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Inovação responsável através de fronteiras: tensões, paradoxos e possibilidades (2015)
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Macnaghten, P., Owen, R., Stilgoe, J., Wynne, B., Azevedo, A., Campo, A. L. S. D., …Wilford, S. (2015). Inovação responsável através de fronteiras: tensões, paradoxos e possibilidades. Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa, 24(2), https://doi.org/10.4322/tp.24210

In March 2014 a group of early career researchers and academics from São Paulo state and from the UK met at the University of Campinas to participate in a workshop on ‘Responsible Innovation and the Governance of Socially Controversial Technologies’.... Read More about Inovação responsável através de fronteiras: tensões, paradoxos e possibilidades.

Participants' use of enacted scenes in research interviews: a method for reflexive analysis in health and social care (2015)
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James, D. M., Pilnick, A., Hall, A., & Collins, L. C. (2016). Participants' use of enacted scenes in research interviews: a method for reflexive analysis in health and social care. Social Science and Medicine, 151, 38-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.12.040

In our study of a workforce intervention within a health and social care context we found that participants who took part in longitudinal research interviews were commonly enacting scenes from their work during one-to-one interviews. Scenes were defi... Read More about Participants' use of enacted scenes in research interviews: a method for reflexive analysis in health and social care.

Picturing probation: exploring the utility of visual methods in comparative research (2015)
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Carr, N., Bauwens, A., Bosker, J., Donker, A., Robinson, G., Sucic, I., & Worrall, A. (2015). Picturing probation: exploring the utility of visual methods in comparative research. European Journal of Probation, 7(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/2066220315617269

A previous review of research on the practice of offender supervision identified the predominant use of interview-based methodologies and limited use of other research approaches (Robinson and Svensson, 2013). It also found that most research has t... Read More about Picturing probation: exploring the utility of visual methods in comparative research.

A gift exchange relationship?: reflections on doing qualitative research with vulnerable migrants (2015)
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Madziva, R. (2015). A gift exchange relationship?: reflections on doing qualitative research with vulnerable migrants. Families, Relationships and Societies, 4(3), https://doi.org/10.1332/204674313X13872827681557

Recent reflections on the study of forced migration stress the importance of constructing ethically sound research relationships that both respect research participants as autonomous agents and protect them from all forms of harm in the research proc... Read More about A gift exchange relationship?: reflections on doing qualitative research with vulnerable migrants.

A violent legacy: policing insurrection in South Africa from Sharpeville to Marikana (2015)
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Dixon, B. (2015). A violent legacy: policing insurrection in South Africa from Sharpeville to Marikana. British Journal of Criminology, 55(6), https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azv056

Fifty-two years separate the fatal shootings by police of 69 anti-apartheid protestors at Sharpeville on 21st March 1960 and of 34 striking miners at Marikana on 16th August 2012. The parallels between the two ‘massacres’ are easy to overstate; but... Read More about A violent legacy: policing insurrection in South Africa from Sharpeville to Marikana.

Work-life balance/imbalance: The dominance of the middle class and the neglect of the working class (2015)
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Warren, T. (2015). Work-life balance/imbalance: The dominance of the middle class and the neglect of the working class. British Journal of Sociology, 66(4), 691-717. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12160

© 2015 London School of Economics and Political Science. The paper was stimulated by the relative absence of the working class from work-life debates. The common conclusion from work-life studies is that work-life imbalance is largely a middle-class... Read More about Work-life balance/imbalance: The dominance of the middle class and the neglect of the working class.

Universal accounts at birth: building knowledge to inform policy (2015)
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Sherraden, M., Clancy, M., Nam, Y., Huang, J., Kim, Y., Beverly, S., …Purnell, J. (in press). Universal accounts at birth: building knowledge to inform policy. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 6(4), https://doi.org/10.1086/684139

Objective: This article summarizes the design, implementation, and early findings of a statewide randomized experiment of Child Development Accounts (CDAs). The SEED for Oklahoma Kids experiment (SEED OK) is testing a concept for a universal, progres... Read More about Universal accounts at birth: building knowledge to inform policy.

The sixth giant? Environmental policy and the Labour government, 1945–51 (2015)
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Fitzpatrick, T. (2016). The sixth giant? Environmental policy and the Labour government, 1945–51. Journal of Social Policy, 45(1), 65-82. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279415000495

The connections between social and environmental policies have a longer and more fertile history than is often appreciated. Ignoring that history is not just unfortunate in its own terms but may mean that we deprive ourselves of resources that could... Read More about The sixth giant? Environmental policy and the Labour government, 1945–51.

Communicating climate change: conduits, content, and consensus (2015)
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Pearce, W., Brown, B., Nerlich, B., & Koteyko, N. (2015). Communicating climate change: conduits, content, and consensus. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 6(6), https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.366

Climate change has been the subject of increasing efforts by scientists to understand its causes and implications; it has been of growing interest to policymakers, international bodies, and a variety of nongovernment organizations; and it has attract... Read More about Communicating climate change: conduits, content, and consensus.

Delaying the implementation of Payment by Results in mental health: the application of standardisation (2015)
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Shaw, I. (2015). Delaying the implementation of Payment by Results in mental health: the application of standardisation. Mental Health Review Journal, 20(3), https://doi.org/10.1108/MHRJ-03-2014-0008

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the issues surrounding a long planned expansion of Payment by Results (PbR) into mental health services and to highlight the factors responsible for the delay. Design/methodology/approach – PbR r... Read More about Delaying the implementation of Payment by Results in mental health: the application of standardisation.

