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Using thematic analysis in counselling and psychotherapy research: A critical reflection (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy In this brief commentary, we critically reflect on the use of thematic analysis, and particularly the approach to thematic analysis we have outlined, in counselling and psychotherapy resear... Read More about Using thematic analysis in counselling and psychotherapy research: A critical reflection.

Ethics and Issues of Secondary Prevention Efforts in Child Sexual Abuse (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, The Author(s). This article discusses the ethical, practical, and moral issues surrounding secondary prevention efforts of child sexual abuse from a professional and practice-based perspective. Transcripts of a semistructured consultation eve... Read More about Ethics and Issues of Secondary Prevention Efforts in Child Sexual Abuse.

Climate change and global displacement (2018)
Book Chapter

With the numbers of people displaced by climate-change related disasters predicted to be in the many millions, this chapter examines the possible frameworks that could offer those displaced some form of protection, as at present they fall outside the... Read More about Climate change and global displacement.

Presentation notes for the postgraduate students panel of ukcge annual conference 2018: postgraduate students perspectives of diversity & inclusivity (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The notes were made for my presentation on the panel of postgraduate students at the UK Council for Graduate Education's annual conference in 2018.

Reporting guidelines for qualitative research: A values-based approach (2024)
Journal Article

Evaluative tools for qualitative research need to be developed and designed in a way that allows them to be used by the research community to assess qualitative research on its own terms, and thus strengthen, rather than undermine, research quality.... Read More about Reporting guidelines for qualitative research: A values-based approach.

Editorial introduction to the special issue: Using story completion methods in qualitative research (2019)
Journal Article

What is story completion? How come I’ve never heard of it? Can it be useful for me as a qualitative researcher? A relatively unknown method for qualitative data collection, story completion has a long history of use in psychotherapy practice and (qua... Read More about Editorial introduction to the special issue: Using story completion methods in qualitative research.

The citizen and trust in the (trustworthy) state (2018)
Thesis

Public sector modernisation has focused on achieving greater efficiency within the institutions and agencies of the state. In comparison the relationship between citizen and state as a basis for service improvement has received less attention. This s... Read More about The citizen and trust in the (trustworthy) state.

Why marry? Understanding marriage in modern Britain (2018)
Journal Article

In the early 1990s Anthony Giddens proposed that major changes in working life, equal rights and globalisation trends had impacted significantly on the ways in which men and women relate to each other in their personal lives (Giddens 1992). This brea... Read More about Why marry? Understanding marriage in modern Britain.

Raising children without gender stereotypes (2018)
Digital Artefact

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.

Foreword
Book Chapter

Foreword for Social Dreaming book

Thoughts and feelings about climate change: An in-depth investigation
Thesis

This thesis is based on the hypothesis that little is being done to address the problems of climate change and that this is widely denied. It provides a qualitative investigation of thoughts and feelings about climate change and the environment from... Read More about Thoughts and feelings about climate change: An in-depth investigation.

When the personal becomes research: Reflections on fieldwork in Kashmir (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Fieldwork is a personal and embodied act. Intersectional positionalities of gender, race, class, and location inform the relationship between the researcher and participants in the field. This relationship is not necessarily constituted by the binari... Read More about When the personal becomes research: Reflections on fieldwork in Kashmir.

Mixed-sex civil partnerships: Developing a morality of love (2023)
Journal Article

Civil partnerships were extended to mixed-sex couples in England and Wales at the end of 2019, shortly followed by Northern Ireland (2020) and Scotland (2021). Since then, thousands of mixed-sex couples have entered a civil partnership. While civil p... Read More about Mixed-sex civil partnerships: Developing a morality of love.

Feminist perspectives on Kashmir (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Panel at Feministisk Festival, Malmö

Introduction to the special issue: International approaches to sex offender risk assessment and management (2018)
Journal Article

This is an introduction to a special edition of "Sex Offender Treatment" on international approaches to sex offender risk assessment and management.

Risk assessment and management of perpetrators of sexual abuse in New Zealand (2018)
Journal Article

New Zealand has seen changes in sexual abuse policy and practice over the last 10 – 15 years that have been driven by social factors, political and policy decisions as well as risk management concerns. The changes to the prevention, assessment and ma... Read More about Risk assessment and management of perpetrators of sexual abuse in New Zealand.

The reluctant realist: Jimmy Carter and Iran (2018)
Book Chapter

By assessing Carter’s approach to Iran through a realist lens, it becomes clear that, despite an overall expectation that he would reduce arms sales, his grander ambitions for arms limitation would be doomed. Consequently, Carter’s Iran policy, rathe... Read More about The reluctant realist: Jimmy Carter and Iran.

Oběť jako politický problém: Jan Patočka a sociologie posvátna (2018)
Journal Article

The question arising from this article regards the meaning of sacrifice within the frame of Jan Patočka's philosophy. Is human sacrifice aimed at reinforcing an institution or state of things as in the case of the Unknown Soldier narrative, or is it... Read More about Oběť jako politický problém: Jan Patočka a sociologie posvátna.

Understanding former heroin users' experience of change: An interpretative phenomenological analysis (2018)
Thesis

This study aimed to explore the experiences of those who have been involved in change from problematic heroin use and how they have made sense out of their experiences. Seven participants, who had been abstinent from heroin for a minimum of two year... Read More about Understanding former heroin users' experience of change: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.

Counter-terrorism Cooperation (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines how the EU has attempted to develop counter-terrorism cooperation with its Eastern and Southern partners and which results it has achieved in practice. It starts by locating counter-terrorism in the broader context of the EU’s s... Read More about Counter-terrorism Cooperation.