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Transnational (Re)rooting: Reconnection, Rest and Resistance Through Gardening
No full textThis essay tells my story of mobility and migration through the journey of (re)connecting with my roots and the everyday acts of gardening. It explores the ways in which I deploy gardening as a tool of rest, resistance and reconciliation. I reflect on how I use gardening to ‘root’ myself in my locality (albeit reluctantly and not right away); how gardening helped me (re)connect and (re)root myself in my birthplace and my family history; and how gardening helps me find balance and navigate uncertainty, and grounds me as a person and as an academic.</p
Prison Service Delivery Beyond Lockdown: Lessons Learned from People in Prison and Staff in the Offender Personality Disorders Pathway During COVID-19
No full textThe Offender Personality Disorder Pathway (OPDP) in England and Wales supports individuals in prison with complex interpersonal and emotional regulation needs. During the COVID-19 pandemic, this population faced heightened vulnerability, while prison officers encountered health risks, staffing shortages, and increased psychological strain. To explore how people living and working in prison coped under these conditions, 24 people in prison and 10 officers involved in OPDP services across English prisons participated in semi-structured interviews between 2021 and 2023. Using reflexive thematic analysis we generated four themes: (a) From Cohesion to Disconnection; (b) Bridging Divides: Finding Empathy in Crisis; (c) Contrasting Reflections: Growth and Strain; and (d) Support Gaps in Time of Crisis. The pandemic intensified existing challenges, but relational practices in the OPDP helped buffer its worst effects. Findings underscore the importance of trauma-informed communication, reflective leadership, and staff training to sustain relational safety and resilience during future system-wide crises in prison.</p
Expression Session - Low Tide Heartbreak Club Show
No full textWe’re stoked to be back for our Summer show hosted by our friends @voya_brighton. A weekend of art, music, drinks, food and surf-centric good vibes.Fri 08 Aug / Evening ShowcaseSat 09 - Sun 10 Aug / Daytime Social34 North Rd, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN1 1YB</p
Skateboarding acts as a visual and poetic response to the environment and streets
No full textSkateboarding in the urban landscape can be interpreted as a manifestation of existential freedom. Urban architecture is typically designed with specific, functional purposes in mind-stairs are for walking, handrails are for safety; plazas are for passage. Skateboarders defy these intended uses, reinterpreting space on their own terms. This aligns with Sartre’s (vision of people as artisans) view that individuals create their own meanings rather than adhering to imposed structures. Skateboarding becomes an act of spatial freedom-the skater rejects the prescribed ‘essence’ of the city and imposes their own ‘existence’ upon it.Another approach is Nietzsche’s idea of the Ubermensch, which lives within the skater’s pursuit of transcending both physical and mental boundaries, whilst riders often risk failure and injury reflecting the Nietzsche call to embrace life challenges and create one’s own values. Progress through struggle and the relentless desire to push boundaries.</p
The Nexus Between Climate Change, Gender and Mobility: The Principle of Non-Refoulement
No full textThis paper critically examines the judgments of the European regional courts in the context of the obligation not to return an individual to the country of origin, if doing so violates the right to life or exposes them to a risk of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. An emerging body of scholarship recognises that climate change exacerbates factors that may cause armed conflicts (Bedasa and Deksisa 2024); interacts with existing gendered inequalities (Lama and others 2021), and results in forced displacement, inability to access resources and services, and the breakdown of family and community structures which in turn may expose women to sexual and gender-based violence (Desai and Mandal 2021; Allen and others 2024). The analysis builds on the UN Human Rights Committee’s decision in Teitiota v New Zealand (2020) which has a significant potential to prevent the return of individuals whose lives are at risk due to climate change (McAdams 2020). Whilst the European regional courts are yet to consider climate change displacement, they have considered non-refoulement claims concerning situations, including extreme general violence, various forms of gender-related persecution and sexual violence, which may prevent the return. In WS v DAB (C‑621/21), the Court of Justice of the EU held that an asylum-seeking woman, who did not meet refugee status, qualified for subsidiary protection status where a real threat of gender-based violence existed due to the alleged transgression of cultural, religious or traditional norms. This paper contributes to new avenues of research on gender, inequalities, mobility and climate change.</p
Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies - Industrial Decarbonisation Frontiers Report
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Since its launch in 2021, the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (IDRIC) has funded 100 projects, investigating and addressing the key dimensions of the whole system of industrial decarbonisation. This work has generated a vast body of knowledge, offering critical insights into the challenges we face in decarbonising and into the solutions – technical, economic and social – that are emerging. The Frontiers Reports series brings together all these insights to share with our industry and policy stakeholders.
