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Innovation in Social Care: New Approaches for Young People Affected by Extra-Familial Risks and Harms (2024)
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Lefevre, M., Huegler, N., Lloyd, J., Owens, R., Damman, J., Ruch, G., & Firmin, C. (2024). Innovation in Social Care: New Approaches for Young People Affected by Extra-Familial Risks and Harms. Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447371250

Based on the findings of the Innovate Project, a four year pan-UK study to identify the processes of innovation in care this book asks: how can services be re-envisioned and transformed through innovation? The authors provide an overview of the proje... Read More about Innovation in Social Care: New Approaches for Young People Affected by Extra-Familial Risks and Harms.

Contextual Safeguarding: The Next Chapter (2023)
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Firmin, C., & Lloyd, J. (Eds.). (2023). Contextual Safeguarding: The Next Chapter. Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447366454

This book shares stories from child sexual exploitation, child criminal exploitation and peer violence about what has been learnt from the Contextual Safeguarding approach to understanding harm that happens to young people in their communities and wh... Read More about Contextual Safeguarding: The Next Chapter.

Levelling Up the UK Economy: The Need for Transformative Change (2022)
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Telford, L., & Wistow, J. (2022). Levelling Up the UK Economy: The Need for Transformative Change. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17507-7

This book contributes to emerging debates about Levelling Up the UK Economy, considering these alongside the nature of, and trends in, both the political economy and spatial disparities. Drawing on a complex systems framing, the book pulls together a... Read More about Levelling Up the UK Economy: The Need for Transformative Change.

Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home: Responding to Extra-Familial Risks and Harms (2022)
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Firmin, C., Lefevre, M., Huegler, N., & Peace, D. (2022). Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home: Responding to Extra-Familial Risks and Harms. Policy Press

During adolescence, young people are exposed to a range of risks beyond their family homes including sexual and criminal exploitation, peer-on-peer abuse and gang-related violence. However, it has only been over the past two decades that the critical... Read More about Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home: Responding to Extra-Familial Risks and Harms.

Drugs, Identity and Stigma (2022)
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Addison, M., McGovern, W., & McGovern, R. (Eds.). (2022). Drugs, Identity and Stigma. Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98286-7

Examines the ways that people manage stigma, particularly people from marginalized backgrounds Critically analyses a number of timely issues in politics, culture, society and public health Makes policy and practice recommendations

The Palgrave Handbook of Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education (2022)
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Addison, M., Breeze, M., & Taylor, Y. (Eds.). (2022). The Palgrave Handbook of Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education. Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86570-2

Explores experiences, feelings, and understandings of imposterism in higher education and beyond Questions for whom identifying as an imposter is a choice Asks how imposterism can relate to entrenched inequalities

Big Data Mining and Complexity (2022)
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Castellani, B. (2022). Big Data Mining and Complexity. UK: SAGE Publications

This book offers a much needed critical introduction to data mining and ‘big data’. Supported by multiple case studies and examples, the authors provide: Digestible overviews of key terms and concepts relevant to using social media data in qua... Read More about Big Data Mining and Complexity.

Criminal Women: Gender Matters (2022)
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Grace, S., O'Neill, M., Walker, T., King, H., Baldwin, L., Jobe, A., …Seaman, V. (2024). Criminal Women: Gender Matters. (1). Bristol University Press

Accounts of female offenders’ journeys into the criminal justice system are often silenced or marginalized. Featuring a Foreword from Pat Carlen and inspired by her seminal book ‘Criminal Women’, this collection uses participatory, inclusive and n... Read More about Criminal Women: Gender Matters.

Doing Equity and Diversity for Success in Higher Education: Redressing Structural Inequalities in the Academy (2021)
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Thomas, D., & Arday, J. (Eds.). (2021). Doing Equity and Diversity for Success in Higher Education: Redressing Structural Inequalities in the Academy. Palgrave Macmillan

Examines and deconstructs understandings of structural inequalities in Higher Education Institutions. Illustrates the connections between historical events and discourse and racialized acts of violence. Calls for a redistribution of power across inte... Read More about Doing Equity and Diversity for Success in Higher Education: Redressing Structural Inequalities in the Academy.

Discovering Sociology (2021)
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McCormack, M., Anderson, E., Jamie, K., & David, M. (2021). Discovering Sociology. (2nd ed.). Palgrave Macmillan

This second edition of a major textbook uses lively prose and a series of carefully-crafted pedagogical features to both introduce Sociology as a discipline and to help students realize how deeply sociological issues impact on their own lives. Over t... Read More about Discovering Sociology.