All Outputs (98)

National survey of GUM services on Disclosure of sexual violence In Sexual Health (DISH) (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Healthcare and sexual health have a central role to play in the prevention of Gender Based Violence or Violence Against Women and Girls, particularly on the identification of sexual and domestic violence/abuse. Healthcare should be able to identify s... Read More about National survey of GUM services on Disclosure of sexual violence In Sexual Health (DISH).

Swimming against the tide: Exploring alternative approaches for education (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Drawing on a lens of social justice and critical pedagogy, this workshop aims to unpack the relationship between educational practice and intersectional subjectification.

The impact of Arts on Prescription on individual health and wellbeing: A systematic review with meta-analysis (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Aims of project: The evidence-base for the impact of participating in the arts for health and wellbeing is growing. Arts on Prescription (AoP) has gained recognition as a method for fostering connections among individuals and communities, however, to... Read More about The impact of Arts on Prescription on individual health and wellbeing: A systematic review with meta-analysis.

Silent suffering: The unmet sexual health needs of male sex workers (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Introduction:
The health and wellbeing need of Male Sex Workers (MSWs) are largely informed by misconceptions of sexual labour that drive physical health interventions to focus on perceived needs around sexual health and wellbeing. Findings from th... Read More about Silent suffering: The unmet sexual health needs of male sex workers.

Poverty, class and education (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This conference talk acknowledges the context of a challenging environment for educational systems within and beyond Scotland. It recognises that policymakers, researchers and practitioners are seeking solutions to manage and overcome complex challen... Read More about Poverty, class and education.

Can mindfulness training reduce disordered eating or increase intuitive eating? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background and Aims

Disordered eating is widespread, and further evidence-based interventions are needed to address this. Mindful Eating – Conscious Living™ (ME-CL) is an American 8-week mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) built upon the framewo... Read More about Can mindfulness training reduce disordered eating or increase intuitive eating?.

Art on prescription: Supporting wellbeing in cities (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This talk for the WHO Healthy Cities Network contributed to a webinar on the arts on health in cities. This talk focused on the role of social prescribing, in particular arts on prescription, presenting research based in Bristol on the use of arts on... Read More about Art on prescription: Supporting wellbeing in cities.

Embedding early intervention at the heart of alternative provision (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Embedding Early Intervention at the Heart of Alternative Provision - Opportunities, Challenges and Future Pathways.

Embedding early intervention at the heart of alternative provision (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Key themes discussed:
Embedding Early Intervention at the Heart of Alternative Provision
Delivering early support which is dignified and person-centred
Promoting early intervention through commissioning processes and policies
Reducing the need fo... Read More about Embedding early intervention at the heart of alternative provision.

Attachment-Informed EMDR: A pilot feasibility trial (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

While evidence that EMDR can be an effective treatment for complex trauma is building, as is evidence of the efficacy of online EMDR, more evidence that online EMDR can be effective for those with attachment-based trauma histories is needed. This pi... Read More about Attachment-Informed EMDR: A pilot feasibility trial.

Young people on the margins of school exclusion (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper draws on a qualitative data analysis of the experiences of a small group of so-called ‘hard-to-reach’ disabled young men in Alternative Provisions (APs). Supporting young people has largely focused on the use of professional interventions.... Read More about Young people on the margins of school exclusion.

Criminalisation of solidarity towards migrants in the European Union - Issues, challenges and solutions (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The talk has two objectives. It first explains the process of criminalization of solidarity in the European Union and especially how the law is used as an instrument of securitization and sanction against solidaristic acts. It also provides examples... Read More about Criminalisation of solidarity towards migrants in the European Union - Issues, challenges and solutions.

X: Free speech vs. extreme narratives - sexism and misogyny (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

X: free speech vs. extreme narratives – sexism and misogyny

Since the purchase of Twitter, now ‘X’, by Elon Musk in October 2022, a growing concern has emerged within academic and professional discourse regarding the ‘free speech absolutist’ sta... Read More about X: Free speech vs. extreme narratives - sexism and misogyny.

Seduction, resistance, and the value of the Anvil (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper I sketch my journey of finding Autoethnography and creative-relational inquiry; orientations to scholarship that are so obviously relevant to my home discipline of Counselling Psychology, yet at the same time, so alien and unwelcome. Wh... Read More about Seduction, resistance, and the value of the Anvil.

Challenges to wellbeing amongst clinical academic health professionals (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background:
The Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated the toll on the NHS of a decade of austerity and increasing demand from an aging population with talk of giving attention to staff wellbeing. In the literature, employee wellbeing is clearly recognized... Read More about Challenges to wellbeing amongst clinical academic health professionals.

Chronic post cancer treatment pain – how can we increase unity across pathways? (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background: Chronic post cancer treatment pain is pain that persists or recurs for longer than three months and is caused by surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy . It can occur months or years after cancer treatment has finished. Limited knowl... Read More about Chronic post cancer treatment pain – how can we increase unity across pathways?.

Evaluation of the impacts of patient and public involvement on cancer nursing doctoral study exploring cancer survivors’ experiences of living with chronic post cancer treatment pain (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background. Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) can help shape research. It is important to capture the impacts that PPI have on cancer nursing doctoral research.
Methods: Two Public Contributors, who were cancer survivors living with chronic post... Read More about Evaluation of the impacts of patient and public involvement on cancer nursing doctoral study exploring cancer survivors’ experiences of living with chronic post cancer treatment pain.

The pupil referral unit to prison pipeline (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Both school exclusion, poverty and disability are prospective markers for increased risk of subsequent contact with criminal justice system in general and justice-involved samples. However, relationships between school exclusion and these factors hav... Read More about The pupil referral unit to prison pipeline.

Supporting families to adjust following a dementia diagnosis: Adapting the LivDem intervention (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

“Everyone says that thinking about death is unthinkable. But I think dementia is a bit unthinkable too. How can you think about losing your mind?”​
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A reflexive thematic analysis of adapting the LivDem model of talking about dementia for couples a... Read More about Supporting families to adjust following a dementia diagnosis: Adapting the LivDem intervention.

Playing with metaphors in supervision (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The process of supervising doctoral research students can be overly dry and focused on outputs, lacking a playful focus on the lived experience of the supervisee and the intersubjectivity of the student-supervisor relationship.

While supporting... Read More about Playing with metaphors in supervision.