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Sharing your assets? A holistic review of the sharing economy
Get PDFEven though academics and practitioners extensively apply the notion of the sharing economy (SE), the conceptualization and the literature construction remained disjointed and dispersed due to the lack of a rigorous attempt to understand the core concept of the SE. This concept is multidimensional, which makes its investigation essential for practitioners and academics. Based on a 15-year data set collected from the Web of Science database, our paper seeks to provide a pervasive science plot of the intellectual structure of the SE field. A bibliometric review method was used by studying documents published from 2005 to 2020, using the VOSviewer, Bibexcel, SPSS, and GunnMap2 software. Providing an overview of articles, authors, the most influential journals, and themes of research, we contribute to the literature on the SE by identifying and proposing six research groups in MDS analysis, six research clusters in HCA analysis, and future study directions. Eventually, the research acknowledges the theoretical contribution, the limits of the present study, and recommends further study directions
Regulating the privately rented housing sector: evidence into practice
No full textRecent years have seen a rise in the number and nature of privately rented properties in England and Wales as the workforce has been under increasing pressure to regulate the complexities of the sector. The range of regulatory tools provides both opportunities and challenges and requires a research and evidence based response to effective strategic interventions that provide appropriate response within a socio-legal framework. We explore theory and practice in this complex policy area, beginning with the meaning of home for private renters, health impacts, investigation and gathering evidence, rights and responsibilities, implementation of a range of criminal and civil remedies and embedding research into practice. This book brings together a range of academic and practice experts in the field in consolidating current thinking in the sector, providing impetus to leaders, practitioners and students to deliver and better reflect on their work in better regulation, with particular reference to responding to the varied needs of stakeholders whilst protecting and supporting tenants
The cadenza of Malcolm Arnold's Second Clarinet Concerto
No full textA brief account in Q&A format of the circumstances of, and my approach to, writing a cadenza for Malcolm Arnold's Clarinet Concerto No 2. This forms the middle section (pp 47-48), subtitled 'Chromaticism and multiphonics', of a composite article with outer sections by Peter Cigleris and Paul Harris. The cadenza in question was published by Composers Edition, by arrangement with Faber Music, in 2021
What is so fabulous about Smaug?
No full textThis academic article examines the literary tradition of the dragon, from the Bible (the Satanic dragon in the Book of Revelation), to Beowulf (the dragon who defeats the eponymous hero), to The Hobbit (Smaug), to A Game of Thrones
Earning deference from Strasbourg: has the UK got the message?
No full textThis blog post, based on a presentation to the Society of Legal Scholars Annual Seminar on 3-4 November 2022, addresses a paradox: why is it that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or ‘the Court’) continues to be the target of vituperative rhetoric from UK ministers and others, when the number of judgments against the UK has steadily fallen and the UK (as a successful respondent state) has been a beneficiary of the “age of subsidiarity” proclaimed a decade ago by the former President of the Court, Judge Robert Spano
Student video curation [Conference item]
No full textIn the academic year 2020-21 Middlesex University maths students accessed all learning sessions remotely. Each of these interactive sessions was live-streamed, recorded and uploaded to our Virtual Learning Environment, providing hundreds of hours of recorded, unedited maths lecture for students to review.
In this project (partially funded by an IMA Education Grant) we invited undergraduates to reflect on their remote learning experiences and curate these video lectures. Students were asked to identify the most engaging, most useful and most interesting segments, and explain their choices to help us develop our approach to producing engaging videos.
A total of 33 video clips were identified by students across levels 4 to 6 on our specialist BSc Mathematics and BSc Mathematics with Computing programmes. Students categorised their choices, explicitly flagging some segments as “very engaging”, and provided free-text comments to explain their choices. In this presentation we will discuss our findings, illustrate with examples clips, identify themes in the student choices, and conclude with tips to produce engaging video content.
