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Risk in synthetic biology: views from the lab (2018)
Journal Article
McLeod, C., Saille, S. D., & Nerlich, B. (2018). Risk in synthetic biology: views from the lab. EMBO Reports, 19(7), Article e45958. https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.201845958

How do synthetic biologists think about the risks in their research? This paper reports on a novel elicitation method that got surprising answers. Participants reflected not only on technical, but also on societal and psychological risks and responsi... Read More about Risk in synthetic biology: views from the lab.

The arts as a medium for care and self-care in dementia: arguments and evidence (2018)
Journal Article
Schneider, J. M. (2018). The arts as a medium for care and self-care in dementia: arguments and evidence. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(6), Article 1151. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15061151

The growing prevalence of dementia, combined with an absence of effective pharmacological treatments, highlights the potential of psychosocial interventions to alleviate the effects of dementia and enhance quality of life. With reference to a manifes... Read More about The arts as a medium for care and self-care in dementia: arguments and evidence.

Refugees’reception in Italy: past and present of a humanitarian crisis (2018)
Book Chapter
D'Angelo, A. (2018). Refugees’reception in Italy: past and present of a humanitarian crisis. In A. Petroff, G. Milios, & M. Pérez (Eds.), Refugiados en movimiento: retos políticos, legales y sociales = Refugees on the move: political, legal and social challenges in times of turmoil (92-106). Bellaterra: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Italy: the ‘illegality factory’? Theory and practice of refugees’ reception in Sicily (2018)
Journal Article
D’Angelo, A. (2019). Italy: the ‘illegality factory’? Theory and practice of refugees’ reception in Sicily. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45(12), 2213-2226. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2018.1468361

The recent surge of migrants crossing the Mediterranean in search of protection has presented a major challenge for the whole European Union. What has been labelled as a ‘refugee crisis’ is first and foremost a crisis of international politics and th... Read More about Italy: the ‘illegality factory’? Theory and practice of refugees’ reception in Sicily.

Mind the gap: Sentencing, rehabilitation and civic purgatory (2018)
Journal Article
Henley, A. (2018). Mind the gap: Sentencing, rehabilitation and civic purgatory. Probation Journal, 65(3), 285-301. https://doi.org/10.1177/0264550518776773

© The Author(s) 2018. This article discusses the relationships and tensions between the sentencing, statutory supervision and legal rehabilitation of lawbreakers under UK legislation. It does so with reference to both the Rehabilitation of Offenders... Read More about Mind the gap: Sentencing, rehabilitation and civic purgatory.

Good, bad and very bad part-time jobs for women? Re-examining the importance of occupational class for job quality since the ‘great recession’ in Britain (2018)
Journal Article
Warren, T., & Lyonette, C. (2018). Good, bad and very bad part-time jobs for women? Re-examining the importance of occupational class for job quality since the ‘great recession’ in Britain. Work, Employment and Society, 32(4), 747-767. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017018762289

Britain has long stood out in Europe for its extensive but low quality part-time labour market dominated by women workers, who are concentrated in lower-level jobs demanding few skills and low levels of education, offering lower wage rates and restri... Read More about Good, bad and very bad part-time jobs for women? Re-examining the importance of occupational class for job quality since the ‘great recession’ in Britain.

The categorisation of resistance: interpreting failure to follow a proposed line of action in the diagnosis of autism amongst young adults (2018)
Journal Article
Hollin, G., & Pilnick, A. (2018). The categorisation of resistance: interpreting failure to follow a proposed line of action in the diagnosis of autism amongst young adults. Sociology of Health and Illness, 40(7), 1215-1232. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12749

sessions and ask how diagnosticians distinguish between interactional resistance as, on the one hand, a diagnostic indicator and, on the other, as a reasonable choice from a range of possible responses. We find evidence of various forms of resistance... Read More about The categorisation of resistance: interpreting failure to follow a proposed line of action in the diagnosis of autism amongst young adults.

A role for independent peer review: reflections on the gateway review process (2018)
Journal Article
Cluley, V., Radnor, Z., Salvatori, F., & Whiting, A. (2018). A role for independent peer review: reflections on the gateway review process. British Journal of Healthcare Management, 24(5), 242-249. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjhc.2018.24.5.242

Healthcare organisations face constant pressure to change in order to pursue quality and performance improvements. As a result, professionals are often said to be experiencing change fatigue. This can be problematic for policy implementation initiati... Read More about A role for independent peer review: reflections on the gateway review process.

