The paradigm shift: Training a diverse group of non-professionals to deliver behaviour change with clients
(2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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The Patient Advice and Liaison Service as a catalyst for change: Myths and realities of the implementation of the NHS user involvement agenda (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Private passions, the public good and public service reform (2006)
Journal Article
There has been considerable recent discussion of the impact of public service reforms on the work ethics and motivations of public service workers. In this article we draw upon recent research on the ethical dilemmas facing regeneration workers in or... Read More about Private passions, the public good and public service reform.
The obsession with outputs: Over regulation and the impact on the emotional identities of public service professionals (2006)
Journal Article
This paper draws upon research on the ways in which public service professionals working with disadvantaged communities, manage the ethical dilemmas and emotional tensions experienced in role. We view the public sphere as a dilemmatic space and the e... Read More about The obsession with outputs: Over regulation and the impact on the emotional identities of public service professionals.
A new approach to prison public health? Challenging and advancing the agenda for prison health (2006)
Journal Article
This paper explores recent developments in prison public health, recommending that future prison health policies and practices become more 'upstream' in their outlook and approach. It is argued that this will require much firmer acknowledgement of th... Read More about A new approach to prison public health? Challenging and advancing the agenda for prison health.
Using thematic analysis in psychology (2006)
Journal Article
Thematic analysis is a poorly demarcated, rarely acknowledged, yet widely used qualitative analytic method within psychology. In this paper, we argue that it offers an accessible and theoretically flexible approach to analysing qualitative data. We o... Read More about Using thematic analysis in psychology.
Guest editorial: UKPHA mini symposium (2006)
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Rethinking participation and childhood in the context of communities and everyday life (2006)
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Music and healing in cancer care: A survey of supportive care providers (2006)
Journal Article
This paper explores the role of music activity and music therapy in health care drawing on a survey of UK cancer care providers offering music interventions and music therapy. The survey examined the extent and type of music provision and explored pr... Read More about Music and healing in cancer care: A survey of supportive care providers.
Identity and change: Youth working in transition (2006)
Journal Article
'All my worldly goods I share with you'? Managing money at the transition to heterosexual marriage (2006)
Journal Article
Studies in the 1980s and 1990s revealed that financial arrangements in marriage tended to disadvantage women, especially those with young children. However, much of that research focused upon relatively well-established married (or remarried) couples... Read More about 'All my worldly goods I share with you'? Managing money at the transition to heterosexual marriage.
Identity, life history and commitment to welfare (2006)
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Using detailed extracts from two life histories, this article examines the nature of the personal identifications that often underpin the commitment of welfare workers to their jobs. We explore the paradox that it is those identifications such as cla... Read More about Identity, life history and commitment to welfare.
"There is a quality about what PALS does that is not measurable ...": Dilemmas of policy and evidence in the national evaluation of PALS (2006)
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Ambiguity, containment, silence: Reporting encounters with young people as research subjects (2006)
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Beyond consultation participatory practices in everyday spaces (2006)
Journal Article
This book provides an in-depth and ethnographic exploration into the use and practice of crystal and spiritual healing, therapies on the fringe of complementary medicine. Scant attention has been given to exploring more marginal complementary therapi... Read More about An ethnography of crystal and spiritual healers in Northern England: Marginal medicine and mainstream concerns.
From consultation to social learning in community participation with young people (2006)
Journal Article
This paper is part of an international Special Issue providing a global critique of child and youth participation. The paper's contribution is to argue for a theory of participation as 'social learning'. Within the first month of going online the jou... Read More about From consultation to social learning in community participation with young people.
'We do not use the word "crisis" lightly...': Sexual health policy in the United Kingdom (2006)
Journal Article
At the turn of the twenty-first century, health professionals, the media and politicians identified 'sexual health' as a policy problem in the UK. Despite publication in 2001 of a National Strategy for Sexual Health and HIV for England, in 2003 the H... Read More about 'We do not use the word "crisis" lightly...': Sexual health policy in the United Kingdom.
Councils consultations and community: Rethinking children's participation (2006)
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PALS: bridging the false dichotomy between choice and voice? (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution