Outputs (50)

Can Healthcare Assistant Training (CHAT) improve the relational care of older people? A developmental and feasibility study of a complex intervention (2017)
Journal Article

Background: Older people account for an increasing proportion of those receiving NHS acute care. The quality of healthcare delivered to older people has come under increased scrutiny. Healthcare assistants (HCAs) provide much of the direct care of ol... Read More about Can Healthcare Assistant Training (CHAT) improve the relational care of older people? A developmental and feasibility study of a complex intervention.

Anglican clergy husbands securing middle-class gendered privilege through religion (2017)
Journal Article

Traditionally, clergy wives have been obliged to assist the Church in an unpaid capacity; such work has been feminised, associated with the assumed competencies of women (Denton 1962; Finch 1980, 1983; Murphy-Geiss 2011). Clergy husbands are a relati... Read More about Anglican clergy husbands securing middle-class gendered privilege through religion.

Introduction: class and Christianity (2017)
Journal Article

Work-life balance, time and money: identifying the work-life balance priorities of working class workers (2017)
Journal Article

This chapter provides an overview of the relative roles played by time and money in debates around work-life balance. It shows how time trumps money in dominant understandings of what ‘work-life’ means and in what parts of our lives are presumed to b... Read More about Work-life balance, time and money: identifying the work-life balance priorities of working class workers.

Power, ethics, and person-centred care: using ethnography to examine the everyday practices of unregistered dementia care staff (2017)
Journal Article

The social positioning and treatment of persons with dementia reflects dominant biomedical discourses of progressive and inevitable loss of insight, capacity, and personality. Proponents of person-centred care, by contrast, suggest that such loss can... Read More about Power, ethics, and person-centred care: using ethnography to examine the everyday practices of unregistered dementia care staff.

Working with the whole family: What case files tell us about social work practices (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Practice theories to support child protection social work in the United Kingdom, as in the United States and Australia, are being squeezed out by a focus on performance targets and procedural timescales. This study exam... Read More about Working with the whole family: What case files tell us about social work practices.

The effects of defamilization and familization measures on the accumulation of retirement income for women in the UK (2017)
Journal Article

This article is concerned with the link between the effects of pro-market pension reforms on women and familization/defamilization measures. It aims to contribute to the study of this link in three ways. Firstly, it identifies defamilization/familiza... Read More about The effects of defamilization and familization measures on the accumulation of retirement income for women in the UK.

Changing practice: the possibilities and limits for reshaping social work practice (2017)
Journal Article

Since 2010 the United Kingdom has witnessed a number of initiatives that shift away from reliance on performance management to improve social work with children and families, towards a renewed interest in practice models. This study reports on the ev... Read More about Changing practice: the possibilities and limits for reshaping social work practice.

Big change, little change?: punctuation increments and multi-layer institutional change for English local authorities under austerity (2017)
Journal Article

This paper draws on new institutionalist theories to consider how we might characterise the process and outcomes of change occurring in English local government as a result of the UK’s austerity policies. It uses national and local empirical data to... Read More about Big change, little change?: punctuation increments and multi-layer institutional change for English local authorities under austerity.

Writing Disability into Modern Chinese Fiction (2017)
Journal Article

A “pantheon of deformity” emerged in Chinese literature in the 1980s, when writers consciously began exploiting the metaphorical potential of disability to produce subversive literary works. Shi Tiesheng, by contrast, continued to write about disabil... Read More about Writing Disability into Modern Chinese Fiction.