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Reducing the need for foodbanks in County Durham (2024)
Report
Crossley, S., Orton, A., Corrigan, D., Davidson, L., Diamond, N., Hall, C., McGrother, I., Smith, K., & Wayte, M. (2024). Reducing the need for foodbanks in County Durham. Centre for Social Justice and Community Action (CSJCA), Durham Christian Partnership (DCP)

In recent years, foodbanks have become an increasingly common part of the voluntary sector landscape throughout the UK. It is estimated that there are over 2800 foodbanks in the UK at the current time, with the number of people using them steadily an... Read More about Reducing the need for foodbanks in County Durham.

Elite schools and slavery in the UK – capital, violence and extractivism (2024)
Journal Article
Gamsu, S., Ashe, S., & Arday, J. (2024). Elite schools and slavery in the UK – capital, violence and extractivism. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 45(3), 325-345. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2024.2335002

Elite schools in the UK are bound to the history of British colonialism. This paper examines the material ties between these schools and the transatlantic slave trade. We combine a range of sources to examine which educational institutions and their... Read More about Elite schools and slavery in the UK – capital, violence and extractivism.

‘Fog on the tyne’? The ‘common-sense’ focus on ‘sportswashing’ and the 2021 takeover of Newcastle United (2024)
Journal Article
Crossley, S., & Woolf, A. (2024). ‘Fog on the tyne’? The ‘common-sense’ focus on ‘sportswashing’ and the 2021 takeover of Newcastle United. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2024.2342394

On 7 October 2021, a controversial takeover of the English Premier League team Newcastle United Football Club saw an 80% stake acquired by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF), the country’s sovereign wealth fund. Public discussion and medi... Read More about ‘Fog on the tyne’? The ‘common-sense’ focus on ‘sportswashing’ and the 2021 takeover of Newcastle United.

Schmidt games and Cantor winning sets (2024)
Journal Article
Badziahin, D., Harrap, S., Nesharim, E., & Simmons, D. (2024). Schmidt games and Cantor winning sets. Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, https://doi.org/10.1017/etds.2024.23

Schmidt games and the Cantor winning property give alternative notions of largeness, similar to the more standard notions of measure and category. Being intuitive, flexible, and applicable to recent research made them an active object of study. We su... Read More about Schmidt games and Cantor winning sets.

Engaging Indigenous Australian Voices: Bringing Epistemic Justice to Criminology? (2024)
Book Chapter
Ashe, S. D., & Bargallie, D. (2024). Engaging Indigenous Australian Voices: Bringing Epistemic Justice to Criminology?. In K. J. Stockdale, & M. Addison (Eds.), Marginalised Voices in Criminology (32-53). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003260967-4

This chapter seeks to address questions of ‘epistemic injustice’ (Fricker, 2007), ‘epistemic positioning’ (Bacevic, 2021), and ‘disciplinary decadence’ (Gordon, 2015) in criminology by meaningfully engaging with the criminological knowledge produced... Read More about Engaging Indigenous Australian Voices: Bringing Epistemic Justice to Criminology?.

The English Presbyterian Conundrum of 1660-1 (2023)
Journal Article
Fincham, K., & Taylor, S. (2023). The English Presbyterian Conundrum of 1660-1. The Seventeenth Century, 38(6), 969-987. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2023.2276601

This article aims to explain the failure of the English presbyterian programme to reform the church at the Restoration. Specifically, it analyses the period between March 1660, when the Long Parliament reaffirmed the Solemn League and Covenant, and M... Read More about The English Presbyterian Conundrum of 1660-1.

Men and COVID-19: Pandemics and organizing in the "new normal" (2023)
Book Chapter
Burrell, S., & Roxton, S. (2023). Men and COVID-19: Pandemics and organizing in the "new normal". In J. Hearn, K. Aavik, D. L. Collins, & A. Thym (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations: Theories, Practices and Futures of Organizing (430-443). Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003193579-35

As with other pandemics, gender has significantly shaped the COVID-19 crisis and societal responses to it, with inequalities exacerbated in numerous ways. Yet gender has been largely ignored within male-dominated policy responses. While women (and so... Read More about Men and COVID-19: Pandemics and organizing in the "new normal".

‘I’m a red-blooded male’: Understanding men’s experiences of domestic abuse through a feminist lens (2023)
Journal Article
Westmarland, N., & Burrell, S. R. (2023). ‘I’m a red-blooded male’: Understanding men’s experiences of domestic abuse through a feminist lens. Criminology & Criminal Justice, https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958231210985

The ways in which gendered expectations of women are used to maintain power and control by male perpetrators of domestic abuse are now well understood. It is also increasingly recognised that men can be victims of domestic abuse. This has led to call... Read More about ‘I’m a red-blooded male’: Understanding men’s experiences of domestic abuse through a feminist lens.

