Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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The modern hospital executive, micro improvements, and the rise of antimicrobial resistance
Published 2021Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is now recognised as a social, cultural, economic and political phenomenon, positioning the social sciences as central in responding to this global health threat. Yet efforts to address ...Open AccessArticle -
Authenticity, ambivalence and recognition in caring at the end of life and beyond
Published 2019Informal caring at the end of life is often a fraught experience that extends well beyond the death of the person receiving care. However, analyses of informal carers' experiences are frequently demarcated relative to ...Open AccessArticle -
Promotion and demotion contests
Published 2024With a fixed prize budget, to increase total effort, we design a two-stage lottery contest where heterogeneous agents face the prospect of promotion and the threat of demotion from one stage to the next. We develop two ...EmbargoedArticle -
It’s not you (well, it is a bit you), it’s me: Self- versus social image in warm-glow giving
Published 2024Attempts by charities to motivate giving tend to focus on potential donors’ altruistic tendencies. However, prior research suggests that approximately 50% of individuals are to some extent motivated by warm glow, the ...Open AccessArticle -
Terminal Anticipation: Entanglements of affect and temporality in living with advanced cancer
Published 2017Narrative approaches within the social sciences have tended to privilege narrative coherence, with the thematic and sequential progression of one’s story from beginning through middle to end often seen as a virtue and as ...Open AccessArticle