Outputs (1630)

Rethinking economic growth: The impact of media narratives on inequality, wealth and growth (2025)
Digital Artefact

High levels of inequality are harmful to economic growth (Alesina & Perotti, 1996) yet claims about growth often focus on increases at the ‘top’, which can lead to increased inequality (Phillips, 2020). By exploring how talk about poverty, wealth and... Read More about Rethinking economic growth: The impact of media narratives on inequality, wealth and growth.

The transformative potential of Ricoeur's narrative self (2025)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores how Paul Ricoeur’s concept of narrative identity responds to the problem of identifying a self through change by developing a dynamic concept of the self which is always open to transformation. Ricoeur aims to provide a descript... Read More about The transformative potential of Ricoeur's narrative self.

“I am secretary, therapist, maid, nurse”: A qualitative exploration of lived experiences of caring for a family member with a BPD diagnosis (2025)
Journal Article

Background: Informal caring is an increasingly common phenomenon. Experiences of mental health caring are not well-researched, and few studies focus on experiences of family carers supporting individuals with a Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) d... Read More about “I am secretary, therapist, maid, nurse”: A qualitative exploration of lived experiences of caring for a family member with a BPD diagnosis.

‘Go with the "wave of music" to dive deep’: Exploring perceptions of psychedelic-assisted therapy and the role of music within this practice (2025)
Journal Article

There is increasing interest in psychedelic-assisted therapy (PT) as a mental health intervention; however, there is a long history of stigma associated with psychedelics, which may be a barrier to implementation. For this reason, it is important to... Read More about ‘Go with the "wave of music" to dive deep’: Exploring perceptions of psychedelic-assisted therapy and the role of music within this practice.

Exploring Black women’s experiences in psychotherapeutic training and practice in the UK (2025)
Journal Article

Background: Discussions around racial disparities and injustice have gained increasing prominence in psychotherapy and counselling research. However, research in this area has been criticised for its omission of Black women's experiences, including a... Read More about Exploring Black women’s experiences in psychotherapeutic training and practice in the UK.

“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.

How autonomous are the Crown Dependencies? (2025)
Digital Artefact

This article considers the nature, attributes and limitations of the contemporary constitutional and political relationship between the Crown Dependencies (CDs) (Bailiwick of Jersey, Bailiwick of Guernsey, and Isle of Man) and the UK. Relations have... Read More about How autonomous are the Crown Dependencies?.

Gender under scrutiny – Whose gender? (2025)
Journal Article

This article will argue that there is no war on gender, in the context of the so-called ‘gender wars’. The dominant binary model of gender as male, masculine, heterosexual or female, feminine, heterosexual is not under scrutiny. There is an old and o... Read More about Gender under scrutiny – Whose gender?.

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.

Experimentation in Nietzsche's Dawn (2024)
Book Chapter

In Dawn [D] Nietzsche claims “We are experiments [Experimente]: let us also want to be such!” (D 453). In this chapter, I address the question of what, for Nietzsche, it means to be an experiment. I argue that Nietzsche advocates that we take up an... Read More about Experimentation in Nietzsche's Dawn.

Women’s understandings of name change in mixed-sex civil partnership: Identity, family, and equality (2024)
Journal Article

Surname change for women in Britain remains the norm for those entering mixed-sex marriages. A range of sociological literature considers the implications of this for equality and social change (e.g. Thwaites, 2016; Pilcher, 2017; Carter and Duncan,... Read More about Women’s understandings of name change in mixed-sex civil partnership: Identity, family, and equality.

Queering Feminism (2024)
Book Chapter

In many ways it is not possible to queer feminism, because feminism is already queer. It’s the ‘OQ – the Original Queer’. One school of feminism takes this crown in particular, that is, of course, radical feminism. Want to live communally and smash... Read More about Queering Feminism.

Final year undergraduate students’ experiences of completing a qualitative psychology dissertation: Implications for teaching and practice (2024)
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.

Romantic suffering and morality: Love for Illouz (2024)
Book Chapter

In the sociology of love and romance, love often serves as either a source of salvation or damnation for modern individuals, prompting sociologists to scrutinise society’s moral fabric. Late twentieth-century theorists of individualisation like Bauma... Read More about Romantic suffering and morality: Love for Illouz.

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.

SCOPING REVIEW of international approaches to child sexual abuse and exploitation prevention interventions by law enforcement (2024)
Report

The current scoping review examines law enforcement’s understanding of perspectives on and practices regarding the prevention of child sexual exploitation and abuse (in this report, child sexual exploitation and abuse is referred to as “CSEA”). The p... Read More about SCOPING REVIEW of international approaches to child sexual abuse and exploitation prevention interventions by law enforcement.

Mapping the social reuse of assets confiscated from organized crime (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The ‘social reuse’ of assets confiscated from organised crime groups is a practice gaining increasing influence worldwide. While a precise definition has yet to be established, the broad concept – that of reusing the proceeds of crime for the benefit... Read More about Mapping the social reuse of assets confiscated from organized crime.

Reporting guidelines for qualitative research: A values-based approach (2024)
Journal Article

Evaluative tools for qualitative research need to be developed and designed in a way that allows them to be used by the research community to assess qualitative research on its own terms, and thus strengthen, rather than undermine, research quality.... Read More about Reporting guidelines for qualitative research: A values-based approach.

‘I’m coming out’: The role of music in LGBTQ+ identities (2024)
Journal Article

Research shows that music holds great importance to the LGBTQ+ community. However, only a handful of studies have explored personal and private music consumption and particularly its role in individual identity formation and the coming out process –... Read More about ‘I’m coming out’: The role of music in LGBTQ+ identities.

The qualitative election study of Britain party leader evaluations database, 2010-2019 (2024)
Journal Article

We describe the Qualitative Election Study of Britain (QESB) Party Leader Evaluation Database, a database containing 4,119 words and phrases evaluating British political party leaders. The data were collected during pre-election focus groups and inte... Read More about The qualitative election study of Britain party leader evaluations database, 2010-2019.