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Policy Incoherence? The UK-Rwanda Asylum Partnership Arrangement (2024)
Book Chapter
McQuinn, M. (2024). Policy Incoherence? The UK-Rwanda Asylum Partnership Arrangement. In F. Fauri, & D. Mantovani (Eds.), Past and Present Migration Challenges: What European and American History Can Teach Us (219-245). Palgrave MacMillan with the support of the European Commission. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39431-7_9

This chapter examines the 2022 UK-Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership (MEDP). This arrangement includes an asylum partnership arrangement (APA), allowing the British government to send people to Rwanda who would otherwise claim asyl... Read More about Policy Incoherence? The UK-Rwanda Asylum Partnership Arrangement.

Reference and Affect: What role in computation and the neurosciences (2020)
Book Chapter
Reinsborough, M. (2020). Reference and Affect: What role in computation and the neurosciences. In K. Purgar (Ed.), Iconology of Abstraction: Nonfigurative Images and the Modern World. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429262500-21

Twenty First Century computational neuroscience and Twenty First Century psychoanalysis have two very different ways of representing the mental life of the subject, each with its own merits and limitations. This paper performs a superimposition of Pe... Read More about Reference and Affect: What role in computation and the neurosciences.

An Overview of Recent Trends in Official Development Assistance: Contradictory New Directions in the Relationship between DAC Donors and China (2019)
Book Chapter
McQuinn, M. (2019). An Overview of Recent Trends in Official Development Assistance: Contradictory New Directions in the Relationship between DAC Donors and China. In Y. Zheng, & J. Qian (Eds.), Development and Poverty Reduction: A Global Comparative Perspective. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429292125-5

This chapter provides an overview of the interrelated issues affecting official development assistance (ODA) and situates a discussion of future trajectories for Development Assistance Committee (DAC)-China aid relations within these complex strands.... Read More about An Overview of Recent Trends in Official Development Assistance: Contradictory New Directions in the Relationship between DAC Donors and China.

Ethics Management and Responsible Research and Innovation in the Human Brain Project (2019)
Book Chapter
Rainey, S., Stahl, B., Shaw, M., & Reinsborough, M. (2019). Ethics Management and Responsible Research and Innovation in the Human Brain Project. In R. von Schomberg, & J. Hankins (Eds.), International Handbook on Responsible Innovation: A Global Resource (379-392). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784718862.00035

Responsible research and innovation (RRI) is a key concept in current discourses concerning research governance and policy. The practice of Ethics Management in the European Union (EU) Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Flagship Human Brain Proje... Read More about Ethics Management and Responsible Research and Innovation in the Human Brain Project.

Death and Religion (2008)
Book Chapter
Webster, D. R. (2008). Death and Religion. In S. Earle, C. Komaromy, & C. Bartholomew (Eds.), Death and Dying : A Reader (42-47). SAGE Publications

Buddhist Approaches : not 'what' but 'how'? (2008)
Book Chapter
Webster, D. R. (2008). Buddhist Approaches : not 'what' but 'how'?. In D. Cheetham, & R. King (Eds.), Contemporary Practice and Method in the Philosophy of Religion (87-100). Continuum

Among contemporary Anglo-American philosophers and students there is a growing awareness of the need to engage more both with philosophical perspectives of other faith traditions and also the distinctive 'continental' tradition of philosophy. This im... Read More about Buddhist Approaches : not 'what' but 'how'?.

Even Philosophers Get the Blues (2007)
Book Chapter
Webster, D. R. (2007). Even Philosophers Get the Blues. In N. A. Wynn (Ed.), Cross the Water Blues African American Music in Europe (39-50). University Press of Mississippi

Essays analyzing the impact of African American music and its European reverberations

Smart Toolkit for Evaluating Information Products and Services (2005)
Book Chapter
Visser-Mabogunje, L., Cummings, S., Gast, L., & McQuinn, M. (in press). Smart Toolkit for Evaluating Information Products and Services. In Smart Toolkit for Evaluating Information Products and Services (1-287). Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)

Some explanatory notes on Buddhism (2003)
Book Chapter
Webster, D. R. (2003). Some explanatory notes on Buddhism. In J. Astley, D. Brown, & A. Loades (Eds.), Evil : a reader. T and T Clark Continuum