2024-03-29T07:23:59Zhttps://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/oai/requestoai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/44882023-04-18T09:42:35Zcom_10023_71com_10023_24com_10023_1943com_10023_879com_10023_878col_10023_72col_10023_1944col_10023_880
McKee, Kim
2014-03-07T12:01:05Z
2014-03-07T12:01:05Z
2011-12
McKee , K 2011 , ' Challenging the Norm? The 'EthoPolitics' of Low Cost Homeownership in Scotland ' , Urban Studies , vol. 48 , no. 16 , pp. 3399-3413 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098010396238
0042-0980
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ORCID: /0000-0002-3611-569X/work/32192407
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4488
https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098010396238
Influenced by Nikolas Rose’s concept of ‘ethopolitics’ this paper explores attitudes to home and tenure amongst low-cost homeowners in Scotland. In doing so, it seeks to highlight the contested nature of contemporary governing practices and the way in which ‘governable subjects’ can challenge, reinterpret and resist dominant policy discourses, which promote homeownership as the preferred tenure of choice, whilst simultaneously pathologising and problematising social housing.
eng
Copyright 2011, the author. The published version of this articles was published in Urban Studies and is available at http://usj.sagepub.com/content/48/16/3399
Consumption
Housing
Governance
Resistance
Tenure
Challenging the Norm? The 'EthoPolitics' of Low Cost Homeownership in Scotland
Journal article
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/13622023-04-18T09:41:28Zcom_10023_71com_10023_24com_10023_1943com_10023_879com_10023_878col_10023_72col_10023_1944col_10023_880
McKee, Kim
2010-11-18T10:48:01Z
2010-11-18T10:48:01Z
2009-06
McKee , K 2009 , ' Empowering Glasgow’s tenants through community ownership? ' , Local Economy , vol. 24 , no. 4 , pp. 299-309 . https://doi.org/10.1080/02690940903026829
0269-0942
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Scopus: 68949118356
ORCID: /0000-0002-3611-569X/work/32192413
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1362
https://doi.org/10.1080/02690940903026829
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=68949118356&partnerID=8YFLogxK
Post 1997, stock transfer has been pivotal to the housing and regeneration agenda of the New Labour government, both at the UK and devolved level. Although a heavily researched policy area, stock transfer research has tended to focus quite narrowly on the perspectives of policymakers, practitioners or members of the transfer association's governing body. To address this research gap and focus more explicitly on the voices of local residents, this paper draws on the case study of the unique two-stage Glasgow housing stock transfer in order to explore 'community ownership' and 'tenant empowerment' from the perspective of 'lay' tenants. Political ambitions for direct democracy and communitarian endeavour have been central to stock transfer agendas in Scotland, where the policy has developed quite distinctly compared with the rest of the UK. Focus group research with tenants in Glasgow, however, highlights that empowerment was not an important priority for tenants at the point of transfer; that the transfer has delivered mixed outcomes in terms of local tenant control; and on the key issue of support for 'full' community ownership tenants were unconvinced, and expressed a need for more information.
eng
(c)2009 Taylor and Francis. This is an electronic version of an article published in Local Economy, available from DOI:10.1080/02690940903026829
Community participation
Devolution
Housing stock transfer
Neighbourhood governance
Regeneration
HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Empowering Glasgow’s tenants through community ownership?
Journal article
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/46822023-04-18T09:51:28Zcom_10023_71com_10023_24com_10023_879com_10023_878col_10023_72col_10023_880
Tetteh, Antonia Y.
Sun, Katherine H.
Hung, Chiu-Yueh
Kittur, Farooqahmed S.
Ibeanu, Gordon C.
Williams, Daniel
Xie, Jiahua
2014-05-01T11:01:01Z
2014-05-01T11:01:01Z
2014-04-15
Tetteh , A Y , Sun , K H , Hung , C-Y , Kittur , F S , Ibeanu , G C , Williams , D & Xie , J 2014 , ' Transcriptional Response of Selenopolypeptide Genes and Selenocysteine Biosynthesis Machinery Genes in Escherichia coli during Selenite Reduction ' , International Journal of Microbiology , vol. 2014 , 394835 . https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/394835
1687-918X
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Bibtex: urn:3463362adf5b19a663e15020b3cb3589
Scopus: 84900011543
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4682
https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/394835
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/394835
Bacteria can reduce toxic selenite into less toxic, elemental selenium (Se0), but the mechanism on how bacterial cells reduce selenite at molecular level is still not clear. We used Escherichia coli strain K12, a common bacterial strain, as a model to study its growth response to sodium selenite (Na2SeO3) treatment and then used quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) to quantify transcript levels of three E. coli selenopolypeptide genes and a set of machinery genes for selenocysteine (SeCys) biosynthesis and incorporation into polypeptides, whose involvements in the selenite reduction are largely unknown. We determined that 5 mM Na2SeO3 treatment inhibited growth by ∼50% while 0.001 to 0.01 mM treatments stimulated cell growth by ∼30%. Under 50% inhibitory or 30% stimulatory Na2SeO3 concentration, selenopolypeptide genes (fdnG, fdoG, and fdhF) whose products require SeCys but not SeCys biosynthesis machinery genes were found to be induced ≥2-fold. In addition, one sulfur (S) metabolic gene iscS and two previously reported selenite-responsive genes sodA and gutS were also induced ≥2-fold under 50% inhibitory concentration. Our findings provide insight about the detoxification of selenite in E. coli via induction of these genes involved in the selenite reduction process.
