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Reflecting on the use of freedom of information requests in mental health research (2023)
Journal Article
Archard, P. J., Tangen, J., Giles, E., Lucas, S., Moore, I., O'Reilly, M., & Murphy, D. (2023). Reflecting on the use of freedom of information requests in mental health research. Social Work and Social Sciences Review, 23(3), 80-92. https://doi.org/10.1921/swssr.v23i3.1985

Freedom of information (FoI) legislation has been represented as a valuable but underused means of generating otherwise unavailable data from public authorities in health and social care research. This article complements extant literature on the use... Read More about Reflecting on the use of freedom of information requests in mental health research.

Two Worlds in One: What ‘Counts’ as Animal Advocacy for Veterinarians Working in UK Animal Research? (2023)
Journal Article
McGlacken, R., Anderson, A., & Hobson-West, P. (2023). Two Worlds in One: What ‘Counts’ as Animal Advocacy for Veterinarians Working in UK Animal Research?. Animals, 13(5), Article 776. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13050776

The concept of advocacy is of increasing importance to the veterinary profession internationally. However, there are concerns around the ambiguity and complexity of acting as an advocate in practice. This paper explores what ‘animal advocacy’ involve... Read More about Two Worlds in One: What ‘Counts’ as Animal Advocacy for Veterinarians Working in UK Animal Research?.

Between Ordinary Harm and Deviance: Evaluating the UK’s Regulatory Regime For Controlling Air Pollution From Wood Burning Stoves (2023)
Journal Article
Heydon, J. (2023). Between Ordinary Harm and Deviance: Evaluating the UK’s Regulatory Regime For Controlling Air Pollution From Wood Burning Stoves. British Journal of Criminology, 63(6), 1504-1522. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac102

Particulate matter (PM) in air pollution causes illness, injury and premature death by infiltrating essential organs. Wood burning stoves are a primary source of PM in the United Kingdom, where domestic wood burning emissions have tripled over the la... Read More about Between Ordinary Harm and Deviance: Evaluating the UK’s Regulatory Regime For Controlling Air Pollution From Wood Burning Stoves.

Making prisoner deaths visible: Towards a new epistemological approach (2023)
Journal Article
Tomczak, P., & Mulgrew, R. (2023). Making prisoner deaths visible: Towards a new epistemological approach. Incarceration, 4, https://doi.org/10.1177/26326663231160344

In custodial contexts, the duty of states to protect the most fundamental right-to life-is heightened. Nevertheless, prisoner deaths are a universal and frequent concern. The mortality rate among the 11.5 million prisoners globally is up to 50% highe... Read More about Making prisoner deaths visible: Towards a new epistemological approach.

Editorial: Public value for all? Considering the parameters of public value co-creation (2023)
Journal Article
Cluley, V., Parker, S., & Radnor, Z. (2023). Editorial: Public value for all? Considering the parameters of public value co-creation. Public Money and Management, 43(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2022.2140900

The aim behind this Public Money & Management theme is to explore the parameters of public value co-creation in order to open up a broader discussion of dis/value, public value destruction and co-destruction as a developing theme in the literature. P... Read More about Editorial: Public value for all? Considering the parameters of public value co-creation.

Equality and diversity in the work of the Sentencing Council (2023)
Report
Chen, Q., Vuk, M., Kuppuswamy, C., & Kirsch, D. (2023). Equality and diversity in the work of the Sentencing Council. London: Sentencing Council for England and Wales

This report is commissioned by the Sentencing Council for England and Wales. It examines whether the guidelines published by the Council have the potential to cause disparities in sentencing, and whether the guideline development and revision process... Read More about Equality and diversity in the work of the Sentencing Council.

Reentry support in Victoria, Australia: managing risk, or fostering agency? (2023)
Journal Article
Kennedy, K., Sandy, L., & Martinovic, M. (2023). Reentry support in Victoria, Australia: managing risk, or fostering agency?. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 62(1), 21-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/10509674.2022.2158984

More than half of Australia’s prison population have experienced prior incarceration. Factors such as homelessness, mental illness, and poverty compound the challenges of reentry. Reentry support in Victoria, Australia is state funded, yet delivered... Read More about Reentry support in Victoria, Australia: managing risk, or fostering agency?.

Negotiating the necessity of biomedical animal use through relations with vulnerability (2023)
Journal Article
McGlacken, R. (2024). Negotiating the necessity of biomedical animal use through relations with vulnerability. BioSocieties, 19(1), 130-148. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-022-00295-3

In the UK, claims are often made that public support for animal research is stronger when such use is categorised as for medical purposes. Drawing on a qualitative analysis of writing from the Mass Observation Project, a national writing project docu... Read More about Negotiating the necessity of biomedical animal use through relations with vulnerability.

Self-management interventions for children and young people with sickle cell disease: A systematic review (2023)
Journal Article
Poku, B. A., Atkin, K. M., & Kirk, S. (2023). Self-management interventions for children and young people with sickle cell disease: A systematic review. Health Expectations, 26(2), 579-612. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13692

AbstractBackgroundIncreasing numbers of interventions are being developed to support self‐management for children and young people (CYP) with sickle cell disease (SCD), but no systematic review has systematically synthesized this evidence regarding t... Read More about Self-management interventions for children and young people with sickle cell disease: A systematic review.

Transnational Families and Complex Gender Relations: A Case Study of Zimbabwean Migrant Women Living in the UK (2023)
Book Chapter
Chikwira, L., & Madziva, R. (2023). Transnational Families and Complex Gender Relations: A Case Study of Zimbabwean Migrant Women Living in the UK. In J. Cienfuegos, R. Brandhorst, & D. Fahy Bryceson (Eds.), Handbook of Transnational Families Around the World (39-52). Springer

This chapter focuses on the complex dynamics of gender relations of black Zimbabwean migrant women resident in the UK and how they sustain and maintain family life transnationally through links with their homeland. We employ the Shona concept of mush... Read More about Transnational Families and Complex Gender Relations: A Case Study of Zimbabwean Migrant Women Living in the UK.

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.