Putting leadership in its place: introduction to the special issue by Sutherland, Neil, Bolden, Richard, Edwards, Gareth, Schedlitzki, Doris

“…In engaging with this special issue, we encourage you to read widely and reflect deeply in order to see and understand leadership and place in new ways.…”
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Reasons for student non-attendance at lectures and tutorials : an analysis by Kottasz, Rita

“…Students' learning experiences (Zhongqi, 2000), their attitudes to different methods of teaching (see for example Bennett and Kottasz, 2001) and their skills and competencies (Kremer and McGuiness, 1998) have all been subject to analysis. …”
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Writing Mentors and the Writing Centre: producing integrated disciplinary writers by Harrington, Kathy, O'Neill, Peter, Bakhshi, Savita

“…This article reports on an evaluation of the first year of the Student Writing Mentor Scheme, a peer tutoring initiative developed by the Write Now Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) (see http://www.writenow.ac.uk for details). The Write Now CETL aims to enrich students' learning experiences through the development of innovative, evidence-based provision focused on writing for assessment. …”
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Getting the story right : evaluating a postgraduate multimedia journalism module by Rodgers, James

“…However, the rapid changes - technological, editorial, and economic - currently underway in journalism (Hesmondhalgh, 2007; Beckett, 2008; Shirky 2008; Albertazzi and Cobley, 2009; Williams, 2011) meant that there was an argument for frequent examination of course materials to see that they remained as relevant as possible. …”
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Legitimacy of death: national appropriation of the fallen by Uzelac, Gordana

“…Many influential theorists of nationalism see war as a social conflict that to great extent homogenizes and unifies the nation. …”
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Measuring the persistence of poverty in East London by Lindsay, Jim

“…Inner east London has been one of the consistently poorest areas of the city since the 19th century, and this study explores the use of mapping techniques to see how persistent the regional geography of poverty in east London has been since the 1880s. …”
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"Darling Look! It's a Banksy!" Viewers’ Engagement with Street Art and Graffiti by Hansen, Susan, Flynn, Danny

“…Viewers’ material engagements with street art and graffiti represent a disruption of the expectable order that demonstrates that what we see, according to our usual division of the sensible, could be otherwise – thus revealing the contingency of our perceptual and conceptual order. …”

Virtual realities in the business world by Tredinnick, Luke

“…The computer screen is a window to an alien world, one we can see and hear but never touch. Over time improvements in display technology have meant that the spaces which greet us on the other side of the plastic and glass are filled-in with ever greater realism and verisimilitude, enmeshing us more completely in our digital environments. …”

The effective assessment of clinical legal education by Leach, Philip

“…In January 2003, a new unit was established under the auspices of the Human Rights and Social Justice Research Institute of London Metropolitan University to deal with human rights cases from Russia (see Leach, 2003). The new unit, the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), is assisting lawyers and non-governmental organisations based in Russia to utilise the European Convention on Human Rights (which Russia ratified in 1998) by providing advice and assistance in taking cases to the European Court of Human Rights. …”
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Problem-based learning principles and application to practice : an example from a practitioner-orientated course by Dangerfield, Polly

“…It is a philosophy of learning that enables students to see the relevance of the learning they need to achieve targets and succeed.…”
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Eliminating the 'dunce' : challenging a teaching myth by McKenzie-Mavinga, Isha

“…It is therefore not difficult to see how the notion of the 'Dunce' became associated with diversity. …”
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The New BRICS Bank: Challenging the International Financial Order? by Dixon, Chris

“…In addition, compared to the established international institutions the NDB is committed to providing loans more rapidly and more cheaply, and operate through more representative and democratic forms of governance and decision making. (see BRICS 2013, paragraph 9: BRICS 2014b). The NDB is complemented by the US$100bn. …”
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The immigrants by Kollectiv, Galia, Kollectiv, Pil

“…The installation leads the viewer through a physical, concrete checkpoint to a military tent/post, where they can see a short narrative film about the bio-political control of a plague village.…”
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Development education and social marketing: two disciplines with one purpose (article) by Fourali, Chahid

“…Both DE and SM advocates see in them a clear opportunity for reducing global disadvantages while enhancing mutual understanding, with a view to minimising world conflicts. …”
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Counting with understanding? What is at stake in debates on researching domestic violence by Myhill, Andy, Kelly, Liz

“…We argue for the utility of coercive control as a framework for measurement of domestic violence, and highlight what we see as misrepresentation of this concept in the work of Walby and colleagues. …”
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Right-wing populism and religion in Europe and the USA by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…Right-wing populists in both the USA and Europe pursue this strategy because they see it as chiming well with public opinion at a time of great uncertainty, instability, and insecurity.…”
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Right-wing nationalism, populism, and religion: what are the connections and why? by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…Nationalists may identify and target those they see as ‘enemies of the people’, said to be a serious threat to fulfilment of a nationalist future free from culturally ‘alien’ influences. …”
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The politics of the rope: the campaign to abolish capital punishment in Britain 1955-1969 by Twitchell, Neville

“…It looks at the debate within the framework of the other 'conscience' issue campaigns of the time in order to see what light this casts upon the process of pressure group activity and policy change.…”
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Smart City brand creation and implementation by Bennett, Roger, Vijaygopal, Rohini, Savani, Sharmila

“…Smart city developments have been initiated throughout the world (see Angelidou, 2017; Saiu, 2017; Yigitcanlar, 2018), and are increasingly commonplace (Manville, 2014; Giffinger, Kramar, Hainlmaier and Strohmayer, 2015). …”
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Populism in foreign policy by Chryssogelos, Angelos

“…And while populists generally eschew commitments to broader milieu goals of the international system, they can still engage with foreign affairs if they see immediate material benefits. The same goes for trade: populists (particularly in the United States) are seen usually as ideological protectionists, but most often they do not mind striking trade deals if these favor their interests (see, e.g., Donald Trump’s discourse on this issue). …”
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