eng
Copyright © 2014 Tetteh et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
QR Microbiology
Transcriptional Response of Selenopolypeptide Genes and Selenocysteine Biosynthesis Machinery Genes in Escherichia coli during Selenite Reduction
Journal article
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/79762023-04-18T09:40:10Zcom_10023_71com_10023_24com_10023_1943com_10023_879com_10023_878col_10023_72col_10023_1944col_10023_880
Van Ham, Maarten
Van Kempen, R
Van Weesep, J
2016-01-06T12:40:04Z
2016-01-06T12:40:04Z
2006-09-01
Van Ham , M , Van Kempen , R & Van Weesep , J 2006 , ' The changing role of the Dutch social rented sector ' , Journal of Housing and the Built Environment , vol. 21 , no. 3 , pp. 315-335 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-006-9052-7
1573-7772
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standrews_research_output: 29832
Scopus: 33750998809
ORCID: /0000-0002-2106-0702/work/64697557
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/7976
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-006-9052-7
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10901-006-9052-7
The article traces the evolution of the research interests of Frans Dieleman, an academic who combined the development of analytical models with explorations of the policy implications of the changing structure of housing markets. During his long career as a professor of geography, he championed international cooperation in research and played a major role in disseminating the results of Dutch academic studies to an international audience. His own work was concentrated on the analysis of residential mobility. But much of that work also revealed his interest in applying scholarly insights to policy issues. Throughout his career he showed a deep commitment to improving the functioning of the social rented sector in the Dutch housing market. After reviewing some of Frans Dieleman’s major contributions to the understanding of the housing market, the article follows in his footsteps by analyzing the current use of social rented housing. In this way, this article provides an update on his field of interest based on recent survey data that underlines the validity of his insights.
eng
Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10901-006-9052-7
Housing tenure
Social rented housing
Income
Ethnicity
The Netherlands
H Social Sciences (General)
The changing role of the Dutch social rented sector
Journal article
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/103412022-04-11T14:32:05Zcom_10023_71com_10023_24com_10023_1943com_10023_879com_10023_878col_10023_72col_10023_1944col_10023_880
Laurie, Nina
Richardson, Diane
Poudel, Meena
Samuha, Shakti
Townsend, Janet
2017-02-23T11:30:15Z
2017-02-23T11:30:15Z
2015-05-19
Laurie , N , Richardson , D , Poudel , M , Samuha , S & Townsend , J 2015 , ' Co-producing a post-trafficking agenda : collaborating on transforming citizenship in Nepal ' , Development in Practice , vol. 25 , no. 4 , pp. 465-477 . https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2015.1029436
0961-4524
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Scopus: 84928472148
ORCID: /0000-0003-0081-1404/work/64361341
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10341
https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2015.1029436
This article discusses how a new agenda on post-trafficking is gaining momentum through academic and activist anti-trafficking collaborations focused on co-producing knowledge with women who have returned from trafficking situations. Co-production of this nature is important as the issues raised by post-trafficking scenarios are largely ignored in anti-trafficking strategies, and the stigmatisation and poverty which women in these circumstances encounter means they rarely have a voice in policy-making. Drawing on research in Nepal, we present four types of co-produced data around transforming citizenship post-trafficking, and reflect on the strategies for generating and using them for advocacy purposes.
