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Professional helping as negotiation in motion: social work as work on the move (2016)
Journal Article
Ferguson, H. (in press). Professional helping as negotiation in motion: social work as work on the move. Applied Mobilities, 1(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/23800127.2016.1247523

The delivery of welfare and professional helping, such as in medicine, nursing and social work is largely treated as though it is achieved through static and immobile practices. Research has been dominated by a focus on the sedentary as studies have... Read More about Professional helping as negotiation in motion: social work as work on the move.

Words and deeds against exclusion: deprivation, activism and religiosity in inner-city Birmingham (2016)
Book Chapter
Karner, C., & Parker, D. (2016). Words and deeds against exclusion: deprivation, activism and religiosity in inner-city Birmingham. In M. Guest, & M. Middlemiss Le Mon (Eds.), Death, life and laughter: essays on religion in honour of Douglas Davies. Routledge

In 2010 lampposts topped by surveillance cameras appeared in parts of Birmingham, Britain’s second largest city. Unannounced, strategically placed at traffic intersections and along main roads, the cameras initially caused bemusement. The camera syst... Read More about Words and deeds against exclusion: deprivation, activism and religiosity in inner-city Birmingham.

Evaluation of the impact on audiences of Inside Out of Mind, research-based theatre for dementia carers (2016)
Journal Article
Schneider, J. M. (2017). Evaluation of the impact on audiences of Inside Out of Mind, research-based theatre for dementia carers. Arts and Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice, 9(3), 238-250. https://doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2016.1251475

Background Inside Out of Mind is an ethno-drama about dementia carers in hospital, intended to raise awareness of this role, and about dementia care in general. Following a successful premiere in 2013, it was taken on a live tour funded by the Big... Read More about Evaluation of the impact on audiences of Inside Out of Mind, research-based theatre for dementia carers.

The penal voluntary sector (2016)
Book
Tomczak, P. (2016). The penal voluntary sector. London: Routledge

The penal voluntary sector and the relationships between punishment and charity are more topical than ever before. In recent years in England and Wales, the sector has featured significantly in both policy rhetoric and academic commentary. Penal volu... Read More about The penal voluntary sector.

'I was just gobsmacked': care workers responses to BBC Panoramas 'Undercover care: the abuse exposed': invoking mental states as a means of distancing from abusive practices (2016)
Journal Article
Patterson, A., & Fyson, R. (2016). 'I was just gobsmacked': care workers responses to BBC Panoramas 'Undercover care: the abuse exposed': invoking mental states as a means of distancing from abusive practices. Discourse and Society, 27(6), 607-623. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926516665555

This paper draws upon discourse analytic techniques and discursive psychology to examine how care workers build accounts of viewing the BBC Panorama programme “Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed” which graphically documented the abuse of people with... Read More about 'I was just gobsmacked': care workers responses to BBC Panoramas 'Undercover care: the abuse exposed': invoking mental states as a means of distancing from abusive practices.

Advice, authority and autonomy in shared decision making in antenatal screening: the importance of context (2016)
Journal Article
Pilnick, A., & Zayts, O. (in press). Advice, authority and autonomy in shared decision making in antenatal screening: the importance of context. Sociology of Health and Illness, 38(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12346

Shared decision making has been widely advocated across many branches of healthcare, yet there is considerable debate over both its practical application and how it should be examined or assessed. More recent discussions of SDM have highlighted the i... Read More about Advice, authority and autonomy in shared decision making in antenatal screening: the importance of context.

Human Rights and the Reinvention of Freedom (2016)
Book
Stevenson, N. (2017). Human Rights and the Reinvention of Freedom. London, UK: Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315742236

This volume seeks to propose a reinvention of freedom under contemporary conditions of globalization, cross-border mobility, and neo-liberal dominance. There are currently two predominant myths circulating about freedom. The first is that in a global... Read More about Human Rights and the Reinvention of Freedom.

