Western European states have increasingly linked immigration and welfare policy. This trend has important implications for European welfare-state trajectories, but accounts of the policy reasoning behind it have diverged. Are policymakers attempting to delimit social citizenship to secure welfare-state legitimacy? Pursuing new, market-oriented welfare-state goals? Symbolically communicating immigration control intentions to voters? Or attempting to…Continue Reading What Drives the Immigration-Welfare Policy Link? Comparing Germany, France and the United Kingdom
Year: 2021
Collaboration of nursing students and academics from six European countries.
This week saw the launch of a series of workshops focusing on ethical issues in nursing, which build on an existing partnership between participating organisations. A previous ERASMUS funded project (a student conference) was held in Lincoln in 2019 and focused on the concept of age, exploring topical issues when working with younger people. This…Continue Reading Collaboration of nursing students and academics from six European countries.
Unfamiliar face matching, within-person variability, and multiple-image arrays
Human unfamiliar face matching is error-prone, but some research suggests matching to multiple-image arrays instead of single images may yield improvements. Here, high or low variability arrays containing one, two, and three images, and a target image from the high and low variability image sets were displayed. Arrays were presented simultaneously or sequentially, and the…Continue Reading Unfamiliar face matching, within-person variability, and multiple-image arrays
Industry perceptions of government interventions: generating an energy efficiency norm
The world has been grappling with energy efficiency for decades. Much attention has been focused on how government can encourage energy efficiency, but there has been essentially none on industry perspectives of which government interventions are necessary to encourage these actions to become the norm. We address this gap through a study of industry views…Continue Reading Industry perceptions of government interventions: generating an energy efficiency norm
Comparing the effects of outdoor and indoor exercise on student psychological wellbeing
Poor mental health and increased levels of psychological distress are growing areas of concern for university students who report significantly more negative mental health symptoms compared to age-matched employed individuals. Increased psychological distress may be a result of a difficult transition from dependent living to independence in addition to increased academic, social, and financial pressures….Continue Reading Comparing the effects of outdoor and indoor exercise on student psychological wellbeing
Optimising social procurement policy outcomes through cross-sector collaboration in the Australian construction industry
Social procurement policies are an emerging policy instrument being used by governments around the world to leverage infrastructure and construction spending to address intractable social problems in the communities they represent. The relational nature of social procurement policies requires construction firms to develop new collaborative partnerships with organisations from the government, not-for-profit and community sectors….Continue Reading Optimising social procurement policy outcomes through cross-sector collaboration in the Australian construction industry
Gambling in COVID-19 Lockdown in the UK: Depression, Stress, and Anxiety
To combat the spread of COVID-19, the UK Government implemented a range of “lockdown” measures. Lockdown has necessarily changed the gambling habits of gamblers in the UK, and the impact of these measures on the mental health of gamblers is unknown. To understand the impact of lockdown on gamblers, in April 2020, after ~6 weeks…Continue Reading Gambling in COVID-19 Lockdown in the UK: Depression, Stress, and Anxiety
Flow in youth sport, physical activity, and physical education: A systematic review
Flow in sport, physical activity, and physical education can have widespread benefits for youth participants. The aim of this study was to systematically review, synthesise, and appraise literature on flow in youth sport, physical activity, and physical education. More specifically, the review explored the: methods used to study flow; conceptualisation of flow; antecedents associated with…Continue Reading Flow in youth sport, physical activity, and physical education: A systematic review
Human rights localisation in liberal states: the UK’s responsibility to protect as regime change and political transition in Syria
This article examines how powerful liberal states localise human rights-based norms. Taking a critical constructivist perspective, it does this through an empirical case study of how the UK understood its Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Syrians during the period 2014–2016. The research has two findings. First, R2P had little impact on the UK’s responses to Syria….Continue Reading Human rights localisation in liberal states: the UK’s responsibility to protect as regime change and political transition in Syria