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Enhanced Theory of Change - Digital and Video Accelerators Intervention
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Belonging beyond the organisation: situated learning and identity in liminal boundary roles
No full textThis paper explores how learning occurs within the liminal spaces inhabited by university business incubator managers, whose roles require continual negotiation of institutional, spatial and social boundaries. Drawing on situated learning theory and the concept of communities of practice, the study examines how learning is socially constructed across shifting contexts rather than within a single, stable environment to determine how incubator managers learn to negotiate organisational and institutional boundaries and how and where such learning occurs. Using a longitudinal, ethnographically informed study of twelve incubator managers, a three-stage process was identified: learning about, learning by doing, and recognising knowledge. These stages illustrate how individuals develop liminality competences that enable navigation of competing institutional logics. The findings show that liminality competence is not a static capability but a developmental learning trajectory; that learning and identity reconstruction are mutually reinforcing during sustained liminality; and that belonging forms where learning occurs, not necessarily where one is employed. Learning was most actively situated in external communities such as science parks, business associations and regional networks, which became the primary locus of expertise and identification contributing to research on liminality, workplace learning and identity. This study introduces the “Trajectory of Boundary-Spanning Learning” framework.</p
Introduction: Towards a Decolonisation of Cult Film Studies
No full textIntroduction explores what is at stake and the processes involved in how to go about decolonising cult film studies</p
[Editorial] Introduction to the special issue: ‘Biodiversity and Finance: Risk, Disclosure and Double Materiality’
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Coalition formation and the diffusion of shared goods: an agent-based model
No full textThis paper combines an evolutionary model of consumer coalition formation with a model of diffusion on a network to explore the dynamics of how groups of neighboring individuals adopt a shared good, as a form of collective action that is more sustainable than individual adoption. We show that coalition formation is a prerequisite for the adoption of a shared good but also an obstacle to diffusion. The smaller the geographic area of consumers who can use the shared good, the lower the adoption rate. Early information is a key factor; those who do not join a group at an early stage remain isolated and never adopt. Furthermore, geographic constraints limit the spread of information and adoption. We discuss how policymakers can support social actions that lead to the adoption of shared goods and promote sustainable transformation of our societies.</p
Echoes of empire: a collective story of Black Brit‑ish academics working in higher education institutions in England
No full textThere is a paucity in research in the field of race and education that draws on anti-colonial scholarship to look at Black lived experiences in academia. My qualitative research explores the experiences of Black Brit-ish academics in HE in England in relation to coloniality, a logic operating in academia within the metropole. The term ‘Brit-ish’ is used to reflect the complexity of Black Brit-ish identity and belonging. I adopted an Ubuntu-inspired research methodology, centring on strong relationality, where I conducted storytelling sessions with 19 Black Brit-ish academics, and through autoethnographic journaling, interwove my narrative into the collective story. Stories have been analysed using narrative analysis to address the research questions: RQ1: How do contemporary experiences of Black Brit-ish academics unmask the legacy of coloniality in higher education? RQ2: What does it mean to be a Black Brit-ish academic currently working in higher education, and how do colonial hierarchies of race, knowledge, labour and being shape their lived experiences? RQ3: What resistance, survival and thriving strategies do Black Brit-ish academics employ to challenge and resist the modern institutional space, and what are their implications?This thesis introduces the concept of raceification, which outlines processes of racialisation, labour, and epistemic expectations shaped by colonial gazing and limited imaginaries that Black academics are produced within. Narratives also show how Black academics survive, resist, and thrive in modern institutions through fugitive moves, the covert and subversive tactics employed to challenge the coloniality of the space.Developing community was outlined as one of the most effective ways to thrive within modern institutions. This research highlights the need to challenge individualism embedded in academia through ideologies of modernity/coloniality, liberal modernity, and hegemonic whiteness. I argue that, if we as Black academics move as a community, we will stop struggling like individuals. This collective shift is made actionable through my development of an Ubuntu Call to Action.</p
Women, Money and Markets, 1770-1914 Representing the Invisible Hands of the Economy
No full textThis collection redefines the role of women in the development of modern capitalism, revealing their active participation as investors, entrepreneurs, theorists, and cultural producers between 1770 and 1914.</p