Advancing Gender Equality in Research Organisations: Key Factors for Success examines how organisational gender equality can be effectively designed, implemented, and evaluated in European universities and research institutions.

Drawing on the most comprehensive study to date of gender equality plans across Europe, this edited volume presents 14 case studies from eight countries developed within the INSPIRE Centre of Excellence. The chapters analyse six core facilitating factors for sustainable change: strategic organisational commitment, comprehensive data collection for equalities work, advanced gender expertise, inclusive communities of change agents, enforceable legislation, and supportive social and cultural contexts. This book further advances the field through a comparative, outcome- and impact-oriented framework that addresses both gendered power relations and gendered value hierarchies, offering a critical alternative to symbolic equality measures.

This book is essential reading for scholars of gender and organisational change; researchers and students in higher education studies; and practitioners, consultants, and policymakers engaged in gender equality work in research and innovation.

The Blueprint of Leadership promotes a way to move from automatic reaction to conscious leadership in the moments that matter most. While most leadership development focuses on skills, this book works at the level beneath, where patterns are formed and decisions are made.

Drawing on over two decades of leadership coaching and the Biographical Dimensions of Meaning Making (BDMM (c)) framework, this book introduces the author's own Origins Map (TM), a practical model for understanding how early experiences shape how leaders interpret authority, trust, identity, belonging, emotion, and the world itself. Combining research, conceptual insight, and rich case composites; chapters reveal how leaders continue to repeat familiar patterns under pressure, even if they know better. By working with the patterns beneath behaviour, leaders gain the ability to interrupt default responses, expand their range, and lead with greater clarity, adaptability, and impact in a complex world.

This book will be a perfect guide for learning professionals and coaches who are looking to implement a unique and evidence-based leadership model into their practice.

This edited volume examines the challenges and innovations in collecting, measuring, and analysing data on sexual and gender minorities. As interest in sexual and gender minority research grows across academia and policy, the need for high-quality, inclusive, and comparable data has become increasingly urgent. However, existing data sources remain fragmented and methodologically complex.

The book provides a critical overview of major data sources, including general population surveys and dedicated LGBTIQ+ studies, assessing their strengths and limitations in terms of representativeness, comparability, and data quality. Drawing on the Total Survey Error framework, the book evaluates different approaches to measuring sexual orientation and gender identity. It offers practical guidance on questionnaire design and survey implementation to improve validity and inclusivity of survey measures. It also presents sampling approaches and post-survey adjustments for LGBTIQ+ studies.

Key Features:

• Provides a Total Survey Error framework for survey research focussing on sexual and gender minorities
• Provides an overview of data sources for LGBTIQ+ research, including international surveys and targeted studies
• Offers practical guidance on measuring sexual orientation and gender identity using state-of-the-art frameworks
• Discusses methodological challenges such as non-probability sampling, disclosure, and sampling hard-to-reach populations
• Highlights innovative approaches, including boost samples, online data collection, and census developments
• Includes cross-national perspectives and real-world case studies

The book aims to position survey research focussing on sexual and gender minorities as a rapidly evolving field and provides guidance for researchers, statisticians, data producers, and policy makers working on equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Written to enable readers to understand the legacy of European turmoil in the 20th century, Europe in Crisis provides a comprehensive analysis of its two world wars, the follow-on Cold War, and their transformative effects on international relations and security affairs.

Today's reemergence of antagonistic great powers, the global disruptions of their rivalries, and the widening cracks in the post-WWII world order compose what has been called a "rupture" in the global system. How government leaders and informed electorates might best navigate that challenge requires knowledge not only of the post-WWII order but its origins earlier in the century as well. With this goal in mind, the book examines key issues concerning Europe's failures to forge a lasting peace over several decades and subsequent struggles to regain stability after the shock of war on gigantic scales. From Verdun and the Somme in the First World War, to Stalingrad in the Second, and the Berlin Wall during the Cold War, and from the July Crisis of 1914 to the Atlantic Charter and the post-WWII Marshall Plan, this is a history with a lot to tell us.

Ideal for historians, political scientists, and students of international relations, the book takes the reader to every part of Europe, and much of the world, to trace the trials and tragedies of an era whose fallout still reverberates in our newspaper headlines and media commentaries.

This textbook explores the environmental impact of business systems, particularly emissions resulting from logistics and intra-company operations. It highlights how transportation activities between suppliers, companies, and end users contribute to emissions, while intra-logistics within companies consume significant energy to move components and subassemblies.

By emphasizing efficient use of material handling equipment and machines, the book:

? Provides actionable strategies to reduce energy consumption and minimize carbon emissions at power generation units.

