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Item The Securitisation of Space Mining. Space Resources Acquisition in Between Geopolitics, Supply-Chain Challenges, and Environmental Risks(Springer Nature Singapore, 2026-02-16) Paladini, StefaniaThe acquisition and industrial exploitation of resources in/from outer space (i.e., ‘space mining’) is at present more an ambitious plan than an actual thing, and enormous challenges will have to be met before it becomes reality. And yet, the power politics on Earth is already shaping the sector-to-be, with nation-states’ sourcing plans that clash in their trajectories and an increasingly hostile narrative. This is leading to a securitisation of the sector that can transfer dangerous dynamics from Earth to space and threaten the development of the sector itself, which should instead focus on addressing feasibility challenges first and foremost. Moreover, outer space is a fragile environment, and the use of advanced technology could be used in an offensive capacity, leading to cyberattacks and disruptions of space operation. This article investigates the ongoing securitisation and its risks, highlighting risks and challenges, from legal to technical to logistical, and the possible solutions to ensure space sustainability is given the centrality it deserves for a peaceful and fruitful development of the sector.Item Does Eyewitness Confidence Calibration Vary by Target Race?(MDPI AG, 2026-02-10) Töredi, Dilhan; Mansour, Jamal K.; Jones, Sian; Skelton, Faye; McIntyre, AlexAfter making a lineup decision, eyewitnesses may be asked to indicate their confidence in their decision. Eyewitness confidence is considered an important reflector of accuracy. Previous studies have considered the confidence-accuracy (CA) relationship—that is, the relationship between participants’ confidence in their lineup decision and the accuracy of that decision. However, the literature is limited and mixed concerning the CA relationship in cross-race scenarios. We considered the CA relationship for White and Asian participants and targets (fully crossed) using sequential lineups. Participants completed four trials (two White targets and two Asian targets). For each trial, they watched a mock-crime video, performed a distractor task, made a sequential lineup decision (target-present or target-absent), and indicated confidence in their lineup decision. White participants had higher identification accuracy with White than Asian targets, while Asian participants were similarly accurate with White and Asian targets. White participants’ confidence was better calibrated for White than Asian targets, except for when they had medium-high confidence (no difference). This finding is not only theoretically relevant—showing support for the optimality hypothesis—but also practically relevant—suggesting that the CA relationship may differ for target races at some levels of confidence.Item Getting to the Art of the Matter: Exploring Autonomy and Relationality in Babies' Right to Be Heard Through the Participatory Arts(Wiley, 2026-02-11) Blaisdell, Caralyn; Drury, Rachel; Matheson, Rhona; Ruckert‐Fagan, ClaireThis paper explores relational understandings of children's participation rights, particularly for babies and very young children under 2 years old. We draw on selected data from the Voice of the Baby research project commissioned by Starcatchers, an early years arts organisation in Scotland (2022-ongoing). The overarching aim of the Voice of the Baby project is to explore how babies' participation rights might be realised through the participatory arts. In this paper, we use observations of artists' creative work with babies to illustrate the relational elements of their listening practice. Artists worked through reciprocal interactions with babies, their families, other people in the spaces, the physical materials and qualities of the space, underpinning knowledge of the communities and their own identities as artists. These findings demonstrate that a relational orientation to children's rights is an essential aspect of participatory work in the very early years. However, while the need to understand interdependence, relationality and fluidity has been a key aspect of debates about children's participation rights for decades, an individualist image of the autonomous participating child continues to rear its head. By bringing the Voice of the Baby project into dialogue with international theorisations of children's participation rights—particularly from Majority World contexts—we argue that the tension between autonomous and relational understandings of the child creates a generative space for reflexivity and transparency about how very young children are being involved in conversations about their lives.Item Queen Margaret University and Metropolitan College, Greece(British Council, 2026) Makellaraki, VickyItem The leadership paradox: navigating leadership dilemmas at different levels in professional learning communities(Informa UK Limited, 2026-02-07) Oates, CatrionaProfessional learning communities (PLCs) are often positioned as a means of collaborative, situated professional learning and an opportunity for the development of a horizontal structure that might support middle-level teacher leadership. Here, they are considered in the context of teacher professional learning in Scotland, with a focus on relational practices within them. The study uses semi-structured interviews in two school settings to shine a light on how relationships and leadership dynamics play out inside these communities, resulting in some leadership dilemmas that emerge for school leaders at different levels. This qualitative case study, drawn from a broader doctoral study, is grounded in Analytical Dualism to provide ontological depth that allows for the examination of mechanisms explaining how structural, cultural and agential factors have influenced the internal workings of the PLCs in question. Data reported on here represent interviews (n = 8) with participants in two settings. Findings suggest that for teacher leaders and school leaders, some tensions are identified in balancing horizontal and vertical relationships. Finally, implications for practice, policy and research are explored, considering how PLCs might be re-articulated in the light of these findings.Item Teacher Agency: Real-world issues and Home Economics in Scotland(2026) Craig, LindaItem The Confidence of White Eyewitnesses is Better Calibrated with White Targets than Asian Targets(MDPI, 2026) Töredi, Dilhan; Mansour, Jamal K.; Jones, Sian; Skelton, Faye; McIntyre, AlexAfter making a lineup decision, eyewitnesses may be asked to indicate their confidence in their decision. Eyewitness confidence is considered an important reflector of accuracy. Previous studies have considered the confidence-accuracy (CA) relationship—that is, the relationship between participants’ confidence in their lineup decision and the accuracy of that decision. However, the literature is limited and mixed concerning the CA relationship in cross-race scenarios. We considered the CA relationship for White and Asian participants and targets (fully-crossed) using sequential lineups. Participants completed four trials (two White targets and two Asian targets). For each trial, they watched a mock-crime video, performed a distractor task, made a sequential lineup decision (target-present or target-absent), and indicated confidence in their lineup decision. White participants had higher identification accuracy with White than Asian targets, while Asian participants were similarly accurate with White and Asian targets. White participants’ confidence was better calibrated for White than Asian targets, except for when they had medium-high confidence (no difference). This finding is not only theoretically relevant—showing support for the optimality hypothesis— but also practically relevant—suggesting that the CA relationship may differ for target races at some levels of confidence.Item Does Research Soothe You? Audiovisual Experimentation, Traumatic Memory, and the Question of the Senses(Tallinn University Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School, 2025-12-23) Mosch, ReginaThis article examines how audiovisual artistic research can generate sensorial, inter-relational forms of impact when dealing with trauma and vulnerable bodies. Drawing on the film series what it felt like to dream fire I–III and the co-creative exhibition over/exposed, it proposes touch and breath – as theorised by Butler, Irigaray, Quinlivan and Marks – as conceptual and methodological lenses for understanding how bodies engage with research processes. Through phenomenological analysis, the article shows how artistic research practices can unsettle traditional separations between researcher and researched, instead foregrounding intertwined bodily relations that emerge during creation, collaboration and exhibition. While not therapeutic in intent, these practices can produce moments of soothing, connection and shared vulnerability, particularly in contexts of trauma and queerness. The article argues that such sensorial, affective encounters expand prevailing notions of impact and reciprocity in artistic research, highlighting how research processes themselves may provide a ground for collectivity and shared affects between participants, researchers and viewers alike.Item Why not use personal norms in message framing?: Understanding the importance of self-consciousness and green preference when promoting pro-environmental behaviour(Elsevier BV, 2026-01-31) Zhou, Yuanyuan; Wilson, Juliette; Karampela, Maria; de Groot, JudithNormative messages are an established way to promote pro-environmental behaviour. However, research examining the conditions under which such messages are effective predominantly focus on social rather than personal norms. As personal norms have been identified as a much stronger predictor of pro-environmental behaviour, the present study examined the mechanisms through which personal rather than social normative messages enable people to act in line with these norms. In two experimental studies (N=200 and N=249), in which normative messages and self-consciousness were manipulated, findings reveal that personal normative messages positively impact intentions to re-use hotel towels indirectly through one’s green preference on both studies, and directly as well in Study 2. Furthermore, these (in)direct effects are negatively moderated through one’s self-consciousness. These mechanisms through which personal normative messages vary in their effectiveness in promoting re-using towels, advances our understanding of how personal rather than social normative messages can be used to promote pro-environmental behaviour change.Item Remaking communities and adult learning: Social and community-based learning, new forms of knowledge and action for change [Book review](Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2025-07-23) Scandrett, EurigRemaking communities and adult learning: Social and community-based learning, new forms of knowledge and action for change Rob Evans, Ewa Kurantowicz and Emilio Lucio-Villegas (Eds). Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2022, xix, 257 pp. Research on the Education and Learning of Adults series, vol. 11. ISBN 978-90-04-51802-5 (hbk), ISBN 978-90-04-51801-8 (pbk), ISBN 978-90-04-51803-2 (eBook)