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Letting Go: How Elites Manage Challenges to Contemporary Slavery (2017)
Book Chapter
Fitzpatrick, A. (2017). Letting Go: How Elites Manage Challenges to Contemporary Slavery. In Contemporary Slavery: Popular Rhetoric and Political Practice (279-300). Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: University of British Columbia, Okanagan

Adolescents’ experiences of living with sickle cell disease: An integrative narrative review of the literature (2017)
Journal Article
Poku, B. A., Caress, A., & Kirk, S. (2018). Adolescents’ experiences of living with sickle cell disease: An integrative narrative review of the literature. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 80, 20-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2017.12.008

Background Sickle Cell Disease is the commonest monogenic haemoglobinopathy worldwide. Living with a long-term condition such as sickle cell disease during adolescence constitutes a significant challenge for the key stakeholders due to the combined... Read More about Adolescents’ experiences of living with sickle cell disease: An integrative narrative review of the literature.

Dancing intercorporeality: a health humanities perspective on dance as a healing art (2017)
Journal Article
Purser, A. C. E. (2019). Dancing intercorporeality: a health humanities perspective on dance as a healing art. Journal of Medical Humanities, 40(2), 253–263. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-017-9502-0

As a contribution to the burgeoning field of health humanities, this paper seeks to explore the power of dance to mitigate human suffering and reacquaint us with what it means to be human through bringing the embodied practice of dance into dialogue... Read More about Dancing intercorporeality: a health humanities perspective on dance as a healing art.

Imagine arts: how the arts can transform care homes (2017)
Journal Article
Broome, E., Schneider, J. M., & Dening, T. (in press). Imagine arts: how the arts can transform care homes. Journal of Dementia Care,

There is a growing body of evidence that demonstrates that the arts have an important role in the care of people with dementia. The Baring Foundation, a UK based organisation which aims to improve the quality of life of those who may be disadvantaged... Read More about Imagine arts: how the arts can transform care homes.

Facilitating Imagine Arts in residential care homes: the artists’ perspectives (2017)
Journal Article
Broome, E., Dening, T., & Schneider, J. M. (2019). Facilitating Imagine Arts in residential care homes: the artists’ perspectives. Arts and Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice, 11(1), 54-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2017.1413399

Background: This study explores factors affecting the successful facilitation of a residential arts programme. The aim was to identify barriers and describe how they could be overcome, this was both formative, to help shape the programme, and summa... Read More about Facilitating Imagine Arts in residential care homes: the artists’ perspectives.

Mapping the role of ‘transnational family habitus’ in the lives of young people and children (2017)
Journal Article
Zontini, E., & Reynolds, T. (2018). Mapping the role of ‘transnational family habitus’ in the lives of young people and children. Global Networks, 18(3), 418-436. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12185

© 2017 Global Networks Partnership & John Wiley & Sons Ltd In this article, we develop the concept of ‘transnational family habitus’ as a theoretical tool for making sense of the ways in which children and young people from a migrant background a... Read More about Mapping the role of ‘transnational family habitus’ in the lives of young people and children.

'Being in your body' and 'Being in the moment': the dancing body-subject and inhabited transcendence (2017)
Journal Article
Purser, A. C. E. (in press). 'Being in your body' and 'Being in the moment': the dancing body-subject and inhabited transcendence. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 45(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/00948705.2017.1408018

Sports studies is currently dominated by the intellectualist approach to understanding skill and expertise, meaning that questions about the phenomenological nature of skilled performance in sport have generally been overshadowed by the emphasis on t... Read More about 'Being in your body' and 'Being in the moment': the dancing body-subject and inhabited transcendence.

Countering Extremism in British Schools?: The Truth about the Birmingham Trojan Horse Affair (2017)
Book
Holmwood, J., & O'Toole, T. (2018). Countering Extremism in British Schools?: The Truth about the Birmingham Trojan Horse Affair. Bristol, UK: Policy Press

In 2014 an investigation into an alleged plot to ‘Islamify’ several state schools in Birmingham began. Known as the ‘Trojan Horse’ affair, this caused a previously highly successful school to be vilified. Holmwood, an expert witness in the profess... Read More about Countering Extremism in British Schools?: The Truth about the Birmingham Trojan Horse Affair.

