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Experiences and perceptions of academic motivation in adolescents with a refugee background: A reflexive thematic analysis (2025)
Journal Article

Little previous research exists on academic motivation in refugee adolescents, and none has been conducted in the UK that might help educators to promote motivation and mitigate demotivation in the young people they support. The aim of this study is... Read More about Experiences and perceptions of academic motivation in adolescents with a refugee background: A reflexive thematic analysis.

Final year undergraduate students’ experiences of completing a qualitative psychology dissertation: Implications for teaching and practice (2025)
Journal Article

In recent years qualitative research methods have become increasingly popular amongst students conducting their final year psychology projects. Qualitative research methods offer students the opportunity to conduct innovative and exciting research pr... Read More about Final year undergraduate students’ experiences of completing a qualitative psychology dissertation: Implications for teaching and practice.

“He was very confusing to me in the beginning”: A qualitative exploration of the romantic relationship experiences of neurotypical individuals with autistic partners (2025)
Journal Article

Autistic individuals can struggle with aspects of social interaction, communication and maintaining relationships. Despite this, autistic people are often successful in long-term romantic relationships and can bring qualities others may not. Often, t... Read More about “He was very confusing to me in the beginning”: A qualitative exploration of the romantic relationship experiences of neurotypical individuals with autistic partners.

Intersecting identities in minority-language contexts: LGBTQ+ speakers of Welsh (2024)
Book Chapter

A growing body of work on the experiences of minority-language speakers has focused on the experiences of those with intersecting linguistic identities in navigating their position among the wider minority-language community (e.g. Hornsby & Vigers 20... Read More about Intersecting identities in minority-language contexts: LGBTQ+ speakers of Welsh.

From cognitive processes to discursive practices: Taking a critical discursive psychology approach to refugee and asylum seeker integration (2024)
Journal Article

Much of the research in social and cultural psychology on refugee integration or acculturation has tended to adopt a socio‐cognitive approach which assumes this to be a ‘process’ with a defined outcome that can be measured as successful or not. Such... Read More about From cognitive processes to discursive practices: Taking a critical discursive psychology approach to refugee and asylum seeker integration.

“Context and safety are everything”: Exploring how pansexual individuals mark and express their identity (2024)
Journal Article

Sexuality marking serves to assert one’s sexuality to others. This can be done through language, behavior, esthetics, and/or other non-verbal cues (Morgan & Davis-Delano, 2016). This research explored how individuals who identify as pansexual mark th... Read More about “Context and safety are everything”: Exploring how pansexual individuals mark and express their identity.

"The asylum system is completely broken": An analysis of justifications and resistance for the UK Government's Rwanda policy in parliamentary debates (2024)
Journal Article

In April 2022, the UK government announced the signing of a 'partnership agreement' with the Government of Rwanda in which some asylum seekers who enter the UK would be transported to Rwanda where their cases would be decided. This 'Rwanda policy' ha... Read More about "The asylum system is completely broken": An analysis of justifications and resistance for the UK Government's Rwanda policy in parliamentary debates.

‘So they hit each other’: Gendered constructions of domestic abuse in the YouTube commentary of the Depp v Heard trial (2023)
Journal Article

This study presents a critical discourse analysis of YouTube comments below five videos of the Johnny Depp v Amber Heard trial, which was live streamed by the platform in April and May 2022. The analysis examines the discursive resources used by comm... Read More about ‘So they hit each other’: Gendered constructions of domestic abuse in the YouTube commentary of the Depp v Heard trial.

Developing a sense of belonging among biracial individuals: A case study exploring the social context (2023)
Journal Article

Previous research highlights that biracial people may struggle to fit into their racial groups due to their dual identities. However, much of this research focuses on identity development and a sense of belonging within an educational context. This s... Read More about Developing a sense of belonging among biracial individuals: A case study exploring the social context.

