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Can resistant infections be perceptible in UK dairy farming? (2019)
Journal Article
Morris, C., Helliwell, R., & Raman, S. (2019). Can resistant infections be perceptible in UK dairy farming?. Palgrave Communications, 5, Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0220-2

This paper interrogates the claim that antimicrobial resistant infections are rarely encountered in animal agriculture. This has been widely reiterated by a range of academic, policy and industry stakeholders in the UK. Further support comes from the... Read More about Can resistant infections be perceptible in UK dairy farming?.

Stronger together: learning from an interdisciplinary dementia, arts and well-being network (DA&WN) (2019)
Journal Article
Tischler, V., Schneider, J., Morgner, C., Crawford, P., Dening, T., Brooker, D., …Harvey, K. (2019). Stronger together: learning from an interdisciplinary dementia, arts and well-being network (DA&WN). Arts and Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice, 11(3), 272-277. https://doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2018.1534252

There is increasing interest in the use of arts and creative activity to enhance dementia care (e.g. Beard, 2012; Cowl & Gaugler, 2014; Young, Camic & Tischler, 2016), and to bring together and support professionals and those who use services, see Cr... Read More about Stronger together: learning from an interdisciplinary dementia, arts and well-being network (DA&WN).

Young people, school engagement and perceptions of support: a mixed methods analysis (2019)
Journal Article
Ryan, L., D’Angelo, A., Kaye, N., & Lorinc, M. (2019). Young people, school engagement and perceptions of support: a mixed methods analysis. Journal of Youth Studies, 22(9), 1272-1288. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2019.1571178

As levels of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) remain high in the UK, there is growing concern about processes of school disengagement. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data, we explore some factors that lead young p... Read More about Young people, school engagement and perceptions of support: a mixed methods analysis.

Bedouins of Silicon Valley: A neo-Khaldunian approach to sociology of technology (2019)
Journal Article
Hashemi, M. (2019). Bedouins of Silicon Valley: A neo-Khaldunian approach to sociology of technology. Sociological Review, 67(3), 536-551. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026118822823

The standard narrative of the emergence, rise and decline of Silicon Valley companies focuses on the evolution of institutions and technological waves, not the mentality of the innovators and entrepreneurs. This article argues that this type of expla... Read More about Bedouins of Silicon Valley: A neo-Khaldunian approach to sociology of technology.

The penal voluntary sector: a hybrid sociology (2019)
Journal Article
Tomczak, P., & Buck, G. (2019). The penal voluntary sector: a hybrid sociology. British Journal of Criminology, 59(4), 898-918. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azy070

The penal voluntary sector (PVS) is an important, complex, under-theorised area. Its non-profit, non-statutory organisations are highly significant in the operation of punishment around the world, yet ill-understood. Burgeoning scholarship has begun... Read More about The penal voluntary sector: a hybrid sociology.

Greening the concept of state crime (2019)
Journal Article
Heydon, J. (2019). Greening the concept of state crime. State Crime Journal, 8(1), 39-58. https://doi.org/10.13169/statecrime.8.1.0039

© 2019 Pluto Journals. All rights reserved. Green criminologists often deploy the notion of harm to capture patterns of environmental victimization sitting outside the narrow and legalistic confines of environmental “crime”. In doing so, their analyt... Read More about Greening the concept of state crime.

Collaborating to identify, recover and support victims of modern slavery (2018)
Journal Article
Brewster, B. (2018). Collaborating to identify, recover and support victims of modern slavery. Journal of Modern Slavery, 4(2), 200-224

This article presents findings from a series of case studies into the impact of multiagency anti-slavery partnerships in the UK. The research draws upon empirical evidence from a number of geographic regions as the basis of a comparative analysis inv... Read More about Collaborating to identify, recover and support victims of modern slavery.

Confronting Bias in NGO Research on Modern Slavery (2018)
Book Chapter
Okyere, S. (2018). Confronting Bias in NGO Research on Modern Slavery. In G. LeBaron (Ed.), Researching Forced Labour in the Global Economy: Methodological Challenges and Advances (94-110). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266472.003.0006

This chapter explores the extent to which efforts to attain more reliable, comprehensive data and knowledge on forced labour could be impeded by a lack of critical reflexivity in the use of mainstream conventional definitional and conceptual framewor... Read More about Confronting Bias in NGO Research on Modern Slavery.

All the protestors fit to count: using geospatial affordances to estimate protest event size (2018)
Journal Article
Fitzpatrick, A. (2018). All the protestors fit to count: using geospatial affordances to estimate protest event size. Interface: a journal for and about social movements, 10(1-2), 297-321

Protest events are a hallmark of social movement tactics. Large crowds in public spaces send a clear message to those in authority. Consequently, estimating crowd size is important for clarifying how much support a particular movement has been able t... Read More about All the protestors fit to count: using geospatial affordances to estimate protest event size.

