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Disparities in public protection measures against sexual offending in England and Wales: an example of preventative injustice? (2015)
Journal Article
Hudson, K., & Henley, A. (2015). Disparities in public protection measures against sexual offending in England and Wales: an example of preventative injustice?. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 15(5), (561-577). doi:10.1177/1748895815577219. ISSN 1748-8958

This article analyses the use of criminal justice measures aimed at the prevention of sexual offending across England and Wales. Specifically, it focusses on measures such as the ‘sex offenders register’ and sexual offences prevention orders (SOPOs)... Read More about Disparities in public protection measures against sexual offending in England and Wales: an example of preventative injustice?.

How can semantic annotation help us to analyse the discourse of climate change in online user comments? (2015)
Journal Article
Collins, L. C. (2015). How can semantic annotation help us to analyse the discourse of climate change in online user comments?. Linguistik Online, 70(1), https://doi.org/10.13092/lo.70.1743

User comments in response to newspaper articles published online offer a unique resource for studying online discourse. The number of comments that articles often elicit poses many methodological challenges and analyses of online user comments have i... Read More about How can semantic annotation help us to analyse the discourse of climate change in online user comments?.

Causality in Contemporary American Sociology: An Empirical Assessment and Critique (2015)
Journal Article
Vaidyanathan, B., Strand, M., Choi-Fitzpatrick, A., Buschman, T., Davis, M., & Varela, A. (2016). Causality in Contemporary American Sociology: An Empirical Assessment and Critique. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 46(1), 3-26. https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12081

Using a unique data set of causal usage drawn from research articles published between 2006-2008 in the American Journal of Sociology and American Sociological Review, this article offers an empirical assessment of causality in American sociology. Te... Read More about Causality in Contemporary American Sociology: An Empirical Assessment and Critique.

The other side of the story - maternal perceptions of safety advice and information: a qualitative approach (2015)
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Shaw, I. (2015). The other side of the story - maternal perceptions of safety advice and information: a qualitative approach. Child: Care, Health and Development, 41(6), https://doi.org/10.1111/cch.12224

Background: A qualitative study of maternal perceptions of home safety advice. The aim was to gain an understanding of maternal perceptions of and possible barriers to the implementation of home safety advice. Methods: Semi-structured interviews wit... Read More about The other side of the story - maternal perceptions of safety advice and information: a qualitative approach.

Political upheaval in Egypt: Disavowing troubling states of mind (2015)
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Treacher Kabesh, A. (2015). Political upheaval in Egypt: Disavowing troubling states of mind. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 20, 343-358. https://doi.org/10.1057/pcs.2015.61

The hope and optimism following the 2011 revolution that took place in Egypt have been replaced with anger, despair and disappointment. The majority of the Egyptian population is struggling due to dire material conditions that are causing immense suf... Read More about Political upheaval in Egypt: Disavowing troubling states of mind.

Building an evidence base for adult safeguarding?: problems with the reliability and validity of adult safeguarding databases (2015)
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Fyson, R. (2015). Building an evidence base for adult safeguarding?: problems with the reliability and validity of adult safeguarding databases. British Journal of Social Work, 45(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bct163

This article considers current adult safeguarding policy guidelines for England, which require local authorities to collect adult safeguarding data for the purposes of research and service development. It then moves on to report some of the findings... Read More about Building an evidence base for adult safeguarding?: problems with the reliability and validity of adult safeguarding databases.

From publics to practitioners: invention power and open technoscience (2014)
Journal Article
Papadopoulos, D. (2015). From publics to practitioners: invention power and open technoscience. Science as Culture, 24(1), (108-121). doi:10.1080/09505431.2014.986322. ISSN 0950-5431

There are more publics involved in science than one would imagine at first sight. In technoscientific conditions what counts as knowledge creation is not primarily the individual experimental achievement that gives coherence to scientific practice an... Read More about From publics to practitioners: invention power and open technoscience.

Examining user comments for deliberative democracy: a corpus-driven analysis of the climate change debate online (2014)
Journal Article
Collins, L. C., & Nerlich, B. (2014). Examining user comments for deliberative democracy: a corpus-driven analysis of the climate change debate online. Environmental Communication, 9(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2014.981560

The public perception of climate change is characterized by heterogeneity, even polarization. Deliberative discussion is regarded by some as key to overcoming polarization and engaging various publics with the complex issue of climate change. In this... Read More about Examining user comments for deliberative democracy: a corpus-driven analysis of the climate change debate online.

Material hardship and 529 college savings plan participation: the mitigating effects of Child Development Accounts (2014)
Journal Article
Wikoff, N., Huang, J., Kim, Y., & Sherraden, M. (2015). Material hardship and 529 college savings plan participation: the mitigating effects of Child Development Accounts. Social Science Research, 50, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.11.017

Experience of material hardship can adversely affect a family’s ability to make long-term investments in children’s development. We examine whether material hardship is associated with one indicator of such investments: participation in a tax-advanta... Read More about Material hardship and 529 college savings plan participation: the mitigating effects of Child Development Accounts.

