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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.

Uncertainty discourses in the context of climate change: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK national newspaper articles (2016)
Journal Article
Collins, L. C., & Nerlich, B. (2016). Uncertainty discourses in the context of climate change: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK national newspaper articles. Communications, 41(3), https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2016-0009

Uncertainty is intrinsic to science, to knowledge acquisition and risk assessment. When communicating about climate change however, uncertainty can be used and understood as ‘not knowing’, i.e. as ignorance. In this article we aim to understand how ‘... Read More about Uncertainty discourses in the context of climate change: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK national newspaper articles.

Safeguarding people with learning difficulties from forced marriage: the role of safeguarding adult boards (2016)
Journal Article
Clawson, R. (in press). Safeguarding people with learning difficulties from forced marriage: the role of safeguarding adult boards. Journal of Adult Protection, 18(5), https://doi.org/10.1108/JAP-03-2016-0004

Purpose The issue of forced marriage is typically located within debates on violence against women, immigration control and cultural difference and is rarely considered in relation to adults with learning disabilities. The purpose of this paper is t... Read More about Safeguarding people with learning difficulties from forced marriage: the role of safeguarding adult boards.

The double-bind: looked after children, care leavers, and criminal justice (2016)
Book Chapter
Carr, N., & McAlister, S. (2016). The double-bind: looked after children, care leavers, and criminal justice. In P. Mendes, & P. Snow (Eds.), Young people transitioning from care: international research policy and practice. Palgrave Macmillan

Research attention has focused on the reasons that lead young people from care to come into contact with the justice system at higher rates than young people within the general population. Findings from this literature can be distilled into three mai... Read More about The double-bind: looked after children, care leavers, and criminal justice.

The university, democracy and the public sphere (2016)
Journal Article
Holmwood, J. (2017). The university, democracy and the public sphere. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 38(7), 927-942. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2016.1220286

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article takes a historical approach to the rise and fall of the public university, relating its fate to specific developments in public policy. Particular attention will be paid to... Read More about The university, democracy and the public sphere.

Between stigma and pink positivity: women’s perceptions of social interactions during and after breast cancer treatment (2016)
Journal Article
Trusson, D., & Pilnick, A. (2017). Between stigma and pink positivity: women’s perceptions of social interactions during and after breast cancer treatment. Sociology of Health and Illness, 39(3), 458-473. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12486

This study explores women’s perceptions of social interaction during and after their treatment for early stage breast cancer. Analysis of interviews with 24 women between 6 months-29 years post-diagnosis, reveals that interactions can be influenced b... Read More about Between stigma and pink positivity: women’s perceptions of social interactions during and after breast cancer treatment.

Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK (2016)
Journal Article
Thondhlana, J., Madziva, R., & McGrath, S. (in press). Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK. Sociological Review, 64(3), 575-592. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12373

In this paper we focus on highly skilled migration from Zimbabwe to the UK, exploring these migrants’ social capital sources/structures and content. In doing so we pay attention to routes of migration and how they shape migrants’ networking capabilit... Read More about Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK.

Reviewing the epigenetics of schizophrenia (2016)
Journal Article
Cromby, J., Chung, E., Papadopoulos, D., & Talbot, C. (2016). Reviewing the epigenetics of schizophrenia. Journal of Mental Health, 28(1), 71-79. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2016.1207229

Background: Epigenetic research in mental health has grown exponentially during the last decade and holds what some claim are “revolutionary” potentials for the development of new interdisciplinary models of mental ill health. Schizophrenia is the mo... Read More about Reviewing the epigenetics of schizophrenia.

Policing Research and the Rise of the ‘Evidence-Base’: Police Officer and Staff Understandings of Research, its Implementation and ‘What Works’ (2016)
Journal Article
Lumsden, K., & Goode, J. (2018). Policing Research and the Rise of the ‘Evidence-Base’: Police Officer and Staff Understandings of Research, its Implementation and ‘What Works’. Sociology, 52(4), 813-829. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038516664684

Despite the pitfalls identified in previous critiques of the evidence-based practice movement in education, health, medicine and social care, recent years have witnessed its spread to the realm of policing. This article considers the rise of evidence... Read More about Policing Research and the Rise of the ‘Evidence-Base’: Police Officer and Staff Understandings of Research, its Implementation and ‘What Works’.

Work-life balance and class: in search of working class work-lives (2016)
Book Chapter
Warren, T. (2016). Work-life balance and class: in search of working class work-lives. In S. Lewis, D. Anderson, C. Lyonette, N. Payne, & S. Wood (Eds.), Work-life balance in times of recession, austerity and beyond (112-130). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315683263

If we think about the sort of person who is working hard to achieve a balance between their family, personal and working lives, what type of character tends to spring to mind? Might it be a working mum negotiating the demands of child-care and runnin... Read More about Work-life balance and class: in search of working class work-lives.

