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Art Spaces (2021)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, S. (in press). Art Spaces. In G. Andrews, V. Crooks, J. Pearce, & J. Messina. (Eds.), COVID-19 and Similar Futures: Pandemic Geographies. Springer Verlag

Seeing the value of experiential knowledge through COVID-19 (2021)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., Bradby, H., Gadebusch Bondio, M., Macnaughton, J., Hallberg, A., & Söderfeldt, Y. (in press). Seeing the value of experiential knowledge through COVID-19. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences,

Menopausal symptoms and work: A narrative review of women's experiences in casual, informal, or precarious jobs (2021)
Journal Article
Yoeli, H., Macnaughton, J., & McLusky, S. (2021). Menopausal symptoms and work: A narrative review of women's experiences in casual, informal, or precarious jobs. Maturitas: An international journal of midlife health and beyond, 150, 14-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2021.05.007

Governments, employers, and trade unions are increasingly developing “menopause at work” policies for female staff. Many of the world’s most marginalised women work, however, in more informal or insecure jobs, beyond the scope of such employment prot... Read More about Menopausal symptoms and work: A narrative review of women's experiences in casual, informal, or precarious jobs.

Resilience (2021)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, S. (2021). Resilience. In M. Botha, & P. Waugh (Eds.), Future theory : a Bloomsbury handbook to critical concepts. Bloomsbury

‘The body says it’: the difficulty of measuring and communicating sensations of breathlessness (2021)
Journal Article
Malpass, A., Mcguire, C., & Macnaughton, J. (2022). ‘The body says it’: the difficulty of measuring and communicating sensations of breathlessness. Medical Humanities, 48(1), 63-75. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2019-011816

Breathlessness is a sensation affecting those living with chronic respiratory disease, obesity, heart disease and anxiety disorders. The Multidimensional Dyspnoea Profile is a respiratory questionnaire which attempts to measure the incommunicable dif... Read More about ‘The body says it’: the difficulty of measuring and communicating sensations of breathlessness.

Informal mhealth at scale in Africa: Opportunities and challenges (2021)
Journal Article
Hampshire, K., Mwase-Vuma, T., Alemu, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Awoke, T., …Kasim, A. (2021). Informal mhealth at scale in Africa: Opportunities and challenges. World Development, 140, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105257

The extraordinary global growth of digital connectivity has generated optimism that mobile technologies can help overcome infrastructural barriers to development, with ‘mobile health’ (mhealth) being a key component of this. However, while ‘formal’ (... Read More about Informal mhealth at scale in Africa: Opportunities and challenges.

The etheric place: Notes on finding the supernatural at the boundaries of sleep (2021)
Journal Article
Powell, A., & Cook, C. C. (2021). The etheric place: Notes on finding the supernatural at the boundaries of sleep. Journal for the study of religious experience, 6(1), 45-51

Whilst conducting qualitative studies with both Christians who report hearing supernatural voices and Spiritualists who report ‘clairaudience’, we have encountered numerous instances of what appeared to be hypnagogic and hypnopompic experiences being... Read More about The etheric place: Notes on finding the supernatural at the boundaries of sleep.

When spirits speak: Absorption, attribution, and identity among spiritualists who report ‘clairaudient’ voice experiences (2020)
Journal Article
Powell, A., & Moseley, P. (2020). When spirits speak: Absorption, attribution, and identity among spiritualists who report ‘clairaudient’ voice experiences. Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 23(10), 841-856. https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2020.1793310

For mental health researchers and others committed to a bio-cultural understanding of religious experience, there is a need for empirical studies capable of shedding light on the interplay between beliefs, personalities, and the occurrence of anomalo... Read More about When spirits speak: Absorption, attribution, and identity among spiritualists who report ‘clairaudient’ voice experiences.

LOL My Praxis (2020)
Digital Artefact
Creechan, L., & Campbell, A. (2020). LOL My Praxis. [Podcast]

Trajectories in mental health and socio-spatial conditions in a time of economic recovery and austerity: a longitudinal study in England, 2011-2017 (2020)
Journal Article
Curtis, S., Cunningham, N., Pearce, J., Congdon, P., Cherrie, M., & Atkinson, S. (2021). Trajectories in mental health and socio-spatial conditions in a time of economic recovery and austerity: a longitudinal study in England, 2011-2017. Social Science & Medicine, 270, Article 113654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113654

This paper examines trends in mental health among adults in England during the period of economic recovery and austerity following the 2008 ‘great recession’. We report analysis of data on 17,212 individuals living in England, from the longitudinal U... Read More about Trajectories in mental health and socio-spatial conditions in a time of economic recovery and austerity: a longitudinal study in England, 2011-2017.

Adverse conditions for wellbeing at the neighbourhood scale in England: potential and challenges for operationalising indicators relevant to wellbeing in and of places (2020)
Journal Article
Curtis, S., Congdon, P., Atkinson, S., Corcoran, R., Peasgood, T., & MaGuire, R. (2020). Adverse conditions for wellbeing at the neighbourhood scale in England: potential and challenges for operationalising indicators relevant to wellbeing in and of places. Wellbeing, Space and Society, Article 100009. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2020.100009

Managing unusual sensory experiences: A feasibility trial in an At Risk Mental States for psychosis group (2020)
Journal Article
Dodgson, G., Aynsworth, C., Mitrenga, K. J., Gibbs, C., Patton, V., Fernyhough, C., …Common, S. (2021). Managing unusual sensory experiences: A feasibility trial in an At Risk Mental States for psychosis group. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 94(3), 481 - 503. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12323

Objectives To conduct a feasibility study on a new, tablet-delivered treatment for unusual sensory experiences in service-users with an At Risk Mental States for psychosis. Design A mixed method design was employed, using content analysis to investig... Read More about Managing unusual sensory experiences: A feasibility trial in an At Risk Mental States for psychosis group.