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Demographic and Labour Market Change: The Dynamics of Older Workers in the Scottish Labour Market (2007)
Journal Article
Hollywood, E., Brown, R., Danson, M., & McQuaid, R. W. (2007). Demographic and Labour Market Change: The Dynamics of Older Workers in the Scottish Labour Market. Scottish Geographical Journal, 123(4), 242-256. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702540802189677

This paper presents a review of ageing in the Scottish labour market. Scotland's population structure has been ageing for some decades leading to an ageing of the working population, at a rate ahead of many countries in Europe. Low levels of fertilit... Read More about Demographic and Labour Market Change: The Dynamics of Older Workers in the Scottish Labour Market.

Understanding social enterprise and its financing: a case study of the child-care sector in Scotland. (2007)
Journal Article
Hare, P. G., Jones, D. W., & Blackledge, G. (2007). Understanding social enterprise and its financing: a case study of the child-care sector in Scotland. Social enterprise journal, 3, https://doi.org/10.1108/17508610780000726

Purpose – To investigate the application of the social enterprise model to the childcare sector in Scotland and develop a practical model for analysing such social enterprises. Design/methodology/approach – A review of the literature of ideas on... Read More about Understanding social enterprise and its financing: a case study of the child-care sector in Scotland..

Sustainable landfill: the role of fail-safe engineering for landfill aftercare. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hall, D. H., McDougall, J., Drury, D., Blakey, N., Braithwaite, P., & Rosevear, A. (2007). Sustainable landfill: the role of fail-safe engineering for landfill aftercare.

The route to sustainable landfill while adhering to the Landfill Directive requires that ultimately, the waste site will reach equilibrium status. Chemical equilibrium is part of the requirements, but hydraulic equilibrium must also play a role. The... Read More about Sustainable landfill: the role of fail-safe engineering for landfill aftercare..

Knowledge transfer in timber frame construction. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hairstans, R., Dodyk, R., Kermani, A., Lawson, R., & Mackenzie, R. (2007). Knowledge transfer in timber frame construction.

Sustainable timber frame diaphragm development. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hairstans, R., Dodyk, R., & Kermani, A. (2007). Sustainable timber frame diaphragm development.

The EU Directive on Energy Performance of Buildings has the aim of promoting energy performance within the EU and will have a direct impact on current timber frame construction in the UK. As a result of the directive, changes to Part L of the Buil... Read More about Sustainable timber frame diaphragm development..

The Scottish building standards technical handbook: domestic buildings. (2007)
Preprint / Working Paper
Hairstans, R. The Scottish building standards technical handbook: domestic buildings

Exploring perspectives on Human Resource Development: an introduction (2007)
Journal Article
Garavan, T. N., O'Donnell, D., McGuire, D., & Watson, S. (2007). Exploring perspectives on Human Resource Development: an introduction. Advances in developing human resources, 9, 3-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422306294342

The problem and the solution. This issue overview presents a brief justification for adopting a multiperspectival approach to theory and practice in human resource development (HRD). It is argued that such an approach has the potential to add theoret... Read More about Exploring perspectives on Human Resource Development: an introduction.

Understanding inappropriate high speed: qualitative results from the HUSSAR project (2007)
Journal Article
Fuller, R., Hannigan, B., Bates, H., Gormley, M., Stradling, S. G., Broughton, P., …O'Dolan, C. (2007). Understanding inappropriate high speed: qualitative results from the HUSSAR project. Behavioural Research in Road Safety,

We know that inappropriate high speed (IHS) is related to driver collision frequency and severity. The strategic goals of this safety project are to inform drivers of the risks of IHS, to improve attitudes and behaviour in relation to speed choice an... Read More about Understanding inappropriate high speed: qualitative results from the HUSSAR project.

The vexed question of humanity in Heart of Darkness: a historicist reading (2007)
Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2007). The vexed question of humanity in Heart of Darkness: a historicist reading. In D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke (Ed.), Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness (83-91). Routledge

This book chapter takes a historicist approach to Conrad's Heart of Darkness. It relies on theories of historicim and ethnography and cites Clifford Geertx and James Clifford as well as Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

She: gothic reverberations in Star Trek: first contact (2007)
Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2007). She: gothic reverberations in Star Trek: first contact. In B. Brabon, & S. Genz (Eds.), Postfeminist Gothic: Critical Interventions in Contemporary Culture (154-169). Palgrave Macmillan

This essay discusses how the film Star Trek: First Contact uses the gothic tropes of the femme fatale as expressed in Rider Haggard's iconic text She. This is a collection of essays edited by Ben Brabon and Stephanie Genz.