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Morland, Leigh and Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2024) Turn the handle everyday: developing circular practices in hospitality through auto action learning. Action Learning: Research and Practice. ISSN 1476-7333

Refai, Deema, Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 and Haloub, Radi (2024) Entrepreneurship in constrained immigration contexts – the liminal integration of Syrian refugees. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 36 (3-4). pp. 416-435. ISSN 1464-5114

Miele, Mara, Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518, Evans, Adrian and Fuseini, Awal (2024) Situating halal: religiosity, identity and lifestyle in halal consumption in the United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates. Consumption and Society, 3 (1). pp. 37-55.

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 and Swailes, Stephen (2023) Becoming and staying talented: a figurational analysis of organization, power and control. Ephemera: theory and politics in organization, 23 (2). pp. 61-84. ISSN 2052-1499

Fuseini, Awal ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7886-8729, Miele, Mara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5774-2860 and Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2023) Poultry welfare at slaughter. Poultry, 2 (1). pp. 98-110.

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518, Vandeventer, James S ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9712-1479 and Miele, Mara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5774-2860 (2023) The ontological politics of kosher food: between strict orthodoxy and global markets. Environment and Planning A, 55 (2). pp. 255-273. ISSN 0308-518X

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2023) Book review: Shariah and the halal industry. Politics, Religion and Ideology, 24 (1). pp. 144-146. ISSN 2156-7689

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 and Sonnino, Roberta ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3253-1028 (2022) Food system transformation for sustainable city-regions: exploring the potential of circular economies. Regional Studies, 56 (12). pp. 2019-2031. ISSN 0034-3404

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518, Blake, Megan, Newton, Dillon and Downing, Gareth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1325-0810 (2022) Working across boundaries in regional place-based food systems: triggering transformation in a time of crisis. Cities, 130. ISSN 0264-2751

Gittins, Peter, McElwee, Gerard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6905-4443 and Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2022) Constrained entrepreneurship in UK agriculture: a Weberian analysis. Journal of Rural Studies, 95. pp. 495-504. ISSN 0743-0167

Fuseini, Awal ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7886-8729, Teye, Moses and Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2022) An update on halal slaughter: current methods and ongoing research on halal meat production techniques and their implications for animal welfare. Animal Welfare, 31 (2). pp. 269-276. ISSN 0962-7286

Fuseini, Awal ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7886-8729 and Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2021) Sustainable livestock agriculture from Islamic perspective. CABI Reviews, 2021.

Cheetham, Fiona and Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2021) People, power and politics: developing a public sector sharing economy. Geoforum, 126. pp. 244-252. ISSN 0016-7185

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2020) Understanding halal food production and consumption in 'the West'. Beyond dominant narratives. Cambio. Rivista sulle tras- formazioni sociali, 9 (19). pp. 89-109. ISSN 2239-1118

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2019) Halal meat and religious slaughter: from spatial concealment to social controversy – Breaching the boundaries of the permissible? Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37 (5). pp. 889-907. ISSN 2399-6544

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518, Sonnino, Roberta and Cheetham, Fiona (2019) Reconfiguring local food governance in an age of austerity: towards a place-based approach? Journal of Rural Studies, 69. pp. 97-105. ISSN 0743-0167

Refai, Deema, Haloub, Radi and Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2018) Contextualizing entrepreneurial identity among Syrian refugees in Jordan: the emergence of a destabilized habitus? International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 19 (4). pp. 250-260. ISSN 1465-7503

Powell, Ryan and Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2017) Europe’s perennial ‘outsiders’: a processual approach to Roma stigmatization and ghettoization. Current Sociology, 65 (5). pp. 680-699. ISSN 0011-3921

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 and Powell, Ryan (2017) 'Problems of involvement and detachment': Norbert Elias and the investigation of contemporary social processes. Human Figurations, 6 (2).

McElwee, Gerard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6905-4443, Smith, Robert and Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2017) Illegal activity in the UK halal (sheep) supply chain: towards greater understanding. Food Policy, 69. pp. 166-175. ISSN 0306-9192

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 and Milbourne, Paul (2017) The Structural Invisibility of Outsiders: The Role of Migrant Labour in the Meat-Processing Industry. Sociology, 51 (2). pp. 306-322. ISSN 0038-0385

Knight, J, Thompson, A and Lever, J ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2017) Social network evolution during long-term migration: a comparison of three case studies in the South Wales region. Social Identities, 23 (1). pp. 56-70. ISSN 1350-4630

Flint, John, Atkinson, Rowland, Ferrari, Ed, Gore, Tony and Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2016) Loic Wacquant Commentaries. People, Place and Policy Online, 10 (2). pp. 174-184.

