Outputs (621)

A qualitative exploration of whether lesbian and bisexual women are 'protected' from sociocultural pressure to be thin (2014)
Journal Article

Heterosexual women in Western cultures are known to experience body image concerns, dieting and disordered eating as a result of intense social pressures to be thin. However, it is theorised that lesbian and bisexual women belong to a subculture that... Read More about A qualitative exploration of whether lesbian and bisexual women are 'protected' from sociocultural pressure to be thin.

Salience and valence of appearance in a population with a visible difference of appearance: Direct and moderated relationships with self-consciousness, anxiety and depression (2014)
Journal Article

Psychometric measures of appearance salience and valence, CARSAL and CARVAL, have been previously demonstrated to be key factors underpinning appearance related self-consciousness and negative affect in the general population. However, the extent to... Read More about Salience and valence of appearance in a population with a visible difference of appearance: Direct and moderated relationships with self-consciousness, anxiety and depression.

Existence of benefit finding and posttraumatic growth in people treated for head and neck cancer: A systematic review (2014)
Journal Article

Background. The impact of head and neck cancer (HNC) in long-term survivors differs widely among individuals, and a significant number of them suffer from the negative effects of disease, whereas others report significant positive effect. This system... Read More about Existence of benefit finding and posttraumatic growth in people treated for head and neck cancer: A systematic review.

Thematic analysis (2014)
Book Chapter

Thematic analysis (TA) is a method for identifying and interpreting patterns of meaning across qualitative data.

Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA): A case file review of two pilots (2014)
Report

This research summary provides a description of Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA), a community-based initiative that aims to prevent further offending and sexual abuse by sexual offenders.

Youth work (2014)
Book Chapter

This chapter presents the aims and purpose of youth work- what it is, where it happens and who does it. It outlines the roles of youth workers and how they work illustrated with case studies from practice. It offers a flavour of debates and issues fa... Read More about Youth work.

Radical feminists & trans activists truce (2014)
Journal Article

#GenderWeek: Truce! When radical feminists and trans feminists empathise Feminist Times By Finn Mackay read all #GenderWeek articles. We wanted to explore the ground between the polarised, entrenched positions in the so-called “TERF-war”. Radica... Read More about Radical feminists & trans activists truce.

‘It’s worse for women and girls’: Negotiating embodied masculinities through weight-related talk (2014)
Book Chapter

Numerous critical analyses have already established the profoundly gendered nature of normative body ‘ideals’ and weight-management practices in Western cultures. Such studies have, amongst other things, elucidated how body dissatisfaction, ‘dieting’... Read More about ‘It’s worse for women and girls’: Negotiating embodied masculinities through weight-related talk.

How valuable is the concept of resilience in understanding how paramedics 'survive' their work
Thesis

Abstract This study was prompted by the reflective essays submitted by paramedics in which they recounted traumatic experiences from work which seemed unprocessed. I subsequently became interested in how paramedics maintained their resilience and ‘... Read More about How valuable is the concept of resilience in understanding how paramedics 'survive' their work.

Mapping the Routes: An exploration of charges of racism made against the 1970s UK Reclaim the Night marches (2014)
Journal Article

This article addresses early charges of racism, made against the original UK Reclaim the Night (RTN) marches in the 1970s. These charges appear to have stuck, and been accepted almost as a truism ever since, being maintained in several academic texts... Read More about Mapping the Routes: An exploration of charges of racism made against the 1970s UK Reclaim the Night marches.

(Book Review) The politics of sex trafficking: A moral geography, Erin O'Brien, Sharon Hayes, Belinda Carpenter. Palgrave Macmillan (2013), 225, ISBN: 9781137003386 (2014)
Journal Article

Book Review

Britons in Berlin: Imagined cityscapes, affective encounters and the cultivation of the self (2014)
Book Chapter

Restorative justice, community action and public protection (2014)
Book Chapter

Public Engagement and Social Science (2014)
Book

Café Scientifique and the art of engaging publics (2014)
Book Chapter

Dreaming fairness and re-imagining equality and diversity through participative aesthetic inquiry (2014)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2013. This article presents the findings of a participative action research project into how arts-based inquiry can revitalise equality and diversity organisational practices. We demonstrate that the arts-based methodologies introduce... Read More about Dreaming fairness and re-imagining equality and diversity through participative aesthetic inquiry.

A journey to citizenship: Constructions of citizenship and identity in the British Citizenship Test (2014)
Journal Article

The British Citizenship Test was introduced in 2005 as one of a raft of new procedures aimed at addressing the perceived problems of integration and social cohesion in migrant communities. In this study, we argue that this new citizenship procedure s... Read More about A journey to citizenship: Constructions of citizenship and identity in the British Citizenship Test.

Racist hate crime and the mortified self: An ethnographic study of the impact of victimization (2015)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2014. This article provides a unique criminological examination of the social situation of victims of racist hate crime, specifically focusing on the consequences of victimization. Based on observational and interview data gathered ov... Read More about Racist hate crime and the mortified self: An ethnographic study of the impact of victimization.

“Not Hiding, Not Shouting, Just Me”: Gay Men Negotiate Their Visual Identities (2015)
Journal Article

©, © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This study explored how British gay men make sense of their appearance and clothing practices and the pressures and concerns they attend to in discursively negotiating their visual identities. A convenience sample... Read More about “Not Hiding, Not Shouting, Just Me”: Gay Men Negotiate Their Visual Identities.

Non-self-governing territories of the Caribbean and debates over autonomy (2015)
Book Chapter

Nineteen countries in the Caribbean region (from the Cayman Islands in the west to Martinique in the east, and from the Turks and Caicos Islands in the north to French Guiana in the south, plus Bermuda, located in the West Atlantic but often grouped... Read More about Non-self-governing territories of the Caribbean and debates over autonomy.