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Women Prisoners Regulating Prisons: Did Corston Achieve Networked, Participatory Regulation? (2025)
Journal Article
Buck, G., & Tomczak, P. (2025). Women Prisoners Regulating Prisons: Did Corston Achieve Networked, Participatory Regulation?. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12604

Prison regulators across scales hold potential to illuminate harms of imprisonment and influence alternatives, yet criminologists rarely engage with these mechanisms. We analyse prisoners' participatory roles in the 'transformative' Corston Report (2... Read More about Women Prisoners Regulating Prisons: Did Corston Achieve Networked, Participatory Regulation?.

Gatekeepers of knowledge production on higher education: journal editorial board networks and working practices (2025)
Report
Hordosy, R., Vega Castillo, M. A., Brown, E., & Myers, M. (2025). Gatekeepers of knowledge production on higher education: journal editorial board networks and working practices. Society for Research into Higher Education

Executive summary

This research project explored scholarly production and gatekeeping in the field of higher education, building on our earlier work exploring sociology journals (Brown et al., 2025). Throughout the report we present our methodolog... Read More about Gatekeepers of knowledge production on higher education: journal editorial board networks and working practices.

Negotiating Critical Tensions: Creating an Online Resource on Vaccine Hesitancy for Healthcare Professionals (2025)
Journal Article
Emerson, T., & Hobson-West, P. (in press). Negotiating Critical Tensions: Creating an Online Resource on Vaccine Hesitancy for Healthcare Professionals. Sociological Research Online,

Vaccine hesitancy is regarded as a priority for public health and has a long history of social science research. As part of a qualitative project on childhood vaccine hesitancy, a team of social scientists translated their empirical findings into an... Read More about Negotiating Critical Tensions: Creating an Online Resource on Vaccine Hesitancy for Healthcare Professionals.

Criminal Justice Since 1945: A Brief History (2025)
Book Chapter
Guiney, T. (2025). Criminal Justice Since 1945: A Brief History. In P. Davies, P. Francis, J. Harding, & G. Mair (Eds.), An Introduction to Criminal Justice. (Second Edition). SAGE Publications

As students of criminal justice, we quickly get used to the way things are. Institutions like the police and the prison are now ubiquitous in everyday life and can often feel concrete, monolithic and enduring. It is easy to assume that current ways o... Read More about Criminal Justice Since 1945: A Brief History.

Detecting and measuring the impacts of upland prescribed burning on air quality (2025)
Journal Article
Brownlow, R., Glentworth, J., Val Martin, M., Heydon, J., & Bryant, R. (2025). Detecting and measuring the impacts of upland prescribed burning on air quality. People, Place and Policy, 19(1), 59-79. https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2025.2354848645

Upland burning for grouse shooting has long been a contentious land management practice in the UK, with growing evidence on its negative impacts to ecosystem services such as carbon storage, natural flood management and biodiversity. This paper explo... Read More about Detecting and measuring the impacts of upland prescribed burning on air quality.

“It's like going through life at a mediocre level”: A qualitative study of the meaning and impact of fatigue in children and young people with sickle cell disease (2025)
Journal Article
Poku, B. A., Atkin, K. M., Grainger, J. D., Thomas, I., Oshinbolu, R., Mohammed, A., Kyewalyanga, E., & Kirk, S. (2025). “It's like going through life at a mediocre level”: A qualitative study of the meaning and impact of fatigue in children and young people with sickle cell disease. BMC Pediatrics, 25, Article 379. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-025-05720-7

Background: Fatigue is increasingly recognised as a prevalent and debilitating symptom for children and young people (CYP) with long-term conditions (LTCs), significantly affecting their family, social and educational participation. In sickle cell di... Read More about “It's like going through life at a mediocre level”: A qualitative study of the meaning and impact of fatigue in children and young people with sickle cell disease.

“The things we’re complaining about, we’re providing as well”: “dual-use” technologies in the lives of victim-survivors of domestic abuse (2025)
Journal Article
Brookfield, K., Fyson, R., & Goulden, M. (2025). “The things we’re complaining about, we’re providing as well”: “dual-use” technologies in the lives of victim-survivors of domestic abuse. Journal of Adult Protection, https://doi.org/10.1108/JAP-11-2024-0070

Purpose: This paper aims to provide information for professionals and victim-survivors of domestic abuse on the potential risks and benefits of three “dual-use” technologies: smart doorbells, indoor cameras (such as smart baby monitors and pet camera... Read More about “The things we’re complaining about, we’re providing as well”: “dual-use” technologies in the lives of victim-survivors of domestic abuse.

How do Conservative and Islamic Art Audiences Define Good Taste? Cultural Classifications at the Crossroads of Morality, Religion, and Politics in Turkey (2025)
Journal Article
Karademir, I., & Yaren, Ö. (in press). How do Conservative and Islamic Art Audiences Define Good Taste? Cultural Classifications at the Crossroads of Morality, Religion, and Politics in Turkey. Cultural Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1177/17499755251317382

This study explores how conservative/Islamic art audiences in Turkey describe and classify good taste in art and how their cultural repertoires inform their notions of ‘us’ and ‘them’. Despite the significant popular attention conservative art and it... Read More about How do Conservative and Islamic Art Audiences Define Good Taste? Cultural Classifications at the Crossroads of Morality, Religion, and Politics in Turkey.

Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach (2025)
Journal Article
Monk, D., Walton, E., Madziva, R., Opio, G., Kruisselbrink, A., & Openjuru, G. L. (2025). Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach. Children & Society, 39(3), 669-669. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12969

The article listed below, intended for publication in the Special Issue ‘Childhoods and South-South Migration’ was inadvertently published in a regular issue, volume 38, Issue 5. This article should be cited as shown below. Interrogating the agency a... Read More about Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach.

Losing touch: class, social capital, and out of area housing (2025)
Journal Article
Iafrati, S. (2025). Losing touch: class, social capital, and out of area housing. Critical Policy Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2025.2476960

Whilst the conceptualization of a housing crisis has become a common narrative within politics, research, and the media, its nebulous nature can risk failing to recognize the breadth of experiences or its exact relationship to inequality. By looking... Read More about Losing touch: class, social capital, and out of area housing.

Children and young people at the intersection of chronic illness and migration: a scoping review (2025)
Journal Article
Agyeiwaa Poku, B., Hunt, L., Pilnick, A., Michael Atkin, K., Evans, C., Pulsford, E., & Kirk, S. (2025). Children and young people at the intersection of chronic illness and migration: a scoping review. BMC Global and Public Health, 3, Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s44263-025-00131-3

Background: Chronic illnesses (CIs) are increasingly prevalent among children/young people (CYP) globally. For migrant CYP with CIs, achieving a stable life in a new country can be particularly challenging due to additional barriers such as cultural... Read More about Children and young people at the intersection of chronic illness and migration: a scoping review.

Orphanage Tourism in Nepal: Poverty, Childhood, and the Rescue Industry (2025)
Book
Bott, E. (2025). Orphanage Tourism in Nepal: Poverty, Childhood, and the Rescue Industry. Anthem Press

This book tackles, for the first time, the complex issues surrounding the phenomenon of orphanage tourism, which is a growing and highly lucrative tourism niche in Nepal and several other economically developing countries. The book explores the occur... Read More about Orphanage Tourism in Nepal: Poverty, Childhood, and the Rescue Industry.

The relationship between frailty, ethnicity and health inequality – a scoping review (2025)
Journal Article
Cluley, V., Vanhoutte, B., Banerjee, J., & Pickard, S. (2025). The relationship between frailty, ethnicity and health inequality – a scoping review. Journal of Global Aging, 2(1), 159-203. https://doi.org/10.1332/29767202Y2024D000000020

This scoping review highlights the need for research to address the intersectional relationship between racialisation, health inequality and frailty in older age. We map research addressing the relationship between frailty and ethnicity across liter... Read More about The relationship between frailty, ethnicity and health inequality – a scoping review.

Diversity and "Successful Aging": Exploring Intersectional and Existential Dimensions to Aging Well (2025)
Journal Article
Pickard, S., Cluley, V., Sharma, S., Oli, U., Thomas-Ekweh, G., Banerjee, J., Dip, C.-M., Williams, C., Conroy, S., Vanhoutte, B., Labeit, A., & Gilmore-Bykovskyi, A. (2025). Diversity and "Successful Aging": Exploring Intersectional and Existential Dimensions to Aging Well. Gerontologist, 65(1), Article gnaf008. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaf008

Background and Objectives: This article aims to add to the literature on successful aging in minoritized ethnic groups. Concurring with the critiques of "successful aging"for focusing on values and abilities more attainable by White middle-class olde... Read More about Diversity and "Successful Aging": Exploring Intersectional and Existential Dimensions to Aging Well.

What do We Know About How Processes of Desistance Vary by Ethnicity? (2025)
Journal Article
Farrall, S., Warr, J., Shaw, A., & Sharma, K. (in press). What do We Know About How Processes of Desistance Vary by Ethnicity?. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice,

This paper reviews what is known about ethnic identity and the processes by which people cease offending. Whilst the past 30 years have seen dramatic growths in what is known about desistance, in many jurisdictions there is a paucity of research whic... Read More about What do We Know About How Processes of Desistance Vary by Ethnicity?.

An extensive analysis of the utilisation of phase change materials in food storage process (2025)
Journal Article
Han, L., Zhang, S., Wright, E., Zheng, X., & Yan, Y. (2025). An extensive analysis of the utilisation of phase change materials in food storage process. Journal of Energy Storage, 111, Article 115391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2025.115391

With improving living standards, the demand for high-quality food is escalating. Conventional food storage methods often entail issues such as limitations in sustaining food quality and related energy wastage. The utilisation of PCMs in the food stor... Read More about An extensive analysis of the utilisation of phase change materials in food storage process.