Nick Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keele University |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-4635-7708 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 220 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Britain’s State-endorsed ‘Radical Left’: Fireweed , a Magazine of Working-class and Socialist Arts, 1975–1978
Exploring online consumer review-management response dynamics: A heuristic-systematic perspective
Although the effects of managerial responses (MRs) on subsequent customer reviews (CRs) has been explored, we lack a comprehensive theoretical framework to explain the interdependent relationships between previous and subsequent CRs—specifically the dynamic influences of MRs on future CRs. We draw on emotional contagion and regulation theories to develop a heuristic systematic model to explain CR-MR dynamics in online settings. We propose six sys…
The effect of gender composition and pedagogical approach on major and non-major undergraduates biology students’ achievement
This study hypothesized whether the gender group composition in traditional learning (TL) versus collaborative learning (CL) classrooms of undergraduate biology majors and nonmajors correlate with students’ achievements. We measured the effect on gender and the gender-specific achievements of the TL versus CL approach in single-gender and mixed-gender classes. A significant gender gap was found in the achievements of both nonmajor and major stude…
Emotional response to U.K. political party leader facial displays of affiliation, reward, and ambiguity during Brexit
Objective On December 12, 2019, the United Kingdom's ruling Conservative Party called an election that put the country's 2016 “Brexit” referendum on leaving the European Union to the test. The divisive campaign and a polarized electorate culminated in large losses by opposition Labour and Liberal Democratic parties. Amid a polarized electorate, lingering questions arise as to whether the election results reflect more upon partisan ties or the res…
Child Studies Multiple: Collaborative play for thinking through theories and methods
This text is an exploration of collaborative thinking and writing through theories, methods, and experiences on the topic of the child, children, and childhood. It is a collaborative written text (with 32 authors) that sprang out of the experimental workshop Child Studies Multiple. The workshop and this text are about daring to stay with mess, 'un-closure' , and uncertainty in order to investigate the (e)motions and complexities of being either a…
Black Country Dionysus —Archie Hill and A Cage of Shadows
This article considers the case of Archie Hill (1928–1986), the near-forgotten novelist, journalist and BBC television presenter. Using scant archive material, interviews and some speculative theorising, this study hopes to recount something of Hill’s life and assess his place in the canon of English literature with particular focus on A Cage of Shadows (1973), the account of his impoverished upbringing in the Black Country. Publisher’s Note: Thi…
Heritable Genome Editing in a Global Context: National and International Policy Challenges
A central problem for the international governance of heritable germline gene editing is that there are important differences in attitudes and values as well as ethical and health care considerations around the world. These differences are reflected in a complicated and diverse regulatory landscape. Several publications have discussed whether reproductive uses would be legally permissible in individual countries and whether clinical applications …
Children and sexting: The case for intergenerational co-learning
Children's sexting is presented as an emergent outcome of technology-based innovation in children's peer-to-peer relations. We argue that it calls for creative responses that draw on adults' and children's understandings and views and on exchanges of these. We describe, and make the case for, intergenerational co-learning as a practice that could foster such creativity, as a pathway for children's participation in the debate, and as a means by wh…
Critical Essay: Organizational cognitive neuroscience drives theoretical progress, or: The curious case of the straw man murder
In this critical essay, we respond to Lindebaum’s argument that neuroscientific methodologies and data have been accepted prematurely in proposing novel management theory. We acknowledge that building new management theories requires firm foundations. We also find his distinction between demand and supply-side forces helpful as an analytical framework identifying the momentum for the contemporary production of management theory. Nevertheless, som…
Unique Selling Proposition
A unique selling proposition ( USP , also known as unique selling point) is something typically encountered in A dvertising and communications.
Childhood and Biopolitics: Climate Change, Life Processes and Human Futures
Will the future be a climate disaster? Will biotechnologies bring huge improvements to lifespan? Predictions vary, but children's status as human embodiments of the future puts them at the centre of a
Varieties of Biosocial Imagination: Reframing Responses to Climate Change and Antibiotic Resistance
The authors present climate change and antibiotic resistance as emergent biosocial phenomena-ongoing products of massively multiple interactions among human lifestyles and broader life processes. They argue that response to climate change and antibiotic resistance is often framed by two varieties of biosocial imagination. Anthropocentric imaginations privilege the question of human distinctiveness. Anthropomorphic imaginations privilege the quest…
The Biosocial Event: Responding to Innovation in the Life Sciences
Innovation in the life sciences calls for reflection on how sociologies separate and relate life processes and social processes. To this end we introduce the concept of the 'biosocial event'. Some life processes and social processes have more mutual relevance than others. Some of these relationships are more negotiable than others. We show that levels of relevance and negotiability are not static but can change within existing relationships. Such…
Navigating the bio-politics of childhood
Childhood research has long shared a bio-political terrain with state agencies in which children figure primarily as ‘human futures’. In the 20th century bio-social dualism helped to make that terrain navigable by researchers, but, as life processes increasingly become key sites of bio-political action, bio-social dualism is becoming less useful as a navigational aid. The contribution that a view of childhood as a ‘hybrid’ phenomenon might make t…
An exploration of consumer resistance to innovation and its antecedents
Awake, Asleep, Adult, Child: An A-humanist Account of Persons
s Sleeping persons do not seem to be agents, to express identity or to give voice. On one view this means that social research on sleep would do best to focus on the social context of sleep rather than sleep `itself'. If the only analytic vocabulary at our disposal consists of abstractions that assume the existence of self-conscious, self-present individuals, this conclusion is probably correct. This article, however, builds on the work of some c…
The Consumption of Mass
Part I -- Imagining Mass. Chapter 1 -- Individuality and Susceptibility: The Consumption of Agency in Social Structures, Barry Barnes, University of Exeter. Chapter 2 -- Pass the Salt: Materiality and the Production of Mass for Consumption, Dan Rose, University of Pennsylvania. Chapter 3 -- Consuming Mass: Mutability and Consumption, Robert Cooper, Keele University. Part II -- Community and Mass. Chapter 4 -- The Consumption of Masses: Calculatin…
Books Reviewed
Becoming Mass: Glamour, Authority and Human Presence
Social Order and the Blank Figure
Our aim in this paper is to introduce the figure of the underdetermined 'blank' into issues of social and spatial order. We argue that forms of social order habitually make tacit use of blank figures. Beginning with examples of blank figures as they appear in games of cards and dominos, we show how the 'joker' and the 'double-blank' domino, respectively, allow for conditions of both stasis and change to develop within an order. Such blanks are un…
Organization Unbound: Actor-Network Theory, Research Strategy and Institutional Flexibility
We develop two related Actor-Network Theory (ANT) arguments for organizational analysis. The first concerns research strategy and draws upon Latour's (1999) notion of definitional `sliding' to describe how ANT overcomes its analytical limitations by removing conditions that exclude the `other'. Through this discussion, we argue that, research-wise, ANT appears to be ontologically relativist, in permitting the world to be organized differentially,…
The Challenge of Childhood: Distributions of Childhood's Ambiguity in Adult Institutions
Three case studies of the position of children within adult institutions are reported. Each study examines the difficulties that surround children speaking for themselves. The studies focus on three different scales of analysis, moving from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, to a regional crisis in child protection in the UK, to the constraints and opportunities for children as witnesses in UK courtrooms. At each scale of analysis it i…
Towards an Immature Sociology
Sociological theory displays a tendency to depict the social world in terms of completed 'beings'. The social, thus depicted, is a world of powers to 'finish' (such as the power granted to convention to provide for social order), and finished products (such as agents and ethical points-of-view). As sociologists of childhood have attempted to bring children into sociological focus in their own right, the disciplinary concern with the 'complete' ha…
Who Pays? Can We Pay Them Back
This chapter is about a very old question that is thrown up again in discussion related to ANT. Do orders have necessary limits to what can belong to them? It is possible to read ANT as containing or demanding a moral commitment to the inclusion of the disenfranchised. It can often seem to be in the business of giving credit where credit is due, spreading recognition to even the most unexpected quarters. To sustain itself such a morality would de…
D&S Forum
Otherness and the Actor Network: The Undiscovered Continent
Human... is an adjective and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable. -William Burroughs
Social Order and the Blank Figure
Our aim in this paper is to introduce the figure of the underdetermined 'blank' into issues of social and spatial order. We argue that forms of social order habitually make tacit use of blank figures. Beginning with examples of blank figures as they appear in games of cards and dominos, we show how the 'joker' and the 'double-blank' domino, respectively, allow for conditions of both stasis and change to develop within an order. Such blanks are un…
Towards an Immature Sociology
Sociological theory displays a tendency to depict the social world in terms of completed 'beings'. The social, thus depicted, is a world of powers to 'finish' (such as the power granted to convention to provide for social order), and finished products (such as agents and ethical points-of-view). As sociologists of childhood have attempted to bring children into sociological focus in their own right, the disciplinary concern with the 'complete' ha…
Navigating the bio-politics of childhood
Childhood research has long shared a bio-political terrain with state agencies in which children figure primarily as ‘human futures’. In the 20th century bio-social dualism helped to make that terrain navigable by researchers, but, as life processes increasingly become key sites of bio-political action, bio-social dualism is becoming less useful as a navigational aid. The contribution that a view of childhood as a ‘hybrid’ phenomenon might make t…
The Challenge of Childhood: Distributions of Childhood's Ambiguity in Adult Institutions
Three case studies of the position of children within adult institutions are reported. Each study examines the difficulties that surround children speaking for themselves. The studies focus on three different scales of analysis, moving from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, to a regional crisis in child protection in the UK, to the constraints and opportunities for children as witnesses in UK courtrooms. At each scale of analysis it i…
An exploration of consumer resistance to innovation and its antecedents
Awake, Asleep, Adult, Child: An A-humanist Account of Persons
s Sleeping persons do not seem to be agents, to express identity or to give voice. On one view this means that social research on sleep would do best to focus on the social context of sleep rather than sleep `itself'. If the only analytic vocabulary at our disposal consists of abstractions that assume the existence of self-conscious, self-present individuals, this conclusion is probably correct. This article, however, builds on the work of some c…
Varieties of Biosocial Imagination: Reframing Responses to Climate Change and Antibiotic Resistance
The authors present climate change and antibiotic resistance as emergent biosocial phenomena-ongoing products of massively multiple interactions among human lifestyles and broader life processes. They argue that response to climate change and antibiotic resistance is often framed by two varieties of biosocial imagination. Anthropocentric imaginations privilege the question of human distinctiveness. Anthropomorphic imaginations privilege the quest…
The Biosocial Event: Responding to Innovation in the Life Sciences
Innovation in the life sciences calls for reflection on how sociologies separate and relate life processes and social processes. To this end we introduce the concept of the 'biosocial event'. Some life processes and social processes have more mutual relevance than others. Some of these relationships are more negotiable than others. We show that levels of relevance and negotiability are not static but can change within existing relationships. Such…
Child protection investigations: Discourse analysis and the management of incommensurability
This paper asks whether discourse analytic approaches in social psychology have yet produced methodologies adequate to the investigation of institutional ‘gaze’. Institutional language has been explored to the extent that state agencies construct members of the public by speaking about them in particular ways. This has often provided insight into the co‐existence and competition of incommensurable discourses. However, studies of representation in…
Critical Essay: Organizational cognitive neuroscience drives theoretical progress, or: The curious case of the straw man murder
In this critical essay, we respond to Lindebaum’s argument that neuroscientific methodologies and data have been accepted prematurely in proposing novel management theory. We acknowledge that building new management theories requires firm foundations. We also find his distinction between demand and supply-side forces helpful as an analytical framework identifying the momentum for the contemporary production of management theory. Nevertheless, som…
Emotional response to U.K. political party leader facial displays of affiliation, reward, and ambiguity during Brexit
Objective On December 12, 2019, the United Kingdom's ruling Conservative Party called an election that put the country's 2016 “Brexit” referendum on leaving the European Union to the test. The divisive campaign and a polarized electorate culminated in large losses by opposition Labour and Liberal Democratic parties. Amid a polarized electorate, lingering questions arise as to whether the election results reflect more upon partisan ties or the res…
Child Studies Multiple: Collaborative play for thinking through theories and methods
This text is an exploration of collaborative thinking and writing through theories, methods, and experiences on the topic of the child, children, and childhood. It is a collaborative written text (with 32 authors) that sprang out of the experimental workshop Child Studies Multiple. The workshop and this text are about daring to stay with mess, 'un-closure' , and uncertainty in order to investigate the (e)motions and complexities of being either a…
Children and sexting: The case for intergenerational co-learning
Children's sexting is presented as an emergent outcome of technology-based innovation in children's peer-to-peer relations. We argue that it calls for creative responses that draw on adults' and children's understandings and views and on exchanges of these. We describe, and make the case for, intergenerational co-learning as a practice that could foster such creativity, as a pathway for children's participation in the debate, and as a means by wh…
Becoming Mass: Glamour, Authority and Human Presence
D&S Forum
Child protection investigations: Discourse analysis and the management of incommensurability
This paper asks whether discourse analytic approaches in social psychology have yet produced methodologies adequate to the investigation of institutional ‘gaze’. Institutional language has been explored to the extent that state agencies construct members of the public by speaking about them in particular ways. This has often provided insight into the co‐existence and competition of incommensurable discourses. However, studies of representation in…
Otherness and the Actor Network: The Undiscovered Continent
Human... is an adjective and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable. -William Burroughs
D&S Forum
Towards an Immature Sociology
Sociological theory displays a tendency to depict the social world in terms of completed 'beings'. The social, thus depicted, is a world of powers to 'finish' (such as the power granted to convention to provide for social order), and finished products (such as agents and ethical points-of-view). As sociologists of childhood have attempted to bring children into sociological focus in their own right, the disciplinary concern with the 'complete' ha…
Who Pays? Can We Pay Them Back
This chapter is about a very old question that is thrown up again in discussion related to ANT. Do orders have necessary limits to what can belong to them? It is possible to read ANT as containing or demanding a moral commitment to the inclusion of the disenfranchised. It can often seem to be in the business of giving credit where credit is due, spreading recognition to even the most unexpected quarters. To sustain itself such a morality would de…
Organization Unbound: Actor-Network Theory, Research Strategy and Institutional Flexibility
We develop two related Actor-Network Theory (ANT) arguments for organizational analysis. The first concerns research strategy and draws upon Latour's (1999) notion of definitional `sliding' to describe how ANT overcomes its analytical limitations by removing conditions that exclude the `other'. Through this discussion, we argue that, research-wise, ANT appears to be ontologically relativist, in permitting the world to be organized differentially,…
The Challenge of Childhood: Distributions of Childhood's Ambiguity in Adult Institutions
Three case studies of the position of children within adult institutions are reported. Each study examines the difficulties that surround children speaking for themselves. The studies focus on three different scales of analysis, moving from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, to a regional crisis in child protection in the UK, to the constraints and opportunities for children as witnesses in UK courtrooms. At each scale of analysis it i…
Social Order and the Blank Figure
Our aim in this paper is to introduce the figure of the underdetermined 'blank' into issues of social and spatial order. We argue that forms of social order habitually make tacit use of blank figures. Beginning with examples of blank figures as they appear in games of cards and dominos, we show how the 'joker' and the 'double-blank' domino, respectively, allow for conditions of both stasis and change to develop within an order. Such blanks are un…
Books Reviewed
Becoming Mass: Glamour, Authority and Human Presence
The Consumption of Mass
Part I -- Imagining Mass. Chapter 1 -- Individuality and Susceptibility: The Consumption of Agency in Social Structures, Barry Barnes, University of Exeter. Chapter 2 -- Pass the Salt: Materiality and the Production of Mass for Consumption, Dan Rose, University of Pennsylvania. Chapter 3 -- Consuming Mass: Mutability and Consumption, Robert Cooper, Keele University. Part II -- Community and Mass. Chapter 4 -- The Consumption of Masses: Calculatin…
Awake, Asleep, Adult, Child: An A-humanist Account of Persons
s Sleeping persons do not seem to be agents, to express identity or to give voice. On one view this means that social research on sleep would do best to focus on the social context of sleep rather than sleep `itself'. If the only analytic vocabulary at our disposal consists of abstractions that assume the existence of self-conscious, self-present individuals, this conclusion is probably correct. This article, however, builds on the work of some c…
An exploration of consumer resistance to innovation and its antecedents
Navigating the bio-politics of childhood
Childhood research has long shared a bio-political terrain with state agencies in which children figure primarily as ‘human futures’. In the 20th century bio-social dualism helped to make that terrain navigable by researchers, but, as life processes increasingly become key sites of bio-political action, bio-social dualism is becoming less useful as a navigational aid. The contribution that a view of childhood as a ‘hybrid’ phenomenon might make t…
The Biosocial Event: Responding to Innovation in the Life Sciences
Innovation in the life sciences calls for reflection on how sociologies separate and relate life processes and social processes. To this end we introduce the concept of the 'biosocial event'. Some life processes and social processes have more mutual relevance than others. Some of these relationships are more negotiable than others. We show that levels of relevance and negotiability are not static but can change within existing relationships. Such…
Childhood and Biopolitics: Climate Change, Life Processes and Human Futures
Will the future be a climate disaster? Will biotechnologies bring huge improvements to lifespan? Predictions vary, but children's status as human embodiments of the future puts them at the centre of a
Varieties of Biosocial Imagination: Reframing Responses to Climate Change and Antibiotic Resistance
The authors present climate change and antibiotic resistance as emergent biosocial phenomena-ongoing products of massively multiple interactions among human lifestyles and broader life processes. They argue that response to climate change and antibiotic resistance is often framed by two varieties of biosocial imagination. Anthropocentric imaginations privilege the question of human distinctiveness. Anthropomorphic imaginations privilege the quest…
Unique Selling Proposition
A unique selling proposition ( USP , also known as unique selling point) is something typically encountered in A dvertising and communications.
Critical Essay: Organizational cognitive neuroscience drives theoretical progress, or: The curious case of the straw man murder
In this critical essay, we respond to Lindebaum’s argument that neuroscientific methodologies and data have been accepted prematurely in proposing novel management theory. We acknowledge that building new management theories requires firm foundations. We also find his distinction between demand and supply-side forces helpful as an analytical framework identifying the momentum for the contemporary production of management theory. Nevertheless, som…
Children and sexting: The case for intergenerational co-learning
Children's sexting is presented as an emergent outcome of technology-based innovation in children's peer-to-peer relations. We argue that it calls for creative responses that draw on adults' and children's understandings and views and on exchanges of these. We describe, and make the case for, intergenerational co-learning as a practice that could foster such creativity, as a pathway for children's participation in the debate, and as a means by wh…
Heritable Genome Editing in a Global Context: National and International Policy Challenges
A central problem for the international governance of heritable germline gene editing is that there are important differences in attitudes and values as well as ethical and health care considerations around the world. These differences are reflected in a complicated and diverse regulatory landscape. Several publications have discussed whether reproductive uses would be legally permissible in individual countries and whether clinical applications …
Black Country Dionysus —Archie Hill and A Cage of Shadows
This article considers the case of Archie Hill (1928–1986), the near-forgotten novelist, journalist and BBC television presenter. Using scant archive material, interviews and some speculative theorising, this study hopes to recount something of Hill’s life and assess his place in the canon of English literature with particular focus on A Cage of Shadows (1973), the account of his impoverished upbringing in the Black Country. Publisher’s Note: Thi…
The effect of gender composition and pedagogical approach on major and non-major undergraduates biology students’ achievement
This study hypothesized whether the gender group composition in traditional learning (TL) versus collaborative learning (CL) classrooms of undergraduate biology majors and nonmajors correlate with students’ achievements. We measured the effect on gender and the gender-specific achievements of the TL versus CL approach in single-gender and mixed-gender classes. A significant gender gap was found in the achievements of both nonmajor and major stude…
Emotional response to U.K. political party leader facial displays of affiliation, reward, and ambiguity during Brexit
Objective On December 12, 2019, the United Kingdom's ruling Conservative Party called an election that put the country's 2016 “Brexit” referendum on leaving the European Union to the test. The divisive campaign and a polarized electorate culminated in large losses by opposition Labour and Liberal Democratic parties. Amid a polarized electorate, lingering questions arise as to whether the election results reflect more upon partisan ties or the res…
Child Studies Multiple: Collaborative play for thinking through theories and methods
This text is an exploration of collaborative thinking and writing through theories, methods, and experiences on the topic of the child, children, and childhood. It is a collaborative written text (with 32 authors) that sprang out of the experimental workshop Child Studies Multiple. The workshop and this text are about daring to stay with mess, 'un-closure' , and uncertainty in order to investigate the (e)motions and complexities of being either a…
Sociology (23 works) · Political science (15 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Business (5 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (5 works)