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Becoming known: Disclosure and exposure of (in)visible difference. (2020)
Journal Article

Bodily or physical differences constitute a class of potentially stigmatized characteristics. The existing literature confirms that those with appearance altering or disfiguring conditions (“visible differences”) may experience both felt and enacted... Read More about Becoming known: Disclosure and exposure of (in)visible difference..

Extending the boundaries of political communication: How ideology can be examined in super-rich television documentaries using Discursive Psychology (2020)
Book Chapter

Political communication is not static and takes a range of forms due to technological change requiring researchers to diversify their interests. When examining talk about wealth inequality, focusing on the overtly political is problematic as issues s... Read More about Extending the boundaries of political communication: How ideology can be examined in super-rich television documentaries using Discursive Psychology.

Patients’ experiences of an acceptance and commitment therapy-based approach for psychosocial difficulties relating to an appearance-affecting condition (2020)
Journal Article

Some individuals with appearance-affecting conditions experience psychosocial challenges such as social anxiety and avoidance. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) may offer a suitable approach for these challenges. This qualitative study investig... Read More about Patients’ experiences of an acceptance and commitment therapy-based approach for psychosocial difficulties relating to an appearance-affecting condition.

Symbolic regionalism and European governance: Why Africa is different (2020)
Book Chapter

"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world" (Immanuel Kant).

Husserl’s Timaeus: Plato’s creation myth and the phenomenological concept of metaphysics as the teleological science of the world (2020)
Journal Article

According to Husserl, Plato played a fundamental role in the development of the notion of teleology, so much so that Husserl viewed the myth narrated in the Timaeus as a fundamental stage in the long history that he hoped would eventually lead to a t... Read More about Husserl’s Timaeus: Plato’s creation myth and the phenomenological concept of metaphysics as the teleological science of the world.

'Old Mafia' and 'New Mafia' in the Novels of Saverio Strati, 1957–1977 (2020)
Journal Article

Despite being recognised as Italy’s most powerful mafia, Calabria’s ’ndrangheta has long been dwarfed by its Sicilian and Neapolitan cousins in terms of cultural representations. Such representations, however, though frequently overlooked and ignored... Read More about 'Old Mafia' and 'New Mafia' in the Novels of Saverio Strati, 1957–1977.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 1 (2020)
Journal Article

Predicting future suicide attempts is a challenging area for psychiatrists. Even well-established individual risk factors tend to be quite weak predictors, and most assessment tools have been shown to add little or no value to a comprehensive clinica... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 1.

Nurture commodified? An investigation into commercial human milk supply chains (2020)
Journal Article

The material conditions in which women provide breast milk range widely, on the basis of their class and geographical provenance. The commercialisation of breast milk provision throws up questions related to debates on the transnational reconfigurati... Read More about Nurture commodified? An investigation into commercial human milk supply chains.

An international conversation on disabled children's childhoods: Theory, ethics and methods (2020)
Journal Article

This article brings together members of the International Advisory Committee for the Inclusive Early Childhood Service System (IECSS) project, a longitudinal study of interactions with institutional processes when families have a young child with d... Read More about An international conversation on disabled children's childhoods: Theory, ethics and methods.

Parties, elections, and political maturation in the UK overseas territories (2020)
Book Chapter

A natural experimental study of new walking and cycling infrastructure across the United Kingdom: The Connect2 programme (2020)
Journal Article

Introduction: High quality evaluations of new walking and cycling routes are scarce and understanding contextual mechanisms influencing outcomes is limited. Using different types of data we investigate how context is associated with change in use of... Read More about A natural experimental study of new walking and cycling infrastructure across the United Kingdom: The Connect2 programme.

The securitisation of migration in the European Union: Frontex and its evolving security practices (2020)
Journal Article

This article investigates the evolving security practices of one of the key actors in the handling of asylum-seekers and migrants at the external borders of the European Union (EU) Member States, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, widely ref... Read More about The securitisation of migration in the European Union: Frontex and its evolving security practices.

A qualitative investigation of the barriers and motivators to physical activity in second-generation Indian and Pakistani women (2020)
Thesis

Objective: To investigate second generation south Asian women’s experiences to physical activity, specifically the attitudes, motivations and barriers.

Method: A qualitative methods approach was implemented. Semi-structured interviews were carried... Read More about A qualitative investigation of the barriers and motivators to physical activity in second-generation Indian and Pakistani women.

Anonymity versus advocacy: Challenges and pitfalls of ethical island research (2020)
Journal Article

The purpose of much island research is to advocate for island communities, to encourage island scholarship by islanders themselves, and where that is not possible, to promote the voices of islanders ‘on their own terms’ (Baldacchino, 2008). However,... Read More about Anonymity versus advocacy: Challenges and pitfalls of ethical island research.

Framing the refugee (2020)
Journal Article

'Framing the Refugee' looks at the power of representation of liberal political theory with regard to refugees. In the author's view, legal and political arbitrariness lies in the representing of refugees as lacking agency. His key point is that libe... Read More about Framing the refugee.

Engaging NHS systems leaders in whole systems approaches to physical activity (2020)
Report

Adaptation and validation of the Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire in English among urban Indian adolescents (2020)
Journal Article

Objective: Eating pathology is a salient issue in India, with clinical features reported among adults and adolescents. However, there are currently no validated measures of disordered eating in the Indian context. The present study therefore aimed to... Read More about Adaptation and validation of the Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire in English among urban Indian adolescents.

Happiness around the world: A combined etic-emic approach across 63 countries (2020)
Journal Article

All rights reserved. What does it mean to be happy? The vast majority of cross-cultural studies on happiness have employed a Western-origin, or "WEIRD" measure of happiness that conceptualizes it as a self-centered (or "independent"), high-arousal em... Read More about Happiness around the world: A combined etic-emic approach across 63 countries.

Does latent inhibition underpin creativity, positive schizotypy and anomalous cognition? (2020)
Journal Article

This paper presents two experiments in which an experimental paradigm developed to examine the efficacy of filtering mechanisms of attention, Latent Inhibition (LI), was adapted to include a psi component. LI assesses the processing of irrelevant sti... Read More about Does latent inhibition underpin creativity, positive schizotypy and anomalous cognition?.

Epoché and institution: The fundamental tension in Jan Patočka’s phenomenology (2020)
Journal Article

This article examines the relation between two key, but seemingly opposed concepts in Jan Patočka’s thought: epoché and the concrete institutional polis. In doing so it attempts to elucidate the inextricable relation between phenomenology and politic... Read More about Epoché and institution: The fundamental tension in Jan Patočka’s phenomenology.