Geography & Geosciences Research: Recent submissions
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Right to buy … time to move? Investigating the moving behaviour of right to buy owners in the UK
(2013-03) - Journal articlePart 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 ... -
Transcriptional Response of Selenopolypeptide Genes and Selenocysteine Biosynthesis Machinery Genes in Escherichia coli during Selenite Reduction
(2014-04-15) - Journal articleBacteria 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 ... -
Challenging the Norm? The 'EthoPolitics' of Low Cost Homeownership in Scotland
(2011-12) - Journal articleInfluenced 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 ... -
Empowering Glasgow’s tenants through community ownership?
(2009-06) - Journal articlePost 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 ... -
The end of the Right to Buy and the future of social housing in Scotland
(2010-06-01) - Journal articleThirty-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 ...