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The Politics of Parking Final Summary Report: Disabled People’s Encounters with Strangers in Accessible Parking Spaces
Full text linkThis report presents a summary of the findings from the “Politics of Parking” PhD research project on disabled people’s encounters with strangers in Blue Badge parking spaces. The report highlights in detail how these encounters can make ‘accessible’ spaces anything but accessible. Encounters can be highly stressful, need a lot of work to navigate, and have an emotional impact that lasts long beyond the parking space. This report is based on PhD research which took place from 2021 to 2025, and the findings presented here come from a survey of 304 Blue Badge holders and 20 follow-up interviews with survey participants. The report· maps out different types of encounter that can take place and the broader contexts which can shape an individual encounter. It explores the experiences of navigating encounters and the impact this has on disabled people’s wellbeing and experiences of accessibility.
The key takeaways from the report are that encounters can never exist outside the wider hostility that exists towards disabled people as a result of austerity politics and ‘scrounger’ rhetoric. Disabled people are thus always under scrutiny, due to harmful assumptions that disability should equal complete incompetence, poverty and suffering. Most disabled people can be seen as potentially not ‘deserving’ and can experience confrontation
as a result
Geographical inequalities and sub-national funding in Australia
Full text linkThis case study is the result of a review of intergovernmental transfers and other sub-national funding in Australia and to what extent these funding streams are designed and able to reduce geographical inequalities. The aim of this review is to draw out lessons for England, and the UK more broadly, in terms of how funding mechanisms can be used to better address spatial inequalities. The review is mostly based on desk research of academic and policy publications, complemented by interviews with several key informants in Australia, including academic experts and policymakers at the federal and state level.
The review highlights several key issues relevant for the UK and English context, including the key role of horizontal fiscal equalisation in mitigating geographical inequalities, the importance of robust institutions protecting sub-national government autonomy, and bi-directional coordination and engagement between national and sub-national governments.
This report is for the Improving Public Funding Allocations to Reduce Geographical Inequalities project funded by the ESRC.
The project brings together a highly experienced interdisciplinary team from the Universities of Birmingham, Bristol, De Montfort, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth and Sheffield, together with the National Centre for Social Research and Metro Dynamics
Birmingham Environment for Academic Research : Case studies volume 4
Full text linkBear – the Birmingham Environment for Academic Research provides compute, storage, training and research software engineering support. Bear’s computing resource is provided as BlueBEAR, a heterogenous system comprising the latest CPU and GPU hardware connected to fast, secure storage. Access to Bear is provided free of charge to University of Birmingham researchers, funded from university central funds. This ensures that all researchers have a baseline access to the machine to try-out research computing and develop new projects.
Once again the breadth of the simulations carried out on
BlueBEAR is staggering, modelling everything from price-setting behaviour, thermoelectrics and proteins to stars. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning continues to play an important role in research, in this case study including high entropy alloys and linking environmental policy to impact. This and the previous Case studies demonstrate the scientific and societal value of having such a resource and -- in a tough climate -- help justify its continued support
Putting struggle on the map: a report of industrial action recorded via Strike Map in 2023
Full text linkFirst steps in Urban Tree Canopy Cover
Full text linkTrees provide a range of benefits for urban society including biodiversity enhancement, promoting better health and wellbeing, and increasing urban resilience to extreme weather such as heavy rainfall and hot summer temperatures. Quantifying how much of a given area is covered by trees, when viewed from above, i.e. the tree canopy cover, provides a proxy for these current benefits and projections can be made for future benefits. Generally, the larger a tree canopy, the greater the ecosystem services provided by the tree. Urban Tree Canopy Cover (UTCC) is expressed as a percentage of the total area or in m2, ha2 or km2
The EU Sustainable Public Procurement Reform: the Green, the Mandatory and the Digital
Full text linkBEAR PGR Conference 2024 - Conference proceedings
Full text linkBEAR Conference proceedings are the collection of papers and posters that were presented at the BEAR PGR conference. Conferences provide opportunities for people to present their research, and get input from other researchers and colleagues in their field
The accommodation of sustainability in the EU Internal Market public procurement system
Full text linkThe main aim of this paper is to analyse the accommodation of sustainability considerations within the European Union’s (EU) Internal Market public procurement (PP) system. The paper investigates whether EU PP law can be used as a tool to further sustainability while advancing its main objective of removing barriers to trade and opening PP markets
Understanding the impact of Open Research at University of Birmingham and advocating for greater engagement
Full text linkIn June 2023, the library kicked-off a project, supported by internal Quality-Related funding. A Project Officer with coding expertise analysed data about publications, datasets and other outputs produced by Birmingham academics. Conversations with researchers from many career stages and disciplines were also conducted, exposing exemplars of good practice and open research culture
Transcriptions and Synopsis of Selected Witnesses for the Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Ephesians
No full textTranscriptions of seventeen Greek manuscripts of the Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Ephesians (CPG C165), consisting of the following New Testament witnesses: GA 075, 91, 627, 1905, 1907, 1916, 1919, 1923, 1932, 1971, 1980, 1982, 1997, 1998, 2011, 2183, 2962.
Synopses of the three types of catena scholia: normal, extravagantes, Photiana.
Created in conjunction with a doctoral thesis submitted to the University of Birmingham in 2024
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