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From Collusion to Autonomy: Patterns of Hybrid Repression and Human Rights Activism (2025)
Journal Article
Peña, A. M., Meier, L., & Nah, A. M. (online). From Collusion to Autonomy: Patterns of Hybrid Repression and Human Rights Activism. Government and Opposition, https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2024.32

This article elaborates the notion of hybrid repression, understanding by this modalities of dissidence suppression that involve state and nonstate actors interacting in various ways, from fully autonomous to close cooperation. In does so by proposin... Read More about From Collusion to Autonomy: Patterns of Hybrid Repression and Human Rights Activism.

‘It’s a far cry from small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Isn’t it?’ the changing space of informal youth football in the UK (2025)
Journal Article
Crossley, S., Van Campenhout, G., & Billingham, L. (online). ‘It’s a far cry from small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Isn’t it?’ the changing space of informal youth football in the UK. Leisure Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2024.2446197

It is often remarked that all that is required for children to play football are ‘jumpers for goalposts’. Space is also required, however, and so is permission to play, and to see the game through. Some of the spaces associated with British youth foo... Read More about ‘It’s a far cry from small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Isn’t it?’ the changing space of informal youth football in the UK.

Young women’s travel safety and the journey to work: reflecting on lived experiences of precarious mobility in three African cities (and the potential for transformative action) (2025)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Murphy, E., Adamu, F., Dayil, P. B., Dungey, C., Maskiti, B., de Lannoy, A., Clark, S., Ahmad, H., & Yahaya, M. J. (2025). Young women’s travel safety and the journey to work: reflecting on lived experiences of precarious mobility in three African cities (and the potential for transformative action). Journal of Transport Geography, 123, Article 104109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2024.104109

The relationship between women's everyday lived travel experiences as daily commuters and their employment history and potential has not been adequately researched and documented in African contexts. This multidisciplinary study, utilising an innovat... Read More about Young women’s travel safety and the journey to work: reflecting on lived experiences of precarious mobility in three African cities (and the potential for transformative action).

Stigma and the Inverse Care Law: Experiences of ‘Care’ for People Living in Marginalised Conditions (2025)
Journal Article
Addison, M., Scott, S., Bambra, C., & Lhussier, M. (2025). Stigma and the Inverse Care Law: Experiences of ‘Care’ for People Living in Marginalised Conditions. Sociology of Health & Illness, 47(1), Article e70000. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70000

This paper explores the connection between stigma and the Inverse Care Law (ICL) by focussing on the idea that people who have the greatest needs often have the least support from healthcare services. Twenty‐four semi‐structured interviews were under... Read More about Stigma and the Inverse Care Law: Experiences of ‘Care’ for People Living in Marginalised Conditions.

A line in the sand: Moving from surface improvement to foundational shifts to develop effective responses to extra-familial risks and harms (2024)
Journal Article
Firmin, C., Lefevre, M., Langhoff, K., & Ruch, G. (online). A line in the sand: Moving from surface improvement to foundational shifts to develop effective responses to extra-familial risks and harms. The British Journal of Social Work, Article bcae193. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae193

For over a decade, UK policymakers have responded to global ambitions to protect children from exploitation and other forms of extra-familial risks and harms by recommending that social workers coordinate local responses. This has required a signific... Read More about A line in the sand: Moving from surface improvement to foundational shifts to develop effective responses to extra-familial risks and harms.

Designing from the margins Neurodivergent-led Organisations on Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Programmes (2024)
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Renehan, N. (2024). Designing from the margins Neurodivergent-led Organisations on Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Programmes. NA

This research project draws on the accounts of representatives of neurodivergent-led organisations in the United Kingdom, and details their perspectives about how domestic abuse perpetrator programmes could be developed and delivered to be more neuro... Read More about Designing from the margins Neurodivergent-led Organisations on Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Programmes.

Embracing the mess in feminist research: Insights from posthumanism (2024)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., Lundberg, K., & O'Donnell, S. (online). Embracing the mess in feminist research: Insights from posthumanism. Qualitative Inquiry, https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004241295743

Qualitative approaches present challenges to the neat and orderly histories of research. Within this shifting climate, feminist researchers have blurred the boundaries of rigorous research, by bringing the personal into their methods and drawing atte... Read More about Embracing the mess in feminist research: Insights from posthumanism.

Ecumenical Social Activism and Transnational Connections Between Brazil and Britain: Practitioner Perspectives on Networks and Power (2024)
Journal Article
Burity, J., & Orton, A. (2024). Ecumenical Social Activism and Transnational Connections Between Brazil and Britain: Practitioner Perspectives on Networks and Power. International Journal of Latin American Religions, 8(2), 682-715. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41603-024-00264-7

Ecumenical forms of social activism arising from Christian practitioners seeking connections beyond formal religious differences have played a significant role within action for social change globally, whilst varying significantly in form between dif... Read More about Ecumenical Social Activism and Transnational Connections Between Brazil and Britain: Practitioner Perspectives on Networks and Power.