Contemporary Social Science

2013 - 2024

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Volume 19, issue 5, 2024

Contemporary Social Science: a review of Volume 19, 2024, and a look ahead pp. 647-653

David Bailey

Human trafficking and outcomes for children and young people in the UK pp. 654-677

Patricia Hynes

COVID-19 and (the health-related promotion of) physical activity. The situation before, during and after the pandemic pp. 678-694

Enrico Michelini, Nico Bortoletto and Alessandro Porrovecchio

Winds from the East: ignored ancient Asian views on international trade and traders pp. 695-714

Kim Tùng Đào and Peter A. G. van Bergeijk

Life after retrenchment: the impact of education, income and employment status as social determinants of mental and physical health pp. 715-734

J. Ratcliffe, J. Song, J. Irving, H. Dinmore, I. Onur and G. Chen

Perspectives on Education in Africa: Globalisation and Education Policy Reform in Botswana by Richard Tabulawa, Abingdon, Routledge, 2024, pp. 248, £38.99 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-032-00049-7 pp. 735-739

Iqbal Saffariz Santosa, Wildan Nuril Ahmad Fauzi, Faizah Nadela and Kartika Sari Liliana

Exploring gender, green bonds, and sustainable finance: reviews of three books pp. 740-748

Adriano Devisto Mataputung, Rizmie Oktariani and Daniel Ramos Simbolon

Volume 19, issue 4, 2024

Beyond levelling up: where next to revive lagging regions? pp. 375-383

David Bailey, Felicia Fai and Philip R. Tomlinson

Neoliberalism, left behind Middlesbrough and levelling up: an intractable policy task? pp. 384-406

Luke Telford

Place, devolution and industrial strategy: three key tests for labour pp. 407-423

David Bailey and Paul Hildreth

Oligopolistic power and regional development disparities: a conceptual framework and implications for the UK Levelling Up agenda pp. 424-446

Ivan Rajic

Challenging (mis)understandings of labour productivity for levelling-up: a broader research agenda for regional development pp. 447-468

David Hearne and Paul Lewis

Maximising the (unequal) benefits of foreign direct investment: addressing the two-speed problem pp. 469-494

Nigel Driffield, Lord (Richard) Harrington, Irina Surdu and Xiaocan Yuan

Levelling up as green industrial policy pp. 495-513

Ed Atkins

Education and the spatial division of labour: further education and prospects for ‘Levelling Up’ pp. 514-530

Michael Donnelly, Joanne Davies, Matt Dickson, Aline Courtois and Predrag Lazetic

Are we any closer to tackling health inequalities in England? pp. 531-554

Sarah Ayres, Jack Newman, Geoff Bates, Anna Le Gouais, Rachael McClathey and Nick Pearce

The intersection of productivity and governance capacity in spatial inequality: the case of England’s devolution periphery pp. 555-582

Jack Newman and Charlotte Hoole

Gender, place leadership and levelling up across regions pp. 583-601

Lynette Washington, Andrew Beer and Carol T. Kulik

Lessons from the Japanese ‘regional revitalisation’ – impacts of regional industrial policies through decentralisation pp. 602-621

Fumi Kitagawa

Transatlantic lessons from Bidenomics place-based policies: opportunities and limits for addressing regional inequality pp. 622-639

Grete Gansauer and Andrew Westwood

Beyond ‘Levelling up’: how to improve regional policy in England: 10 lessons from 20 years pp. 640-646

David Higham

Volume 19, issue 1-3, 2024

Enabling a just transition pp. 1-20

Alex de Ruyter and Gill Bentley

Just Transition in Australia – depoliticisation? pp. 21-40

Al Rainnie and Darryn Snell

Alternative pathways for green hydrogen economy: the case of Colombia pp. 41-65

Nadia Catalina Combariza Diaz

International solidarity for a de-colonised Just Transition: electric vehicles and lithium in Mexico and Europe pp. 66-85

Karen Bell

Owning the just transition: comparing citizen participation in South African and German wind farms pp. 86-116

Lisa Schulte and Bryan Robinson

Building a democratic expertise to inform labour’s struggle for a just transition pp. 117-134

Jane Lethbridge

Varieties of just transitions in the European car industry pp. 135-153

Bob Hancké and Laurenz Mathei

Politics of a Just Transition: lessons from the UK coal mines pp. 154-177

Sara Kaizuka

Just transitions in the Australian automotive sector? pp. 178-198

Andrew Beer, Sally Weller, Helen Dinmore, Julie Ratcliffe, Ilke Onur, David Bailey, Tom Barnes, Jacob Irving, Sandy Horne, Josefina Atienza and Markku Sotarauta

A ‘just transition’ for workers in the automotive sector? Survey evidence from the West Midlands pp. 199-222

Alex de Ruyter, Gill Bentley, David Hearne, David Bailey and Beverley Nielsen

The ‘Wellbeing Wardrobe’ as a tool to promote just transitions in the fashion and textile industry pp. 223-243

Rhiannon Pugh, Taylor Brydges, Samantha Sharpe, Mariangela Lavanga and Monique Retamal

Three pillars of just transition labour market policies pp. 244-261

Jing Ding and Tuuli Hirvilammi

People-centred policies for a just transition (digital, green and skills) pp. 262-282

Patrizio Bianchi, Lisa De Propris and Sandrine Labory

Decarbonisation, place attachment and agency: just transition in old industrial regions pp. 283-302

Laura Norris, Gillian Bristow, Eleanor Cotterill, Adrian Healy and Adam P. Marshall

Exploring opportunities for public sector organisations to connect wellbeing to resource loops in a regional circular economy pp. 303-336

Carla De Laurentis, Katie Beverley, Nick Clifton, Emily Bacon, Jennifer Rudd and Gary Walpole

