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(Not) Knowing and (Not) Caring About Animal Research: An Analysis of Writing From the Mass Observation Project (2021)
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McGlacken, R. (2022). (Not) Knowing and (Not) Caring About Animal Research: An Analysis of Writing From the Mass Observation Project. Science & Technology Studies, 35(3), https://doi.org/10.23987/sts.102496

Animal research remains a practice marked by controversy and moral dilemma. However, UK science-society dialogues on the issue are increasingly managed via one-way transmissions of information which construct publics as passive and attribute their co... Read More about (Not) Knowing and (Not) Caring About Animal Research: An Analysis of Writing From the Mass Observation Project.

A victim-centred cost–benefit analysis of a stalking prevention programme (2021)
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Tompson, L., Belur, J., & Jerath, K. (2021). A victim-centred cost–benefit analysis of a stalking prevention programme. Crime Science, 10(1), Article 21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40163-021-00158-5

Research suggests that stalking inflicts great psychological and financial costs on victims. Yet costs of victimisation are notoriously difficult to estimate and include as intangible costs in cost–benefit analysis. This study reports an innovative c... Read More about A victim-centred cost–benefit analysis of a stalking prevention programme.

The cardboard box study: understanding collaborative data management in the connected home (2021)
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Kilic, D., Crabtree, A., McGarry, G., & Goulden, M. (2022). The cardboard box study: understanding collaborative data management in the connected home. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 26(1), 155-176. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-021-01655-9

The home is a site marked by the increasing collection and use of personal data, whether online or from connected devices. This trend is accompanied by new data protection regulation and the development of privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) that s... Read More about The cardboard box study: understanding collaborative data management in the connected home.

Inpatient Institutional Care: The Forced Social Environment (2021)
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Joyes, E. C., Jordan, M., Winship, G., & Crawford, P. (2021). Inpatient Institutional Care: The Forced Social Environment. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 690384. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.690384

The landscape of mental health recovery is changing; there have been calls for a shift from the clinical expertise being the dominant voice within mental healthcare towards a more personalised and collaborative service that supports those in need of... Read More about Inpatient Institutional Care: The Forced Social Environment.

Becoming frail: A more than human exploration (2021)
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Cluley, V., Fox, N., & Radnor, Z. (2021). Becoming frail: A more than human exploration. Health, https://doi.org/10.1177/13634593211038460

‘Frailty’ is increasingly used as a clinical term to refer and respond to a particular bodily presentation, with numerous scores and measures to support its clinical determination. While these tools are typically quantitative in nature and based prim... Read More about Becoming frail: A more than human exploration.

Public Adoption of and Trust in the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Quantitative Online Survey Study (2021)
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Dowthwaite, L., Fischer, J., Perez Vallejos, E., Portillo, V., Nichele, E., Goulden, M., & McAuley, D. (2021). Public Adoption of and Trust in the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Quantitative Online Survey Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(9), Article e29085. https://doi.org/10.2196/29085

Background: Digital contact tracing is employed to monitor and manage the spread of Covid-19. However, to be effective the system must be adopted by a substantial proportion of the population. Studies of (mostly hypothetical) contact tracing apps sho... Read More about Public Adoption of and Trust in the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Quantitative Online Survey Study.

Supervision in child protection: a space and place for reflection or an excruciating marathon of compliance? (2021)
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Beddoe, L., Ferguson, H., Warwick, L., Disney, T., Leigh, J., & Cooner, T. S. (2022). Supervision in child protection: a space and place for reflection or an excruciating marathon of compliance?. European Journal of Social Work, 25(3), 525-537. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2021.1964443

Supervision is promoted as an essential element of effective professional practice in social work. Its benefits include promoting reflective social work and assisting with the management of the emotions generated in challenging practice. This article... Read More about Supervision in child protection: a space and place for reflection or an excruciating marathon of compliance?.

Interventions to support the mental health of survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking: A systematic review (2021)
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Wright, N., Jordan, M., & Lazzarino, R. (2021). Interventions to support the mental health of survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking: A systematic review. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 67(8), 1026-1034. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207640211039245

Background: Modern slavery is a term which incorporates a range of exploitative situations that involve the violation of human rights and the subjugation of individuals. It presents a significant public health concern. Post-release, survivors of mode... Read More about Interventions to support the mental health of survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking: A systematic review.

“Let us define ourselves”: forced migrants’ use of multiple identities as a tactic for social navigation (2021)
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Hack-Polay, D., Mahmoud, A. B., Kordowicz, M., Madziva, R., & Kivunja, C. (2021). “Let us define ourselves”: forced migrants’ use of multiple identities as a tactic for social navigation. BMC Psychology, 9(1), Article 125. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-021-00630-6

Background: The article examines how and why multiple identities are altered, used and discarded by forced migrants. Methods: The research is located in the constructivist paradigm. We used thematic analysis to analyse data gathered through interview... Read More about “Let us define ourselves”: forced migrants’ use of multiple identities as a tactic for social navigation.

Residential Bordering: The (Mis)use of Residence Status to Control Migrants' Welfare Rights in Italy and the UK (2021)
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D'Angelo, A., & Gargiulo, E. (2021). Residential Bordering: The (Mis)use of Residence Status to Control Migrants' Welfare Rights in Italy and the UK. Autonomie locali e servizi sociali, 44(2/2021), 371-391. https://doi.org/10.1447/101460

This article examines how «residence» has been used as a mechanism to regulate welfare access in Italy and UK. The two countries have very different approaches to monitoring and registering local populations, but share a drive towards «differential i... Read More about Residential Bordering: The (Mis)use of Residence Status to Control Migrants' Welfare Rights in Italy and the UK.