Enduring Trouble: Striving to Think Anew (2018)
Book Chapter
Kabesh, A. T. (2018). Enduring Trouble: Striving to Think Anew. In I. Parker, & S. Siddiqui (Eds.), Islamic Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Islam: Cultural and Clinical Dialogues. Routledge

A Qualitative Exploration of Police Officers’ Experiences, Challenges, and Perceptions of Cybercrime (2018)
Journal Article
Hadlington, L., Lumsden, K., Black, A., & Ferra, F. (2021). A Qualitative Exploration of Police Officers’ Experiences, Challenges, and Perceptions of Cybercrime. Policing, 15(1), 34-43. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pay090

Victimization from cybercrime has increased exponentially over the past decade. Frontline police officers are dealing with a variety of crimes different than those existing in an era before the advent of digital technology. Frontline officers are exp... Read More about A Qualitative Exploration of Police Officers’ Experiences, Challenges, and Perceptions of Cybercrime.

Agency in dementia care: systematic review and meta-ethnography (2018)
Journal Article
Bosco, A., Schneider, J., Coleston-Shields, D. M., Jawahar, K., Higgs, P., & Orrell, M. (2019). Agency in dementia care: systematic review and meta-ethnography. International Psychogeriatrics, 31(5), 627-642. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1041610218001801

Objectives: Dementia often limits the agency of the person to such an extent that there is need for external support in making daily life decisions. This support is usually provided by family members who are sometimes legally empowered to engage i... Read More about Agency in dementia care: systematic review and meta-ethnography.

Sensitising Green Criminology to Procedural Environmental Justice: A Case Study of First Nation Consultation in the Canadian Oil Sands (2018)
Journal Article
Heydon, J. (2018). Sensitising Green Criminology to Procedural Environmental Justice: A Case Study of First Nation Consultation in the Canadian Oil Sands. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 7(4), 67-82. https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v7i4.936

Procedural environmental justice refers to fairness in processes of decision-making. It recognises that environmental victimisation, while an injustice in and of itself, is usually underpinned by unjust deliberation procedures. Although green crimino... Read More about Sensitising Green Criminology to Procedural Environmental Justice: A Case Study of First Nation Consultation in the Canadian Oil Sands.

A staff training intervention to improve communication between people living with dementia and health-care professionals in hospital: the VOICE mixed-methods development and evaluation study (2018)
Journal Article
Harwood, R. H., O’Brien, R., Goldberg, S. E., Allwood, R., Pilnick, A., Beeke, S., …Schneider, J. (2018). A staff training intervention to improve communication between people living with dementia and health-care professionals in hospital: the VOICE mixed-methods development and evaluation study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 6(41), 1-134. https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr06410

Background 25% of hospital beds are occupied by a person living with dementia. Dementia affects expressive communication and understanding. Healthcare professionals report lack of communication skills training. Objectives To identify teachable ef... Read More about A staff training intervention to improve communication between people living with dementia and health-care professionals in hospital: the VOICE mixed-methods development and evaluation study.

Flujos migratorios en el Mediterráneo: cifras, políticas y múltiples crisis (2018)
Journal Article
D’Angelo, A. (2018). Flujos migratorios en el Mediterráneo: cifras, políticas y múltiples crisis. Anuario CIDOB de la Inmigración, 2018, 30-46. https://doi.org/10.24241/AnuarioCIDOBInmi.2018.30

ABSTRACT [English] - Migration across the Mediterranean is often presented – in media and political debates - as a single, transnational phenomenon, characterised by steady inflows of people, seemingly guided by uncontrollable forces. This chapter, b... Read More about Flujos migratorios en el Mediterráneo: cifras, políticas y múltiples crisis.

‘I Will Not Be Thrown Out of the Country Because I’m an Immigrant’: Eastern European Migrants’ Responses to Hate Crime in a Semi-Rural Context in the Wake of Brexit (2018)
Journal Article
Lumsden, K., Goode, J., & Black, A. (2019). ‘I Will Not Be Thrown Out of the Country Because I’m an Immigrant’: Eastern European Migrants’ Responses to Hate Crime in a Semi-Rural Context in the Wake of Brexit. Sociological Research Online, 24(2), 167-184. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780418811967

This article examines Eastern European migrants’ experiences of and responses to hate crime. Following the UK European Union Membership Referendum (‘Brexit’ vote), there was an increase in reported hate crimes against immigrants. The study focuses on... Read More about ‘I Will Not Be Thrown Out of the Country Because I’m an Immigrant’: Eastern European Migrants’ Responses to Hate Crime in a Semi-Rural Context in the Wake of Brexit.

Using conversation analysis to inform role play and simulated interaction in communications skills training for healthcare professionals: identifying avenues for further development through a scoping review (2018)
Journal Article
Pilnick, A., Trusson, D., Beeke, S., O 'brien, R., Goldberg, S., & Harwood, R. H. (2018). Using conversation analysis to inform role play and simulated interaction in communications skills training for healthcare professionals: identifying avenues for further development through a scoping review. BMC Medical Education, 18, Article 267. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-018-1381-1

Background: This paper responds to previously published debate in this journal around the use of sociolinguistic methods in communication skills training (CST), which has raised the significant question of how far consultations with simulated patient... Read More about Using conversation analysis to inform role play and simulated interaction in communications skills training for healthcare professionals: identifying avenues for further development through a scoping review.