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Is UK Animal Research Governance Facing A 'New Normal'? Considering the Risks and Benefits of 'Going Online' (2023)
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Salter, K. (2023). Is UK Animal Research Governance Facing A 'New Normal'? Considering the Risks and Benefits of 'Going Online'. Alternatives to Laboratory Animals, 51(4), 258-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/02611929231180605

Since a return to in-office working after the great disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and associated challenges, many conversations are still being had with regard to what the 'new normal' might look like in professional spaces and networks,... Read More about Is UK Animal Research Governance Facing A 'New Normal'? Considering the Risks and Benefits of 'Going Online'.

Investigating the potential of radar interferometry for monitoring rural artisanal cobalt mines in the democratic republic of the congo (2020)
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Brown, C., Daniels, A., Boyd, D. S., Sowter, A., Foody, G., & Kara, S. (2020). Investigating the potential of radar interferometry for monitoring rural artisanal cobalt mines in the democratic republic of the congo. Sustainability, 12(23), Article 9834. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12239834

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Greater awareness of the serious human rights abuses associated with the extraction and trade of cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has applied increasing pressure for busine... Read More about Investigating the potential of radar interferometry for monitoring rural artisanal cobalt mines in the democratic republic of the congo.

An Individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy App for People With Dementia: Development and Usability Study of Thinkability (2020)
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Rai, H. K., Schneider, J., & Orrell, M. (2020). An Individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy App for People With Dementia: Development and Usability Study of Thinkability. Jmir Aging, 3(2), Article e17105. https://doi.org/10.2196/17105

Background: There is a lack of technological resources for the mental stimulation and communication of people with dementia, which can be helpful in improving cognition and quality of life. Paper-based individual cognitive stimulation therapy (iCST)... Read More about An Individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy App for People With Dementia: Development and Usability Study of Thinkability.

Bordering Through Religion: A Case Study of Christians from the Muslim Majority World Seeking Asylum in the UK (2020)
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Madziva, R. (2020). Bordering Through Religion: A Case Study of Christians from the Muslim Majority World Seeking Asylum in the UK. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 9(3), 47-60. https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v9i3.1591

The current global 'crisis' of the refugee movement has drawn to the forefront longstanding public worries about welcoming and accommodating refugees, especially in liberal democratic States. While religion is central to refuge, very little is known... Read More about Bordering Through Religion: A Case Study of Christians from the Muslim Majority World Seeking Asylum in the UK.

Building Slavery-free Communities: A Resilience Framework (2020)
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Gardner, A., Northall, P., & Brewster, B. (2020). Building Slavery-free Communities: A Resilience Framework. Journal of Human Trafficking, 7(3), 338-353. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2020.1777828

There is growing interest in the use of community-based approaches to address the causes of modern slavery and the related goal of building anti-slavery 'resilience'. However, the concept of resilience is often poorly understood and applied without a... Read More about Building Slavery-free Communities: A Resilience Framework.

A legitimate business? Representations of privatised probation in England and Wales (2020)
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Carr, N., & Robinson, G. (2020). A legitimate business? Representations of privatised probation in England and Wales. Crime, Media, Culture, https://doi.org/10.1177/1741659020903771

The Transforming Rehabilitation reforms implemented in England & Wales in 2014 witnessed the transfer of responsibility for a large proportion of the work of the public sector probation service to 21 newly created Community Rehabilitation Companies (... Read More about A legitimate business? Representations of privatised probation in England and Wales.

Mental Health Recovery Narratives and Their Impact on Recipients: Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis (2019)
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Rennick-Egglestone, S., Morgan, K., Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Ramsay, A., Mcgranahan, R., Gillard, S., …Slade, M. (2019). Mental Health Recovery Narratives and Their Impact on Recipients: Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry / Revue Canadienene de Psychiatrie, 64(10), 669-679. https://doi.org/10.1177/0706743719846108

Objective. Mental health recovery narratives are often shared in peer support work and anti-stigma campaigns. Internet technology provides access to an almost unlimited number of narratives, and yet little is known about how they impact on recipients... Read More about Mental Health Recovery Narratives and Their Impact on Recipients: Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis.

EU children in Brexit Britain: re‐negotiating belonging in nationalist times (2019)
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Zontini, E., & Però, D. (2020). EU children in Brexit Britain: re‐negotiating belonging in nationalist times. International Migration, 58(1), 90-104. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12581

© 2019 The Authors. International Migration © 2019 IOM This article contributes to debates on identification, home and belonging by focusing on EU children in Brexit times. The article combines attention to the emotional and affective side of integra... Read More about EU children in Brexit Britain: re‐negotiating belonging in nationalist times.

Precautionary policing and dispositives of risk in a police force control room in domestic abuse incidents: an ethnography of call handlers, dispatchers and response officers (2019)
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Black, A., & Lumsden, K. (2020). Precautionary policing and dispositives of risk in a police force control room in domestic abuse incidents: an ethnography of call handlers, dispatchers and response officers. Policing and Society, 30(1), 65-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2019.1568428

This article explores the riskwork engaged in by call handlers, dispatchers and response officers in a police force control room in England. We present a novel approach by drawing on the work of Foucault and his concept le dispositif to study riskwor... Read More about Precautionary policing and dispositives of risk in a police force control room in domestic abuse incidents: an ethnography of call handlers, dispatchers and response officers.

