Outputs (191)

It's not just about the profits: Privatisation, social enterprise and the 'John Lewis' prison: J M Moore and David Scott argue that the proposed Transitions prison represents 'old wine in new bottles' (2012)
Journal Article

Prisons in contemporary Britain are highly problematic institutions. From the outside we can see they are struggling to cope with rapidly increasing prison populations largely made up of the most social excluded members of our society, who on their r... Read More about It's not just about the profits: Privatisation, social enterprise and the 'John Lewis' prison: J M Moore and David Scott argue that the proposed Transitions prison represents 'old wine in new bottles'.

"I'd be just as happy with a cup of tea": Women's accounts of sex and affection in long-term heterosexual relationships (2012)
Journal Article

This article reports a feminist analysis of interview data with 10 British women, in which they discuss sex and affection in their heterosexual relationships. We explore the popular cultural notion that women lack sexual desire and are more concerned... Read More about "I'd be just as happy with a cup of tea": Women's accounts of sex and affection in long-term heterosexual relationships.

Out of confusion as the way is....Dylan Thomas (2012)
Journal Article

Editorial

Mindful maths: Reducing the impact of stereotype threat through a mindfulness exercise (2012)
Journal Article

Individuals who experience stereotype threat - the pressure resulting from social comparisons that are perceived as unfavourable - show performance decrements across a wide range of tasks. One account of this effect is that the cognitive pressure tri... Read More about Mindful maths: Reducing the impact of stereotype threat through a mindfulness exercise.

Making people appy (2012)
Journal Article

This article reflects on the use of mobile phones to support self-help for anxiety. It draws on the experience of developing a prototype phone app for social anxiety in learning situations. Psychological and therapeutic factors are considered in rel... Read More about Making people appy.

Self-esteem and body dissatisfaction in young children: Associations with weight and perceived parenting style (2012)
Journal Article

Background: Parenting style has been associated with weight-related outcomes in children, but relationships between parenting, weight, and overweight-related psychological outcomes remain largely unstudied. The aim of the present study was to determi... Read More about Self-esteem and body dissatisfaction in young children: Associations with weight and perceived parenting style.

The Turks and Caicos Islands: Why does the cloud still hang? (2012)
Journal Article

This paper considers the report of the 2009 UK government-appointed Commission of Inquiry into corruption in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), and draws comparisons with a similar Commission of Inquiry undertaken in 1986. The paper evaluates the ch... Read More about The Turks and Caicos Islands: Why does the cloud still hang?.

Neoliberal Globalization and Trade Unionism: Toward Radical Political Unionism? (2012)
Journal Article

This article revisits the question of changing forms of trade unionism within the context of neoliberal globalization. While broadly accepting the argument that globalization might encourage the development of more radical forms of unionism as surviv... Read More about Neoliberal Globalization and Trade Unionism: Toward Radical Political Unionism?.

Anomalistic psychology (2012)
Book

Uma Proposta De Prevenção Nos Maus-tratos à Criança - Actas Congresso Psicologia da Saude (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution