Outputs (6)

From social justice to social value: The changing fortunes of using public purchasing for social ends (2025)
Journal Article

This aim of this article is to trace the concept of ‘social value’ in public procurement (purchasing by the public sector from private and third sector contractors of goods, services and works) in the UK through four decades of the incorporation of s... Read More about From social justice to social value: The changing fortunes of using public purchasing for social ends.

'It feels like we're out of the rat race': Family reflections on traumatic school experiences leading to home education (2025)
Journal Article

The rise in numbers of children experiencing school attendance difficulties in recent years makes this an important focus for UK school inclusion. Simultaneously, increases in school deregistration in favour of home education have caught media as wel... Read More about 'It feels like we're out of the rat race': Family reflections on traumatic school experiences leading to home education.

"Make sure that everybody feels there is a space for them": Understanding and promoting appearance inclusivity at university (2024)
Journal Article

Appearance concerns are a pervasive issue affecting many university students and contributing to poor psychosocial and academic outcomes. To combat these, action is needed by universities to promote appearance inclusivity. The current study used indu... Read More about "Make sure that everybody feels there is a space for them": Understanding and promoting appearance inclusivity at university.

Demystifying executive function (2024)
Journal Article

Executive function (EF) is an umbrella term for a set of complex and nuanced cognitive processes believed to be uniquely human. EF allows for planning, adaptation and self-regulation to meet personal or imposed goals. It develops from early childhood... Read More about Demystifying executive function.

Transition away from school: A framework to support professional understandings (2023)
Journal Article

The numbers of children with 'special educational needs' deregistering from UK schools to begin home-education has been increasing. This article is based on findings from a survey of 93 families of such children in England, Scotland and Wales conduct... Read More about Transition away from school: A framework to support professional understandings.

Hustling, hybridity and changing attitudes to work in the arts (2022)
Journal Article

For years, entry-level placement schemes have been one of the cultural sector’s main answers to broadening the diversity of organisations and recruiting younger practitioners who may not access positions through standard routes. While unpaid
interns... Read More about Hustling, hybridity and changing attitudes to work in the arts.