All Outputs (5)

Impacts of Professionalization and Wellbeing Policies on Scottish Prison Workers (2021)
Journal Article
Fletcher, A., McKie, L., MacPherson, I., & Tombs, J. (2021). Impacts of Professionalization and Wellbeing Policies on Scottish Prison Workers. Frontiers in Sociology, 6, Article 757583. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.757583

Prison workers occupy a niche role. Balancing the care and welfare of prisoners while simultaneously restricting their freedoms is a stressful job, laced with danger, that occurs entirely within the bounded context of the prison. Here, wellbeing and... Read More about Impacts of Professionalization and Wellbeing Policies on Scottish Prison Workers.

What is evidence as evidence is used? A case of dualism? (2021)
Journal Article
Fletcher, A. N. (2022). What is evidence as evidence is used? A case of dualism?. Social Theory & Health, 20(3), 291-305. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-021-00170-4

How ‘evidence’ is conceptualised, generated and deployed in meso-level policy implementation on the ground is critical to health delivery. Using the case of a large-scale health service reconfiguration in northwest England, this study began as a narr... Read More about What is evidence as evidence is used? A case of dualism?.

The bagatelle of human flourishing: Using realist evaluation to disentangle the multiple wellbeing benefits of participatory music activity (2021)
Journal Article
Fletcher, A., & Hackett, S. (2021). The bagatelle of human flourishing: Using realist evaluation to disentangle the multiple wellbeing benefits of participatory music activity. Musicology research, 7(Winter 2021),

The benefits of music participation are seen across health, education and social care contexts, and can help different people with different needs in different ways. As the boundaries between these contexts increasingly overlap, the need for flexible... Read More about The bagatelle of human flourishing: Using realist evaluation to disentangle the multiple wellbeing benefits of participatory music activity.

Integrated Care Systems as an Arena for the Emergence of New Forms of Epistemic Injustice (2020)
Journal Article
Fletcher, A., & Clarke, J. (2020). Integrated Care Systems as an Arena for the Emergence of New Forms of Epistemic Injustice. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 23(5), 723-737. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-020-10111-1

Epistemic injustice has rapidly become a powerful tool for analysis of otherwise hidden social harms. Yet empirical research into how resistance to knowing and understanding can be generated and replicated in social programmes is limited. We have ide... Read More about Integrated Care Systems as an Arena for the Emergence of New Forms of Epistemic Injustice.

The 4P Participatory Arts Recovery Model: Peers, Product, Personhood and Positive Interaction (2019)
Journal Article
Fletcher, A., Hackett, S., & Carr, S. (2019). The 4P Participatory Arts Recovery Model: Peers, Product, Personhood and Positive Interaction. Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 10(1), 41-56. https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah.10.1.41_1

Using empirical evidence from a realist evaluation of music-based well-being interventions, we developed a recovery-focussed model for people with mental health issues. Arts-based approaches for mental health are used internationally and the concepts... Read More about The 4P Participatory Arts Recovery Model: Peers, Product, Personhood and Positive Interaction.