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Durham Research Online (DRO) is the University’s Open Access repository for publications. The primary purpose of DRO is to provide open access to publications authored by staff and students affiliated with Durham University.

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Delivering a Culture Change in Property Guardianship: Recommendations for Reform to the Regulatory Landscape (2024)
Journal Article
Bevan, C. (in press). Delivering a Culture Change in Property Guardianship: Recommendations for Reform to the Regulatory Landscape. Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law,

Purpose Property guardianship is increasingly being viewed as an alternative and, in many cases, a last resort to the unaffordable private rental market. This upsurge in the incidence of guardianship necessarily amplifies the existing legal grey a... Read More about Delivering a Culture Change in Property Guardianship: Recommendations for Reform to the Regulatory Landscape.

Overriding Interests under the Land Registration Act 2002: Time to Repair the ‘Cracked Mirror’? (2024)
Journal Article
Bevan, C. (in press). Overriding Interests under the Land Registration Act 2002: Time to Repair the ‘Cracked Mirror’?. The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer,

This article revisits the vexed issue of overriding interests under the Land Registration Act 2002 and asks whether, now over 20 years since the 2002 Act came into force, the time has arrived to reform this controversial category of interests to repa... Read More about Overriding Interests under the Land Registration Act 2002: Time to Repair the ‘Cracked Mirror’?.

Extensive palaeo-surfaces beneath the Evans–Rutford region of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet control modern and past ice flow (2024)
Journal Article
Carter, C. M., Bentley, M. J., Jamieson, S. S. R., Paxman, G. J. G., Jordan, T. A., Bodart, J. A., …Napoleoni, F. (2024). Extensive palaeo-surfaces beneath the Evans–Rutford region of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet control modern and past ice flow. The Cryosphere, 18(5), 2277-2296. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-2277-2024

The subglacial landscape of Antarctica records and influences the behaviour of its overlying ice sheet. However, in many places, the evolution of the landscape and its control on ice sheet behaviour have not been investigated in detail. Using recentl... Read More about Extensive palaeo-surfaces beneath the Evans–Rutford region of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet control modern and past ice flow.

On the asymmetric vortex evolution in the near wake behind polygonal cylinders in an incident flow (2024)
Journal Article
Cheng, H., Masoudi, E., Liu, Y., & Gan, L. (in press). On the asymmetric vortex evolution in the near wake behind polygonal cylinders in an incident flow. Ocean Engineering,

Asymmetric evolution of coherent vortices behind polygonal cylinders in an incident flow is studied using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) based phase averaging analysis. Flow around polygonal cylinders of side number $N\in[5,8]$ at Reynolds num... Read More about On the asymmetric vortex evolution in the near wake behind polygonal cylinders in an incident flow.