Outputs (63)

Policing Research and the Rise of the ‘Evidence-Base’: Police Officer and Staff Understandings of Research, its Implementation and ‘What Works’ (2016)
Journal Article
Lumsden, K., & Goode, J. (2018). Policing Research and the Rise of the ‘Evidence-Base’: Police Officer and Staff Understandings of Research, its Implementation and ‘What Works’. Sociology, 52(4), 813-829. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038516664684

Despite the pitfalls identified in previous critiques of the evidence-based practice movement in education, health, medicine and social care, recent years have witnessed its spread to the realm of policing. This article considers the rise of evidence... Read More about Policing Research and the Rise of the ‘Evidence-Base’: Police Officer and Staff Understandings of Research, its Implementation and ‘What Works’.

Work-life balance and class: in search of working class work-lives (2016)
Book Chapter
Warren, T. (2016). Work-life balance and class: in search of working class work-lives. In S. Lewis, D. Anderson, C. Lyonette, N. Payne, & S. Wood (Eds.), Work-life balance in times of recession, austerity and beyond (112-130). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315683263

If we think about the sort of person who is working hard to achieve a balance between their family, personal and working lives, what type of character tends to spring to mind? Might it be a working mum negotiating the demands of child-care and runnin... Read More about Work-life balance and class: in search of working class work-lives.

Using photovoice to include people with profound and multiple learning disabilities in inclusive research (2016)
Journal Article

Accessible summary: Many researches now include people with learning disabilities, which is really positive, but people with profound and multiple learning disabilities are often left out. It is important to include people with profound and multiple... Read More about Using photovoice to include people with profound and multiple learning disabilities in inclusive research.

Making home visits: creativity and the embodied practices of home visiting in social work and child protection (2016)
Journal Article
Ferguson, H. (2018). Making home visits: creativity and the embodied practices of home visiting in social work and child protection. Qualitative Social Work, 17(1), 65-80. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325016656751

Although the home is the most common place where social work goes on, research has largely ignored the home visit. Drawing on a participant observation study of child protection work, this article reveals the complex hidden practices of social work o... Read More about Making home visits: creativity and the embodied practices of home visiting in social work and child protection.

Transnational parenthood and forced migration: the case of asylum-seeking parents who are forcibly separated from their families by immigration laws (2016)
Journal Article
Madziva, R. (2016). Transnational parenthood and forced migration: the case of asylum-seeking parents who are forcibly separated from their families by immigration laws. Families, Relationships and Societies, 5(2), 281-297. https://doi.org/10.1332/204674315X14479281723965

Within transnational studies literature, there is a tendency to assume that migrant parents have ready access to paid work once they arrive in countries of destination, which subsequently enables them to maintain transnational ties with children and... Read More about Transnational parenthood and forced migration: the case of asylum-seeking parents who are forcibly separated from their families by immigration laws.

Individual placement and support (IPS) for patients with offending histories: the IPSOH feasibility cluster randomised trial protocol (2016)
Journal Article
Khalifa, N., Talbot, E., Schneider, J. M., Walker, D., Bates, P., Bird, Y., …Völlm, B. (2016). Individual placement and support (IPS) for patients with offending histories: the IPSOH feasibility cluster randomised trial protocol. BMJ Open, 6(7), Article e012710. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012710

Introduction: People with involvement in forensic psychiatric services face many obstacles to employment, arising from their offending, as well as their mental health problems. This study aims to assess the feasibility of conducting a randomised cont... Read More about Individual placement and support (IPS) for patients with offending histories: the IPSOH feasibility cluster randomised trial protocol.

Effective health care for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review (2016)
Journal Article
Goodman, C., Dening, T., Gordon, A. L., Davies, S. L., Meyer, J., Martin, F. C., …Zubair, M. (in press). Effective health care for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review. BMC Health Services Research, 16(269), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1493-4

Background: Care home residents in England have variable access to health care services. There is currently no coherent policy or consensus about the best arrangements to meet these needs. The purpose of this review was to explore the evidence for ho... Read More about Effective health care for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review.

How children become invisible in child protection work: findings from research into day to day social work practice (2016)
Journal Article
Ferguson, H. (in press). How children become invisible in child protection work: findings from research into day to day social work practice. British Journal of Social Work, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcw065

It is well known that in cases in which abused children have died, social workers and other professionals did not relate to them effectively—the phenomenon now known as the ‘invisible child’. Much less well understood is how often and why such invisi... Read More about How children become invisible in child protection work: findings from research into day to day social work practice.

Organised Crime and Social Media: Detecting and Corroborating Weak Signals of Human Trafficking Online (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andrews, S., Brewster, B., & Day, T. (2016). Organised Crime and Social Media: Detecting and Corroborating Weak Signals of Human Trafficking Online. In Graph-Based Representation and Reasoning: 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2016, Annecy, France, July 5-7, 2016, Proceedings (137-150). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40985-6_11

This paper describes an approach for detecting the presence or emergence of Organised Crime (OC) signals on Social Media. It shows how words and phrases, used by members of the public in Social Media, can be treated as weak signals of OC, enabling in... Read More about Organised Crime and Social Media: Detecting and Corroborating Weak Signals of Human Trafficking Online.

Consolidated Taxonomy and Research Roadmap for Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism (2016)
Book Chapter
Akhgar, B., Choraś, M., Brewster, B., Bosco, F., Vermeersch, E., Luda, V., …Wells, D. (2016). Consolidated Taxonomy and Research Roadmap for Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism. In B. Akhgar, & B. Brewster (Eds.), Combatting Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism: Challenges, Trends and Priorities (295-321). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38930-1_16

In this concluding chapter, we consolidate the broad spectrum of challenges discussed throughout this book towards the formulation of a number key priority topics to be addressed by future research related to cybercrime and cyberterrorism. During thi... Read More about Consolidated Taxonomy and Research Roadmap for Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism.