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Searching for a needle in a haystack? An exploratory study into the policing of ‘needle spiking’ in the UK (2025)
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Westmarland, N., & McCarry, M. (in press). Searching for a needle in a haystack? An exploratory study into the policing of ‘needle spiking’ in the UK. Policing and Society,

In autumn 2021 social media posts about ‘needle’ spiking - the injecting of a person with drugs without their consent – began to circulate in the UK. This research supplements media articles and official documents with new empirical data (885 inciden... Read More about Searching for a needle in a haystack? An exploratory study into the policing of ‘needle spiking’ in the UK.

Improving primary care services for imprisoned women with severe mental illness (IP-SIS) (2025)
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Roden-Lui, G., Chew-Graham, C. A., Hard, J., Harriott, P., King, H., Mastrocola, E., & Walker, T. (in press). Improving primary care services for imprisoned women with severe mental illness (IP-SIS)

A gap exists in the provision of care for imprisoned women with Severe Mental Illness (SMI), both in prison and on release to mainstream primary care. Women in such settings tend to have complex mental health problems, often with comorbid long-term p... Read More about Improving primary care services for imprisoned women with severe mental illness (IP-SIS).

‘There are too many women with love brains’: Domestic Violence and Victim Blaming in China (2025)
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Miao, L., & Westmarland, N. (in press). ‘There are too many women with love brains’: Domestic Violence and Victim Blaming in China. Journal of Gender-Based Violence,

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.

Critical comparative geographies of elite schooling: comparing the UK, Canada, and Sweden (2025)
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Yoon, E.-S., Gamsu, S., Larsson, E., & Waters, J. (in press). Critical comparative geographies of elite schooling: comparing the UK, Canada, and Sweden. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education,

This article aims to chart a new critical geography of elite schooling by comparing the importance of space and place in elite schooling in the UK, Canada, and Sweden. We do so to illuminate the present patterns and historical developments of elite s... Read More about Critical comparative geographies of elite schooling: comparing the UK, Canada, and Sweden.

Generalising the maximum independent set algorithm via Boolean networks (2025)
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Gadouleau, M., & Kutner, D. C. (online). Generalising the maximum independent set algorithm via Boolean networks. Information and Computation, Article 105266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2025.105266

A simple greedy algorithm to find a maximal independent set (MIS) in a graph starts with the empty set and visits every vertex, adding it to the set if and only if none of its neighbours are already in the set. In this paper, we consider the generali... Read More about Generalising the maximum independent set algorithm via Boolean networks.

The education experiences of young people experiencing child criminal and sexual exploitation (2025)
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Lloyd, J. (online). The education experiences of young people experiencing child criminal and sexual exploitation. British Educational Research Journal, https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.4116

School exclusion forms part of the processes that can increase young people's risk of offending and involvement in exploitation and harm. However, little is known about the education experiences of young people impacted by harm, such as child sexual... Read More about The education experiences of young people experiencing child criminal and sexual exploitation.

From Collusion to Autonomy: Patterns of Hybrid Repression and Human Rights Activism (2025)
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Peña, A. M., Meier, L., & Nah, A. M. (online). From Collusion to Autonomy: Patterns of Hybrid Repression and Human Rights Activism. Government and Opposition, 1-26. 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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Embracing the mess in feminist research: Insights from posthumanism (2024)
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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)
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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.

Binaries and Blurred Lines: The Ethical Stress of Child Protection Social Work in the Grey of Extra-Familial Harm (2024)
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Firmin, C. (online). Binaries and Blurred Lines: The Ethical Stress of Child Protection Social Work in the Grey of Extra-Familial Harm. Ethics and Social Welfare, https://doi.org/10.1080/17496535.2024.2414963

Social care responses to extra-familial harm require social workers to work across the binaries of welfare and justice, victim and perpetrator, parent and professional, risk and protection. This paper examines the ethical consequences of working in t... Read More about Binaries and Blurred Lines: The Ethical Stress of Child Protection Social Work in the Grey of Extra-Familial Harm.

Co-developing materials in the metamorphic zone: extending bacteriocentricity (2024)
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Moreira, T., & Staykova, M. (online). Co-developing materials in the metamorphic zone: extending bacteriocentricity. Science, Technology, & Human Values, https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439241296898

Engineered living materials (ELM) are composite technologies that respond to environmental cues, are able to remodel, self-organise and self-heal. Proposed as a fusion of synthetic biology and classical materials science, ELMs are seen as having the... Read More about Co-developing materials in the metamorphic zone: extending bacteriocentricity.

Understanding family abuse: An intersectional approach to prevention and addressing family abuse perpetrators (2024)
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Gangoli, G., Donovan, C., Gill, A. K., Butterby, K., Dhir, A., & Regan, S. (online). Understanding family abuse: An intersectional approach to prevention and addressing family abuse perpetrators. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, https://doi.org/10.1332/23986808Y2024D000000054

This article provides an original contribution to understanding the motives for and perpetration patterns of family abuse that affects a range of minoritised communities, such as those minoritised on the basis of race, sexuality or transgender identi... Read More about Understanding family abuse: An intersectional approach to prevention and addressing family abuse perpetrators.

Police-Perpetrated Domestic and Family Violence: A Scoping Review of Australian and International Scholarship (2024)
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Anderson, B., Farmer, C., & Tyson, D. (online). Police-Perpetrated Domestic and Family Violence: A Scoping Review of Australian and International Scholarship. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.3582

The perpetration of domestic and family violence (DFV) by police officers is a serious abuse of power and has generated a growing body of scholarship in Australia and internationally. Police are uniquely positioned to draw on their expertise, trainin... Read More about Police-Perpetrated Domestic and Family Violence: A Scoping Review of Australian and International Scholarship.

The power of social networks and social media’s filter bubble in shaping polarisation: an agent-based model (2024)
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Chueca Del Cerro, C. (2024). The power of social networks and social media’s filter bubble in shaping polarisation: an agent-based model. Applied Network Science, 9, Article 69. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-024-00679-3

The role social media platforms play on the emergence of polarisation is an ongoing debate in the political communication literature. Social media’s filter bubbles and online echo chambers shape people’s opinions by curating the information they have... Read More about The power of social networks and social media’s filter bubble in shaping polarisation: an agent-based model.