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The Dynamics of Emotional Attachments and Identity Formation within Protest Movements: Exploring Expressive Behaviours during the Nigeria's Protests
No full textThis research explores the emotional dynamics across the phases of protests against violence committed by Nigeria’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). Our research explores how expressions on digital platforms and activists’ personal reflections reflect the changing emotions of protesters and how emotions evolve with the formation of collective identities. Through an analysis of Twitter posts using #EndSARS (October 2020), we explore how young Nigerians overcame ethnic and religious societal divisions and organised a coordinated campaign against police brutality, humiliation, corruption and deprivation. By mapping the emotions in Twitter posts chronologically, we find distinct phases of the protest reflected in the expressions of activists. Initially, the mood was frustration and sadness, but this evolved into anger as young Nigerians shared tales of injustice and victimhood. As the mood intensified a collective identity formed around one Nigeria. Despite fear of reprisals and repression Nigerians took to the streets and developed a bond of trust founded on expressions of shared identity and commitment. Support was gained within and beyond their immediate localities leading to an upsurge in joy and pride and the anticipation of success. Hence, we offer a model of emotional engagement in protest movements which can form hypotheses for future analysis
The impact of Promoting Sustainable Development in Business Education and Student Engagement in Fostering Student Commitment to the SDGs
No full textThis chapter explores the vital role of higher education institutions (HEIs), particularly business schools, in promoting sustainable development and advancing the commitment of students to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a focus on enhancing student engagement. Drawing on experiential learning, transformative learning, and stakeholder theory, this chapter illustrates how business education can prepare future leaders to address real-world sustainability challenges.
Experiential learning - especially via AI-enhanced simulations - helps students apply theoretical knowledge in dynamic, practical settings. Transformative learning fosters critical reflection, encouraging students to challenge profit-driven norms and embrace ethical, sustainable perspectives. Stakeholder theory promotes inclusive decisionmaking and long-term value creation, aligning with sustainability principles.
Integrating education for sustainable development (ESD), through curricula, studentled initiatives, interdisciplinary projects, and institutional partnerships, further enhances engagement. Initiatives such as SDG-themed events, green campus projects, and participation in the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) raise awareness and inspire behavioural change, though improved evaluation methods are needed to assess long-term outcomes.
This chapter advocates embedding sustainability in both academic and co-curricular experiences, supported by a campus culture which fosters proactive student involvement, and highlights strategies to deepen engagement and nurture genuine concern for sustainability, while acknowledging challenges such as limited institutional support or inconsistent messaging. Sustained, coordinated, efforts by HEIs are
essential to overcoming these barriers and fostering long-term student commitment.
Finally, the chapter outlines practical and theoretical contributions, and suggests avenues for future research to advance sustainability education and enhance meaningful student engagement in higher education
Conservation of an isolated and genetically unique population: red squirrels on the Isle of Wight
Get PDFIsland populations face a higher extinction risk than mainland ones due to their smaller population sizes, limited genetic diversity, and increased vulnerability to environmental changes and stochastic events. The Isle of Wight red squirrel population is culturally and economically significant, being the largest remaining population in Southern England and genetically distinct from European populations. We used a multidisciplinary approach to assess the population’s long-term viability, evaluating habitat and food resources, analysing microsatellite genetic data, and using life history data to model population viability. Results indicated that natural food resources, supplemented by additional feeding, could sustain and support population growth. Microsatellite data identified two genetic clusters in the east and west of the island. Although FST values were non-significant, indicating gene flow between subpopulations, elevated FIS values suggest localised mating dynamics driven by limited dispersal and spatial structure rather than systemic inbreeding. Population viability analyses suggested that habitat fragmentation and localised inbreeding do not pose immediate threats. However, maintaining connectivity between subpopulations remains crucial to preserving genetic diversity and reducing future risks of genetic isolation or increased inbreeding. Under pessimistic scenarios with reduced survival rates and fewer litters, model predictions indicated population decline and increased extinction risks. Future research should incorporate fine-scale spatial genetic analyses using genome data to explore population structure, local adaptation, and differentiate local mating dynamics from population-wide inbreeding. While direct data on inbreeding, litter sizes, and survival rates are challenging to obtain, these insights are critical for understanding population dynamics and guiding conservation efforts
Fraught with High Tragedy: a contextual and chronological reconsideration of the Maiden Castle Iron Age 'War Cemetery' (England)