Negotiating Austerity and Local Traditions (2016)
Book Chapter
Gardner, A., & Lowndes, V. (2016). Negotiating Austerity and Local Traditions. In M. Bevir, & R. Rhodes (Eds.), Rethinking Governance: Ruling, rationalities and resistance (125-143). Routledge

Despite 30% cuts in English local government budgets since 2010, alongside rising demands for services, there has been little outward sign of crisis. On the contrary, political protest has been muted, public satisfaction remains steady and no local... Read More about Negotiating Austerity and Local Traditions.

Experiencing youth justice and penality (2016)
Book Chapter
McAlister, S., & Carr, N. (2016). Experiencing youth justice and penality. In A. Furlong (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood. Routledge

E.P. Thompson and cultural sociology: questions of poetics, capitalism and the commons (2016)
Journal Article
Stevenson, N. (2017). E.P. Thompson and cultural sociology: questions of poetics, capitalism and the commons. Cultural Sociology, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975516655462

There is currently a need for cultural sociology to readdress the work of humanistic and cultural Marxism. While more recently much of this work has been dismissed the appearance of more radical social movements and the on-going crisis of neoliberali... Read More about E.P. Thompson and cultural sociology: questions of poetics, capitalism and the commons.

The problem of expertise in knowledge societies (2016)
Journal Article
Grundmann, R. (in press). The problem of expertise in knowledge societies. Minerva, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-016-9308-7

This paper puts forward a theoretical framework for the analysis of expertise and experts in contemporary societies. It argues that while prevailing approaches have come to see expertise in various forms and functions, they tend to neglect the broade... Read More about The problem of expertise in knowledge societies.

Intercorporeality: connectedness and creative collaboration in the embodied practice of dance (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Purser, A. C. E. (2016). Intercorporeality: connectedness and creative collaboration in the embodied practice of dance.

Dance plays a role in healing rituals across a number of cultures and is also recognised to promote social bonding. This, of course, includes contemporary Western medicine, in which dance is used in psychotherapeutic contexts in the form of dance/mov... Read More about Intercorporeality: connectedness and creative collaboration in the embodied practice of dance.

Palimpsests of the romantic (2016)
Journal Article
Karner, C., & Kazmierczak, M. (in press). Palimpsests of the romantic. Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, https://doi.org/10.1080/0965156X.2016.1219161

This articles offers a longue durée perspective to illustrate that just as romanticism was a necessary, though not single-handedly sufficient condition for nationalist movements of the 19th century, an understanding of later cultural and political ph... Read More about Palimpsests of the romantic.

Free movement and special non-contributory benefits for disabled people: between the devil and the deep blue sea (2016)
Journal Article
Roberts, S. (2016). Free movement and special non-contributory benefits for disabled people: between the devil and the deep blue sea. ERA-Forum, 17(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12027-016-0434-3

Special non-contributory benefits (SNCBs) include benefits intended solely for the specific protection of disabled people. SNCBs are not exportable under EU law. This paper asks whether SNCBs discriminate against disabled people exercising their righ... Read More about Free movement and special non-contributory benefits for disabled people: between the devil and the deep blue sea.

Police Officer and Civilian Staff Receptivity to Research and Evidence-Based Policing in the UK: Providing a Contextual Understanding through Qualitative Interviews (2016)
Journal Article
Lumsden, K. (2017). Police Officer and Civilian Staff Receptivity to Research and Evidence-Based Policing in the UK: Providing a Contextual Understanding through Qualitative Interviews. Policing, 11(2), 157–167. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paw036

This paper provides a contextual understanding of police officer and civilian staff receptivity to research and evidence-based policing (EBP) in UK through presentation of findings from qualitative interviews. It focuses on: 1) how officers defined t... Read More about Police Officer and Civilian Staff Receptivity to Research and Evidence-Based Policing in the UK: Providing a Contextual Understanding through Qualitative Interviews.

Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences (2016)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, S. (in press). Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences. Social and Cultural Geography, https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2016.1227872

This paper draws on 12 months of ethnographic research to explore the drinking experiences of young people, aged 15-24, living in the suburban case study locations of Chorlton and Wythenshawe, Manchester, UK. This paper moves beyond the contemporary... Read More about Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences.