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The Light raw data and codebook
No full textContains Issues 1-10 of The Light and a codebook to allow the replication and adaptation of the approach taken in:
Dacombe, R., Souter, N., & Westerlund, L. (2021). Research note: Understanding offline Covid-19 conspiracy theories: A content analysis of The Light “truthpaper”. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-8
Racism and young people in the United Kingdom
Get PDFThis chapter is co-authored with Rod Dacombe of Oxford University and is part of a Europe-wide review analysing the position of young people in relation to racism/right-wing extremism. Based on research individually conducted by the authors, this chapter discusses racism in relation to young people in the UK and relevant historical and contemporary policy, and it highlights good practice in formal education and community development settings. It was commissioned by the DJI (German Youth Institute). The author mainly dealt with the historical and contemporary aspects of race in the paper and informal strategies whilst Rod Dacombe dealt with formal education
Rethinking Civic Participation in Democratic Theory and Practice
No full textThis book makes an important contribution to contemporary debates over the place of civic participation in democratic theory and practice. Drawing on a detailed case study of the Blackbird Leys area of Oxford, the book employs a novel empirical approach to ask whether widespread participation in civic life can enhance the prospects for democracy, given the low levels of participation which tend to exist in deprived areas. Throughout, it presents an account of participation rooted in the history and development of the case, in order to avoid the kinds of abstraction which are characteristic of many existing studies in the area. The book will appeal to scholars working on democratic theory in applied settings, and will be of interest to anyone concerned with inequalities in civic participation.<br/
Who leads?
No full textPurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the implications of recent local government reform for political leadership in local authorities. In particular, it investigates the role played by local government officers in shaping and directing the work of politicians serving on overview and scrutiny committees.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on data from five case studies of local councils in England and Wales, the paper suggests that recent reform has done little to clarify decision making and leadership in local government.FindingsThe paper suggests that local councillors need to define their roles under the new system in order to reflect the changing requirements of their work.Originality/valueThe paper investigates the impact of the introduction of overview and scrutiny on the relations between councillors and local government officers. Research on leadership in local government is well established, but this literature needs updating in the light of recent reforms. The paper suggests a complex pattern of leadership in local democratic processes, and suggests that more work needs to be done to ensure that local councillors adapt to their new roles.</jats:sec
Theorizing inequalities in volunteering: Structural effects and social organization in deprived neighbourhoods
No full textThis article focuses on the relationship between volunteering and socio-economic status, suggesting that the insights provided by social organization theory can contribute to explanations of low levels of volunteering in areas exhibiting high levels of deprivation. The piece aims to provide a complementary framework to work alongside existing theories of inequalities in voluntary action, to reach towards an account which elucidates the role of structural factors in affecting the likelihood of volunteering in deprived areas. The article illustrates value of such an approach through an account of ethnographic research in a deprived neighbourhood in England, suggesting that by paying close attention to the configurations of social life in such areas it is possible to shed new light on the relationship between deprivation and volunteering.</p
Sports clubs and civic inclusion: rethinking the poverty of association
No full textMost current scholarship agrees that low levels of civic participation in deprived neighbourhoods can, in part, be explained by the deficiencies of associational life in these areas. Significantly, most writers highlight the importance of neighbourhood effects – the characteristics of local areas – on participation in civic activity. Theoretically, this has been explained by the suggestion that deprived neighbourhoods lack the social structure to organize a vibrant associational life, suffering from high unemployment, an unstable population, poor community facilities and low levels of generalized trust. However, the role of sports clubs is neglected in much of the existing literature in this area. The position of sports clubs as a community resource, providing a hub for social networks, generating information and promoting trust, has long been acknowledged and yet this is rarely included in discussions about the dynamics of civic association in deprived areas. Instead, crude generalizations about the effects of poverty on social infrastructure, and the ability of people on low incomes to engage in group activity, abound in much of the existing research. This paper examines the relationship between theory and recent policy developments, raising three areas of uncertainty that need to be addressed if a coherent and effective programme for sports policy is to be implemented
A rod-linear cascade model for emulating rotor-stator interaction noise in turbofans: A numerical study
No full textThis manuscript presents a rod-linear cascade model for emulating rotor-stator interaction noise. The model is intended as a test platform for studying noise mitigation techniques for a turbofan fan stage, while it also extends the classical rod-airfoil configuration by considering a row of blades based on realistic geometrical details. The rod-linear cascade model consists of a rod positioned upstream of a 7-blade linear cascade, such that the rod wake impinges onto the central blade. The rod is scaled to obtain a fundamental shedding frequency equal to the first blade passing frequency of the NASA-Glenn Source Diagnostics Test (SDT)fan stage at approach condition. The cascade blade profile is also based on the OGV of the SDT sampled at 90% of the radial span. Subsequently, numerical simulations are performed using lattice-Boltzmann Method on a computational setup comprised of a contraction and a test section enclosing the rod-linear cascade model. The integral length scales of the rod wake and the mean loading of the central blade have been found to be in good agreement with the trends observed in the SDT fan stage. The primary noise sources are localized at the central blade leading edge, although noise propagation to the far-field is influenced by additional diffraction by the other blades. Furthermore, the acoustic-blade row interaction causes intense pressure fluctuation within the inter-blade channels, including in those that are not directly affected by the rod wake.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Wind Energ
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