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Abstraction, belonging and comfort in the prison classroom (2022)
Journal Article
Little, R., & Warr, J. (2023). Abstraction, belonging and comfort in the prison classroom. Incarceration, 3(3), Article 26326663221142759. https://doi.org/10.1177/26326663221142759

Prison education, at the institutional and policy level, is too often about the use value of qualifications, rather than the exchange value inherent in the experience of learning. This article explores how abstract discussion can be used to resolve t... Read More about Abstraction, belonging and comfort in the prison classroom.

Childhood and children's migration in the era of COVID-19: A case study of Zimbabwean children/young people's migration to South Africa (2022)
Journal Article
Madziva, R., Mahiya, I., & Nyoni, C. (2022). Childhood and children's migration in the era of COVID-19: A case study of Zimbabwean children/young people's migration to South Africa. Children & Society, https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12680

This paper draws on research with a group of Zimbabwean orphaned young people. It explores their experiences of migrating to South Africa during the COVID-19 period when official borders were closed. It draws attention to the complexities of south–so... Read More about Childhood and children's migration in the era of COVID-19: A case study of Zimbabwean children/young people's migration to South Africa.

Resilience, higher education and widening participation: generating change for care experienced students (2022)
Journal Article
Ellis, K., & Johnston, C. (2024). Resilience, higher education and widening participation: generating change for care experienced students. Higher Education, 87, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-022-00985-8

Over 80,000 children in England were being looked after in Local Authority care in 2020 and a further 40,000 people were defined as ‘care leavers’. Although a significant body of research highlights the prevalence of educational low achievement in th... Read More about Resilience, higher education and widening participation: generating change for care experienced students.

Animal research, ethical boundary-work, and the geographies of veterinary expertise (2022)
Journal Article
Anderson, A., & Hobson-West, P. (2023). Animal research, ethical boundary-work, and the geographies of veterinary expertise. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 48(3), 491-505. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12594

The veterinary profession has been relatively understudied in social science, though recent work has highlighted the geographic dimensions of veterinary expertise. This paper draws on in-depth qualitative interviews with Named Veterinary Surgeons (NV... Read More about Animal research, ethical boundary-work, and the geographies of veterinary expertise.

Participatory visual arts activities for people with dementia: a review (2022)
Book Chapter
Barroso, A. C., Rai, H. K., Sousa, L., Orrell, M., & Schneider, J. (2022). Participatory visual arts activities for people with dementia: a review. In M. Orrell, D. Oliveira, O. McDermott, F. R. Verhey, F. C. Dassen, & R. Dröes (Eds.), Improving the Lives of People with Dementia through Technology: Interdisciplinary Network for Dementia Utilising Current Technology (100-126). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003289005-11

The aims of this review were to report and summarise the effects of interventions using participatory visual arts activities in dementia research through a narrative synthesis systematic review. We searched four databases MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO an... Read More about Participatory visual arts activities for people with dementia: a review.

Sensory “Heteroglossia” and Social Control: Sensory Methodology and Method (2022)
Book Chapter
Herrity, K., Schmidt, B. E., & Warr, J. (2022). Sensory “Heteroglossia” and Social Control: Sensory Methodology and Method. In M. Dodge, & R. Faria (Eds.), . Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18401-7_8

Heteroglossia refers to the presence of multiple voices and views – exchanges that are central to the academic project (Bakhtin, The dialogic imagination: four essays (trans. and ed: Emerson C, Holquist M). University of Texas Press, 1981; Clarke, Cr... Read More about Sensory “Heteroglossia” and Social Control: Sensory Methodology and Method.

Mental health service provision for single homeless people: findings from a freedom of information-based study (2022)
Journal Article
Giles, E., Lucas, S., Archard, P. J., Moore, I., Tangen, J., O’Reilly, M., & Murphy, D. (2024). Mental health service provision for single homeless people: findings from a freedom of information-based study. Mental Health Practice, 27(3), Article e1630. https://doi.org/10.7748/mhp.2022.e1630

Background Homeless people are at increased risk of developing mental health conditions and mental ill-health can be a precipitating factor for episodes of homelessness. However, gaps in mental health provision for homeless people remain, and they... Read More about Mental health service provision for single homeless people: findings from a freedom of information-based study.

Obesity in Nigerian Adults and the Associated Cause and Impact on the Population (2022)
Journal Article
Ellecom, J. B., Shaw, I., & Adams, G. G. (2022). Obesity in Nigerian Adults and the Associated Cause and Impact on the Population. Journal of Diabetes Research Reviews & Reports, 4(4), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.47363/JDRR/2022%284%29165

Background: Obesity has been on the rise in developed and developing countries such as Nigeria. Data from the WHO demonstrated the prevalence of obesity increased by 15% between 2002 and 2016 in Nigeria. Here, we examine the rate of obesity in Nigeri... Read More about Obesity in Nigerian Adults and the Associated Cause and Impact on the Population.

