Outputs (846)

WTAF is intersectionality? (2013)
Journal Article

What on earth does the term intersectionality mean, where does it come from and what can we do with it?

Unscripted and Improvised: Public and Private Celebrations of Same-Sex Relationships (2013)
Journal Article

This article explores how 22 British same-sex couples define and make meaning of the notion of relationship celebrations. Drawing on interview data from a wider study of same-sex relational practices, we explore the participants' varied experiences o... Read More about Unscripted and Improvised: Public and Private Celebrations of Same-Sex Relationships.

UK counselling psychology training placements: Where are we now? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Quality training placements are crucial to delivering quality learning and teaching and to producing professional practitioner psychologists. However, accessing high-quality placements remains a struggle for trainee counselling psychologists, and the... Read More about UK counselling psychology training placements: Where are we now?.

Understanding sex offender disclosure, restorative justice and reintegration in the UK: Practitioner, policymaker and academic perspectives (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Speculative and critical realism (2013)
Journal Article

This is a contribution to the debate on speculative realism deriving from the book The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism, eds Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek and Graham Harman (Melbourne: re.press, 2011). It is also in part a response t... Read More about Speculative and critical realism.

Resisting and conforming to the 'Lesbian Look': The importance of appearance norms for lesbian and bisexual women (2014)
Journal Article

Appearance is one way in which lesbian and bisexual identities and affiliation to lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) subculture can be demonstrated. 'Butch' and 'androgynous' styles have been used by lesbian women to communicate a non-heterosexual identity... Read More about Resisting and conforming to the 'Lesbian Look': The importance of appearance norms for lesbian and bisexual women.

A clean bill of health? The efficacy of an NHS commissioned outsourced police custody healthcare service (2013)
Journal Article

Police custody healthcare services for detainees in the UK are most commonly outsourced to independent healthcare providers who employ custody nurses and forensic physicians to deliver forensic healthcare services. A pilot was introduced in 2008 by t... Read More about A clean bill of health? The efficacy of an NHS commissioned outsourced police custody healthcare service.

Engaging communities and service users: Context, themes and methods (2013)
Book

This book explores structures, processes, theories and practices of engagement and participation with communities, groups and individuals in a diverse range of UK and international settings. Its reader-friendly approach uses activities and practice... Read More about Engaging communities and service users: Context, themes and methods.

Disabled children's childhood studies: Critical approaches in a global context (2013)
Book

Disabled children's childhood studies: Alternative relations and forms of authority? (2013)
Book Chapter

Visible lesbians and invisible bisexuals: Appearance and visual identities among bisexual women (2013)
Journal Article

A number of feminist scholars have argued that dress and appearance can be used to critique the dominant culture and explore alternative subjectivities. Research on non-heterosexual visual identities has explored the role that appearance and clothing... Read More about Visible lesbians and invisible bisexuals: Appearance and visual identities among bisexual women.

The curious absence of love stories in women's talk (2013)
Journal Article

Sociological debate has dealt with love in a number of different ways. For some, love offers a unique opportunity; it is a path to salvation (Jackson, 1993; Langford, 1999). Others, however, take a more sceptical approach to love in modern society: f... Read More about The curious absence of love stories in women's talk.

Readiness for practice: social work students' perspectives in England, Italy, and Sweden (2013)
Journal Article

The aim of this article is to present the views of social work students from three different welfare regimes-Italy, Sweden, and England-and to analyze in what way at the end of their training they feel ready to practice. Primarily, it considers the f... Read More about Readiness for practice: social work students' perspectives in England, Italy, and Sweden.

Have mandate, will travel: The developing roles of the councillor above and below the council house (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The modern councillor lives in an era of complex local governance operating in multiple arenas and networks rather than purely through old-style national/local government structures. The Localism Act (2011) offers no respite from the challenges to th... Read More about Have mandate, will travel: The developing roles of the councillor above and below the council house.

Sex offender public disclosure learning from the UK pilots and international research (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Narratives in/of translations: A trialogue on translating narratives cross-culturally (2013)
Journal Article

Three authors, from different cultural contexts and research fields, engage in atrialogue,interrogating three stages of research—formulation of research protocol, field work,and data analysis—in order to explore some of the complexities of... Read More about Narratives in/of translations: A trialogue on translating narratives cross-culturally.

Appearance distress and dysfunction in the elderly: International contrasts across italy and the UK using DAS59 (2013)
Journal Article

Background: As the global population grows, the percentage of those over 60 will escalate disproportionately. Their needs will become an ever more dominant feature of public policy and healthcare provision. Older adults' appearance is often removed f... Read More about Appearance distress and dysfunction in the elderly: International contrasts across italy and the UK using DAS59.

Evaluating circles of support and accountability: Developing good practice? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper will draw on a recent study for the MoJ and present an in depth case analysis methodology for examining the usefulness of circles to offender management and reintegration.  The paper will present a case audit tool, and examine whether appr... Read More about Evaluating circles of support and accountability: Developing good practice?.

Negotiating equality in the equality act 2010 (United Kingdom): Church-state relations in a post-Christian society (2013)
Journal Article

Few recent legislative enactments in the United Kingdom have wrought so much controversy as the Equality Act 2010. The far-ranging legislation, aiming to enhance civil rights and social inclusion, provides a unique opportunity to analyze how equality... Read More about Negotiating equality in the equality act 2010 (United Kingdom): Church-state relations in a post-Christian society.

The punitive-social action paradox (2013)
Journal Article