Key stakeholder perspectives on primary care for young people with an eating disorder: A qualitative study (2021)
Journal Article

This paper examines the provision of primary care for young people with an eating disorder within the UK from the perspectives of three key stakeholder groups: young people with an eating disorder, carers of young people with an eating disorder and G... Read More about Key stakeholder perspectives on primary care for young people with an eating disorder: A qualitative study.

Reference and affect: Abstraction in computation and the neurosciences (2020)
Book Chapter

Twenty First Century computational neuroscience and Twenty First Century psychoanalysis have two very different ways of representing the mental life of the subject, each with its own merits and limitations. This paper performs a superimposition of Pe... Read More about Reference and affect: Abstraction in computation and the neurosciences.

Art-science collaboration in an EPSRC/BBSRC-funded synthetic biology UK research centre (2020)
Journal Article

Here I examine the potential for art-science collaborations to be the basis for deliberative discussions on research agendas and direction. Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has become a science policy goal in synthetic biology and several ot... Read More about Art-science collaboration in an EPSRC/BBSRC-funded synthetic biology UK research centre.

Ethics management and responsible research and innovation in the Human Brain Project (2019)
Book Chapter

Responsible research and innovation (RRI) is a key concept in current discourses concerning research governance and policy. The practice of Ethics Management in the European Union (EU) Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Flagship Human Brain Proj... Read More about Ethics management and responsible research and innovation in the Human Brain Project.

Leading ladies: discursive constructions of women leaders in the UK media (2019)
Journal Article

Women continue to be economically disadvantaged and under-represented in positions of power and leadership. A discursive disjunction between cultural and media representations of women and leadership has been implicated in these continuing inequaliti... Read More about Leading ladies: discursive constructions of women leaders in the UK media.

Risk, discretion, accountability and control: Police perceptions of sex offender risk management policy in England and Wales (2019)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2019. This article argues that understanding current approaches to sex offender risk management and its operationalization must account for front line situational decision-making practices and the culture from which they develop and o... Read More about Risk, discretion, accountability and control: Police perceptions of sex offender risk management policy in England and Wales.

‘Synthetic blood’: Entangling politics and biology (2019)
Journal Article

It is increasingly suggested that shortages in the supply chain for human blood could be met by the development of techniques to manufacture human blood ex vivo. These techniques fall broadly under the umbrella of Synthetic Biology. We examine the bi... Read More about ‘Synthetic blood’: Entangling politics and biology.

Risk assessment and management of individuals convicted of a sexual offence in the UK (2018)
Journal Article

The UK has seen changes in sexual abuse policy and practice over the last 10 – 15 years that have been driven by austerity, risk management, public protection and the socio-political climate; these changes have been problematic and challenging as wel... Read More about Risk assessment and management of individuals convicted of a sexual offence in the UK.

The Troubled Families Programme and the Problems of Success (2018)
Journal Article

© 2017 Cambridge University Press. The Troubled Families Programme (TFP) is the latest example of a tradition of family intervention projects (FIPs) for which the evidence basis for success is ambiguous. However, research does suggest that features o... Read More about The Troubled Families Programme and the Problems of Success.

Challenges for police leadership: Identity, experience, legitimacy and direct entry (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, The Author(s). The police service in England and Wales has developed a new approach to police leadership where individuals from outside of the police service can now enter directly to leadership ranks. Previous research identified that office... Read More about Challenges for police leadership: Identity, experience, legitimacy and direct entry.

Police officer attitudes to the practicalities of the sex offenders’ register, ViSOR and Child Sexual Abuse Disclosure Scheme in England and Wales (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers. This paper examines police officer understandings of and attitudes to the sex offenders’ register, Violent and Sex Offenders’ Register (ViSOR) and Child Sexual Offender Disclosure Scheme(CSOD... Read More about Police officer attitudes to the practicalities of the sex offenders’ register, ViSOR and Child Sexual Abuse Disclosure Scheme in England and Wales.

Could a Robot Care? It’s All in the Movement (2017)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, we ask if care robots can care. The standard and indeed intuitive response to such a question is no. This response is premised on the argument that care requires internal cognitive and emotional states that robots lack. We explore ar... Read More about Could a Robot Care? It’s All in the Movement.

Metternich, the gut-brain axis, and the Turing cops: The subjects of posthuman IR (2017)
Book Chapter

Science fiction and science futures: Considering the role of fictions in public engagement and science communication work (2017)
Journal Article

The imagination of possible scientific futures has a colourful history of interaction with scientific research agendas and public expectations. The 2017 annual UK Science in Public conference included a panel discussing this. Emphasizing fiction as a... Read More about Science fiction and science futures: Considering the role of fictions in public engagement and science communication work.

Pentecostal revivalism in the body (2017)
Book Chapter

A contribution to a specialized edited volume considering ways in which the body is important to Pentecostal revivalism both in terms of purity and constraints and disinhibitions. Example of official dogma and instances of revivalism.

Culture(s) of control: Political dynamics in cannabis policy in England & Wales and the Netherlands (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. This paper draws upon an empirical comparative study of policy-making in England & Wales and the Netherlands. Recent changes in cannabis policy prima facie indicate some convergence towards a toughening of approaches, th... Read More about Culture(s) of control: Political dynamics in cannabis policy in England & Wales and the Netherlands.

How low can you go? Bioenactivism, cognitive biology and Umwelt ontology (2016)
Journal Article

The viability of enactivist philosophy in providing descriptions of biological phenomena (bioenactivism) across the phylogenetic spectrum relies in large part on the scalability of its central concepts, i.e. whether they remain operative at varying l... Read More about How low can you go? Bioenactivism, cognitive biology and Umwelt ontology.

Understandings, implications and alternative approaches to the use of the sex offenders register in the UK (2016)
Journal Article

This paper reviews the current position in relation to sex offender registration and community notification in England and Wales. It reports on data collected as part of a wider research project evaluating law enforcement perspectives related to sex... Read More about Understandings, implications and alternative approaches to the use of the sex offenders register in the UK.

The Relationship between the Physical and the Moral in Man (2016)
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Frequently referred to as the 'French Kant', Maine de Biran was dubbed the greatest French metaphysician since Descartes by Henri Bergson. His philosophical vocabulary and key concepts still play an undeniably central role in contemporary continen... Read More about The Relationship between the Physical and the Moral in Man.

Thinking after Europe: Jan Patočka and Politics (2016)
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Jan Patočka, perhaps more so than any other philosopher in the twentieth century, managed to combine intense philosophical insight with a farsighted analysis of the idea and challenges facing Europe as a historical, cultural and political signifier.... Read More about Thinking after Europe: Jan Patočka and Politics.