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Falling for fake news: Investigating the consumption of news via social media (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Flintham, M., Karner, C., Creswick, H., Bachour, K., Gupta, N., & Moran, S. (2018). Falling for fake news: Investigating the consumption of news via social media. In CHI '18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1–10). https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173950

In the so called ‘post-truth’ era, characterized by a loss of public trust in various institutions, and the rise of ‘fake news’ disseminated via the internet and social media, individuals may face uncertainty about the veracity of information availab... Read More about Falling for fake news: Investigating the consumption of news via social media.

Outcomes of mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in adults with diabetes: a systematic review (2018)
Journal Article
Mason, J., Meal, A., Shaw, I., & Adams, G. G. (in press). Outcomes of mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in adults with diabetes: a systematic review. Journal of Diabetes and Treatment, 2018(2), https://doi.org/10.29011/2574-7568.000049

Objectives: Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a global and progressive chronic medical condition with increasing prevalence and associated costs throughout the world. Psychological problems are common in people with DM and when they co-occur are associated w... Read More about Outcomes of mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in adults with diabetes: a systematic review.

Facilitation of positive social interaction through visual art in dementia: a case study using videoanalysis (2018)
Journal Article
Schneider, J., Hazel, S., Morgner, C., & Dening, T. (2018). Facilitation of positive social interaction through visual art in dementia: a case study using videoanalysis. Ageing and Society, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X1800020X

The aims of this exploratory study were: to investigate the process of visual art appreciation in a person with dementia, in real time; and to test the feasibility of using videoanalysis as a method to explore this process by and with a person who ha... Read More about Facilitation of positive social interaction through visual art in dementia: a case study using videoanalysis.

Response to complexity: survivors of domestic abuse with “complex needs”: research summary report for Nottinghamshire Office of Police and Crime Commissioners’ Women’s Safety Reference Group (2018)
Book
Harris, L. Response to complexity: survivors of domestic abuse with “complex needs”: research summary report for Nottinghamshire Office of Police and Crime Commissioners’ Women’s Safety Reference Group. University of Nottingham

This report was presented to the Safety for Women Reference Group of The Nottinghamshire Office of Police and Crime Commissioner. The report summarises the author’s body of research exploring the experience of survivors of domestic abuse accessing se... Read More about Response to complexity: survivors of domestic abuse with “complex needs”: research summary report for Nottinghamshire Office of Police and Crime Commissioners’ Women’s Safety Reference Group.

Market-based low carbon retrofit in social housing: insights from Greater Manchester (2018)
Journal Article
Cauvain, J., Karvonen, A., & Petrova, S. (2018). Market-based low carbon retrofit in social housing: insights from Greater Manchester. Journal of Urban Affairs, 40(17), 937-951. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2018.1439340

In recent years, social housing providers in the UK have become influential actors in realising the national government’s decarbonisation agenda. However, when decarbonisation is considered in light of austerity measures and privatisation of public h... Read More about Market-based low carbon retrofit in social housing: insights from Greater Manchester.

Doing patient-centredness versus achieving public health targets: a critical review of interactional dilemmas in ART adherence support (2018)
Journal Article
De Kok, B., Widdicombe, S., Pilnick, A., & Laurier, E. (2018). Doing patient-centredness versus achieving public health targets: a critical review of interactional dilemmas in ART adherence support. Social Science and Medicine, 205, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.03.030

Anti-retroviral Therapy (ART) transformed HIV into a chronic disease but its individual and public health benefits depend on high levels of adherence. The large and rising number of people on ART, now also used as prevention, puts considerable strain... Read More about Doing patient-centredness versus achieving public health targets: a critical review of interactional dilemmas in ART adherence support.

Civil and social death: criminal background and the loss of the self (2018)
Book Chapter
HENLEY, A. (2018). Civil and social death: criminal background and the loss of the self. In S. Read, S. Santatzoglou, & A. Wrigley (Eds.), Loss, dying and bereavement in the criminal justice system (76-84). Abingdon: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

In this chapter I offer an alternative perspective to the themes of ‘dying’, ‘loss’ and bereavement’ within criminal justice and explore the relationships which exist between social practices of punishment and the status or positioning of former lawb... Read More about Civil and social death: criminal background and the loss of the self.

Among the piranhas: the troubling lifespan of ethnic tropes in “tribal” tourism to Vietnam (2018)
Journal Article
Bott, E. (2018). Among the piranhas: the troubling lifespan of ethnic tropes in “tribal” tourism to Vietnam. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 26(8), 1291-1307. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2018.1435669

This article presents findings from mixed-method research into ethnic tourism in Vietnam. Drawing on critical discourse analysis and ethnographic research carried out in Sapa, northern Vietnam, the article examines how minority Indigenous groups are... Read More about Among the piranhas: the troubling lifespan of ethnic tropes in “tribal” tourism to Vietnam.