The media and male victim-survivors of domestic abuse (2023)
Book Chapter
Burrell, S., & Dhir, A. (2023). The media and male victim-survivors of domestic abuse. In K. Boyle, & S. Berridge (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media and Violence (34-43). Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003200871-5

There are a number of widely held myths about male victim-survivors of domestic abuse, which the media can play a significant role in reinforcing - or challenging. This includes ideas such as that male victim-survivors don’t exist at all; that they e... Read More about The media and male victim-survivors of domestic abuse.

‘You either go on the gang life, or you go on that football life’: class, race, and place in imaginaries of South London’s sports cages (2023)
Journal Article
Crossley, S., Curry, F., & Billingham, L. (2023). ‘You either go on the gang life, or you go on that football life’: class, race, and place in imaginaries of South London’s sports cages. Journal of Youth Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2023.2226597

In considering the spatialization of race and the racialization of space, this article explores dominant media representations of sports cages in the UK. To date, media interest in these cages, often found on social housing estates, has revolved arou... Read More about ‘You either go on the gang life, or you go on that football life’: class, race, and place in imaginaries of South London’s sports cages.

“They Tarred Me with the Same Brush”: Navigating Stigma in the Context of Child Removal (2023)
Journal Article
McGrath, J., Lhussier, M., Crossley, S., & Forster, N. (2023). “They Tarred Me with the Same Brush”: Navigating Stigma in the Context of Child Removal. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(12), Article 6162. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20126162

Child removals are increasing in England and Wales. Family court involvement is particularly common among women with multiple disadvantages, and the rates are higher in economically marginalised areas. This article aims to explore women’s narratives... Read More about “They Tarred Me with the Same Brush”: Navigating Stigma in the Context of Child Removal.

Engaging men and boys in gender justice through pro-feminist podcasts: Potential benefits, challenges, and risks (2023)
Journal Article
McInerney, W., & Burrell, S. (2023). Engaging men and boys in gender justice through pro-feminist podcasts: Potential benefits, challenges, and risks. Masculinites and Social Change, 12(2), 160-183. https://doi.org/10.17583/mcs.10618

This article explores pro-feminist podcasting as an emergent approach to engaging men and boys in gender justice. In recent years, an increasing number of podcasts have surfaced which implicitly or explicitly espouse pro-feminist praxis. However, sch... Read More about Engaging men and boys in gender justice through pro-feminist podcasts: Potential benefits, challenges, and risks.

Social capital and women’s narratives of homelessness and multiple exclusion in northern England (2023)
Journal Article
McGrath, J., Crossley, S., Lhussier, M., & Forster, N. (2023). Social capital and women’s narratives of homelessness and multiple exclusion in northern England. International Journal for Equity in Health, 22, Article 41. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-023-01846-1

Women experiencing three or more co-occurring issues (homelessness, substance misuse, mental health) are a highly vulnerable population associated with multimorbidity. Taking women’s life stories of trajectories into social exclusion in the north of... Read More about Social capital and women’s narratives of homelessness and multiple exclusion in northern England.

Men, work, and care in the UK in the wake of Covid-19 (2022)
Book Chapter
Ruxton, S., & Burrell, S. (2022). Men, work, and care in the UK in the wake of Covid-19. In A. Tarrant, L. Ladlow, & L. Way (Eds.), Men and Welfare (46-59). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003178811

COVID-19 has had an immense impact on every aspect of UK society, not least the economy. It has radically altered the labour market and workplaces, with potentially long-term ramifications for the nature, location, and organisation of work, pushing e... Read More about Men, work, and care in the UK in the wake of Covid-19.

Engaging men and boys in the primary prevention of sexual violence (2022)
Book Chapter
Flood, M., & Burrell, S. (2022). Engaging men and boys in the primary prevention of sexual violence. In M. Horvath, & J. Brown (Eds.), Rape: Challenging Contemporary Thinking - 10 Years On (221-235). (2nd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003163800-20

Engaging men and boys is a key strategy for preventing the perpetration of sexual violence. Whilst prevention efforts among men and boys are growing, they remain limited in scope and scale. The evidence base for the effectiveness of sexual violence p... Read More about Engaging men and boys in the primary prevention of sexual violence.