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Objective and subjective measurement of sedentary behavior in human adults: A toolkit (2020)
Journal Article
Aunger, J., & Wagnild, J. (2022). Objective and subjective measurement of sedentary behavior in human adults: A toolkit. American Journal of Human Biology, 34(1), Article e23546. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23546

Objectives: Human biologists are increasingly interested in measuring and comparing physical activities in different societies. Sedentary behavior, which refers to time spent sitting or lying down while awake, is a large component of daily 24 hours m... Read More about Objective and subjective measurement of sedentary behavior in human adults: A toolkit.

Haptic Mediations: Intergenerational Kinship in the Time of COVID-19 (2020)
Journal Article
Simpson, B. (2020). Haptic Mediations: Intergenerational Kinship in the Time of COVID-19. Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice, 27(3), 22-26. https://doi.org/10.3167/aia.2020.270305

During the COVID-19 crisis, living in lockdown and observing social distancing rules have become an integral part of everyday life. In this article, I offer some auto-ethnographic reflections on the increased use of ICTs within families and particula... Read More about Haptic Mediations: Intergenerational Kinship in the Time of COVID-19.

Arts as Treatment? Innovation and resistance within an emerging movement (2020)
Journal Article
Yoeli, H., Robson, M., McLusky, S., & Macnaughton, J. (2020). Arts as Treatment? Innovation and resistance within an emerging movement. Nordic Journal of Arts, Culture and Health, 2(02), 91-106. https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.2535-7913-2020-02-02

Purpose: For years, the Arts and Health (AaH) movement has been guided by values of art for art’s sake, practitioner as Artist and artist as Outsider. These values are instrumental to the effectiveness of AaH as a relational and process-driven tool f... Read More about Arts as Treatment? Innovation and resistance within an emerging movement.

Soil ethnoecology (2020)
Book Chapter
Sillitoe, P. (2021). Soil ethnoecology. In T. F. Thornton, & S. Bhagwat (Eds.), Handbook of indigenous environmental knowledge : global themes and practice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315270845-8

This chapter takes on the complexities in understanding the Indigenous Knowledge about soils, ‘ethnopedology’. This is a type of Indigenous Knowledge that has received relatively little attention, unlike ethnobotany or ethnozoology. The author’s rese... Read More about Soil ethnoecology.

Domestic labor as care and growth in western Kenya (2020)
Journal Article
Brown, H. (2020). Domestic labor as care and growth in western Kenya. Anthropology and Humanism, 45(2), 245-254. https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12304

Sociological and feminist explorations have tended to see domestic labor as feminized care work linked to the “private” realm of the home. This article explores domestic labor in western Kenya, describing such work as a reproductive and economic proj... Read More about Domestic labor as care and growth in western Kenya.

Criminalising cyberflashing: options for law reform (2020)
Journal Article
McGlynn, C., & Johnson, K. (2021). Criminalising cyberflashing: options for law reform. Journal of Criminal Law, 85(3), 171-188. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022018320972306

In this article, we examine the phenomenon of cyberflashing, outlining its prevalence, harms, and victim-survivors’ experiences. We then consider the extent to which English criminal law currently applies to this form of sexual abuse. We argue that a... Read More about Criminalising cyberflashing: options for law reform.

Effect of alcohol label designs with different pictorial representations of alcohol content and health warnings on knowledge and understanding of Low Risk Drinking Guidelines: A randomized controlled trial (2020)
Journal Article
Gold, N., Egan, M., Londakova, K., Mottershaw, A., Harper, H., Burton, R., Henn, C., Smolar, M., Walmsley, M., Arambepola, R., Watson, R., Bowen, S., & Greaves, F. (2021). Effect of alcohol label designs with different pictorial representations of alcohol content and health warnings on knowledge and understanding of Low Risk Drinking Guidelines: A randomized controlled trial. Addiction, 116(6), 1443-1459. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15327

Background and aims: The UK Low Risk Drinking Guidelines (LRDG) recommend not regularly drinking more than 14 units of alcohol per week. We tested the effect of different pictorial representations of alcohol content, some with a health warning, on kn... Read More about Effect of alcohol label designs with different pictorial representations of alcohol content and health warnings on knowledge and understanding of Low Risk Drinking Guidelines: A randomized controlled trial.

Dance for people with chronic breathlessness: a transdisciplinary approach to intervention development (2020)
Journal Article
Harrison, S., Bierski, K., Burn, N., Mclusky, S., McFaull, V., Russell, A., Williams, G., Williams, S., & Macnaughton, J. (2020). Dance for people with chronic breathlessness: a transdisciplinary approach to intervention development. BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 7(1), Article e000696. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2020-000696

Objectives: A transdisciplinary research approach was used to develop a holistic understanding of the physical and psychosocial benefits of dance as an intervention for people living with chronic breathlessness. Methods: The dance programme was devel... Read More about Dance for people with chronic breathlessness: a transdisciplinary approach to intervention development.

(Re)inventing intangible cultural heritage through the market in Greece (2020)
Journal Article
Karampampas, P. (2021). (Re)inventing intangible cultural heritage through the market in Greece. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 27(6), 654-667. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2020.1844277

This article analyses a conceptual shift from ideas of tradition, customs and folklore and towards Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). It looks to the political implications of ICH and various understandings of ICH held by heritage actors, including... Read More about (Re)inventing intangible cultural heritage through the market in Greece.