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Occupational therapy pre-discharge HOme VIsits for patients with a Stroke (HOVIS): results of a randomised controlled trial (2012)
Journal Article
Drummond, A., Whitehead, P., Fellows, K., Sprigg, N., Sampson, C. J., Edwards, C., & Lincoln, N. (2012). Occupational therapy pre-discharge HOme VIsits for patients with a Stroke (HOVIS): results of a randomised controlled trial. Clinical Rehabilitation, https://doi.org/10.1177/0269215512462145

Objective
To conduct a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of occupational therapy predischarge home visits for people after stroke in order to assess the feasibility of a definitive trial.
Design
Two studies; a randomised controlled trial and a coh... Read More about Occupational therapy pre-discharge HOme VIsits for patients with a Stroke (HOVIS): results of a randomised controlled trial.

Local People rebuilding their communities – an exploration of Welsh time banking (2012)
Journal Article
Gregory, L. (2012). Local People rebuilding their communities – an exploration of Welsh time banking. Contemporary Wales, 25(1), 40-57

Drawing on previous research, this paper explores the development of the 'Welsh' model of time banking: its history, practice and association with co-production. Attention is given to a critical evaluation of this model as regards community and parti... Read More about Local People rebuilding their communities – an exploration of Welsh time banking.

Policing the roads: traffic cops, ‘Boy Racers’ and anti-social behaviour (2012)
Journal Article
Lumsden, K. (2013). Policing the roads: traffic cops, ‘Boy Racers’ and anti-social behaviour. Policing and Society, 23(2), 204-221. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2012.696642

This article explores the policing and regulation of young motorists known in the United Kingdom as ‘boy racers’. It demonstrates how police officers' definitional decisions in relation to driving behaviours were influenced by a range of exogenous an... Read More about Policing the roads: traffic cops, ‘Boy Racers’ and anti-social behaviour.

Delivering Employment Services to Vulnerable Customers: A Case Study of the UK's Employment Service (2012)
Journal Article
Stafford, B., Roberts, S., & Duffy, D. (2012). Delivering Employment Services to Vulnerable Customers: A Case Study of the UK's Employment Service. Social Policy and Society, 11(4), 495-506. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746412000206

This article explores the impact of a more individualised public employment service on vulnerable people. It analyses a system Jobcentre Plus implemented in 2008, Accessing Jobcentre Plus Customer Services (AJCS), to improve customer services by mini... Read More about Delivering Employment Services to Vulnerable Customers: A Case Study of the UK's Employment Service.

A moment of transformative learning: creating a disorientating dilemma for a health care student using video feedback (2012)
Journal Article
James, D. M., Collins, L. C., & Samoylova, E. (2012). A moment of transformative learning: creating a disorientating dilemma for a health care student using video feedback. Journal of Transformative Education, 10(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/1541344613480562

This study describes a moment during clinical supervision when a student speech and language therapist reported that she had a moment of illumination that changed her trajectory from failing her clinical placement to passing it. The student’s self-re... Read More about A moment of transformative learning: creating a disorientating dilemma for a health care student using video feedback.

Metaphors We Die By? Geoengineering, Metaphors, and the Argument From Catastrophe (2012)
Journal Article
Nerlich, B., & Jaspal, R. (2012). Metaphors We Die By? Geoengineering, Metaphors, and the Argument From Catastrophe. Metaphor and Symbol, 27(2), 131-147. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2012.665795

Geoeengineering the climate by reflecting sunlight or extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has attracted increasing attention from natural scientists, social scientists, policy makers and the media. This article examines promotional discours... Read More about Metaphors We Die By? Geoengineering, Metaphors, and the Argument From Catastrophe.

Similarities in contexts and theorizing: professionalism and inequality (2012)
Journal Article
Evetts, J. (2012). Similarities in contexts and theorizing: professionalism and inequality. Professions and Professionalism, 2(2), https://doi.org/10.7577/pp.322

For a long time sociologists of professions have differentiated Anglo-American and European contexts for professional work. The presentation will address this distinction and argue that processes of convergence now render such differences somewhat ob... Read More about Similarities in contexts and theorizing: professionalism and inequality.

An Opportunity Lost? Exploring the benefits of the Child Trust Fund on youth transitions into adulthood (2011)
Journal Article
Gregory, L. (2011). An Opportunity Lost? Exploring the benefits of the Child Trust Fund on youth transitions into adulthood. Youth and Policy, 106, 78-94

With the decision to abolish the Child Trust Fund announced by the Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition in May 2010, this paper explores what impact the abandonment of a unique policy innovation will have in relation to youth transitions: in so do... Read More about An Opportunity Lost? Exploring the benefits of the Child Trust Fund on youth transitions into adulthood.

