Digital Scholarship Audit Report

This report will describe the audit of digital scholarship practices that was carried out over the period between 2nd November 2009 and 31st July 2010 as part of the wider Digital Scholarship project. The original proposal for the project included the intention to “conduct [an] exploration of current academic researchers’ practices in digital scholarship” and this document is the result of that exploration

Painting in primary colours: political populism and the muted mainstream

Has the rise of radical populist parties across Europe led to the opening up of a gap between what is feasible politically and good governance? Nick Pearce argues that understanding our current political situation is helped by the work of Max Weber and Peter Mair, but that the challenge of squaring this dilemma looks difficult for all the political parties in the UK

Exploring the learning experiences of older mature undergraduate students

Abstract Mature students have been a significant feature of UK higher education for at least 40 years. Categorising all undergraduates who started their degrees over the age of 21, as mature masks significant diversity. Older mature students have been shown to get better degree outcomes than younger mature students and young students. This study explores the learning experience of six older mature students, who started their studies over the age of 40, in order to better understand this under- studied group. The findings suggest that confidence is of critical importance in underpinning the experience of this group, and that increased confidence leads to better time management and more integration into the wider student body. This has implications for lifelong learning, where developing strategies to improve the confidence of these learners can help accelerate their integration into the student body, and may have a positive impact on their retention

The Age Divide in UK Politics:A Working Paper Prepared for the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust

In this paper, we update a previous analysis of the age divide in British politics to examine the trends over recent general elections. We revisit our analysis by interacting turnout by age with other key variables, such as gender, education, ethnicity and housing tenure, before examining how support for the main political parties varies by age. In the final section we respond to a tendency to explain away age differences as either simply about education or homeownership by interacting age, education and housing tenure tocreate 8 sub-groups of voters. We examine their voting patterns and their policy preferences to assess the relative independent weight of each factor in determining the main divides of our politics and the possible direction of travel in future elections. We conclude with a discussion of how the age divide in UK politics is theorised in the political science literature and where it could and should go next

Fisheries-dependent indicators of climate change in Western Australia WAMSI:Sub-project 4.2.3

The use of fishery-dependent data may be a cost-effective way of assessing whether there have been any changes in the distribution and relative abundance of species. Such indicators are part of an ongoing data gathering system and the costs are relatively low compared to those of a fishery-independent field program. Fishery-dependent data may therefore be obtained at a higher frequency and allow detection of changes faster than would be possible from the results from the direct sampling of specific sites within entire ecosystems

Growth regimes, intangible capital and the labour share

This paper examines how far an increase in the intangible capital to output ratio contributes to changes in the labour share. We focus on a selection of OECD countries using industry-level data from 1995 to 2017. We show that the relationship between intangible capital and labour share is heterogeneous, and whether it is positive or negative depends on the types of intangibles and the growth regime of the national economy