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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.

The challenges of training, support and assessment of healthcare support workers: a qualitative study of experiences in three English acute hospitals (2017)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

‘Between a rock and a hard place’: Bulgarian highly skilled migrants’ experiences of external and internal stereotypes in the context of the European crisis (2016)
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Genova, E. (2017). ‘Between a rock and a hard place’: Bulgarian highly skilled migrants’ experiences of external and internal stereotypes in the context of the European crisis. National Identities, 19(1), 33-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2015.1136609

The intensification of intra-European migration has more recently coincided with the negative socio-economic consequences of the European economic crisis. The latter has revitalised dormant national stereotypes, employed into the scapegoating of migr... Read More about ‘Between a rock and a hard place’: Bulgarian highly skilled migrants’ experiences of external and internal stereotypes in the context of the European crisis.

Managing Democracy in Social Movement Organizations (2014)
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Choi-Fitzpatrick, A. (2015). Managing Democracy in Social Movement Organizations. Social Movement Studies, 14(2), 123-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2014.945158

Leaders are crucial to social movement mobilization and maintenance. They often experience conflict between a value for inclusive engagement and a sense that they are moving efficiently toward their organizations' goals. This study draws on a multisi... Read More about Managing Democracy in Social Movement Organizations.

To seek and save the lost: human trafficking and salvation schemas among American evangelicals (2014)
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Choi-Fitzpatrick, A. (2014). To seek and save the lost: human trafficking and salvation schemas among American evangelicals. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 1(2), 119-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/23254823.2014.924421

American evangelicals have a history of engagement in social issues in general and anti-slavery activism in particular. The last 10 years have seen an increase in both scholarly attention to evangelicalism and evangelical focus on contemporary forms... Read More about To seek and save the lost: human trafficking and salvation schemas among American evangelicals.