Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (48)

Adolescents’ experiences of living with sickle cell disease: An integrative narrative review of the literature (2017)
Journal Article
Poku, B. A., Caress, A., & Kirk, S. (2018). Adolescents’ experiences of living with sickle cell disease: An integrative narrative review of the literature. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 80, 20-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2017.12.008

Background Sickle Cell Disease is the commonest monogenic haemoglobinopathy worldwide. Living with a long-term condition such as sickle cell disease during adolescence constitutes a significant challenge for the key stakeholders due to the combined... Read More about Adolescents’ experiences of living with sickle cell disease: An integrative narrative review of the literature.

Dancing intercorporeality: a health humanities perspective on dance as a healing art (2017)
Journal Article
Purser, A. C. E. (2019). Dancing intercorporeality: a health humanities perspective on dance as a healing art. Journal of Medical Humanities, 40(2), 253–263. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-017-9502-0

As a contribution to the burgeoning field of health humanities, this paper seeks to explore the power of dance to mitigate human suffering and reacquaint us with what it means to be human through bringing the embodied practice of dance into dialogue... Read More about Dancing intercorporeality: a health humanities perspective on dance as a healing art.

Imagine arts: how the arts can transform care homes (2017)
Journal Article
Broome, E., Schneider, J. M., & Dening, T. (in press). Imagine arts: how the arts can transform care homes. Journal of Dementia Care,

There is a growing body of evidence that demonstrates that the arts have an important role in the care of people with dementia. The Baring Foundation, a UK based organisation which aims to improve the quality of life of those who may be disadvantaged... Read More about Imagine arts: how the arts can transform care homes.

Facilitating Imagine Arts in residential care homes: the artists’ perspectives (2017)
Journal Article
Broome, E., Dening, T., & Schneider, J. M. (2019). Facilitating Imagine Arts in residential care homes: the artists’ perspectives. Arts and Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice, 11(1), 54-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2017.1413399

Background: This study explores factors affecting the successful facilitation of a residential arts programme. The aim was to identify barriers and describe how they could be overcome, this was both formative, to help shape the programme, and summa... Read More about Facilitating Imagine Arts in residential care homes: the artists’ perspectives.

Mapping the role of ‘transnational family habitus’ in the lives of young people and children (2017)
Journal Article
Zontini, E., & Reynolds, T. (2018). Mapping the role of ‘transnational family habitus’ in the lives of young people and children. Global Networks, 18(3), 418-436. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12185

© 2017 Global Networks Partnership & John Wiley & Sons Ltd In this article, we develop the concept of ‘transnational family habitus’ as a theoretical tool for making sense of the ways in which children and young people from a migrant background a... Read More about Mapping the role of ‘transnational family habitus’ in the lives of young people and children.

'Being in your body' and 'Being in the moment': the dancing body-subject and inhabited transcendence (2017)
Journal Article
Purser, A. C. E. (in press). 'Being in your body' and 'Being in the moment': the dancing body-subject and inhabited transcendence. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 45(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/00948705.2017.1408018

Sports studies is currently dominated by the intellectualist approach to understanding skill and expertise, meaning that questions about the phenomenological nature of skilled performance in sport have generally been overshadowed by the emphasis on t... Read More about 'Being in your body' and 'Being in the moment': the dancing body-subject and inhabited transcendence.

From “Learning disability to intellectual disability”-Perceptions of the increasing use of the term “intellectual disability” in learning disability policy, research and practice (2017)
Journal Article
Cluley, V. (2018). From “Learning disability to intellectual disability”-Perceptions of the increasing use of the term “intellectual disability” in learning disability policy, research and practice. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 46(1), 24-32. https://doi.org/10.1111/bld.12209

Optimal NHS service delivery to care homes: a realist evaluation of the features and mechanisms that support effective working for the continuing care of older people in residential settings (2017)
Journal Article
Goodman, C., Davies, S. L., Gordon, A. L., Dening, T., Gage, H., Meyer, J., …Zubair, M. (2017). Optimal NHS service delivery to care homes: a realist evaluation of the features and mechanisms that support effective working for the continuing care of older people in residential settings. Health Services and Delivery Research, 5(29), https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr05290

Background: Care homes are the institutional providers of long-term care for older people. The OPTIMAL study argued that it is probable that there are key activities within different models of health-care provision that are important for residents’ h... Read More about Optimal NHS service delivery to care homes: a realist evaluation of the features and mechanisms that support effective working for the continuing care of older people in residential settings.

‘Like the stranger at a funeral who cries more than the bereaved’: ethical dilemmas in ethnographic research with children (2017)
Journal Article
Okyere, S. (2017). ‘Like the stranger at a funeral who cries more than the bereaved’: ethical dilemmas in ethnographic research with children. Qualitative Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794117743464

This article contributes to debates on the practicality and utility of prior ethical review in ethnography and qualitative research using an ethnography of children’s involvement in artisanal gold mining work in Ghana as a case study. Reflecting on d... Read More about ‘Like the stranger at a funeral who cries more than the bereaved’: ethical dilemmas in ethnographic research with children.