From “Learning disability to intellectual disability”-Perceptions of the increasing use of the term “intellectual disability” in learning disability policy, research and practice (2017)
Journal Article
Cluley, V. (2018). From “Learning disability to intellectual disability”-Perceptions of the increasing use of the term “intellectual disability” in learning disability policy, research and practice. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 46(1), 24-32. https://doi.org/10.1111/bld.12209

Diluting substantive equality: why the UK government doesn't know if its welfare reforms promote equality (2017)
Book Chapter
Roberts, S. (2017). Diluting substantive equality: why the UK government doesn't know if its welfare reforms promote equality. In D. Fee, & A. Kober-Smith (Eds.), Inequalities in the UK: new discourses, evolutions and actions (167-184). Bingley: Emerald

The UK Coalition government introduced a raft of welfare reforms between 2010-2015. As part of its response to the financial crisis reforms were designed to cut public expenditure on social security and enhance work incentives. Policy makers are requ... Read More about Diluting substantive equality: why the UK government doesn't know if its welfare reforms promote equality.

Optimal NHS service delivery to care homes: a realist evaluation of the features and mechanisms that support effective working for the continuing care of older people in residential settings (2017)
Journal Article
Goodman, C., Davies, S. L., Gordon, A. L., Dening, T., Gage, H., Meyer, J., …Zubair, M. (2017). Optimal NHS service delivery to care homes: a realist evaluation of the features and mechanisms that support effective working for the continuing care of older people in residential settings. Health Services and Delivery Research, 5(29), https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr05290

Background: Care homes are the institutional providers of long-term care for older people. The OPTIMAL study argued that it is probable that there are key activities within different models of health-care provision that are important for residents’ h... Read More about Optimal NHS service delivery to care homes: a realist evaluation of the features and mechanisms that support effective working for the continuing care of older people in residential settings.

‘Like the stranger at a funeral who cries more than the bereaved’: ethical dilemmas in ethnographic research with children (2017)
Journal Article
Okyere, S. (2017). ‘Like the stranger at a funeral who cries more than the bereaved’: ethical dilemmas in ethnographic research with children. Qualitative Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794117743464

This article contributes to debates on the practicality and utility of prior ethical review in ethnography and qualitative research using an ethnography of children’s involvement in artisanal gold mining work in Ghana as a case study. Reflecting on d... Read More about ‘Like the stranger at a funeral who cries more than the bereaved’: ethical dilemmas in ethnographic research with children.

Cyberspace and gay rights in a digital China: queer documentary filmmaking under state censorship (2017)
Journal Article
Shaw, G., & Zhang, X. (in press). Cyberspace and gay rights in a digital China: queer documentary filmmaking under state censorship. China Information, https://doi.org/10.1177/0920203X17734134

Owing to China’s austere censorship regulations on film media, directors of films and documentaries engaging with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender themes have struggled to bring their work to domestic attention. Working outside of the state-fun... Read More about Cyberspace and gay rights in a digital China: queer documentary filmmaking under state censorship.

Inclusionary control? Theorizing the effects of penal voluntary organizations’ work (2017)
Journal Article
Tomczak, P., & Thompson, D. (2019). Inclusionary control? Theorizing the effects of penal voluntary organizations’ work. Theoretical Criminology, 23(1), 4-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480617733724

Recent penal policy developments in many jurisdictions suggest an increasing role for voluntary organizations. Voluntary organizations have long worked alongside penal institutions, but the multifaceted ways their programmes affect (ex-)offenders rem... Read More about Inclusionary control? Theorizing the effects of penal voluntary organizations’ work.

Pre-sentence reports and individualised justice: consistency, temporality and contingency (2017)
Journal Article
Carr, N., & Maguire, N. (2017). Pre-sentence reports and individualised justice: consistency, temporality and contingency. Irish Probation Journal, 14(1),

This paper reports on selected findings from a study on pre-sentence reports (PSRs) in the Republic of Ireland, entitled Individualising Justice: Pre-Sentence Reports in the Republic of Ireland (Maguire and Carr, 2017). The research was commissioned... Read More about Pre-sentence reports and individualised justice: consistency, temporality and contingency.