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Keeping the conversation going: How progressivity is prioritised in co-remembering talk between couples impacted by dementia (2022)
Journal Article
Slocombe, F., Peel, E., Pilnick, A., & Albert, S. (2022). Keeping the conversation going: How progressivity is prioritised in co-remembering talk between couples impacted by dementia. Health, https://doi.org/10.1177/13634593221127822

This article explores how partners keep the conversation going with people living with dementia (PLWD) when speaking about shared memories. Remembering is important for PLWD and their families. Indeed, memory loss is often equated with identity loss.... Read More about Keeping the conversation going: How progressivity is prioritised in co-remembering talk between couples impacted by dementia.

A typology of dis/value in public service delivery (2022)
Journal Article
Parker, S., Cluley, V., & Radnor, Z. (2023). A typology of dis/value in public service delivery. Public Money and Management, 43(1), 8-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2022.2124758

Dis/value or public value destruction is now increasingly recognized as part of the public value process. Despite this, confusion about the concept remains. This article assesses the use of public value destruction, and synonymous terms, in the publi... Read More about A typology of dis/value in public service delivery.

Wood burning stoves, participatory sensing, and ‘cold, stark data’ (2022)
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Heydon, J., & Chakraborty, R. (2022). Wood burning stoves, participatory sensing, and ‘cold, stark data’. SN Social Sciences, 2(10), Article 219. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-022-00525-2

Wood burning stoves triple levels of particulate matter pollution inside the home. Using an exploratory research design informed by coping theory, this study illustrates how sensors revealing this reality fail to influence the perceptions and behavio... Read More about Wood burning stoves, participatory sensing, and ‘cold, stark data’.

Life-courses, social change and politics: Evidence for the role of politically motivated structural-level influences on individual criminal careers (2022)
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Farrall, S., Gray, E., & Jones, P. M. (2022). Life-courses, social change and politics: Evidence for the role of politically motivated structural-level influences on individual criminal careers. Criminology and Criminal Justice, https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958221126667

Criminal careers research is one of the largest fields of research in modern criminology. However, it has almost exclusively focussed on individual-level explanations of onset, maintenance and desistance. In this article, and in part inspired by rece... Read More about Life-courses, social change and politics: Evidence for the role of politically motivated structural-level influences on individual criminal careers.

Ideologies, Power and the Politics of Punishment: The Case of the British Conservative Party (2022)
Journal Article
Guiney, T. (2022). Ideologies, Power and the Politics of Punishment: The Case of the British Conservative Party. British Journal of Criminology, 62(5), 1158-1174. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac031

Recent scholarship has underscored the limitations of a theoretical repertoire that reduces the politics of punishment to debates over punitiveness, neoliberalism or penal exceptionalism. In this paper I argue that greater understanding of the dynami... Read More about Ideologies, Power and the Politics of Punishment: The Case of the British Conservative Party.

Ideologies, Power and the Politics of Punishment: The Case of the British Conservative Party (2022)
Journal Article
Guiney, T. (2022). Ideologies, Power and the Politics of Punishment: The Case of the British Conservative Party. British Journal of Criminology, 62(5), 1158-1174. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac031

Recent scholarship has underscored the limitations of a theoretical repertoire that reduces the politics of punishment to debates over punitiveness, neoliberalism or penal exceptionalism. In this paper I argue that greater understanding of the dynami... Read More about Ideologies, Power and the Politics of Punishment: The Case of the British Conservative Party.

The power of relationship-based supervision in supporting social work retention: A case study from long-term ethnographic research in child protection (2022)
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Warwick, L., Beddoe, L., Leigh, J., Disney, T., Ferguson, H., & Cooner, T. S. (2022). The power of relationship-based supervision in supporting social work retention: A case study from long-term ethnographic research in child protection. Qualitative Social Work, 22(5), 879-898. https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250221113015

Supervision is a core component of professional support and development in social work. In many settings, and perhaps particularly in children’s services, it is valued as crucial in safe decision-making, practice reflection, professional development... Read More about The power of relationship-based supervision in supporting social work retention: A case study from long-term ethnographic research in child protection.

Whitening Black Men: Narrative Labour and the Scriptural Economics of Risk and Rehabilitation (2022)
Journal Article
Warr, J. (2022). Whitening Black Men: Narrative Labour and the Scriptural Economics of Risk and Rehabilitation. British Journal of Criminology, Article azac066. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac066

“You know what? You can’t be a ‘Black Man’ in prison.” Negative impositions of Blackness, grounded in the myths of Black Criminality, shape assessments of risk and rehabilitation within the scriptural economy of the contemporary prison. This creates... Read More about Whitening Black Men: Narrative Labour and the Scriptural Economics of Risk and Rehabilitation.

Desistance and the state: revisiting the individualization thesis in criminology and criminal justice (2022)
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Barry, M., Farrall, S., & France, A. (2022). Desistance and the state: revisiting the individualization thesis in criminology and criminal justice. Kriminologisches Journal, 3/2022, 181-198. https://doi.org/10.3262/KJ2203181

The growing influence of neo-liberalism in crime policy and practice has resulted in the responsibilization of individuals: criminality and risk tend now to be seen as operating at the individual level, rather than the structural level. Individuals a... Read More about Desistance and the state: revisiting the individualization thesis in criminology and criminal justice.