Where did the marginal land go? Farmers perspectives on marginal land and its implications for adoption of dedicated energy crops (2018)
Journal Article
Helliwell, R. (2018). Where did the marginal land go? Farmers perspectives on marginal land and its implications for adoption of dedicated energy crops. Energy Policy, 117, 166-172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.03.011

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Dedicated energy crops such as miscanthus and short rotation coppice willow were expected by UK policy and academic modelling to be deployed across large swaths of UK marginal lands in response to farm and market level incentives,... Read More about Where did the marginal land go? Farmers perspectives on marginal land and its implications for adoption of dedicated energy crops.

Education and the alterity of democracy (2018)
Journal Article
Stevenson, N. (2018). Education and the alterity of democracy. Cadernos de Pesquisa, 48(167), https://doi.org/10.1590/198053144668

The idea of a democratic education in the English context has lost a considerable amount of ground since the 1960s. Here I argue that such is the dominance of neoliberal understandings of education over the Right and much of the social democratic Lef... Read More about Education and the alterity of democracy.

Skilled migrant African women of faith and diaspora investment (2018)
Book Chapter
Thondhlana, J., & Madziva, R. (2018). Skilled migrant African women of faith and diaspora investment. In D. Hack-Polay, & J. Siwale (Eds.), African diaspora direct investment: establishing the economic and socio-cultural rationale. Palgrave Macmillan

Insurgent posthumanism (2018)
Book
PAPADOPOULOS, D. (2018). Insurgent posthumanism. In Posthuman glossary, 204-207. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

Capoeira for beginners: self-benefit for, and community action by, new Capoeiristas (2018)
Journal Article
Jordan, M., Wright, E. J., Purser, A., Grundy, A., Joyes, E., Wright, N., …Manning, N. (2018). Capoeira for beginners: self-benefit for, and community action by, new Capoeiristas. Sport, Education and Society, 24(7), 756-769. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2018.1441145

Capoeira could be defined as a Brazilian martial art and game to be played. This research explored how capoeira play might be considered to facilitate connectedness amongst newly-recruited persons, plus any other ramifications of capoeira involvement... Read More about Capoeira for beginners: self-benefit for, and community action by, new Capoeiristas.

What Does It Mean To Be a Progressive Intellectual after the Refugee Crisis in Europe? A Dialogue with Tariq Ramadan (2018)
Book Chapter
Hashemi, M. (2018). What Does It Mean To Be a Progressive Intellectual after the Refugee Crisis in Europe? A Dialogue with Tariq Ramadan. In U. Schmiedel, & G. Smith (Eds.), Religion in the European Refugee Crisis (281-296). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67961-7_15

This chapter examines the idea of progressivism in the context of the current refugee crisis in Europe. By investigating a variety of the progressive frameworks for the inclusion and the integration of Muslim minorities into European society, Morteza... Read More about What Does It Mean To Be a Progressive Intellectual after the Refugee Crisis in Europe? A Dialogue with Tariq Ramadan.

Gentlemen, heroes, real men, disabled men: explorations at the intersections of disability and masculinity in contemporary China (2018)
Journal Article
Dauncey, S. (2018). Gentlemen, heroes, real men, disabled men: explorations at the intersections of disability and masculinity in contemporary China. NAN Nü, 19(2), https://doi.org/10.1163/15685268-00192P05

This article advances new perspectives on disability culture in contemporary China. Using gender – specifically masculinity – as an “intersection,” it addresses key questions that both help to explain, but also further trouble, the way in which the “... Read More about Gentlemen, heroes, real men, disabled men: explorations at the intersections of disability and masculinity in contemporary China.

Human Trafficking on the Global Periphery: A Terrible Spectacle (2018)
Book Chapter
Sandy, L. (2018). Human Trafficking on the Global Periphery: A Terrible Spectacle. In K. Carrington, R. Hogg, J. Scott, & M. Sozzo (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South (347-367). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65021-0_18

In mainstream criminological research, human trafficking has been constructed as a form of transnational organized crime, with the institutionalization of this approach reflected in international criminal law. Based on ethnographic research and secon... Read More about Human Trafficking on the Global Periphery: A Terrible Spectacle.

Colonialism, Postcolonialism and the Liberal Welfare State (2018)
Journal Article
Bhambra, G. K., & Holmwood, J. (2018). Colonialism, Postcolonialism and the Liberal Welfare State. New Political Economy, 23(5), 574-587. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2017.1417369

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article addresses the colonial and racial origins of the welfare state with a particular emphasis on the liberal welfare state of the USA and UK. Both are understood in term... Read More about Colonialism, Postcolonialism and the Liberal Welfare State.