All Outputs (63)

Counter-Normative Identities: Religious Young Adults Subverting Sexual Norms (2016)
Book Chapter

The twenty-first century is often invoked as a period of greater sexual freedom, with restraint and traditionalism partitioned to the past. The new rights accorded to LGBTQ groups and women have cemented such a perception. But whilst some theorists (... Read More about Counter-Normative Identities: Religious Young Adults Subverting Sexual Norms.

Combatting Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism: Challenges, Trends and Priorities (2016)
Book

Professional helping as negotiation in motion: social work as work on the move (2016)
Journal Article

The delivery of welfare and professional helping, such as in medicine, nursing and social work is largely treated as though it is achieved through static and immobile practices. Research has been dominated by a focus on the sedentary as studies have... Read More about Professional helping as negotiation in motion: social work as work on the move.

Evaluation of Response to Complexity (R2C) (2016)
Report

This is a mixed-methods evaluation of a Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) funded coordinated response to support survivors of domestic and sexual abuse with complex needs (mental ill-health, substance misuse including alcohol and/... Read More about Evaluation of Response to Complexity (R2C).

Eminence and edutainment: Chinese Buddhist monastics as TV celebrities (2016)
Book Chapter

Words and deeds against exclusion: deprivation, activism and religiosity in inner-city Birmingham (2016)
Book Chapter

In 2010 lampposts topped by surveillance cameras appeared in parts of Birmingham, Britain’s second largest city. Unannounced, strategically placed at traffic intersections and along main roads, the cameras initially caused bemusement. The camera syst... Read More about Words and deeds against exclusion: deprivation, activism and religiosity in inner-city Birmingham.

Evaluation of the impact on audiences of Inside Out of Mind, research-based theatre for dementia carers (2016)
Journal Article

Background Inside Out of Mind is an ethno-drama about dementia carers in hospital, intended to raise awareness of this role, and about dementia care in general. Following a successful premiere in 2013, it was taken on a live tour funded by the Big... Read More about Evaluation of the impact on audiences of Inside Out of Mind, research-based theatre for dementia carers.

Navigating Equality: Religious Young Women’s Perceptions of Gender and Sexuality Equality (2016)
Book Chapter

Equality has become an important concept within secular-liberal societies (Perrons 2005), with white, secular Western women interpellated as quintessentially embodying this equality (Gill and Scharff 2011; McRobbie 2011; Nayak and Kehily 2008). For r... Read More about Navigating Equality: Religious Young Women’s Perceptions of Gender and Sexuality Equality.

The penal voluntary sector (2016)
Book

The penal voluntary sector and the relationships between punishment and charity are more topical than ever before. In recent years in England and Wales, the sector has featured significantly in both policy rhetoric and academic commentary. Penal volu... Read More about The penal voluntary sector.

'I was just gobsmacked': care workers responses to BBC Panoramas 'Undercover care: the abuse exposed': invoking mental states as a means of distancing from abusive practices (2016)
Journal Article

This paper draws upon discourse analytic techniques and discursive psychology to examine how care workers build accounts of viewing the BBC Panorama programme “Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed” which graphically documented the abuse of people with... Read More about 'I was just gobsmacked': care workers responses to BBC Panoramas 'Undercover care: the abuse exposed': invoking mental states as a means of distancing from abusive practices.

Advice, authority and autonomy in shared decision making in antenatal screening: the importance of context (2016)
Journal Article

Shared decision making has been widely advocated across many branches of healthcare, yet there is considerable debate over both its practical application and how it should be examined or assessed. More recent discussions of SDM have highlighted the i... Read More about Advice, authority and autonomy in shared decision making in antenatal screening: the importance of context.

Human Rights and the Reinvention of Freedom (2016)
Book

This volume seeks to propose a reinvention of freedom under contemporary conditions of globalization, cross-border mobility, and neo-liberal dominance. There are currently two predominant myths circulating about freedom. The first is that in a global... Read More about Human Rights and the Reinvention of Freedom.

Negotiating Austerity and Local Traditions (2016)
Book Chapter

Despite 30% cuts in English local government budgets since 2010, alongside rising demands for services, there has been little outward sign of crisis. On the contrary, political protest has been muted, public satisfaction remains steady and no local... Read More about Negotiating Austerity and Local Traditions.

Experiencing youth justice and penality (2016)
Book Chapter

E.P. Thompson and cultural sociology: questions of poetics, capitalism and the commons (2016)
Journal Article

There is currently a need for cultural sociology to readdress the work of humanistic and cultural Marxism. While more recently much of this work has been dismissed the appearance of more radical social movements and the on-going crisis of neoliberali... Read More about E.P. Thompson and cultural sociology: questions of poetics, capitalism and the commons.

The problem of expertise in knowledge societies (2016)
Journal Article

This paper puts forward a theoretical framework for the analysis of expertise and experts in contemporary societies. It argues that while prevailing approaches have come to see expertise in various forms and functions, they tend to neglect the broade... Read More about The problem of expertise in knowledge societies.

Intercorporeality: connectedness and creative collaboration in the embodied practice of dance (2016)
Conference Proceeding

Dance plays a role in healing rituals across a number of cultures and is also recognised to promote social bonding. This, of course, includes contemporary Western medicine, in which dance is used in psychotherapeutic contexts in the form of dance/mov... Read More about Intercorporeality: connectedness and creative collaboration in the embodied practice of dance.

Palimpsests of the romantic (2016)
Journal Article

This articles offers a longue durée perspective to illustrate that just as romanticism was a necessary, though not single-handedly sufficient condition for nationalist movements of the 19th century, an understanding of later cultural and political ph... Read More about Palimpsests of the romantic.

Restorative policing: concepts, theory and practice (2016)
Book

In the UK and elsewhere, restorative justice and policing are core components of a range of university programmes; however, currently no such text exists on the intersection of these two areas of study. This book draws together these diverse theoreti... Read More about Restorative policing: concepts, theory and practice.

Free movement and special non-contributory benefits for disabled people: between the devil and the deep blue sea (2016)
Journal Article

Special non-contributory benefits (SNCBs) include benefits intended solely for the specific protection of disabled people. SNCBs are not exportable under EU law. This paper asks whether SNCBs discriminate against disabled people exercising their righ... Read More about Free movement and special non-contributory benefits for disabled people: between the devil and the deep blue sea.