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Conversation Analysis Based Simulation (CABS): A method for improving communication skills training for healthcare practitioners (2023)
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Pilnick, A., O'Brien, R., Beeke, S., Goldberg, S., Murray, M., & Harwood, R. H. (2023). Conversation Analysis Based Simulation (CABS): A method for improving communication skills training for healthcare practitioners. Health Expectations, 26(6), 2461-2474. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13834

Background: Actors portraying simulated patients are widely used in communication skills training in healthcare, but debates persist over the authenticity of these interactions. However, healthcare professionals value simulation‐based training becaus... Read More about Conversation Analysis Based Simulation (CABS): A method for improving communication skills training for healthcare practitioners.

Evaluating commodification and commodifying evaluation (2023)
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Stafford, B., Roberts, S., & Jas, P. (2024). Evaluating commodification and commodifying evaluation. Public Money and Management, 44(4), 326-334. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2023.2240640

The article considers the evaluation of commodified services and the commodification of evaluations. The former distinguishes between evaluating a decision on whether to commodify a service and evaluations of commodified services. The latter explores... Read More about Evaluating commodification and commodifying evaluation.

What Do Scientists Mean When They Talk About Research Animals “Volunteering”? (2023)
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Palmer, A., Greenhough, B., Hobson-West, P., Davies, G., & Message, R. (2023). What Do Scientists Mean When They Talk About Research Animals “Volunteering”?. Society and Animals, https://doi.org/10.1163/15685306-bja10139

This paper examines discourses around “volunteering” in animal research. Through a qualitative textual analysis of the scientific literature using animals in behavioral and psychological research, we demonstrate that “voluntary” and related terms are... Read More about What Do Scientists Mean When They Talk About Research Animals “Volunteering”?.

Regional and neighbourhood-based variation in three types of vaccine attitude in Britain (2023)
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Anderson, A. (2023). Regional and neighbourhood-based variation in three types of vaccine attitude in Britain. Health and Place, 83, Article 103098. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103098

This study investigates the geographic patterning of attitudes towards vaccination in Britain (England, Wales, and Scotland). Using survey data from the 2018 Wellcome Monitor linked to lower super output areas and NUTS2 regions, this study provides e... Read More about Regional and neighbourhood-based variation in three types of vaccine attitude in Britain.

Storytelling and affiliation between healthcare staff in Schwartz Round interactions: A conversation analytic study (2023)
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Atkins, S., Pilnick, A., Maben, J., & Thompson, L. (2023). Storytelling and affiliation between healthcare staff in Schwartz Round interactions: A conversation analytic study. Social Science and Medicine, 333, Article 116111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116111

It is well known that the demands of working in healthcare can take a psychological toll on staff. Schwartz Centre Rounds are an intervention aimed at supporting staff wellbeing through providing a forum to talk about the emotional, social and ethica... Read More about Storytelling and affiliation between healthcare staff in Schwartz Round interactions: A conversation analytic study.

Reconsidering patient‐centred care: Authority, expertise and abandonment (2023)
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Pilnick, A. (2023). Reconsidering patient‐centred care: Authority, expertise and abandonment. Health Expectations, 26(5), 1785-1788. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13815

Patient-centred care is commonly framed as a means to guard against the problem of medical paternalism, exemplified in historical attitudes of ‘doctor knows best’. In this sense, patient-centred care (PCC) is often regarded as a moral imperative. Rev... Read More about Reconsidering patient‐centred care: Authority, expertise and abandonment.

Prisoners on prisons: Experiences of peer-delivered suicide prevention work (2023)
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Buck, G., Tomczak, P., Harriott, P., Page, R., Bradley, K., Nash, M., & Wainwright, L. (2023). Prisoners on prisons: Experiences of peer-delivered suicide prevention work. Incarceration, 4, https://doi.org/10.1177/26326663231172023

Prison suicide is a global concern, with rates consistently exceeding those in non-incarcerated populations. Prisoners deliver (suicide prevention) initiatives in jurisdictions around the world. As part of a research project seeking to foreground pri... Read More about Prisoners on prisons: Experiences of peer-delivered suicide prevention work.

Patient safety in prisons: a multi-method analysis of reported incidents in England (2023)
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McFadzean, I. J., Davies, K., Purchase, T., Edwards, A., Hellard, S., Ashcroft, D. M., …Carson-Stevens, A. (2023). Patient safety in prisons: a multi-method analysis of reported incidents in England. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 116(7), 236-245. https://doi.org/10.1177/01410768231166138

Objectives Prisoners use healthcare services three times more frequently than the general population with poorer health outcomes. Their distinct healthcare needs often pose challenges to safe healthcare provision. This study aimed to characterise pa... Read More about Patient safety in prisons: a multi-method analysis of reported incidents in England.

A house is not a home: housing disadvantage, homelessness, and modern slavery (2023)
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Clare, N., Iafrati, S., Reeson, C., Wright, N., Gray, C., & Baptiste, H. (2023). A house is not a home: housing disadvantage, homelessness, and modern slavery. Journal of the British Academy, 11, 83-93. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/011.083

This commentary focuses on the underexplored links between housing disadvantage, homelessness, and modern slavery. Despite significant anecdotal evidence, there is a pressing need for proper theorisation of the connections between housing situation a... Read More about A house is not a home: housing disadvantage, homelessness, and modern slavery.