Get PDFThe Iron Age ‘war cemetery’ of Maiden Castle hillfort, Dorset, England, is one of the most internationally celebrated of British archaeological discoveries, levels of trauma recorded on skeletons found there being interpreted as evidence for a Roman massacre. A new radiocarbon dating programme and reanalysis of the burial patterning, presented here for the first time, shows that the inhumations actually fall into temporal clusters of lethal violence, plausibly spanning multiple generations, spread mostly between the early and middle decades of the first century AD. This is suggestive of increasing societal stress in the decades leading up to, rather than as a product of, the Roman invasion of AD 43
Women’s broadcasting histories and the archive: National, transnational and transmedial entanglements
Get PDFThis provocation details varied perspectives of the International Women’s Broadcasting Histories (IWBH) network on researching the role of women in broadcasting. The conversational form allows us to roam across the topic widely, to express a range of discrete positions and distinct arguments, with the desire to bring dilemmas to the surface and explore their implications without reduction. Responding with a series of interventionist statements around the issues and challenges of doing archival research into women’s work, we opt for retaining different viewpoints in a raw state, with the aim of provoking discussion about the methodological opportunities and limitations when working within and outside of archives
The impact of trade openness, export concentration and economic complexity on energy demand among G7 countries
Get PDFThis research attempts to explore the scale (trade openness), composition (export concentration) and technique effect (economic complexity) of international trade on energy use in the sample of G7 nations over the period 1970 and 2020 separately. To do that, we build up three empirical models based on the regression on population, affluence and technology approach. The analysis outcomes indicated a positive long-run link between per capita income, urbanization, trade openness, export concentration, economic complexity and energy use across the three models. The outcomes obtained from long-run estimations provide evidence that economic complexity and export concentration decreases energy consumption. Besides, empirical findings show that trade openness boosts energy use. Based on the detailed empirical research, the direction for the policy is that they should harness more strength on energy conservation by increasing the composition and technical effects of international trade. They should also focus on improving the countries’ economic freedom (trade openness) while maintaining energy consumption at a lower rate
On the relationship between internet addiction and ADHD symptoms in adults: does the type of online activity matter?
Get PDFBackground
Studies shows that there is a relationship between internet addiction and ADHD symptoms, especially inattention. A study found that there is a unique relation between each core ADHD symptom and different types of internet activities. Another study found that deficits in inhibitory control moderate the relationship between internet addiction and inattention. Therefore, this study aimed to explore how specific online activities might modify the relationship between inattention, internet addiction and inhibitory control.
Methods
205 participants (79 females,126 males) between 18 and 49 years old took part in the study from a community sample. They completed the demographic information form, Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale Symptom (ASRS-v1.1) Checklist, and Young’s Internet Addiction Test (IAT) online. Then, they performed the Stroop Task.
Results
Consistent with previous research we show that inattention predicts internet addiction, and that this relationship is moderated by inhibitory control ability; the relationship between inattention and internet addiction strengthens as executive function impairment increases.
Conclusions
These results indicate that ADHD symptoms and executive function impairments interact in a way that leads to real-life consequences, even when there is no relationship between those symptoms and executive function performance. Furthermore, we show that no single online activity is responsible for the relationship between inattention and internet addiction, nor does inhibitory control ability determine which online activity participants engage in
Standardised Reporting Outcomes for trials investigating Surgical WOund Complications (ROSWOC): Protocol for the development of a core outcomes set for trials evaluating interventions for the prevention of surgical wound complications.
Get PDFIntroduction: Despite advances in surgical technique and wound management surgical wound complications such as surgical site infection and surgical wound dehiscence still pose a considerable global burden. Inconsistencies in measuring and reporting of this
phenomenon pervade study designs, analysis and synthesis of the evidence, as such a core outcome set (COS) is required. The Reporting Outcomes for Surgical WOund Complications project (ROSWOC) aims to improve quality of reporting and evidence for surgical site infection and surgical wound dehiscence prevention trials. A core outcome set for trials is required to homogenise outcomes for trials investigating prevention and management of surgical wound complications.
Methods: This project aims to develop a core outcome set following established methods; 1) define scope of work, 2) conduct a scoping review, 3) organising facilitated workshops with service users and 4) conduct Delphi surveys, and 5) conduct face-to-face meetings with key
stakeholders.
Discussion: Following obtaining consensus for the core set, further work will be carried out to describe a core outcomes set. The articulation of an agreed set of core outcomes for trials investigating surgical site infections and surgical wound dehiscence will improve prevention
studies into surgical wound complications into the future. Trial registration: The ROSWOC project is registered in the COMET database: (http://www. comet-initiative.org/studies/details/) registered November 2022
Correction to Manley et al. (2024) A Source of Confusion: New Archaeological Evidence for the Dorchester Aqueduct, Britannia 55, 83-97
Get PDFThis brief note corrects an aspect of our 2024 paper looking at the evidence for the route of the Dorchester aqueduct in which we attributed a previously hypothesised route for the aqueduct to Christopher Sparey-Green