eng
© 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Aid – Capacity development
Civil society – Partnership
Gender and diversity
Governance and public policy
Labour and livelihoods – Migration
NGOs
Rights
South Asia
G Geography (General)
H Social Sciences
J Political Science
Geography, Planning and Development
Development
NDAS
Co-producing a post-trafficking agenda : collaborating on transforming citizenship in Nepal
Journal article
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/10832023-04-18T09:41:31Zcom_10023_71com_10023_24com_10023_1943com_10023_879com_10023_878col_10023_72col_10023_1944col_10023_880
McKee, Kim
2010-10-22T15:01:47Z
2010-10-22T15:01:47Z
2010-06-01
McKee , K 2010 , ' The end of the Right to Buy and the future of social housing in Scotland ' , Local Economy , vol. 25 , no. 4 , pp. 319-327 . https://doi.org/10.1080/02690942.2010.498956
0269-0942
PURE: 1817604
PURE UUID: cf3daf26-46ec-4eb1-802d-59384843947b
Scopus: 77955721396
ORCID: /0000-0002-3611-569X/work/32192411
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1083
https://doi.org/10.1080/02690942.2010.498956
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77955721396&partnerID=8YFLogxK
Thirty-years after the introduction of the Right to Buy - the most successful example of housing privatisation policy in the UK - the current Housing (Scotland) Bill proposes to end the scheme for both new social housing tenants and new social housing. This paper considers the implications of these modernising reforms, in the context of housing policy divergence post-devolution. It concludes that these proposals are likely to have a significant, but mixed, impact on the future of the social rented sector in Scotland.
eng
This is an electronic version of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in Local Economy 25(4) (c)2010 Taylor & Francis. Local Economy is available online at http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0269-0942&volume=25&issue=4&spage=319
Housing policy
Scotland
Social housing
Low cost homeownership
Social cohesion
HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
The end of the Right to Buy and the future of social housing in Scotland
Journal article
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/89082023-04-25T23:44:55Zcom_10023_1940com_10023_24com_10023_71com_10023_879com_10023_878col_10023_1941col_10023_72col_10023_880
Jones, S
Diem, Torsten
Huaraca Quispe, L
Cahuana, A
Reay, D
Meir, P
Teh, Yit Arn
2016-06-01T11:30:04Z
2016-06-01T11:30:04Z
2016-01-27
Jones , S , Diem , T , Huaraca Quispe , L , Cahuana , A , Reay , D , Meir , P & Teh , Y A 2016 , ' Drivers of atmospheric methane uptake by montane forest soils in the southern Peruvian Andes ' , Biogeosciences , vol. 9 , no. 12 , pp. 1-31 . https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2016-16
1726-4170
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Scopus: 84979517918
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8908
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2016-16
http://www.biogeosciences-discuss.net/bg-2016-16/bg-2016-16-supplement.pdf
NE/H006583/1
The soils of tropical montane forests can act as sources or sinks of atmospheric methane (CH4). Understanding this activity is important in regional atmospheric CH4 budgets, given that these ecosystems account for substantial portions of the landscape in mountainous areas like the Andes. Here we investigate the drivers of CH4 fluxes from premontane, lower and upper montane forests, experiencing a seasonal climate, in southeastern Peru. Between February 2011 and June 2013, these soils all functioned as net sinks for atmospheric CH4. Mean (standard error) net CH4 fluxes for the dry and wet season were −1.6 (0.1) and −1.1 (0.1) mg CH4 – C m−2 d−1 in the upper montane forest; −1.1 (0.1) and −1.0 (0.1) mg CH4 – C m−2 d−1 in the lower montane forest; and −0.2 (0.1) and −0.1 (0.1) mg CH4 – C m−2 d−1 in the premontane forest. Variations among forest types were best explained by available nitrate and water-filled pore space, indicating that nitrate inhibition of oxidation or diffusional constraints imposed by changes in water-filled pore space on methanotrophic communities represent important controls on soil-atmosphere CH4 exchange. Seasonality in CH4 exchange varied among forests with an increase in wet season net CH4 flux only apparent in the upper montane forest. Net CH4 flux was inversely related to elevation; a pattern that differs to that observed in Ecuador, the only other extant study site of soil-atmosphere CH4 exchange in the tropical Andes. This may result from differences in rainfall patterns between the regions, suggesting that attention should be paid to the role of rainfall and soil moisture dynamics in modulating CH4 uptake by the organic-rich soils typical of high elevation tropical forests.
