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Publication Open Access Legal skills: understanding and adapting legal education to the changing needs of clients(Coventry Open Press for European Law Faculties Association, 2025-09-23)The movie A Few Good Men is known for the infamous line: ‘You can’t handle the truth.’ Less attention is placed on the dialogue that follows when Jack Nicholson’s character tells the attorney cross-examining him: ‘You have the luxury of not knowing what I know… I have greater responsibility than you can fathom.’ In imbuing lawyering skills, much of the academic focus has been on legal writing, research, analysis, and advocacy. Although, these skills remain the core requirements for lawyers in ‘handling the truth’, this article argues, however, that, particularly, in a world changed by the pandemic and artificial intelligence, lawyers will need to be able to offer more. There needs to be a move from a ‘linear’ approach to case progression which, typically, starts with the historical facts of the dispute presented at an initial lawyer-client interview and progresses to final hearing or settlement, to one in which lawyers need to consider the wider implications of the conflict that has arisen. Consideration must be given to the personal, financial, societal factors or responsibilities that may have contributed to the legal issue for the client and how these factors may potentially impact on the client’s autonomy to resolve the dispute. In attempting to ensure that future lawyers ‘fathom’ the client perspective, this article will examine importance of legal educators underpinning design thinking in law by being cognisant of, and engaging law students with theory, to include Bronfenbrenner’s theory of the ‘ecology of human development’ and the extent to which being part of this wider ecology impacts on conflict and the way in which a dispute develops. It argues that a robust theoretical framework will aid understanding for a more ‘client-centred’, multi-disciplinary and therapeutic jurisprudential approach enhancing design thinking, such that future generations of lawyers develop the transversal skills required to take a wider, shared leadership perspective in addressing clients’ concerns in a more complete way. While this applies more specifically to future lawyers in common law jurisdictions, it is argued that such understanding will be important for anyone who wishes to use their law degree or training, in-house or in industry, whether working with teams of professionals, clients or customers across both common and civil law jurisdictions.Publication Embargo Ageing with place: examining the relationship between ageing and therapeutic landscape among mid-life women in rural Sweden, Ireland and Scotland(Bristol University Press and Policy Press, 2025-11-13)This article examines the relationship between the natural environment as therapeutic landscape and the ageing of mid-life rural women. The concept of ageing ‘with’ or ‘alongside’ place has received less academic attention than that of ageing ‘in place’ within the homeplace or locality, but is equally worthy of further exploration. Three distinct studies over separate time periods during 2013–21 were conducted within selected rural areas of Sweden, Ireland and Scotland to explore the relationship between the natural environment, its therapeutic qualities and the ageing of mid-life women. Qualitative data from one-to-one in-person interviews were gathered and analysed from a lifecourse perspective and informed by constructivist grounded theory. Findings from these three studies extend existing narratives on the relationship between perspectives on ageing and the natural therapeutic environment. While the research sites of these studies are all rural, nuanced geo-socio-demographic differences exist that produce deep participant diversity on ageing and the natural environment as therapeutic landscape. Overall, the natural environment was perceived as a positive, therapeutic contributor to ageing, but from different perspectives, for which three descriptors have been created. The 10 participants in Värmland, Sweden, viewed therapeutic landscape from a ‘utilitarian’ perspective; the 25 participants in Connemara, Ireland, viewed it from a ‘pragmatic’ perspective; and the 12 participants in the Outer Hebridean islands, Scotland, viewed it from an ‘aesthetic’ perspective. Such diversity of perspective is important to note as it suggests that mid-life rural women use their environments differently and follow culturally heterogeneous pathways toward ageing.Publication Open Access Attitudes towards LLM use among software engineering researchers: Results from a two-phase survey study(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2025-07-28)This two-phase survey study investigates Software Engineering (SE) researchers' attitudes toward incorporating AI tools, particularly large language models (LLMs), in their workflows. Conducted at a large, independent European research institute, the study provides insights into the emerging norms and attitudes regarding AI integration within empirical SE practices, crucial insights for ensuring responsible AI use and maintaining scientific integrity in the SE field. Our findings reveal that SE researchers prefer LLM contributions when applied on small, narrowly scoped, and verifiable tasks rather than open-ended tasks, and used as a as supplementary tool to traditional methods. In contrast, it is viewed as inappropriate for evaluating others' work. Finally, we observed conflicting views regarding high-stakes tasks traditionally reflecting genuine human effort and emotional commitment.Publication Embargo Towards a conceptualization of data rhythm: An assemblage-based approach(Association for Information Systems (AIS), 2025-12-14)This research-in-progress introduces the concept of data rhythm to explore how digital data both shapes and is shaped by organizational rhythms. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of assemblage, the study responds to the need for more nuanced temporal concepts in Information Systems (IS) research. This paper argues that rhythm, as understood within process philosophy, can offer a fruitful lens for understanding the temporal dynamics of data use. Based on fieldwork in a European law enforcement agency, the study proposes four preliminary propositions for conceptualizing data rhythm, illustrating, for instance, how conflicting rhythms between operational, investigative, and IT units affect data-driven efforts. The police context highlights how data is embedded in sociotechnical rhythms that are both emergent and uneven. The study contributes a theoretical and methodological starting point for examining rhythm as a temporal phenomenon in data-intensive organizations and outlines a research agenda for future empirical and conceptual development.Publication Embargo Review of Tudor Networks of Power by Ruth and Sebastian E. Ahnert(De Gruyter, 2025-11-12)[No abstract available]
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