The spatial and temporal development of British prisons from 1901 to the present: The role of de-industrialisation (2022)
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Jones, P. M., Gray, E., & Farrall, S. (2024). The spatial and temporal development of British prisons from 1901 to the present: The role of de-industrialisation. European Journal of Criminology, 21(1), 140-159. https://doi.org/10.1177/14773708221115159

This paper combines archival data and statistical analysis to investigate the context-specific ways that prisons expanded and affected communities in the UK, focusing closely on the role of the UK's political economy. We present evidence of a signifi... Read More about The spatial and temporal development of British prisons from 1901 to the present: The role of de-industrialisation.

Interlocking corporate and policy networks in financial services: Paris-London relations post Brexit (2022)
Journal Article
Hall, S., & Heneghan, M. (2023). Interlocking corporate and policy networks in financial services: Paris-London relations post Brexit. ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography, 67(2-3), 92-104. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2021-0044

This paper examines the impacts of Brexit as an external shock to European financial centre relations. In particular, it studies the changing nature of Paris-London financial relations post Brexit. Early on in the Brexit process, Paris was not unders... Read More about Interlocking corporate and policy networks in financial services: Paris-London relations post Brexit.

Landscape Analysis of Cobalt Mining Activities from 2009 to 2021 Using Very High Resolution Satellite Data (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (2022)
Journal Article
Brown, C., Boyd, D. S., & Kara, S. (2022). Landscape Analysis of Cobalt Mining Activities from 2009 to 2021 Using Very High Resolution Satellite Data (Democratic Republic of the Congo). Sustainability, 14(15), Article 9545. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14159545

The cobalt mining sector is well positioned to be a key contributor in determining the success of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Despite the important contribution to the DRC’s... Read More about Landscape Analysis of Cobalt Mining Activities from 2009 to 2021 Using Very High Resolution Satellite Data (Democratic Republic of the Congo).

Research knowledge transfer to improve the care and support of adolescents with sickle cell disease in Ghana (2022)
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Poku, B. A., & Pilnick, A. (2022). Research knowledge transfer to improve the care and support of adolescents with sickle cell disease in Ghana. Health Expectations, https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13573

Introduction: Effective transfer of research findings to key knowledge users, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, is not always achieved, despite being a shared priority among researchers, funders, healthcare and community stakeholders... Read More about Research knowledge transfer to improve the care and support of adolescents with sickle cell disease in Ghana.

Populism, Conservatism and the Politics of Parole in England and Wales (2022)
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Annison, H., & Guiney, T. (2022). Populism, Conservatism and the Politics of Parole in England and Wales. Political Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923x.13170

Reform of the parole system has emerged as the cause célèbre of a resurgent law and order politics. Successive governments have seized upon the symbolic power of parole to demonstrate ‘toughness’ with respect to violent and sexual offending, to expre... Read More about Populism, Conservatism and the Politics of Parole in England and Wales.

Prisoners regulating prisons: Voice, action, participation and riot (2022)
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Buck, G., & Tomczak, P. (2024). Prisoners regulating prisons: Voice, action, participation and riot. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 24(1), 144-163. https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958221101997

Prisoners are a critical source of prison regulation around the world, but regulation by (rather than of) prisoners remains little analysed. In this article, we utilise the 1990 riots at HMP Strangeways (England), as a case study of prisoners (re)sha... Read More about Prisoners regulating prisons: Voice, action, participation and riot.

Vets and Vaccines: A Discursive Analysis of Pet Vaccine Critique (2022)
Journal Article
Hobson-West, P. (2022). Vets and Vaccines: A Discursive Analysis of Pet Vaccine Critique. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 9, Article 868933. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.868933

Critique of vaccination policy and practice has a long history, and social scientists and others have devoted significant efforts to understanding this phenomenon. This attention has only increased in light of the coronavirus pandemic, with public... Read More about Vets and Vaccines: A Discursive Analysis of Pet Vaccine Critique.

Complaints: Mechanisms for prisoner participation? (2022)
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Banwell-Moore, R., & Tomczak, P. (2022). Complaints: Mechanisms for prisoner participation?. European Journal of Criminology, 20(6), 1878-1898. https://doi.org/10.1177/14773708221094271

In prisons, participatory mechanisms can foster important outcomes including fairness, legitimacy and dignity. Complaints are one significant (symbolic) mechanism facilitating prisoner participation. Ombud institutions/ Ombudsmen handle complaints ex... Read More about Complaints: Mechanisms for prisoner participation?.

“You Want Them Pretty, but Not Too Intelligent!”: Everyday Talk and the Continuum of Men's Violence Against Women in Forensic Institutional Care (2022)
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Joyes, E. C., & Jordan, M. (2022). “You Want Them Pretty, but Not Too Intelligent!”: Everyday Talk and the Continuum of Men's Violence Against Women in Forensic Institutional Care. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, Article 886444. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.886444

The forensic setting houses persons with offence convictions who are also in receipt of ongoing mental healthcare–a criminal justice system and healthcare meeting-point. Extant literature highlights how this context is laden with interpersonal and in... Read More about “You Want Them Pretty, but Not Too Intelligent!”: Everyday Talk and the Continuum of Men's Violence Against Women in Forensic Institutional Care.

The case to scale up edutainment as an effective public health communication intervention to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe (2022)
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Dzinamarira, T., Nachipo, B., Nyathi, A., Madziva, R., Herrera, H., Siegel, H., & Musuka, G. (2022). The case to scale up edutainment as an effective public health communication intervention to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe. Health Promotion Perspectives, 12(1), 34-36. https://doi.org/10.34172/hpp.2022.05

Efforts to control the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have been negatively affected by myths, misconceptions and misinformation, fuelled by an “infodemic” spread via social media platforms. In response, The Zimbabwean COVID-19 response... Read More about The case to scale up edutainment as an effective public health communication intervention to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe.