• Introducing stories into downward counterfactual analysis: Examples from a potential Mediterranean disaster 

  Penney, C; Walshe, R; Baker, H; et al. (Frontiers Media, 7 April 2022)

  How to recognise potential disasters is a question at the centre of risk analysis. Over-reliance on an incomplete, often epistemologically-biased, historical record, and a focus on quantified and quantifiable risks, have ...

• Tennis as literary technique 

  Carver, B (Routledge, 2022)

  How might a novel play tennis? In a New York Times essay on Roger Federer, David Foster Wallace reflects on how the climactic topspin lob that won Wimbledon for Federer in 2006 was a product of narrative, reliant on a ...

• Constructed Masculinities: Unpicking Working-Class Masculinities through Knitting 

  Fountain, D (Routledge, 29 March 2022)

  Connor Shields is a Leeds-based artist originally from Middlesbrough. Combining materials commonly associated with the construction industry, with those of knitting and textiles, he explores themes of queer identity and ...

• On not being able to read: doomscrolling and anxiety in pandemic times 

  Salisbury, L (Routledge, 29 March 2022)

  This article analyses ‘doomscrolling’, or the compulsive reading of anxiety-inducing online content during the COVID-19 pandemic, against the common idea that it is simply an addictive social practice that impedes mental ...

• Play, Craft, Design, Feel: Engaging Students and the Public with Victorian Culture 

  Plunkett, J; Hadjiafxendi, K (Palgrave Macmillan, 15 March 2022)

  Hadjiafxendi and Plunkett have used experiential learning in their individual teaching and research, and this chapter reflects on its benefits and limits. Their work on nineteenth-century material culture, handicrafts, and ...

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