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Making science public: challenges and opportunities (2019)
Report
Raman, S., Nerlich, B., Cartelet, C., de Saille, S., Hadley Kershaw, E., Hartley, S., …Tsouvalis, J. (2019). Making science public: challenges and opportunities. Leverhulme Trust

This Programme investigated the relationship between science, politics and publics in the aftermath of an influential 2000 UK House of Lords Science and Society report. We conceptualised top-down initiatives promising greater transparency around the... Read More about Making science public: challenges and opportunities.

Precautionary policing and dispositives of risk in a police force control room in domestic abuse incidents: an ethnography of call handlers, dispatchers and response officers (2019)
Journal Article
Black, A., & Lumsden, K. (2020). Precautionary policing and dispositives of risk in a police force control room in domestic abuse incidents: an ethnography of call handlers, dispatchers and response officers. Policing and Society, 30(1), 65-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2019.1568428

This article explores the riskwork engaged in by call handlers, dispatchers and response officers in a police force control room in England. We present a novel approach by drawing on the work of Foucault and his concept le dispositif to study riskwor... Read More about Precautionary policing and dispositives of risk in a police force control room in domestic abuse incidents: an ethnography of call handlers, dispatchers and response officers.

Participatory arts in care settings: A multiple case study: Innovative practice (2018)
Journal Article
Broome, E., Dening, T., & Schneider, J. (2018). Participatory arts in care settings: A multiple case study: Innovative practice. Dementia, https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301218807554

© The Author(s) 2018. This paper describes two case studies of arts interventions in UK care settings. Visual arts and dance movement interventions were regularly held in two settings. This paper draws on data from qualitative interviews, reflective... Read More about Participatory arts in care settings: A multiple case study: Innovative practice.

Social sustainability as a challenge for urban scholars (2018)
Journal Article
Cauvain, J. (2018). Social sustainability as a challenge for urban scholars. City, 22(4), 595-603. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2018.1507113

Urban sustainability is an increasingly popular term used by scientists and policymakers from all disciplines, increasingly without any reference to the tradition of critical urban studies. It is often observed that the social pillar is missing, if s... Read More about Social sustainability as a challenge for urban scholars.

Disengaged students: insights from the RESL.eu international survey (2018)
Book Chapter
D'ANGELO, A., & KAYE, N. (2018). Disengaged students: insights from the RESL.eu international survey. In C. Timmerman, R. Van Caudenberg, N. Clycq, L. Van Praag, & W. Nouwen (Eds.), Comparative perspectives on Early School Leaving in the European Union (17-32). Routledge

The challenges of training, support and assessment of healthcare support workers: a qualitative study of experiences in three English acute hospitals (2017)
Journal Article
Sarre, S., Maben, J., Aldus, C., Schneider, J., Wharrad, H., Nicholson, C., & Arthur, A. (2018). The challenges of training, support and assessment of healthcare support workers: a qualitative study of experiences in three English acute hospitals. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 79, 145-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2017.11.010

Background
Ever-growing demands on care systems have increased reliance on healthcare support workers. In the UK, their training has been variable, but organisation-wide failures in care have prompted questions about how this crucial section of the... Read More about The challenges of training, support and assessment of healthcare support workers: a qualitative study of experiences in three English acute hospitals.

Defamilisation and leave policies -a comparative study of 14 East Asian and non-East Asian countries (2017)
Journal Article
Chau, R. C., Foster, L., & Yu, S. W. (2017). Defamilisation and leave policies -a comparative study of 14 East Asian and non-East Asian countries. Journal of Asian Public Policy, 10(3), 318-333. https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2017.1322286

This article joins the international debate on whether there is a unique East Asian welfare model. It examines the concept of defamilisation and compares various leave policies (maternity leave, paternity leave and extended parental leave) in five Ea... Read More about Defamilisation and leave policies -a comparative study of 14 East Asian and non-East Asian countries.

Changing times: Migrants’ social network analysis and the challenges of longitudinal research (2017)
Journal Article
Ryan, L., & D’Angelo, A. (2018). Changing times: Migrants’ social network analysis and the challenges of longitudinal research. Social Networks, 53, 148-158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2017.03.003

Focusing on migrant social networks, this paper draws upon the sociology of time to incorporate complex notions of temporality into the research process. In so doing, we consider firstly, the challenge of going ‘beyond the snapshot’ in data collectio... Read More about Changing times: Migrants’ social network analysis and the challenges of longitudinal research.

Defamilisation measures and women's labour force participation – a comparative study of twelve countries (2017)
Journal Article
Chau, R. C., Yu, S. W., Foster, L., & Lau, M. K. (2017). Defamilisation measures and women's labour force participation – a comparative study of twelve countries. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 33(1), 73-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/21699763.2017.1288157

This paper examines the relevance of two interpretations of defamilisation (“freedom of the family” and “freedom of women from the family”) to the search for effective measures for strengthening women's participation in the paid labour market. Based... Read More about Defamilisation measures and women's labour force participation – a comparative study of twelve countries.