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Dis/ableist criminology and domestic colonisation: conceptualising disabled people's experience of hate and home-based violence (2025)
Journal Article
Macdonald, S. J., Clayton, J., & Donovan, C. (online). Dis/ableist criminology and domestic colonisation: conceptualising disabled people's experience of hate and home-based violence. Disability and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2025.2478053

This article develops the concept of ‘domestic colonisation’ to conceptualise how disabled people experience continuous forms of victimisation in the locality of their own homes. Domestic colonisation, often perpetrated by neighbours or local people,... Read More about Dis/ableist criminology and domestic colonisation: conceptualising disabled people's experience of hate and home-based violence.

Gender Essentialism and U.S. Attitudes Towards the Media Coverage of Women’s Sport (2025)
Journal Article
Gemar, A., Allison, R., & Pope, S. (online). Gender Essentialism and U.S. Attitudes Towards the Media Coverage of Women’s Sport. Communication and Sport, https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251327958

This article examines public attitudes towards the media coverage of women’s sport in a context of recent growth but also continued inequality in both quantity and quality of coverage. Drawing from literature on the role of gender ideology in underpi... Read More about Gender Essentialism and U.S. Attitudes Towards the Media Coverage of Women’s Sport.

‘If I Wasn’t on Drugs or I Didn’t Take Anything, I Wouldn’t Be Here’: Mental Health ‘Problems’ as an Unfolding Dimension of Social Harm Generated by Stigma (2025)
Book Chapter
Addison, M., & Lhussier, M. (2025). ‘If I Wasn’t on Drugs or I Didn’t Take Anything, I Wouldn’t Be Here’: Mental Health ‘Problems’ as an Unfolding Dimension of Social Harm Generated by Stigma. In Mental Health, Crime and Justice (285-311). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-83390-8_13

This chapter discusses the impact of relational stigma on mental health as an unfolding dimension of social harm amongst people who use drugs (PWUD). In traditional models of Social Determinants of Health (SDoH), ‘social relations’ are often ignored... Read More about ‘If I Wasn’t on Drugs or I Didn’t Take Anything, I Wouldn’t Be Here’: Mental Health ‘Problems’ as an Unfolding Dimension of Social Harm Generated by Stigma.

The Balancing Act: Reflections From Three Projects on Negotiating Participation and Protection in Doing Research With Children and Young People on Violence and Abuse (2025)
Journal Article
Rabe, J., Jobson, C., & Cairns, L. O. (2025). The Balancing Act: Reflections From Three Projects on Negotiating Participation and Protection in Doing Research With Children and Young People on Violence and Abuse. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 24, https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069251323626

The interplay between participation and protection often sits in tension in research with children and young people (CYP), especially on topics related to violence and abuse. Drawing upon our three doctoral research projects, which involved different... Read More about The Balancing Act: Reflections From Three Projects on Negotiating Participation and Protection in Doing Research With Children and Young People on Violence and Abuse.

Under the Microscope: Shifting Perspectives on an Ethics Case in Participatory Health Research in a German Care Home (2025)
Journal Article
von Köppen, M., Banks, S., Brear, M., Drinkwater, J., Higgins, M., & Shabangu, P. (online). Under the Microscope: Shifting Perspectives on an Ethics Case in Participatory Health Research in a German Care Home. Ethics and Social Welfare, https://doi.org/10.1080/17496535.2025.2460112

This article starts from an academic researcher’s written ethics case drawn from a participatory action research project in a residential care home for older people in Germany. The case contains an implicit dilemma for the academic researcher about w... Read More about Under the Microscope: Shifting Perspectives on an Ethics Case in Participatory Health Research in a German Care Home.

‘There are too many women with love brains’: Domestic Violence and Victim Blaming in China (2025)
Journal Article
Miao, L., & Westmarland, N. (online). ‘There are too many women with love brains’: Domestic Violence and Victim Blaming in China. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, https://doi.org/10.1332/23986808Y2025D000000073

While there exists increasing awareness and legal remedies in relation to domestic violence in China, victim-blaming still exists - especially in online discourse. This research investigated public reactions to domestic violence in China, using comme... Read More about ‘There are too many women with love brains’: Domestic Violence and Victim Blaming in China.

Sexual violence in higher education: staff knowledge, understanding and confidence in supporting minoritized students who disclose sexual violence (2025)
Journal Article
Gunby, C., Machin, L., Smailes, H., Ansari, S., Chantler, K., Bradbury-Jones, C., Butterby, K., & Donovan, C. (online). Sexual violence in higher education: staff knowledge, understanding and confidence in supporting minoritized students who disclose sexual violence. Gender and Education, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2025.2471304

Sexual violence on UK university campuses has received research and policy attention. However, little is known about the experiences of and responses to student victim-survivors with minoritized identities and how inequalities linked to race, sexuali... Read More about Sexual violence in higher education: staff knowledge, understanding and confidence in supporting minoritized students who disclose sexual violence.

Fatphobia as a form of gender-based violence: Fat women, public space and body belonging work (2025)
Journal Article
Mohr, E., Jamie, K., & Hockin-Boyers, H. (online). Fatphobia as a form of gender-based violence: Fat women, public space and body belonging work. Fat Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2025.2469357

In this article we propose bringing together theoretical frameworks from fat studies and research into street harassment, as a form of gendered violence, to provide a novel lens for thinking about fat women’s experiences of public space. By focusing... Read More about Fatphobia as a form of gender-based violence: Fat women, public space and body belonging work.

If You Want the University to Change, Don't Theorise—Organise! (2025)
Journal Article
Gamsu, S. (online). If You Want the University to Change, Don't Theorise—Organise!. The British Journal of Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13200

Organising as workers to build industrial power within our universities is a key element of how we respond to redundancies, marketisation and other political pressures on higher education. This piece argues that academics, as a subset of university w... Read More about If You Want the University to Change, Don't Theorise—Organise!.