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Sexualized and athletic: Viewers’ attitudes toward sexualized performance images of female athletes (2020)
Journal Article
Daniels, E. A., Hood, A., LaVoi, N. M., & Cooky, C. (2020). Sexualized and athletic: Viewers’ attitudes toward sexualized performance images of female athletes. Sex Roles, 84(1-2), 112-124. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-020-01152-y

Using an experimental methodology, the present study investigated college students’ attitudes toward media images of female athletes. We are particularly focused on how viewers perceive media images of female athletes that have both an appearance and... Read More about Sexualized and athletic: Viewers’ attitudes toward sexualized performance images of female athletes.

Realising victims’ rights to reparation, truth and justice in Guatemala in the midst of a zero-sum game, in reparations, responsibility and victimhood in transitional societies (2020)
Report
Malagon Diaz, L., & Brett, R. (2020). Realising victims’ rights to reparation, truth and justice in Guatemala in the midst of a zero-sum game, in reparations, responsibility and victimhood in transitional societies. Queens University of Belfast

Multiple obligations exist under international law for States to protect human rights and restore or establish peace and stability in the aftermath of mass violence.1 International standards, jurisprudence and doctrine formally obligate states to inv... Read More about Realising victims’ rights to reparation, truth and justice in Guatemala in the midst of a zero-sum game, in reparations, responsibility and victimhood in transitional societies.

Improving the quantitative research skills of Welsh Baccalaureate teachers through university engagement (2020)
Journal Article
Brookfield, C., & Parker, S. (2020). Improving the quantitative research skills of Welsh Baccalaureate teachers through university engagement. Research for All, 4(1), 102-116. https://doi.org/10.18546/rfa.04.1.08

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.

African Folklore and Western education – a globalised approach towards understanding (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Akinwunmi-Othman, M. (2020, January). African Folklore and Western education – a globalised approach towards understanding. Presented at Understanding African Culture and Narratives, Manchester

Storytelling was a medium of education in Africa prior to colonialisation. At the same time, tales could either be drawn from a true-life event, a fantasy, or from proverbial storylines. But its truthfulness or spuriousness was at no time questioned.... Read More about African Folklore and Western education – a globalised approach towards understanding.

'You can't go home until you answer the officers' questions': Police interviewing of vulnerable suspects (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Holmes, J. (2019, September). 'You can't go home until you answer the officers' questions': Police interviewing of vulnerable suspects. Paper presented at 19th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Ghent, Belgium

This paper outlines my PhD study into the police interviewing of vulnerable suspects, within the context of homicide investigations. During such investigations suspects can be detained over several days and interviewed on multiple occasions (Police a... Read More about 'You can't go home until you answer the officers' questions': Police interviewing of vulnerable suspects.

'A proud history of protecting refugees': Ambivalent responses to refugee integration in government policy documents (2019)
Journal Article
Parker, S. (2019). 'A proud history of protecting refugees': Ambivalent responses to refugee integration in government policy documents. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines, 11(1), 20-40

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.

How a photograph of a drowned refugee child turned a migrant crisis into a refugee crisis: A comparative discourse analysis (2018)
Journal Article
Parker, S., Aaheim Naper, A., & Goodman, S. (2018). How a photograph of a drowned refugee child turned a migrant crisis into a refugee crisis: A comparative discourse analysis. for(e)dialogue, 2(1), 12-28. https://doi.org/10.29311/for%28e%29dialogue.v2i1.601

The ‘refugee crisis’ refers to the on-going movement of people crossing into Europe, in which over 3,692 migrants and refugees died in 2015. A key point in this ‘crisis’ was the publishing of photographs of one of the young children who died. Despite... Read More about How a photograph of a drowned refugee child turned a migrant crisis into a refugee crisis: A comparative discourse analysis.

“It's ok if it's hidden”: The discursive construction of everyday racism for refugees and asylum seekers in Wales (2018)
Journal Article
Parker, S. (2018). “It's ok if it's hidden”: The discursive construction of everyday racism for refugees and asylum seekers in Wales. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 28(3), 111-122. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2344

Wales has a long history of migration; however, the introduction of dispersed asylum seekers in 2001 has led to Wales becoming a more superdiverse nation. Wales has often been positioned as a more “tolerant nation” than England; however, the increasi... Read More about “It's ok if it's hidden”: The discursive construction of everyday racism for refugees and asylum seekers in Wales.

Let's improv it: The embodied investigation of social collaboration (2017)
Journal Article
Łucznik, K., Jackson, A., Sakuta, A., & Siarava, E. (2017). Let's improv it: The embodied investigation of social collaboration. Avant-Garde Critical Studies, 8(Specialissue), 301-310. https://doi.org/10.26913/80s02017.0111.0027

How do we share embodied knowledge? How do we understand the world through our bodies? How can we effectively interpret and communicate somatic experiences to a wider audience? These questions emerged during a collaborative research project Let's Imp... Read More about Let's improv it: The embodied investigation of social collaboration.

