding: A SWOT Analysis. In C. Booth, & S. Charlesworth (Eds.), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118809167.ch20

© 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved. Flood insurance can be seen as an alternative to massively increased investment in harder flood risk management measures, as it has the potential to mitigate the effects of flooding and maintain c... Read More about The Role of Market-Based Flood Insurance in Maintaining Communities at Risk of Flooding: A SWOT Analysis.

Documentary ecosystems: Collaboration and exploitation (2014)
Book Chapter
Dovey, J. (2014). Documentary ecosystems: Collaboration and exploitation. In K. Nash, C. Hight, & C. Summerhayes (Eds.), New Documentary Ecologies: Emerging Platforms, Practices and Discourses (11-32). (1). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137310491_2

In this chapter I take the book’s title at face value and examine emergent documentary practices within the ecosystems of the digital media landscape. Thinking ecologically suggests we look at big pictures, at the whole assemblage of agents that cons... Read More about Documentary ecosystems: Collaboration and exploitation.

Youth work (2014)
Book Chapter
Oliver, B., & Pitt, B. (2014). Youth work. In J. Thomas, K. Pollard, & D. Sellman (Eds.), Interprofessional Working in Health and Social Care. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan

This chapter presents the aims and purpose of youth work- what it is, where it happens and who does it. It outlines the roles of youth workers and how they work illustrated with case studies from practice. It offers a flavour of debates and issues fa... Read More about Youth work.

“Die Kehre spielt im Sachverhalt selbst” 1: Making sense of the twists and turns in Heidegger's thought (2014)
Book Chapter
Keane, N. (2014). “Die Kehre spielt im Sachverhalt selbst” 1: Making sense of the twists and turns in Heidegger's thought. In S. Heinämaa, M. Hartimo, & T. Miettinen (Eds.), Phenomenology and the Transcendental (295-314). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

The ‘turn’ or ‘turning’ ( Kehre ), which is used at various times and with multiple meanings, is without doubt one of the most problematic (and least monochromatic) terms when it comes to understanding Heidegger’s work and its lexical horizon. The ef... Read More about “Die Kehre spielt im Sachverhalt selbst” 1: Making sense of the twists and turns in Heidegger's thought.