Using photovoice to include people with profound and multiple learning disabilities in inclusive research (2016)
Journal Article
Cluley, V. (2017). Using photovoice to include people with profound and multiple learning disabilities in inclusive research. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 45(1), 39-46. https://doi.org/10.1111/bld.12174

Accessible summary: Many researches now include people with learning disabilities, which is really positive, but people with profound and multiple learning disabilities are often left out. It is important to include people with profound and multiple... Read More about Using photovoice to include people with profound and multiple learning disabilities in inclusive research.

Making home visits: creativity and the embodied practices of home visiting in social work and child protection (2016)
Journal Article
Ferguson, H. (2018). Making home visits: creativity and the embodied practices of home visiting in social work and child protection. Qualitative Social Work, 17(1), 65-80. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325016656751

Although the home is the most common place where social work goes on, research has largely ignored the home visit. Drawing on a participant observation study of child protection work, this article reveals the complex hidden practices of social work o... Read More about Making home visits: creativity and the embodied practices of home visiting in social work and child protection.

Transnational parenthood and forced migration: the case of asylum-seeking parents who are forcibly separated from their families by immigration laws (2016)
Journal Article
Madziva, R. (2016). Transnational parenthood and forced migration: the case of asylum-seeking parents who are forcibly separated from their families by immigration laws. Families, Relationships and Societies, 5(2), 281-297. https://doi.org/10.1332/204674315X14479281723965

Within transnational studies literature, there is a tendency to assume that migrant parents have ready access to paid work once they arrive in countries of destination, which subsequently enables them to maintain transnational ties with children and... Read More about Transnational parenthood and forced migration: the case of asylum-seeking parents who are forcibly separated from their families by immigration laws.

Individual placement and support (IPS) for patients with offending histories: the IPSOH feasibility cluster randomised trial protocol (2016)
Journal Article
Khalifa, N., Talbot, E., Schneider, J. M., Walker, D., Bates, P., Bird, Y., …Völlm, B. (2016). Individual placement and support (IPS) for patients with offending histories: the IPSOH feasibility cluster randomised trial protocol. BMJ Open, 6(7), Article e012710. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012710

Introduction: People with involvement in forensic psychiatric services face many obstacles to employment, arising from their offending, as well as their mental health problems. This study aims to assess the feasibility of conducting a randomised cont... Read More about Individual placement and support (IPS) for patients with offending histories: the IPSOH feasibility cluster randomised trial protocol.

Effective health care for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review (2016)
Journal Article
Goodman, C., Dening, T., Gordon, A. L., Davies, S. L., Meyer, J., Martin, F. C., …Zubair, M. (in press). Effective health care for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review. BMC Health Services Research, 16(269), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1493-4

Background: Care home residents in England have variable access to health care services. There is currently no coherent policy or consensus about the best arrangements to meet these needs. The purpose of this review was to explore the evidence for ho... Read More about Effective health care for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review.

How children become invisible in child protection work: findings from research into day to day social work practice (2016)
Journal Article
Ferguson, H. (in press). How children become invisible in child protection work: findings from research into day to day social work practice. British Journal of Social Work, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcw065

It is well known that in cases in which abused children have died, social workers and other professionals did not relate to them effectively—the phenomenon now known as the ‘invisible child’. Much less well understood is how often and why such invisi... Read More about How children become invisible in child protection work: findings from research into day to day social work practice.

Organised Crime and Social Media: Detecting and Corroborating Weak Signals of Human Trafficking Online (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Andrews, S., Brewster, B., & Day, T. (2016). Organised Crime and Social Media: Detecting and Corroborating Weak Signals of Human Trafficking Online. In Graph-Based Representation and Reasoning: 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2016, Annecy, France, July 5-7, 2016, Proceedings (137-150). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40985-6_11

This paper describes an approach for detecting the presence or emergence of Organised Crime (OC) signals on Social Media. It shows how words and phrases, used by members of the public in Social Media, can be treated as weak signals of OC, enabling in... Read More about Organised Crime and Social Media: Detecting and Corroborating Weak Signals of Human Trafficking Online.

Challenges Priorities and Policies: Mapping the Research Requirements of Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism Stakeholders (2016)
Book Chapter
Akhgar, B., Wells, D., & Brewster, B. (2016). Challenges Priorities and Policies: Mapping the Research Requirements of Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism Stakeholders. In Combatting Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism: Challenges, Trends and Priorities (39-51). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38930-1_3

The following chapter provides an in depth look at a broad selection challenges related to Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism, as identified through prolonged engagement with a multitude of horizontal and vertical cyber-security stakeholders. Out of six c... Read More about Challenges Priorities and Policies: Mapping the Research Requirements of Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism Stakeholders.