Transition obstructionism and ‘embodied energy injustice:’ a Wyoming case study pp. 337-354

Matthew S. Henry

Place-based just transition: domains, components and costs pp. 355-374

Sally Weller, Andrew Beer and Jessica Porter

Volume 18, issue 5, 2023

Contemporary Social Science, publishing and looking forwards pp. 575-579

David Bailey

Inequality: the scourge of the twenty-first century pp. 580-598

Syed Mansoob Murshed and Blas Regnault

Third places in precarious workers’ lives: a scoping review of associated social experiences and outcomes pp. 599-617

Debbie Laliberte Rudman, Sarah Larkin, Kassandra Fernandes, Gorety Nguyen and Rebecca Aldrich

Policy making and artificial intelligence in Scotland pp. 618-636

Hartwig Pautz

EU enlargement in wartime Europe: three dimensions and scenarios pp. 637-656

Tyyne Karjalainen

Community sentiment influences community participation: evidence from Ethiopia pp. 657-673

Bereket Roba Gamo and Duk-Byeong Park

“A modern research profession’: government social research, evidence-based policymaking and blind spots in contemporary governance research pp. 674-685

Julian Molina and John Connolly

Correction pp. 686-686

The Editors

Volume 18, issue 3-4, 2023

Levelling up or down? Addressing regional inequalities in the UK pp. 285-297

Felicia M. Fai and Philip R. Tomlinson

Levelling Up UK regions: scale-related challenges of Brexit, investment and land use pp. 298-317

Philip McCann

Tackling the UK’s regional economic inequality: binding constraints and avenues for policy intervention pp. 318-356

Anna Stansbury, Dan Turner and Ed Balls

Space exploration as a propulsive industry in levelling up pp. 357-380

Leslie Budd and Stefania Paladini

Capitalism divided? London, financialisation and the UK’s spatially unbalanced economy pp. 381-405

Ron Martin and Peter Sunley

Levelling up policies and the failure to learn pp. 406-427

Diane Coyle and Adam Muhtar

England’s catch-22: institutional limitations to achieving balanced growth through devolution pp. 428-448

Charlotte Hoole, Simon Collinson and Jack Newman

Levelling-up beyond the metropolis: is the UK government’s preferred governance model appropriate? pp. 449-468

Paul Hildreth and David Bailey

Levelling up or down? Examining the case of North-East England pp. 469-484

Joyce Liddle, John Shutt and Cameron Forbes

Balancing the incentives in English higher education: the imperative to strengthen civic influence for levelling up pp. 485-499

Chris Millward

What needs to happen to ‘level up’ public health? pp. 500-526

Sarah Ayres, Andrew Barnfield, Geoff Bates, Anna Le Gouais and Nick Pearce

When is a fund not a fund? Exploring the financial support for levelling up pp. 527-545

Graeme Atherton and Marc Le Chevallier

‘Levelling Up? That’s never going to happen’: perceptions on Levelling Up in a ‘Red Wall’ locality pp. 546-561

Luke Telford

Beyond levelling-up: labour’s response to regional inequalities and the challenge of governance pp. 562-573

John Connolly and Robert Pyper

Volume 18, issue 2, 2023

People, places and policies beyond Brexit pp. 125-131

David Bailey, David Hearne and Leslie Charles Budd

The impact of the post-Brexit migration system on the UK labour market pp. 132-149

Jonathan Portes and John Springford

When (EU) migration came to Great Yarmouth pp. 150-167

Catherine Barnard and Fiona Costello

Northern Ireland and the Economic Consequences of Brexit: taking back control or perpetuating underperformance? pp. 168-184

Graham Brownlow

Regulation in Scotland and Wales after Brexit pp. 185-196

Michael Keating

Gone but not forgotten (yet): Interreg in post-Brexit UK pp. 197-215

Irene McMaster and Heidi Vironen

Higher education and research: multiple negative effects and no new opportunities after Brexit pp. 216-234

Ludovic Highman, Simon Marginson and Vassiliki Papatsiba

Brexit and ‘missing’ financial services jobs in the United Kingdom pp. 235-249

Sarah Hall and Martin Heneghan

Brexit, trade and UK advanced manufacturing sectors: a Midlands’ perspective pp. 250-265

David Bailey, Lisa De Propris, Alex De Ruyter, David Hearne and Raquel Ortega-Argiles

How did Brexit affect UK trade? pp. 266-283

Jun Du, Emine Beyza Satoglu and Oleksandr Shepotylo

Volume 18, issue 1, 2023

Editorial. Covid-19, sport and society pp. 1-6

E. Michelini, N. Bortoletto and A. Porrovecchio

Does the COVID-pandemic affect the educational and financial inequality in weekly sport participation in the Netherlands? pp. 7-25

Malou Grubben, Remco Hoekman and Gerbert Kraaykamp

Lampedusa, football and COVID-19: transitions at the border and the role of sport pp. 26-40

Alessio Norrito and Carolynne Mason

Tennis coaching in China before and during COVID-19. The mediatisation of a precarious profession pp. 41-57

Giovannipaolo Ferrari, Paolo Diana and Yingxin Tan

Gender differences in the characteristics of gaming and esport aspirations in Hungary pp. 58-75

Klára Kovács, Zsolt Békési, Krisztina Győri and Dávid Papp

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports-based youth development: the case of the rugby association ‘Rebonds!’ pp. 76-89

Jean-Charles Basson and Loïc Sallé

Being a docile body: the effects on preadolescents of the social restrictions imposed during COVID-19 pp. 90-108

Simone Digennaro and Alice Iannaccone

The value of esports football. Towards new models of consumption and participatory experience in Italy pp. 109-124

Barbara Mazza and Giovanna Russo