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Hospital corridors as lived spaces: the reconfiguration of social boundaries during the early stages of the Covid pandemic (2024)
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This article explores the meanings and uses of a hospital corridor through 98 diary entries produced by the staff of an English specialist hospital during the early stages of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Drawing on Lefebvre's (1991, The production of space... Read More about Hospital corridors as lived spaces: the reconfiguration of social boundaries during the early stages of the Covid pandemic.

Consumer Anxiety and Coping in COVID Times: Towards a Sociological Understanding of Consumer Resilience (2023)
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This article develops a sociological understanding of consumer resilience across three national contexts during a prolonged, global health crisis – COVID-19. We asked 112 individuals from the UK, China and Malaysia to diarise their consumption during... Read More about Consumer Anxiety and Coping in COVID Times: Towards a Sociological Understanding of Consumer Resilience.

Sensemaking in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A narrative exploration of polarised morality in an NHS Trust (2022)
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This article presents an analysis of personal diaries kept by health-care staff within a specialist NHS Trust in England during the initial 3 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. It adopts a moral sensemaking perspective to explore how NHS employees mobi... Read More about Sensemaking in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A narrative exploration of polarised morality in an NHS Trust.

Ankle-foot orthosis adherence in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy: A scoping review (2022)
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Background:Ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs) are commonly supplied to children with cerebral palsy (CP) to support their gait. However, usage is reported to decrease through adolescence. Because AFOs can allow users to engage in daily activities and develop... Read More about Ankle-foot orthosis adherence in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy: A scoping review.

Bridging community resilience and sustainable tourism development via post-disaster education tourism in rural Japan (2021)
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Post-disaster tourism is an important reconstruction strategy for communities affected by natural disasters. In shrinking rural communities that also experience depopulation and aging as general trends, the need to develop proactive resilient practic... Read More about Bridging community resilience and sustainable tourism development via post-disaster education tourism in rural Japan.

Ways to care: forms and possibilities for compassion within UK food banks (2021)
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Food banks are organizations which occupy an uncomfortable position being seen both as a manifestation of caring communities as well as an undesirable feature of neoliberal government. By focusing on the encounters between volunteers and food bank us... Read More about Ways to care: forms and possibilities for compassion within UK food banks.

Co-producing community and individual change through theatrical interventions (2019)
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This article sheds light on the role of co-produced creative methods in creating change, with particular reference to marginalized communities and taboo topics. In doing so, the paper offers a vignette of a day-long theatrical outreach event explorin... Read More about Co-producing community and individual change through theatrical interventions.

Types, obstacles and sources of empowerment in co-design: the role of shared material objects and processes (2019)
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© 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Co-design is intrinsically linked to the notion of empowerment, however little research has focussed specifically on understanding the types, obstacle... Read More about Types, obstacles and sources of empowerment in co-design: the role of shared material objects and processes.

Re-asserting paradigm plurality: pragmatism and co-production in management and organisation studies (2019)
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Burrell and Morgan’s (1979) paradigm model has made an enduring impact on management and organisation studies (MOS). Indeed, in a review of its influence and on-going relevance for MOS scholars, Hassard and Cox (2013) reply in the affirmative, extend... Read More about Re-asserting paradigm plurality: pragmatism and co-production in management and organisation studies.

Food, Ethics and Community: Using Cultural Animation to Develop a Food Vision for North Staffordshire (2018)
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Eating ethically involves a plethora of activities, being both a contingent and a challenging practice (Williams et al, 2015). The desire to be more ethical in our food choices is connected to anxieties over food consumption, including how and what w... Read More about Food, Ethics and Community: Using Cultural Animation to Develop a Food Vision for North Staffordshire.

Post-disaster tourism: building resilience through community-led approaches in the aftermath of the 2011 disasters in Japan (2018)
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Post-disaster tourism is often perceived as a form of Dark Tourism associated with death, loss and destruction. In Japan, the term Dark Tourism has gained prominence following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. This paper focuses on a... Read More about Post-disaster tourism: building resilience through community-led approaches in the aftermath of the 2011 disasters in Japan.

Cultural animation in health research: An innovative methodology for patient and public involvement and engagement (2018)
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BACKGROUND: A significant challenge in Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) in health research is to include a wide range of opinions and experiences, including from those who repeatedly find themselves at the margins of society.... Read More about Cultural animation in health research: An innovative methodology for patient and public involvement and engagement.

Creative processes of impact making: advancing an American Pragmatist Methodology (2018)
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide new insights into the social impact of creative research methods. Design/methodology/approach Using the new methodology of cultural animation (CA), the authors highlight how knowledge can be co-pro... Read More about Creative processes of impact making: advancing an American Pragmatist Methodology.

Questioning and Organization Studies (2018)
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© The Author(s) 2018. In organization studies, there is a cleavage in the literature that separates ‘questions’ and ‘questioning’ at a very fundamental philosophical level. On the one hand, the objective notion of ‘questions’ has already been well ad... Read More about Questioning and Organization Studies.

Design and Creative Methods as a Practice of Liminality in Community-Academic Research Projects (2018)
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This paper aims to explore the types of spaces and experiences that are created by design and creative practices. More specifically, it focuses on how design and creative practices can engender transformations in the mindset, knowledge, emotions and... Read More about Design and Creative Methods as a Practice of Liminality in Community-Academic Research Projects.

Community based response to the Japanese tsunami: A bottom-up approach (2017)
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The 2011 Tohuku earthquake and tsunami are said to be the most powerful ever to hit Japan. The result was tremendous loss of life, homes and livelihoods; the destruction of infrastructures; and the disruption of basic facilities. The aftermath of thi... Read More about Community based response to the Japanese tsunami: A bottom-up approach.

Collaborating across the researcher-practitioner divide: introducing John Dewey's democratic experimentalism (2017)
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to bridging the gap between researchers and practitioners. It does so by comparing the various models of academic-practitioner collaboration and introducing Dewey’s democratic experimentalism as a p... Read More about Collaborating across the researcher-practitioner divide: introducing John Dewey's democratic experimentalism.

Using performative knowledge production to explore marketplace exclusion (2017)
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Purpose This paper aims to contribute to understandings of the dynamics of marketplace exclusion and explore the benefits of a performative approach to knowledge production. Design/methodology/approach Interactive documentary theatre is used to... Read More about Using performative knowledge production to explore marketplace exclusion.

More Than a ‘Little Act of Kindness’? Towards a Typology of Volunteering as Unpaid Work (2017)
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Definitions of volunteering are widespread and complex, yet relatively little attention is given to volunteering as unpaid work, even though it intersects with the worlds of paid employment and the domestic sphere, cutting across individual/collectiv... Read More about More Than a ‘Little Act of Kindness’? Towards a Typology of Volunteering as Unpaid Work.

The role of community leadership in disaster recovery projects: Tsunami lessons from Japan (2016)
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Japan’s 2011 catastrophic disasters have had devastating effects on the economy and the livelihood of the communities affected. Given the complex and multi-layered consequences of such disasters, recovery and reconstruction pose enormous challenges r... Read More about The role of community leadership in disaster recovery projects: Tsunami lessons from Japan.