United Kingdom

The report begins with an overview of the current landscape of U.K.-U.S. connections, including an inventory of institutional partnerships and activities, and a summary of evident trends. Next, a variety of entities and organizations aside from higher education institutions that promote collaboration in the U.K.-U.S. context are described. The discussion then turns to the factors that facilitate engagement, as well as key challenges that often arise in the course of collaborative ventures.  The report concludes with a set of recommendations —aimed at
colleges and universities, policy-makers, and other stakeholders—for ways to enhance bilateral ties between individual institutions and the broader higher education communities of which they are a part.​

Purpose – The image of cyclists has been increasingly recognised as an important factor in social marketing programmes aimed at increasing cycling. The purpose of this paper is to present findings from a multi-stage research project exploring image incongruencies between cyclists and non-cyclists in the UK. Design/methodology/approach – The theoretical framework of self-image congruency was used to explore a possible

This paper engages with the shift towards an emphasis on ‘resilience’ in local government discourses. Using the London Borough of Newham as a case study, it will argue that contradictory definitions of the term have, until recently, been used to justify the erosion of the third sector in the borough, specifically groups who support religious and linguistic minorities. Interviews and documentary analysis are used to consider how the concept of resilience had a racializing effect in this borough, and we argue that as a facet of policy resilience risks treating plurality as a threat rather than a strength. This is highlighted through an examination of how the third sector was characterised as retarding individuals’ resilience and promoting ‘ethno-centrism’ in official resilience discourse. We offer three distinctive insights on the problem of resilience as a feature of policy, firstly, that resilience has a symbolic power that makes it difficult to securitize; secondly, resilience discourses risk instituting racism within policy; and thirdly, that resilience is built against collective forms of resistance and is therefore incapable of harnessing the resources and capacities of local populations. To conclude, we discuss the evolving political situation in the borough and the demise of the administration promoting resilience, through collective forms of resistance.