An interpretative phenomenological analysis of posttraumatic growth in adults bereaved by suicide (2011)
Journal Article
Smith, A., Joseph, S., & das Nair, R. (in press). An interpretative phenomenological analysis of posttraumatic growth in adults bereaved by suicide. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 16(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2011.572047

This study explored experiences of posttraumatic growth in adults bereaved by suicide. Six participants were interviewed using a semi-structured interview schedule. Transcribed interviews were analyzed from an interpretative phenomenological framewor... Read More about An interpretative phenomenological analysis of posttraumatic growth in adults bereaved by suicide.

Researching the gender division of unpaid domestic work: practices, relationships, negotiations, and meanings (2011)
Journal Article
Warren, T. (2011). Researching the gender division of unpaid domestic work: practices, relationships, negotiations, and meanings. Sociological Review, 59(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2010.01993.x

The paper focuses on the potential of quantitative research methods for sociologists who research the gender division of unpaid domestic work. To begin, it reflects on the emergence of the sociological interest in unpaid domestic work and identifies... Read More about Researching the gender division of unpaid domestic work: practices, relationships, negotiations, and meanings.

Work time. Leisure time. On women’s temporal and economic wellbeing in Europe (2010)
Journal Article
Warren, T. (2010). Work time. Leisure time. On women’s temporal and economic wellbeing in Europe. Community, Work and Family, 13(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/13668801003765713

In the study of work time, a wealth of influential ideas have emerged about the potentially damaging impact of too many hours in the labour market on the rest of peoples’ lives, as well as about the negative economic ramifications of short hours work... Read More about Work time. Leisure time. On women’s temporal and economic wellbeing in Europe.

Gendered Performances in a Male-Dominated Subculture: 'Girl Racers', Car Modification and the Quest for Masculinity (2010)
Journal Article
Lumsden, K. (2010). Gendered Performances in a Male-Dominated Subculture: 'Girl Racers', Car Modification and the Quest for Masculinity. Sociological Research Online, 15(3), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.2123

This paper discusses female participation in the male-dominated 'boy racer' culture. Little is known about girls who join male-dominated subcultures while studies of car cultures have tended to describe girls as peripheral participants and emphasise... Read More about Gendered Performances in a Male-Dominated Subculture: 'Girl Racers', Car Modification and the Quest for Masculinity.

From carbon markets to carbon morality: creative compounds as framing devices in online discourses on climate change mitigation (2010)
Journal Article
Koteyko, N., Thelwall, M., & Nerlich, B. (2010). From carbon markets to carbon morality: creative compounds as framing devices in online discourses on climate change mitigation. Science Communication, 32(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1075547009340421

Lexical combinations of at least two roots around "carbon" as the hub, such as "carbon finance" or "carbon footprint," have recently become ubiquitous in English-speaking science, politics, and mass media. They are part of a new language evolving aro... Read More about From carbon markets to carbon morality: creative compounds as framing devices in online discourses on climate change mitigation.

Carbon gold rush and carbon cowboys: a new chapter in green mythology? (2010)
Journal Article
Nerlich, B., & Koteyko, N. (2010). Carbon gold rush and carbon cowboys: a new chapter in green mythology?. Environmental Communication, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/17524030903522389

Individual and collective efforts to mitigate climate change in the form of carbon offsetting and emissions trading schemes have recently become the focus of much media attention. In this paper we explore a subset of the UK national press coverage ce... Read More about Carbon gold rush and carbon cowboys: a new chapter in green mythology?.

Theory and language of climate change communication (2010)
Journal Article
Nerlich, B., Koteyko, N., & Brown, B. (2010). Theory and language of climate change communication. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 1(1), https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.2

Climate change communication has become a salient topic in science and society. It has grown to be something like a booming industry alongside more established ‘communication enterprises’, such as health communication, risk communication, and science... Read More about Theory and language of climate change communication.

Bird flu hype: the spread of a disease outbreak through the media and Internet discussion groups (2010)
Journal Article
Hellsten, I., & Nerlich, B. (2010). Bird flu hype: the spread of a disease outbreak through the media and Internet discussion groups. Journal of Language and Politics, 9(3),

Bird flu, otherwise known as avian influenza, has attracted widespread public and global attention. The H5N1 avian influenza virus was first documented as infecting humans in Hong Kong in 1997, and many of those infected died subsequently from the vi... Read More about Bird flu hype: the spread of a disease outbreak through the media and Internet discussion groups.

Health, hygiene and biosecurity: tribal knowledge claims in the UK poultry industry (2009)
Journal Article
Nerlich, B., Brown, B., & Crawford, P. (2009). Health, hygiene and biosecurity: tribal knowledge claims in the UK poultry industry. Health, Risk and Society, 11(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/13698570903329441

Since 1997 the world has been facing the threat of a human influenza pandemic that may be caused by an avian virus and the poultry industry around the globe has been grappling with the highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza H5N1, or in more info... Read More about Health, hygiene and biosecurity: tribal knowledge claims in the UK poultry industry.