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Protecting children from nutritional and medical neglect in sub-Saharan Africa: a five-country study (2015)
Journal Article

This study focuses on the dominant definitions of nutritional and medical neglect used to identify child maltreatment. These originate from the United Kingdom and the United States, but are also utilised in the developing countries of the sub-Saharan... Read More about Protecting children from nutritional and medical neglect in sub-Saharan Africa: a five-country study.

Acquired Brain Injury, Social Work and the Challenges of Personalisation (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers. All rights reserved. Increasing numbers of adults in the UK are living with acquired brain injury (ABI), with those affected requirin... Read More about Acquired Brain Injury, Social Work and the Challenges of Personalisation.

Revolution from above in English schools: neoliberalism, the democratic commons and education (2015)
Journal Article

The ideas of the New Left and the recently emerged alter-globalisation movements are marginal within current policy debates concerning the English education system. Here I seek to demonstrate the interconnections between the New Left and the alter-gl... Read More about Revolution from above in English schools: neoliberalism, the democratic commons and education.

How certain is ‘certain’?: exploring how the English-language media reported the use of calibrated language in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report (2015)
Journal Article

This article presents findings from an analysis of English-language media reports following the publication of the fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report in September 2013. Focusing on the way they reported the Intergovernm... Read More about How certain is ‘certain’?: exploring how the English-language media reported the use of calibrated language in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report.

Work-time underemployment and financial hardship: class inequalities and recession in the UK (2015)
Journal Article

The economic crisis that led to recession in the UK in 2008–9 impacted in multiple ways on work and economic life. This article examines changes to the work-time of employees. The UK stood out for its recessionary expansion of work-time underemployme... Read More about Work-time underemployment and financial hardship: class inequalities and recession in the UK.

Report on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) Workshop (2015)
Report

The potential for an ongoing interdisciplinary conversation about RRI at the University of Nottingham (UoN) was identified during a research project conducted in summer 2014 to investigate how RRI is being interpreted within UoN (Pearce et al., 2014)... Read More about Report on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) Workshop.

To have both roots and wings: nested identities in the case of Bulgarian students in the UK (2015)
Journal Article

Bulgarian migrants and university students in particular, have recently fallen into the spotlight of British media (Kirkup 2013), firmly positioned within fervent immigration debates. Drawing on Brewer’s (1999) concept of nested identities, this pape... Read More about To have both roots and wings: nested identities in the case of Bulgarian students in the UK.

Disparities in public protection measures against sexual offending in England and Wales: an example of preventative injustice? (2015)
Journal Article

This article analyses the use of criminal justice measures aimed at the prevention of sexual offending across England and Wales. Specifically, it focusses on measures such as the ‘sex offenders register’ and sexual offences prevention orders (SOPOs)... Read More about Disparities in public protection measures against sexual offending in England and Wales: an example of preventative injustice?.

How can semantic annotation help us to analyse the discourse of climate change in online user comments? (2015)
Journal Article

User comments in response to newspaper articles published online offer a unique resource for studying online discourse. The number of comments that articles often elicit poses many methodological challenges and analyses of online user comments have i... Read More about How can semantic annotation help us to analyse the discourse of climate change in online user comments?.

Using defamilisation typologies to study the Confucian welfare regime (2015)
Journal Article