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How is theory used to understand and inform practice in the alternative provision sector in England: trends, gaps and implications for practice (2024)
Journal Article

This article examines how theory features in the research literatures concerning the English alternative (education) provision (AP) sector. Despite increasing interest over the past decade in how AP can (re)engage school-aged young people in learning... Read More about How is theory used to understand and inform practice in the alternative provision sector in England: trends, gaps and implications for practice.

Differences in audiovisual temporal processing in autistic adults are specific to simultaneity judgments (2024)
Journal Article

Research has shown that children on the autism spectrum and adults with high levels of autistic traits are less sensitive to audiovisual asynchrony compared to their neurotypical peers. However, this evidence has been limited to simultaneity judgment... Read More about Differences in audiovisual temporal processing in autistic adults are specific to simultaneity judgments.

If racism vanished for a day: A billboard (2024)
Physical Artefact

The RESPECT team created a billboard based on the If Racism Vanished for a Day book. Unveiled in St Werburghs, Bristol, the billboard highlights the lived racialised experiences of children, which often go unheard.

The community billboard displays... Read More about If racism vanished for a day: A billboard.

Gaining prescription rights: A qualitative survey mapping the views of UK counselling and clinical psychologists (2024)
Journal Article

Objective: The British Psychological Society (BPS) has been exploring whether its practitioner members are interested in gaining prescription rights for psychiatric drugs and what such a privilege might look like. This qualitative study aimed to surv... Read More about Gaining prescription rights: A qualitative survey mapping the views of UK counselling and clinical psychologists.

“Friends? Supported. Partner? Not so much …”: Women's experiences of friendships, family, and relationships during perimenopause and menopause (2024)
Journal Article

In recent years, there has been increased cultural interest in perimenopause and menopause. The importance of peri/menopause in many women's lives makes this topic particularly pertinent for feminist psychologists. Some feminist scholars have acknowl... Read More about “Friends? Supported. Partner? Not so much …”: Women's experiences of friendships, family, and relationships during perimenopause and menopause.

“I couldn't carry on taking a drug like that”: A qualitative study of patient perspectives on side effects from rheumatology drugs (2024)
Journal Article

Objectives There is growing interest in collecting outcome information directly from patients in clinical trials. This study evaluates what patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) consider important to know about symptomatic side... Read More about “I couldn't carry on taking a drug like that”: A qualitative study of patient perspectives on side effects from rheumatology drugs.

“I don’t think that really any of the symptoms of it are my experience”: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of women who disagree with their diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (2024)
Thesis

Background
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is noted to be a disorder of mood and interaction. This diagnosis is given to more women than men and can be stigmatising, with people being accused of being attention-seeking and manipulative. People... Read More about “I don’t think that really any of the symptoms of it are my experience”: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of women who disagree with their diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder.

A conceptual thematic framework of psychological adjustment in caregivers of children with craniofacial microsomia (2024)
Journal Article

Objective: Children with craniofacial microsomia (CFM) have complex healthcare needs, resulting in evaluations and interventions from infancy onward. Yet, little is understood about families’ treatment experiences or the impact of CFM on caregivers’... Read More about A conceptual thematic framework of psychological adjustment in caregivers of children with craniofacial microsomia.

The LivDem 2023 survey: Facilitator views on benefits and the more active involvement of carers in the Living well with Dementia (LivDem) course (2024)
Journal Article

Introduction. The Living Well with Dementia (LivDem) intervention is an eight-week, group based post-diagnostic course for people living with dementia that aims to facilitate adjustment to the diagnosis. We set out to establish the views of course fa... Read More about The LivDem 2023 survey: Facilitator views on benefits and the more active involvement of carers in the Living well with Dementia (LivDem) course.

Understanding Mental Health Apps: An Applied Psychosocial Perspective (2024)
Book

Offers insight into the power of apps to shape our sense of selves and others.
Looks at the use of mental health applications from a social psychological perspective.
Aims to show how everyday forms of distress are embedded in the use of mental hea... Read More about Understanding Mental Health Apps: An Applied Psychosocial Perspective.