Communicating employability: the role of communicative competence for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK (2014)
Journal Article
Madziva, R., McGrath, S., & Thondhlana, J. (2014). Communicating employability: the role of communicative competence for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-014-0403-z

Skilled migration is an increasingly important topic for both policy and research internationally. OECD governments in particular are wrestling with tensions between their desire to use skilled migration to be on the winning side in the ‘global war f... Read More about Communicating employability: the role of communicative competence for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK.

Drones for Good: Technological Innovations, Social Movements, and the State (2014)
Journal Article
Choi-Fitzpatrick, A. (2014). Drones for Good: Technological Innovations, Social Movements, and the State. Journal of International Affairs, 68(1), 19-36

The increased use of and attention to drones, or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles led to a widespread debate about their application. Much of this debate has their use by governments, often for the purpose of surveillance and warfare. T the state's use obscu... Read More about Drones for Good: Technological Innovations, Social Movements, and the State.

Metaphor as a mechanism of global climate change governance: a study of international policies, 1992–2012 (2014)
Journal Article
Shaw, C., & Nerlich, B. (2015). Metaphor as a mechanism of global climate change governance: a study of international policies, 1992–2012. Ecological Economics, 109, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.11.001

This paper explores the emergence of a global climate change mitigation regime through an analysis of the language employed in international science-policy reports. We assume that a global climate regime can only operate effectively on the basis of a... Read More about Metaphor as a mechanism of global climate change governance: a study of international policies, 1992–2012.

Researching social work practice close up: using ethnographic and mobile methods to understand encounters between social workers, children and families (2014)
Journal Article
Ferguson, H. (in press). Researching social work practice close up: using ethnographic and mobile methods to understand encounters between social workers, children and families. British Journal of Social Work, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcu120

Research into child and family social work has largely stopped short of getting close enough to practice to produce understandings of what goes on between social workers and service users. This is despite the known problems in social worker engagemen... Read More about Researching social work practice close up: using ethnographic and mobile methods to understand encounters between social workers, children and families.

The observers and the observed: The ‘dual vision’ of Mass Observation Project (2014)
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Kramer, A. (2014). The observers and the observed: The ‘dual vision’ of Mass Observation Project. Sociological Research Online, 19(3), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.3455

In Summer 2008 I commissioned a Part 1 Directive on ‘Doing Family History Research’ from the Mass Observation Project as part of a Leverhulme-funded project[1] on the status and significance of genealogy and its role and consequences in personal and... Read More about The observers and the observed: The ‘dual vision’ of Mass Observation Project.

Economic intervention and parenting: a randomized experiment of statewide child development accounts (2014)
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Nam, Y., Wikoff, N., & Sherraden, M. (2016). Economic intervention and parenting: a randomized experiment of statewide child development accounts. Research on Social Work Practice, 26(4), 339-349. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731514555511

Objective: We examine the effects of Child Development Accounts (CDAs) on parenting stress and practices. Methods: We use data from the SEED for Oklahoma Kids (SEED OK) experiment. SEED OK selected caregivers of infants from Oklahoma birth cer... Read More about Economic intervention and parenting: a randomized experiment of statewide child development accounts.

The challenges of consulting the public on science policy: examining the development of European risk assessment policy for genetically modified animals (2014)
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Hartley, S., & Millar, K. M. (2014). The challenges of consulting the public on science policy: examining the development of European risk assessment policy for genetically modified animals. Review of Policy Research, 31(6), https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12102

With the growing importance of public engagement in science policy-making and declining levels of public trust in food production, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has attempted to embed ‘good governance’ approaches to strengthen scientific... Read More about The challenges of consulting the public on science policy: examining the development of European risk assessment policy for genetically modified animals.

Material returns: cultures of valuation, biofinancialisation and the autonomy of politics (2014)
Journal Article
Lilley, S., & Papadopoulos, D. (2014). Material returns: cultures of valuation, biofinancialisation and the autonomy of politics. Sociology, 48(5), (972-988). doi:10.1177/0038038514539206. ISSN 0038-0385

The ascent of biofinancialisation since the 1980s brought with it a culture of valuation that spread well beyond financial markets and came to pervade everyday life, subjectivity, ecology and materiality. At the same time, and as a response to the so... Read More about Material returns: cultures of valuation, biofinancialisation and the autonomy of politics.

Fracking on YouTube: exploring risks, benefits and human values (2014)
Journal Article
Jaspal, R., Turner, A., & Nerlich, B. (2014). Fracking on YouTube: exploring risks, benefits and human values. Environmental Values, 23(5), https://doi.org/10.3197/096327114X13947900181473

Shale gas is a novel source of fossil fuel which is extracted by induced hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” This article examines the the socio-political dimension of fracking as manifested in the UK press at three key temporal points in the debate... Read More about Fracking on YouTube: exploring risks, benefits and human values.

Constructing a social subject: autism and human sociality in the 1980s (2014)
Journal Article
Hollin, G. (2014). Constructing a social subject: autism and human sociality in the 1980s. History of the Human Sciences, 27(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695114528189

This article examines three key aetiological theories of autism (meta-representations, executive dysfunction and weak central coherence), which emerged within cognitive psychology in the latter half of the 1980s. Drawing upon Foucault’s notion of ‘fo... Read More about Constructing a social subject: autism and human sociality in the 1980s.