Looking back to look forward: Reflections from networked research on energy poverty.

Energy poverty is a far-reaching concept that intrinsically bridges numerous fields of study, ranging from engineering to anthropology and medical science to social psychology. The profound implications of energy poverty on the quality of life globally have also led to a wide range of metrics and policies aimed at measuring it and alleviating it, albeit with limited success. Using a mixed methods approach, our network has conducted research to advance knowledge and interpretations of energy poverty and boost scientific outputs' capacity to shape knowledge-based policies.

Testing the animal spirits theory for ethical investments: further evidence from aggregated and disaggregated data.

This study aims to test the animal spirits theory by Akerlof and Shiller (Animal spirits - how human psychology drives the economy, and why it matters for global capitalism? Princeton University Press) for ethical stock markets using Islamic and sustainable stock indexes during calm and crisis periods. This question helps determine whether ethical finance is driven more by its specific rules or determined by animal spirits. We used data covering January 1996-September 2021, which includes both calm periods and crisis periods (dot-com bubble of 2000, subprime crisis of 2007, global financial crisis of 2008-2009, and COVID-19 recession).

Deprivation and child dental attendance in England: exploring the shape and moderators.

Objective: To describe the shape of the relationship between area deprivation and dental attendance (DA) in children aged 5 years and under in England and the modifying effect of caries prevalence, ethnicity, family profile and dentist-to-population ratio.

Basic Research Design: DA rates were calculated at lower-tier local authority level (LA, n=326) using NHS data for the year to March 2017. LA deprivation was determined by Index of Multiple Deprivation 2015.