“Just say hi”: Forced migrants’ constructions of local neighbourhoods as spaces of inclusion and exclusion in South Wales (2023)
Journal Article

Integration is often assumed to be a public good and both UK and devolved governments have developed refugee integration strategies to address this aspiration. Within these strategies the development of social bridges with members of the host society... Read More about “Just say hi”: Forced migrants’ constructions of local neighbourhoods as spaces of inclusion and exclusion in South Wales.

Uncertain futures: Perceptions of refugees in a story completion task (2023)
Journal Article

Purpose: In recent years the movement of refugees has led to increasing negative media and political discourse about migration in the United Kingdom, particularly as the number of refugees crossing the English Channel has increased. Despite this host... Read More about Uncertain futures: Perceptions of refugees in a story completion task.

LHDTC+ a'r Gymraeg: Ydy hi'n anodd perthyn i'r ddwy gymuned? (2023)
Digital Artefact

Narratives of coercive precarity experienced by mothers seeking asylum in the UK (Wales) (2022)
Journal Article

This paper explores the impact of the UK’s racialized asylum system on mothers and their children. Asylum-seeking mothers in the UK are treated with hostility and suspicion and prohibited from basic socio-economic rights such as employment yet must a... Read More about Narratives of coercive precarity experienced by mothers seeking asylum in the UK (Wales).

Inhibiting integration and strengthening inequality? The effects of UK policy making on refugees and asylum seekers in Wales (2021)
Journal Article

In 2001, following the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, four towns and cities in Wales became asylum dispersal locations. Whilst immigration and asylum remain matters reserved to the Westminster government, the Welsh Government has devolved responsib... Read More about Inhibiting integration and strengthening inequality? The effects of UK policy making on refugees and asylum seekers in Wales.

Educators of Healthcare Professionals: Agreeing a Shared Purpose (2021)
Book

What do all healthcare educators have in common: what do they do, know and value? This monograph reports on research to establish the views of health professions educators, regulators, learned societies and professional bodies on the shared values an... Read More about Educators of Healthcare Professionals: Agreeing a Shared Purpose.

‘It’s time we invested in stronger borders’: Media representations of refugees crossing the English Channel by boat (2021)
Journal Article

Refugees crossing the Mediterranean Sea in small boats has become a common sight in the media, particularly since the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ in 2015. The number of boats crossing the English Channel between the French and UK coasts has been incre... Read More about ‘It’s time we invested in stronger borders’: Media representations of refugees crossing the English Channel by boat.

Achieving consensus on the values and activities of all healthcare educators: A mixed-methods study (2021)
Journal Article

Background: To facilitate a stronger recognition of the importance of the healthcare educator role and clearer communication regarding IPE, consensus is needed regardingn the values and areas of activity that all healthcare educators share, regardles... Read More about Achieving consensus on the values and activities of all healthcare educators: A mixed-methods study.

‘Just eating and sleeping’: Asylum seekers’ constructions of belonging within a restrictive policy environment (2020)
Journal Article

The ‘refugee crisis’ in Europe has drawn attention to the reasons why people risk desperate journeys to seek safety. However, less research has focussed on what happens to those on the move once they have reached their destination country. In recent... Read More about ‘Just eating and sleeping’: Asylum seekers’ constructions of belonging within a restrictive policy environment.

Improving the quantitative research skills of Welsh Baccalaureate teachers through university engagement (2020)
Journal Article

In 2015 the re-designed Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification (WBQ) was launched and, for the first time, students undertaking the qualification were required to complete the Skills Challenge Certificate (SCC). Consisting of four components: the Individu... Read More about Improving the quantitative research skills of Welsh Baccalaureate teachers through university engagement.

'A proud history of protecting refugees': Ambivalent responses to refugee integration in government policy documents (2019)
Journal Article

In recent years asylum seekers arriving in the United Kingdom have been subject to a 'hostile policy environment' (Zetter et al. 2005) initiated by the UK government consisting of dispersal, destitution and detention. At the same time, the UK governm... Read More about 'A proud history of protecting refugees': Ambivalent responses to refugee integration in government policy documents.