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Improving And Enhancing Scenario Planning: Futures Thinking (2025)
Book
Crawford, M. M., & Wright, G. (Eds.). (2025). Improving And Enhancing Scenario Planning: Futures Thinking. Edward Elgar Publishing

This book presents a contemporary view of the approaches and theories informing global scenario planning and foresight science. The collection of chapters details new and broader views of futures thinking, scenario methodologies, innovative developme... Read More about Improving And Enhancing Scenario Planning: Futures Thinking.

An Evaluation of Ireland’s Transport Planning Policies’ Alignment to the EU’s Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP) and Sustainable Urban Logistics Planning (SULP) (2025)
Report
Plant, E., Ozoani, C., Hayes, T., & Kenny, J. (2025). An Evaluation of Ireland’s Transport Planning Policies’ Alignment to the EU’s Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP) and Sustainable Urban Logistics Planning (SULP). Chartered Institute for Logistics and Transport

this policy study to assess Ireland’s transport planning framework and its alignment with Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) and Sustainable Urban Logistics Plans (SULPs). This research builds upon two previous studies that examined the state o... Read More about An Evaluation of Ireland’s Transport Planning Policies’ Alignment to the EU’s Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP) and Sustainable Urban Logistics Planning (SULP).

Modeling climate policy uncertainty into cryptocurrency volatilities (2025)
Journal Article
Ding, S., Wu, X., Cui, T., Goodell, J. W., & Du, A. M. (2025). Modeling climate policy uncertainty into cryptocurrency volatilities. International Review of Financial Analysis, 102, Article 104030. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2025.104030

Climate change is a highly controversial topic within the socioeconomic context. Climate Policy Uncertainty (CPU) arises from the process of climate policies formulation and implementation. This uncertainty impacts financial market volatilities, incl... Read More about Modeling climate policy uncertainty into cryptocurrency volatilities.

Overcoming the Smart City Governance Challenge: An Innovation Management Perspective (2025)
Journal Article
Beckers, D., & Mora, L. (online). Overcoming the Smart City Governance Challenge: An Innovation Management Perspective. Journal of Urban Technology, https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2025.2461983

This commentary explores the potential of strengthening smart city development (SCD) governance theory through a more meaningful integration of innovation management studies. We highlight the limited theoretical framework in SCD governance and show h... Read More about Overcoming the Smart City Governance Challenge: An Innovation Management Perspective.

Walking “alone”? Critical autoethnography, assemblage, and the paradoxical co-production of solo-hiker subjectivity (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P. (2025, August). Walking “alone”? Critical autoethnography, assemblage, and the paradoxical co-production of solo-hiker subjectivity. Presented at Royal Geographical Society International Conference, University of Birmingham

This autoethnographic performance text examines the paradoxical co-production of “aloneness” in nature spaces charged with a politics of memory. The context is hiking “alone” as a fat, middle-aged, queer woman, to Highland Clearances ruins and bothie... Read More about Walking “alone”? Critical autoethnography, assemblage, and the paradoxical co-production of solo-hiker subjectivity.

Constructing Childhood Tourism: Critical Literacy and Cultural Awareness through Picture Books (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2025, February). Constructing Childhood Tourism: Critical Literacy and Cultural Awareness through Picture Books. Presented at Centre for Higher Education Research, Online

This exploratory research examines how picture books depict travel and cultural exploration, highlighting the simplified and sometimes stereotypical portrayals of people and places. These narratives often romanticise tourism as carefree and consumer-... Read More about Constructing Childhood Tourism: Critical Literacy and Cultural Awareness through Picture Books.

