Outputs (192)

Social supervision, ethics and risk: an evaluation of how ethical frameworks might be applied within the social supervision process (2010)
Journal Article

Service users subject to section 41 of the Mental Health Act 1983 come under the scrutiny of both the mental health and the criminal justice systems. Much of the sociological literature in this area focuses on the growth of risk-related practices in... Read More about Social supervision, ethics and risk: an evaluation of how ethical frameworks might be applied within the social supervision process.

“You can’t be supersized?” – Exploring femininities, body size and control within the obesity terrain (2010)
Book Chapter

Enhanced change detection performance reveals improved strategy use in avid action video game players (2010)
Journal Article

Recent research has shown that avid action video game players (VGPs) outperform non-video game players (NVGPs) on a variety of attentional and perceptual tasks. However, it remains unknown exactly why and how such differences arise; while some prior... Read More about Enhanced change detection performance reveals improved strategy use in avid action video game players.

Institutionalizing undergraduate research: Bottom up, top down and inside out (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Oral Presentation and Facilitated Workshop Session on building grassroots efforts into coordinated, institutionalised research activity for institutional gain and recognition (100 participants)

"Uncool to do sport": A focus group study of adolescent girls' reasons for withdrawing from physical activity (2010)
Journal Article

Objective: The purpose of the current study was to gain a deeper understanding of the reasons that adolescent girls give 1) for ceasing participation in sports and other physical activities and 2) for why they do not participate as much as boys. Meth... Read More about "Uncool to do sport": A focus group study of adolescent girls' reasons for withdrawing from physical activity.

British Association for Psychopharmacology consensus statement on evidence-based treatment of insomnia, parasomnias and circadian rhythm disorders (2010)
Journal Article

Sleep disorders are common in the general population and even more so in clinical practice, yet are relatively poorly understood by doctors and other health care practitioners. These British Association for Psychopharmacology guidelines are designed... Read More about British Association for Psychopharmacology consensus statement on evidence-based treatment of insomnia, parasomnias and circadian rhythm disorders.

Discursive constructions of eating disorders: A story completion task (2010)
Journal Article

Using a post-structualist, discourse analytic framework this study investigates constructions of 'anorexia' and 'bulimia' made by young people. A story completion methodology was employed to allow young people to express their understandings of eatin... Read More about Discursive constructions of eating disorders: A story completion task.

Time spent studying on a pre-registration nursing programme module: An exploratory study and implications for regulation (2010)
Journal Article

European Union (EU) regulations require that university programmes are of specified duration. Additional EU regulations apply specifically to university based nurse education, enacted in the UK by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). However, lit... Read More about Time spent studying on a pre-registration nursing programme module: An exploratory study and implications for regulation.

Does Nature stay what it is? (2010)
Book Chapter

The problem addressed in this paper is twofold. Firstly, what are the implications of a powers metaphysics for materialism? Secondly, assuming power to be an antithetical concept to substance, what becomes of the idea of nature under such a metaphysi... Read More about Does Nature stay what it is?.

Sustainable systems of social care (2010)
Report

This report is the main output from a research project commissioned by the Department of Health through the Social Care Institute for Excellence