Participatory arts in care settings: A multiple case study: Innovative practice (2018)
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Broome, E., Dening, T., & Schneider, J. (2018). Participatory arts in care settings: A multiple case study: Innovative practice. Dementia, https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301218807554

© The Author(s) 2018. This paper describes two case studies of arts interventions in UK care settings. Visual arts and dance movement interventions were regularly held in two settings. This paper draws on data from qualitative interviews, reflective... Read More about Participatory arts in care settings: A multiple case study: Innovative practice.

Social sustainability as a challenge for urban scholars (2018)
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Cauvain, J. (2018). Social sustainability as a challenge for urban scholars. City, 22(4), 595-603. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2018.1507113

Urban sustainability is an increasingly popular term used by scientists and policymakers from all disciplines, increasingly without any reference to the tradition of critical urban studies. It is often observed that the social pillar is missing, if s... Read More about Social sustainability as a challenge for urban scholars.

The challenges of training, support and assessment of healthcare support workers: a qualitative study of experiences in three English acute hospitals (2017)
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Sarre, S., Maben, J., Aldus, C., Schneider, J., Wharrad, H., Nicholson, C., & Arthur, A. (2018). The challenges of training, support and assessment of healthcare support workers: a qualitative study of experiences in three English acute hospitals. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 79, 145-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2017.11.010

Background Ever-growing demands on care systems have increased reliance on healthcare support workers. In the UK, their training has been variable, but organisation-wide failures in care have prompted questions about how this crucial section of the... Read More about The challenges of training, support and assessment of healthcare support workers: a qualitative study of experiences in three English acute hospitals.

Defamilisation and leave policies -a comparative study of 14 East Asian and non-East Asian countries (2017)
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Chau, R. C., Foster, L., & Yu, S. W. (2017). Defamilisation and leave policies -a comparative study of 14 East Asian and non-East Asian countries. Journal of Asian Public Policy, 10(3), 318-333. https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2017.1322286

This article joins the international debate on whether there is a unique East Asian welfare model. It examines the concept of defamilisation and compares various leave policies (maternity leave, paternity leave and extended parental leave) in five Ea... Read More about Defamilisation and leave policies -a comparative study of 14 East Asian and non-East Asian countries.

Changing times: Migrants’ social network analysis and the challenges of longitudinal research (2017)
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Ryan, L., & D’Angelo, A. (2018). Changing times: Migrants’ social network analysis and the challenges of longitudinal research. Social Networks, 53, 148-158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2017.03.003

Focusing on migrant social networks, this paper draws upon the sociology of time to incorporate complex notions of temporality into the research process. In so doing, we consider firstly, the challenge of going ‘beyond the snapshot’ in data collectio... Read More about Changing times: Migrants’ social network analysis and the challenges of longitudinal research.

Defamilisation measures and women's labour force participation – a comparative study of twelve countries (2017)
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Chau, R. C., Yu, S. W., Foster, L., & Lau, M. K. (2017). Defamilisation measures and women's labour force participation – a comparative study of twelve countries. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 33(1), 73-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/21699763.2017.1288157

This paper examines the relevance of two interpretations of defamilisation (“freedom of the family” and “freedom of women from the family”) to the search for effective measures for strengthening women's participation in the paid labour market. Based... Read More about Defamilisation measures and women's labour force participation – a comparative study of twelve countries.

‘Between a rock and a hard place’: Bulgarian highly skilled migrants’ experiences of external and internal stereotypes in the context of the European crisis (2016)
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Genova, E. (2017). ‘Between a rock and a hard place’: Bulgarian highly skilled migrants’ experiences of external and internal stereotypes in the context of the European crisis. National Identities, 19(1), 33-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2015.1136609

The intensification of intra-European migration has more recently coincided with the negative socio-economic consequences of the European economic crisis. The latter has revitalised dormant national stereotypes, employed into the scapegoating of migr... Read More about ‘Between a rock and a hard place’: Bulgarian highly skilled migrants’ experiences of external and internal stereotypes in the context of the European crisis.

Managing Democracy in Social Movement Organizations (2014)
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Choi-Fitzpatrick, A. (2015). Managing Democracy in Social Movement Organizations. Social Movement Studies, 14(2), 123-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2014.945158

Leaders are crucial to social movement mobilization and maintenance. They often experience conflict between a value for inclusive engagement and a sense that they are moving efficiently toward their organizations' goals. This study draws on a multisi... Read More about Managing Democracy in Social Movement Organizations.

To seek and save the lost: human trafficking and salvation schemas among American evangelicals (2014)
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Choi-Fitzpatrick, A. (2014). To seek and save the lost: human trafficking and salvation schemas among American evangelicals. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 1(2), 119-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/23254823.2014.924421

American evangelicals have a history of engagement in social issues in general and anti-slavery activism in particular. The last 10 years have seen an increase in both scholarly attention to evangelicalism and evangelical focus on contemporary forms... Read More about To seek and save the lost: human trafficking and salvation schemas among American evangelicals.