The voluntary sector and the mandatory statutory supervision requirement: expanding the carceral net (2015)
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Tomczak, P. (2017). The voluntary sector and the mandatory statutory supervision requirement: expanding the carceral net. British Journal of Criminology, 57(1), 152-171. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azv091

© 2015 The Author. Recent penal policy developments in England and Wales emphasize the role for voluntary organizations. Voluntary organizations play an important and increasing role in punishment, including imprisonment and supervision, but the effe... Read More about The voluntary sector and the mandatory statutory supervision requirement: expanding the carceral net.

Making further inquiries: policing in context in Brixton and Khayelitsha (2015)
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Dixon, B. (2015). Making further inquiries: policing in context in Brixton and Khayelitsha. South African Crime Quarterly, 53, https://doi.org/10.4314/sacq.v53i1.1

Only rarely do inquiries into policing investigate the social context within which it takes place. This article looks at two inquiries which chose to take on this task: Lord Scarman’s into the Brixton Disorders in London in April 1981; and Justice C... Read More about Making further inquiries: policing in context in Brixton and Khayelitsha.

Post-citizenship, the New Left and the democratic commons (2015)
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Stevenson, N. (in press). Post-citizenship, the New Left and the democratic commons. Citizenship Studies, 19(6-7), https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2015.1053796

This article investigates the possibilities for the emergence of more participatory forms of citizenship in the context of austerity Europe. Especially significant in this regard is the history of the post-war New Left who were critical of both socia... Read More about Post-citizenship, the New Left and the democratic commons.

Employment of ex-prisoners with mental health problems, a realistic evaluation protocol (2015)
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Hamilton, I. S., Schneider, J., Kane, E., & Jordan, M. (2015). Employment of ex-prisoners with mental health problems, a realistic evaluation protocol. BMC Psychiatry, 15(1), Article 185. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-015-0553-3

Background Offenders with a mental illness are routinely excluded from vocational services due to their mental health. Employment has shown to be very important in improving mental health, reducing recidivism, and connecting people to society. Thi... Read More about Employment of ex-prisoners with mental health problems, a realistic evaluation protocol.

From Rescue to Representation: A Human Rights Approach to the Contemporary Antislavery Movement (2015)
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Choi-Fitzpatrick, A. (2015). From Rescue to Representation: A Human Rights Approach to the Contemporary Antislavery Movement. Journal of Human Rights, 14(4), 486-503. https://doi.org/10.1080/14754835.2015.1032222

Current efforts to end contemporary slavery represent a fourth wave of an Anglo-American abolitionist movement. Despite this historic precedent, there is little agreement on the nature of the problem. A review of current academic discourse, movement... Read More about From Rescue to Representation: A Human Rights Approach to the Contemporary Antislavery Movement.

Up in the Air: Applying the Jacobs Crowd Formula to Drone Imagery (2015)
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Choi-Fitzpatrick, A., & Juskauskas, T. (2015). Up in the Air: Applying the Jacobs Crowd Formula to Drone Imagery. Procedia Engineering, 107, 273-281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2015.06.082

The accurate estimation of event size is important for city planners, concert coordinators, social movements and anyone else interested in understanding how many people show up to an event. For social movements, the social theorists Charles Tilly lon... Read More about Up in the Air: Applying the Jacobs Crowd Formula to Drone Imagery.

Sociological conceptions of happiness and its implications for psychotherapy and public policy (2015)
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Shaw, I., & Middleton, H. (2015). Sociological conceptions of happiness and its implications for psychotherapy and public policy. Journal of Nursing & Care, 4(3), Article 261. https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-1168.1000261

This paper critiques the usefulness of cognitive-behavioural therapy, which is often seen as a means of redressing the loss of community and friendship networks within society. Therapy in this context they runs the danger of becoming an Iatrogenesis... Read More about Sociological conceptions of happiness and its implications for psychotherapy and public policy.

The genomic imaginary: Genealogical heritage and shaping of bioconvergent identities (2015)
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Kramer, A. (2015). The genomic imaginary: Genealogical heritage and shaping of bioconvergent identities. MediaTropes, 5(1), 80-104

In the twenty-first century, the advent of biomedicine has seen genealogy become geneticized, technologized and commodified. Critiquing the epistemological claims of genetic genealogy and the uses to which genetic genealogy is put, this article trace... Read More about The genomic imaginary: Genealogical heritage and shaping of bioconvergent identities.

Metaphors in search of a target: the curious case of epigenetics (2015)
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Stelmach, A., & Nerlich, B. (2015). Metaphors in search of a target: the curious case of epigenetics. New Genetics and Society, 34(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2015.1034849

Carrying out research in genetics and genomics and communicating about them would not be possible without metaphors such as "information," "code," "letter" or "book." Genetic and genomic metaphors have remained relatively stable for a long time but a... Read More about Metaphors in search of a target: the curious case of epigenetics.

Embracing and resisting climate identities in the Australian press: sceptics, scientists and politics (2015)
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Jaspal, R., Nerlich, B., & Van Vuuren, K. (2015). Embracing and resisting climate identities in the Australian press: sceptics, scientists and politics. Public Understanding of Science, 25(7), https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662515584287

This article charts the development of a label that appeared early on in Australian debates on climate change, namely ‘greenhouse sceptics’. We explore who uses the label, for what purposes and with which effects, and how this label may contribute to... Read More about Embracing and resisting climate identities in the Australian press: sceptics, scientists and politics.