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Editorial: Advancing Human Resource Development Research, Practice, and Literature: Significance of Learning, Engagement, and Career Development in Increasingly Technologically Integrated Workplaces
No full textThis issue of ADHR (28(2)) includes two contributions that advance contemporary HRD practice and theory. In this editorial, we foreground ‘Role of Learning in Human Resource Development: Bibliometrics and Topic Modelling of Articles in Academy of Human Resource Development Journals’ (Kim et al., 2026) ‘Reimagining Career Growth for Gen Z and Millennials: Role of Career Lattices in Enhancing Employee Engagement’ (Joseph et al., 2026) because they are positioned within and engage directly with significant issues in HRD and HRD-allied literatures, namely the role of learning, engagement and career growth in contemporary organizations. Although one is based on a bibliometric analysis of articles published in Academy of Human Resource Development and the other is an empirical study of Gen Z’s and Millennials in India, both articles are linked by their recognition of the criticality of two salient aspects of the human condition and experience, namely the desire to learn and grow. However, they differ in the approaches, perspectives, methodologies, and theoretical models used in exploring the respective HRD topics as spaces for human learning, development, engagement, and growth. Additionally, while Kim et al. (2026) address the decades-old lag in HRD research on evidence-based learning in organizations and propose a shift from the current focus on learning-as-a-performance-and-productivity investment to a more socio-culturally and humanistic endeavour, Joseph et al. (2026) focus on mitigating against Gen Z and Millennial IT professionals’ workplace disengagement, talent mismanagement, turnover and lack of performance. They propose adaptative career lattices, as a more fluid alternative, to address employee disengagement.In the following sections, we introduce these articles and examine their practical, theoretical, and methodological contributions to the HRD field in general and learning, training and career development in particular; while advancing the key HRD issues they have surfaced regarding personal and professional experience and identity at work, and the role of learning in current literature and practice.</p
Everyday Peace Power: Girl Drummers of Gira Ingoma in Rwanda
No full textThis article presents an arts-based and polyvocal account of Gira Ingoma (One Drum per Girl), a women- and girl-led cultural initiative in Rwanda that reconstructs drumming, warrior dance, and self-praise poetry to advance gender equality and contribute to everyday peace power. Based on arts-based qualitative methods (workshops, rehearsals, festivals, interviews, and youth-led Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning), we show how repetitive public performance materialises gender equality beyond policy texts. The article explores core theoretical frames—gender performativity, everyday peace power, spatial approaches to peace, and performance-as-knowledge—while aligning key findings to research questions concerning (1) negotiation of gender through performance, (2) micro-processes of everyday peace power, and (3) observable change in confidence, community engagement, and institutional practice. We conclude with policy measures to embed gender-responsive arts education, resource girls and women across the creative value chain, and set parity targets within cultural institutions.</p
Merry Aloha
No full textMy local surf spot is missing from most of the surf maps, and over the past 35 ish years I have a ‘love/hate’ relationship with it. One of the key factors behind this is not only the ever-shifting sand bars, but the thin layer of water film that renders your surf wax useless within your session.Over the years, we (the devoted locals) have tried all kinds of tricks and tips to enable a longer session and not to strip all the wax off after each surf trip. However, wax has become the bottom line to blame for falling off your wave. Is it the wax or did you just fall off (due to ability etc), but it’s related back to the people that either saw your wave or you fall off (mostly re-told in the pub).I know the industry has move on from Alfred Gallant stumbling discovery of his mothers waxed wooden floors in 1935. However, we (the surfing community) have explored all kinds of liquid wax, paraffins and even chemicals. Now there is a push to stop petrochemicals in all elements of surfing from wetsuits, boards and now wax.I’m interested in surf wax as the layer of surfing commodification and how graphic design with the now playful use of language (mostly male dominated) has driven the wax industry into a hot commodity within the carpark surf culture. The book is a showcase of packaging and labels gathered over the years and have been kindly donated by @sideshoredrift (Martin Rawlinson), @mikey__hurst (Mikey Hurst) and my own collection.</p
Simple Signs (The Words)
No full textA collection of 66 haiku based on Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, illustrated by 66 linocuts created by Jantze Holmes.</p
Human prestige psychology can promote adaptive inequality in social influence
