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Public Adoption of and Trust in the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Quantitative Online Survey Study (2021)
Journal Article

Background: Digital contact tracing is employed to monitor and manage the spread of Covid-19. However, to be effective the system must be adopted by a substantial proportion of the population. Studies of (mostly hypothetical) contact tracing apps sho... Read More about Public Adoption of and Trust in the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Quantitative Online Survey Study.

Reconceptualising research, reconceptualising responsibility: A rejoinder to ‘Collecting qualitative data during a pandemic’ by David Silverman (2021)
Journal Article

Supervision in child protection: a space and place for reflection or an excruciating marathon of compliance? (2021)
Journal Article

Supervision is promoted as an essential element of effective professional practice in social work. Its benefits include promoting reflective social work and assisting with the management of the emotions generated in challenging practice. This article... Read More about Supervision in child protection: a space and place for reflection or an excruciating marathon of compliance?.

“Let us define ourselves”: forced migrants’ use of multiple identities as a tactic for social navigation (2021)
Journal Article

Background: The article examines how and why multiple identities are altered, used and discarded by forced migrants. Methods: The research is located in the constructivist paradigm. We used thematic analysis to analyse data gathered through interview... Read More about “Let us define ourselves”: forced migrants’ use of multiple identities as a tactic for social navigation.

Interventions to support the mental health of survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking: A systematic review (2021)
Journal Article

Background: Modern slavery is a term which incorporates a range of exploitative situations that involve the violation of human rights and the subjugation of individuals. It presents a significant public health concern. Post-release, survivors of mode... Read More about Interventions to support the mental health of survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking: A systematic review.

Assessment of health and welfare in a small sample of dogs owned by people who are homeless (2021)
Journal Article

Background: Pet ownership is common among homeless people, with dogs the most frequently reported pets. However, homeless people receive considerable criticism for keeping pets due to public perception of poor care provision. Materials and methods: A... Read More about Assessment of health and welfare in a small sample of dogs owned by people who are homeless.

Residential Bordering: The (Mis)use of Residence Status to Control Migrants' Welfare Rights in Italy and the UK (2021)
Journal Article

This article examines how «residence» has been used as a mechanism to regulate welfare access in Italy and UK. The two countries have very different approaches to monitoring and registering local populations, but share a drive towards «differential i... Read More about Residential Bordering: The (Mis)use of Residence Status to Control Migrants' Welfare Rights in Italy and the UK.

“Refugees from practice”? Exploring why some vets move from the clinic to the laboratory (2021)
Journal Article

Background: Named veterinary surgeons (NVSs) are a mandated presence in licensed animal research establishments in the UK. Some NVSs come into their laboratory roles having left general veterinary practice, which is currently facing significant recru... Read More about “Refugees from practice”? Exploring why some vets move from the clinic to the laboratory.

Crafting ecologies of existence: More than human community making in Colombian textile craftivism (2021)
Journal Article

Based on ethnographic work with several women’s textile making collectives in Colombia, this article approaches their crafting practices as everyday doings of socio-ecological reparation, in the midst of social and environmental devastation caused by... Read More about Crafting ecologies of existence: More than human community making in Colombian textile craftivism.

Characterising the outcomes, impacts and implementation challenges of advanced clinical practice roles in the UK: A scoping review (2021)
Journal Article

Objectives In response to demographic and health system pressures, the development of non-medical advanced clinical practice (ACP) roles is a key component of National Health Service workforce transformation policy in the UK. This review was undertak... Read More about Characterising the outcomes, impacts and implementation challenges of advanced clinical practice roles in the UK: A scoping review.

Talking about frailty: The relationship between precarity and the fourth age in older peoples' constructions of frailty (2021)
Journal Article

The clinical identification of frailty is increasingly thought to be important in countries with ageing populations. Understanding how older people labelled as frail make sense of this categorisation is therefore important. A number of recent studies... Read More about Talking about frailty: The relationship between precarity and the fourth age in older peoples' constructions of frailty.

Strength- and recovery-based approaches in forensic mental health in late modernity: Increasingly incorporating a human rights angle? (2021)
Journal Article

Forensic mental health care is situated across both criminal justice and healthcare systems and is subject to political, cultural, legal and economic shifts in these contexts. The implementation of strength- and recovery-based models of care should b... Read More about Strength- and recovery-based approaches in forensic mental health in late modernity: Increasingly incorporating a human rights angle?.

From Black to Blue Skies: Civil Society Perceptions of Air Pollution in Shanghai (2021)
Journal Article

This paper explores the perception and politics of air pollution in Shanghai. We present a qualitative case study based on a literature review of relevant policies and research on civil society and air pollution, in dialogue with air quality indexes... Read More about From Black to Blue Skies: Civil Society Perceptions of Air Pollution in Shanghai.

Organizing the precarious: Autonomous work, real democracy and ecological precarity (2021)
Journal Article

In 2008, just as the movement of the precarious seemed to be winning one political battle after the next, the fight against precarization suddenly dwindled. The cycle of struggles of the precarious that began in 2000 had seemingly come to an end. Iro... Read More about Organizing the precarious: Autonomous work, real democracy and ecological precarity.

Avoiding repair, maintaining face: Responding to hard-to-interpret talk from people living with dementia in the acute hospital (2021)
Journal Article

People living with dementia (PLWD) are almost always admitted to the acute hospital for reasons unrelated to their dementia, finding themselves in the unfamiliar environment of a Health Care of Older Persons acute ward. The effect of this environment... Read More about Avoiding repair, maintaining face: Responding to hard-to-interpret talk from people living with dementia in the acute hospital.

Gender, violence and cultures of silence: young women and paramilitary violence (2021)
Journal Article

Despite a growth in analysis of women and conflict, this has tended to overlook the specific experiences of young women. Likewise, in research on youth, conflict and peace, the term ‘youth’ is often short-hand for young men. Young women’s experiences... Read More about Gender, violence and cultures of silence: young women and paramilitary violence.

Abolishing The Police (2021)
Book

“This is the first time we are seeing… a conversation about defunding, and some people having a conversation about abolishing the police and prison state. This must be what it felt like when people were talking about abolishing slavery.” – Patrisse C... Read More about Abolishing The Police.

Free Soil, Free Produce, Free Communities (2021)
Book Chapter

“Considered Language” in Public Service: Changing Discourses and Their Implementation in Practice (2021)
Book Chapter

Buzzwords and acronyms are ubiquitous throughout public service provision worldwide. Additionally, such terms are subject to frequent change, and public servants are expected to use the most up-to-date language in their work in order to reflect curre... Read More about “Considered Language” in Public Service: Changing Discourses and Their Implementation in Practice.

Far from Clean: Labour Exploitation in the UK’s Hand Car Wash Sector (2021)
Book Chapter

Hand car washing, the process of washing a vehicle by hand, is a relatively new business activity in the United Kingdom (UK). Prior to 2004, hand car washes (HCWs) were virtually non-existent (Clark & Colling, 2018). However, it is estimated that bet... Read More about Far from Clean: Labour Exploitation in the UK’s Hand Car Wash Sector.