? Offers practical approaches to achieving sustainable operations in industries.

? Uses Case studies reinforce key concepts, along with chapter summaries, keywords and review questions

? Illustrates concepts clearly using tables and figures

An engaging and practical resource for readers, this book would be ideal for students, researchers, and faculty in supply chain management, operations management, and industrial engineering at both graduate and research levels. It would also serve as a valuable resource for consultants and practitioners, providing insights into models and modeling systems to support better supply chain decisions.

A comprehensive analysis of Netflix, the prominent global and transnational subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) company.

By delving into the company's corporate divisions and international business relationships, this book highlights Netflix's pivotal role in shaping the landscape of audiovisual distribution and production on a worldwide scale. Designed to engage a diverse readership interested in topics ranging from ownership and financial performance to strategic alliances, audiovisual library development, and policy advocacy, this book explores how cultural diversity, audiovisual dynamics, and corporate influence intersect with broader realms such as politics, consulting, technological innovation, and financial transactions. Through its insightful examination, this book unveils the intricate connections between cultural and non-cultural factors, shedding light on the multifaceted impact of Netflix on our global media landscape.

This book is ideal for students and scholars of global media industries, critical political economy of media and communication, and international media, globalization and culture.

This book focuses on contemporary, local working conditions for teachers and school leaders globally, using diverse ways to theorise critical issues of workload, wellbeing, burnout and retention within the teaching profession, thereby provoking alternative responses to the challenges faced.

Sketching a broad picture of the ways in which teacher wellbeing, workload intensification, and staff retention are interconnected, the book calls for a better understanding of how these multifaceted issues overlap regarding their consequences for the education workforce. Chapters bring together researchers from diverse contexts such as Australia, the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Vietnam, and Norway, resulting in a diversity of approaches grounded in different socio-cultural traditions which encourage a wider range of theory, empirical areas of focus, and suggestions for meaningful change. Chapters theorise issues of teachers' work based on empirical studies and develop new conceptual approaches towards these issues, providing novel insights into issues felt across the board, regardless of career phase or role.

The book will be highly valuable for scholars, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of educational leadership, management and administration. Policy makers interested in transformative ways to respond to ubiquitous concerns about the education workforce around the globe will also find the volume of use.

This book argues that the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951 solved the historic French-German conflict over control of the coal deposits of the Ruhr valley. The product of a political bargain among the United States, France and Germany, the Treaty of Paris introduced radical new rules into the European order. For the first time in European history, cartels and powerful anticompetitive concentrations of economic power were banned.

The volume ties the problem of ensuring secure access to Ruhr coal to the larger security dilemma that long haunted French-German relations. It argues that, in effect, wars and cartels were alternative solutions to the same underlying dilemma in the period from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries, which featured three wars and two armed occupations involving France and Germany. It discusses the importance of the economic complementarity between coal and ore in relation to the economic and security relations between France and Germany. Above all, it highlights the role played by the novel competition law regime in permanently ending the old cycle of wars and cartels that had cursed Europe through the end of World War II.

Beyond Wars and Cartels will be invaluable to those interested in postwar European history seen from a new angle as well as specialists in antitrust and competition law who compare US and American law, historians and political scientists.

In Networked Business, Paul Grefen returns with the third edition of his tried and tested BOAT framework for advanced e-business, covering the spectrum from business models via organization structures and digital system architectures to information technology.

Today's successful organizations are complex; they are part of dynamic business networks built on digital channels, going far beyond traditional e-commerce. This book provides invaluable insights of modern digitally enabled networked business, going much further than the usual analysis of traditional e-business texts. It is heavily expanded and updated with the latest developments of digitally connected business, including new topics like value-oriented business, business optimization loops, (generative) artificial intelligence, and technology hype cycles.

This essential text provides a compact roadmap to networked business for engineering, information systems or business students as well as professionals in the field.

This book provides a theoretical and practical guide to the consultancy cycle, the core framework used by occupational psychologists to deliver evidence-based interventions in organisations.

As organisations face rapid change and workplace challenges, occupational psychologists need to apply a structured approach for their interventions to ensure they add value, maintain good relationships with clients, are ethical in their practice, and use an evidence-based approach. Applying Psychology to Consulting breaks down each stage of the consultancy cycle, offering clear explanations, established theories and frameworks for each stage, real-world case studies, expert voices, and practical tools. Bridging the gap between academic theory and real-world consultancy, the book equips readers with the skills to manage their work confidently and perform to a high standard.