We will also discuss applications of video curation as a social pedagogic tool for the current generation of university “Zoomer” students (otherwise known as “Generation Z”). Ipsos Mori report these students have ubiquitous access to digital communication technology, but lower income families are less likely to use this technology for learning and are less likely to develop certain key skills as a result [Ipsos Thinks, 2018]. We will argue that sharing how students’ interact with digital learning resources can help address this significant digital divide in education
The principle of constant care, prolonged drone surveillance and the right to privacy of non-combatants in armed conflicts
Get PDFThis chapter critically examines the impact of sustained drone surveillance on non-combatants in war zones and argues that legal constraints should be placed on this practice. It identifies a lacuna in the international humanitarian law (IHL) framework with respect to privacy and data protection rights and demonstrates that IHL and international human rights law (IHRL) apply concurrently in armed conflicts. Further, it contends that the IHRL rules on mass surveillance of communications pertain to this method of intelligence collection. The rationale for their application is the constant care principle set out in Article 57(1) of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions 1949, as it places state parties under a continuous duty of care of civilian populations in regard to the whole spectrum of military operations, which must necessarily include intelligence gathering
What is the effect of ankle disk training and taping on proprioception deficit after lateral ankle sprains among active populations? - A systematic review.
Get PDFTo investigate the effect of disk training and tape application on diminished proprioception after Lateral Ankle Sprain (LAS) in active populations. Only clinical trials investigating the effectiveness of disk training and ankle tape on proprioception deficits following LAS by assessing JPS or kinaesthesia were included. Electronic databases of PubMed, MEDLINE, SPORTDiscus, CINAHL, Web of Science, Cochrane and PEDro were searched. The main search was conducted in February 2022. The physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) scale was utilised to assess the methodological quality of each article. The search yielded six studies investigating the effects of disk training and four studies investigating the effects of inelastic tape. Five articles showed a significant improvement on JPS after disk training. However, no difference across different intervention groups was observed in one study. Only one trial presented an immediate significant improvement when taped, while another study showed that external ankle supports significantly improved JPS after 2 weeks and after 2 months. Three of four studies found no immediate improvement on proprioceptive deficits by the use of tape. This review found that disk training may improve impaired proprioception after LAS, whilst the efficacy of inelastic tape was not evident due to methodological quality of the few available studies. Further studies are needed to establish whether these interventions can be used clinically with sufficient evidence. [Abstract copyright: Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.
Frontline response: exploring the impact of COVID‐19 on stalking behaviours
Get PDFCOVID-19 pandemic lockdown changed the way in which we engage with others and our ability to enjoy free movement away from the confinement of our own homes. Whilst this dramatic change affected everyone, it constituted something much more threatening for victims of stalking, repeatedly targeted by those with an obsessive and fixated behaviour. Whilst we know more about the impact of lockdown stalking behaviour, very little is known about how the police and frontline workers are responding to this challenge. This research aims to increase an understanding of stalking in this context. Firstly, it presents a quantitative examination of recorded data on stalking offences provided by all 43 police forces across England and Wales. In addition, it explores the experiences of those working on the frontline who respond to reports of stalking made by victims. A total of 15 in-depth interviews were conducted with twelve police officers from three forces in England, as well as three advocates of victims from two national stalking services. Analyses show that stalking behaviour has increased and evolved to use accessible channels alongside the COVID restrictions. In conclusion, considerable pressure has been placed on front- line workers to adapt and respond not only to increased incidents but also the changes in the nature of stalking behaviour
Creating disaster risk and constructing gendered vulnerability
Get PDFThis chapter explores the landscape of disaster risk and vulnerability through a feminist lens. It takes as its starting point that the current development model creates disasters, and that disasters are to be expected as ‘normal’ outcomes of the economic growth focussed neo-liberal era. Disasters reflect and intensify rather than disrupt this normality, leading not to ab-normal but rather ‘super-normal’ experiences of everyday realities. For women, this may include experience of super-normal patriarchal relations, often at the hands of the those charged with protecting them. The chapter highlights how at the same time the field of gender and development has helped create a specific gendered vulnerability to disaster. Although women's intrinsic vulnerability is largely a myth, patriarchal structures that shape social relations bring into being feminised vulnerabilities. The same structures shape what are acceptable feminine characteristics, creating women as the ‘virtuous-victims’ of disaster. Justifying their policies as built on a morally driven response to women’s vulnerability, policy makers rely on women’s socially constructed virtuous nature, their ‘natural’ altruism, to efficiently deliverer resources and services to others. The chapter argues in policy terms ‘doing gender’ has become something done to women to achieve other development and disaster-related aims