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The demographics of forced marriage of people with learning disabilities: findings from a national database (2020)
Journal Article
Clawson, R., Patterson, A., Fyson, R., & McCarthy, M. (2020). The demographics of forced marriage of people with learning disabilities: findings from a national database. Journal of Adult Protection, 22(2), 59-74. https://doi.org/10.1108/jap-09-2019-0029

Purpose The purpose of this study is to compare the UK demographics of forced marriage of people with learning disabilities and people without learning disabilities to inform effective safeguarding practice. Design/methodology/approach An analys... Read More about The demographics of forced marriage of people with learning disabilities: findings from a national database.

New development: Expanding public service value to include dis/value (2020)
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Cluley, V., Parker, S., & Radnor, Z. (2021). New development: Expanding public service value to include dis/value. Public Money and Management, 41(8), 656-659. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2020.1737392

This article introduces two new terms to the public value lexicon: ‘public service ethos’ and ‘dis/value’. Both terms serve to progress the conceptualization of public value. ‘Public service ethos’ is used to refer to the prevailing assumption that t... Read More about New development: Expanding public service value to include dis/value.

The strategic impacts of Intelligent Automation for knowledge and service work: An interdisciplinary review (2020)
Journal Article
Coombs, C., Hislop, D., Taneva, S. K., & Barnard, S. (2020). The strategic impacts of Intelligent Automation for knowledge and service work: An interdisciplinary review. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 29(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2020.101600

A significant recent technological development concerns the automation of knowledge and service work as a result of advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its sub-fields. We use the term Intelligent Automation to describe this phenomenon. This... Read More about The strategic impacts of Intelligent Automation for knowledge and service work: An interdisciplinary review.

What do family caregivers want from domiciliary care for relatives living with dementia? a qualitative study (2020)
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Pollock, K., Wilkinson, S., Perry-Young, L., Turner, N., & Schneider, J. (2021). What do family caregivers want from domiciliary care for relatives living with dementia? a qualitative study. Ageing and Society, 41(9), 2060-2073. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X20000185

In the current ecology of care, social, rather than medical, support is critical in enabling frail older people to live at home. This paper reports findings from a qualitative study about how home care workers (HCWs) support persons with dementia li... Read More about What do family caregivers want from domiciliary care for relatives living with dementia? a qualitative study.

Can portable air quality monitors protect children from air pollution on the school run? An exploratory study (2020)
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Heydon, J., & Chakraborty, R. (2020). Can portable air quality monitors protect children from air pollution on the school run? An exploratory study. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 192(3), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-020-8153-1

With air quality issues in urban areas garnering increasing media attention, concerned citizens are beginning to engage with the technology as a means of identifying and responding to the environmental risks posed. However, while much has been writte... Read More about Can portable air quality monitors protect children from air pollution on the school run? An exploratory study.

Animal research nexus: a new approach to the connections between science, health and animal welfare (2020)
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Davies, G., Gorman, R., Greenhough, B., Hobson-West, P., Kirk, R. G., Message, R., …Skidmore, T. (2020). Animal research nexus: a new approach to the connections between science, health and animal welfare. Medical Humanities, 46(4), 499-511. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2019-011778

Animals used in biological research and testing have become integrated into the trajectories of modern biomedicine, generating increased expectations for and connections between human and animal health. Animal research also remains controversial and... Read More about Animal research nexus: a new approach to the connections between science, health and animal welfare.

The nature and culture of social work with children and families in long?term casework: Findings from a qualitative longitudinal study (2020)
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Ferguson, H., Warwick, L., Cooner, T. S., Leigh, J., Beddoe, L., Disney, T., & Plumridge, G. (2020). The nature and culture of social work with children and families in long?term casework: Findings from a qualitative longitudinal study. Child and Family Social Work, 25(3), 694-703. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12746

Social work in the United Kingdom is preoccupied with what social workers cannot do due to having limited time to spend with service users. Yet remarkably little research has examined what social workers actually do, especially in long-term relations... Read More about The nature and culture of social work with children and families in long?term casework: Findings from a qualitative longitudinal study.

Rethinking co-creation: the fluid and relational process of value co-creation in public service organizations (2020)
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Cluley, V., & Radnor, Z. (2021). Rethinking co-creation: the fluid and relational process of value co-creation in public service organizations. Public Money and Management, 41(7), 563-572. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2020.1719672

IMPACT: Public services are increasingly thought of in terms of the public value they provide. Co-creation is a popular public service management tool to provide services that benefit public value. Both public value and co-creation have been conceptu... Read More about Rethinking co-creation: the fluid and relational process of value co-creation in public service organizations.

Marginal gains or diminishing returns? Penal bifurcation, policy change and the administration of prisoner release in England and Wales (2019)
Journal Article
Guiney, T. (2019). Marginal gains or diminishing returns? Penal bifurcation, policy change and the administration of prisoner release in England and Wales. European Journal of Probation, 11(3), 139-152. https://doi.org/10.1177/2066220319895802

Prisoner release has emerged as a key site of penal policy contestation in England and Wales. A series of crises have undermined public confidence in the parole system and reopened longstanding debates over the confused normative basis of prisoner re... Read More about Marginal gains or diminishing returns? Penal bifurcation, policy change and the administration of prisoner release in England and Wales.