eng
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
GE Environmental Sciences
NDAS
SDG 13 - Climate Action
Drivers of atmospheric methane uptake by montane forest soils in the southern Peruvian Andes
Journal article
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/69322023-04-18T10:00:51Zcom_10023_71com_10023_24com_10023_879com_10023_878col_10023_72col_10023_880
Doherty, Joe
2015-07-08T13:17:40Z
2015-07-08T13:17:40Z
2013
Doherty , J 2013 , ' Neil Smith, 1954–2012 : "the future is indeed radically open" ' , Urban Geography , vol. 34 , no. 1 , pp. 1-4 . https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2013.778612
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Scopus: 85007837629
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6932
https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2013.778612
eng
Copyright 2013 Taylor and Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Urban Geography on 11/04/2013, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02723638.2013.778612
G Geography (General)
Neil Smith, 1954–2012 : "the future is indeed radically open"
Journal article
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/65622023-04-18T09:45:39Zcom_10023_71com_10023_24com_10023_1943com_10023_879com_10023_878col_10023_72col_10023_1944col_10023_880
Van Ham, Maarten
Williamson, Lee
Feijten, Petra Maria
Boyle, Paul Joseph
2015-04-24T08:31:02Z
2015-04-24T08:31:02Z
2013-03
Van Ham , M , Williamson , L , Feijten , P M & Boyle , P J 2013 , ' Right to buy … time to move? Investigating the moving behaviour of right to buy owners in the UK ' , Journal of Housing and the Built Environment , vol. 28 , no. 1 , pp. 129-146 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-012-9296-3
1566-4910
PURE: 22715782
PURE UUID: e8ec0c23-4653-4094-b060-8cf3897b32b6
Scopus: 84875385545
ORCID: /0000-0002-2106-0702/work/64697486
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6562
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-012-9296-3
RES-000-22-2460
Part of the political argument in favour of the right to buy (RTB) was that it would stimulate the economy by encouraging the inter-regional mobility of those in public sector housing. This is the first study to examine whether RTB-owners are indeed more mobile than those in social housing. Using longitudinal data from the British household panel survey and panel regression models we show that the probability of a RTB-owner making a long distance move falls between that of social renters and owner occupiers. However, the difference between RTB-owners and homeowners or social renters is not significant. Social renters are significantly less likely to move over long distances than traditional owners. The results also suggest that RTB-owners are less likely than traditional owners to move for job related reasons, but more likely than social renters.
eng
Copyright The Author(s) 2012. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
Right to buy
Residential mobility
Migration
Moving reasons
Longitudinal data
United Kingdom
GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
Right to buy … time to move? Investigating the moving behaviour of right to buy owners in the UK
Journal article
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/83282023-04-18T09:47:14Zcom_10023_71com_10023_24com_10023_1943com_10023_879com_10023_878col_10023_72col_10023_1944col_10023_880
Feng, Zhiqiang
Van Ham, Maarten
Boyle, Paul Joseph
Raab, Gillian Mary
2016-02-28T00:11:33Z
2016-02-28T00:11:33Z
2014-02-28
Feng , Z , Van Ham , M , Boyle , P J & Raab , G M 2014 , ' Neighbourhood ethnic mix and the formation of mixed-ethnic unions in Britain : a longitudinal analysis ' , Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography , vol. 95 , no. 4 , pp. 307-321 . https://doi.org/10.1111/geob.12027
1468-0467
PURE: 43582137
PURE UUID: b6968c13-d24f-488b-bd24-425f35a44862
Scopus: 84897662133
ORCID: /0000-0002-2106-0702/work/64697474
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8328
https://doi.org/10.1111/geob.12027
RES-163-25-0026
Although developed societies are becoming increasingly ethnically diverse, relatively little research has been conducted on geographies of mixed-ethnic unions (married or cohabiting). There is some recent evidence from the US that mixed-ethnic couples are more likely to be found in mixed-ethnic neighbourhoods, but this research is based on cross-sectional data. Therefore it is not possible to determine whether mixed-ethnic couples are more likely to form in mixed-ethnic neighbourhoods or whether they are more likely to move there. Our longitudinal analysis allows us to tease out the relative importance of these two processes, furthering our understanding of the formation of mixed-ethnic unions. Using data from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study we examine neighbourhood effects on the formation of mixed-ethnic unions in England and Wales. We find that mixed-ethnic unions are more likely to form in neighbourhoods with low concentrations of co-ethnic population. The results from this study lend support to the contact theory that geographical proximity to other ethnic groups enhances mutual understanding between people from different ethnic groups and could lead to the development of intimate partnerships.
eng
© The authors 2013 Geografiska Annaler: Series B © 2013 Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography. This is the accepted version of the following article: Feng, Z., Boyle, P., van Ham, M. and Raab, G. M. (2013), Neighbourhood ethnic mix and the formation of mixed-ethnic unions in Britain: a longitudinal analysis. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 95: 307–321, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geob.12027
Mixed ethnic unions
Neighbourhoods
Britain
Longitudinal analysis
Union formation
G Geography (General)
Neighbourhood ethnic mix and the formation of mixed-ethnic unions in Britain : a longitudinal analysis
Journal article