No full textHuman hunter-gatherer groups were commonly thought to be broadly egalitarian, with increasingly formal hierarchical social structures hypothesized to spread following the introduction of agriculture. However, this view is being challenged by mounting evidence for social hierarchies in several foraging populations. Nonetheless, the processes by which such hierarchies emerge, and whether human hierarchies are homologous with non-human systems of dominance, remains unclear. Here we examine the role of prestige, the tendency to freely confer status and influence on skilled or esteemed individuals and a proposed component of human-unique cultural psychology, in generating unequal patterns of social influence. Through a combination of cultural evolutionary modelling, human experimentation, and evolutionary simulations, we find that human prestige psychology generates highly unequal influence hierarchies, and that the “prestige sensitivity” we measure empirically in human participants closely matches the predictions of our evolutionary simulations, suggesting it is an evolved psychological adaptation. Nonetheless, unlike non-human dominance hierarchies, the processes involved are non-coercive, being driven by individuals freely seeking high quality information. We thus conclude that social hierarchies plausibly have a deep evolutionary history in our lineage, with prestige enabling hierarchies to be mutually beneficial as opposed to coercive.</p
Iron(III)-Terpyridine Complexes for CO<sub>2</sub> Photoreduction: Effects of Ligand Substitution and Coordination Environment
No full textDeveloping light-driven pathways for recycling CO2 into value-added chemicals is a promising approach for decarbonizing the economy and addressing global warming. A suitable catalyst is required to drive CO2 conversion with high product selectivity and good energy efficiency. In this work, a series of mono (Fe1−4) and bis-ligated (Fe5−8) terpyridine (tpy) complexes of Fe(III) were synthesized to act as catalysts for CO2 photoreduction and were characterized using various analytical techniques. The mono-tpy-ligated complexes (Fe1−3) without 6,6′′-substitutions, when dissolved in acetonitrile, were converted into their bis-tpy-ligated counterparts (Fe5−7), as studied by their absorption spectra. The binding constants of the Fe(III) ion with terpyridine ligands were determined, and ferrocene-appended terpyridine (Fctpy) showed the highest binding ability (∼109 M−2) to form a bis-tpy-ligated homoleptic complex. Infrared spectroelectrochemical analysis showed that Fe1 and Fe5 formed FeI−CO (∼1879 cm−1) and FeII−CO (∼1940 cm−1) species under electrochemical conditions. The photoreduction of CO2 by Fe1−8 was studied under homogeneous conditions with 1,2,3,5-tetrakis(carbazol-9-yl)-4,6-dicyanobenzene (4-CzIPN) as a photosensitizer and triethanolamine (TEOA) as a sacrificial electron donor, with Fe1 exhibiting the highest catalyst turnover number for CO (TONCO) of 230 after 4 h of irradiation (λmax = 440 nm). This study sheds light on the effects of substituents on the ligand framework and coordination environment of iron complexes on CO2 photoreduction.</p
The resurgence of ‘The British Disease’: How COVID-19 has impacted football-related crime.
No full textA thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Lincoln for the degree of MA by Research.Previous research has investigated the underlying factors contributing to football-related crime (FRC) in an effort to understand why this crime occurs. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the occurrence of such crimes in England and Wales was declining. However, the pandemic changed the dynamic of football-related crime with the Euro 2020 final alone accounting for nearly an entire season’s worth of reported incidents, highlighting the necessity of continued academic research within this area. This study showed a temporary decline in FRC during the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons during the pandemic, attributed to restrictions on supporter attendance. However, the subsequent reintroduction of fans corresponded to a 59.16% increase in football-related arrests (FRA) from pre-pandemic levels, suggesting a notable deviation from historical patterns and indicating a shift in fan behaviour. The research demonstrated that levels of FRC and FRA increased beyond pre-pandemic and expected rates found from regression analysis across England and Wales. Shifts in FRC categories reinforced further investigation. From a regional perspective, this research has highlighted that the regional disparities that were common before COVID-19, have slightly reduced probably due to a convergence of fan behaviours. Across leagues, this thesis also draws attention to disproportionate increase in arrests in the Premier League compared to lower leagues. The stereotypical demographic of a football fan, young working-class White British males, has been proven to be particularly affected by the psychological and social implications of COVID-19. Multiple linear regression analysis also displayed that after the pandemic, regions with higher percentages of White British populations were associated with higher rates of violent disorder. Key findings from this study support the idea that FRC both mirrors and exacerbates social unrest when it is apparent in the wider society. While acknowledging the limitations of this research study, it does contribute to literature having analysed data trends alongside established frameworks and the Subcultural Theory. Three major recommendations are developed from this thesis, improved data collection, review of legislation and localised interventions that reflect issues within specific footballing communities. The study concludes by recognising the lasting and multifaceted impact the pandemic has had on FRC in England and Wales. FRC may only represent a minority of all crime in England and Wales, but remains a significant issue if left untreated. FRC warrants sustained attention by addressing the root causes of this specific crime through community engagement, policy changes and further research, otherwise this study suspects FRC levels will continue to increase.</p
Performance Modelling and Analysis of IaaS CCP Architecture
No full textQueueing Network Models (QNMs) constitute robust quantitative tools for evaluating and predicting the Quality of Service (QoS) of virtual machine (VM) provisioning in Cloud Computing Platforms (CCPs). An extended application-driven open QNM at equilibrium with random routing and a First-Come-First-Served (FCFS) rule is proposed for the performance modelling and analysis of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) CCP architecture. It is assumed that the QNM has a bursty external arrival process of clients requesting VMs according to a Compound Poisson Process (CPP) with geometrically distributed batches, or equivalently, highly variable Generalised Exponential (GE) interarrival times. Moreover, it consists of L (L ≥ 1) queueing stations with infinite buffer capacity and ci (ci ≥ 1, i = 1, 2, …, L) GE-type servers. By means of a generic maximum entropy (ME) product form approximation, the proposed QNM is decomposed into individual GE/GE/ci, i = 1, 2, …, L queueing stations with GE-type interarrival and service times, each of which can be analysed in isolation. Consequently, closed-form expressions for key performance metrics of each queueing station i, i = 1, 2, …, L of the GE-type QNM are devised, such as those of throughput, server (resource) utilisation, mean response time and steady state probability of number of VM requests by clients. Moreover, typical numerical experiments are carried out, based on exponential memoryless (M-type), a family of two-phase Hyperexponential-2 (H2), and GE interarrival and service time distributions of the QNM, using MATLAB and JMT tools as appropriate, which shows GE-type yield pessimistic bound or worst-case performance. The evaluation of the performance metrics of the QNM and the prediction of related bottlenecks were presented. This will provide vital insights for capacity planning at the design and development stage of new IaaS CCP architectures, as well as for tuning and upgrading existing ones to facilitate effective processing and leasing of VMs to requesting clients. We integrate our QNM into an expert system workflow comprising analytical outputs (such as overall delay W̄, station(s) utilisations ρᵢ, bottleneck identity) feed simple, auditable rules that recommend scale out, throttling, or routing adjustments. Sensitivity results are translated into proactive policies with clear thresholds.</p
SP-Det: Self-Prompted Dual-Text Fusion for Generalized Multi-Label Lesion Detection
No full textAutomated lesion detection in chest X-rays has demonstrated significant potential for improving clinical diagnosis by precisely localizing pathological abnormalities. While recent promptable detection frameworks have achieved remarkable accuracy in target localization, existing methods typically rely on manual annotations as prompts, which are labor-intensive and impractical for clinical applications. To address this limitation, we propose SP-Det, a novel self-prompted detection framework that automatically generates rich textual context to guide multi-label lesion detection without requiring expert annotations. Specifically, we introduce an expert-free dual-text prompt generator (DTPG) that leverages two complementary textual modalities: semantic context prompts that capture global pathological patterns and disease beacon prompts that focus on disease-specific manifestations. Moreover, we devise a bidirectional feature enhancer (BFE) that synergistically integrates comprehensive diagnostic context with disease-specific embeddings to significantly improve feature representation and detection accuracy. Extensive experiments on two chest X-ray datasets with diverse thoracic disease categories demonstrate that our SP-Det framework outperforms state-of-the-art detection methods while completely eliminating the dependency on expert-annotated prompts compared to existing promptable architectures.</p
Reproduction of Form in Management and Organization Research: Why and How Compulsively Repetitive Publishing Kills Academia
No full textThis paper analyzes academic research practice in Management and Organization Research drawing on the concept of reproduction of form. Reproduction of form refers to the continuous repetition of discourse shaped by authoritative ideology. While discourse originates from and is influenced by ideology, its performative meanings become increasingly ambiguous, paradoxical, and ultimately meaningless over time. We analyze the manifestation of reproduction of form by intertwining theory and empirical illustration from four top-tier management journals, and discuss two paradoxes relating to the emergence of reproduction of form. To further understand its functioning, we employ a psychoanalytic reading of reproduction of form and its inherent paradoxical nature. Freud’s repetition compulsion is used to understand why individuals engage in reproduction of form, while Lacan’s notion of the second death provides a framework to understand it from a collective perspective. Finally, we use Žižekian philosophy to understand individual and collective behavior through the notion of the undead. We conclude the paper by identifying how a parallax view, or taking a wholly different perspective, may deliver more constructive ways to convey academic knowledge and insights.</p