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Women in the British Union of Fascists
Full text linkA cataloguing discovery of Martin Durham's presentation to History Workshop from 1983 in the Searchlight Archive leads to a discussion of the work of Martin Durham and the transcription of his work back for the History Workshop online magazine. The article focuses on women's role in the British Union of Fascists, and resonances with today's rise of the far right
Serious Violence in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Partnership Strategy Evaluation Framework
Full text linkThe IPSCJ developed a framework to evaluate the progress against the partnership's serious violence prevention strategy
Green hydrogen revolution and its pathway towards sustainable development
Full text linkThe demand surge for clean and sustainable energy has risen globally to gain a cleaner environment. Therefore, the global energy transition emphasizes hydrogen energy, particularly green hydrogen energy, as an essential energy source that emits no carbon dioxide. Green hydrogen has been prosperous in the last few years and has revolutionized the green energy sector needs. Green hydrogen energy could be employed as long-term energy storage to integrate energy from renewable energy sources with unexpected and variable characteristics in the future energy system largely comprised of renewable resources. Hence, it can enhance the electricity system’s dependability and increase the reliability of renewable energy; conversely, green hydrogen energy might help lower carbon emissions. This study gives insight through analysis of the overview and prospects of hydrogen energy. Besides, a thorough analysis is conducted on the present scenario of green hydrogen production technologies, their advancement trends, and the potential uses and roles of green hydrogen energy. The state-of-the-art green hydrogen has been highlighted, thus the developed approaches in the domain. Also, it gives an overview of the latest technologies used to produce/store/distribute green hydrogen. Moreover, a detailed description of green hydrogen utilization, distribution infrastructure, and storage technologies is given. This will help to achieve global Sustainable Development Goals in the near future. Accordingly, 6 of 17 global Sustainable Development Goals strategy clauses were met by adopting green hydrogen as a clean energy source
Women in the British Union of Fascists
Full text linkA cataloguing discovery of Martin Durham's presentation to History Workshop from 1983 in the Searchlight Archive leads to a discussion of the work of Martin Durham and the transcription of his work back for the History Workshop online magazine. The article focuses on women's role in the British Union of Fascists, and resonances with today's rise of the far right
The power of pause: experienced and novice teachers developing dimensions of expertise through video collaboration software
Full text linkThis paper analyses interactions between initial teacher education (ITE) students and teacher educators in a UK university, when reflecting upon teaching behaviours. It aimed to trial the use of video collaboration software for enabling reflective practice, to support experienced teachers' mentoring skills and novice teachers’ reflective skills. The software provided an opportunity to record behaviour and interactions in school-based and online teaching sessions. Employing an ethnographic methodology, this study analysed professional dialogues between mentors and ITE students to explore the role of the video collaboration software for mentoring and reflection. It supports the vision that mentoring is a process of collaborative self-development. It also found that video collaboration software builds metacognition around teaching expertise in a peer-to-peer scenario. Through this process, mentors gained reflective skills and benefitted from the dialogue around pedagogical decisions as much as the novices. The study concludes that a process of discourse and dialogue where the agency is held with the teacher rather than the mentor improves novice teachers’ reflective skills associated with dimensions of expertise
“It can feel like they’ve forgotten you”: Enhancing Older Adult Participation in Urban Regeneration
Full text linkWe present two innovative and impactful interdisciplinary participatory projects highlighting interconnected older adult meanings in relation to UK town centre spaces. We argue older people occupy paradoxical positions within urban policies and planning discourses, highly visibilised as objects of concern, but profoundly marginalised and excluded. Utilising a relational functional significance framework, our findings capture valuable emplaced narratives and embodied lived experiences often wholly underrepresented from 16 older adults (aged 70-88 years). Through live qualitative participatory interview approaches, we identify functionally rich local high street characteristics interconnected with urban histories, memories and identities impacting belonging and wellbeing, or underpinning participation, exclusions and vulnerabilities. Reflecting on vividly detailed stories and participatory methods within these empirics, we call for an expanded sense of older people’s presence and agency, providing their own implications for enhancing urban settings, alongside recommendations for increasing their participation within urban regeneration and related research.Keywords: Ageing, participation, regeneration, urban design, population, place<br/
Hybrid Coping: The impact of Covid-19 on social enterprise resilience
