Outputs (21)

The Role of Boundary Spanning in Building Trust: A Place‐Based Study on Engaging Hardly Reached Groups in Community Healthcare Settings (2024)
Journal Article
Bianchi, L., Kelemen, M., Shivji, A. K., Tallant, J., & Timmons, S. (2025). The Role of Boundary Spanning in Building Trust: A Place‐Based Study on Engaging Hardly Reached Groups in Community Healthcare Settings. Sociology of Health and Illness, 47(1), Article e13870. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13870

This paper investigates the impact of boundary spanning activities on building trust as a means of tackling health inequalities in hardly reached communities. Lack of trust has been identified as a barrier to engagement with healthcare services, resu... Read More about The Role of Boundary Spanning in Building Trust: A Place‐Based Study on Engaging Hardly Reached Groups in Community Healthcare Settings.

Hospital corridors as lived spaces: the reconfiguration of social boundaries during the early stages of the Covid pandemic (2024)
Journal Article
Faux‐Nightingale, A., Kelemen, M., Lilley, S., Stewart, C., & Robinson, K. (2024). Hospital corridors as lived spaces: the reconfiguration of social boundaries during the early stages of the Covid pandemic. Sociology of Health & Illness, 46(7), 1419-1437. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13777

This article explores the meanings and uses of a hospital corridor through 98 diary entries produced by the staff of an English specialist hospital during the early stages of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Drawing on Lefebvre's (1991, The production of space... Read More about Hospital corridors as lived spaces: the reconfiguration of social boundaries during the early stages of the Covid pandemic.

Consumer Anxiety and Coping in COVID Times: Towards a Sociological Understanding of Consumer Resilience (2023)
Journal Article
Ingram, C., Caruana, R., Chakrabarty, A., Kelemen, M., & Yuan, R. (2024). Consumer Anxiety and Coping in COVID Times: Towards a Sociological Understanding of Consumer Resilience. Sociology, 58(2), 275 -293. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385231190234

This article develops a sociological understanding of consumer resilience across three national contexts during a prolonged, global health crisis – COVID-19. We asked 112 individuals from the UK, China and Malaysia to diarise their consumption during... Read More about Consumer Anxiety and Coping in COVID Times: Towards a Sociological Understanding of Consumer Resilience.

Sensemaking in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A narrative exploration of polarised morality in an NHS Trust (2022)
Journal Article
Faux-Nightingale, A., Kelemen, M., Lilley, S., & Stewart, C. (2023). Sensemaking in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A narrative exploration of polarised morality in an NHS Trust. Sociology of Health and Illness, 45(2), 386-404. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13586

This article presents an analysis of personal diaries kept by health-care staff within a specialist NHS Trust in England during the initial 3 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. It adopts a moral sensemaking perspective to explore how NHS employees mobi... Read More about Sensemaking in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A narrative exploration of polarised morality in an NHS Trust.

Ankle-foot orthosis adherence in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy: A scoping review (2022)
Journal Article
Faux-Nightingale, A., Kelemen, M., & Stewart, C. (2022). Ankle-foot orthosis adherence in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy: A scoping review. Prosthetics and Orthotics International, 46(4), 351-356. https://doi.org/10.1097/PXR.0000000000000095

Background:
Ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs) are commonly supplied to children with cerebral palsy (CP) to support their gait. However, usage is reported to decrease through adolescence. Because AFOs can allow users to engage in daily activities and devel... Read More about Ankle-foot orthosis adherence in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy: A scoping review.

Bridging community resilience and sustainable tourism development via post-disaster education tourism in rural Japan (2021)
Journal Article
Lin, Y., Kelemen, M., & Kiyomiya, T. (2021). Bridging community resilience and sustainable tourism development via post-disaster education tourism in rural Japan. Journal of Organization and Discourse, 2(1), 32-44. https://doi.org/10.36605/jscos.2.1_32

Post-disaster tourism is an important reconstruction strategy for communities affected by natural disasters. In shrinking rural communities that also experience depopulation and aging as general trends, the need to develop proactive resilient practic... Read More about Bridging community resilience and sustainable tourism development via post-disaster education tourism in rural Japan.

Ways to care: forms and possibilities for compassion within UK food banks (2021)
Journal Article
Surman, E., Kelemen, M., & Rumens, N. (2021). Ways to care: forms and possibilities for compassion within UK food banks. Sociological Review, 69(5), 1090-1106. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026121991330

Food banks are organizations which occupy an uncomfortable position being seen both as a manifestation of caring communities as well as an undesirable feature of neoliberal government. By focusing on the encounters between volunteers and food bank us... Read More about Ways to care: forms and possibilities for compassion within UK food banks.

Co-producing community and individual change through theatrical interventions (2019)
Journal Article
Millward, H., Kelemen, M., & Mangan, A. (2019). Co-producing community and individual change through theatrical interventions. Organizational Aesthetics, 8(1), 34-50

This article sheds light on the role of co-produced creative methods in creating change, with particular reference to marginalized communities and taboo topics. In doing so, the paper offers a vignette of a day-long theatrical outreach event explorin... Read More about Co-producing community and individual change through theatrical interventions.

Types, obstacles and sources of empowerment in co-design: the role of shared material objects and processes (2019)
Journal Article
Zamenopoulos, T., Lam, B., Alexiou, K., Kelemen, M., De Sousa, S., Moffat, S., & Phillips, M. (2021). Types, obstacles and sources of empowerment in co-design: the role of shared material objects and processes. CoDesign, 17(2), 139-158. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2019.1605383

Co-design is intrinsically linked to the notion of empowerment, however little research has focussed specifically on understanding the types, obstacles and sources of empowerment in co-design. This paper combines theoretical investigations with obser... Read More about Types, obstacles and sources of empowerment in co-design: the role of shared material objects and processes.

Food, Ethics and Community: Using Cultural Animation to Develop a Food Vision for North Staffordshire (2018)
Journal Article
Surman, E., Kelemen, M., Millward, H., & Moffat, S. (2018). Food, Ethics and Community: Using Cultural Animation to Develop a Food Vision for North Staffordshire. Journal of Consumer Ethics, 2(2), 17-25

Eating ethically involves a plethora of activities, being both a contingent and a challenging practice (Williams et al, 2015). The desire to be more ethical in our food choices is connected to anxieties over food consumption, including how and what w... Read More about Food, Ethics and Community: Using Cultural Animation to Develop a Food Vision for North Staffordshire.