A comparison of mental health symptomatology and levels of social support in young treatment seeking transgender individuals who identify as binary and non-binary (2018)
Journal Article
Thorne, N., Witcomb, G. L., Nieder, T., Nixon, E., Yip, A., & Arcelus, J. (2019). A comparison of mental health symptomatology and levels of social support in young treatment seeking transgender individuals who identify as binary and non-binary. International Journal of Transgenderism, 20(2-3), 241-250. https://doi.org/10.1080/15532739.2018.1452660

Background: Previous research has consistently reported high rates of mental health symptomatology and lower social support in young treatment seeking transgender individuals. However, these studies have failed to distinguish between transgender peop... Read More about A comparison of mental health symptomatology and levels of social support in young treatment seeking transgender individuals who identify as binary and non-binary.

Policing the Community Together: The Impact of Technology on Citizen Engagement (2018)
Book Chapter
Brewster, B., Gibson, H., & Gunning, M. (2018). Policing the Community Together: The Impact of Technology on Citizen Engagement. In G. Leventakis, & M. Haberfeld (Eds.), Societal Implications of Community-Oriented Policing and Technology (91-102). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89297-9_11

Despite broad and often varied underlying definitions, a common theme throughout community and neighbourhood policing strategies establishes the need to target improvements in the relationship and level of engagement between the police and the commun... Read More about Policing the Community Together: The Impact of Technology on Citizen Engagement.

Falling for fake news: Investigating the consumption of news via social media (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Flintham, M., Karner, C., Creswick, H., Bachour, K., Gupta, N., & Moran, S. (2018). Falling for fake news: Investigating the consumption of news via social media. In CHI '18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1–10). https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173950

In the so called ‘post-truth’ era, characterized by a loss of public trust in various institutions, and the rise of ‘fake news’ disseminated via the internet and social media, individuals may face uncertainty about the veracity of information availab... Read More about Falling for fake news: Investigating the consumption of news via social media.

Outcomes of mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in adults with diabetes: a systematic review (2018)
Journal Article
Mason, J., Meal, A., Shaw, I., & Adams, G. G. (in press). Outcomes of mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in adults with diabetes: a systematic review. Journal of Diabetes and Treatment, 2018(2), https://doi.org/10.29011/2574-7568.000049

Objectives: Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a global and progressive chronic medical condition with increasing prevalence and associated costs throughout the world. Psychological problems are common in people with DM and when they co-occur are associated w... Read More about Outcomes of mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in adults with diabetes: a systematic review.

Facilitation of positive social interaction through visual art in dementia: a case study using videoanalysis (2018)
Journal Article
Schneider, J., Hazel, S., Morgner, C., & Dening, T. (2018). Facilitation of positive social interaction through visual art in dementia: a case study using videoanalysis. Ageing and Society, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X1800020X

The aims of this exploratory study were: to investigate the process of visual art appreciation in a person with dementia, in real time; and to test the feasibility of using videoanalysis as a method to explore this process by and with a person who ha... Read More about Facilitation of positive social interaction through visual art in dementia: a case study using videoanalysis.

Response to complexity: survivors of domestic abuse with “complex needs”: research summary report for Nottinghamshire Office of Police and Crime Commissioners’ Women’s Safety Reference Group (2018)
Book
Harris, L. Response to complexity: survivors of domestic abuse with “complex needs”: research summary report for Nottinghamshire Office of Police and Crime Commissioners’ Women’s Safety Reference Group. University of Nottingham

This report was presented to the Safety for Women Reference Group of The Nottinghamshire Office of Police and Crime Commissioner. The report summarises the author’s body of research exploring the experience of survivors of domestic abuse accessing se... Read More about Response to complexity: survivors of domestic abuse with “complex needs”: research summary report for Nottinghamshire Office of Police and Crime Commissioners’ Women’s Safety Reference Group.

Market-based low carbon retrofit in social housing: insights from Greater Manchester (2018)
Journal Article
Cauvain, J., Karvonen, A., & Petrova, S. (2018). Market-based low carbon retrofit in social housing: insights from Greater Manchester. Journal of Urban Affairs, 40(17), 937-951. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2018.1439340

In recent years, social housing providers in the UK have become influential actors in realising the national government’s decarbonisation agenda. However, when decarbonisation is considered in light of austerity measures and privatisation of public h... Read More about Market-based low carbon retrofit in social housing: insights from Greater Manchester.

Doing patient-centredness versus achieving public health targets: a critical review of interactional dilemmas in ART adherence support (2018)
Journal Article
De Kok, B., Widdicombe, S., Pilnick, A., & Laurier, E. (2018). Doing patient-centredness versus achieving public health targets: a critical review of interactional dilemmas in ART adherence support. Social Science and Medicine, 205, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.03.030

Anti-retroviral Therapy (ART) transformed HIV into a chronic disease but its individual and public health benefits depend on high levels of adherence. The large and rising number of people on ART, now also used as prevention, puts considerable strain... Read More about Doing patient-centredness versus achieving public health targets: a critical review of interactional dilemmas in ART adherence support.