86 10 853 https://urss.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/3021d67d9b0209b03fafd480eeee4451.pdf 44ea0973c973f1571ecc81a0e27c77dc Academic Paper An academic paper Abstract The abstract of the paper This paper investigates whether the post-COVID rise in rural female labour force par- ticipation (RFLFP) in India reflects distress-driven labour supply. Using a state-level pseudo-panel constructed from the Periodic Labour Force Survey between 2017-18 and 2023-24, we measure states’ exposure to the COVID-19 shock using the pre-pandemic share of rural male non-farm employment in lockdown-vulnerable industries. We esti- mate an event-study difference-in-differences model with state and year fixed effects to test whether more exposed states experienced larger increases in RFLFP. Rural female participation rose from 24.6% to 47.6% over the period, with unpaid family helpers ac- counting for approximately 55% of this increase; participation excluding unpaid helpers also rose from 15.0% to 25.3%. The rise began before the pandemic and shows no sign of unwinding afterwards, so its timing is inconsistent with a purely COVID-specific distress response. Our test finds no statistically significant evidence that states with higher pre- pandemic male employment vulnerability experienced larger post-pandemic increases in RFLFP, but the estimates are imprecise and sensitive to weighting and to individual states. They therefore neither confirm nor reject distress as a driver of the rise. Meta Tags Meta tags Gender Economics, Labour Economics, Development Economics Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Driven by distress or built to stay? How pre-COVID male employment vulnerability shaped regional rural female labour force participation: Evidence from India from 2017 to 2024 Subject The topic of the resource Gender and Labour Economics Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Valliammai Subramanian, Suchismita Roy, Sarah Sajan https://urss.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/45c21baf68466e083a7d514943f413d9.pdf 5d57f3c9de8bed64d5690eb5fdf58e9d Academic Paper An academic paper Abstract The abstract of the paper The question of whether time is a fundamental feature of reality remains a central problem in attempts to unify quantum physics and general relativity, demanding an approach that brings physical theories into dialogue with philosophical questions about the nature of time and the fundamental structure of reality. The absence of an explicit time parameter in the Wheeler–DeWitt equation motivates relational approaches to time, such as the Page-Wootters mechanism explored computationally in this paper, where time emerges from the conditional probability of a system's state given the state of a clock subsystem. Here a Python simulation is used to approximate this, where one qubit acts as an internal clock and the remaining qubits constitute the physical system, and probabilistic projective measurements of the clock subsystem examine the formation of conditional system states and the emergence of temporal ordering. While constraints such as the simplified clock and finite system sizes limit what can be determined on the nature of time from these results, they illustrate how temporal descriptions may be reconstructed within a closed quantum system without assigning a fundamental role to an external time parameter, supporting the conceptual plausibility of emergent temporal structure. Meta Tags Meta tags Physics, philosophy, time, problem of time, quantum systems, quantum physics, emergent time Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Is Time Fundamental? Emergent Time in Quantum Systems. Subject The topic of the resource Physics and Philosophy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2026 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rudolf Römer and Christoph Hoerl https://urss.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/432b1f1072285efd63116f75d754d1be.pdf 76b9d5e73713b478d2e8c76644b41350 Academic Paper An academic paper Abstract The abstract of the paper This project examines whether the securitisation of national economic security in the United Kingdom reflects objective economic vulnerabilities, particularly in energy security and trade dependency, or the use of security framing as a political strategy to advance contested economic agendas with less scrutiny. I approach the question through a policy audit. Energy security is measured using the established criteria of availability, affordability, diversity, reliability and resilience, and trade security using four properties drawn from the literature on asymmetric dependence. Six areas of energy and trade policy since 2021 are then assessed against the criteria that their own justifications invoked. Five of the six policies fail these tests and the sixth produces a mixed result. The ban on Russian energy imports ended Britain’s dependence on Russian refined oil but left untouched the exposure to international gas prices that determined British bills. Supporters and opponents of North Sea licensing both claim a security benefit, although output is sold on world markets, and in 2025 exports rose 12 per cent while production fell to its lowest level since 1973. Gas storage, which covers about 12 days of demand compared with 89 in Germany and 123 in the Netherlands, received no policy response. Leaving the European Union reduced British trade, and the Economic Prosperity Deal secured a favourable headline tariff from the United States without binding terms. Over the same period the United States came to supply 76 per cent of British liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports and to take 21.7 per cent of British exports. The policies that were adopted fit commitments made on other grounds better than the security case made for them, and the largest exposure, storage, was left alone. This suggests that security language in British economic policy has mostly been used to justify decisions after they were taken. Meta Tags Meta tags Politics, Political Security, Trade Security, Energy Security Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource To What Extent Is the Securitisation of National Economic Security in the UK Driven by Objective Economic Vulnerabilities, Particularly Energy Security and Trade Dependency, Versus the Use of Security Framing as a Political Strategy to Advance Contested Economic Agendas While Limiting Normal Oversight and Contestation? Subject The topic of the resource Politics and Security Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 26/10/2026 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Chris Browring (Supervisor)