Thinkability: A new app for cognitive stimulation for people with dementia (2022)
Book Chapter
Rai, H. K., Schneider, J., & Orrell, M. (2022). Thinkability: A new app for cognitive stimulation for people with dementia. In M. Orrell, D. Oliveira, O. McDermott, F. R. Verhey, F. C. Dassen, & R. Dröes (Eds.), Improving the Lives of People with Dementia through Technology: Interdisciplinary Network for Dementia Utilising Current Technology (86-99). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003289005-10

People with dementia benefit from activities that stimulate their cognition, and there is evidence that carers can benefit too. Among psychosocial interventions to help this group, cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) is well established as the treatm... Read More about Thinkability: A new app for cognitive stimulation for people with dementia.

Adult Worker Model Typologies: Examining Work–Family Policies in Fifteen European Countries (2022)
Journal Article
Lo, I. P. Y., Chau, R. C. M., & Yu, S. W. K. (2022). Adult Worker Model Typologies: Examining Work–Family Policies in Fifteen European Countries. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(22), Article 14637. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192214637

This article aims to advance the discussion of government policies for improving women’s work and family life. It focuses on exploring whether it is reasonable to expect that the supported adult worker model will play an important role in guiding gov... Read More about Adult Worker Model Typologies: Examining Work–Family Policies in Fifteen European Countries.

Making Sense of Expertise: Cases from Law, Medicine, Journalism, Covid-19, and Climate Change (2022)
Book
Grundmann, R. (2022). Making Sense of Expertise: Cases from Law, Medicine, Journalism, Covid-19, and Climate Change. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003320227

Current debates about experts are often polarized and based on mistaken assumptions, with expertise either defended or denigrated. Making Sense of Expertise instead proposes a conceptual framework for the study of expertise in order to facilitate a m... Read More about Making Sense of Expertise: Cases from Law, Medicine, Journalism, Covid-19, and Climate Change.

Negotiating Mongolian ethnic identity through the teaching of Mandarin Chinese as a second language (2022)
Journal Article
Wu, J., McLelland, N., & Dauncey, S. (2022). Negotiating Mongolian ethnic identity through the teaching of Mandarin Chinese as a second language. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2022.2134879

Despite growing attention paid to the language ideologies of teachers as actors in bilingualism or multilingualism studies, little research has examined whether and how power dynamics between majority and minority languages play a role in the promulg... Read More about Negotiating Mongolian ethnic identity through the teaching of Mandarin Chinese as a second language.

Keeping the conversation going: How progressivity is prioritised in co-remembering talk between couples impacted by dementia (2022)
Journal Article
Slocombe, F., Peel, E., Pilnick, A., & Albert, S. (2022). Keeping the conversation going: How progressivity is prioritised in co-remembering talk between couples impacted by dementia. Health, https://doi.org/10.1177/13634593221127822

This article explores how partners keep the conversation going with people living with dementia (PLWD) when speaking about shared memories. Remembering is important for PLWD and their families. Indeed, memory loss is often equated with identity loss.... Read More about Keeping the conversation going: How progressivity is prioritised in co-remembering talk between couples impacted by dementia.

A typology of dis/value in public service delivery (2022)
Journal Article
Parker, S., Cluley, V., & Radnor, Z. (2023). A typology of dis/value in public service delivery. Public Money and Management, 43(1), 8-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2022.2124758

Dis/value or public value destruction is now increasingly recognized as part of the public value process. Despite this, confusion about the concept remains. This article assesses the use of public value destruction, and synonymous terms, in the publi... Read More about A typology of dis/value in public service delivery.

Wood burning stoves, participatory sensing, and ‘cold, stark data’ (2022)
Journal Article
Heydon, J., & Chakraborty, R. (2022). Wood burning stoves, participatory sensing, and ‘cold, stark data’. SN Social Sciences, 2(10), Article 219. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-022-00525-2

Wood burning stoves triple levels of particulate matter pollution inside the home. Using an exploratory research design informed by coping theory, this study illustrates how sensors revealing this reality fail to influence the perceptions and behavio... Read More about Wood burning stoves, participatory sensing, and ‘cold, stark data’.

Life-courses, social change and politics: Evidence for the role of politically motivated structural-level influences on individual criminal careers (2022)
Journal Article
Farrall, S., Gray, E., & Jones, P. M. (2022). Life-courses, social change and politics: Evidence for the role of politically motivated structural-level influences on individual criminal careers. Criminology and Criminal Justice, https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958221126667

Criminal careers research is one of the largest fields of research in modern criminology. However, it has almost exclusively focussed on individual-level explanations of onset, maintenance and desistance. In this article, and in part inspired by rece... Read More about Life-courses, social change and politics: Evidence for the role of politically motivated structural-level influences on individual criminal careers.