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518, Knight, Julie and Thompson, Andrew (2014) The labour market mobility of Polish migrants: a comparative study of three regions in South Wales, UK. Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 3 (2). pp. 61-78. ISSN 2300–1682

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 and Milbourne, Paul (2014) Migrant workers and migrant entrepreneurs: changing established/outsider relations across society and space? Space and Polity, 18 (3). pp. 255-268. ISSN 1356-2576

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 and Smith, Ian (2013) Learning to build sustainable communities: an interdependency network perspective. People, Place and Policy Online, 7 (3). pp. 113-126. ISSN 1753-8041

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2013) The postliberal politics of halal: new trajectories in the civilizing process? Human Figurations: Long-term Perspectives on the Human Condition, 2 (3). pp. 1-16. ISSN 2166-6644

Miele, Mara and Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2013) Civilizing the market for welfare friendly products in Europe? The techno-ethics of the Welfare Quality® assessment. Geoforum, 48. pp. 63-72. ISSN 0016-7185

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 and Miele, Mara (2012) The growth of halal meat markets in Europe: an exploration of the supply side theory of religion. Journal of Rural Studies, 28 (4). pp. 528-537. ISSN 0743-0167

Howard, Joanna and Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2011) 'New governance spaces': what generates a participatory disposition in different contexts? Voluntary Sector Review, 2 (1). pp. 77-95. ISSN 2040-8056

Lever, J ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2011) Urban regeneration partnerships: A figurational critique of governmentality theory. Sociology, 45 (1). pp. 86-101. ISSN 0038-0385

Taylor, Marilyn, Howard, Joanna and Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2010) Citizen participation and civic activism in comparative perspective. Journal of Civil Society, 6 (2). pp. 145-164. ISSN 1744-8689

Shaftoe, H, Turksen, U, Lever, J ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 and Williams, SJ (2007) Dealing with terrorist threats through a crime prevention and community safety approach. Crime Prevention and Community Safety, 9 (4). pp. 291-307. ISSN 1460-3780

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2005) Governmentalisation and local strategic partnerships: whose priorities? Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 23 (6). pp. 907-922. ISSN 0263-774X

Book Section

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2024) Religion and Food. In: The Elgar Encyclopedia of Food and Society. Edward Elgar Publishing. (In Press)

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 and Ozgoren Kinli, Irem (2024) Between family and friends: honor, shame, and the politics of eating and drinking among South Asian British Muslims. In: Shame, Modesty, and Honor in Islam. Bloomsbury Publishing, London, pp. 181-196. ISBN 9781350386105 (hardback); 9781350386136 (online)

Miele, Mara, Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 and Evans, Adrian (2020) Establishing a dialogue between science, society and religion about religious slaughter: the experience of the European funded project Dialrel. In: The Halal Food Handbook. Wiley, pp. 343-351. ISBN 9781118823125 (print); 9781118823026 (online)

Pointing, John, Ramadan Al-Teinaz, Yunes, Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518, Critchley, Mary and Spear, Stuart (2020) Food Fraud. In: The Halal Food Handbook. Wiley, pp. 321-329. ISBN 9781118823125 (print); 9781118823026 (online)

Al-Teinaz, Yunes Ramadan, Regenstein, Joe M, Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518, Katme, A Majid and Unsdorfer, Sol (2020) The Halal and Kosher food experience in the UK. In: The Halal Food Handbook. Wiley, pp. 333-341. ISBN 9781118823125 (print); 9781118823026 (online)

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 and Swailes, Stephen (2019) Paralysing rebellion: figurations, celebrity, and power in elite talent management. In: Managing Talent: Understanding Critical Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 35-51. ISBN 9783319952000 (hardcover); 9783319952017 (online); 9783030069919 (softcover)

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 and Swailes, Stephen (2017) Ballet for the Sun King: power, talent and organisation. In: The Social Organization of Marketing: a figurational approach to people, organisations, and markets. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 143-169. ISBN 9783319515700 (hardcover); 9783319515717 (ebook); 9783319846873 (softcover)

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 and Evans, Adrian (2017) Corporate social responsibility and farm animal welfare: towards sustainable development in the food industry? In: Stages of Corporate Social Responsibility: from ideas to impacts. CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance . Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 205-222. ISBN 9783319435350 (hardcover); 9783319435367 (ebook); 9783319828503 (softcover)

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 and Anil, Haluk (2016) From an implicit to an explicit understanding: new definitions of halal in Turkey. In: Halal Matters: Islam, Politics and Markets in Global Perspective. Routledge, London, pp. 38-54. ISBN 9781138812758 (hardback); 9781315746128 (ebook)

Bergeaud-Blackler, Florence, Fischer, Johan and Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2016) Introduction: Studying the politics of global halal markets. In: Halal Matters: Islam, Politics and Markets in Global Perspective. Routledge, London, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9781138812758 (hardback); 9781315746128 (ebook)

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2016) Re-imagining Malaysia: a postliberal halal strategy? In: Halal Matters: Islam, Politics and Markets in Global Perspective. Routledge, London, pp. 19-37. ISBN 9781138812758 (hardback); 9781315746128 (ebook)

