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Gender Wars (2023)
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Interview with Finn Mackay, Senior Lecturer, UWE, Bristol in Channel 4 documentary 'Gender Wars'.

The Rohingya genocide and southeast Asian responses (2022)
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International efforts to secure justice and accountability for the alleged genocide against the Rohingya are underway. Southeast Asian states have conspicuously neglected to engage with questions of justice and accountability in their approach to the... Read More about The Rohingya genocide and southeast Asian responses.

Project your daughters? Why not educate your sons? (2022)
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Key overview piece for Prof Michael Floods (Queensland University Austraila) online resource around sexual violence prevention and men. www.XYonline.net

"The politics of gender and identity": Finn Mackay in conversation with Jana Bacevic (2022)
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Can we find a way through and even around the messy gender wars currently raging on- and offline? In this wide-ranging and timely conversation with Jana Bacevic, sociologist and activist Finn Mackay provides important theoretical background and conte... Read More about "The politics of gender and identity": Finn Mackay in conversation with Jana Bacevic.

The Bristol referendum 2022: Thinking through the options (2022)
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This short article outlines the differences between the mayoral model of decision-making (in which citizens directly elect the city leader) and the committee system of decision-making (in which elected councillors choose who will be the leader of the... Read More about The Bristol referendum 2022: Thinking through the options.

Dare (2021)
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Synopsis
14 year old Jess is excited when Jake asks her out after a game of Dare one day after school. However, Jake has a particular plan in mind which will change her feelings for him and her approach to relationships forever.
'Dare' is a 15 mi... Read More about Dare.

Falkland Islands: 40 years on (2021)
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2022 marks the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War, an event which still shapes many people’s view of the islands. However, the Falkland Islands has, over the past 40 years, looked outward to assume a role of strategic significance as the ‘gateway... Read More about Falkland Islands: 40 years on.

Using the experience sampling method to examine the impact of the arts for health (2021)
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Dr. Nicola Holt, Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, discusses using the experience sampling method to examine the impact of the arts for health, including study design, ethical considerations, data collection and analysis, and... Read More about Using the experience sampling method to examine the impact of the arts for health.

Challenging conversations with Geraldine Strathdee: Human Factors: Are we forgetting the human? (2021)
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As we push ahead with developing advanced mental health care systems, we remind ourselves that those at the core of the system remain the ‘only human’ workforce, patients, families, and carers.

This month we bring together professional experts in... Read More about Challenging conversations with Geraldine Strathdee: Human Factors: Are we forgetting the human?.

Tips on writing a qualitative dissertation or thesis, from Braun & Clarke – Part 1 (2021)
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Our advice here relates to many forms of qualitative research, and particularly to research involving the use of thematic analysis (TA).

Based on our experience of supervising students over two decades, as well as our writing on qualitative metho... Read More about Tips on writing a qualitative dissertation or thesis, from Braun & Clarke – Part 1.

Wellbeing vox pop (2021)
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Wellbeing vox pop brings together a range of Artists and UWE Bristol academics drawn from different disciplines who were invited to respond to the subject of wellbeing during the start of 2021. Contributions include: Jessie Edwards-Thomas, Raquel Mes... Read More about Wellbeing vox pop.

Understanding the fight over trans rights – part 2 (2020)
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Joining Anushka Asthana to discuss the issue are the feminist author Finn Mackay, who believes that while feminist divisions over trans rights are not new, they need not be inevitable, and Kathleen Stock, a philosophy professor who describes herself... Read More about Understanding the fight over trans rights – part 2.

Kaleidoscope Live! (2020)
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Three psychiatrists and a psychologist walk into a pub (or, in these unprecedented times, a Zoom meeting)….to talk science! Kaleidoscope Live takes you behind the scenes of the monthly British Journal of Psychiatry column of the same name. It’s four... Read More about Kaleidoscope Live!.

Covid-19 has highlighted the inadequate, and unequal, access to high quality green spaces (2020)
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Covid-19 has highlighted the inadequate, and unequal, access to high quality green spaces. This article highlights the need to recognise the essential role that green space and nature plays in sustaining health and well being, and argues that invest... Read More about Covid-19 has highlighted the inadequate, and unequal, access to high quality green spaces.

Interview with Dr Finn Mackay for The Sociology Show (2020)
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In this episode, Matthew talks to Dr Finn Mackay from UWE Bristol about her book entitled 'Radical Feminism: Feminist activism in movement'. Finn explains the 4 main components of Radical Feminism and some of the misconceptions about the movement too... Read More about Interview with Dr Finn Mackay for The Sociology Show.

Bridezilla (UK, North America and Australia) (2019)
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The term bridezilla was coined by Diane White in a 1995 Boston Globe newspaper article to refer to ‘out of control’ brides (Moorhead 2018). The term caught on and has become part of a common wedding language used throughout Anglophone countries. Brid... Read More about Bridezilla (UK, North America and Australia).

Raising children without gender stereotypes (2018)
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By Dr Finn Mackay, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England

You can now download, display and consult your very own guide to raising children without gender stereotypes, all in an A3 poster! The 20 tips introduced on t... Read More about Raising children without gender stereotypes.

Antipsychotic effectiveness: The numbers don’t lie, check the scoreboard (2018)
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A review and examination of the implications of Leucht S, Leucht C, Huhn M, Chaimani A, Mavridis D, Helfer B, Samara M, Rabaioli M, Bächer S, Cipriani A, Geddes JR, Salanti G, Davis JM. Sixty years of placebo-controlled antipsychotic drug trials in a... Read More about Antipsychotic effectiveness: The numbers don’t lie, check the scoreboard.

Help the parents, help the child: Developing support for parents of burn-injured children (2018)
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Article written for The Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Newsletter.

https://www.acamh.org/journal/acamh-newsletter/help-parents-help-child-developing-support-parents-burn-injured-children/?utm_content=buffera447b&utm_medium=socia... Read More about Help the parents, help the child: Developing support for parents of burn-injured children.

Impunity, the postcolony and the promise of justice (2017)
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‘Impunity’ figures in 9 out of 10 lists of the biggest difficulties faced by societies in the so called Third World. Ask anyone for a quick synthesis of the ‘problem’ with African, Asian, Latin American countries and impunity – the absence of punishm... Read More about Impunity, the postcolony and the promise of justice.