University of West London

Managing Multi-Generational and Age-Diverse Teams: A Paradigm Shift Beyond Stereotypes

The contemporary workforce is commonly described as an unprecedented amalgam of five distinct generations: Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and Generation Z. This narrative, while popular in management literature and media, rests on a foundation of questi...

ADHD and Autism in Online Higher Education: A Scoping Review and Thematic Synthesis of Reported Challenges

Studies involving students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and/or autism have reported a range of challenges in higher education that may affect academic success and retention. Yet, most existing reviews focus on in-person settings at primary or secondary lev...

Governance-Aware Generative AI Literacy for Adult Higher Education

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is becoming routine in university study, yet institutional responses often separate technical fluency, academic integrity, and responsible governance. This integrative conceptual synthesis develops governance-aware GenAI literacy for adu...

Beyond Zoom: A Socio-Temporal Framework for Leading Fragmented Teams in the New Era of Work

The widespread adoption of remote, hybrid, and distributed work models represents a fundamental paradigm shift in the modern workplace. While initial discourse focused on the implementation of communication technologies, organizations now face deeper challenges in fostering cohes...

What influences witness satisfaction in police interviews? interpersonal qualities and perceived identity bias

Witness interviews play an important role in criminal investigations, yet the experiences of witnesses have received comparatively limited empirical attention. This study examined how witnesses in the United Kingdom perceive the quality of police witness interviews. Seventy-four...

Endogenous Escalation and Chokepoint Cascades in the U.S.-Iran War: A Partially Observable Dynamic Game of Global Energy-Macroeconomic Tail Risk

This paper develops the Endogenous Escalation and Chokepoint Cascade Model (EECCM), a hybrid mathematical framework for forecasting the probabilistic narrative arc and global economic tail risk of the U.S.-Iran war. The central outcome is not a point forecast of oil prices. It is...

From Two Players to a Galactic Network: Entry, Extinction, Coalitions, Cliques and Spatial Topology in Interstellar Strategic Interaction

Dark Forest arguments commonly reduce interstellar strategy to a bilateral encounter between two persistent civilisations. A galaxy, however, is an open population in which civilisations enter, disappear, form selective relationships and occupy a spatially constrained network. Th...

From Two Players to a Galactic Network: Entry, Extinction, Coalitions, Cliques and Spatial Topology in Interstellar Strategic Interaction

Dark Forest arguments commonly reduce interstellar strategy to a bilateral encounter between two persistent civilisations. A galaxy, however, is an open population in which civilisations enter, disappear, form selective relationships and occupy a spatially constrained network. Th...

Reconstructing the Dark Forest as a Bayesian Game: Exact Conditions for Concealment, Pre-emption and Credible Contact

The Dark Forest hypothesis treats cosmic silence as the strategic consequence of uncertainty, catastrophic vulnerability and incentives for pre-emptive attack. Its central conclusion is usually stated intuitively rather than derived from an explicit incomplete-information game. T...

Reconstructing the Dark Forest as a Bayesian Game: Exact Conditions for Concealment, Pre-emption and Credible Contact

The Dark Forest hypothesis treats cosmic silence as the strategic consequence of uncertainty, catastrophic vulnerability and incentives for pre-emptive attack. Its central conclusion is usually stated intuitively rather than derived from an explicit incomplete-information game. T...

Agentic AI and the Dissolution of Managerial Authority: Organisational Sensegiving in Autonomous Decision-Making Systems

Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is shifting from decision support to autonomous coordination, challenging established assumptions about managerial authority. This qualitative conceptual paper synthesises recent literature in algorithmic management, organisational theory, and...

Agentic AI and the Dissolution of Managerial Authority: Organisational Sensegiving in Autonomous Decision-Making Systems

Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is shifting from decision support to autonomous coordination, challenging established assumptions about managerial authority. This qualitative conceptual paper synthesises recent literature in algorithmic management, organisational theory, and...

The Conjunctive Misfortune Problem: Behavioural Tail Risk, Outcome Luck, and Punishment Cascades

A serious behavioural failure may be uncommon within a person’s history yet become the principal basis for judgments of character and future risk. This conceptual article develops the conjunctive misfortune problem: adverse conditions, culpable action, stochastic harm, categorica...

Narrative Hysteresis: The Presumption Gap, Gendered Epistemic Risk, and Reputational Non-Reversibility After Public Accusation

Legal systems can reverse convictions, dismiss charges, and acquit defendants, but public narratives are not designed to reverse with comparable speed or precision. This article develops narrative hysteresis as a theory of reputational path dependence after public accusation. It...

ERIES-REVAULTS Pseudo-Dynamic tests on a full-scale masonry cross vault system: dataset

This paper presents the dataset generated within the ERIES-REVAULTs experimental campaign, aimed at investigating the in-plane shear behaviour of masonry cross vaults, representative of historic churches. In post-earthquake surveys, the damage associated with this type of mechani...

The Status-Punishment Paradox: Status-Amplified Schadenfreude, Moralized Reputational Aggression, and the Digital Afterlife of Punishment

Why can prior achievement become a liability after wrongdoing? This conceptual article integrates research on tall-poppy effects, social comparison, schadenfreude, moral outrage, public shaming, news values, and criminal-record stigma into a theory of the Status-Punishment Parado...

Fracture-Controlled Mechanical Behavior of Steel Fiber-Reinforced Ultra-High-Performance Concrete Incorporating Slag and Limestone Powder Under Static and Impact Loading

Ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) is characterized by exceptional compressive strength; however, its structural performance is primarily governed by tensile behavior, fracture resistance, and energy dissipation. This study presents a comprehensive mechanical characterization...

The Post-Economic Human: Artificial Intelligence, Ontological Displacement, and the Ideological Foundations of Future Conflict

Artificial intelligence is usually analysed as a productivity technology, a labour-market shock, or a governance problem. This article argues that its deeper political significance may arise from a fourth channel: ontological displacement. Ontological displacement occurs when a t...

The Post-Economic Human: Artificial Intelligence, Ontological Displacement, and the Ideological Foundations of Future Conflict

Artificial intelligence is usually analysed as a productivity technology, a labour-market shock, or a governance problem. This article argues that its deeper political significance may arise from a fourth channel: ontological displacement. Ontological displacement occurs when a t...

Are Digital Commons the Future of Political Organization? A Critical Analysis of Post-Capitalist Governance

This paper critically examines the proposition that digital commons represent the future of political organization. Moving beyond utopian proclamations, it offers a rigorous analysis grounded in political theory, empirical evidence, and novel theoretical perspectives. The paper b...