Contemporary Social Science

2013 - 2025

Current editor(s): Professor David Canter

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Volume 20, issue 5, 2025

Editorial: Contemporary Social Science. Volume 20(5) and beyond: stop printing, start building pp. 705-712

David Bailey and Philip R. Tomlinson

What we do and do not know about public inquiries: a narrative review pp. 713-730

Dawn Goodwin, Laura Clarry, Garrath Williams and Sara Fovargue

Why Britain needs a new Beveridge and why politicians need to defer to the evidence pp. 731-744

Irene Hardill, Elliott Aidan Johnson and Matthew Thomas Johnson

Moving with the Tide of the Tyne the social implications of the EU Common Fisheries Policy on the fishing community in North Shields, UK pp. 745-762

Des Christy, Luuk Knippenberg and Edwin B.P. de Jong

How precarious are European workers? An expert-system approach with evidence from the European Social Survey pp. 763-786

Penelope Stamou, Elena Striggli, Glykeria Stamatopoulou, Dimitris Parsanoglou and Maria Symeonaki

What sort of growth is good? pp. 787-795

Neil Small

The preschool home learning environment in families living with disadvantage: analysing family resources in European countries pp. 796-816

Rahel J. Warnatsch, Katharina Ereky-Stevens and Iram Siraj

Sociocultural influences on critical thinking instruction in EFL classrooms in Türkiye and Vietnam pp. 817-842

Ali Orhan and Ha Van Le

‘I'll play soccer for as long as I can!’ Analysis of the educational choices of professional soccer players in Germany pp. 843-866

Torsten Schlesinger, Werner Pitsch, Michael Barth and Peter Ehnold

Sport careers following forced migration pp. 867-884

Enrico Michelini and Birte Krause

Accelerating achievement for Africa’s adolescents pp. 885-920

Lorraine Sherr, Lucie Cluver, Chris Desmond, Mark Orkin, William Rudgard, Elona Toska, Olayinka Omigbodun, Marisa Casale, Kate Orkin, Charles Falajiki, Evelyn Gitau, Henriques Andela, Heidi Stöckl, Elleke Boehmer, Douglas Webb, Louise Gordon, Mandeep Dhaliwal and Franziska Meinck

Towards just transition in India: empowering coal dependent communities through skill development pp. 921-940

Surabhi Gupta and Mudit Kumar Singh

Bankers in the Ivory Tower: the troubling rise of financiers in US higher education pp. 941-944

Yuanxing Tan

Crip Spacetime: access, failure and accountability in academic life pp. 944-947

Pallavi Sanil

Correction pp. 948-949

The Editors

Volume 20, issue 4, 2025

Collaborative spaces in third places: types, impacts and policies pp. 497-503

Felicia Fai and Ilaria Mariotti

Mediating labour, creativity and innovation in the city: collaborative workspaces as middlegrounds and community as a service pp. 504-528

Antigoni Papageorgiou, Martha Michailidou and Vasilis Avdikos

A theoretical model of information exchange in academic coworking pp. 529-551

Marko Orel and Will Bennis

Typologies and geographical effects of third workplaces in creative cities: a systematic literature review pp. 552-574

Katharina Dienes and Katja Thoring

Funding sources and community embeddedness in rural collaborative spaces pp. 575-596

Jorge Arturo Villarreal-Valtierra, Julie Wilson and Carles Méndez-Ortega

Coworking spaces in Poland: spatial dynamics and location determinants pp. 597-619

Grzegorz Micek and Karolina Kapustka

Decolonising third places: a Latin American perspective on collaborative spaces in urban peripheries pp. 620-638

Kimmel Chamat Garcés

Community gardens as natural third places: a conceptual framework pp. 639-661

Fanny Teoule

Grandschools: a new intergenerational third place for community regeneration pp. 662-679

Evonne Miller, Kieu Pham, Marissa Lindquist, Gert-Jan Pepping, Suzanne Kuys, Rosamund Harrington, Mark Trotter, Andrea Blake, Mark Limb, Paul Sanders and Robin Drogemuller

Understanding ‘tiers-lieux’: framing and policy support of third places in France pp. 680-704

Cécile Gauthier and Matina Magkou

Volume 20, issue 2-3, 2025

Industrial strategy reborn: global trends, tensions and trajectories pp. 159-174

David Bailey, Lisa De Propris, Grete Gansauer and Philip R. Tomlinson

A new (theory-congruent, practice-informed and sustainability-fostering) industrial strategy pp. 175-192

Christos Pitelis

Geoeconomic bridging node in global production: Chinese electric vehicle battery investments in Morocco pp. 193-219

Ibrahim Abatcha Umar and Chun Yang

Impact of Green Industrial Strategy on handloom sector in Sualkuchi, Assam pp. 220-248

Piyali Bhowmick

An industrial strategy for EU cohesion in an era of transformation pp. 249-271

Lisa De Propris and Sandrine Labory

The impact of green policies on innovation: the moderating role of state-ownership (1980–2024) pp. 272-286

Paolo Castelnovo and Matteo Landoni

Techno-statecraft and industrial strategy: semiconductor development in Arizona pp. 287-306

Justin Kollar

Upskilling workers or uplifting corporations? A critical analysis of semiconductor workforce training programmes in the US pp. 307-330

Julia Marino and Madhumita Dutta

The short-term effects of regional investment tax credits: early evidence from energy communities pp. 331-357

Joe Peck and Samuel I. Thorpe

What are the policy lessons from ‘Bidenomics'? Reflections from senior practitioners pp. 358-389

Dan Turner, Huw Spencer, Julia Pamilih, Vidit Doshi and Ed Balls

Navigating trade-offs in the UK's green industrial strategy pp. 390-404

Vidit Doshi and Huw Spencer

Does this work here? Evaluation and evidence for local industrial strategy and policy pp. 405-421

Carolin Ioramashvili

A community resilience-based approach to place-based funding: lessons learned from England's levelling up policy pp. 422-444

Christine Camacho, Roger T. Webb, Peter Bower and Luke Munford

Non-interventionism meets oligopolies: a bad day for the UK’s poorer regions pp. 445-469

Ivan Rajic

The role of trade unions as experts in the industrial policy process: maximising the opportunity pp. 470-483

Tim Page

Beyond the agglomeration orthodoxy: rethinking industrial strategy pp. 484-495

David Bailey and Paul Hildreth

Correction pp. 496-496

The Editors

Volume 20, issue 1, 2025

Trains, planes, ships and automobiles: the future of transport mobility and its impacts pp. 1-6

David Bailey and Leslie Charles Budd

Public engagement, digital technology and transport: engaging through open, early and experience-centred perspectives at scale pp. 7-26

Alexander Wilson, Sunil Rodger, Simon Bowen and Mark Tewdwr-Jones

Complexity ahead: a comment on shipping futures and new research frontiers pp. 27-36

Laura Norris

Flight from reality: sustainable aviation, Jet Zero, and the technofix pp. 37-65

Gareth Dale, Josh Moos and Alistair Bernal Holmes

Air pollution, citizen science, and the future of mobility in low- and middle-income countries pp. 66-89

Nana O. Bonsu, Martin Ababio, Emmanuel Appoh, Mary Ashinyo, Stephen Essuman and Robert Elliot

The role of a city’s mobility fingerprint in new mobility adoption pp. 90-98

Evangelos Simoudis

Where have the driverless cars gone? pp. 99-109

Christian Wolmar

Electric vehicle adoption in Vietnam: usefulness and pro-environmentalism in an emerging market pp. 110-121

Tham Nguyen and Catherine Earl

Reinventing public transport: rising to the transition challenge pp. 122-143

Stephen Potter, Matthew Cook and Miguel Valdez

Evaluating future mobility: back to the future in the UK policy? pp. 144-158

Leslie Budd