Although women’s experience of working in management has been studied extensively, the particular challenges they face in this role within male-dominated professions merits further attention. This article draws on research into the career experiences of women civil engineers in the UK to critically discuss the possibilities for women to pursue a management pathway within construction. A feminis...

Footwear is likely to be regarded as an important consideration in the clinical management of many foot disorders, and the development of key criteria for the assessment of footwear by experts from the footwear industry together with expert podiatrists should enable the construction of a widely applicable tool in this evaluation. The study reported in this paper is drawn from work conducted in ...

In this study we investigate three of ICT labour market’s main components, directly related to the vocational directions of enterprises and the jobs exercised by the individuals. The elements of analysis, namely “occupation areas”, “specialization sectors” and “professions”, are initially theoretically determined. A new selection methodology is introduced and implemented for the Greek ICT labou...

Recent natural and human-induced emergencies have highlighted the vulnerability of the built environment. Although most emergency events are not entirely unexpected, and the effects can be mitigated, emergency managers in the United Kingdom have not played a sufficiently proactive role in the mitigation of such events. If a resilient and sustainable built environment is to be achieved, emergenc...