Outputs (712)

CoSA in the UK: Assisting reintegration (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A research paper based on recent research funded by the cabinet office on CoSA in the UK

Developing, evidencing and implementing a evidence base for CoSA (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An all day workshop based on recent research funded by the cabinet office on CoSA in the UK as well as other USA/USA research.

Circles of support and accountability: Understanding, comparing & using research (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A research paper based on recent research funded by the cabinet office on CoSA in the UK.

Engaging communities in the integration of those who have committed sexual harms: International reflections, considerations and strategies (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A research paper looking at current thinking and practices around the engagement of communities in preventing sexual harm

Evolution does not mandate revolution: The role of evaluation and developing an evidence base (2016)
Journal Article

Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. Kieran McCartan considers the role of evaluation (e.g., evaluation of a policy, the completion of treatment goals or of a program itself) and where independence sits within it.

Putting prevention into practice: Impacts and implications (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A research paper discussing current approaches to public health interventions in the sexual abuse field.

Governing the injecting drug user: Beyond needle fixation (2012)
Journal Article

This article offers a critical contribution to the debate on a problematic 'type' of injecting drug use referred to as needle fixation. At the heart of this debate, is a questioning of the existence, prevalence and usefulness of the needle fixation c... Read More about Governing the injecting drug user: Beyond needle fixation.

Bisexual women’s experiences of bisexuality and 'biphobia' (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The experience of mothers caring for a child with a brain tumour (2013)
Journal Article

Background: Brain tumours are the second most common form of childhood cancer, accounting for over 20% of all cases in European children. Understanding the impact of diagnosis and treatment of a brain tumour on the family is an essential pre-requisit... Read More about The experience of mothers caring for a child with a brain tumour.

Exploring the role of children and young people as agents of change in sustainable community development (2013)
Journal Article

In 2007, the Department for Children Schools and Families in the UK outlined the Sustainable Schools Strategy setting out an agenda for schools and environmental education. While many schools made advances in their provision of learning for sustainab... Read More about Exploring the role of children and young people as agents of change in sustainable community development.

Reflections on the disclosure of sex offender information in the UK: Practitioner perspectives (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

From poison to problem: Governing the drug using population (2012)
Thesis

Contemporary approaches to the treatment of problematic drug use situate the individual within a complex system of power-relations. This system of power-relations operates through a wide range of experts, techniques, strategies, institutions and subj... Read More about From poison to problem: Governing the drug using population.

The 'Collective Pierre Rivière': Using collective biography and ambling conversational methods to interrogate and re-present pivotal moments from the Pierre Rivière narratives (2012)
Journal Article

Collective biography is a research strategy that works at the level of bodily and emotional knowledge and moves beyond individualized versions of the subject, towards subjects-in-process and subjects-in-relation (Davies and Gannon, 2006). In this pap... Read More about The 'Collective Pierre Rivière': Using collective biography and ambling conversational methods to interrogate and re-present pivotal moments from the Pierre Rivière narratives.

Mobile phone technology and sexual abuse (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

New findings on sexual offenders’ emotional congruence (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Collective rights and personal freedoms: A discursive analysis of participant accounts of authoritarianism (2013)
Journal Article

This article presents a discursive analysis of participant accounts of authoritarianism, with the aim of understanding how participants construct accounts about authority, when, and for what purposes. Participants completed a 30-item Right-Wing Autho... Read More about Collective rights and personal freedoms: A discursive analysis of participant accounts of authoritarianism.

Sex offender public disclosure: Learning from the UK pilots and international research (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Moderated Relationship of Appearance Valence on Appearance Self Consciousness: Development and Testing of New Measures of Appearance Schema Components (2012)
Journal Article

This paper describes the creation and psychometric properties of two independent measures of aspects of appearance schematicity - appearance salience and valence, assessed by the CARSAL and CARVAL, and their relation to appearance self-consciousness.... Read More about The Moderated Relationship of Appearance Valence on Appearance Self Consciousness: Development and Testing of New Measures of Appearance Schema Components.

Mobile phone technology and sexual abuse (2012)
Journal Article

Whilst it is acknowledged that grooming and sexual abuse takes place both in the offline and online environment, the continued convergence of technologies means that the offline and online boundaries are increasingly blurred. This paper will discuss... Read More about Mobile phone technology and sexual abuse.

'Never judge a book by its cover?': students' understandings of lesbian, gay and bisexual appearance (2013)
Journal Article

This research aimed to explore (predominantly heterosexual) students' perceptions of sexuality and appearance. A short qualitative survey, which contained questions about the 'typical appearance' of lesbians, gay men, bisexual and heterosexual people... Read More about 'Never judge a book by its cover?': students' understandings of lesbian, gay and bisexual appearance.