Cyberspace and gay rights in a digital China: queer documentary filmmaking under state censorship (2017)
Journal Article
Shaw, G., & Zhang, X. (in press). Cyberspace and gay rights in a digital China: queer documentary filmmaking under state censorship. China Information, https://doi.org/10.1177/0920203X17734134

Owing to China’s austere censorship regulations on film media, directors of films and documentaries engaging with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender themes have struggled to bring their work to domestic attention. Working outside of the state-fun... Read More about Cyberspace and gay rights in a digital China: queer documentary filmmaking under state censorship.

Inclusionary control? Theorizing the effects of penal voluntary organizations’ work (2017)
Journal Article
Tomczak, P., & Thompson, D. (2019). Inclusionary control? Theorizing the effects of penal voluntary organizations’ work. Theoretical Criminology, 23(1), 4-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480617733724

Recent penal policy developments in many jurisdictions suggest an increasing role for voluntary organizations. Voluntary organizations have long worked alongside penal institutions, but the multifaceted ways their programmes affect (ex-)offenders rem... Read More about Inclusionary control? Theorizing the effects of penal voluntary organizations’ work.

Dancing like a girl: physical competence and emotional vulnerability in professional contemporary dance (2017)
Journal Article
Purser, A. C. E. (2017). Dancing like a girl: physical competence and emotional vulnerability in professional contemporary dance. Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal, 25(2), 105-110. https://doi.org/10.1123/wspaj.2016-0027

The analysis presented here is based on a phenomenological interview study conducted with sixteen professional contemporary dancers, and focuses on the differences between the accounts of male and female dancers with regard to notions of openness in... Read More about Dancing like a girl: physical competence and emotional vulnerability in professional contemporary dance.

The impact of defamilisation measures on gender and pensions: a comparison between the UK and seven other European countries (2017)
Journal Article
Foster, L., Chau, R., & Yu, S. (2017). The impact of defamilisation measures on gender and pensions: a comparison between the UK and seven other European countries. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 25(3), 199-217. https://doi.org/10.1332/175982717X14999284090397

This article uses individual-based and state-led care-focused defamilisation indices to explore women's employment opportunities and experiences and their implications for pension contributions. These two types of defamilisation indices are applied t... Read More about The impact of defamilisation measures on gender and pensions: a comparison between the UK and seven other European countries.

Pre-sentence reports and individualised justice: consistency, temporality and contingency (2017)
Journal Article
Carr, N., & Maguire, N. (2017). Pre-sentence reports and individualised justice: consistency, temporality and contingency. Irish Probation Journal, 14(1),

This paper reports on selected findings from a study on pre-sentence reports (PSRs) in the Republic of Ireland, entitled Individualising Justice: Pre-Sentence Reports in the Republic of Ireland (Maguire and Carr, 2017). The research was commissioned... Read More about Pre-sentence reports and individualised justice: consistency, temporality and contingency.

‘Shock and awe’: a critique of the Ghana-centric child trafficking discourse (2017)
Journal Article
Okyere, S. (in press). ‘Shock and awe’: a critique of the Ghana-centric child trafficking discourse. Anti-Trafficking Review, 9, https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.20121797

This paper is a critique of the dominant anti-trafficking discourse and activism in Ghana. The paper argues that the discourse grossly underplays the role played by external forces in shaping the conditions underpinning children’s labour mobility in... Read More about ‘Shock and awe’: a critique of the Ghana-centric child trafficking discourse.

‘It’s a Profession, it Isn’t a Job’: Police Officers’ Views on the Professionalisation of Policing in England (2017)
Journal Article
Lumsden, K. (2017). ‘It’s a Profession, it Isn’t a Job’: Police Officers’ Views on the Professionalisation of Policing in England. Sociological Research Online, 22(3), 4-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780417724062

This article focuses on police officers’ views on the professionalisation of policing in England against a backdrop of government reforms to policing via establishment of the College of Policing, evidence-based policing, and a period of austerity. Po... Read More about ‘It’s a Profession, it Isn’t a Job’: Police Officers’ Views on the Professionalisation of Policing in England.

Provision of quality education in the context of Syrian refugee children in the UK: opportunities and challenges (2017)
Journal Article
Madziva, R., & Thondhlana, J. (2017). Provision of quality education in the context of Syrian refugee children in the UK: opportunities and challenges. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 47(6), 942-961. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2017.1375848

While existing research has shown the importance of the three interrelated domains of the wider policy, the school and home/community environments in the development of quality education for learners, this literature does not fully capture the experi... Read More about Provision of quality education in the context of Syrian refugee children in the UK: opportunities and challenges.