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Reputational impacts of international research and innovation
Get PDFOne of the key objectives of the UK government’s international Research and Innovation (R&I) investment strategy is to strengthen the nation’s global reputation and influence. However, there remains a significant gap in understanding how such international R&I activities contribute to the UK’s reputational standing. This lack of insight poses challenges in capturing and evaluating the reputational benefits derived from these investments.
This report aims to address that gap by reviewing existing literature on the relationship between international R&I activities and the UK’s reputation. Given the limited research in this area, the report offers a conceptual analysis of available studies, laying the foundation for a deeper understanding of the mechanisms through which international R&I investments can enhance national reputation
'Time's Carcass': art history, capitalism and temporality
No full textArt History is a discipline packed with temporal categories. This essay surveys recent anti-historicist theories of time developed within the Marxist tradition, and considers their applicability to art history. It is intended to introduce art historians to unfamiliar but significant debates
Classes and individuals in the European Union: Marxist and cosmopolitan approaches
Get PDFThe Marxist dialectical method places class struggle at the centre of historical developments. Class struggle necessitates conflicting collective subjects, which take the form of collective workers and collective capitalists. For reasons related to the span of EU competences and the historical maturation of the EU, no such collective subjects exist at EU level. The formation of an EU-wide working class is impeded by the anchoring of working interests in member states. Similarly, no full-fledged EU-wide capitalist class exists, as migrating individual capitals assimilate into the domestic (national) conditions of host member states. Nevertheless, the intervention of the EU into member states is one of internal penetration into domestic class struggles and not one of linear external association. The above findings are largely neglected by liberal cosmopolitanism which sees the EU as an example of Kantian cosmopolitan right, universal hospitality and eternal peace. The cosmopolitan reading is not corroborated by reality because it ignores the interactions between collective subjects and interpenetration of class struggles between member states and the EU. It focuses instead on individuals and states severed from a wider capitalist totality and understood as interacting in linear unidirectional ways characterised by externality. This weak understanding of the Union hinders the process of finding solutions to the problems that the EU and its citizens are faced with
Social Justice and Design Justice in Open Access
No full textA conversation between Ernesto Priego and Martin Eve on social justice and design justice issues in open access publishin
The invisible hand: Neurocognitive mechanisms of human hand function
Get PDFHow the “invisible hand” of the nervous system makes the human hand such an evolutionary success.
The hand has a central role in both human evolution and cultural development—in our descent and in our ascent. It is, Immanuel Kant said, “the visible part of the brain.” It is the invisible that concerns Matthew Longo in The Invisible Hand, a wide-ranging, deftly written account of the neural and cognitive mechanisms that have made a seemingly ordinary physical appendage an extraordinary tool in the evolution of humanity.
The hand has been the focus of an enormous amount of research from a dizzying range of disciplines, from anatomy, psychology, and neuroscience to evolutionary biology and archaeology. With the concept of the invisible hand, Longo integrates and contextualizes the findings from these disparate fields to show how the neurocognitive mechanisms that comprise the invisible hand are central to understanding a wide array of phenomena, including basic sensory and motor function, space perception, gesture, and even the self. More generally, he contends that the extraordinary abilities of the hand arise precisely from the complementary nature and tight integration of the visible and invisible hands—a proposition that leads deep into topics as diverse as haptics, tool use, handedness, phantom limbs, and evolution. His work elucidates and significantly expands a key chapter of the story of human evolution and culture as manifested in the human hand
Racism and antisemitism in the hostile environment: three texts
No full textIn this post, we publish materials from our March 2025 webinar on antisemitism and the Hostile Environment: the text of Ann Phoenix‘s introductory words and of Ben Gidley‘s presentation. There is also an abstract of and link to the academic paper on which Nira Yuval-Davis‘ presentation was drawn. You can watch the video of the event here
Testing -freeness in Bounded Admissibility Graphs
Get PDFWe study -freeness in sparse graphs from a property testing perspective,
specifically for graph classes with bounded -admissibility. Our work is motivated by the large gap between upper and lower bounds in this area: -freeness is known to be testable in planar graphs (2019), but not in graphs with bounded arboricity for ~\cite{edenCycles2024}. There are a large number of interesting graph classes that include planar graphs and have bounded arboricity (\eg classes excluding a minor), calling for a more fine-grained approach to the question of testing -freeness in sparse graph classes.
One such approach, inspired by the work of Nesetril and Ossona de Mendez (2012), is to consider the graph measure of -admissibility, which naturally forms a hierarchy of graph families where contains all graph classes whose -admissibility is bounded by some constant. The family contains classes with bounded arboricity, the class contains classes like planar graphs, graphs of bounded degree, and minor-free graphs. Awofeso \etal~(2025) recently made progress in this direction. They showed that - and -freeness is testable in . They further showed that -freeness is \emph{not} testable in and conjectured that
-freeness is testable in . In this work, we prove this conjecture: -freeness is indeed testable in graphs of bounded -admissibility
Status fixity and dirty workers’ experiences of recognition
No full textBased on interviews with waste management workers, this study focuses on changes in low-paid/low-status workers’ experiences of recognition during and after the pandemic. In this article, we explore these developments, drawing on the work of Honneth, Fraser, Neckel and Reckwitz. Our analysis challenges the rather romanticised treatment of recognition that persists in existing research on dirty work. In particular, though the pandemic heightened societal awareness of the value of essential services, we found that these emancipatory moments were short lived, as status hierarchies remained largely unchallenged. Instead, workers’ experiences during the pandemic suggest a growing sense of status fixity and polarisation which, following Neckel and Reckwitz, reflect a broader sharpening in economic and cultural inequality
Voice and retaliation: classifying types of victimization for whistleblowing as voice
No full textAbstract Whistleblowing is often considered an internal act of raising a concern (Vandekerckhove and Phillips, 2019, Micelli and Near, 1985). There is little recognition of this within the voice literature. The fields of human resource management, employee relations and organizational behavior exclude whistleblowing for various reasons. However, it is in these very streams of voice that individuals will raise concerns in the workplace. Literature has sought to highlight silo thinking (Mowbray et al., 2015) while Kenny et al. (2020) develop this with a focus on whistleblowing. This chapter draws heavily on Phillips (2022) and reflects on how seeing whistleblowing as voice allows a fresh approach to addressing victimization. Much has been said about how whistleblowing research can recognize retaliation but often identifies the severity by the number of types of retaliation (Smith, 2014). Adopting Cortina and Magely’s (2003) Work-based and Social-based retaliation model greater insight can be had into how stages of voice can lead to retaliation but more importantly how interventions can be made by different whistleblowing actors to prevent such retaliation
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