Nick Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3195-1020 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The experience of living with vitiligo in Nigeria: A participatory Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Vitiligo is a visible depigmenting skin condition, particularly noticeable on Black skin. There is widespread misunderstanding of the condition. Using a participatory form of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), we conducted eight semi-structured interviews with Nigerians living with vitiligo. Participants described their initial attempts to understand the condition, which typically drew on both traditional illness beliefs, religious i…
Stay home: Mapping the new domestic regime
This paper argues that a new ‘domestic regime’ has taken hold in Anglo-American economies since 2008. The combination of austere fiscal policy and loose monetary policy produced sustained house-price inflation in an otherwise stagnant economy. This combined with broadband-enabled digital platforms, a highly flexible labour market, and a routinely undervalued social reproductive sector transformed how capitalism operates in these economies. Taking…
Lego and the Infrastructural Limits of Open Play
LEGO and Adult Hobbyism For much of its history, LEGO has been regarded as a – if not the – children’s toy. Partially through The LEGO Group (TLG)’s own careful deployment of research on constructivist learning, the building system’s recombinatory logic, bright colours, and foot-destroying durability have become associated with paradigmatic notions of what children’s play is and does (Giddings; Maddalena). And yet the world of adult LEGO hobbyism…
Politics of Space: The pandemic changed how we use public places – and private ones, too
Making financial sense of the future’: Actuaries and the management of climate-related financial risk
This paper seeks to explore how professionals in the financial sector understand the challenge that climate change presents to economy and society. It is a case study into how ‘climate-related financial risk’ is understood in a particular area of expertise – within the actuarial profession. There is an increasingly prominent claim among financial regulators that climate change should be considered as an issue of financial risk and stability; it i…
Estimated Dissemination Ratio—A Practical Alternative to the Reproduction Number for Infectious Diseases
Policymakers require consistent and accessible tools to monitor the progress of an epidemic and the impact of control measures in real time. One such measure is the Estimated Dissemination Ratio (EDR), a straightforward, easily replicable, and robust measure of the trajectory of an outbreak that has been used for many years in the control of infectious disease in livestock. It is simple to calculate and explain. Its calculation and use are discus…
Finance for a future of sustainable prosperity
Global society currently faces many challenges, including climate change and rising inequality. This paper presents the results of a thematic coding analysis of a workshop comprised of senior accountants and actuaries who were asked to consider how a future of sustainable prosperity can be enabled by the finance sector. We found that mindset, skills, external drivers, and decision boundaries were key themes that create barriers to change. Importa…
The financialization of anti-capitalism? The case of the 'Financial Independence Retire Early' community
The Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE) community consists of individuals each personally dedicated to reducing consumption, so as to build up financial surpluses that are eventually adequate to live off. While it shares certain features in common with other ‘financial independence’ ideologies and self-help communities, one thing that distinguishes it is the emphasis on frugality. Freedom comes to consist not only in independence from the …
Introduction to This Special Issue on Open Design at the Intersection of Making and Manufacturing
What is ‘open design’ and who gets to say what it is? In the emerging body of literature on open design, there is a clear alignment to the values and practices of free culture and open source software and hardware. Yet this same literature includes multiple, sometimes even contradictory strands of technology practice and research. These different perspectives can be traced back to free culture advocates from the 1970s to the 1990s who formulated …
Above the Action: The Cultural Politics of Watching Dota 2
The rise of live-streaming platforms, and the related surge in popularity of esports, remind us that there is a politics of watching play. This article extends intensified scholarly interest in game spectatorship, offering a materialist consideration of the embodied work involved in spectating competitive game play. Most readily associated with the discursive alignments between competitive gaming and/as sport, the active camera mode used by espor…
James Mitchell, Lynn Bennie and Robert Johns, The Scottish National Party: Transition to Power
I'd rather be a cyborg than a gamerbro: How masculinity mediates research on digital play
This article offers a feminist and media-theoretical approach to ethnographic reflexivity, understood as the researcher's own agency in shaping encounters with and producing accounts of digital cultures. Looking specifically at male-dominated domains of intensive and competitive play in public sites, such as arcades, local area network (LAN) parties, and eSports tournaments, this article asks: How might masculinity mediate studies of digital play…
The Return of Character: Parallels Between Late-Victorian and Twenty-First Century Discourses
There has been an increasingly common trend in the UK to identify character skills and traits as the basis for various individual successes and achievements. In education policy and employment services, character has been linked to the making of successful, morally aware, employable and socially mobile citizens. This article explores the late-19th-century use of character discourses, focusing on the economist Alfred Marshall. During this period c…
Time-varying price discovery in the eighteenth century: Empirical evidence from the London and Amsterdam stock markets
The Search for Innovative Ideas: How to Save Today’s Mass Communication Department
There is a friendly conflict between field broadcast journalists and broadcast journalism instructors. The conflict centers on the development of best instructional practices for the student journalists. This qualitative study is an attempt to bridge the gap between field journalists and journalism instructors. To accomplish this goal, first, a review of the academic literature was conducted to establish a research base. Then, interviews were con…
To find the needle do you need the whole haystack? Global surveillance and principled regulation
Revelations concerning global surveillance of mass communications data have clearly illustrated the paucity of legal regulation in this area. Surveillance almost inevitably engages the right to privacy but such is the notoriously nebulous nature of privacy, particularly on an international scale, that it fails to provide sufficient safeguards against state abuses of surveillance capacity. In the face of national security concerns privacy appears …
Theorising capitalist diversity: The uneven and combined development of labour forms
This article seeks to elaborate a framework for the study of diversity in forms of labour using Trotsky's theory of uneven and combined development (UCD). It argues that labour markets are constituted by systemic processes of capital accumulation and uneven development in the global economy, but that these processes have highly differentiated outcomes in terms of the forms of labour that have historically emerged within and across national bounda…
A Conceptual Legal Framework for privacy, accountability and transparency in visual surveillance systems
The United Kingdom uses visual surveillnace techniques on a huge scale, but its rewgulation of those techniques has been sadly lacking. This paper seeks to consider the extent to which the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) provides an overarching framework for the regulation of visual surveillance practices, both overt and covert, thereby bringing about the conditions for accountability and transparency, and to critically analyse the ext…
Multiple Job Holding: Interpreting Economic, Labour Market and Social Change in Rural Communities
This article reports research investigating the ways individuals and families in New Zealand have adapted to and created economic and social change through holding multiple jobs since the beginning of a period of restructuring in the 1980s. Our research has been stimulated by the very significant increase in multiple job holding in New Zealand over the whole workforce, and more particularly in rural areas over the last 25 years. We show how a foc…
Integrated Planning and Managing of Natural Areas for Integrated Tourism Planning
A scholarly article by authors Julie A.N. Warren, Nick Taylor, and Janet Gough, Paul Blaschke published in The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability: Annual Review
Social impacts of out-of-centre shopping centres on town centres: A New Zealand case study
This paper provides a case study of the application of social impact assessment (SIA) to decisions on a proposal to build a large shopping centre on a greenfield site at Upper Hutt, New Zealand. The local city council made a variation to its district plan and gave the developer consent, but the decision was challenged in the Environment Court. An SIA was prepared by opponents, contending that the developer had not produced an adequate assessment …
State Surveillance and the Right to Privacy
The influence of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights on domestic law has ensured that the state’s use of technical covert surveillance equipment has become legally regulated over the past twenty years, albeit in a somewhat piecemeal fashion. The passage of the Human Rights Act 1998 will see the development of the "right to respect for private life"; in UK law. This paper seeks to reflect upon the impact that the European Conventi…
The Return of Character: Parallels Between Late-Victorian and Twenty-First Century Discourses
There has been an increasingly common trend in the UK to identify character skills and traits as the basis for various individual successes and achievements. In education policy and employment services, character has been linked to the making of successful, morally aware, employable and socially mobile citizens. This article explores the late-19th-century use of character discourses, focusing on the economist Alfred Marshall. During this period c…
State Surveillance and the Right to Privacy
The influence of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights on domestic law has ensured that the state’s use of technical covert surveillance equipment has become legally regulated over the past twenty years, albeit in a somewhat piecemeal fashion. The passage of the Human Rights Act 1998 will see the development of the "right to respect for private life"; in UK law. This paper seeks to reflect upon the impact that the European Conventi…
Stay home: Mapping the new domestic regime
This paper argues that a new ‘domestic regime’ has taken hold in Anglo-American economies since 2008. The combination of austere fiscal policy and loose monetary policy produced sustained house-price inflation in an otherwise stagnant economy. This combined with broadband-enabled digital platforms, a highly flexible labour market, and a routinely undervalued social reproductive sector transformed how capitalism operates in these economies. Taking…
The financialization of anti-capitalism? The case of the 'Financial Independence Retire Early' community
The Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE) community consists of individuals each personally dedicated to reducing consumption, so as to build up financial surpluses that are eventually adequate to live off. While it shares certain features in common with other ‘financial independence’ ideologies and self-help communities, one thing that distinguishes it is the emphasis on frugality. Freedom comes to consist not only in independence from the …
Making financial sense of the future’: Actuaries and the management of climate-related financial risk
This paper seeks to explore how professionals in the financial sector understand the challenge that climate change presents to economy and society. It is a case study into how ‘climate-related financial risk’ is understood in a particular area of expertise – within the actuarial profession. There is an increasingly prominent claim among financial regulators that climate change should be considered as an issue of financial risk and stability; it i…
I'd rather be a cyborg than a gamerbro: How masculinity mediates research on digital play
This article offers a feminist and media-theoretical approach to ethnographic reflexivity, understood as the researcher's own agency in shaping encounters with and producing accounts of digital cultures. Looking specifically at male-dominated domains of intensive and competitive play in public sites, such as arcades, local area network (LAN) parties, and eSports tournaments, this article asks: How might masculinity mediate studies of digital play…
To find the needle do you need the whole haystack? Global surveillance and principled regulation
Revelations concerning global surveillance of mass communications data have clearly illustrated the paucity of legal regulation in this area. Surveillance almost inevitably engages the right to privacy but such is the notoriously nebulous nature of privacy, particularly on an international scale, that it fails to provide sufficient safeguards against state abuses of surveillance capacity. In the face of national security concerns privacy appears …
Theorising capitalist diversity: The uneven and combined development of labour forms
This article seeks to elaborate a framework for the study of diversity in forms of labour using Trotsky's theory of uneven and combined development (UCD). It argues that labour markets are constituted by systemic processes of capital accumulation and uneven development in the global economy, but that these processes have highly differentiated outcomes in terms of the forms of labour that have historically emerged within and across national bounda…
A Conceptual Legal Framework for privacy, accountability and transparency in visual surveillance systems
The United Kingdom uses visual surveillnace techniques on a huge scale, but its rewgulation of those techniques has been sadly lacking. This paper seeks to consider the extent to which the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) provides an overarching framework for the regulation of visual surveillance practices, both overt and covert, thereby bringing about the conditions for accountability and transparency, and to critically analyse the ext…
Multiple Job Holding: Interpreting Economic, Labour Market and Social Change in Rural Communities
This article reports research investigating the ways individuals and families in New Zealand have adapted to and created economic and social change through holding multiple jobs since the beginning of a period of restructuring in the 1980s. Our research has been stimulated by the very significant increase in multiple job holding in New Zealand over the whole workforce, and more particularly in rural areas over the last 25 years. We show how a foc…
State Surveillance and the Right to Privacy
The influence of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights on domestic law has ensured that the state’s use of technical covert surveillance equipment has become legally regulated over the past twenty years, albeit in a somewhat piecemeal fashion. The passage of the Human Rights Act 1998 will see the development of the "right to respect for private life"; in UK law. This paper seeks to reflect upon the impact that the European Conventi…
Social impacts of out-of-centre shopping centres on town centres: A New Zealand case study
This paper provides a case study of the application of social impact assessment (SIA) to decisions on a proposal to build a large shopping centre on a greenfield site at Upper Hutt, New Zealand. The local city council made a variation to its district plan and gave the developer consent, but the decision was challenged in the Environment Court. An SIA was prepared by opponents, contending that the developer had not produced an adequate assessment …
Integrated Planning and Managing of Natural Areas for Integrated Tourism Planning
A scholarly article by authors Julie A.N. Warren, Nick Taylor, and Janet Gough, Paul Blaschke published in The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability: Annual Review
Multiple Job Holding: Interpreting Economic, Labour Market and Social Change in Rural Communities
This article reports research investigating the ways individuals and families in New Zealand have adapted to and created economic and social change through holding multiple jobs since the beginning of a period of restructuring in the 1980s. Our research has been stimulated by the very significant increase in multiple job holding in New Zealand over the whole workforce, and more particularly in rural areas over the last 25 years. We show how a foc…
A Conceptual Legal Framework for privacy, accountability and transparency in visual surveillance systems
The United Kingdom uses visual surveillnace techniques on a huge scale, but its rewgulation of those techniques has been sadly lacking. This paper seeks to consider the extent to which the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) provides an overarching framework for the regulation of visual surveillance practices, both overt and covert, thereby bringing about the conditions for accountability and transparency, and to critically analyse the ext…
To find the needle do you need the whole haystack? Global surveillance and principled regulation
Revelations concerning global surveillance of mass communications data have clearly illustrated the paucity of legal regulation in this area. Surveillance almost inevitably engages the right to privacy but such is the notoriously nebulous nature of privacy, particularly on an international scale, that it fails to provide sufficient safeguards against state abuses of surveillance capacity. In the face of national security concerns privacy appears …
Theorising capitalist diversity: The uneven and combined development of labour forms
This article seeks to elaborate a framework for the study of diversity in forms of labour using Trotsky's theory of uneven and combined development (UCD). It argues that labour markets are constituted by systemic processes of capital accumulation and uneven development in the global economy, but that these processes have highly differentiated outcomes in terms of the forms of labour that have historically emerged within and across national bounda…
Time-varying price discovery in the eighteenth century: Empirical evidence from the London and Amsterdam stock markets
The Search for Innovative Ideas: How to Save Today’s Mass Communication Department
There is a friendly conflict between field broadcast journalists and broadcast journalism instructors. The conflict centers on the development of best instructional practices for the student journalists. This qualitative study is an attempt to bridge the gap between field journalists and journalism instructors. To accomplish this goal, first, a review of the academic literature was conducted to establish a research base. Then, interviews were con…
James Mitchell, Lynn Bennie and Robert Johns, The Scottish National Party: Transition to Power
I'd rather be a cyborg than a gamerbro: How masculinity mediates research on digital play
This article offers a feminist and media-theoretical approach to ethnographic reflexivity, understood as the researcher's own agency in shaping encounters with and producing accounts of digital cultures. Looking specifically at male-dominated domains of intensive and competitive play in public sites, such as arcades, local area network (LAN) parties, and eSports tournaments, this article asks: How might masculinity mediate studies of digital play…
The Return of Character: Parallels Between Late-Victorian and Twenty-First Century Discourses
There has been an increasingly common trend in the UK to identify character skills and traits as the basis for various individual successes and achievements. In education policy and employment services, character has been linked to the making of successful, morally aware, employable and socially mobile citizens. This article explores the late-19th-century use of character discourses, focusing on the economist Alfred Marshall. During this period c…
Introduction to This Special Issue on Open Design at the Intersection of Making and Manufacturing
What is ‘open design’ and who gets to say what it is? In the emerging body of literature on open design, there is a clear alignment to the values and practices of free culture and open source software and hardware. Yet this same literature includes multiple, sometimes even contradictory strands of technology practice and research. These different perspectives can be traced back to free culture advocates from the 1970s to the 1990s who formulated …
Above the Action: The Cultural Politics of Watching Dota 2
The rise of live-streaming platforms, and the related surge in popularity of esports, remind us that there is a politics of watching play. This article extends intensified scholarly interest in game spectatorship, offering a materialist consideration of the embodied work involved in spectating competitive game play. Most readily associated with the discursive alignments between competitive gaming and/as sport, the active camera mode used by espor…
Estimated Dissemination Ratio—A Practical Alternative to the Reproduction Number for Infectious Diseases
Policymakers require consistent and accessible tools to monitor the progress of an epidemic and the impact of control measures in real time. One such measure is the Estimated Dissemination Ratio (EDR), a straightforward, easily replicable, and robust measure of the trajectory of an outbreak that has been used for many years in the control of infectious disease in livestock. It is simple to calculate and explain. Its calculation and use are discus…
Finance for a future of sustainable prosperity
Global society currently faces many challenges, including climate change and rising inequality. This paper presents the results of a thematic coding analysis of a workshop comprised of senior accountants and actuaries who were asked to consider how a future of sustainable prosperity can be enabled by the finance sector. We found that mindset, skills, external drivers, and decision boundaries were key themes that create barriers to change. Importa…
The financialization of anti-capitalism? The case of the 'Financial Independence Retire Early' community
The Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE) community consists of individuals each personally dedicated to reducing consumption, so as to build up financial surpluses that are eventually adequate to live off. While it shares certain features in common with other ‘financial independence’ ideologies and self-help communities, one thing that distinguishes it is the emphasis on frugality. Freedom comes to consist not only in independence from the …
Politics of Space: The pandemic changed how we use public places – and private ones, too
Making financial sense of the future’: Actuaries and the management of climate-related financial risk
This paper seeks to explore how professionals in the financial sector understand the challenge that climate change presents to economy and society. It is a case study into how ‘climate-related financial risk’ is understood in a particular area of expertise – within the actuarial profession. There is an increasingly prominent claim among financial regulators that climate change should be considered as an issue of financial risk and stability; it i…
Lego and the Infrastructural Limits of Open Play
LEGO and Adult Hobbyism For much of its history, LEGO has been regarded as a – if not the – children’s toy. Partially through The LEGO Group (TLG)’s own careful deployment of research on constructivist learning, the building system’s recombinatory logic, bright colours, and foot-destroying durability have become associated with paradigmatic notions of what children’s play is and does (Giddings; Maddalena). And yet the world of adult LEGO hobbyism…
Stay home: Mapping the new domestic regime
This paper argues that a new ‘domestic regime’ has taken hold in Anglo-American economies since 2008. The combination of austere fiscal policy and loose monetary policy produced sustained house-price inflation in an otherwise stagnant economy. This combined with broadband-enabled digital platforms, a highly flexible labour market, and a routinely undervalued social reproductive sector transformed how capitalism operates in these economies. Taking…
The experience of living with vitiligo in Nigeria: A participatory Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Vitiligo is a visible depigmenting skin condition, particularly noticeable on Black skin. There is widespread misunderstanding of the condition. Using a participatory form of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), we conducted eight semi-structured interviews with Nigerians living with vitiligo. Participants described their initial attempts to understand the condition, which typically drew on both traditional illness beliefs, religious i…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Finance (4 works)