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The impact of the built environment on health: An evidence review (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Ige, J., Pilkington, P., Black, D., & Prestwood, E. (2017, October). The impact of the built environment on health: An evidence review. Presented at Healthy City Design International, London, England

As part of the Wellcome Trust-funded UPSTREAM project, a systematic review compiled evidence investigating the impact on health and wellbeing of five thematic areas of urban development design: transport, buildings, food, natural environment, and nei... Read More about The impact of the built environment on health: An evidence review.

‘Everyone assumes a man to be quite strong’: Men, masculinity and rheumatoid arthritis: A case-study approach (2017)
Journal Article
Kirwan, J., Rodham, K., White, A., Noddings, R., Flurey, C. A., & Hewlett, S. (2018). ‘Everyone assumes a man to be quite strong’: Men, masculinity and rheumatoid arthritis: A case-study approach. Sociology of Health and Illness, 40(1), 115-129. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12628

© 2017 The Authors. Sociology of Health & Illness published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Foundation for SHIL. Current literature has overlooked the impact of chronic illness on masculine identity. We therefore aimed to investigate the im... Read More about ‘Everyone assumes a man to be quite strong’: Men, masculinity and rheumatoid arthritis: A case-study approach.

Post-surgical cliff after bariatric surgery: Accounts of patients and their healthcare practitioners (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Jumbe, S., Meyrick, J., & Harcourt, D. (2017, October). Post-surgical cliff after bariatric surgery: Accounts of patients and their healthcare practitioners. Paper presented at Qualitative Health Research Conference 2017, Quebec, Canada

The superiority of bariatric surgery for improving medical outcomes in severely obese individuals when compared to other weight loss interventions remains undisputed. However, knowledge about the psychological impact of the procedure on people’s live... Read More about Post-surgical cliff after bariatric surgery: Accounts of patients and their healthcare practitioners.

Pluralism in Counseling Practice and Research: a call for reflection (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Fragkiadaki, E. (2017, October). Pluralism in Counseling Practice and Research: a call for reflection. Presented at European Branch of the American Counseling Association Annual Conference, Athens, Greece

Multicultural considerations in mental health service provision is now a necessity. In light of modern technologies and travelling means, as well as social and global events, people of the world are moving constantly. Adding to this mobility, minorit... Read More about Pluralism in Counseling Practice and Research: a call for reflection.

Book review: Jodi Dean, Crowds and Party; Donatella della Porta et al, Movement Parties against Austerity; Richard Seymour, Corbyn (2017)
Journal Article
Mathers, A. (2017). Book review: Jodi Dean, Crowds and Party; Donatella della Porta et al, Movement Parties against Austerity; Richard Seymour, Corbyn. Interface, 9(2), 389-444

The crisis of neoliberalism and the associated austerity politics generated a global wave of protests which in turn has produced a renewed interest amongst activists and academics for political parties as means of expressing social movements and addr... Read More about Book review: Jodi Dean, Crowds and Party; Donatella della Porta et al, Movement Parties against Austerity; Richard Seymour, Corbyn.

Bariatric surgery and body image: A complex relationship in an obesogenic world (2017)
Journal Article
Hamlet, C. (2017). Bariatric surgery and body image: A complex relationship in an obesogenic world. Journal of Aesthetic Nursing, 6(8), 429-431. https://doi.org/10.12968/joan.2017.6.8.429

Bariatric surgery is increasingly being declared as a potential solution to our growing obesity epidemic. However, research tends to focus on the medical benefits of the procedure and little is known about its psychological impact on factors such as... Read More about Bariatric surgery and body image: A complex relationship in an obesogenic world.

A study protocol of the effectiveness of PEGASUS: A multi-centred study comparing an intervention to promote shared decision making about breast reconstruction with treatment as usual (2017)
Journal Article
Harcourt, D., Paraskeva, N., White, P., Powell, J., & Clarke, A. (2017). A study protocol of the effectiveness of PEGASUS: A multi-centred study comparing an intervention to promote shared decision making about breast reconstruction with treatment as usual. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 17(1), 143. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-017-0543-0

© 2017 The Author(s). Background: Increasingly, women elect breast reconstruction after mastectomy. However, their expectations of surgery are often not met, and dissatisfaction with outcome and ongoing psychosocial concerns and distress are common.... Read More about A study protocol of the effectiveness of PEGASUS: A multi-centred study comparing an intervention to promote shared decision making about breast reconstruction with treatment as usual.

‘That boy needs therapy’: Constructions of psychotherapy in popular song lyrics (2017)
Journal Article
Hadjiosif, M., & Coyle, A. (2017). ‘That boy needs therapy’: Constructions of psychotherapy in popular song lyrics. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 19(4), 357-377. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2017.1386223

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Despite a plethora of academic and clinical descriptions of psychotherapy, less research attention has been focused on the ways in which psychotherapy is talked about and represented in... Read More about ‘That boy needs therapy’: Constructions of psychotherapy in popular song lyrics.

Once upon a time...Qualitative story completion methods (2017)
Book Chapter
Clarke, V., Hayfield, N., Moller, N., Tischner, I., & The Story Completion Research Group. (2017). Once upon a time...Qualitative story completion methods. In V. Braun, V. Clarke, & D. Gray (Eds.), Collecting Qualitative Data: A Practical Guide to Textual, Media and Virtual Techniques (45-70). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

First paragraph of / introduction to chapter: This chapter introduces the story completion (SC) method of collecting qualitative data, a novel technique that offers intriguing potential to the qualitative researcher. Since the method is new to quali... Read More about Once upon a time...Qualitative story completion methods.