"The asylum system is completely broken": An analysis of justifications and resistance for the UK Government's Rwanda policy in parliamentary debates (2024)
Journal Article

In April 2022, the UK government announced the signing of a 'partnership agreement' with the Government of Rwanda in which some asylum seekers who enter the UK would be transported to Rwanda where their cases would be decided. This 'Rwanda policy' ha... Read More about "The asylum system is completely broken": An analysis of justifications and resistance for the UK Government's Rwanda policy in parliamentary debates.

The play of defences in the climate and ecological emergency: A psychosocial exploration of therapy and eco-activism (2024)
Thesis

Climate psychology is an emerging field of study concerned with the emotional, psychological and social processes that have contributed to the Climate and Ecological Emergency (CEE) and our responses to it. There is a growing interest from the psych... Read More about The play of defences in the climate and ecological emergency: A psychosocial exploration of therapy and eco-activism.

Using fraternity and human dignity to counter the criminalization of solidarity in the European Union (2024)
Journal Article

Over the past decades, a logic of border control and securitization, a combination of legal, political and social elements and factors, has developed in European States. The 2015 migration crisis has only exacerbated this negative approach towards mi... Read More about Using fraternity and human dignity to counter the criminalization of solidarity in the European Union.

A strategic approach to sustainable growth of the psychological professions’ workforce in physical healthcare (2024)
Journal Article

Psychological practice in physical healthcare results in better recovery and outcomes for patients/service users and their families and/or carers. Therefore, psychological professionals working in physical and integrated healthcare are ideally placed... Read More about A strategic approach to sustainable growth of the psychological professions’ workforce in physical healthcare.

Book Review of Interviewing Vulnerable Suspects: Safeguarding the Process by Tudor-Owen, J., van Golde, C., Bull, R., & Gee, D. (2024)
Journal Article

“Securing the state” in post-2011 Tunisia: performativity of the authoritarian neoliberal state (2024)
Journal Article

In this article, I adopt the theoretical lens of authoritarian neoliberalism coupled with the concept of performativity to analyse post-transition Tunisian counterterror politics. In doing so, I argue that “securing the state” from discursively const... Read More about “Securing the state” in post-2011 Tunisia: performativity of the authoritarian neoliberal state.

EM-COGLOAD: An investigation into age and cognitive load detection using eye tracking and deep learning (2024)
Journal Article

Alzheimer's Disease is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease, and is a leading cause of disability among the elderly. Eye movement behaviour demonstrates potential as a non-invasive biomarker for Alzheimer's Disease, with changes detectable at... Read More about EM-COGLOAD: An investigation into age and cognitive load detection using eye tracking and deep learning.

Displacing power for displaced people: The inaccessibility of maternity care for undocumented migrant women in the UK's hostile environment (2024)
Journal Article

As part of the UK’s hostile environment, a range of restrictive social policies have been introduced for undocumented persons, including NHS charging and data-sharing practices. Current policy dictates that all those not “ordinarily resident” within... Read More about Displacing power for displaced people: The inaccessibility of maternity care for undocumented migrant women in the UK's hostile environment.

Talking teaching with criminologists - Podcast BSC LTD 'Pracademics in higher education' with Dr Jill Dealey (2024)
Digital Artefact

In this episode Drs Anne Eason (University of the West of England) and Jill Dealey (University of Portsmouth) discuss 'pracademics': criminal justice practitioners moving into full-time university teaching on both traditional and vocational (police,... Read More about Talking teaching with criminologists - Podcast BSC LTD 'Pracademics in higher education' with Dr Jill Dealey.

The economic and social costs of body dissatisfaction and appearance-based discrimination in the United States (2024)
Journal Article

This study estimated the social and economic costs of body dissatisfaction and appearance-based discrimination (specifically, weight and skin-shade discrimination) in the United States (USA) in the 2019 calendar year. We used a prevalence-based appro... Read More about The economic and social costs of body dissatisfaction and appearance-based discrimination in the United States.