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Imagined constructed thought: how staff interpret the behaviour of patients with intellectual disabilities (2018)
Journal Article
Webb, J. C., Pilnick, A., & Clegg, J. (2018). Imagined constructed thought: how staff interpret the behaviour of patients with intellectual disabilities. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 51(4), 347-362. https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2018.1523893

This paper examines ‘imagined constructed thought’: speakers giving voice to the inner world of a non-present other. Drawing on 9 hours of video footage of health-care staff discussing patients with intellectual disabilities during Discovery Awarenes... Read More about Imagined constructed thought: how staff interpret the behaviour of patients with intellectual disabilities.

Review of the European reference framework for sustainable cities (2018)
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Winter, A. K. (2018). Review of the European reference framework for sustainable cities. International Journal of Community Well-Being, 1(1), 83-86. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42413-018-0007-z

This review examines the European Reference Framework for Sustainable Cities, an online framework for use by urban practitioners to evaluate and visualize the sustainability profile and priorities of an urban sustainability plan, policy, or initiativ... Read More about Review of the European reference framework for sustainable cities.

Excavating the archive: Reflections on a historical criminology of government, penal policy and criminal justice change (2018)
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Guiney, T. (2020). Excavating the archive: Reflections on a historical criminology of government, penal policy and criminal justice change. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 20(1), 76-92. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895818810333

This article makes the case for greater use of systematic archival research as a methodological tool of criminology. Drawing upon insights from the author’s 2018 historical study of ‘early release’ in England and Wales, it reviews the legal framework... Read More about Excavating the archive: Reflections on a historical criminology of government, penal policy and criminal justice change.

Mainstream education as a possible route to recovery and social inclusion: a review (2018)
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Atkinson, S., Collis, B., & Schneider, J. M. (2018). Mainstream education as a possible route to recovery and social inclusion: a review. Mental Health Review Journal, 23(4), 246-252. https://doi.org/10.1108/MHRJ-03-2018-0008

To focus on the findings of a review of the Learning Advice Service which provided mainstream learning opportunities and individual support to people using mental health services. The service was decommissioned after 15 years due to service reconfig... Read More about Mainstream education as a possible route to recovery and social inclusion: a review.

Ozone and climate governance: an implausible path dependence (2018)
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Grundmann, R. (2018). Ozone and climate governance: an implausible path dependence. Comptes Rendus Géoscience, 350(7), 435-441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crte.2018.07.008

Many observers and commentators have used the case of ozone science and politics as a role model for climate science and politics. Two crucial assumptions underpin this view: (1) that science drives policymaking, and (2) that a unified, international... Read More about Ozone and climate governance: an implausible path dependence.

Defamilisation and familisation risks, adult worker models, and pro-employment/decommodification measures for women: the case of Hong Kong (2018)
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Yu, S. W., Chau, C. R., & Kühner, S. (2018). Defamilisation and familisation risks, adult worker models, and pro-employment/decommodification measures for women: the case of Hong Kong. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/21699763.2018.1526699

This paper is concerned with the research areas of defamilisation/familisation and adult worker models. It particularly focuses on demonstrating how the study of government pro-employment and decommodification measures for reducing defamilisation and... Read More about Defamilisation and familisation risks, adult worker models, and pro-employment/decommodification measures for women: the case of Hong Kong.

Who needs critical friends? Independent advisory groups in the age of the police and crime commissioner (2018)
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Dixon, B. (2018). Who needs critical friends? Independent advisory groups in the age of the police and crime commissioner. Policing, doi:10.1093/police/pay068. ISSN 1752-4512

In the early 2000s, many police forces in England and Wales set up independent advisory groups (IAGs) following an inquiry into the flawed investigation of the murder of a black teenager, Stephen Lawrence, by London's Metropolitan Police. Members of... Read More about Who needs critical friends? Independent advisory groups in the age of the police and crime commissioner.

