All Outputs (56)

Andrew’s white cross, Hussain’s red blood: Being Scottish Shia in Brexit’s no-man’s-land (2020)
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Brexit was a project shaped at the fringes of official politics. Unusually, however, it maintained its fringe-like qualities, including its lack of clarity and ambivalence, even as it took centre stage in the political affairs of the country for more... Read More about Andrew’s white cross, Hussain’s red blood: Being Scottish Shia in Brexit’s no-man’s-land.

Risk of forced marriage amongst people with learning disabilities in the UK: Perspectives of South Asian carers (2020)
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Background: People with intellectual disabilities are at increased risk of forced marriage in comparison to those without intellectual disabilities. In the UK this risk is particularly, though not exclusively, associated with South Asian communities... Read More about Risk of forced marriage amongst people with learning disabilities in the UK: Perspectives of South Asian carers.

Improving the inclusivity and credibility of visual research: interpretive engagement as a route to including the voices of people with learning disabilities in analysis (2020)
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Visual methods are often used in social science because of the potential for inclusivity and accessibility. In disability studies in particular, inclusive research is widely viewed as best practice and visual methods are often considered more accessi... Read More about Improving the inclusivity and credibility of visual research: interpretive engagement as a route to including the voices of people with learning disabilities in analysis.

A step forward: from conceptualizing to measuring successful aging at work (2020)
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Music-based interventions in the acute setting for patients with dementia: a systematic review (2020)
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Purpose: The utilization of non-pharmacological interventions is increasingly recommended in dementia care. Among them, Music-based interventions seem promising options, according with numerous positive studies conducted in long-term care institution... Read More about Music-based interventions in the acute setting for patients with dementia: a systematic review.

Talking about frailty: health professional perspectives and an ideological dilemma (2020)
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Frailty is increasingly used in clinical settings to describe a physiological state resulting from a combination of age-related co-morbidities. Frailty also has a strong 'lay' meaning that conjures a particular way of being. Recent studies have repor... Read More about Talking about frailty: health professional perspectives and an ideological dilemma.

The missing group? Situating transnational contacts in defamilisation research (2020)
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Defamilisation research is increasingly seen as an important component of studies of welfare and social work. It is concerned with people’s vulnerability to defamilisation risks, which are caused by insufficient opportunities for people to choose whe... Read More about The missing group? Situating transnational contacts in defamilisation research.

Involving the person with dementia in crisis planning: Focus groups with crisis intervention teams (2020)
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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Dementia leads to progressive critical situations that can escalate to a crisis episode if not adequately managed. A crisis may also resolve spontaneously, or not resolve after receiving profe... Read More about Involving the person with dementia in crisis planning: Focus groups with crisis intervention teams.

Effectiveness of Community Health Worker-led Diabetes Self-Management Education on Type 2 diabetes patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2020)
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Objective: Community Health Workers are important in building individual and community capacity through outreach, community education, informal counselling, social support and advocacy programs, which enhance health knowledge and self-sufficiency. Ou... Read More about Effectiveness of Community Health Worker-led Diabetes Self-Management Education on Type 2 diabetes patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

When people living with dementia say ‘no’: Negotiating refusal in the acute hospital setting (2020)
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A quarter of UK acute hospital beds are occupied by people living with dementia (PLWD). Concerns have been raised by both policy makers and carers about the quality of communication between hospital staff and PLWD. PLWD may experience communication i... Read More about When people living with dementia say ‘no’: Negotiating refusal in the acute hospital setting.

Timescapes in Public Policy – Constructing the “Victim of Trafficking” (2020)
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Human trafficking is presented as a multidimensional problem, constituted by a complex matrix of borders, vertices and spaces. In spite of the agreement of an international definition of trafficking in human beings some 20 years ago, debates persist... Read More about Timescapes in Public Policy – Constructing the “Victim of Trafficking”.

Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment: Postdigital Relationships between Science, Philosophy, and Religion (2020)
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This collectively written article explores postdigital relationships between science, philosophy, and religion within the continuum of enchantment, disenchantment, and re-enchantment. Contributions are broadly classified within four sections related... Read More about Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment: Postdigital Relationships between Science, Philosophy, and Religion.

Sexual deviance in prison: Queering identity and intimacy in prison research (2020)
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Recent years have seen increased attention in both research and policy towards Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) prisoners as a group with distinct needs. This has been driven by wider political recognition of LGBT rights and research su... Read More about Sexual deviance in prison: Queering identity and intimacy in prison research.

Liminal Lives: Navigating In-Betweenness in the Case of Bulgarian and Italian Migrants in Brexiting Britain (2020)
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The UK's decision to leave the EU illustrates some of the tensions embedded in European integration, enabling us to examine how nationalism and cosmopolitanism operate simultaneously, thus reinforcing each other. Furthermore, the prolonged Brexit neg... Read More about Liminal Lives: Navigating In-Betweenness in the Case of Bulgarian and Italian Migrants in Brexiting Britain.

Field-testing an iCST touch-screen application with people with dementia and carers: a mixed method study (2020)
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Objectives: To test the individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (iCST) application with people with dementia and carers in order to modify and refine the application, and improve its usability. In an iterative development process, two different prot... Read More about Field-testing an iCST touch-screen application with people with dementia and carers: a mixed method study.

Pride and Purpose: reflections on timebanking practice for fostering social networks in wellbeing improvement schemes (2020)
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This paper explores the relationship between social capital and a community initiative known as timebanking. Its purpose is to offer a more critical account of the literature to date, which suggests timebanking generates improved health outcomes beca... Read More about Pride and Purpose: reflections on timebanking practice for fostering social networks in wellbeing improvement schemes.

Procedural Environmental Injustice in ‘Europe’s Greenest City’: A Case Study into the Felling of Sheffield’s Street Trees (2020)
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With around two million trees within its boundaries, the city of Sheffield, England, is known as the ‘greenest city in Europe’. Of these, 36,000 are street trees, defined as those planted on pavements and other public rights of way. However, as of 20... Read More about Procedural Environmental Injustice in ‘Europe’s Greenest City’: A Case Study into the Felling of Sheffield’s Street Trees.

Revealing the hidden performances of social work practice: The ethnographic process of gaining access, getting into place and impression management (2020)
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Whilst the empirical process of research highlights substantive findings, understanding the methodological approach in which access is gained and sustained on field sites is also an integral part of the data. Gaining access in ethnographic studies, i... Read More about Revealing the hidden performances of social work practice: The ethnographic process of gaining access, getting into place and impression management.

The ontology of resistance: Power, tactics and making do in the Vila Rubim market (2020)
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The paper re-examines the relation between power and resistance by investigating the reconstruction of the Vila Rubim market, one of the established markets in the city of Vitória in Brazil. After a fire that destroyed large parts of the market—proba... Read More about The ontology of resistance: Power, tactics and making do in the Vila Rubim market.

Brexit and the reform of social security coordination: The UK’s metamorphosis from rule maker to rule taker (2020)
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This article examines the United Kingdom’s negotiating position on the revision of the EU Coordinating Regulations proposed by the European Commission in December 2016, in the context of Brexit and the negotiations on the Withdrawal Agreement. The Wi... Read More about Brexit and the reform of social security coordination: The UK’s metamorphosis from rule maker to rule taker.