All Outputs (14)

Attitudes towards advance care planning amongst community-based older people in England (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Advance care planning has been advocated as a way for people to have their wishes recorded and respected in relation to types of treatment and place of care. However, uptake in England remains low. Aims: To examine the views of older, wel... Read More about Attitudes towards advance care planning amongst community-based older people in England.

End of life choices and storytelling - Exploring preferences and conflicts (2021)
Journal Article

As people are living longer, their needs for health and social care at the end of life (EoL) are increasing. People are encouraged to make choices about their EoL, but doing so is a complex process, and there is currently little research into how—and... Read More about End of life choices and storytelling - Exploring preferences and conflicts.

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.

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.

Digital methods as mainstream methodology (DMMM) (2013)
Journal Article

Formed in 2011 out of a broad commitment to increase the use and understanding of digital methods in meaningful and appropriate ways, the Network aims to: gauge the field,
foster debate, build capacity and highlight innovation in the use of digital... Read More about Digital methods as mainstream methodology (DMMM).

The case for 'everyday politics': Evaluating neo-tribal theory as a way to understand alternative forms of political participation, using electronic dance music culture as an example (2010)
Journal Article

This article argues that youth cultural leisure and consumption practices have the potential to be sites for alternative political participation, an 'everyday politics' that involves a personalizing of politics and an 'aloof ' stance regarding offici... Read More about The case for 'everyday politics': Evaluating neo-tribal theory as a way to understand alternative forms of political participation, using electronic dance music culture as an example.

The 'pleasure citizen': Analyzing partying as a form of social and political participation (2010)
Journal Article

In this article, we explore the potential for leisure as a site for new forms of political participation. Using electronic dance music culture (EDMC) as an example, we locate our analysis within theories of neo-liberalism and neo-tribalism, both of w... Read More about The 'pleasure citizen': Analyzing partying as a form of social and political participation.

Ketamine: The divisive dissociative. A discourse analysis of the constructions of ketamine by participants of a free party (rave) scene (2008)
Journal Article

This article examines the multiple and contradictory understandings that participants of a free party (rave) scene in the South West of England drew upon when talking about ketamine, and the role of these understandings in identity and consumption pr... Read More about Ketamine: The divisive dissociative. A discourse analysis of the constructions of ketamine by participants of a free party (rave) scene.

Rep/hairing the 'natural': Black hair and identity in post apartheid South Africa (2003)
Journal Article