Parents and children who are estranged in adulthood: A review and discussion of the literature (2017)
Journal Article
Blake, L. (2017). Parents and children who are estranged in adulthood: A review and discussion of the literature. Journal of Family Theory and Review, 9(4), 521-536. https://doi.org/10.1111/jftr.12216

This review article examines what is known about estrangement between parents and adult children in terms of definition, prevalence, causes, and consequences. Estrangement has been defined and conceptualized in different ways, although most definitio... Read More about Parents and children who are estranged in adulthood: A review and discussion of the literature.

Globalization and Africa’s Transition to Constitutional Rule: Socio-Political Developments in Nigeria (2017)
Book
Akinwunmi-Othman, M. N. (2017). Globalization and Africa’s Transition to Constitutional Rule: Socio-Political Developments in Nigeria. (1). USA: Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56035-9

This book contributes to the discourse on post-colonial and globalization theories, focusing on Nigeria’s transition to a federal system of government. The project analyzes 10 years of civil rule in Nigeria, between 1999 and 2009, and its constitutio... Read More about Globalization and Africa’s Transition to Constitutional Rule: Socio-Political Developments in Nigeria.

Avoidable waste in ophthalmic epidemiology: A review of blindness prevalence surveys in low and middle income countries 2000–2014 (2017)
Journal Article
Ramke, J., Kuper, H., Limburg, H., Kinloch, J., Zhu, W., Lansingh, V. C., …Gilbert, C. E. (2018). Avoidable waste in ophthalmic epidemiology: A review of blindness prevalence surveys in low and middle income countries 2000–2014. Ophthalmic Epidemiology, 25(1), 13-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09286586.2017.1328067

Purpose: Sources of avoidable waste in ophthalmic epidemiology include duplication of effort, and survey reports remaining unpublished, gaining publication after a long delay, or being incomplete or of poor quality. The aim of this review was to asse... Read More about Avoidable waste in ophthalmic epidemiology: A review of blindness prevalence surveys in low and middle income countries 2000–2014.

Falling behind: The decline of the rights of asylum seekers in the UK and its impact on their day-to-day lives (2017)
Journal Article
Parker, S. (2017). Falling behind: The decline of the rights of asylum seekers in the UK and its impact on their day-to-day lives. eSharp, 25(1), 83-95

In September 2015 photographs of the body of a young Syrian boy, who had drowned attempting to make the crossing by boat from Turkey to Greece, were published in newspapers around the world. These images led to a rise in public and political sympathy... Read More about Falling behind: The decline of the rights of asylum seekers in the UK and its impact on their day-to-day lives.

Beyond-borders (2017)
Other
Nightingale, A., Goodman, S., & Parker, S. (2017). Beyond-borders. [Newspaper Article]

Alastair Nightingale, Simon Goodman and Sam Parker seek more prominence for psychological perspectives on the refugee crisis in Europe.

Hidden voices. Family estrangement in students (2015)
Report
Blake, L. Hidden voices. Family estrangement in students. Stand Alone

Data is presented from 84 students who completed the Hidden Voices survey that was a collaboration between Stand Alone and the Centre for Family Research at University of Cambridge

'Unwanted invaders': The representation of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK and Australian print media (2015)
Journal Article
Parker, S. (2015). 'Unwanted invaders': The representation of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK and Australian print media. eSharp, 23(1), 1-21

In recent months asylum seekers have once again become front page news in many British newspapers with headlines including: "It"s good but I don"t like the food says asylum seeker: 130 migrants move into top hotel" (Daily Express, 25 th September 201... Read More about 'Unwanted invaders': The representation of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK and Australian print media.

Growing up in New Zealand cohort alignment with all New Zealand births (2014)
Journal Article
Morton, S. M., Ramke, J., Kinloch, J., Grant, C. C., Carr, P. A., Leeson, H., …Robinson, E. (2015). Growing up in New Zealand cohort alignment with all New Zealand births. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 39(1), 82-87. https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12220

Objective: To compare the birth characteristics of the Growing Up in New Zealand cohort with those of all New Zealand (NZ) births over a similar time period, and to describe cohort alignment to current NZ births. Method: The Growing Up in New Zealand... Read More about Growing up in New Zealand cohort alignment with all New Zealand births.

“Basta Ya!”: On the Colombian center for historical memory report (2014)
Report
Malagon Diaz, L. (2014). “Basta Ya!”: On the Colombian center for historical memory report. World Peace Foundation

Steps towards the construction of peace in Colombia? The account of armed conflict that has affected Colombia for more than 50 years still has chapters that are unknown to Colombians and the world. However, the report “Enough Already! Colombia: Me... Read More about “Basta Ya!”: On the Colombian center for historical memory report.