A5080649257- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Higher Education Governance and Development
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- International Student and Expatriate Challenges
- Scottish History and National Identity
- Political Systems and Governance
- Irish and British Studies
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Ombudsman and Human Rights
- Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking
- Cooperative Studies and Economics
- Human Resources and Workforce
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Biochemical effects in animals
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Social Sciences and Governance
- European and International Law Studies
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Higher Education Research Studies
- Diet and metabolism studies
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Higher Education and Employability
- Emotional Labor in Professions
University of Greenwich
2019-2023
University of Edinburgh
2011-2017
University of St Andrews
2015
This article presents a UK supermarket worker’s experiences of work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Writing period uncertainty, Jay’s narrative reveals how sudden and constant transitions between mundanity extremity on shop floor evoke conflicting emotions intensification that disrupt reconstruct normality. His accounts describe violent customer behaviours, absent management, lack clear organisational policies, different views appropriate health safety measures among colleagues. It illustrates...
Scotland is often perceived as having a relatively welcoming view towards migrants and presented such by its politicians policymakers. This positioning sits within broader political context in which the Scottish Government favours immigration but has limited policy levers with to directly influence it. paper seeks scrutinise supposition that can be seen ‘different’ rest of UK terms how public realm. pursued through analysis attitudinal data explore views on migration, potential drivers these...
The normally low-risk and routinised nature of supermarket frontline work evolved drastically amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a refined conceptual framework extreme work, this article examines how public health crisis coupled with maxinisation organisational flexibility gives rise to extremity in mundane settings. findings based 50 interviews workers managers who worked throughout pandemic UK offer empirical insights into macro-micro dynamics extreme-mundane work. These reveal nuanced...
Are intra-national student flows driven by the same forces as international mobility? This paper addresses this question analysing cross-border mobility in UK. The identifies four principles that one might expect to drive destination choices of students from Scotland enrolling English universities. Following a statistical analysis choices, it is argued moves England are stimulated some global (such desire accumulate cultural capital), but terms choice imaginaries held Scottish 'good' places...
Organising and participating in Knowledge Exchange (KE) events represent a considerable commitment by social science academics. Yet academics’ participation KE activities is not professionally rewarded as are other academic endeavours, so why do they it? Understanding perspectives regarding their own motivations for engaging lacuna within the literature which this article begins to address. Drawing on qualitative interview data with scientists working Centre Population Change (CPC), analysis...
The inward mobility of labour can serve as a driver economic growth and the immigration policies many countries are orientated towards this end. However is also contentious issue, with general public often displaying hostility liberal policies. compromises between political considerations that states make when developing policy poorly theorised in academic literature. study contributes to conceptual understandings voices ‘elites’ political-economy through critical interrogation narratives...