Outputs (25)

Academics’ perceptions and experiences of working with students with mental health problems: Insights from across the UK higher education sector (2020)
Journal Article

Mental health problems (MHPs) amongst university students are increasing in the UK and internationally. Academic staff have a potentially important role in supporting students with MHPs, but the literature indicates that most lack the knowledge and s... Read More about Academics’ perceptions and experiences of working with students with mental health problems: Insights from across the UK higher education sector.

Public responses to volunteer community care: Propositions for old age and end of life (2019)
Journal Article

Background
Funding shortages and an ageing population have increased pressures on state or insurance funded end of life care for older people. Across the world, policy debate has arisen about the potential role volunteers can play, working alongside... Read More about Public responses to volunteer community care: Propositions for old age and end of life.

Youth engagement with alcohol brands in the UK (2017)
Report

Report from Cancer Research UK, University of the West of England and University of Stirling which explores how young people engage with alcohol brands

A content analysis of thinspiration, fitspiration, and bonespiration imagery on social media (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The Author(s). Background: On social media, images such as thinspiration, fitspiration, and bonespiration, are shared to inspire certain body ideals. Previous research has demonstrated that exposure to these groups of content is associated wit... Read More about A content analysis of thinspiration, fitspiration, and bonespiration imagery on social media.

Adolescent self-harm in the community: An update on prevalence using a self-report survey of adolescents aged 13-18 in England (2017)
Journal Article

© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Public Health. All rights reserved. Background To establish an estimate of prevalence in a nationally representative sample of community adolescents. To examine associati... Read More about Adolescent self-harm in the community: An update on prevalence using a self-report survey of adolescents aged 13-18 in England.

Socio-spatial authenticity at co-created music festivals (2017)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Authors From the early days of hippie counter-culture, music festivals have been an important part of the British summer. Today they are commercialised offerings without the counter-cultural discourse of earlier times. Drawing on participa... Read More about Socio-spatial authenticity at co-created music festivals.

‘We achieve the impossible’: Discourses of freedom and escape at music festivals and free parties (2016)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2016. In this article, we explore the notion of freedom as a form of governance within contemporary consumer culture in a sphere where ‘freedom’ appears as a key component: outdoor music-based leisure events, notably music festivals a... Read More about ‘We achieve the impossible’: Discourses of freedom and escape at music festivals and free parties.

Crossing into the digital realm (2015)
Journal Article

This article reports on a discussion with a group of qualitative researchers working with digital and online research. The conversation took as its starting point the social and technological changes that make distinctions between on and offline selv... Read More about Crossing into the digital realm.

A panel-based prevalence study of self-reported self-harm in adolescents aged 13-18 in England (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Festivals 2.0: Consuming, producing and participating in the extended festival experience (2014)
Book Chapter