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Globalisation, collective action and counter‐coordination: The use of the new information communication technology by the Malaysian labour movement (2005)
Journal Article
Grieco, M., & Bhopal, M. (2005). Globalisation, collective action and counter‐coordination: The use of the new information communication technology by the Malaysian labour movement. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 1(2/3), 109-122. https://doi.org/10.1108/17422040510595627

This article aims to explore the use of new information communication technology by the Malaysian labour movement. New information communication technologies are undoubtedly globalising, but these same technologies can also be used by labour to retri... Read More about Globalisation, collective action and counter‐coordination: The use of the new information communication technology by the Malaysian labour movement.

Employment inequalities in an economic downturn – report for the Equality Commission Northern Ireland. (2005)
Report
McQuaid, R. W., Hollywood, E., & Canduela, J. (2005). Employment inequalities in an economic downturn – report for the Equality Commission Northern Ireland. Ireland: Equality Commission Northern Ireland

The overall aim of this research was to: update understanding of the effect of the economic downturn on the employment status and prospects of relevant groups across the nine equality grounds in Northern Ireland (NI).

Parenting a young person with mental health problems: temporal disruption and reconstruction (2005)
Journal Article
Harden, J. (2005). Parenting a young person with mental health problems: temporal disruption and reconstruction. Sociology of health and illness, 27(3), 351-371. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2005.00446.x

The article explores the experiences of parents living with a young person with mental health problems. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 25 parents (18 mothers and 7 fathers) whose child had a diagnosed psychiatric condition. It is argued t... Read More about Parenting a young person with mental health problems: temporal disruption and reconstruction.

'McJobs', 'good jobs' and skills: job-seekers' attitudes to low-skilled service work (2005)
Journal Article
Lindsay, C. (2005). 'McJobs', 'good jobs' and skills: job-seekers' attitudes to low-skilled service work. Human Resource Management Journal, 15(2), 50-65. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-8583.2005.tb00146.x

This article focuses on unemployed job-seekers' attitudes towards entry-level jobs in three areas of the service sector – retail, hospitality and call-centre work. The article examines whether job-seekers are reluctant to pursue these opportunities,... Read More about 'McJobs', 'good jobs' and skills: job-seekers' attitudes to low-skilled service work.

“Uncharted waters”: The experience of parents of young people with mental health problems. (2005)
Journal Article
Harden, J. (2005). “Uncharted waters”: The experience of parents of young people with mental health problems. Qualitative Health Research, 15(2), 207-223. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732304269677

In this article, the author discusses the experiences of parents of young people with mental health problems and their relations with health care professionals. She conducted qualitative interviews with 25 parents whose teenage child had a diagnosed... Read More about “Uncharted waters”: The experience of parents of young people with mental health problems..

Employability, services and unemployed job seekers and the digital divide. (2005)
Journal Article
Lindsay, C. (2005). Employability, services and unemployed job seekers and the digital divide. Urban Studies, 42(2), 325-339. https://doi.org/10.1080/0042098042000316173

Summary Providing accurate and accessible labour market information is a key priority for policies targeted at improving the employability of unemployed people. In an attempt to develop the quality and reach of such services, policy-makers are increa... Read More about Employability, services and unemployed job seekers and the digital divide..

Sensational Interests, Mating Effort, and Personality: Evidence for Cross-Cultural Validity (2005)
Journal Article
Egan, V., Figueredo, A. J., Wolf, P., McBride, K., Sefcek, J., Vasquez, G., & Charles, K. (2005). Sensational Interests, Mating Effort, and Personality: Evidence for Cross-Cultural Validity. Journal of Individual Differences, 26(1), 11-19. https://doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001.26.1.11

We assessed whether violent or macabre interests ("sensational interests") were related to mating effort and a higher-order personality construct reflecting the combined features of higher Extraversion, lower Psychoticism, and lower Neuroticism in 1,... Read More about Sensational Interests, Mating Effort, and Personality: Evidence for Cross-Cultural Validity.

How children and their families construct and negotiate risk, safety and danger. (2004)
Journal Article
Backett-Milburn, K., & Harden, J. (2004). How children and their families construct and negotiate risk, safety and danger. Childhood, 11(4), 429-447. https://doi.org/10.1177/0907568204047105

This article presents an analysis of the family context and everyday negotiations around risk, safety and danger between children and parents in four families drawn from a larger qualitative study. The challenges of analysing accounts from several fa... Read More about How children and their families construct and negotiate risk, safety and danger..

