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War, industrial mobilisation and society in Northern Ireland, 1939-1945 (2007)
Journal Article
Ollerenshaw, P. (2007). War, industrial mobilisation and society in Northern Ireland, 1939-1945. Contemporary European History, 16(2), 169-197. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777307003773

Archive-based regional studies can contribute much that is new to the economic, political and social history of the Second World War. This paper considers the process of industrial mobilisation in Northern Ireland, a politically divided region which... Read More about War, industrial mobilisation and society in Northern Ireland, 1939-1945.

Anticipating an altered appearance: Women undergoing chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer (2007)
Journal Article
Harcourt, D., Frith, H., & Fussell, A. (2007). Anticipating an altered appearance: Women undergoing chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 11(5), 385-391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejon.2007.03.002

Chemotherapy treatment for cancer can have a profound impact on appearance, and is often experienced as distressing. Few qualitative studies explore experiences of chemotherapy, and seldom focus on the process of anticipation and preparation for an a... Read More about Anticipating an altered appearance: Women undergoing chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer.

Chapter 23 Screen-printed electrochemical (bio)sensors in biomedical, environmental and industrial applications (2007)
Journal Article
Hart, J. P., Crew, A., Crouch, E., Honeychurch, K. C., & Pemberton, R. (2007). Chapter 23 Screen-printed electrochemical (bio)sensors in biomedical, environmental and industrial applications. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0166-526X%2806%2949023-1

This chapter describes a number of approaches for the fabrication of prototype screen-printed electrochemical (bio) sensors together with selected applications in the areas of biomedical, environmental and industrial analyses. Novel methods of immobi... Read More about Chapter 23 Screen-printed electrochemical (bio)sensors in biomedical, environmental and industrial applications.

Researching resistance to neoliberal globalization: Engaged ethnography as solidarity and praxis (2007)
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Mathers, A., & Novelli, M. (2007). Researching resistance to neoliberal globalization: Engaged ethnography as solidarity and praxis. Globalizations, 4(2), 229-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747730701345259

In this paper we investigate the process of carrying out ethnographic studies of organized resistance to neoliberal globalization. We do so by drawing upon the critical and public social science of Bourdieu and Santos, two highly influential opponent... Read More about Researching resistance to neoliberal globalization: Engaged ethnography as solidarity and praxis.

Female friendship, idealisation and the "need" for violence in Crush (2007)
Journal Article
Gordon, S. (2007). Female friendship, idealisation and the "need" for violence in Crush. Feminist Media Studies, 7(2), 171-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680770701286987

This article develops a feminist critical approach capable of responding to the uniquely pessimistic portrayal of female friendship in Crush (Alison Maclean 1992, NZ). Crush questions the possibility of supportive or empathetic relationships, disclos... Read More about Female friendship, idealisation and the "need" for violence in Crush.

'You think you know? ... You have no idea': Youth participation in health policy development (2007)
Journal Article
Percy-Smith, B. (2007). 'You think you know? ... You have no idea': Youth participation in health policy development. Health Education Research, 22(6), 879-894. https://doi.org/10.1093/her/cym032

This paper draws on research in the United Kingdom which set out to explore young people's understandings and experiences of health as experienced in their everyday lives and according to their own terms of reference, rather than in response to polic... Read More about 'You think you know? ... You have no idea': Youth participation in health policy development.

A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information (2007)
Journal Article
Lister, M. (2007). A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information. Convergence, 13(3), 251-274. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856507079176

Throughout the 1990s the relationship between culture and technology was sharply focused in a debate about whether digital technologies signalled the death or radical displacement of photography. The case for the cultural continuity of photography ce... Read More about A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information.

Degrees of distribution: Towards an understanding of variations in the nature of distributed leadership in schools (2007)
Journal Article
Ritchie, R., & Woods, P. A. (2007). Degrees of distribution: Towards an understanding of variations in the nature of distributed leadership in schools. School Leadership and Management, 27(4), 363-381. https://doi.org/10.1080/13632430701563130

The research reported on in this article explores how degrees of leadership distribution in schools might be differentiated. Data were collected from ten schools - eight primary and two secondary schools - / which were identified as exhibiting 'good... Read More about Degrees of distribution: Towards an understanding of variations in the nature of distributed leadership in schools.