This book will appeal to students of occupational and organisational psychology, and those undertaking a professional doctorate in occupational psychology, as well as early-career occupational psychology practitioners and experienced consultants looking to refresh and build on their knowledge.

Widely considered two of the most controversial legal scholars, Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt have been the subject of debate for almost a century. This book focuses on a limited but extremely important controversy between Kelsen and Schmitt: the answer to the question regarding the proper guardian of the constitution. This debate goes to the heart of political power and legal thinking. The work presents a detailed examination of the three key documents from 1927 to 1933 regarding this controversy. An understanding of these writings will aid in comprehending the larger controversy between Kelsen and Schmitt with respect to discussion or decisionism, law or power, and democracy or dictatorship.

As much about the conflict between pluralism and unity and between democracy and autocracy as it is about a specific historical controversy, this study will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of jurisprudence and legal philosophy, constitutional law and theory, political philosophy and legal history.

Contemporary Arab Women Revolutionaries: Radical Traditions offers a groundbreaking interdisciplinary examination of Arab women's radical modes of resistance from the 1970s to the present. Spanning literary, visual, political, social, digital, and translational practices, the volume reveals how women across the Arab world and its diasporas have established and transformed cultural, artistic, and spiritual traditions into powerful tools for confronting patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist structures.

Bringing together leading scholars in literature, film, visual culture, oral history, digital activism, and translation, the collection traces feminist interventions across key themes, including liberation and human rights, the disruption of social and gender norms, counter-memory as resistance, feminist resistance in conflict zones, and digital and translational activism. From Syrian Sufi-inflected poetics and Lebanese women combatants to Palestinian filmmakers, Sahrawi activists, and emerging dissident voices across Saudi Arabia, the Maghreb, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq, the chapters illuminate the creative, strategic, and often paradoxical ways women contest and reconfigure power.

Rich in case studies, multimodal analysis, and decolonial feminist theory, this landmark volume offers an indispensable framework for understanding the depth, complexity, and transnational reach of contemporary Arab feminist praxis.

This book centers on a single, pressing question from a teacher: "What is my role as an ELA teacher in genocide education- and how do I do it ethically?"

Teaching Genocide and Holocaust Education in ELA Classrooms: Language to Remember, Witness, and Repair offers middle and high school English teachers a thoughtful, practice-centered approach to teaching histories shaped by human experience and the ways language has been used to harm, name, witness, and repair. Grounded in an Ethical Literacy Framework, the book brings together classroom-rooted practices-young adult literature, diaspora memoirs, poetry, oral histories, rhetoric, and multigenre research-to help students encounter human stories with care and responsibility. Each chapter offers adaptable structures, mentor texts, and reflective practices that support trauma-informed, student-centered instruction within the realities teachers already navigate, and concludes with reflection questions and resources to extend learning and support planning. Concepts such as critical empathy, the web of passivity, and imagining just futures guide students to examine how language shapes both violence and possibility.

Written for secondary English Language Arts (ELA) teachers, literacy leaders, and teacher educators, this book approaches genocide education as an ethical, relational practice.

The book offers a reassessment of Diodorus Siculus' historiographical principles and their application in the Bibliotheke Historike, approached through systematic analysis of the text rather than assumptions about its author as a passive compiler.

Readers will gain a rigorous re-evaluation of how Diodorus conceived, organised and executed his universal history, including its genre, programme, polemical method, use of speeches, structural principles, and moral framework. Rather than relying on presumptions about the author to explain the text, the book analyses the Bibliotheke on its own terms across five thematic chapters before synthesising the findings into a revised portrait of Diodorus as a historian. By uniting philological precision with interpretive moderation, this study aims to bridge a long-standing divide in scholarship between the two sides of the modern debate on the author.

The book is intended for scholars and students of ancient Greek historiography, Hellenistic history, and classical studies, as well as for those working on ancient literature. It will also be of interest to historians who rely on the Bibliotheke Historike as a source of information or are concerned with the broader questions of how universal histories were conceived and written in the ancient world.

The book offers an in-depth critical examination of the role of international law in the aftermath of the July Revolution in Bangladesh, and in its future trajectory as contemporary nation.

The book discusses how violent crackdowns on student protests and UN-recognised crimes led to a series of cases before the International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh and in this regard explores themes such as justice, accountability, and reparation. The book explores the subsequent series of reform initiatives of the interim government, most importantly on constitutional matters. The book examines how the collapse of the Hasina regime has transformed India-Bangladesh-China relations, with far-reaching implications for South Asia and beyond. The book demonstrates that the July Revolution cannot be understood through domestic politics alone as international law was present throughout: in ascertaining the illegality of state violence, in the prosecution of international crimes, in the struggle for reparations, in the politics of minority protection, in the geopolitical recalibration of Bangladesh's foreign relations, in domestic implications of the military's participation in UN peacekeeping, in the regulation of the digital sphere, and in debates over development and climate justice.