The arts in dementia: instrumental and experiential perspectives (2023)
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Schneider, J. (2023). The arts in dementia: instrumental and experiential perspectives. Aging and Mental Health, 27(10), 1861-1863. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2023.2205827

The indirect experience of dementia mediated through the arts shapes our preconceptions, educating us to understand dementia, gaining a deeper appreciation of how it may affect an individual. By contrast dementia research has largely regarded the art... Read More about The arts in dementia: instrumental and experiential perspectives.

Developing a ‘defamilisation framework’ to examine the strategies for promoting the adult worker model and women’s welfare in eight European countries (2023)
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Yu, S. W. K., Chau, R. C. M., & Lo, I. P. Y. (2024). Developing a ‘defamilisation framework’ to examine the strategies for promoting the adult worker model and women’s welfare in eight European countries. International Social Work, 67(2), 321-333. https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728231165638

This article is intended to explore the link between the study of defamilisation and that of the adult worker model. To meet this purpose, a defamilisation framework for studying issues concerning the adult worker model and defamilisation is develope... Read More about Developing a ‘defamilisation framework’ to examine the strategies for promoting the adult worker model and women’s welfare in eight European countries.

Collateral consequences of criminal records from the other side of the pond: How exceptional is American penal exceptionalism? (2023)
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Corda, A., Rovira, M., & Henley, A. (2023). Collateral consequences of criminal records from the other side of the pond: How exceptional is American penal exceptionalism?. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 23(4), 528–548. https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958231161437

In this article, we highlight the existence and expansion of so-called ‘collateral consequences’ (CCs) of criminal records in Europe to challenge the prevalent view that these are features of the claimed ‘American exceptionalism’ within the penal fie... Read More about Collateral consequences of criminal records from the other side of the pond: How exceptional is American penal exceptionalism?.

Biographical dialectics: The ongoing and creative problem solving required to negotiate the biographical disruption of chronic illness (2023)
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Cluley, V., Burton, J., Quann, N., Hull, K., & Eborall, H. (2023). Biographical dialectics: The ongoing and creative problem solving required to negotiate the biographical disruption of chronic illness. Social Science and Medicine, 325, Article 115900. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115900

Here we propose the term ‘biographical dialectics’ as a sister term to ‘biographical disruption’ to capture the ongoing problem solving that characterises the lives of many people living with life limiting chronic illnesses. The paper is based on the... Read More about Biographical dialectics: The ongoing and creative problem solving required to negotiate the biographical disruption of chronic illness.

The Risks and Harms Associated with Modern Slavery during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: A Multi-Method Study (2023)
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Such, E., Gardner, A., Dang, M., Wright, N., Bravo-Balsa, L., Brotherton, V., …Trodd, Z. (in press). The Risks and Harms Associated with Modern Slavery during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: A Multi-Method Study. Journal of Human Trafficking, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2023.2194760

The COVID-19 pandemic has considerably affected global economies and societies, exacerbating existing social inequalities. This “syndemic” pandemic has placed people and communities affected by modern slavery and human trafficking at elevated risk of... Read More about The Risks and Harms Associated with Modern Slavery during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: A Multi-Method Study.

Brexit and ‘missing’ financial services jobs in the United Kingdom (2023)
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Hall, S., & Heneghan, M. (2023). Brexit and ‘missing’ financial services jobs in the United Kingdom. Contemporary Social Science, 18(2), 235-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2023.2189294

In this paper, we examine the impact of Brexit on financial services employment in the UK. Initial estimates suggested that around 10,000 jobs could relocate from London to other EU financial centres as a result of Brexit. Official statistics show th... Read More about Brexit and ‘missing’ financial services jobs in the United Kingdom.

Explaining penal momentum: Path dependence, prison population forecasting and the persistence of high incarceration rates in England and Wales (2023)
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Guiney, T., & Yeomans, H. (2023). Explaining penal momentum: Path dependence, prison population forecasting and the persistence of high incarceration rates in England and Wales. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 62(1), 29-45. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12507

This article seeks to explain the persistence of high incarceration rates in England and Wales. Building upon recent theoretical work on path dependence, we identify prison population forecasting as a poorly understood positive feedback mechanism tha... Read More about Explaining penal momentum: Path dependence, prison population forecasting and the persistence of high incarceration rates in England and Wales.

Decolonizing zemiology: outlining and remedying the blindness to (post)colonialism within the study of social harm (2023)
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Wright, E. J. (2023). Decolonizing zemiology: outlining and remedying the blindness to (post)colonialism within the study of social harm. Critical Criminology, 31, 127–144. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-022-09682-5

This paper hosts the first meaningful dialogue between two important epistemic movements for criminology: zemiology and decolonisation. I identify that zemiology has a disciplinary blindness to colonialism and explain this using Gurminder K. Bhambra’... Read More about Decolonizing zemiology: outlining and remedying the blindness to (post)colonialism within the study of social harm.

An applied model of cultural competence in child protection practice (2023)
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Laird, S., & Williams, C. (2023). An applied model of cultural competence in child protection practice. Journal of Social Work, 23(4), 721-740. https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173231162551

Summary : This empirical qualitative study explores the application of a model of cultural competence in child protection practice with families from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds in the United Kingdom. Data were collected through audi... Read More about An applied model of cultural competence in child protection practice.