Assessment of health and welfare in a small sample of dogs owned by people who are homeless (2021)
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Scanlon, L., Hobson‐West, P., Cobb, K., McBride, A., & Stavisky, J. (2022). Assessment of health and welfare in a small sample of dogs owned by people who are homeless. Veterinary Record, 190(12), Article e776. https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.776

Background: Pet ownership is common among homeless people, with dogs the most frequently reported pets. However, homeless people receive considerable criticism for keeping pets due to public perception of poor care provision. Materials and methods: A... Read More about Assessment of health and welfare in a small sample of dogs owned by people who are homeless.

“Refugees from practice”? Exploring why some vets move from the clinic to the laboratory (2021)
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Anderson, A., & Hobson-West, P. (2022). “Refugees from practice”? Exploring why some vets move from the clinic to the laboratory. Veterinary Record, 190(1), Article e773. https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.773

Background: Named veterinary surgeons (NVSs) are a mandated presence in licensed animal research establishments in the UK. Some NVSs come into their laboratory roles having left general veterinary practice, which is currently facing significant recru... Read More about “Refugees from practice”? Exploring why some vets move from the clinic to the laboratory.

Crafting ecologies of existence: More than human community making in Colombian textile craftivism (2021)
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Tacchetti, M., Quiceno Toro, N., Papadopoulos, D., & Puig de la Bellacasa, M. (2022). Crafting ecologies of existence: More than human community making in Colombian textile craftivism. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(3), 1383-1404. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211030154

Based on ethnographic work with several women’s textile making collectives in Colombia, this article approaches their crafting practices as everyday doings of socio-ecological reparation, in the midst of social and environmental devastation caused by... Read More about Crafting ecologies of existence: More than human community making in Colombian textile craftivism.

Characterising the outcomes, impacts and implementation challenges of advanced clinical practice roles in the UK: A scoping review (2021)
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Evans, C., Poku, B. A., Pearce, R., Eldridge, J., Hendrick, P., Knaggs, R., …Collier, R. (2021). Characterising the outcomes, impacts and implementation challenges of advanced clinical practice roles in the UK: A scoping review. BMJ Open, 11(8), Article e048171. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048171

Objectives In response to demographic and health system pressures, the development of non-medical advanced clinical practice (ACP) roles is a key component of National Health Service workforce transformation policy in the UK. This review was undertak... Read More about Characterising the outcomes, impacts and implementation challenges of advanced clinical practice roles in the UK: A scoping review.

Strength- and recovery-based approaches in forensic mental health in late modernity: Increasingly incorporating a human rights angle? (2021)
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Tomlin, J., & Jordan, M. (2022). Strength- and recovery-based approaches in forensic mental health in late modernity: Increasingly incorporating a human rights angle?. Social Theory and Health, 9, Article 827124. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-021-00169-x

Forensic mental health care is situated across both criminal justice and healthcare systems and is subject to political, cultural, legal and economic shifts in these contexts. The implementation of strength- and recovery-based models of care should b... Read More about Strength- and recovery-based approaches in forensic mental health in late modernity: Increasingly incorporating a human rights angle?.

Talking about frailty: The relationship between precarity and the fourth age in older peoples' constructions of frailty (2021)
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Cluley, V., Martin, G., Radnor, Z., & Banerjee, J. (2021). Talking about frailty: The relationship between precarity and the fourth age in older peoples' constructions of frailty. Journal of Aging Studies, 58, Article 100951. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2021.100951

The clinical identification of frailty is increasingly thought to be important in countries with ageing populations. Understanding how older people labelled as frail make sense of this categorisation is therefore important. A number of recent studies... Read More about Talking about frailty: The relationship between precarity and the fourth age in older peoples' constructions of frailty.

From Black to Blue Skies: Civil Society Perceptions of Air Pollution in Shanghai (2021)
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Winter, A. K., Le, H., & Roberts, S. (2021). From Black to Blue Skies: Civil Society Perceptions of Air Pollution in Shanghai. China Quarterly, 248(1), 1059-1080. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741021000588

This paper explores the perception and politics of air pollution in Shanghai. We present a qualitative case study based on a literature review of relevant policies and research on civil society and air pollution, in dialogue with air quality indexes... Read More about From Black to Blue Skies: Civil Society Perceptions of Air Pollution in Shanghai.

Organizing the precarious: Autonomous work, real democracy and ecological precarity (2021)
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Graham, J., & Papadopoulos, D. (2023). Organizing the precarious: Autonomous work, real democracy and ecological precarity. Organization, 30(4), 649-667. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084211026874

In 2008, just as the movement of the precarious seemed to be winning one political battle after the next, the fight against precarization suddenly dwindled. The cycle of struggles of the precarious that began in 2000 had seemingly come to an end. Iro... Read More about Organizing the precarious: Autonomous work, real democracy and ecological precarity.

Avoiding repair, maintaining face: Responding to hard-to-interpret talk from people living with dementia in the acute hospital (2021)
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Pilnick, A., O'Brien, R., Beeke, S., Goldberg, S., & Harwood, R. (2021). Avoiding repair, maintaining face: Responding to hard-to-interpret talk from people living with dementia in the acute hospital. Social Science and Medicine, 282, Article 114156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114156

People living with dementia (PLWD) are almost always admitted to the acute hospital for reasons unrelated to their dementia, finding themselves in the unfamiliar environment of a Health Care of Older Persons acute ward. The effect of this environment... Read More about Avoiding repair, maintaining face: Responding to hard-to-interpret talk from people living with dementia in the acute hospital.