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Collaborating to identify, recover and support victims of modern slavery (2018)
Journal Article
Brewster, B. (2018). Collaborating to identify, recover and support victims of modern slavery. Journal of Modern Slavery, 4(2), 200-224

This article presents findings from a series of case studies into the impact of multiagency anti-slavery partnerships in the UK. The research draws upon empirical evidence from a number of geographic regions as the basis of a comparative analysis inv... Read More about Collaborating to identify, recover and support victims of modern slavery.

All the protestors fit to count: using geospatial affordances to estimate protest event size (2018)
Journal Article
Fitzpatrick, A. (2018). All the protestors fit to count: using geospatial affordances to estimate protest event size. Interface: a journal for and about social movements, 10(1-2), 297-321

Protest events are a hallmark of social movement tactics. Large crowds in public spaces send a clear message to those in authority. Consequently, estimating crowd size is important for clarifying how much support a particular movement has been able t... Read More about All the protestors fit to count: using geospatial affordances to estimate protest event size.

A Qualitative Exploration of Police Officers’ Experiences, Challenges, and Perceptions of Cybercrime (2018)
Journal Article
Hadlington, L., Lumsden, K., Black, A., & Ferra, F. (2021). A Qualitative Exploration of Police Officers’ Experiences, Challenges, and Perceptions of Cybercrime. Policing, 15(1), 34-43. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pay090

Victimization from cybercrime has increased exponentially over the past decade. Frontline police officers are dealing with a variety of crimes different than those existing in an era before the advent of digital technology. Frontline officers are exp... Read More about A Qualitative Exploration of Police Officers’ Experiences, Challenges, and Perceptions of Cybercrime.

Agency in dementia care: systematic review and meta-ethnography (2018)
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Bosco, A., Schneider, J., Coleston-Shields, D. M., Jawahar, K., Higgs, P., & Orrell, M. (2019). Agency in dementia care: systematic review and meta-ethnography. International Psychogeriatrics, 31(5), 627-642. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1041610218001801

Objectives: Dementia often limits the agency of the person to such an extent that there is need for external support in making daily life decisions. This support is usually provided by family members who are sometimes legally empowered to engage i... Read More about Agency in dementia care: systematic review and meta-ethnography.

A staff training intervention to improve communication between people living with dementia and health-care professionals in hospital: the VOICE mixed-methods development and evaluation study (2018)
Journal Article
Harwood, R. H., O’Brien, R., Goldberg, S. E., Allwood, R., Pilnick, A., Beeke, S., …Schneider, J. (2018). A staff training intervention to improve communication between people living with dementia and health-care professionals in hospital: the VOICE mixed-methods development and evaluation study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 6(41), 1-134. https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr06410

Background 25% of hospital beds are occupied by a person living with dementia. Dementia affects expressive communication and understanding. Healthcare professionals report lack of communication skills training. Objectives To identify teachable ef... Read More about A staff training intervention to improve communication between people living with dementia and health-care professionals in hospital: the VOICE mixed-methods development and evaluation study.

Sensitising Green Criminology to Procedural Environmental Justice: A Case Study of First Nation Consultation in the Canadian Oil Sands (2018)
Journal Article
Heydon, J. (2018). Sensitising Green Criminology to Procedural Environmental Justice: A Case Study of First Nation Consultation in the Canadian Oil Sands. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 7(4), 67-82. https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v7i4.936

Procedural environmental justice refers to fairness in processes of decision-making. It recognises that environmental victimisation, while an injustice in and of itself, is usually underpinned by unjust deliberation procedures. Although green crimino... Read More about Sensitising Green Criminology to Procedural Environmental Justice: A Case Study of First Nation Consultation in the Canadian Oil Sands.

Flujos migratorios en el Mediterráneo: cifras, políticas y múltiples crisis (2018)
Journal Article
D’Angelo, A. (2018). Flujos migratorios en el Mediterráneo: cifras, políticas y múltiples crisis. Anuario CIDOB de la Inmigración, 2018, 30-46. https://doi.org/10.24241/AnuarioCIDOBInmi.2018.30

ABSTRACT [English] - Migration across the Mediterranean is often presented – in media and political debates - as a single, transnational phenomenon, characterised by steady inflows of people, seemingly guided by uncontrollable forces. This chapter, b... Read More about Flujos migratorios en el Mediterráneo: cifras, políticas y múltiples crisis.

‘I Will Not Be Thrown Out of the Country Because I’m an Immigrant’: Eastern European Migrants’ Responses to Hate Crime in a Semi-Rural Context in the Wake of Brexit (2018)
Journal Article
Lumsden, K., Goode, J., & Black, A. (2019). ‘I Will Not Be Thrown Out of the Country Because I’m an Immigrant’: Eastern European Migrants’ Responses to Hate Crime in a Semi-Rural Context in the Wake of Brexit. Sociological Research Online, 24(2), 167-184. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780418811967

This article examines Eastern European migrants’ experiences of and responses to hate crime. Following the UK European Union Membership Referendum (‘Brexit’ vote), there was an increase in reported hate crimes against immigrants. The study focuses on... Read More about ‘I Will Not Be Thrown Out of the Country Because I’m an Immigrant’: Eastern European Migrants’ Responses to Hate Crime in a Semi-Rural Context in the Wake of Brexit.

Using conversation analysis to inform role play and simulated interaction in communications skills training for healthcare professionals: identifying avenues for further development through a scoping review (2018)
Journal Article
Pilnick, A., Trusson, D., Beeke, S., O 'brien, R., Goldberg, S., & Harwood, R. H. (2018). Using conversation analysis to inform role play and simulated interaction in communications skills training for healthcare professionals: identifying avenues for further development through a scoping review. BMC Medical Education, 18, Article 267. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-018-1381-1

Background: This paper responds to previously published debate in this journal around the use of sociolinguistic methods in communication skills training (CST), which has raised the significant question of how far consultations with simulated patient... Read More about Using conversation analysis to inform role play and simulated interaction in communications skills training for healthcare professionals: identifying avenues for further development through a scoping review.

The social construction of dementia: Systematic review and metacognitive model of enculturation (2018)
Journal Article
Bosco, A., Schneider, J., Coleston-Shields, D. M., Higgs, P., & Orrell, M. (2019). The social construction of dementia: Systematic review and metacognitive model of enculturation. Maturitas, 120, 12-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2018.11.009

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Background: The stigma associated with dementia may be influenced by how the condition has been socially constructed throughout history. Objectives: To conduct a systematic review tracing the historical representations of dementi... Read More about The social construction of dementia: Systematic review and metacognitive model of enculturation.

Imagined constructed thought: how staff interpret the behaviour of patients with intellectual disabilities (2018)
Journal Article
Webb, J. C., Pilnick, A., & Clegg, J. (2018). Imagined constructed thought: how staff interpret the behaviour of patients with intellectual disabilities. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 51(4), 347-362. https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2018.1523893

This paper examines ‘imagined constructed thought’: speakers giving voice to the inner world of a non-present other. Drawing on 9 hours of video footage of health-care staff discussing patients with intellectual disabilities during Discovery Awarenes... Read More about Imagined constructed thought: how staff interpret the behaviour of patients with intellectual disabilities.

Review of the European reference framework for sustainable cities (2018)
Journal Article
Winter, A. K. (2018). Review of the European reference framework for sustainable cities. International Journal of Community Well-Being, 1(1), 83-86. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42413-018-0007-z

This review examines the European Reference Framework for Sustainable Cities, an online framework for use by urban practitioners to evaluate and visualize the sustainability profile and priorities of an urban sustainability plan, policy, or initiativ... Read More about Review of the European reference framework for sustainable cities.

Excavating the archive: Reflections on a historical criminology of government, penal policy and criminal justice change (2018)
Journal Article
Guiney, T. (2020). Excavating the archive: Reflections on a historical criminology of government, penal policy and criminal justice change. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 20(1), 76-92. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895818810333

This article makes the case for greater use of systematic archival research as a methodological tool of criminology. Drawing upon insights from the author’s 2018 historical study of ‘early release’ in England and Wales, it reviews the legal framework... Read More about Excavating the archive: Reflections on a historical criminology of government, penal policy and criminal justice change.

Mainstream education as a possible route to recovery and social inclusion: a review (2018)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., Collis, B., & Schneider, J. M. (2018). Mainstream education as a possible route to recovery and social inclusion: a review. Mental Health Review Journal, 23(4), 246-252. https://doi.org/10.1108/MHRJ-03-2018-0008

To focus on the findings of a review of the Learning Advice Service which provided mainstream learning opportunities and individual support to people using mental health services. The service was decommissioned after 15 years due to service reconfig... Read More about Mainstream education as a possible route to recovery and social inclusion: a review.

Ozone and climate governance: an implausible path dependence (2018)
Journal Article
Grundmann, R. (2018). Ozone and climate governance: an implausible path dependence. Comptes Rendus Géoscience, 350(7), 435-441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crte.2018.07.008

Many observers and commentators have used the case of ozone science and politics as a role model for climate science and politics. Two crucial assumptions underpin this view: (1) that science drives policymaking, and (2) that a unified, international... Read More about Ozone and climate governance: an implausible path dependence.

Defamilisation and familisation risks, adult worker models, and pro-employment/decommodification measures for women: the case of Hong Kong (2018)
Journal Article
Yu, S. W., Chau, C. R., & Kühner, S. (2018). Defamilisation and familisation risks, adult worker models, and pro-employment/decommodification measures for women: the case of Hong Kong. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/21699763.2018.1526699

This paper is concerned with the research areas of defamilisation/familisation and adult worker models. It particularly focuses on demonstrating how the study of government pro-employment and decommodification measures for reducing defamilisation and... Read More about Defamilisation and familisation risks, adult worker models, and pro-employment/decommodification measures for women: the case of Hong Kong.

Who needs critical friends? Independent advisory groups in the age of the police and crime commissioner (2018)
Journal Article
Dixon, B. (2018). Who needs critical friends? Independent advisory groups in the age of the police and crime commissioner. Policing, doi:10.1093/police/pay068. ISSN 1752-4512

In the early 2000s, many police forces in England and Wales set up independent advisory groups (IAGs) following an inquiry into the flawed investigation of the murder of a black teenager, Stephen Lawrence, by London's Metropolitan Police. Members of... Read More about Who needs critical friends? Independent advisory groups in the age of the police and crime commissioner.

Does ethnicity and culture affect the non- compliancy of cervical cancer screening? (2018)
Journal Article
Hennessey, L., Shaw, I., Okyere, S., & Adams, G. G. (2018). Does ethnicity and culture affect the non- compliancy of cervical cancer screening?. MOJ Public Health, 7(4), 219-227. https://doi.org/10.15406/mojph.2018.07.00233

Background: Globally, an estimated 528,000 women develop cervical cancer (CC) each year, 266,000 of whom die from the disease. CC is the fourth most-common cancer in women worldwide and fourteenth in the UK, where 3,200 cases are diagnosed each year.... Read More about Does ethnicity and culture affect the non- compliancy of cervical cancer screening?.