Does ethnicity and culture affect the non- compliancy of cervical cancer screening? (2018)
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Hennessey, L., Shaw, I., Okyere, S., & Adams, G. G. (2018). Does ethnicity and culture affect the non- compliancy of cervical cancer screening?. MOJ Public Health, 7(4), 219-227. https://doi.org/10.15406/mojph.2018.07.00233

Background: Globally, an estimated 528,000 women develop cervical cancer (CC) each year, 266,000 of whom die from the disease. CC is the fourth most-common cancer in women worldwide and fourteenth in the UK, where 3,200 cases are diagnosed each year.... Read More about Does ethnicity and culture affect the non- compliancy of cervical cancer screening?.

Social housing providers as unlikely low-carbon innovators (2018)
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Cauvain, J., & Karvonen, A. (2018). Social housing providers as unlikely low-carbon innovators. Energy and Buildings, 177, 394-401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.08.012

Social housing providers have recently emerged as unlikely innovators of low carbon transitions in the UK residential sector. They tend to have a significant amount of influence over large housing stocks, opportunities to access funding to retrofit o... Read More about Social housing providers as unlikely low-carbon innovators.

Raymond Williams and the possibilities of ‘committed’ late Marxism (2018)
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Stevenson, N. (2018). Raymond Williams and the possibilities of ‘committed’ late Marxism

After the end of the Cold War Marxist thought entered into a long crisis from which it is only just beginning to emerge. After 1989 it was no longer clear, apart from a few revolutionary outposts, what a commitment to Marxism meant. Not surprisingly... Read More about Raymond Williams and the possibilities of ‘committed’ late Marxism.

The VOICE study – a before and after study of a dementia communication skills training course (2018)
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O’Brien, R., Goldberg, S. E., Pilnick, A., Beeke, S., Schneider, J., Sartain, K., …Harwood, R. H. (2018). The VOICE study – a before and after study of a dementia communication skills training course. PLoS ONE, 13(6), Article e0198567. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198567

Background A quarter of acute hospital beds are occupied by persons living with dementia, many of whom have communication problems. Healthcare professionals lack confidence in dementia communication skills, but there are no evidence-based communic... Read More about The VOICE study – a before and after study of a dementia communication skills training course.

The arts as a medium for care and self-care in dementia: arguments and evidence (2018)
Journal Article
Schneider, J. M. (2018). The arts as a medium for care and self-care in dementia: arguments and evidence. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(6), Article 1151. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15061151

The growing prevalence of dementia, combined with an absence of effective pharmacological treatments, highlights the potential of psychosocial interventions to alleviate the effects of dementia and enhance quality of life. With reference to a manifes... Read More about The arts as a medium for care and self-care in dementia: arguments and evidence.

Risk in synthetic biology: views from the lab (2018)
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McLeod, C., Saille, S. D., & Nerlich, B. (2018). Risk in synthetic biology: views from the lab. EMBO Reports, 19(7), Article e45958. https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.201845958

How do synthetic biologists think about the risks in their research? This paper reports on a novel elicitation method that got surprising answers. Participants reflected not only on technical, but also on societal and psychological risks and responsi... Read More about Risk in synthetic biology: views from the lab.

Italy: the ‘illegality factory’? Theory and practice of refugees’ reception in Sicily (2018)
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D’Angelo, A. (2019). Italy: the ‘illegality factory’? Theory and practice of refugees’ reception in Sicily. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45(12), 2213-2226. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2018.1468361

The recent surge of migrants crossing the Mediterranean in search of protection has presented a major challenge for the whole European Union. What has been labelled as a ‘refugee crisis’ is first and foremost a crisis of international politics and th... Read More about Italy: the ‘illegality factory’? Theory and practice of refugees’ reception in Sicily.

Mind the gap: Sentencing, rehabilitation and civic purgatory (2018)
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Henley, A. (2018). Mind the gap: Sentencing, rehabilitation and civic purgatory. Probation Journal, 65(3), 285-301. https://doi.org/10.1177/0264550518776773

© The Author(s) 2018. This article discusses the relationships and tensions between the sentencing, statutory supervision and legal rehabilitation of lawbreakers under UK legislation. It does so with reference to both the Rehabilitation of Offenders... Read More about Mind the gap: Sentencing, rehabilitation and civic purgatory.