Capital mobility, job loss, and union strategy: The case of the UK aerospace industry (2007)
Journal Article
Danford, A., Richardson, M., Tailby, S., Stewart, P., & Upchurch, M. (2007). Capital mobility, job loss, and union strategy: The case of the UK aerospace industry. Labor Studies Journal, 32(3), 298-318. https://doi.org/10.1177/0160449X07299705

Drawing on case study data, this article analyzes contrasting workplace union responses to organizational restructuring in the United Kingdom's aerospace industry. It critically evaluates two distinct union strategies that resonate with contemporary... Read More about Capital mobility, job loss, and union strategy: The case of the UK aerospace industry.

Estimating infectious disease in UK asylum seekers and refugees: A systematic review of prevalence studies (2007)
Journal Article
Clark, R., & Mytton, J. (2007). Estimating infectious disease in UK asylum seekers and refugees: A systematic review of prevalence studies. Journal of Public Health, 29(4), 420-428. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdm063

Background The prevalence of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB), HIV and hepatitis B in the UK asylum seeker and refugee population is currently uncertain. Methods Systematic review of published and unpublished studies. Results Five studie... Read More about Estimating infectious disease in UK asylum seekers and refugees: A systematic review of prevalence studies.

Towards an integrated CADCAM process for the production of forming shoulders with exact geometry (2007)
Journal Article
Hicks, B., Mullineux, G., Matthews, J., & Medland, T. (2007). Towards an integrated CADCAM process for the production of forming shoulders with exact geometry. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 221(10), 1521-1531. https://doi.org/10.1243/09544054JEM896

This paper considers the application of advanced CADCAM techniques for the production of the complex machine tooling used in packaging fast-moving consumer goods. In particular, the paper discusses the practical considerations and design issues that... Read More about Towards an integrated CADCAM process for the production of forming shoulders with exact geometry.

A 'pataphysics engine: Technology, play, and realities (2007)
Journal Article
Giddings, S. (2007). A 'pataphysics engine: Technology, play, and realities. Games and Culture, 2(4), 392-404. https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412007309534

This article plays a game with Jean Baudrillard's thought and the intellectual traditions on which it draws. Or rather, it plays Baudrillard's game but with a cheat code. The game or program here is the hyperreality of the contemporary world-Baudrill... Read More about A 'pataphysics engine: Technology, play, and realities.

Dionysiac machines: Videogames and the triumph of the simulacra (2007)
Journal Article
Giddings, S. (2007). Dionysiac machines: Videogames and the triumph of the simulacra. Convergence, 13(4), 417-431. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856507082204

This article rethinks concepts of the simulational and the simulacral for popular digital culture. It plays concepts of the modern world as hyperreal against the more modest, pragmatic, but vital, insights of game studies into the literally simulatio... Read More about Dionysiac machines: Videogames and the triumph of the simulacra.

Using photographs to capture women's experiences of chemotherapy: Reflecting on the method (2007)
Journal Article
Frith, H., & Harcourt, D. (2007). Using photographs to capture women's experiences of chemotherapy: Reflecting on the method. Qualitative Health Research, 17(10), 1340-1350. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732307308949

This article examines the value of using the photo-elicitation method for generating health-related narratives. Drawing on research in which women kept a photographic record of their experiences of chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer, this resea... Read More about Using photographs to capture women's experiences of chemotherapy: Reflecting on the method.

Total knee replacement: Is it really an effective procedure for all? (2007)
Journal Article
Wylde, V., Dieppe, P., Hewlett, S., & Learmonth, I. (2007). Total knee replacement: Is it really an effective procedure for all?. Knee, 14(6), 417-423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knee.2007.06.001

Total knee replacement (TKR) is considered an effective intervention for the treatment of chronic knee pain and disability. Yet there is increasing evidence, based on research using patient-based outcome measures, that a significant proportion of pat... Read More about Total knee replacement: Is it really an effective procedure for all?.

Managing built heritage (2007)
Book
Worthing, D., & Bond, S. (2007). Managing built heritage. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell