The links between begging and rough sleeping: a
question of legitimacy?
Journal Article
question of legitimacy?. Housing Studies, 16, 549-568. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673030120080053)
question of legitimacy?. Housing Studies, 16, 549-568. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673030120080053
Begging is one of the most potent, and controversial, symbols of social exclusion in modern British society. This paper concentrates on the relationship between begging and ro...
A Position Statement on Population Data Science: The science of data about people
Journal Article
McGrail, K., Jones, K., Akbari, A., Bennett, T., Boyd, A., Carinci, F., …Kotelchuck, M. (2018)
A Position Statement on Population Data Science: The science of data about people. International Journal of Population Data Science, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v3i1.415
Information is increasingly digital, creating opportunities to respond to pressing issues about human populations using linked datasets that are large, complex, and diverse. T...
Disabilities and Poverty.
Report
MacPherson, S. (2005)
Disabilities and Poverty
Many of us will remember, albeit with varying degrees of clarity and happiness, those
days at school when we received the yearly ‘report card’ to take home for inspection.
Whi...
Modeling competitive multi-modal transit services; a nested logit approach.
Journal Article
Wan, Q. K., Lo, H. K., Yip, C., & Wan, Q. (2004)
Modeling competitive multi-modal transit services; a nested logit approach. Transportation Research Part C : Emerging Technologies, 12(3-4), 251-272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2004.07.011
In metropolitan areas where multi-modal trips are common, modeling the combined-mode choices of travelers, and the strategic interactions between the private service operators...
Being a leader or being the leader: The evolution of institutionalised hierarchy
Conference Proceeding
Perret, C., Hart, E., & Powers, S. T. (2019)
Being a leader or being the leader: The evolution of institutionalised hierarchy. In ALIFE 2019: The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life, (171-178). https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00158
Human social hierarchy has the unique characteristic of existing in two forms. Firstly, as an informal hierarchy where leaders and followers are implicitly defined by their pe...
How institutions shaped the last major evolutionary transition to large-scale human societies
Journal Article
Powers, S. T., van Schaik, C. P., & Lehmann, L. (2016)
How institutions shaped the last major evolutionary transition to large-scale human societies. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 371(1687), 20150098. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0098
What drove the transition from small-scale human societies centred on kinship and personal exchange, to large-scale societies comprising cooperation and division of labour amo...
Securing Disunion: young people’s nationalism, identities and (in)securities in the campaign for an independent Scotland
Journal Article
Botterill, K., Hopkins, P., Sanghera, G., & Arshad, R. (2016)
Securing Disunion: young people’s nationalism, identities and (in)securities in the campaign for an independent Scotland. Political Geography, 55, 124-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.09.002
This paper explores ethnic and religious minority youth perspectives of security and nationalism in Scotland during the independence campaign in 2014. We discuss how young pe...
New approaches to employability in the UK: combining ‘human capital development’ and ‘work first’ strategies?
Journal Article
Lindsay, C., McQuaid, R. W., & Dutton, M. (2007)
New approaches to employability in the UK: combining ‘human capital development’ and ‘work first’ strategies?. Journal of Social Policy, 36, 539-560. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279407001171
This article analyses recent developments in policies to promote the employability of unemployed and economically inactive people in the UK. It discusses the extent to which t...
Begging, rough sleeping and social exclusion: Implications for social policy.
Journal Article
Kennedy, C., & Fitzpatrick, S. (2001)
Begging, rough sleeping and social exclusion: Implications for social policy. Urban Studies, 38, 2001-2016. https://doi.org/10.1080/00420980120080907
Begging has become highly visible in the urban centres of Britain in recent years, yet the experiences and motivations of people involved in this activity have remained underr...
Employability: dynamic concept, contested theory.
Conference Proceeding
Lindsay, C. (2003)
Employability: dynamic concept, contested theory