Department of Politics, People & Place
Recent Submissions
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Nigerian Budgetary Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Shrinking Fiscal Space: Financial Sustainability, Employment, Social Inequality and Business Implications
(Article)Purpose: This article aims to explore the Nigerian government’s budgetary response to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the economic and social implications of the pandemic response. Design/methodology/approach: Our ... -
Racial capitalism, Islamophobia and austerity
(Article)Explorations of Islamophobia or anti-Muslim racism predominantly focus on issues of security policy, and media representations, set against the backdrop of the global “War on Terror”. This scholarship explores the racialisation ... -
The Cultural Politics of Crisis in the UK
(Book chapter)Political, media, and public responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK are embedded in a wider cultural politics of crisis. This chapter will explore parallels and connections between discursive responses to the pandemic ... -
Responsible Education: What Engages International Postgraduate Students – Evidence from UK
(Article)Purpose: Responsive educational approaches focus on a set of well-designed practises intended to create engaging, social cohesion, better knowledge outcomes and excellent students experience. Therefore, this article ... -
General Manager's Career Path in 4* and 5* Hotels in Greece
(Other)Οι βασικοί στόχοι της παρούσας έρευνας είναι: (α) η συλλογή και ανάλυση δεδομένων για το προφίλ του Γενικού Διευθυντή, (β) η καταγραφή της πορείας του(μονοπάτια ανόδου, απαιτούμενος χρόνος), (γ) η καταγραφή των κρίσιμων ... -
COVID-19 and English Devolution
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Grounded aircraft: an airfield operations perspective of the challenges of resuming flights post COVID
(Article)The global COVID pandemic, national lockdowns and unprecedented decline in passenger demand worldwide has led to airlines cancelling services, furloughing staff, applying for financial support and placing aircraft into ... -
Putting the Action into Politics: Embedding Employability in the Academic Curriculum
(Conference)We have developed a module which seeks to address the challenge of balancing academic and professional skills development. The Politics in Action module is currently delivered to approximately 80, second year undergraduate ... -
The Resurgence of Parish Council Powers in England
(Book)Parish councils are often underappreciated and undervalued in what they do even though they are an essential part of the governing of England today. In spite of this, the number of parish councils and the roles they perform ... -
Stakeholder Views of the Factors Affecting the Commercialization of Aviation Biofuels in Europe
(Article)Biofuels are being advocated by certain sections of the commercial aviation industry as a means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and lowering fossil-fuel dependency within the confines of current aircraft technology ... -
Corruption Fights Back: Localizing Transparency and EITI in the Nigerian ‘Penkelemes’
(Article)This study explores how the global transparency norm is localized in the Nigerian extractive industry. Transparency is theorised as a process which can be analysed in terms of rules, interactions, power games and context. ... -
Pay progression in routinised service sector work: Navigating the internal labour market in a fast food MNC
(Article)The UK’s widespread use of low-skill, low-paid employment has been well documented. It has been argued internal labour markets (ILMs) benefit such workers, affording them with opportunities for progression. Relatively ... -
The Power of Now: Re-imagining the Future of Local Government Through Studies of Actually Existing Practice
(Article)This article contends that the study of UK local government, its institutions and actors, is an increasingly ‘niche’ pursuit. We argue that the field is caught in a common sense narrative that plays off local government ... -
Restrictions and Resistance in The Postcolonial Periphery: Labour Power and Skilled Migrant Workers in The United Kingdom.
(Book chapter)Central to the understanding of work in and by the Global South are processes of migration, in particular, international mobility. Work undertaken by workers originating from the Global South is often located within ... -
From crisis to catastrophe: The death and viral legacies of austere neoliberalism in Europe?
(Article)The COVID-19 pandemic is a global event, but what became apparent almost immediately was that while the virus seems indiscriminate, vulnerability and the capacity to mitigate its impact are not spread equally, either ... -
Looking North: the multi-level governance of economic policy
(Book chapter)Debates on the state of regional inequalities in the UK date back decades. And yet, recent studies have clearly shown that these divides are widening even further, and the UK is now one of the most regionally unequal ... -
Supporting the needs of special assistance (including PRM) passengers: An international survey of disabled air passenger rights legislation
(Article)Passengers who require special assistance at airports and on aircraft represent one of the fastest growing demographics for aviation worldwide. At some airports, annual growth in PRM (persons with reduced mobility) traffic ...
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