Social security coordination after Brexit: trying to take an egg out of an omelette? (2019)
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Roberts, S. (2020). Social security coordination after Brexit: trying to take an egg out of an omelette?. ERA-Forum, 20(4), 531-547. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12027-019-00591-9

This article examines the negotiations to secure social security and healthcare rights after Brexit for people who have exercised their right to free movement or move between the EU and UK in the future. The analysis is based upon examination of draf... Read More about Social security coordination after Brexit: trying to take an egg out of an omelette?.

Rights-based claims made by UK anti-abortion activists (2019)
Journal Article
Lowe, P., & Page, S. (2019). Rights-based claims made by UK anti-abortion activists. Health and Human Rights,

This article analyzes the ways in which rights-based arguments are utilized by anti-abortion activists in the UK. Drawing on an ethnographic study featuring 30 abortion clinic sites, anti-abortion marches, and other campaigns, we argue that rights-ba... Read More about Rights-based claims made by UK anti-abortion activists.

Presenting a new defamilization and familization framework for investigating the residualization of old‐age income security measures—The case study of Hong Kong (2019)
Journal Article
Yu, S. W. K., Chau, R. C. M., & Jung, M. (2020). Presenting a new defamilization and familization framework for investigating the residualization of old‐age income security measures—The case study of Hong Kong. Asian Social Work and Policy Review, 14(1), 53-60. https://doi.org/10.1111/aswp.12192

Familisation and defamilisation studies are increasingly seen as an important component of welfare research. They are concerned with the threats to individuals’ welfare caused by involuntary participation in the unwanted family relationship. Moreove... Read More about Presenting a new defamilization and familization framework for investigating the residualization of old‐age income security measures—The case study of Hong Kong.

Familization risks, defamilization risks and older women (2019)
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Chau, R. C., & Yu, S. W. (2021). Familization risks, defamilization risks and older women. Journal of Women and Aging, 33(3), 312-327. https://doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2019.1692630

© 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis. This article is about the familization and defamilization risks faced by older women. Such risks are generated by the lack of one or both of two conditions: the freedom to choose whether or not to perform certain fa... Read More about Familization risks, defamilization risks and older women.

Progressing the Conceptualization of Value Co-creation in Public Service Organizations (2019)
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Cluley, V., & Radnor, Z. (2020). Progressing the Conceptualization of Value Co-creation in Public Service Organizations. Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, 3(3), 211-221. https://doi.org/10.1093/ppmgov/gvz024

Value and how it is produced/created in public service organizations (PSOs) represents a current and significant issue for those researching and working in public sector management as well as public service users. Recently it has been suggested that... Read More about Progressing the Conceptualization of Value Co-creation in Public Service Organizations.

How to do things with epigenetics: An investigation into the use of metaphors to promote alternative approaches to health and social science, and their implications for interdisciplinary collaboration (2019)
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Nerlich, B., Stelmach, A., & Ennis, C. (2020). How to do things with epigenetics: An investigation into the use of metaphors to promote alternative approaches to health and social science, and their implications for interdisciplinary collaboration. Social Science Information, 59(1), 59-92. https://doi.org/10.1177/0539018419887110

Epigenetics is a multifaceted field within genetics and genomics which focuses on discovering mechanisms involved in gene expression and regulation. It came to public attention around the turn of the millennium when the human genome began to be decip... Read More about How to do things with epigenetics: An investigation into the use of metaphors to promote alternative approaches to health and social science, and their implications for interdisciplinary collaboration.

Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of individual placement and support (IPS) for patients with offending histories in the community: The United Kingdom experience (2019)
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Khalifa, N., Hadfield, S., Thomson, L., Talbot, E., Bird, Y., Schneider, J., …Walker, D. (2020). Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of individual placement and support (IPS) for patients with offending histories in the community: The United Kingdom experience. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 83(3), 179-190. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308022619879334

Introduction We aimed to identify the barriers and facilitators to the implementation of a high fidelity individual placement and support service in a community forensic mental health setting. Method In-depth interviews were conducted with clinica... Read More about Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of individual placement and support (IPS) for patients with offending histories in the community: The United Kingdom experience.

From snapshots of practice to a movie: Researching long-term social work and child protection by getting as close as possible to practice and organisational life (2019)
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Ferguson, H., Leigh, J., Beddoe, L., Singh Crooner, T., Disney, T., Warwick, L., & Plumridge, G. (2020). From snapshots of practice to a movie: Researching long-term social work and child protection by getting as close as possible to practice and organisational life. British Journal of Social Work, 50(6), 1706–1723. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz119

Research into social work and child protection has begun to observe practice to find out what social workers actually do, however no such ethnographic research has been done into long-term practice. This paper outlines and analyses the methods used i... Read More about From snapshots of practice to a movie: Researching long-term social work and child protection by getting as close as possible to practice and organisational life.