Whether suburbs are regarded as a distinctive feature of the contemporary urban landscape or as symptomatic of ‘sprawl’ the recent upsurge of scholarly interesting suburbia has done little to displace the dominant image of the suburb as primarily residential phenomenon. In a wide ranging survey of the academic literature, taking account of current developments in the policy debate relating to s...

Project funding is an increasingly important mode of research funding. The rationale is that through project funding new fields and new themes can be supported more effectively. Furthermore, project funding improves competition, which is expected to select the better research projects and researchers. However, project funding has a price, as it requires researchers to invest time in reviewing p...

Although first responders use a wide range of decision-support tools to identify toxic chemicals during emergencies, few studies have analyzed the tasks and contexts in which such tools are used. Here we discuss an in-depth analysis of semistructured interviews conducted with 20 first responders from two US states. In the first phase of the analysis, we identified three intersecting themes rela...

This paper analyses the themes arising from two Community of Practice (CoP) projects focused on supporting postgraduate research supervisors. One project was undertaken in New Zealand and the other in Queensland, Australia. The aim of the analysis is to provide interested readers with advice on important aspects of Postgraduate Supervision and Examination. The motivation for these CoP projects ...

This large and important work gathers together an enormous variety of action research processes, applications and skills in its 45 chapters. Following a useful section of chapter outlines and an introduction by the editors, a section on "Groundings" offers a number of value and epistemological positions. This is followed in turn by three other sections and a conclusion. "Practices" provides des...

Business agility has been studied by researchers since the beginning of 1990s. With the increased diffusion of information technology (IT) in business, IT is often been brought up as a factor pushing for agility as well as being a potential enabler for agility. As a result, IT organisations need not only to better understand business agility but also their own agility and their role in promotin...

Organizational awareness, readiness, and competitiveness as it relates to green information systems and technology has become all too familiar in recent years. As the world is taking notice of the damage that the earth has endured, more and more organizations have stepped up to address the issue. This article examines the GreenIS/IT literature published between 2000–2010 to provide a review of ...

The existence results we discuss for each of these problems are ones whereby known solutions (sometimes satisfying certain nondegeneracy hypotheses) are glued together to produce new solutions. Although this sort of procedure is quite well-known, there have been some recent advances on which we wish to report here. We also discuss what has been established about the moduli spaces of all solutio...

The aim of this paper is to explore function allocation from the perspective of studies of work practices and of the relationships between work and technology. In recent years we have conducted a number of studies broadly in the area of computer-supported collaborative work and also in the area of flight deck design methods. Our involvement in both of these areas has led us to think about the r...

Large context problems (LCP) are useful in teaching the history of science. In this article we consider the brachistochrone problem in a context stretching from Euclid through the Bernoullis. We highlight a variety of results understandable by students without a background in analytic geometry. By a judicious choice of methods and themes, large parts of the history of calculus can be made acces...