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European Cosmopolitanism and Civil Society (2005)
Journal Article
Stevenson, N. (2005). European Cosmopolitanism and Civil Society. Innovation / Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 18(1),

The discussion of European cosmopolitanism and civil society has failed to take questions of culture seriously enough. While remaining sympathetic to liberal forms of cosmopolitanism, this article considers the view that such proposals fail to make s... Read More about European Cosmopolitanism and Civil Society.

Social Policy and Time (2004)
Journal Article
Fitzpatrick, T. (2004). Social Policy and Time. Time and Society, 13(2/3),

Time is crucial to the implementation, operation and effectiveness of social policies, yet the subject has often treated the meaning of time as theoretically unproblematic. It focuses more upon what policies do and less upon the contexts within whi... Read More about Social Policy and Time.

Ageing in a non-heterosexual context. (2004)
Journal Article
Heaphy, B., Yip, A., & Thompson, D. (2004). Ageing in a non-heterosexual context. Ageing and Society, 24(6), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X0300160

There is increasing recognition of the importance of social and cultural differences in shaping the diversity of the ageing experience in contemporary Britain.
Various social and cultural factors, such as those associated with class, ethnicity, gend... Read More about Ageing in a non-heterosexual context..

Anticipatory Accounts (2004)
Journal Article
Murphy, E. (2004). Anticipatory Accounts. Symbolic Interaction, 27(2),

C. Wright Mills called for a truly sociological analysis of actors’ “motive talk,” which decouples the commonsense link between the reasons actors give for their actions and their mental state prior to those actions. Subsequent theoretical and empiri... Read More about Anticipatory Accounts.

Conceptualising and Effecting Good Outcomes in Foster Care:an exploration of the research literature (2004)
Book
Wilson, K., Sinclair, I., Taylor, C., Pithouse, A., & Sellick, C. (2004). Conceptualising and Effecting Good Outcomes in Foster Care:an exploration of the research literature. Policy Press

On any one day over 75,000 children are looked after by local authorities in the UK. Numerically the most important form of provision for these looked after children is foster care. This caters for about 60% of those looked after at any one point i... Read More about Conceptualising and Effecting Good Outcomes in Foster Care:an exploration of the research literature.

Expertise and forms of knowledge in the government of families (2003)
Journal Article
Murphy, E. (2003). Expertise and forms of knowledge in the government of families. Sociological Review, 51(4),

This paper examines the relationship between the state and the individual in relation to an aspect of mundane family life – the feeding of babies and young children. The nutritional status of children has long been a matter of national concern and i... Read More about Expertise and forms of knowledge in the government of families.

Using Needs Assessment to Understand Continuing Disability in Patients with Enduring Mental Illness. Implications for Considerations of Service Development (2002)
Journal Article
Middleton, H., Adeniran, R., Brewin, C. R., Brady, C., Duggan, C., Hopkins, N., …Walton, M. (2002). Using Needs Assessment to Understand Continuing Disability in Patients with Enduring Mental Illness. Implications for Considerations of Service Development. Journal of Mental Health, 11,

Particular strengths of the MRC Needs for Care Assessment Schedule have been used to investigate the treatment status of patients with persistent psychiatric disability in ways that other needs assessment tools are unable to. One hundred and seventy-... Read More about Using Needs Assessment to Understand Continuing Disability in Patients with Enduring Mental Illness. Implications for Considerations of Service Development.

Being more certain about random assignment in social policy evaluations (2002)
Journal Article
Stafford, B. (2002). Being more certain about random assignment in social policy evaluations. Social Policy and Society, 1(4),

Social experiments have been widely utilised in evaluations of social programmes in the US to identify ‘what works’, whilst in the UK their use is more controversial. This paper explores the paradigmatic, technical and practical issues evaluators co... Read More about Being more certain about random assignment in social policy evaluations.

Reforming the public sector: personalised activation services in the UK
Book Chapter
Stafford, B., & Kellard, K. Reforming the public sector: personalised activation services in the UK. In R. van Berkel, & B. Valkenburg (Eds.), Making it Personal: Individualising activation services in the EU. Policy Press

This paper highlights the degree of flexibility and personalisation in the UK’s welfare to work programmes. The Labour Government’s New Deals as originally designed were meant to provide personalised and tailor-made services and to meet the needs of... Read More about Reforming the public sector: personalised activation services in the UK.

Inclusion, Participation and the Emergence of British Chinese Websites
Journal Article
Parker, D., & Song, M. Inclusion, Participation and the Emergence of British Chinese Websites. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 33(7),

Previous work has drawn attention to the relative absence of British Chinese voices in
public culture. No one is more aware of this invisibility than British-born Chinese people
themselves. Since 2000 the emergence of Internet discussion sites prod... Read More about Inclusion, Participation and the Emergence of British Chinese Websites.

Global warming is dead, long live global heating?
Journal Article
Hulme, M., Nerlich, B., & Pearce, W. (2014). Global warming is dead, long live global heating?

We discuss how global heating is used in comparison to global warming, look at its semantic history and examine the communicative problems it may pose and the confusion it may lead to.

Employment Retention Policy
Book
Fox, E., & Stafford, B. Employment Retention Policy. Nottingham University

This Report investigates the potential for a statutory model of employment retention leave. A Private Members Bill (HC Bill 2006-07) [79] currently in progress through Parliament would, if enacted, offer disabled employees the right to paid leave for... Read More about Employment Retention Policy.