Belonging and otherness: sex equality in banking in Turkey and Britain. (2004)
Journal Article
Woodward, D., & Ozbilgin, M. (2004). Belonging and otherness: sex equality in banking in Turkey and Britain. Gender, Work and Organization, 11(6), 668-688. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0432.2004.00254.x

The struggle for sex equality at work has largely been achieved in the developed world, it is claimed. The number of well-qualified young women entering white-collar employment and achieving promotion to first-line and middle management positions now... Read More about Belonging and otherness: sex equality in banking in Turkey and Britain..

Mating effort correlates with self-reported delinquency in a normal adolescent sample (2004)
Journal Article
Charles, K. E., & Egan, V. (2005). Mating effort correlates with self-reported delinquency in a normal adolescent sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 38(5), 1035-1045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2004.06.021

Previous research on males, undergraduates and delinquents has shown that high mating effort is significantly correlated with delinquency, promiscuity and coercive sexual behaviour. Mating effort is defined in terms of the r/K trade-off with parental... Read More about Mating effort correlates with self-reported delinquency in a normal adolescent sample.

The transmutation of the ‘Old’ with the ‘New’ in the Modernist vision of Edgard Varèse (2004)
Journal Article
Davismoon, S. (2004). The transmutation of the ‘Old’ with the ‘New’ in the Modernist vision of Edgard Varèse. Contemporary Music Review, 23(1), 45-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/0749446042000204527

In this paper, certain aspects of Varèse's life and work are discussed that have at times, I feel, been overemphasised, distorted, or even omitted, in order to lend greater weight to the depiction of him as a non-European (non-'Old World', non-tradit... Read More about The transmutation of the ‘Old’ with the ‘New’ in the Modernist vision of Edgard Varèse.

Edinburgh: the festival gaze and its boundaries (2004)
Journal Article
Jamieson, K. (2004). Edinburgh: the festival gaze and its boundaries. Space and Culture, 7(1), 64-75. https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331203256853

This article examines the temporal and spatial boundaries of Edinburgh’s festival identity. It unravels Edinburgh’s festivals in terms of the spaces and identities they produce and their functions. Although there is no one definitive standpoint from... Read More about Edinburgh: the festival gaze and its boundaries.

So many Glasgows: From ‘personality of place’ to ‘positionality in space and time’ (2004)
Journal Article
McCleery, A. (2004). So many Glasgows: From ‘personality of place’ to ‘positionality in space and time’. Scottish Geographical Journal, 120(1-2), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00369220418737189

This paper investigates place and positionality in the regional novel against a background of evolving trends in geographical scholarship of place and placelessness. In re-examining the representation of Glasgow in the urban regional novel, it propos... Read More about So many Glasgows: From ‘personality of place’ to ‘positionality in space and time’.

Heritage and the nation: an exploration of a discursive relationship. (2004)
Journal Article
Chambers, D. (2004). Heritage and the nation: an exploration of a discursive relationship. Tourism Analysis, 9(4), 241-254. https://doi.org/10.3727/108354205789807256

This conceptual article seeks to interrogate the relationship between heritage and the nation by utilizing some of the logics of a Foucauldian concept of discourse and that was subsequently developed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. The article... Read More about Heritage and the nation: an exploration of a discursive relationship..

A processual analysis of HRM-based change. (2003)
Journal Article
Francis, H., & Sinclair, J. (2003). A processual analysis of HRM-based change. Organization, 10(4), 685-706. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084030104004

This article examines the emergence and development of HRM-based change within two private sector manufacturing organizations. We draw upon discourse theory to open up fresh insights into the uncertain and complex nature of organizational change, spe... Read More about A processual analysis of HRM-based change..

Teamworking and change: managing the contradictions (2003)
Journal Article
Francis, H. (2003). Teamworking and change: managing the contradictions. Human Resource Management Journal, 13(3), 71-90. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-8583.2003.tb00099.x

Current models of HRM suggest that expectations about HR roles are changing as organisations are striving to make the HR function leaner and more ‘strategic’. In our article we explore the changing roles of HRM as they are perceived by different stak... Read More about Teamworking and change: managing the contradictions.

Organisational learning: an investigation of response to rapid change in a traditional environment. (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buckner, K., & Davenport, E. (2003, June). Organisational learning: an investigation of response to rapid change in a traditional environment. Presented at 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International, Crete, Greece 22-27 June 2003; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

This paper is a case study of 'collective' HCI in a 'top-down' systems project - a very large computing center in a new university in the United Kingdom. The authors present the findings of a small empirical study of computer supported teaching and l... Read More about Organisational learning: an investigation of response to rapid change in a traditional environment..