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Learning from the sharp end in a Business School - A back-to-nature student fieldtrip (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Gaggiotti, H., Cicmil, S., Collins, K., Laurent, S., Bakare, A., Lockyer, J., & Akinbusoye, A. (2015, September). Learning from the sharp end in a Business School - A back-to-nature student fieldtrip. Presented at International Symposium: Learning from the sharp end – implications for sustainability in Higher Education, Bristol, UK

The aim of this paper/roundtable discussion is to expose and discuss our experience with an alternative pedagogic method of post-graduate (management) education: a field trip, which combines student-led, inquiry-based learning approach with a critica... Read More about Learning from the sharp end in a Business School - A back-to-nature student fieldtrip.

International Environmental Law and the Global South (2015)
Book
Razzaque, J., González, C., Alam, S., & Atapattu, S. (2015). International Environmental Law and the Global South. Cambridge University Press

This book examines the ways in which the conflicting perspectives and priorities of the global North and the global South have compromised the effectiveness of international environmental law, including deadlocks in international negotiations and ina... Read More about International Environmental Law and the Global South.

Energy systems and their impacts on marine ecosystem services (2015)
Journal Article
Papathanasopoulou, E., Beaumont, N., Hooper, T., Nunes, J., & Queirós, A. M. (2015). Energy systems and their impacts on marine ecosystem services. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 52, 917-926. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2015.07.150

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Global warming and its link to the burning of fossil fuels has prompted many governments around the world to set legally binding greenhouse gas reduction targets which are to be partially realised through a s... Read More about Energy systems and their impacts on marine ecosystem services.

Team tech-entrepreneur: Cross-disciplinary education for high growth tech start-ups (2015)
Book Chapter
Jarvis, C., & Burnett, J. (2015). Team tech-entrepreneur: Cross-disciplinary education for high growth tech start-ups. In D. Remenyi (Ed.), The Innovation & Entrepreneurship Teaching Excellence Awards 2015: An Anthology of Case Histories (45-58). Reading, UK: Academic Conferences and Publishing International Ltd

Social networks: Connected and contagious (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Morey, Y. (2015, July). Social networks: Connected and contagious. Presented at Launch Event: Centre for the Study of Behaviour Change and Influence, The Watershed

Defensa penal efectiva en América Latina [Effective criminal defence in Latin America] (2015)
Book
Binder, A., Cape, E., & Namoradze, Z. S. (2015). Defensa penal efectiva en América Latina [Effective criminal defence in Latin America]. Columbia: Dejusticia

The book reports the results of a research study on the procedural rights of suspscts and defendants in practice in six Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Columbia, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru. The aim of the book is to inspire a constructiv... Read More about Defensa penal efectiva en América Latina [Effective criminal defence in Latin America].

Responsible education for sustainable development: Creating a pedagogic approach which reflects the complexity of the vision (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Cicmil, S., Collins, K., & Ecclestone, R. (2015, June). Responsible education for sustainable development: Creating a pedagogic approach which reflects the complexity of the vision. Presented at 2nd Annual Conference UK & Ireland Chapter of UN PRME “From Millennium Development, to Sustainable Development Goal- A Vision for Responsible Management Post -2015, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

A contemporary review of the relationship between the global financial crisis, financial crime and white collar criminals (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Ryder, N. (2015, June). A contemporary review of the relationship between the global financial crisis, financial crime and white collar criminals. Presented at Centre for European Legal Studies, University Amsterdam

This paper seeks to offer a refreshing and alternative interpretation and identifies a new factor that not only contributed towards the 2008 financial crisis, but continued to thrive in the perfect economic storm: white collar crime. The hypothesis o... Read More about A contemporary review of the relationship between the global financial crisis, financial crime and white collar criminals.

Scenario planning: ‘Ways of knowing’, methodologies and shifting conceptual landscape (2015)
Journal Article
Sarpong, D., & Amankwah-Amoah, J. (2015). Scenario planning: ‘Ways of knowing’, methodologies and shifting conceptual landscape. International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy, 10(2/3/4), 75-87. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJFIP.2015.074397

Scenario planning in recent times has become one of the strategic tools used by organizations to probe their uncertain and fleeting business environment. In this paper, we provide a synthesis of the configuration of knowledge underpinning scenario ge... Read More about Scenario planning: ‘Ways of knowing’, methodologies and shifting conceptual landscape.

Credible deterrence and the financial services industry (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Ryder, N. (2015, May). Credible deterrence and the financial services industry. Paper presented at Bar Association of Commerce, Finance and Industry, London, UK

This presentation concentrated on the recent cases where individuals have been banned from performing controlled functions as a result of their behaviour in their personal life (such as the ban of Blackrock investment manager Jonathan Burrows caught... Read More about Credible deterrence and the financial services industry.

The financial war on terrorism: A critical review of the United Kingdom’s counter-terrorist financing strategies (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Ryder, N. (2015, May). The financial war on terrorism: A critical review of the United Kingdom’s counter-terrorist financing strategies. Paper presented at Asset Stripping: Responses to the Financing of Terrorism and Crime, University of Notre Dame, London, UK

The aim of this paper is to provide a critique of the United Kingdom’s (UK) counter-terrorist financing (CTF) measures since the introduction of the ‘Financial War on Terrorism’ in September 2001. The paper is divided into three sections. The first... Read More about The financial war on terrorism: A critical review of the United Kingdom’s counter-terrorist financing strategies.

The United Nation Convention on Contracts for the International Sales of Goods 1980 (CISG) An examination of the buyer’s remedy of avoidance under the CISG: How is the remedy interpreted, exercised and what are the consequences of avoidance? (2015)
Thesis
Singh, L. The United Nation Convention on Contracts for the International Sales of Goods 1980 (CISG) An examination of the buyer’s remedy of avoidance under the CISG: How is the remedy interpreted, exercised and what are the consequences of avoidance?. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/834579

This thesis examines the interpretation and application of the buyer’s remedy of avoidance under the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 1980 (CISG). The main research question focusses on ‘How is the remedy es... Read More about The United Nation Convention on Contracts for the International Sales of Goods 1980 (CISG) An examination of the buyer’s remedy of avoidance under the CISG: How is the remedy interpreted, exercised and what are the consequences of avoidance?.

Caring Leadership: A Heideggerian Perspective (2015)
Journal Article
Tomkins, L., & Simpson, P. (2015). Caring Leadership: A Heideggerian Perspective. Organization Studies, 36(8), 1013-1031. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840615580008

© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. This paper develops the idea of caring leadership based on Heidegger’s philosophy of care. From this perspective, caring leadership is grounded in the practices of ‘leaping-in’ and ‘leaping-ahead’ as modes of interventio... Read More about Caring Leadership: A Heideggerian Perspective.

Leadership as community (2015)
Book
Edwards, G. (2015). Leadership as community. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

This book takes a fresh look at leadership and leadership learning and development through the lens of community. Developing on from writing around distributed notions of leadership and worldliness the book develops thought towards important dimensio... Read More about Leadership as community.