Multimodal communication in intercultural interaction: edited by Ulrike Schroeder, Elisabetta Adami and Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain, New York, Routledge, 2023, 1–249 pp., £125.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9781032130170 (2025)
Journal Article
Victoria, M. (2025). Multimodal communication in intercultural interaction: edited by Ulrike Schroeder, Elisabetta Adami and Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain, New York, Routledge, 2023, 1–249 pp., £125.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9781032130170. Language and Intercultural Communication, 25(2), 306-308. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2025.2464477

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Polish women’s experiences of domestic violence: intersecting roles of migration and socio-cultural, religious and policy contexts in Poland and in the UK (2025)
Journal Article
Anitha, S., Zielinska, I., Rasell, M., & Kane, R. (online). Polish women’s experiences of domestic violence: intersecting roles of migration and socio-cultural, religious and policy contexts in Poland and in the UK. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2025.2467173

Scholarship on domestic violence and abuse has sought to understand how women's experiences are influenced by gender and its intersections with other social relations of power. We draw upon life history interviews with Polish women and interviews wit... Read More about Polish women’s experiences of domestic violence: intersecting roles of migration and socio-cultural, religious and policy contexts in Poland and in the UK.

Reevaluating Intermarket Connectedness: The Impact of Monday Return Calculations on Cryptocurrencies and Traditional Assets (2025)
Journal Article
Ali, F., Du, A. M., & Majeed, M. A. (2025). Reevaluating Intermarket Connectedness: The Impact of Monday Return Calculations on Cryptocurrencies and Traditional Assets. Finance Research Letters, 77, Article 107016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2025.107016

Cryptocurrencies trade continuously, unlike traditional assets limited to weekdays, creating challenges in calculating Monday returns. This paper investigates the impact of four benchmark closing prices—Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and a weekend average... Read More about Reevaluating Intermarket Connectedness: The Impact of Monday Return Calculations on Cryptocurrencies and Traditional Assets.

Collaboration before competition: How smart city entrepreneurs co-create temporary ecosystems to build capacity for learning (2025)
Journal Article
Oliver, P. G., Mora, L., & Zhang, J. (2025). Collaboration before competition: How smart city entrepreneurs co-create temporary ecosystems to build capacity for learning. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 214, Article 124046. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124046

This article explores how smart city entrepreneurs (SCEs) learn to address urban sustainability challenges with innovative digital products and services. SCEs embody social, digital, and urban entrepreneurialism features and play a pivotal role in ad... Read More about Collaboration before competition: How smart city entrepreneurs co-create temporary ecosystems to build capacity for learning.

Object authenticity applied to imaginaries of racialized national culture: English-language-school sojourners in Australia (2025)
Journal Article
Stanley, P., & Wight, C. (online). Object authenticity applied to imaginaries of racialized national culture: English-language-school sojourners in Australia. Language and Intercultural Communication, https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2025.2464577

This study examines the experiences of international sojourners attending English-language schools in Australia, exploring how these students' imaginaries shape their expectations and perceptions of authenticity. Using qualitative interviews with stu... Read More about Object authenticity applied to imaginaries of racialized national culture: English-language-school sojourners in Australia.

CEO power and firm decarbonisation efforts (2025)
Journal Article
Kwabi, F., Adamolekun, G., & Kyiu, A. (2025). CEO power and firm decarbonisation efforts. International Review of Financial Analysis, 101, Article 104044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2025.104044

Using a global sample of 899 firms from 26 countries for the period 2000 to 2021, this study investigates the effect of CEO power on firms' decarbonisation efforts. We find that firms with higher levels of CEO power are associated with lower carbon e... Read More about CEO power and firm decarbonisation efforts.

Confronting the smart city governance challenge (2025)
Journal Article
Mora, L., Gerli, P., Batty, M., Binet Royall, E., Carfi, N., Coenegrachts, K.-F., de Jong, M., Facchina, M., Janssen, M., Meijer, A., Pasi, G., Perrino, M., Raven, R., Sagar, A., Sancino, A., Santi, P., Sharp, D., Trencher, G., van Zoonen, L., Westerberg, P., …Ziemer, G. (2025). Confronting the smart city governance challenge. Nature Cities, 2, 110–113. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-024-00168-9

Governance inefficiencies threaten the potential of smart city projects to deliver equitable urban transformations. Current strategies often hinder implementation, and risk harmful technological effects on communities. Tackling this challenge demands... Read More about Confronting the smart city governance challenge.

