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Police Officer and Civilian Staff Receptivity to Research and Evidence-Based Policing in the UK: Providing a Contextual Understanding through Qualitative Interviews (2016)
Journal Article
Lumsden, K. (2017). Police Officer and Civilian Staff Receptivity to Research and Evidence-Based Policing in the UK: Providing a Contextual Understanding through Qualitative Interviews. Policing, 11(2), 157–167. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paw036

This paper provides a contextual understanding of police officer and civilian staff receptivity to research and evidence-based policing (EBP) in UK through presentation of findings from qualitative interviews. It focuses on: 1) how officers defined t... Read More about Police Officer and Civilian Staff Receptivity to Research and Evidence-Based Policing in the UK: Providing a Contextual Understanding through Qualitative Interviews.

Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences (2016)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, S. (in press). Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences. Social and Cultural Geography, https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2016.1227872

This paper draws on 12 months of ethnographic research to explore the drinking experiences of young people, aged 15-24, living in the suburban case study locations of Chorlton and Wythenshawe, Manchester, UK. This paper moves beyond the contemporary... Read More about Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences.

Uncertainty discourses in the context of climate change: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK national newspaper articles (2016)
Journal Article
Collins, L. C., & Nerlich, B. (2016). Uncertainty discourses in the context of climate change: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK national newspaper articles. Communications, 41(3), https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2016-0009

Uncertainty is intrinsic to science, to knowledge acquisition and risk assessment. When communicating about climate change however, uncertainty can be used and understood as ‘not knowing’, i.e. as ignorance. In this article we aim to understand how ‘... Read More about Uncertainty discourses in the context of climate change: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK national newspaper articles.

The university, democracy and the public sphere (2016)
Journal Article
Holmwood, J. (2017). The university, democracy and the public sphere. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 38(7), 927-942. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2016.1220286

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article takes a historical approach to the rise and fall of the public university, relating its fate to specific developments in public policy. Particular attention will be paid to... Read More about The university, democracy and the public sphere.

The double-bind: looked after children, care leavers, and criminal justice (2016)
Book Chapter
Carr, N., & McAlister, S. (2016). The double-bind: looked after children, care leavers, and criminal justice. In P. Mendes, & P. Snow (Eds.), Young people transitioning from care: international research policy and practice. Palgrave Macmillan

Research attention has focused on the reasons that lead young people from care to come into contact with the justice system at higher rates than young people within the general population. Findings from this literature can be distilled into three mai... Read More about The double-bind: looked after children, care leavers, and criminal justice.

Safeguarding people with learning difficulties from forced marriage: the role of safeguarding adult boards (2016)
Journal Article
Clawson, R. (in press). Safeguarding people with learning difficulties from forced marriage: the role of safeguarding adult boards. Journal of Adult Protection, 18(5), https://doi.org/10.1108/JAP-03-2016-0004

Purpose
The issue of forced marriage is typically located within debates on violence against women, immigration control and cultural difference and is rarely considered in relation to adults with learning disabilities. The purpose of this paper is t... Read More about Safeguarding people with learning difficulties from forced marriage: the role of safeguarding adult boards.

Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK (2016)
Journal Article
Thondhlana, J., Madziva, R., & McGrath, S. (in press). Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK. Sociological Review, 64(3), 575-592. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12373

In this paper we focus on highly skilled migration from Zimbabwe to the UK, exploring these migrants’ social capital sources/structures and content. In doing so we pay attention to routes of migration and how they shape migrants’ networking capabilit... Read More about Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK.

Between stigma and pink positivity: women’s perceptions of social interactions during and after breast cancer treatment (2016)
Journal Article
Trusson, D., & Pilnick, A. (2017). Between stigma and pink positivity: women’s perceptions of social interactions during and after breast cancer treatment. Sociology of Health and Illness, 39(3), 458-473. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12486

This study explores women’s perceptions of social interaction during and after their treatment for early stage breast cancer. Analysis of interviews with 24 women between 6 months-29 years post-diagnosis, reveals that interactions can be influenced b... Read More about Between stigma and pink positivity: women’s perceptions of social interactions during and after breast cancer treatment.

Reviewing the epigenetics of schizophrenia (2016)
Journal Article
Cromby, J., Chung, E., Papadopoulos, D., & Talbot, C. (2016). Reviewing the epigenetics of schizophrenia. Journal of Mental Health, 28(1), 71-79. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2016.1207229

Background: Epigenetic research in mental health has grown exponentially during the last decade and holds what some claim are “revolutionary” potentials for the development of new interdisciplinary models of mental ill health. Schizophrenia is the mo... Read More about Reviewing the epigenetics of schizophrenia.