Contributing to wider debates about revolution, state transformation, and the possibilities and limits of international law in postcolonial contexts, the book will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students interested in Bangladesh and its engagement with international law, regional politics, and post-July developments in particular.

Meet Matt! Matt is the Mathematical and Analytical Thinker as well as the narrator of Anti-Analytics: How Not to and How to Use Data Analytics in Business. Matt explains how managers can successfully apply data analytics to business problems.

Matt shares insight into developing a business analytics mindset that fosters the conditions under which organizations can develop business intelligence, create value, and build sustainable competitive advantage. The book introduces the concept of Anti-Analytics, which are the practices and processes preventing the proper adoption and adaptation of analytics-based approaches. The book explains how to:

• Enhance the sustainability of data analytics projects to achieve higher levels of strategic intelligence
• Determine the best of the mix of managers and technology to create organizational value
• Reduce errors in the analysis and design of data analytics systems

Anti-analytics and the business analytics mind set can also help organizations manage the uncertainty surrounding AI's application and integration into broader organizational and societal systems. Because generative AI models and basic AI solutions are widely accessible, organizations can easily adopt this technology. The real advantage from AI as well as data analytics comes from users with an analytical mindset who can manage and operate organizations in ways that solve increasingly complex problems. This book shows how to develop this analytical mindset that can create business solutions delivering value and competitive advantage now and in the future.

This open access book explores how courts and judges from common and civil law jurisdictions should address the following challenges that affect all of humanity - the ever-rapid development of AI and big data, the dangers of disinformation and misinformation, and the irreversible harmful effects of climate change.

The book is divided into 4 parts. Part I examines the impact of AI on judiciaries, in areas such as machine-generated evidence, access to justice and the ethical implications of AI. It features contributions from judges who have served in the Chinese, Indian and Singapore judiciaries. Part II delves into the topic of data protection and privacy in the era of big data and AI, focusing on the legal and regulatory issues relating to the processing of data. Part III addresses truth decay and the courts' role in ascertaining facts in an uncertain world. Part IV explores climate change litigation in various domestic courts around the world and the approaches and techniques that have been taken to address this dynamic and challenging area of the law.

This book is primarily for judges: how should they approach these topics when raised in their courts? What capacity-building is necessary for judges to stay current? Should judiciaries play a role, or is it solely or primarily the government's responsibility to formulate the relevant policies and laws? To what extent can and should impartial judges be proactive on these issues?

The book is, however, also addressed to legal academics, law students, and laypersons interested in the implications of these significant challenges on the integrity of our justice systems: how should our civil justice systems respond?

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Self-Harm in Adolescents provides well-researched and evidenced based information and research about what self-harm is, indicating key features of this difficulty for adolescents, and their caregivers and clinicians.

Self-harming behavior in teenagers is often a distressing experience for all parties involved, leaving the individual, caregivers and professionals, at times, feeling panicked and powerless. Written from a clinically experienced perspective, this book empathically guides the reader through what self-harm is, potential reasons for self-harming behavior and how you may create safe environments to listen to, support and help reduce self-harming behavior within adolescents. With cross-cultural reflections and a detailed look at the impact of social media Holmes provides a comprehensive overview of self-harm within adolescents and for the reader creates an invaluable toolkit for supporting the cessation of self-harming behavior.

With practical resources and explorations of clinical examples this book enables clinicians and caregivers to help reduce and alleviate self-harm, decreasing the distress for all involved, towards a better quality of life.

This book explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping the foundations of contract formation under English contract law.

As AI systems take on critical roles in forming agreements, traditional legal principles rooted in human decision-making are being challenged. The book introduces the concept of the "meeting of the algorithms" as a modern alternative to the conventional "meeting of the minds," emphasising how AI-driven contracts differ from human-based ones.

Focusing on algorithmic contracting where both parties operate AI systems-particularly those based on machine learning-the book challenges the adequacy of traditional legal doctrines and terminology. It provides a structured analysis of the legal, conceptual, and doctrinal challenges raised by contracts formed without human intervention at the point of agreement.

The book proposes a new legal framework that accommodates algorithmic systems as communication and decision-making tools. It redefines consent, examines the attribution of knowledge and intention, and identifies the legal moment of formation in automated contracting environments. It shows how AI-driven contracting is forcing contract law to evolve without relying on fictional agency constructs or debates around legal personhood.

Artificial Intelligence in Contract Formation will appeal to researchers of contract law, technology law, and private law theory, as well as legal practitioners interested in AI governance and legal innovation. It contributes to ongoing debates on AI and law, and offers a roadmap for integrating algorithmic transactions into the mainstream of contract doctrine.

This is a compact guide to digital history for practice and research. It shows not only how sources are captured, preserved, and communicated as digital data, but also how these sources are enriched through conversion into digital formats which enable new modes of interpretation and presentation.

Divided into three parts, this book offers a wide range of topical case studies, introduces cutting-edge methodologies, and provides a closer look at new challenges such as preventing loss by technological obsolescence. Chapter 1 builds a foundational knowledge of digital history, including the role of the archive, both digital and analogue. It is supported by best practices to manage things like cultural protocols and how archival materials are stored and shared. Chapter 2 explores the common elements of data analysis used in digital history, assuming no prior knowledge. This section will develop an understanding of why scholars select one method over another, and how certain types of sources and data lend themselves to different approaches. Chapter 3 discusses how research findings may be applied and communicated to a public audience, including educational curricula, in the heritage industry, in public cultural institutions (GLAM), and through Public History programs. Finally, the role of non-specialist volunteers in crowdsourcing (citizen archivists and citizen historians) is explored as a way of engaging the public in the production of digital history through active participation in research projects.

With the growth of digital sources, from born digital data to the digital conversion of analogue sources, digital history is fast moving towards what all history is. This is therefore a vital guide and core text for undergraduate students of history. It is also important supplementary reading for studies in digital humanities, digital media and communications, visual studies, and museum and heritage studies.

Digital technologies are reshaping the conditions under which migrant entrepreneurs operate in the Global South. This book explores how migrants use digital tools and platforms to build and sustain businesses in environments shaped by legal uncertainty, fragmented governance, uneven infrastructure and limited institutional support. It examines how digital systems both enable and constrain enterprise activity, with a particular focus on mobile finance, platform economies and transnational digital networks.

Rather than assuming that digital access guarantees inclusion, the book shows how migrant entrepreneurs adapt to exclusion, legal uncertainty and infrastructural instability. It introduces the Digital Constraint Navigation Framework (DCNF), integrating digital embeddedness and intersectionality to explain how legal status, gender, class, ethnicity and related social positions shape access to platforms, financial systems and market opportunities. While the term "Global South" is used for scope, the book recognises its internal diversity through comparative, country-based analysis.

By integrating these perspectives across diverse regulatory and infrastructural settings, the book develops a comparative framework for understanding migrant entrepreneurship beyond dominant Global North models of entrepreneurial inclusion. It will be of interest to scholars, students and professionals in entrepreneurship, migration, international business, development studies and digital economy research.

Designed to promote the use of visual pedagogical techniques within academic skills tuition, including through the provision of visual feedback on student written work, this book provides advice and resources for all educators seeking to make fuller use of visual methods within their teaching practice.

This key title explores methods to provide visual feedback on written work enabling students to engage differently with their own scholarly outputs and derive greater meaning from conventional verbal feedback. It also encourages student use of visualisation techniques to support their autonomy in assessing their own work and advancing their own academic development. Grounded in key scholarship, it presents a matrix of contextual, structural and processual considerations to help adopt visual approaches and provides sample teaching materials and a range of examples as inspiration.

Ideal reading for all those teaching in higher education looking to improve inclusivity by promoting visual pedagogies and feedback processes, this title aims to bolster academic skills tuition for all students. It's designed to broaden the repertoire of teaching methods available and to cater more effectively for historically and currently marginalised students, by utilising methods that are better suited to their thinking styles.

The second edition of Nonlinear Contingency Analysis gives professionals a powerful framework for understanding complex behavior, and this companion volume shows clinicians exactly what happens when that framework is applied to children, families, adults, and animals facing challenging circumstances.

Case Studies and Applications in Nonlinear Contingency Analysis provides vivid examples and step-by-step case analyses that you can adapt to your own practice. Every case shows how constructional, non-coercive interventions succeed where eliminative models fail. These aren't abstract theories-they're replicable roadmaps for transforming behavior across clinical, educational, organizational, and animal settings.

Whether you work in mental health, education, behavior analysis, or animal training, Case Studies and Applications in Nonlinear Contingency Analysis shows how constructional, freedom-expanding interventions can transform lives. If you want to see how nonlinear contingency analysis works in practice-and how to use it yourself-this is the book you need by your side.