Mitigating Financing Constraints under Economic Uncertainty: The Role of Implicit Government Guarantees in China (2025)
Journal Article
Bi, S., Wei, N., Du, A. M., & Zhou, T. (2025). Mitigating Financing Constraints under Economic Uncertainty: The Role of Implicit Government Guarantees in China. Research in International Business and Finance, 76, Article 102819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2025.102819

In the context of economic policy uncertainty (EPU), firms face significant financing constraints, especially in accessing credit. To address this, governments often provide implicit government guarantees (IGG) to alleviate these constraints. This st... Read More about Mitigating Financing Constraints under Economic Uncertainty: The Role of Implicit Government Guarantees in China.

Lions, Bees, and Chameleons: unravelling the entrepreneurial archetypes and their impact on performance and well-being (2025)
Journal Article
Sawang, S., Alshibani, S. M., & Ng, P. Y. (2025). Lions, Bees, and Chameleons: unravelling the entrepreneurial archetypes and their impact on performance and well-being. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 31(5), 1234-1258. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijebr-03-2024-0215

Purpose
This study explores the complex relationship between a founder’s social identity and the Dark Triad traits. It aims to provide a more nuanced understanding of entrepreneurial behaviours and their subsequent impact on enterprise performance a... Read More about Lions, Bees, and Chameleons: unravelling the entrepreneurial archetypes and their impact on performance and well-being.

Rich picture building: A visual method for future serious leisure studies (2025)
Journal Article
Wyatt, B., Leask, A., & Barron, P. (online). Rich picture building: A visual method for future serious leisure studies. World Leisure Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/16078055.2025.2463469

Visual research methods have been gaining attention among leisure studies scholars in recent years. As a form of freehand drawing, this paper mobilises rich picture building (RPB) for future serious leisure studies, and particularly those concerned w... Read More about Rich picture building: A visual method for future serious leisure studies.

Sustainable Project Management and Organizational Resilience (2025)
Book Chapter
Huzooree, G., & Yadav, M. (2025). Sustainable Project Management and Organizational Resilience. In J. Carlos Dias Rouco, & P. Cristina Nunes Figueiredo (Eds.), Enhancing Resilience in Business Continuity Management (137-172). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-8809-9.ch005

In today's dynamic business landscape, organizations must navigate challenges to achieve sustainable growth and resilience. This chapter explores the synergy between sustainable project management practices and organizational resilience, showcasing s... Read More about Sustainable Project Management and Organizational Resilience.

The legacy of history: women and the ownership of land in Ireland (2025)
Journal Article
Curtin, M., Murphy, C., Woods, U., & Cross, C. (online). The legacy of history: women and the ownership of land in Ireland. Rural History, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0956793325000032

This paper is a review of existing sources across disciplines focusing on the topic of female farm ownership. Throughout the centuries, females have been explicitly excluded from owning and prevented from inheriting land. The purpose of this paper is... Read More about The legacy of history: women and the ownership of land in Ireland.

Responsible AI for Cities: A Case Study of GeoAI in African Informal Settlements (2025)
Journal Article
Tonnarelli, F., & Mora, L. (online). Responsible AI for Cities: A Case Study of GeoAI in African Informal Settlements. Journal of Urban Technology, https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2025.2450755

Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) systems are increasingly used by local governments to manage urban planning activities. However, there is a lack of clear guidelines for responsible artificial intelligence (AI) implementation. We address th... Read More about Responsible AI for Cities: A Case Study of GeoAI in African Informal Settlements.

From the active classroom to active assessment: a student-centred approach enhancing career readiness and creativity (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, E., & Urie, G. (2025, May). From the active classroom to active assessment: a student-centred approach enhancing career readiness and creativity. Paper presented at Council for Hospitality Management Education Conference (CHME) 2025, University of Essex, UK

This paper reflects on innovative assessment practice on an undergraduate tourism and hospitality module. Following an extensive redesign to adopt an active learning and dialogical pedagogy, we developed the service quality masterclass assessment to... Read More about From the active classroom to active assessment: a student-centred approach enhancing career readiness and creativity.