September research round-up

Louise Wattis (with Liz James) has had a refereed article accepted by the European Journal of Women’s Studies. The idea of spontaneity is out of the window, everything is planned: Exploring order and disorder in women’s experiences of work and life will be published in 2011.

Lucy Grimshaw (with Y.Beebeejaun) has had a refereed article accepted by the journal Urban Studies. Is New Deal for Communities a new deal for equality? Getting women on board in neighbourhood is to have a publication date confirmed.

Dan Eaves, Iain Spears and Paul van Schaik (with L.Breslin and G.Robinson) have had a refereed article accepted. Learningan aesthetic dance movement through observation and physical practice: the effects of real-time knowledge of results in the journal Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, special edition Virtual Reality in Sport. Publication date to be confirmed.

Paul Crawshaw (with Alex Scott-Samuel and Debbi Stanistreet) have had a commentary published - Masculinities, hegemony and structural violence in Criminal Justice Matters, the magazine of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies.

Matt Weston and Matt Portas (with A.Batterham, C.Castagna, C.Barnes, J.Harley and R.Lovell) have had a refereed article accepted. Reduction in physical match performance at the start of the second half in elite soccer in the International Journal of Sports Performance. Publication date to be confirmed.

Tom Gibbons and Kevin Dixon have had an article published. Surf’s up: A call to take English soccer fan interactions on the internet more seriously in the peer reviewed journal Soccer and Society, Vol 11, Issue 5, pp 599-613, 2010. Tom has also published a single authored refereed article, Contrasting Representations of Englishness During FIFA World Cup finals in the journal Sport in History Vol. 30, Issue 3, pp 422-446, 2010.

Ewan Ingleby has had an article accepted, Asclepius or Hippocrates? Differing interpretations of post-compulsory initial teacher training mentoring in the Journal of Vocational Education and Training, and also an article Robbing Peter to pay Paul: the price of standards driven education in the peer reviewed journal Research in Post-Compulsory Education. Publication dates to be confirmed.

Joan Heggie has an article published, Standing the Test of Time: The British Steel Collection in Your Family History, Issue 6, October 2010.

Tracy Shildrick’s recent JRF funded research was cited on the BBC news website recently. It was discussed in the light of the research which cited Middlesbrough as being especially vulnerable in terms of the recession, and was linked to a blog Tracy wrote for JRF.

Carrie Singleton and Eileen Green’s funding application (with NACRO) to the Big Lottery Reaching Communities bid – Supporting Women in the Community and Home has been successful. The project will run for 36 months, and the total funding is for over £400,000.

Georgios Antonopoulos has had a range of research activity published.

Articles Antonopoulos, G.A., (forthcoming 2010). The Good, the Bad and the Customer: Alien Conspiracy and Organised Crime in Greece. Newsletter of the Association of Greek Criminologists of Panteion University, Issue 1, (invited by co-editor Anastasia Chalkia).

Antonopoulos, G.A., Shen, A., and von Lampe, K., (forthcoming 2010). Cigarette Counterfeiting in the People’s Republic of China, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Newsletter, Issue 55.

Kostakos, P., Antonopoulos, G.A., Maspero, A., Grammatikakis, G., forthcoming 2010. Women in Organised Crime in Greece: A Methodological Note and Some Preliminary Data, ECPR Standing Group on Organised Crime Newsletter, 9(2).

Book reviews Antonopoulos, G.A., 2010. Review of After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation by Transform Drug Policy Foundation, Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 49(3), 309-310.

Antonopoulos, G.A., 2010. Review of Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo by Peter Andreas, Trends in Organised Crime.

Report Antonopoulos, G. A., forthcoming, 2010. Annex: Country Study - Greece. In Gounev, P., and Bezlov, T., (eds) Study to identify best practices on the cooperation between border guards and customs administrations working at the external border of the EU. Report to the European Commission. Sofia: Centre for the Study of Democracy and European Commission.

Conference presentation Kostakos, P., Antonopoulos, G.A., Maspero, A., Grammatikakis, G., 2010. The Role of Women in Organized Crime in Greece. Paper presented at the John Jay College international conference Societies in Transition: Balancing Security, Social Justice and Tradition, Marrakesh, Morocco, 2-5 June.

Antonopoulos, Shen, von Lampe and Kurti have also been invited by the president of the International Association for the Study of Organised Crime, Professor Dina Siegel, to present ‘The Cigarette Counterfeiting Business and Economic Development in the People’s Republic of China’ at the 10th annual conference of the European Society of Criminology in Liege, Belgium. Georgios Antonopoulos has also been invited to the editorial board of the journal Global Crime.

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