Outputs (1604)

Prisoners' human rights in England & Wales: Zigzags, flatlines and missed opportunities (2022)
Book Chapter

The chapter presents and critically reviews the prison policy in England and Wales from 2013 to the present day against the backdrop of the legalisation of prisoners’ human rights and the incorporation of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR... Read More about Prisoners' human rights in England & Wales: Zigzags, flatlines and missed opportunities.

Mothering, caring and educating: Learning from experience and psychosocial pedagogy (2022)
Journal Article

This article takes its starting point from aspects of the author’s biography and her experiences of supervising students who have in common experiences of being so-called ‘parental’ or ‘parentified’ children. Bion’s work and biography are used to und... Read More about Mothering, caring and educating: Learning from experience and psychosocial pedagogy.

The European Union as a Global Counter-Terrorism Actor (2022)
Book

After the death of Osama Bin Laden and the demise of Al Qaeda, the EU is increasingly threatened by new jihadi terrorist groups such as ISIS, as exemplified by recent terror attacks on Paris, Brussels, Nice, Berlin and Manchester. This book investiga... Read More about The European Union as a Global Counter-Terrorism Actor.

Using agent-based modelling to understand crime phenomena (2016)
Book Chapter

Advances in computing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mean that more scientific approaches can now be utilised to understand patterns of crime and their distribution more effectively. These include statistical and mathematical techniques, su... Read More about Using agent-based modelling to understand crime phenomena.

Students’ representations of menopause and perimenopause: Out of control bodies and empathetic expert doctors (2022)
Journal Article

Representations of peri/menopause are influential in relation to how peri/menopause is understood and how peri/menopausal women are perceived, both of which have important implications for health and wellbeing. In this paper, we report results from a... Read More about Students’ representations of menopause and perimenopause: Out of control bodies and empathetic expert doctors.

Towards good practice in thematic analysis: Avoiding common problems and be(com)ing a knowing researcher (2022)
Journal Article

In response to the increasing use of thematic analysis (TA), and particularly the TA approach we have developed, in qualitative and mixed methods research published in IJTH, the editors of the journal have invited us to provide a commentary on good p... Read More about Towards good practice in thematic analysis: Avoiding common problems and be(com)ing a knowing researcher.

Queer (2022)
Journal Article

Finn Mackay reviews the history of queer activism and queer theory, while situating this history in the context of our current fraught political situation.

Desistance, recovery, and justice capital: Putting it all together
Preprint / Working Paper

Ethics and considering the risks of de-sensitization (2023)
Book Chapter

Ethical practice is nothing new for those who work in the criminal justice sector and policing has its own Code of Ethics within which police practice is framed. The ethical practices required by social researchers are of similar ilk, ensuring the re... Read More about Ethics and considering the risks of de-sensitization.

Bridezilla (UK, North America and Australia) (2019)
Digital Artefact

The term bridezilla was coined by Diane White in a 1995 Boston Globe newspaper article to refer to ‘out of control’ brides (Moorhead 2018). The term caught on and has become part of a common wedding language used throughout Anglophone countries. Brid... Read More about Bridezilla (UK, North America and Australia).

Global Politics in a Post-Truth Age (2022)
Book

This book brings together ten chapters that reflect upon the state of global, regional and national politics in the twenty-first century within the context of post-truth. The Oxford Dictionary’s definition of post-truth describes it as circumstances... Read More about Global Politics in a Post-Truth Age.

Telepresence teaching in higher education as a reasonable adjustment: Pilot project report 2022 (2022)
Report

Toilet talk: (Trans) Gendered negotiation of public spaces (2023)
Book Chapter

Public toilet provision in the UK fails to meet the needs of cis women while trans communities are absent from current building regulations. This research explores how individuals negotiate differing positions on toilet provision and accessibility. T... Read More about Toilet talk: (Trans) Gendered negotiation of public spaces.

The Rohingya genocide and southeast Asian responses (2022)
Digital Artefact

International efforts to secure justice and accountability for the alleged genocide against the Rohingya are underway. Southeast Asian states have conspicuously neglected to engage with questions of justice and accountability in their approach to the... Read More about The Rohingya genocide and southeast Asian responses.

Qualitative story completion: A creative and novel method for psychotherapy and counselling psychology research (2023)
Journal Article

Story completion (SC) – where respondents are presented with the start of a story (the story ‘stem’ or ‘cue’) and asked to complete it – originally developed as a projective technique for clinical and research assessment. While SC continues to be use... Read More about Qualitative story completion: A creative and novel method for psychotherapy and counselling psychology research.

Being working class in the academy (2018)
Newspaper / Magazine

While widening access is high on universities’ agendas at undergraduate level, class barriers still prevail in the academy. Here, five working-class scholars describe their experiences of ‘otherness’

Doing reflexive thematic analysis (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter presents the essentials of conceptualising, designing and doing reflexive Thematic Analysis (TA), in counselling and psychotherapy. The authors contextualise TA as a family of methods, with some quite radically different approaches, rang... Read More about Doing reflexive thematic analysis.

Once upon a time...Qualitative story completion methods (2017)
Book Chapter

First paragraph of / introduction to chapter: This chapter introduces the story completion (SC) method of collecting qualitative data, a novel technique that offers intriguing potential to the qualitative researcher. Since the method is new to quali... Read More about Once upon a time...Qualitative story completion methods.

Is thematic analysis used well in health psychology? A critical review of published research, with recommendations for quality practice and reporting (2023)
Journal Article

Despite the persistent dominance of a ‘scientific psychology’ paradigm in health psychology, the use of qualitative research continues to grow. Qualitative approaches are often based on fundamentally different values from (post)positivistempiricism,... Read More about Is thematic analysis used well in health psychology? A critical review of published research, with recommendations for quality practice and reporting.

‘Thematic analysis has travelled to places that we’ve never heard of’: Astrid Coxon meets Victoria Clarke and Virginia Braun, to hear about using thematic analysis (2021)
Journal Article

Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke first wrote about thematic analysis – a technique for analysing qualitative data – in 2006, in a paper entitled Using Thematic Analysis in Psychology. Thematic analysis focuses on exploring patterning and meaning in... Read More about ‘Thematic analysis has travelled to places that we’ve never heard of’: Astrid Coxon meets Victoria Clarke and Virginia Braun, to hear about using thematic analysis.