Attar, Maryam, Lohi, Khalil and Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2016) Remembering the spirit of halal: an Iranian perspective. In: Halal Matters: Islam, politics and markets in global perspective. Routledge, London, pp. 55-71. ISBN 9781138812758 (hardback); 9781315746128 (ebook)

Miele, Mara and Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2014) Improving animal welfare in Europe: cases of comparative bio-sustainabilities. In: Sustainable Food Systems: building a new paradigm. Earthscan Food and Agriculture . Routledge, London, pp. 143-165. ISBN 9780415639545 (hardback); 9780203083499 (ebook); 9780415639552 (paperback)

Report

Brentnall, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2301-984X, Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 and Downing, Gareth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1325-0810 (2024) Evidence of Cooperative Business Impacts – a Realist Perspective. Project Report. Co-operative Councils Innovation Network.

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518, Dastgiar, Shabbir and Fuseini, Awal (2024) The value of the halal sector to the UK economy: from farm to fork. Research Report. Halal Monitoring Committee.

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2023) First Meeting of the South Pennines Food Circle Report. Other. South Pennines Food Circle. (Unpublished)

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518, Blake, Megan, Newton, Dillon and Downing, Gareth (2021) A "Safe" and "Just" Regional Food System. Research Report. University of Huddersfield.

Refai, Deema, Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 and Haloub, Radi (2021) A Better Future? Understanding Refugee Entrepreneurship. Research Report. University of Leeds.

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518, Cheetham, Fiona and McEachern, Morven (2018) Supermarket food waste: prevent, redistribute, share: towards a circular economy? Project Report. University of Huddersfield.

Miele, Mara, Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518, Downing, Gareth, Anil, Haluk and Bilge, Isiklar (2018) Consumer Survey Report: comparing Halal requirements for labelling food and cosmetics in United Arab Emirates (UAE) and United Kingdom (UK). Research Report. Dubai Accreditation Centre (DAC).

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518, Coslet,, Alexandra and Hesselden, Fiona (2016) Developing a strong and sustainable food economy in Kirklees. Project Report. Kirklees Council.

Jones, Laura and Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2014) Migrant Workers in Rural Wales and the South Wales Valleys. Project Report. Wales Rural Observatory.

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2012) A report into the impact of multi-agency work supporting Roma children in education. Research Report. BHA for Equality and Health and Social Care.

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2012) No return, no asylum: destitution as a way of life? The extent and impact of destitution amongst asylum seekers in Bradford. Research Report. Desitution Concern Bradford.

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518, De La Bellacasa, Maria Puig, Miele, Mara and Higgen, Marc (2010) From the slaughterhouse to the consumer: transparency and information in the distribution of Halal and Kosher meat. Research Report. School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University.

Bock, Bettina, Swagemakers, Paul, Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518, Montanari, Claudio and Ferrari, Paolo (2010) Farmers' experiences of the farm assessment: interviews with farmers. Other. Cardiff University.

Conference or Workshop Item

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2025) Brewing Impact: Unexpected Business Lessons from Dark Woods Coffee. In: Better Business Summit 2025, 16 January 2025 - 17 January 2025, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK. (Unpublished)

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2024) Obstacles to a sustainable food system transformation: Insights from the north of England. In: Social Figurations: Long-term processes, present concerns and future directions, 4-7 December 2024, Prague, Czech Republic. (Unpublished)

Brentnall, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2301-984X and Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2023) Thinking with The Doughnut - Introducing Planetary Boundaries to Enterprise Education. In: ISBE 2023, 7 November 2023 - 9 November 2023, Birmingham, UK.

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2022) Doughnut Economics Workshop. In: Doughnut Economics Workshop, Leadership & Team Development Programme - Growth and Regeneration: Away Day, Kirklees Council, 2 March 2022, John Smith Stadium , Huddersfield. (Unpublished)

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2020) Regional Food System Resilience post Covid-19. In: PERN Webinar 3: Resilient Supply Chains, 15th July 2020, Online. (Unpublished)

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 and Hardaker, Glenn (2013) Re-imagining Malaysia: a post-liberal Halal strategy? In: "Vous avez dit halal ?" Normativités islamiques, mondialisation et sécularisation, 7 November 2013 ­-8 November 2013, Collège de France – Paris, France. (Unpublished)

Book

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 and Fischer, Johan (2018) Religion, regulation, consumption: globalising kosher and halal markets. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9781526103642 (hardback); 9781526103659 (ebook)

Bergeaud-Blackler, Florence, Fischer, Johan and Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2016) Halal Matters: Islam, Politics and Markets in Global Perspective. Routledge, London, pp. 1-203. ISBN 9781138812758 (hardback); 9781315746128 (ebook)

Other

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 (2020) Covid-19 policy brief: a regional approach to food system reform. University of Huddersfield.

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 and de la Bellacasa, Maria Puig (2010) Factsheet: The development of halal and kosher meat markets in the UK. Cardiff University.