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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’?.

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.

The frequency of metal enrichment of cool helium-atmosphere white dwarfs using the DESI early data release (2024)
Journal Article
Manser, C. J., Gänsicke, B. T., Izquierdo, P., Swan, A., Najita, J., Rockosi, C., …Zou, H. (2024). The frequency of metal enrichment of cool helium-atmosphere white dwarfs using the DESI early data release. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 531(1), L27-L32. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slae026

There is an overwhelming evidence that white dwarfs host planetary systems; revealed by the presence, disruption, and accretion of planetary bodies. A lower limit on the frequency of white dwarfs that host planetary material has been estimated to be... Read More about The frequency of metal enrichment of cool helium-atmosphere white dwarfs using the DESI early data release.