Preface (2017)
Book Chapter
Kemshall, H., & McCartan, K. (2017). Preface. In H. Kemshall, & K. McCartan (Eds.), Contemporary Sex Offender Risk Management. London: Palgrave Macmillan

A preface to the book explaining and drawing it all together.

Food for life: Evaluation of the impact of the Hospital Food Programme in England using a case study approach (2017)
Journal Article
Gray, S., Orme, J., Pitt, H., & Jones, M. (2017). Food for life: Evaluation of the impact of the Hospital Food Programme in England using a case study approach. JRSM Open, 8(10), 205427041771270. https://doi.org/10.1177/2054270417712703

Objectives To evaluate the impact and challenges of implementing a Food for Life approach within three pilot NHS sites in 2014/2015 in England. Food for Life is an initiative led by the Soil Association, a non-governmental organisation in the UK tha... Read More about Food for life: Evaluation of the impact of the Hospital Food Programme in England using a case study approach.

Could a Robot Care? It’s All in the Movement (2017)
Book Chapter
Meacham, D., & Studley, M. (2017). Could a Robot Care? It’s All in the Movement. In P. Lin, K. Abney, & R. Jenkins (Eds.), In Robot Ethics 2.0: From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190652951.003.0007

In this chapter, we ask if care robots can care. The standard and indeed intuitive response to such a question is no. This response is premised on the argument that care requires internal cognitive and emotional states that robots lack. We explore ar... Read More about Could a Robot Care? It’s All in the Movement.

A longitudinal study of families formed through reproductive donation: Parent-adolescent relationships and adolescent adjustment at age 14 (2017)
Journal Article
Golombok, S., Ilioi, E., Blake, L., Roman, G., & Jadva, V. (2017). A longitudinal study of families formed through reproductive donation: Parent-adolescent relationships and adolescent adjustment at age 14. Developmental Psychology, 53(10), 1966-1977. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000372

The aim of the 6th phase of this longitudinal study was to establish whether children born through assisted reproduction involving reproductive donation were at risk for psychological problems following the transition to adolescence at age 14 and, if... Read More about A longitudinal study of families formed through reproductive donation: Parent-adolescent relationships and adolescent adjustment at age 14.

Embracing social responsibilities through local leadership: Comparing the experience of the mayors of Bristol and Liverpool (2017)
Book Chapter
Ismail, N. (2017). Embracing social responsibilities through local leadership: Comparing the experience of the mayors of Bristol and Liverpool. In D. Sweeting (Ed.), Directly Elected Mayors in Urban Governance (85-100). Bristol: Policy Press

This chapter analyses the extent to which the notion of social responsibility through leadership has been embraced by Bristol and Liverpool mayors, as the only elected mayors in England’s core cities, operationalised through the broad framing princip... Read More about Embracing social responsibilities through local leadership: Comparing the experience of the mayors of Bristol and Liverpool.

Does funded research reflect the priorities of people living with type 1 diabetes? A secondary analysis of research questions (2017)
Journal Article
Boddy, K., Cowan, K., Gibson, A., & Britten, N. (2017). Does funded research reflect the priorities of people living with type 1 diabetes? A secondary analysis of research questions. BMJ Open, 7(9), Article e016540. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016540

© Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. Objectives This study explored the divergence and convergence between funded research about type 1 diabetes and the research agenda of people living w... Read More about Does funded research reflect the priorities of people living with type 1 diabetes? A secondary analysis of research questions.

Spatial planning for health: An evidence resource for planning and designing healthy places (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Pinto, A., Bird, E., Ige, J., Burgess-Allen, J., & Pilkington, P. (2017, September). Spatial planning for health: An evidence resource for planning and designing healthy places. Paper presented at 14th International Conference on Urban Health. Health Equity: The New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals, Coimbra, Portugal

Introduction: There is considerable debate about the strength and quality of the evidence base which underpins principles of good design of the lived environment and the causal pathways to good mental and physical health. In England, there has been n... Read More about Spatial planning for health: An evidence resource for planning and designing healthy places.

Do casual gaming environments evoke stereotype threat? Examining the effects of explicit priming and avatar gender (2017)
Journal Article
Kaye, L. K., Pennington, C., & McCann, J. J. (2018). Do casual gaming environments evoke stereotype threat? Examining the effects of explicit priming and avatar gender. Computers in Human Behavior, 78, 142-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.09.031

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Despite relatively equal participation rates between females and males in casual gaming, females often report stigmatisation and prejudice towards their gaming competency within this sub-domain. Applying the theoretical framework... Read More about Do casual gaming environments evoke stereotype threat? Examining the effects of explicit priming and avatar gender.

Coping strategies, psychological impact, and support preferences of men with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A multicenter survey (2017)
Journal Article
Flurey, C. A., Hewlett, S., Rodham, K., White, A., Noddings, R., & Kirwan, J. (2018). Coping strategies, psychological impact, and support preferences of men with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A multicenter survey. Arthritis Care and Research, 70(6), 851-860. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.23422

© 2017 The Authors. Arthritis Care & Research published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American College of Rheumatology. Objective: To investigate the existence and distribution of 2 typologies (termed “factors”) of men with rheumatoid... Read More about Coping strategies, psychological impact, and support preferences of men with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A multicenter survey.