Plastic consumption and the subsequently produced plastic waste is a global threat to humanity. People’s voluntary motivation to reduce their plastic consumption is one key factor to reduce the overall level of plastic waste. The paper at hand analyses the predictive power of the goal-striving reasons framework for subjective (self-reported) and objective (actual) plastic consumption of UK households. Employing the goal-striving reasons framework provides a conceptually new way of looking into people’s voluntary motivation for reducing plastic waste based on people’s most important, idiosyncratic actions they engage in to reduce plastic waste. Based on N = 237 participants (main shopper of the household) the study found, using multiple regression analyses, that positive consequences, as well as the interaction of positive consequences with pleasure, predict people’s subjective plastic waste consumption. Moreover, people’s self-reported subjective plastic waste significantly relates to objective plastic waste…
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, launched during the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in December 2022, encourages governments, companies, and investors to publish data on their nature-related risks, dependencies, and impacts. These disclosures are intended to drive businesses to recognise, manage and mitigate their reliance on ecosystem goods and services. However, there is a “biodiversity blind spot” that is evident for most organisations and business schools. Business education rarely addresses the root causes of biodiversity loss, such as the unsustainable exploitation of natural resources. As the dominant positioning of Education for Sustainable Development Goals (ESDG) presents biodiversity in anthropocentric instrumental terms inadequate for addressing ecosystem decline, we posit that a more progressive and transformative ecocentric education through ecopedagogy and ecoliteracy is needed. Both approaches include the development of critical thinking about degrowth, circular econ…
Purpose: Internationalisation in higher education (HE) has always been romanticised and idealised but there has been limited focus on the internationalisation of gender equality and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) certification and the role of international partnerships. Certification and Award Schemes (CAS), such as the Athena Swan Charter, can promote gender equality, best practices exchanges and foster institutional changes. Nevertheless, simply transferring strategies or frameworks without careful consideration of the nuances of the destination context can inadvertently lead to the perpetuation or exacerbation of gender inequalities and reproduce hierarchical relations between the Global South and North. Brazil's cultural and political context highlights the need for adapting the CAS framework to align with the unique conditions of the country, as well as institutional transformations in order to accommodate such a framework. This study aims to critically explore how gender equality and EDI certif…
Nursing staff engage readily with patients and associates in mental health/forensic inpatient settings. These settings are known to have instances of workplace violence directed towards staff and such violence includes racism. Racism is a form of workplace violence that must be better understood and supported within this complex setting. Completing a systematic review to coalesce preexisting research and suggested interventions can be beneficial to supporting nurses. Systematic review following PRISMA guidelines. CINAHL, PsycInfo, Medline, British Nursing Database and Web of Science databases were searched. Reviewers screened the papers for inclusion (29 articles out of 7146 were selected for inclusion) and completed the quality appraisal using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. Subsequently, data extraction was completed, and findings were summarised through narrative synthesis. The way racism was conceptualised impacted how data was collected, reported and interpreted; racism was silenced or exposed dependi…
The UN Sustainable Development Goal #16 calls for states to provide ‘access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels’. It is commonly assumed that “developed” nations have attained these goals. However, this chapter draws on the author’s research with sexually diverse refugees, alongside a conceptualisation of ‘Administrative Violence’, to argue that UK institutions—such as the Home Office—continue to operate in ways which undermine core targets and indicators associated with this goal. For example, instances of rule-breaking, dubbed ‘Administrative Lawlessness’ by Juss, push against target 16.3, which calls on states to ‘promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all’. Similarly, the largely behind-the-scenes, decision-making practices of the Home Office challenge target 16.6, which calls for states to ‘develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels’. Thus, thr…
Cuttings regarding Booker Prize shortlist