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What is open science and why is it important for social science research (2025)
Digital Artefact

Naomi Heffer, PhD, senior lecturer, discusses the importance of open science for social science research, including research reproducibility, enhancing collaboration, and inclusivity in research.

What and where are urban left mayors delivering in England? (2025)
Book Chapter

The chapter explores the delivery and impact of urban left mayors in England, focusing on the mayoralties of London, Bristol, and Greater Manchester. The study provides a comprehensive analysis of the political strategies and policy implementations o... Read More about What and where are urban left mayors delivering in England?.

Joining the dots: Part 2. SEND and AP: Creating a second schooling system (2025)
Journal Article

In the first part of this article published in FORUM 66, 1 (2024), we noted that the English mass state education system, developing over 150 years, had created subsystems for (predominantly disadvantaged) children and/or young people who would not o... Read More about Joining the dots: Part 2. SEND and AP: Creating a second schooling system.

The Chinese-Think Brain Health community intervention for dementia prevention in the UK: From theoretical cultural adaptation to evaluation (2025)
Journal Article

People from different ethnic minorities in the UK are experiencing a steeper increase in dementia diagnosis compared to their white counterparts but are more likely to have a higher risk of dementia, to be diagnosed at a younger age and to die earlie... Read More about The Chinese-Think Brain Health community intervention for dementia prevention in the UK: From theoretical cultural adaptation to evaluation.

The lived experience of HIV anxiety among HIV-negative men in Hong Kong: A reflexive thematic analysis (2025)
Thesis

Data from online discussion forums in China and Hong Kong that focus on the fear of HIV show that citizens of China and Hong Kong are sharing and discussing their fears around contracting HIV when there is no medical evidence of HIV infection. User d... Read More about The lived experience of HIV anxiety among HIV-negative men in Hong Kong: A reflexive thematic analysis.

Behind the badge: Addressing organizational and operational stress in policing mental health (2025)
Journal Article

Police officers in the UK and Ireland experience comparable mental health challenges, largely due to workplace culture and repeated exposure to trauma. Poor management, bullying, and lack of organzational support contribute as much to mental health c... Read More about Behind the badge: Addressing organizational and operational stress in policing mental health.

How police culture impacts mental health: Perspectives from retired police officers (2025)
Journal Article

Take Home Messages

- A ‘macho’ police culture discourages police officers from discussing or seeking help for mental health struggles.

- Although mental health stigma remains prevalent, generational shifts are helping to foster more open and su... Read More about How police culture impacts mental health: Perspectives from retired police officers.

The visible difference parenting toolkit: Development of an ACT-based intervention to improve the wellbeing of parents and caregivers of children with appearance-affecting conditions and injuries (2025)
Journal Article

Objectives: Caregivers of children with appearance-affecting conditions or injuries can experience common psychosocial challenges, regardless of the cause or nature of their child’s visible difference. Despite these common challenges, there is a lack... Read More about The visible difference parenting toolkit: Development of an ACT-based intervention to improve the wellbeing of parents and caregivers of children with appearance-affecting conditions and injuries.

Pain sees no colour: My fear is real! Black women’s experience of pain in childbirth: A qualitative study (2025)
Thesis

This study investigated the childbirth experiences of Black women within the UK healthcare system, focusing on labour pain and the quality of maternity care. Reflective Thematic Analysis (RTA) was used to analyse the data. Semi-structured interviews... Read More about Pain sees no colour: My fear is real! Black women’s experience of pain in childbirth: A qualitative study.

Emotion processing differences in PTSD extend across sensory modalities. EEG evidence (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Individuals with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder show differences in processing of emotional information, including attentional biases towards trauma-/threat-related information. Previous research has relied on visual-only paradigms, but given the mul... Read More about Emotion processing differences in PTSD extend across sensory modalities. EEG evidence.

How is ‘wokeness’ constructed in newspaper articles about British heritage institutions move to be more diverse? (2025)
Journal Article

Increasing use of the term ‘wokeness’ in the UK has arisen from the Black Lives Matter movement that challenges anti-Black racism from police. BLM has led to the challenging of decision-making around how heritage is presented such as the toppling of... Read More about How is ‘wokeness’ constructed in newspaper articles about British heritage institutions move to be more diverse?.

Alternative provision: Who is it really for? (2025)
Newspaper / Magazine

This article examines, in detail, how educational sub-systems have developed, the laments from politicians and the media that ‘the SEND system is broken’, especially through debt, and whether and how the efforts to link SEND and seemingly endless f... Read More about Alternative provision: Who is it really for?.

Exploring participant generated examples of social change: A two-stage, mixed methods, Delphi study (2025)
Journal Article

Many of the critical challenges facing our world, especially concerning the climate and ecological emergencies, require social change. Community psychology has a longstanding relationship with social change, but our focus on it, frameworks around it,... Read More about Exploring participant generated examples of social change: A two-stage, mixed methods, Delphi study.

Embarking on a treatment journey: Experiences of caregivers of young children with craniofacial microsomia (2025)
Journal Article

Caregiver psychosocial adjustment can be impacted by their children’s early treatment for craniofacial microsomia (CFM). A deeper understanding of caregiver early experiences is needed to advance family-centered clinical care. This study aimed to des... Read More about Embarking on a treatment journey: Experiences of caregivers of young children with craniofacial microsomia.

LivDem-Families: Adapting the LivDem group intervention to support families to talk together about dementia (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Body image as a case topic for eliciting sensitive health experiences in men (2025)
Journal Article

Understanding the needs and experiences of men across many areas of health and well-being has been obstructed by an ongoing difficulty for researchers to sufficiently engage men in qualitative health research. To reach novel, broader insights and ide... Read More about Body image as a case topic for eliciting sensitive health experiences in men.

Alternative Provision - research and trends (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Alternative provision (AP) refers to educational settings that serve children and young people who cannot attend mainstream schools due to exclusion, behavioural issues, health needs, or other vulnerabilities. Despite its growing significance in educ... Read More about Alternative Provision - research and trends.

Exploring how entertainment documentaries construct London to account for the residence of the international super-rich in the “hostile environment” for migrants (2025)
Journal Article

Unlike poorer migrant groups, governments offer visa inducements to attract wealthy individuals into a country. However, super-rich migrants’ impact on the UK has been shown to be negative whereas non-super-rich migrants, who are commonly constructed... Read More about Exploring how entertainment documentaries construct London to account for the residence of the international super-rich in the “hostile environment” for migrants.

Attitudes to brain health and dementia amongst the Chinese population living in the UK (2025)
Journal Article

Background: Just under half a million people who identify as Chinese or Chinese-British are living in the UK. Chinese migrants have a distinctive linguistic and cultural heritage and are likely to differ from the wider UK population in their attitude... Read More about Attitudes to brain health and dementia amongst the Chinese population living in the UK.

Achieving real-world impact in psychotherapy research (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Translational research aims to bridge the gap between the researcher’s findings and real-world applications, transforming discoveries into tangible benefits for clients, patients and communities. This structured discussion session will explore strate... Read More about Achieving real-world impact in psychotherapy research.