Universities and social progress in modernising societies: how educational expansion has replaced socialism as an instrument of political reform
Journal Article
Charlton, B. G., & Andras, P. (2005)
Universities and social progress in modernising societies: how educational expansion has replaced socialism as an instrument of political reform. Critical Quarterly, 47(1-2), 30-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0011-1562.2005.00612.x
University and higher education comprising a multi-disciplinary training in abstract, systematic reasoning has a vital role in modernizing societies. Such an education seems t...
A Mixed Approach for Aggressive Political Discourse Analysis on Twitter
Journal Article
Torregrosa, J., D’Antonio-Maceiras, S., Villar-Rodríguez, G., Hussain, A., Cambria, E., & Camacho, D. (in press)
A Mixed Approach for Aggressive Political Discourse Analysis on Twitter. Cognitive Computation, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-022-10048-w
Political tensions have grown throughout Europe since the beginning of the new century. The consecutive crises led to the rise of different social movements in several countri...
Composition of Games as a Model for the Evolution of Social Institutions
Conference Proceeding
Andras, P. (2020)
Composition of Games as a Model for the Evolution of Social Institutions. In Artificial Life Conference Proceedings (171-179). https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00264
The evolution of social institutions (e.g. institutions of political decision making or joint resource administration) is an important question in the context of understanding...
Four levers of reciprocity across human societies: concepts, analysis and predictions
Journal Article
Lehmann, L., Powers, S. T., & van Schaik, C. P. (2022)
Four levers of reciprocity across human societies: concepts, analysis and predictions. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 4, Article e11. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2022.7
This paper surveys five human societal types – mobile foragers, horticulturalists, pre-state agriculturalists, state-based agriculturalists and liberal democracies – from the ...
Artificial intelligence-enabled social media analysis for pharmacovigilance of COVID-19 vaccinations in the United Kingdom: Observational Study
Journal Article
Hussain, Z., Sheikh, Z., Tahir, A., Dashtipour, K., Gogate, M., Sheikh, A., & Hussain, A. (2022)
Artificial intelligence-enabled social media analysis for pharmacovigilance of COVID-19 vaccinations in the United Kingdom: Observational Study. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 8(5), Article e32543. https://doi.org/10.2196/32543
Background:
The roll-out of vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 in the United Kingdom, started in December 2020. Uptake has been high, and there has been a subsequent reduction in infecti...
Modernizing UK health services:‘short-sharp-shock’reform, the NHS subsistence economy, and the spectre of health care famine
Journal Article
Charlton, B. G., & Andras, P. (2005)
Modernizing UK health services:‘short-sharp-shock’reform, the NHS subsistence economy, and the spectre of health care famine. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 11(2), 111-119. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2753.2005.00515.x
Modernization is the trend for societies to grow functionally more complex, efficient and productive. Modernization usually occurs by increased specialization of function (e.g...
Practices and educational affordances of sound in the postcolonial Hong Kong protests
Journal Article
Cheng, L., & McGregor, I. (in press)
Practices and educational affordances of sound in the postcolonial Hong Kong protests. Contemporary Music Review,
Sound has been theorised for its functional role as informative agent in political advocacy and participation in political studies, yet the investigation on the pedagogical po...
Auditing as a tool of public policy: the misuse of quality assurance techniques in the UK university expansion
Journal Article
Charlton, B. G., & Andras, P. (2002)
Auditing as a tool of public policy: the misuse of quality assurance techniques in the UK university expansion. European Political Science, 2, 24-35. https://doi.org/10.1057/eps.2002.42
Interdisciplinary Reflections on Games and Human Values
Conference Proceeding
Darzentas, D. P., & Urquhart, L. (2015)
Interdisciplinary Reflections on Games and Human Values. In CHI PLAY '15: Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (805-810). https://doi.org/10.1145/2793107.2810259
We explore the interaction between digital games and human values. HCI as a field is increasingly focused on the importance of engaging with broader discussions around human v...
The public library as public sphere: a longitudinal analysis
Journal Article
Appleton, L., & Hall, H. (in press)
The public library as public sphere: a longitudinal analysis. Journal of Documentation, https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-02-2022-0031
The research was undertaken to explore the role of the UK public library as a public sphere, and the ways in which this role relates to the epistemic, community, and political...