Each report synthesises key findings from multiple projects conducted on a closely related theme, providing a comprehensive perspective on a specific aspect of industrial decarbonisation. Far more than simply research summaries, these reports translate academic insights into practical, evidence-based recommendations for our stakeholders. These recommendations are shaped by the expertise and evidence gathered by our research teams and are designed to support decision-makers in advancing their net zero goals.
The Frontiers Reports series are anticipated to serve as catalysts for meaningful discussions between academia, industry, and policymakers on the most viable paths forward. We welcome constructive debate and are eager to support the implementation of recommendations that best align with our stakeholders’ priorities and goals towards net zero.
This report brings together all IDRIC’s research on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies.</p
Autism-like atypical face processing in Shank3 mutant dogs
No full textAtypical face processing is a neurocognitive basis of social deficits in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and a candidate cognitive marker for the disease. Although hundreds of risk genes have been identified in ASD, it remains unclear whether mutations in a specific gene may cause ASD-like atypical face processing. Dogs have acquired exquisite face processing abilities during domestication and may serve as an effective animal model for studying genetic associations of ASD-like atypical face processing. Here, we showed that dogs with Shank3 mutations exhibited behavioral and attentional avoidance of faces, contrasting with wild-type controls. Moreover, neural responses specific to faces (versus objects) recorded from the electrodes over the temporal cortex were significantly decreased and delayed in Shank3 mutants compared to wild-type controls. Cortical responses in the frontal/parietal region underlying categorization of faces by species/breeds were reduced in Shank3 mutants. Our findings of atypical face processing in dogs with Shank3 mutations provide a useful animal model for studying ASD mechanisms and treatments.</p
Looking North: Architecture in Emilia (c. 1000)
No full textThis paper considers architecture in Emilia at the turn of the first millennium (ca. 980-1020), with a primary focus on the area between Piacenza and Modena. It discusses two buildings, Sant’Antonino in Piacenza (ca. 1014) and Sant’Uldarico in Parma (c. 1000). The former is dedicated to a local bishop and saint, Antoninus, and it housed his remains, while the latter—whose medieval structures I discovered in 2010—is dedicated to a ‘German’ saint, Ulrich of Augsburg, recently canonised at the time of its construction. In both cases, a local bishop promoted their construction. Analysis of these two sites, it will be argued, shows the deployment of architectural elements and languages that were novel within the geographical framework of northern Italy at that time, but extremely common north of the Alps, in the Ottonian and Salian Empire. Positioning this work in relation to both past debates and recent discoveries, the investigation of the personal, familial and political background of the bishops, and the networks to which they belonged, reveal viable connections with the Empire, showing the extent to which, at the turn of the first millennium, architecture in Emilia was looking north.</p
The case for history in planning future food systems transformations
No full textPolicy makers worldwide are preparing for a future of increasing food insecurity. One of the strategic tools used to take action is foresight planning, a method that generates plausible future scenarios of food system transitions and potential levers for achieving desirable change. This article argues that in order to improve scenario-building processes and ensure inclusiveness, foresight planners need to make better use of historical data, methods and insights. Data on local and national food histories can improve the plausibility and richness of scenarios, while historical methodologies can augment the robustness of scenario planning. The article presents three case studies to demonstrate this. The deep history of cassava commercialization in southern Mozambique illuminates the unintended but harmful consequences of a failure to take the deep history of local foodways into account when planning for transformation. The history of the 1974 famine in Bangladesh demonstrates how recurring social and economic features and patterns affected vulnerability to food shortages, providing insights that can be used to construct plausible scenarios aimed at improving food security. The history of the development of a food system dependent on international markets in Little Ice Age Holland shows how experiences from a more distant era can help planners involved in the transformation of current-day food systems, specifically by factoring in complex interactions between humans and environments and their long-term consequences for vulnerability and resilience. The article concludes by pinpointing the types of historical data, methodologies, and initiatives valuable for building more robust and inclusive scenarios on food systems.</p
Farming Tourism: A Review Of Entrepreneurial Skills
No full text The topic of entrepreneurial competencies and skills in farm tourism is of great importance both in the field of tourism entrepreneurship and niche tourism management. Farmers develop a specific set of skills to meet the specific needs of farm management such as conceptual and theoretical, strategic, and forecasting, and stakeholder relationship management. Farm tourism is a distinct field, very different from farm management. This article will review the set of skills required to run a farm as a tourism business. The article argues that a lot of farm business and management competencies and skills are transferable skills, and therefore, highly compatible with farming tourism entrepreneurship. </p