Outputs (146)

Beyond the chains that bind: The political crisis of unions in Western Europe (2011)
Journal Article

The dynamics of neo-liberal restructuring have generated serious tensions in the institutional alignments between social democratic political parties and labor unions in Western Europe. This article explores the origins,development and consequences o... Read More about Beyond the chains that bind: The political crisis of unions in Western Europe.

Evaluating the potential of new technological tools for safety critical work (2011)
Journal Article

Defining user requirements of complex human-system interaction technologies and testing the fulfilment of these requirements in the end-product are issues of design practice that are currently not solved in an optimal way. In the current paper severa... Read More about Evaluating the potential of new technological tools for safety critical work.

Public trust and public bodies: The regulation of the use of human tissue for research in the United Kingdom (2011)
Book Chapter

A primary purpose of regulation is to secure public trust. In the United Kingdom in the 1990s public trust in those who procured, stored and used human tissues for research or other purposes was severely damaged following controversies about the rete... Read More about Public trust and public bodies: The regulation of the use of human tissue for research in the United Kingdom.

Using photographs in psychology research on appearance: An exploration of bisexual women’s appearance and visual identity (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Recently there has been an increased interest in visual methodologies within psychology, and this paper reports on the use of photographs within semi-structured qualitative interviews with self-identified bisexual women.

The key aim of using a p... Read More about Using photographs in psychology research on appearance: An exploration of bisexual women’s appearance and visual identity.

Mobile phone technology and sexual abuse (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The management of sexual offenders in the community: Austerity, engagement, interaction and the ‘big society’ (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Propriety, process and purpose: Considerations of the use of the telephone interview method in an educational research study (2011)
Journal Article

While the use of the telephone has increased as a means of collecting research data in a range of areas, there are few examples of studies where telephone interviews have been conducted to collect qualitative data. The field of educational research i... Read More about Propriety, process and purpose: Considerations of the use of the telephone interview method in an educational research study.

Children aged 9-14 living in disadvantaged areas in England: Opportunities and barriers for cycling (2011)
Journal Article

The aim of this paper is to take a holistic perspective to explore levels of cycling and opportunities and barriers to increase children's safer cycling in disadvantaged areas in England. The study was one part of a larger study which explored the fa... Read More about Children aged 9-14 living in disadvantaged areas in England: Opportunities and barriers for cycling.

Patients' experiences of appearance changes following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (2011)
Journal Article

Background: No previous research has explored the impact of the many appearance changes that can occur in patients following bone marrow transplantation (BMT). Objective: This research aimed to explore in depth patients' experiences of appearance cha... Read More about Patients' experiences of appearance changes following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.

Poetry in therapy: An example of group bibliotherapy and therapeutic creative writing with clients with eating disorders (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Purpose: In this paper, the author will describe her experience of setting up a poetry therapy group for inpatient and day patient clients as part of a group therapy programme for clients with eating disorders. In doing so, the paper will provide an... Read More about Poetry in therapy: An example of group bibliotherapy and therapeutic creative writing with clients with eating disorders.