Full text linkThis article explores the impact of Covid‐19 on nonprofit resilience, utilizing the UK social enterprise ecosystem as the area of focus. The article engages the theoretical concepts of organizational resilience and community engagement; specifically, how these are impacted by exogenous shocks that change ecosystem dynamics. The article focuses in particular on financial resilience within the context of social enterprises in the United Kingdom both before and during the Covid‐19 pandemic, explored through a grant funding program delivered between 2021 and 2023. The research utilizes quantitative financial and organizational data gathered from 1507 social enterprise applicants to this grant fund, based upon the period 2019–2022. This is supplemented by qualitative data in the form of interviews and focus groups held with social entrepreneurs (N = 17) and key ecosystem support stakeholders (N = 16), as well as researcher observations of discussions of social enterprise applications from the grant fund panel meetings. The research demonstrates how Covid‐19 impacted organizations' resilience over time, illustrating financial and social resilience among the social enterprise sample engaged during the period 2019–2022. The paper posits that this financial and social resilience is grounded within social enterprises' focus on their communities and their hybrid missions. The findings are useful to policy‐makers and practitioners looking to understand and support third‐sector resilience in the post‐pandemic world
“I’d lost trust and having to tell everyone the same story again and again and again…”: Bottlenecks and barriers to the application of therapeutic approaches within care services’ ecological systems
Full text linkIn the United Kingdom, young people receiving support from social care are among the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups and their wellbeing, mental and physical health are found to be worse compared to their peers who have never been in care (Department of Health, 2015). In England, around 63% children in care were looked after due to abuse or neglect in 2018/19 with other reasons including family dysfunction (14%), family acute stress (8%), child’s disability (3%), parent’s illness of disability (3%), and socially unacceptable behaviour (1%) (NSPCC, 2021). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with young people receiving support from services combining mentoring and mental health support, delivered by an independent not-for-profit company in the United Kingdom, to investigate the effectiveness of services in improving outcomes for young people. The services were designed to tackle health inequalities for young people aged between 16 years-old and 25 years-old who experienced problems with mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic. This paper is the first of its kind in the UK to explore the impact of combined early-help mentoring and mental health project designed for young people during the pandemic
Two Surveys to Explore Associations Between Spontaneous Anomalous Experiences, and Fasting and Vegetarianism
Full text linkContemporary and historical accounts from spiritual traditions and elsewhere appear to suggest a role for fasting and vegetarianism in spiritual development and access to ‘supernormal powers’. We recently conducted interviews with psi adepts who use fasting and vegetarianism to support their work with psi and reported findings that are consistent with such accounts. However, it was not clear whether these associations obtained only for particular elite practitioners or whether they might apply to more general populations. We therefore proposed to conduct online questionnaire-based surveys of two separate samples recruited through Facebook groups consisting of vegans and vegetarians (N = 804) and those who practise fasting (N = 154) to see if these associations could be confirmed. Working with a vegan/vegetarian group allowed us to compare those who fast with those who do not; similarly, the fasting sample allowed us to compare vegans and vegetarians with those who eat meat. Preliminary findings indicate that significantly higher levels of self-reported anomalous experiences and abilities are reported by those who: fast; engage in longer fasts; have a longer history of fasting; practise vegan or vegetarian over meat-eating diets; practise vegan over vegetarian diets; have increased adherence to a wholefood diet; and habitually abstain from alcohol. The implications of these findings are discussed
A stakeholder-informed framework for the sustainable management of coastal lagoons in West Africa
Full text linkCoastal lagoons are highly susceptible to the impacts of climate change. In lagoons of the Global South development challenges and growing coastal populations compound climate stressors to create complex inter-connected problems that cross social, economic and environmental boundaries. The successful governance of lagoons thus requires multidimensional approaches that combine disciplines and incorporate multiple knowledges. A stakeholder informed management framework was developed for West African lagoons using a transdisciplinary and participatory approach. A network of researchers from across the region, collectively known as the Resilient Lagoon Network, facilitated participatory platforms for stakeholders to share their experiences of the stressors facing lagoons and their management. Participants were from academia, government organisations, NGOs, traditional authorities and coastal lagoon communities. The information acquired enabled an understanding and relative importance of the challenges facing lagoons as well as what constituted good management practice and an appreciation for the breadth of lagoon stakeholders. From this information a framework was created comprising three strands that outlined the “what, how and who” of sustainable lagoon management. The “what” consists of a series of social, economic, environmental and governance indicators, linked to the sustainable development goals, that provide a checklist for lagoon sustainability. The “how” outlines tenets of good governance with an emphasis on equity, participation, cooperation and open communication. The “who” maps the range of possible lagoon stakeholders. The framework has been sense tested with lagoon practitioners and made available across the region. Although based on the experience of West African lagoon stakeholders, it could be used to inform the management of lagoons across the Global South
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