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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.

Optimal healthcare delivery to care homes in the UK: a realist evaluation of what supports effective working to improve healthcare outcomes (2018)
Journal Article
Gordon, A. L., Goodman, C., Davies, S. L., Dening, T., Gage, H., Meyer, J., …Zubair, M. (2018). Optimal healthcare delivery to care homes in the UK: a realist evaluation of what supports effective working to improve healthcare outcomes. Age and Ageing, 47(4), 595-603. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afx195

Introduction: care home residents have high healthcare needs not fully met by prevailing healthcare models. This study explored how healthcare configuration influences resource use. Methods: a realist evaluation using qualitative and quantitative... Read More about Optimal healthcare delivery to care homes in the UK: a realist evaluation of what supports effective working to improve healthcare outcomes.

The discourse of austerity in the British press (2018)
Book Chapter
Grundmann, R., Kreischer, K., & Scott, M. (2018). The discourse of austerity in the British press. In R. Sturm, T. Griebel, & T. Winkelmann (Eds.), Austerity: a journey to an unknown territory: discourses, economics and politics. Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845281728-92

In this paper we analyse the discourse of austerity in British broadsheets. Theoretically, we combine insights from discourse analysis and political science. Methodologically, we present a novel procedure to build and analyse a robust corpus derived... Read More about The discourse of austerity in the British press.

Globalization and gender frontiers (2018)
Book Chapter
SANDY, L. (2018). Globalization and gender frontiers. In A. Farazmand (Ed.), Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer

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.

Lived religion and sexuality: Future directions (2017)
Book Chapter
Page, S. (2017). Lived religion and sexuality: Future directions. In Foundations and Futures in the Sociology of Religion. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315107547

In recent years, concepts such as lived and everyday religion have re-energised how religion is measured, analysed and understood. But although such terminology is readily deployed in contemporary research, there are areas where it has not been so pr... Read More about Lived religion and sexuality: Future directions.

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.

Exploring young adults' faith lives through video diaries: Consent, voice and power (2017)
Book Chapter
Page, S. (2017). Exploring young adults' faith lives through video diaries: Consent, voice and power. In N. Slee, F. Porter, & A. Phillips (Eds.), Researching Female Faith: Qualitative Research Methods. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315185446

In this chapter, the author considers the background literature in relation to feminist approaches to research and visual methods more generally. She reflects on three issues: consent, voice and power/hierarchy, and concentrates on the implications o... Read More about Exploring young adults' faith lives through video diaries: Consent, voice and power.