Outputs (830)

Obesity in Nigerian Adults and the Associated Cause and Impact on the Population (2022)
Journal Article

Background: Obesity has been on the rise in developed and developing countries such as Nigeria. Data from the WHO demonstrated the prevalence of obesity increased by 15% between 2002 and 2016 in Nigeria. Here, we examine the rate of obesity in Nigeri... Read More about Obesity in Nigerian Adults and the Associated Cause and Impact on the Population.

Thinkability: A new app for cognitive stimulation for people with dementia (2022)
Book Chapter

People with dementia benefit from activities that stimulate their cognition, and there is evidence that carers can benefit too. Among psychosocial interventions to help this group, cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) is well established as the treatm... Read More about Thinkability: A new app for cognitive stimulation for people with dementia.

Adult Worker Model Typologies: Examining Work–Family Policies in Fifteen European Countries (2022)
Journal Article

This article aims to advance the discussion of government policies for improving women’s work and family life. It focuses on exploring whether it is reasonable to expect that the supported adult worker model will play an important role in guiding gov... Read More about Adult Worker Model Typologies: Examining Work–Family Policies in Fifteen European Countries.

The wide ranging harms of prison suicide (and investigations) across multisectoral stakeholders (2022)
Other

Making Sense of Expertise: Cases from Law, Medicine, Journalism, Covid-19, and Climate Change (2022)
Book

Current debates about experts are often polarized and based on mistaken assumptions, with expertise either defended or denigrated. Making Sense of Expertise instead proposes a conceptual framework for the study of expertise in order to facilitate a m... Read More about Making Sense of Expertise: Cases from Law, Medicine, Journalism, Covid-19, and Climate Change.

Negotiating Mongolian ethnic identity through the teaching of Mandarin Chinese as a second language (2022)
Journal Article

Despite growing attention paid to the language ideologies of teachers as actors in bilingualism or multilingualism studies, little research has examined whether and how power dynamics between majority and minority languages play a role in the promulg... Read More about Negotiating Mongolian ethnic identity through the teaching of Mandarin Chinese as a second language.

Keeping the conversation going: How progressivity is prioritised in co-remembering talk between couples impacted by dementia (2022)
Journal Article

This article explores how partners keep the conversation going with people living with dementia (PLWD) when speaking about shared memories. Remembering is important for PLWD and their families. Indeed, memory loss is often equated with identity loss.... Read More about Keeping the conversation going: How progressivity is prioritised in co-remembering talk between couples impacted by dementia.

A typology of dis/value in public service delivery (2022)
Journal Article

Dis/value or public value destruction is now increasingly recognized as part of the public value process. Despite this, confusion about the concept remains. This article assesses the use of public value destruction, and synonymous terms, in the publi... Read More about A typology of dis/value in public service delivery.

Wood burning stoves, participatory sensing, and ‘cold, stark data’ (2022)
Journal Article

Wood burning stoves triple levels of particulate matter pollution inside the home. Using an exploratory research design informed by coping theory, this study illustrates how sensors revealing this reality fail to influence the perceptions and behavio... Read More about Wood burning stoves, participatory sensing, and ‘cold, stark data’.

Life-courses, social change and politics: Evidence for the role of politically motivated structural-level influences on individual criminal careers (2022)
Journal Article

Criminal careers research is one of the largest fields of research in modern criminology. However, it has almost exclusively focussed on individual-level explanations of onset, maintenance and desistance. In this article, and in part inspired by rece... Read More about Life-courses, social change and politics: Evidence for the role of politically motivated structural-level influences on individual criminal careers.