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Social policy learning inside the World Bank: The case of multi‐pillar pension reform (2022)
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This paper analyses the process of policy learning that has taken place inside the Social Protection and Labor Department of the World Bank after the large-scale abandonment of its flagship pension programme. It draws on a set of elite interviews wit... Read More about Social policy learning inside the World Bank: The case of multi‐pillar pension reform.

Book review: The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales. Volume II: Institution-Building (2022)
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The Chinese government's management of anti-Japan nationalism during Hu-Wen era (2022)
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China and Japan continue to partly live in the shadow of World War II (WWII) with recurrent expressions of anti-Japanese nationalism in China periodically ebbing bilateral relations. How does the Chinese government manage anti-Japan public manifestat... Read More about The Chinese government's management of anti-Japan nationalism during Hu-Wen era.

Chinese Nationalism through the Prism of the Sino–Japanese Dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands (2022)
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In the last two decades, against the backdrop of multiple anti-Japanese protests in China, the rise of Chinese nationalism has been much debated. By taking the 2010 and 2012 Sino–Japanese crises over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands as a case study, the ar... Read More about Chinese Nationalism through the Prism of the Sino–Japanese Dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands.

Implicated by scale: Anthropochemicals and the experience of ecology (2022)
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If our worlds are unimaginable, or, ironically, perhaps even unsustainable without anthropogenic chemicals, what does it mean to live and navigate the toxic regime, this historical moment where human-made substances are so entangled with ecologies an... Read More about Implicated by scale: Anthropochemicals and the experience of ecology.

Governing against the tide: Populism, power and the party conference (2022)
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In this article we argue that a tendency to treat populism as a ubiquitous, mechanistic characteristic of contemporary penality has impeded systematic theoretical discussion of how populist ideologies find contingent expression within national penal... Read More about Governing against the tide: Populism, power and the party conference.

Mapping the role of patient and public involvement during the different stages of healthcare innovation: A scoping review (2022)
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Background: Patient and public involvement (PPI) has become increasingly important in the development, delivery and improvement of healthcare. PPI is used in healthcare innovation; yet, how it is used has been under-reported. The aim of this scoping... Read More about Mapping the role of patient and public involvement during the different stages of healthcare innovation: A scoping review.

Mental Healthcare for Survivors of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: A Single Point-in-Time, Internet-Based Scoping Study of Third Sector Provision (2022)
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In response to extreme violence and psychological abuse, survivors of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking can experience complex mental health problems. Despite being a major public health issue, the evidence base for post-slavery mental health supp... Read More about Mental Healthcare for Survivors of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: A Single Point-in-Time, Internet-Based Scoping Study of Third Sector Provision.

Daily Bread: Women’s Self-Help Microfinance and the Social Meanings of Money (2022)
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In this article, we explore the impacts and implications of ‘Rojiroti’, a women’s self-help group (SHG) microfinance scheme operating in poor communities in Bihar, India. We focus particularly on how improvements found in women’s circumstances and in... Read More about Daily Bread: Women’s Self-Help Microfinance and the Social Meanings of Money.

After the applause: understanding public management and public service ethos in the fight against Covid - 19 (2022)
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Covid-19 has led to renewed public support for public services. Frontline workers symbolize a renewed ideal of public service ethos (PSE), though little attention has been paid to how the public managers delivering vital services interpret and mobili... Read More about After the applause: understanding public management and public service ethos in the fight against Covid - 19.

“How you keep going”: Voluntary sector practitioners' story-lines as emotion work (2022)
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The voluntary sector acts as the last line of defense for some of the most marginalized people in societies around the world, yet its capacities are significantly reduced by chronic resource shortages and dynamic political obstacles. Existing researc... Read More about “How you keep going”: Voluntary sector practitioners' story-lines as emotion work.

Critiquing imaginaries of ‘the public’ in UK dialogue around animal research: Insights from the Mass Observation Project (2022)
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With an established history of controversy in the UK, the use of animals in science continues to generate significant socio-ethical discussion. Here, the figure of ‘the public’ plays a key role. However, dominant imaginaries of ‘the public’ have sign... Read More about Critiquing imaginaries of ‘the public’ in UK dialogue around animal research: Insights from the Mass Observation Project.

Studying the Emotional Costs of Integration at Times of Change: The Case of EU Migrants in Brexit Britain (2022)
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Events such as Brexit have drawn attention to the precarity of contemporary migrants’ settlement rights and reopened the debate on the nature of integration and assimilation processes. Drawing on participant observation and interviews with Italian an... Read More about Studying the Emotional Costs of Integration at Times of Change: The Case of EU Migrants in Brexit Britain.

Numeracy and Financial Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022)
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This paper examines the role of numeracy in smoothing financial difficulties during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results show that numeracy was associated with a 30% reduction in late or non-payment of bills and a 20% reduction in the odds of feeling f... Read More about Numeracy and Financial Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

SARS‐CoV‐2 vaccine‐related adverse events in Zimbabwe: The need to strengthen pharmacovigilance in resource‐limited settings (2021)
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Navigating Youth Transitions as a Buddhist: Privilege, reflexivity and sexuality (2021)
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This article focuses on how young Buddhists (aged between 18 and 25, living in the UK, who typically had not been raised Buddhist) utilised reflexivity as a strategy to navigate youth transitions. Participants’ decision-making was premised on Buddhis... Read More about Navigating Youth Transitions as a Buddhist: Privilege, reflexivity and sexuality.

‘I feel like I can’t do a lot’: Affectivity, reflection and action in ‘Transformative’ genocide education (2021)
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Guided tours of memorial museums have sought to have an impact on visitors through an affective learning environment and critical reflection leading to ‘action’. However, there is limited work investigating the pedagogical underpinnings of such guide... Read More about ‘I feel like I can’t do a lot’: Affectivity, reflection and action in ‘Transformative’ genocide education.

Optimising COVID-19 Vaccination Policy to Mitigate SARS-CoV-2 Transmission within Schools in Zimbabwe (2021)
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The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the learning of millions of children across the world. Since March 2020 when the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in Zimbabwe, the country, like many others, has gone through periods of closing and re-opening... Read More about Optimising COVID-19 Vaccination Policy to Mitigate SARS-CoV-2 Transmission within Schools in Zimbabwe.

Ungovernable Earth: Resurgence, Translocal Infrastructures and More-than-Social Movements (2021)
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How do social movements respond to the ecological crisis? In this paper, we reframe social movements as ‘more-than-social movements’ to highlight the fact that many contemporary mobilisations do much more than target recognised social institutions an... Read More about Ungovernable Earth: Resurgence, Translocal Infrastructures and More-than-Social Movements.

Antibiotic Self-Medication and Antibiotic Resistance: Multilevel Regression Analysis of Repeat Cross-Sectional Survey Data in Europe (2021)
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Antibiotic resistance is a global public health issue with several anthropogenic drivers, including antibiotic consumption. Recent studies have highlighted that the relationship between antibiotic consumption and antibiotic resistance is contextualis... Read More about Antibiotic Self-Medication and Antibiotic Resistance: Multilevel Regression Analysis of Repeat Cross-Sectional Survey Data in Europe.