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The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study explored how lecturers in a post‐92 UK university conceptualise and enact decolonial curriculum principles within their teaching and programme design. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with academic staff across multiple disciplines, the research adopts a qualitative, phenomenologically informed approach to examine the interplay
Reece Sohdi
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The loss of biodiversity presents one of the most pressing societal challenges of our time. Insects play a crucial role for biodiversity in terms of ecosystem services and food provision. Although insects receive increasing public and academic attention, the development of policy mixes for insect conservation remains challenging.
Marie Oltmer, Camilla Chlebna
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Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
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What do we need to add to a social network to get a society? answer: something like what we have to add to a spatial network to get a city [PDF]
, 2009 Recent years have seen great advances in social network analysis. Yet, with a few exceptions, the field of network analysis remains remote from social theory.
Hillier, B.
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Pattern formation in individual-based systems with time-varying parameters
, 2013 We study the patterns generated in finite-time sweeps across symmetry-breaking bifurcations in individual-based models. Similar to the well-known Kibble-Zurek scenario of defect formation, large-scale patterns are generated when model parameters are ...
Ashcroft, Peter, Galla, Tobias
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Energy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.Overview of the proposed work. ABSTRACT Identifying cyber threats maintains the security and operational stability of smart grid systems because they experience escalating attacks that endanger both operating data reliability and system stability and electricity grid performance.
Priya R. Karpaga +3 more
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Darwin and the Body Politic: Schaffle, Veblen, and the Shift of Biological Metaphor in Economics [PDF]
A long tradition of thought in Western political philosophy compares the body of man to the political body. This traditional cosmological frame of reference was, with the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species, overcome by the emergence of ...
Sophus A. Reinert
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Metaphor and Materiality in Early Prehistory [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper we argue for a relational perspective based on metaphorical rather than semiotic understandings of human and hominin1 material culture. The corporeality of material culture and thus its role as solid metaphors for a shared experience of ...
Coward, Fiona, Gamble, C.
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The Philosophy of Simulation: Hot New Issues or Same Old Stew? [PDF]
, 2007 Articl
A. Frigg +37 more
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Spiritual Cannibalism in HRD: How Workplace Spirituality Devours Sacred Traditions
Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper interrogates how the discourse of workplace spirituality in human resource development (HRD) operates as a tool of colonization. Through a systematic review of 48 articles published between 1997 and March 2025, the study uncovers recurring patterns of spiritual appropriation in which non‐Western traditions are detached from their ...
Shoaib Ul‐Haq
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