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Exploring the effectiveness of media in communicating public health messages to people with learning disabilities during the pandemic (2024)
Journal Article
Macdonald, S. J., & Wilde, A. (2024). Exploring the effectiveness of media in communicating public health messages to people with learning disabilities during the pandemic. Disability and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2024.2333017

The article aims to explore mass and social media’s role in communicating public health messages in Britain during the COVID-19 pandemic. The article presents findings from a realist mixed methods study analysing data collected from 137 participants... Read More about Exploring the effectiveness of media in communicating public health messages to people with learning disabilities during the pandemic.

Dis/ableist Criminology: applying disability theory within a criminological context (2024)
Book Chapter
Macdonald, S. J., & Peacock, D. (2024). Dis/ableist Criminology: applying disability theory within a criminological context. In K. J. Stockdale, & M. Addison (Eds.), Marginalised Voices in Criminology. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003260967-3

This chapter is a call for the discipline of criminology to begin to re-engage with the marginalised voices of disabled people who have been excluded, pathologised and silenced within this field of study. By tracing the parallel developments of crime... Read More about Dis/ableist Criminology: applying disability theory within a criminological context.

Domestic colonisation: The centrality of the home in experiences of home‐takeovers and hate relationships (2023)
Journal Article
Clayton, J., Donovan, C., & Macdonald, S. J. (2024). Domestic colonisation: The centrality of the home in experiences of home‐takeovers and hate relationships. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 49(3), Article e12660. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12660

In this paper we introduce the concept of ‘domestic colonisation’ as a contribution to the literature on critical geographies of home. This provides a lens to focus on the ways in which domestic spaces might be exploited and/or dominated though famil... Read More about Domestic colonisation: The centrality of the home in experiences of home‐takeovers and hate relationships.

'We capture their comments before we leave the station': Service user involvement in the delivery of Appropriate Adult Schemes (2022)
Journal Article
Peacock, D., Macdonald, S., Podd, W., & Cosgrove, F. (2023). 'We capture their comments before we leave the station': Service user involvement in the delivery of Appropriate Adult Schemes. Social work & social sciences review, 24(1), 28-49

The concept of participation is now widely accepted in healthcare and social services, but is less apparent in the delivery of services for vulnerable people who encounter the Criminal Justice System and its associated agencies (Buck et al, 2020). Th... Read More about 'We capture their comments before we leave the station': Service user involvement in the delivery of Appropriate Adult Schemes.

Becoming cuckooed: conceptualising the relationship between disability, home takeovers and criminal exploitation (2022)
Journal Article
Macdonald, S. J., Donovan, C., Clayton, J., & Husband, M. (2022). Becoming cuckooed: conceptualising the relationship between disability, home takeovers and criminal exploitation. Disability and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2022.2071680

This article explores the phenomenon whereby disabled people’s homes are being occupied (i.e. cuckooed) by local perpetrators and/or county lines organised criminal groups. This study employs a qualitative biographical methodology that collects data... Read More about Becoming cuckooed: conceptualising the relationship between disability, home takeovers and criminal exploitation.

Re-Conceptualising Repeat Reports of Hate Crime/Incidents as Hate Relationships Based on Coercive Control and Space for Action (2022)
Journal Article
Donovan, C., Macdonald, S., & Clayton, J. (2023). Re-Conceptualising Repeat Reports of Hate Crime/Incidents as Hate Relationships Based on Coercive Control and Space for Action. Sociological Research Online, 28(2), 502–517. https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804211065052

Developing from existing research in the field of hate studies, this article outlines a new approach to understanding repeated experiences of hate by perpetrators who live in close proximity as neighbours to those victimised. Building on previous wor... Read More about Re-Conceptualising Repeat Reports of Hate Crime/Incidents as Hate Relationships Based on Coercive Control and Space for Action.

A Rationale for the Use of Case Reports in Special Education: The Significance of Detailed Descriptions of Assessment and Intervention Scenarios for Bridging the Research-to-Practice Gap (2021)
Journal Article
Grünke, M., Hord, C., & Macdonald, S. J. (2021). A Rationale for the Use of Case Reports in Special Education: The Significance of Detailed Descriptions of Assessment and Intervention Scenarios for Bridging the Research-to-Practice Gap. Insights on learning disabilities, 18(1), 91-101

Case reports make up a significant part of the medical literature by documenting unique clinical scenarios or exemplary treatment practices from which real-life lessons can be learned. But while such studies play an essential role in medical research... Read More about A Rationale for the Use of Case Reports in Special Education: The Significance of Detailed Descriptions of Assessment and Intervention Scenarios for Bridging the Research-to-Practice Gap.

Living with hate relationships: familiar encounters, enduring racisms and geographies of entrapment (2021)
Journal Article
Clayton, J., Donovan, C., & Macdonald, S. (2022). Living with hate relationships: familiar encounters, enduring racisms and geographies of entrapment. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 40(1), 60-79

This paper utilises the concept of ‘hate relationships’ in conversation with the literature on geographies of encounter to explore experiences of racism for those entrapped by racist encounters with those who are familiar. In so doing we attend to th... Read More about Living with hate relationships: familiar encounters, enduring racisms and geographies of entrapment.

Therapeutic institutions of violence: conceptualising the biographical narratives of mental health service users/survivors accessing long term “treatment” in England (2020)
Journal Article
Macdonald, S. (2020). Therapeutic institutions of violence: conceptualising the biographical narratives of mental health service users/survivors accessing long term “treatment” in England. Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, 7(2), 179-194. https://doi.org/10.1108/jcrpp-02-2020-0027

Disability Theory and Social Work Practice. (2019)
Book Chapter
Macdonald, S., & Deacon, L. (2019). Disability Theory and Social Work Practice. In M. Payne, & M. Hall (Eds.), THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL WORK THEORY. Routledge