Research publications: Recent submissions
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Double-copying self-dual Yang-Mills theory to self-dual gravity on twistor space
(2023-11-24)We construct a simple Lorentz-invariant action for maximally supersymmetric self-dual Yang-Mills theory that manifests colour-kinematics duality. We also show that this action double-copies to a known action for maximally ... -
Art Therapy’s contribution to alleviating the HIV burden in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2019-06-12)South Africa carries one of the world’s most prevalent burdens of disease, HIV. Living surrounded by so much illness and death and against an historical backdrop of violence and poverty, many young people have had multiple ... -
Adaptive Narratives For Immersive Spaces
(Filmby Aarhus / VIA Film & Transmedia / Create Converge, 2019-11-30)In this chapter, we explore the concept of immersive spaces, investigating how the lessons of immersive physical spaces can influence the design of immersive digital worlds; VR, AR and XR are mere trans-dimensional portals ... -
We have been ruined by Whores”: Perceptions of Female Involvement in the South Sea Scheme
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'I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself': the metafictional meanings of lycanthropic transformation in Doctor Who
(Manchester University Press, 2020-01-31)This chapter was developed from a paper ('I was a teenage Whovian but I'm all right now-eee-ooooooooo-ooo-eeh-yooooooooo: the metafictional meanings of lycanthropic transformation in Doctor Who') delivered at the Open ... -
Wittgenstein's Grammar: Through Thick and Thin
(Springer Nature Link, 2019-11-23)It may be said that the single track of Wittgenstein's philosophy is the discernment and elucidation of grammar – its nature and its limits. This paper will trace Wittgenstein's evolving notion of grammar from the Tractatus ... -
What is it to do nothing?
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-10-28)We should reject any moral theory that rests on the metaphysical assumption that actions—or even their characterisations—can be neatly divided into positive acts of doing and so-called ‘negative’ acts of omitting, refraining, ... -
Institutional Complementarities in Comparative Capitalism: A Bibliometric Account
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021-02-14)Institutional complementarities help to explain how interdependent institutions not only account for the institutional diversity that can be observed across and within socio-economic systems, but also affect economic ... -
Ripping Up The Rulebook : Challenges and Opportunities in Moving Beyond the Binary
(Routledge, 2022-04-16)Sex segregated sporting competitions pose impossible barriers to some gender diverse people. Within some sports, such segregation serves little purpose. Thus, different ways of categorising participants should be explored ... -
Introduction to the Selected Writings of Jan Patočka
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Hands at home? Textures, tactility and touch in interior design
(Manchester University Press, 2023-09-30)This chapter explores the mutually constitutive relationships between touch and interior design for the home, in an analysis attentive to modernisms and mediation. The phrase ‘home comforts’ indicates that the home is not ... -
Improving Public Engagement with Ethical Complexities of Assistive Robots
(Springer Nature Link, 2023-08-24)In order for society to fully realise the potential benefits offered by assistive robots, a number of ethical challenges must firstly be addressed. Crucially, it is important to enhance public understanding of the ways in ... -
Insights into software development approaches: mining Q &A repositories
(2024-01)Context: Software practitioners adopt approaches like DevOps, Scrum, and Waterfall for high-quality software development. However, limited research has been conducted on exploring software development approaches concerning ... -
Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England
(Amsterdam University Press, 2023-11-13)How did men cope with sexual health issues in early modern England? This vivid and engaging history investigates how sexual, reproductive, and genitourinary conditions were understood between 1580 and 1740. Drawing on ... -
British trade unionism in the 1980s reassessed. Are recurring assumptions about union membership and strikes flawed?
(2023-07-07)This article questions the hypothesis, put forward by several historians and IR academics, that the 1980s decline in British union membership and strike frequency, was driven by major industrial defeats, a cultural shift ... -
Pregnancy and New Motherhood in Prison
(Bristol University Press, 2023-11-30)Incorporating the authentic voices and real-life experiences of women, this ground-breaking book focuses on pregnancy and new motherhood in UK prisons. The book delves critically and poignantly into the criminal justice ... -
Confirmation of a new resonance in 26Si and contribution of classical novae to the galactic abundance of 26Al
(2023-09-14)The 25Al(p ,γ ) reaction has long been highlighted as a possible means to bypass the production of 26Al cosmic γ rays in classical nova explosions. However, uncertainties in the properties of key resonant states in 26Si ... -
The impossible, necessary outside of nature: a Luhmannian intervention into post-humanist ecology
(2023-07-23)In the wake of climate change, social theory has been subject to a surge of new materialist and posthuman approaches that reconfigure ontology and politics beyond the modern nature/culture binary which the Anthropocene has ... -
Low-Dose Aspirin for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events Comparing East Asians With Westerners: A Meta-Analysis
(2023-09-12)Background East Asians have shown different risk profiles for both thrombophilia and bleeding than Western counterparts. Objectives The authors sought to evaluate the effect of low-dose aspirin for primary prevention between ... -
Dual functional mesoporous silica colloidal electrolyte for lithium-oxygen batteries
(2023-01-01)Dual functional mesoporous silica (mSiO2) colloidal electrolytes are promising to protect lithium anode and accelerate the reaction kinetics on cathode for lithium-oxygen batteries (LOBs). In this work, we achieved a ...