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Occupational therapy pre-discharge HOme VIsits for patients with a Stroke (HOVIS): results of a randomised controlled trial (2012)
Journal Article
Drummond, A., Whitehead, P., Fellows, K., Sprigg, N., Sampson, C. J., Edwards, C., & Lincoln, N. (2012). Occupational therapy pre-discharge HOme VIsits for patients with a Stroke (HOVIS): results of a randomised controlled trial. Clinical Rehabilitation, https://doi.org/10.1177/0269215512462145

Objective To conduct a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of occupational therapy predischarge home visits for people after stroke in order to assess the feasibility of a definitive trial. Design Two studies; a randomised controlled trial and a coh... Read More about Occupational therapy pre-discharge HOme VIsits for patients with a Stroke (HOVIS): results of a randomised controlled trial.

Policing the roads: traffic cops, ‘Boy Racers’ and anti-social behaviour (2012)
Journal Article
Lumsden, K. (2013). Policing the roads: traffic cops, ‘Boy Racers’ and anti-social behaviour. Policing and Society, 23(2), 204-221. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2012.696642

This article explores the policing and regulation of young motorists known in the United Kingdom as ‘boy racers’. It demonstrates how police officers' definitional decisions in relation to driving behaviours were influenced by a range of exogenous an... Read More about Policing the roads: traffic cops, ‘Boy Racers’ and anti-social behaviour.

Delivering Employment Services to Vulnerable Customers: A Case Study of the UK's Employment Service (2012)
Journal Article
Stafford, B., Roberts, S., & Duffy, D. (2012). Delivering Employment Services to Vulnerable Customers: A Case Study of the UK's Employment Service. Social Policy and Society, 11(4), 495-506. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746412000206

This article explores the impact of a more individualised public employment service on vulnerable people. It analyses a system Jobcentre Plus implemented in 2008, Accessing Jobcentre Plus Customer Services (AJCS), to improve customer services by mini... Read More about Delivering Employment Services to Vulnerable Customers: A Case Study of the UK's Employment Service.

A moment of transformative learning: creating a disorientating dilemma for a health care student using video feedback (2012)
Journal Article
James, D. M., Collins, L. C., & Samoylova, E. (2012). A moment of transformative learning: creating a disorientating dilemma for a health care student using video feedback. Journal of Transformative Education, 10(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/1541344613480562

This study describes a moment during clinical supervision when a student speech and language therapist reported that she had a moment of illumination that changed her trajectory from failing her clinical placement to passing it. The student’s self-re... Read More about A moment of transformative learning: creating a disorientating dilemma for a health care student using video feedback.

Metaphors We Die By? Geoengineering, Metaphors, and the Argument From Catastrophe (2012)
Journal Article
Nerlich, B., & Jaspal, R. (2012). Metaphors We Die By? Geoengineering, Metaphors, and the Argument From Catastrophe. Metaphor and Symbol, 27(2), 131-147. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2012.665795

Geoeengineering the climate by reflecting sunlight or extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has attracted increasing attention from natural scientists, social scientists, policy makers and the media. This article examines promotional discours... Read More about Metaphors We Die By? Geoengineering, Metaphors, and the Argument From Catastrophe.

Similarities in contexts and theorizing: professionalism and inequality (2012)
Journal Article
Evetts, J. (2012). Similarities in contexts and theorizing: professionalism and inequality. Professions and Professionalism, 2(2), https://doi.org/10.7577/pp.322

For a long time sociologists of professions have differentiated Anglo-American and European contexts for professional work. The presentation will address this distinction and argue that processes of convergence now render such differences somewhat ob... Read More about Similarities in contexts and theorizing: professionalism and inequality.