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Children and young people at the intersection of chronic illness and migration: a scoping review (2025)
Journal Article
Agyeiwaa Poku, B., Hunt, L., Pilnick, A., Michael Atkin, K., Evans, C., Pulsford, E., & Kirk, S. (2025). Children and young people at the intersection of chronic illness and migration: a scoping review. BMC Global and Public Health, 3, Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s44263-025-00131-3

Background: Chronic illnesses (CIs) are increasingly prevalent among children/young people (CYP) globally. For migrant CYP with CIs, achieving a stable life in a new country can be particularly challenging due to additional barriers such as cultural... Read More about Children and young people at the intersection of chronic illness and migration: a scoping review.

Orphanage Tourism in Nepal: Poverty, Childhood, and the Rescue Industry (2025)
Book
Bott, E. (2025). Orphanage Tourism in Nepal: Poverty, Childhood, and the Rescue Industry. Anthem Press

This book tackles, for the first time, the complex issues surrounding the phenomenon of orphanage tourism, which is a growing and highly lucrative tourism niche in Nepal and several other economically developing countries. The book explores the occur... Read More about Orphanage Tourism in Nepal: Poverty, Childhood, and the Rescue Industry.

The relationship between frailty, ethnicity and health inequality – a scoping review (2025)
Journal Article
Cluley, V., Vanhoutte, B., Banerjee, J., & Pickard, S. (2025). The relationship between frailty, ethnicity and health inequality – a scoping review. Journal of Global Aging, https://doi.org/10.1332/29767202Y2024D000000020

This scoping review highlights the need for research to address the intersectional relationship between racialisation, health inequality and frailty in older age. We map research addressing the relationship between frailty and ethnicity across liter... Read More about The relationship between frailty, ethnicity and health inequality – a scoping review.

Diversity and “Successful Aging”: Exploring Intersectional and Existential Dimensions to Aging Well (2025)
Journal Article
Pickard, S., Cluley, V., Sharma, S., Oli, U., Thomas-Ekweh, G., Banerjee, J., Dip, C.-M., Williams, C., Conroy, S., Vanhoutte, B., Labeit, A., & Gilmore-Bykovskyi, A. (2025). Diversity and “Successful Aging”: Exploring Intersectional and Existential Dimensions to Aging Well. Gerontologist, 65(1), Article gnaf008. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaf008

Background and Objectives

This article aims to add to the literature on successful aging in minoritized ethnic groups. Concurring with the critiques of “successful aging” for focusing on values and abilities more attainable by White middle-class o... Read More about Diversity and “Successful Aging”: Exploring Intersectional and Existential Dimensions to Aging Well.

What do We Know About How Processes of Desistance Vary by Ethnicity? (2025)
Journal Article
Farrall, S., Warr, J., Shaw, A., & Sharma, K. (in press). What do We Know About How Processes of Desistance Vary by Ethnicity?. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice,

This paper reviews what is known about ethnic identity and the processes by which people cease offending. Whilst the past 30 years have seen dramatic growths in what is known about desistance, in many jurisdictions there is a paucity of research whic... Read More about What do We Know About How Processes of Desistance Vary by Ethnicity?.

How do Conservative and Islamic Art Audiences Define Good Taste? Cultural Classifications at the Crossroads of Morality, Religion, and Politics in Turkey (2025)
Journal Article
Karademir, I., & Yaren, Ö. (in press). How do Conservative and Islamic Art Audiences Define Good Taste? Cultural Classifications at the Crossroads of Morality, Religion, and Politics in Turkey. Cultural Sociology,

This study explores how conservative/Islamic art audiences in Turkey describe and classify good taste in art and how their cultural repertoires inform their notions of ‘us’ and ‘them’. Despite the significant popular attention conservative art and it... Read More about How do Conservative and Islamic Art Audiences Define Good Taste? Cultural Classifications at the Crossroads of Morality, Religion, and Politics in Turkey.

An extensive analysis of the utilisation of phase change materials in food storage process (2025)
Journal Article
Han, L., Zhang, S., Wright, E., Zheng, X., & Yan, Y. (2025). An extensive analysis of the utilisation of phase change materials in food storage process. Journal of Energy Storage, 111, Article 115391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2025.115391

With improving living standards, the demand for high-quality food is escalating. Conventional food storage methods often entail issues such as limitations in sustaining food quality and related energy wastage. The utilisation of PCMs in the food stor... Read More about An extensive analysis of the utilisation of phase change materials in food storage process.

LGBT+ Welfare and Assets in Great Britain (2024)
Report
Matthews, P., Barnett, C., Formby, E., Gregory, L., Lambert, P., & Mann, S. (2024). LGBT+ Welfare and Assets in Great Britain. Nuffield Foundation

This project aimed to understand the experiences of LGBT+ people when they access social security benefits. We use LGBT+ as an umbrella term to describe all people who are not heterosexual and/or not cisgender.

This mixed-methods research used se... Read More about LGBT+ Welfare and Assets in Great Britain.