All Outputs (58)

‘When I look at this van, it’s not only a van’: symbolic objects in the policing of migration (2016)
Journal Article
Lowndes, V., & Madziva, R. (2016). ‘When I look at this van, it’s not only a van’: symbolic objects in the policing of migration. Critical Social Policy, 36(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018316643949

The ‘Go Home Van’ was the centrepiece of the UK government’s 2013 immigration enforcement campaign. Vehicles were driven around ethnically diverse London neighbourhoods clad with giant posters offering irregular migrants a choice between ‘voluntary d... Read More about ‘When I look at this van, it’s not only a van’: symbolic objects in the policing of migration.

Essential features of responsible governance of agricultural biotechnology (2016)
Journal Article
Hartley, S., Gillund, F., van Hove, L., & Wickson, F. (2016). Essential features of responsible governance of agricultural biotechnology. PLoS Biology, 14(5), Article e1002453. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002453

Agricultural biotechnology continues to generate considerable controversy. We argue that to address this controversy, serious changes to governance are needed. The new wave of genomic tools and products (e.g., CRISPR, gene drives, RNAi, synthetic bio... Read More about Essential features of responsible governance of agricultural biotechnology.

‘If parents are punished for asking their children to feed goats’: supervisory neglect in sub-Saharan Africa (2016)
Journal Article
Laird, S. (2016). ‘If parents are punished for asking their children to feed goats’: supervisory neglect in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Social Work, 16(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1468017315572037

Summary: In the United States and the United Kingdom supervisory neglect of children is premised on a construction of childhood which characterises children as essentially vulnerable and in need of constant care and protection by parents. This Wester... Read More about ‘If parents are punished for asking their children to feed goats’: supervisory neglect in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Role of Hair Loss in Cancer Identity: Perceptions of Chemotherapy-Induced Alopecia Among Women Treated for Early-Stage Breast Cancer or Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (2016)
Journal Article
Trusson, D., & Pilnick, A. (2017). The Role of Hair Loss in Cancer Identity: Perceptions of Chemotherapy-Induced Alopecia Among Women Treated for Early-Stage Breast Cancer or Ductal Carcinoma in Situ. Cancer Nursing, 40(2), E9–E16. https://doi.org/10.1097/NCC.0000000000000373

Background: The trauma of chemotherapy-induced alopecia is well documented. However, less is known about how the stereotypical cancer identity affects social interactions. Objective: The aim of this study is to explore women's experiences of hair... Read More about The Role of Hair Loss in Cancer Identity: Perceptions of Chemotherapy-Induced Alopecia Among Women Treated for Early-Stage Breast Cancer or Ductal Carcinoma in Situ.

Social epigenetics: a science of social science? (2016)
Journal Article
Chung, E., Cromby, J., Papadopoulos, D., & Tufarelli, C. (2016). Social epigenetics: a science of social science?. 00 Journal not listed, 64(1), (168-185). doi:10.1002/2059-7932.12019. ISSN 2059-7932

Epigenetics has considerable potential to transform social science by embedding mutually regulative reciprocal connections between biological and social processes within the human activities it studies. This paper highlights common epigenetic methods... Read More about Social epigenetics: a science of social science?.

Prisoner relationships with voluntary sector practitioners (2016)
Journal Article
TOMCZAK, P. J., & ALBERTSON, K. E. (2016). Prisoner relationships with voluntary sector practitioners. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 55(1-2), 57-72. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12164

© 2016 The Howard League and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Recent scholarship has indicated that the voluntary sector is becoming increasingly important in marketised penal service delivery. However, market policy reforms are thought to pose risks to dist... Read More about Prisoner relationships with voluntary sector practitioners.

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Human Rights Violators in Comparative Perspective (2016)
Journal Article
Choi-Fitzpatrick, A. (2016). The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Human Rights Violators in Comparative Perspective. Journal of Human Trafficking, 2(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2016.1136166

A large and growing wave of scholarship has focused attention on a variety of contemporary forms of slavery. Early attention went to victims of sexual exploitation, though this is starting to slowly change with a growing body of work on labor exploit... Read More about The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Human Rights Violators in Comparative Perspective.

The McDonaldisation of police–academic partnerships: organisational and cultural barriers encountered in moving from research on police to research with police (2016)
Journal Article
Goode, J., & Lumsden, K. (2018). The McDonaldisation of police–academic partnerships: organisational and cultural barriers encountered in moving from research on police to research with police. Policing and Society, 28(1), 75-89. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2016.1147039

© 2016 Taylor & Francis. Partnerships between police and academics have proliferated in recent years, reflecting the increased recognition of the benefits to be had on both sides from collaborating on research, knowledge transfer and other activiti... Read More about The McDonaldisation of police–academic partnerships: organisational and cultural barriers encountered in moving from research on police to research with police.

Comparative systems of assessment of illness or disability for the purposes of adult social welfare payments. Second report (Carers) (2016)
Report
Cousins, M., Pennings, F., Roberts, S., & Stafford, B. (2016). Comparative systems of assessment of illness or disability for the purposes of adult social welfare payments. Second report (Carers). Dublin: National Disability Authority

Purpose of the report: This is the second report of the study of comparative systems of assessment of illness or disability for the purposes of adult social welfare payments. This report considers assessment systems for carer payments in relation to... Read More about Comparative systems of assessment of illness or disability for the purposes of adult social welfare payments. Second report (Carers).

Gender equality and religion: a multi-faith exploration of young adults’ narratives (2016)
Journal Article
Page, S., & Yip, A. K. (2017). Gender equality and religion: a multi-faith exploration of young adults’ narratives. European Journal of Women's Studies, 24(3), 249-265. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506815625906

This paper presents findings from research on young adults in the UK from diverse religious backgrounds. Utilizing questionnaires, interviews, and video diaries it assesses how religious young adults understood and managed the tensions in popular dis... Read More about Gender equality and religion: a multi-faith exploration of young adults’ narratives.

Framing risk and uncertainty in social science articles on climate change, 1995–2012 (2016)
Book Chapter
Shaw, C., Hellsten, I., & Nerlich, B. (2016). Framing risk and uncertainty in social science articles on climate change, 1995–2012. In J. Crichton, C. N. Candlin, & A. S. Firkins (Eds.), Communicating risk. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137478788_13

The issue of climate change is intimately linked to notions of risk and uncertainty, concepts that pose challenges to climate science, climate change communication, and science-society interactions. While a large majority of climate scientists are in... Read More about Framing risk and uncertainty in social science articles on climate change, 1995–2012.

Comparative systems of assessment of illness or disability for the purposes of adult social welfare payments, First Report (Final) (Incapacity for Work) (2016)
Report
Cousins, M., Roberts, S., & Stafford, B. (2016). Comparative systems of assessment of illness or disability for the purposes of adult social welfare payments, First Report (Final) (Incapacity for Work)

This is the first report of the study of comparative systems of assessment of illness or disability for the purposes of adult ‘incapacity’ social welfare payments. The purpose of the research is to examine systems for medical/disability assessment an... Read More about Comparative systems of assessment of illness or disability for the purposes of adult social welfare payments, First Report (Final) (Incapacity for Work).

Individual placement and support versus individual placement and support enhanced with work-focused cognitive behaviour therapy: feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial (2016)
Journal Article
Schneider, J. M., Akhtar, A., Boycott, N., Guo, B., Latimer, E., Cao, Z., & McMurran, M. (2016). Individual placement and support versus individual placement and support enhanced with work-focused cognitive behaviour therapy: feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 79(5), https://doi.org/10.1177/0308022615619184

Introduction: Employment is a key goal for many people with long-term mental health issues. Evidence-based individual placement and support is a widely advocated approach. This study explored whether individual placement and support outcomes could be... Read More about Individual placement and support versus individual placement and support enhanced with work-focused cognitive behaviour therapy: feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial.

A new normal?: Women's experiences of biographical disruption and liminality following treatment for early stage breast cancer (2016)
Journal Article
Trusson, D., Pilnick, A., & Roy, S. (2016). A new normal?: Women's experiences of biographical disruption and liminality following treatment for early stage breast cancer. Social Science and Medicine, 151, 121-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.01.011

Increasing numbers of women are surviving breast cancer, but little is known about the long-term implications of having survived a life-threatening illness and living with embodied reminders of its potential to return. Twenty-four women aged between... Read More about A new normal?: Women's experiences of biographical disruption and liminality following treatment for early stage breast cancer.

How people come to recognise a problem and seek medical help for a person showing early signs of dementia: a systematic review and meta-ethnography (2016)
Journal Article
Perry-Young, L., Owen, G., Kelly, S., & Owens, C. (2016). How people come to recognise a problem and seek medical help for a person showing early signs of dementia: a systematic review and meta-ethnography. Dementia, https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301215626889

Evidence suggests that there is usually a long delay between noticing first signs of dementia and seeking medical help. We conducted a systematic review of what people experience and how they make decisions during this time, and used a meta-ethnograp... Read More about How people come to recognise a problem and seek medical help for a person showing early signs of dementia: a systematic review and meta-ethnography.

Punishment, youth justice and cultural contingency: towards a balanced approach (2016)
Journal Article
Hamilton, C., Fitzgibbon, W., & Carr, N. (2016). Punishment, youth justice and cultural contingency: towards a balanced approach. Youth Justice, 16(3), 226-245. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473225415619500

Reflecting developments in the broader penological realm, accounts have been advanced over the last number of decades about a ‘punitive turn’ in the youth justice systems of Western democracies. Against the background of this work, this project seeks... Read More about Punishment, youth justice and cultural contingency: towards a balanced approach.

Defamilisation and familisation measures: Can they reduce the adverse effects of pro-market pension reforms on women in Hong Kong and the UK? (2016)
Journal Article
Chau, R. C., Foster, L., & Yu, S. W. (2016). Defamilisation and familisation measures: Can they reduce the adverse effects of pro-market pension reforms on women in Hong Kong and the UK?. Critical Social Policy, 36(2), 205-224. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018315621989

The xenophobe’s phrase book (2016)
Journal Article
Roberts, S. (2016). The xenophobe’s phrase book. Journal of Comparative and International Labour and Social Law / Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Arbeits- und Sozialrecht, 2016(1), 185-201