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Re-imagining the ageing and technology nexus (2021)
Book Chapter
Moreira, T. (2021). Re-imagining the ageing and technology nexus. In A. Peine, B. Marshall, W. Martin, & L. Neven (Eds.), Socio-gerontechnology Interdisciplinary Critical Studies of Ageing and Technology. Routledge

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. Part four of the book proposes that Barad’s feminist ‘new materialism’ provides a key to understand and act upon the relational co-productio... Read More about Re-imagining the ageing and technology nexus.

LGBT+ Domestic Abuse Needs Assessment for Central Bedfordshire Council (2021)
Report
Donovan, C., Magić, J., & West, S. (2021). LGBT+ Domestic Abuse Needs Assessment for Central Bedfordshire Council. Galop, LGBT Anti-violence charity

This report aims to improve understanding of: the experiences of domestic abuse in the LGBT+1 population of Central Bedfordshire; whether Central Bedfordshire domestic abuse services meet the needs of local LGBT+ people; and what changes are needed t... Read More about LGBT+ Domestic Abuse Needs Assessment for Central Bedfordshire Council.

A problem solved is a problem created: the opportunities and challenges associated with an online domestic violence perpetrator programme (2021)
Journal Article
Bellini, R., & Westmarland, N. (2021). A problem solved is a problem created: the opportunities and challenges associated with an online domestic violence perpetrator programme. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 5(3), 499-515. https://doi.org/10.1332/239868021x16171870951258

Domestic violence perpetrator programmes are a frequently used intervention to respond to perpetrators of domestic violence. However, there is considerable concern about the use of ‘online’, ‘virtual’, or ‘digital’ programmes delivered remotely. Poli... Read More about A problem solved is a problem created: the opportunities and challenges associated with an online domestic violence perpetrator programme.

Men and COVID-19: Where’s the policy? (2021)
Other
Baker, B., Alemann, C., Burrell, S., Griffith, D., Heidari, S., Kelland, J., …Mukherjee, S. (2021). Men and COVID-19: Where’s the policy?

Troubling Neurobiological Vulnerability: Psychiatric Risk and the Adverse Milieu in Environmental Epigenetics Research (2021)
Journal Article
Filipe, A. M., Lloyd, S., & Larivée, A. (2021). Troubling Neurobiological Vulnerability: Psychiatric Risk and the Adverse Milieu in Environmental Epigenetics Research. Frontiers in Sociology, 6, Article 635986. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.635986

In post-genomic science, the development of etiological models of neurobiological vulnerability to psychiatric risk has expanded exponentially in recent decades, particularly since the neuromolecular and biosocial turns in basic research. Among this... Read More about Troubling Neurobiological Vulnerability: Psychiatric Risk and the Adverse Milieu in Environmental Epigenetics Research.

Sexual violence as a sexual script in mainstream online pornography (2021)
Journal Article
Vera-Gray, F., McGlynn, C., Kureshi, I., & Butterby, K. (2021). Sexual violence as a sexual script in mainstream online pornography. The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society, 61(5), 1243-1260. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azab035

This article examines the ways in which mainstream pornography positions sexual violence as a normative sexual script by analysing the video titles found on the landing pages of the three most popular pornography websites in the United Kingdom. The s... Read More about Sexual violence as a sexual script in mainstream online pornography.

COVID-19 and Masculinities in Global Perspective: Reflections from Promundo's Research and Activism (2021)
Journal Article
Barker, G., Burrell, S., & Ruxton, S. (2021). COVID-19 and Masculinities in Global Perspective: Reflections from Promundo's Research and Activism. Men and Masculinities, 24(1), 168-174. https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184x211000385

COVID-19 has affected individuals and communities in gendered ways. A spike in men’s violence against women has been documented in multiple settings. Women have faced disproportionate job losses in many countries. Men have died at higher rates from C... Read More about COVID-19 and Masculinities in Global Perspective: Reflections from Promundo's Research and Activism.

English Validation of a Short Scale Designed to Detect Negative Attitudes towards Trans People (EANT) (2021)
Journal Article
Alonso-Martínez, L., Heras-Sevilla, D., Fernández-Hawrylak, M., & Forrest, S. (2021). English Validation of a Short Scale Designed to Detect Negative Attitudes towards Trans People (EANT). Sustainability, 13(7), Article 3760. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13073760

(1) Background: Negative attitudes towards sexual minorities are widespread in our society. The Scale of Negative Attitudes towards Transgender people (EANT) has been tested in Spanish-speaking countries in order to assess its applicability as a meas... Read More about English Validation of a Short Scale Designed to Detect Negative Attitudes towards Trans People (EANT).

Learning from safety incidents in high-reliability organizations: a systematic review of learning tools that could be adapted and used in healthcare (2021)
Journal Article
Serou, N., Sahota, L., Husband, A., Forrest, S., Slight, R., & Slight, S. (2021). Learning from safety incidents in high-reliability organizations: a systematic review of learning tools that could be adapted and used in healthcare. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 33(1), Article mzab046. https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzab046

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.

Deconstructing discourses in assessments of child neglect (2021)
Journal Article
Casey, B., & Hackett, S. (2021). Deconstructing discourses in assessments of child neglect. The British Journal of Social Work, 51(6), 2097-2115. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcab044

This article presents the findings of a qualitative study exploring how child neglect is ‘performed’ in social work practice. Informed by Foucauldian and feminist theoretical positions, semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten local authori... Read More about Deconstructing discourses in assessments of child neglect.

Inequalities and inclusion in exercise referral schemes: a mixed-method multi-scheme analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Oliver, E., Dodd-Reynolds, C., Kasim, A., & Vallis, D. (2021). Inequalities and inclusion in exercise referral schemes: a mixed-method multi-scheme analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(6), Article 3033. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18063033

Physical activity prescription, commonly through exercise referral schemes, is an established disease prevention and management pathway. There is considerable heterogeneity in terms of uptake, adherence, and outcomes, but because within-scheme analys... Read More about Inequalities and inclusion in exercise referral schemes: a mixed-method multi-scheme analysis.

Mediating a Global Capitalist, Speciesist Moral Vacuum: How Two Escaped Pigs disrupted Dyson Appliances’ State of Nature (2021)
Journal Article
David, M., & Stephens Griffin, N. (2021). Mediating a Global Capitalist, Speciesist Moral Vacuum: How Two Escaped Pigs disrupted Dyson Appliances’ State of Nature. Journal for critical animal studies, 18(1), 73-99

In 1998, two Tamworth Ginger pigs escaped on-route to slaughter, remaining fugitive for over a week on Dyson Appliances’ land in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England, the United Kingdom. Dyson factory workers helped search for them, and media interest was... Read More about Mediating a Global Capitalist, Speciesist Moral Vacuum: How Two Escaped Pigs disrupted Dyson Appliances’ State of Nature.

Discovering Sociology (2021)
Book
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.

A secondary analysis of the childhood obesity prevention Cochrane Review through a wider determinants of health lens: implications for research funders, researchers, policymakers and practitioners (2021)
Journal Article
Nobles, J., Summerbell, C., Brown, T., Jago, R., & Moore, T. (2021). A secondary analysis of the childhood obesity prevention Cochrane Review through a wider determinants of health lens: implications for research funders, researchers, policymakers and practitioners. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 18(1), Article 22. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-021-01082-2

Background Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are often regarded as the gold standard of evidence, and subsequently go on to inform policymaking. Cochrane Reviews synthesise this type of evidence to create recommendations for practice, policy, and f... Read More about A secondary analysis of the childhood obesity prevention Cochrane Review through a wider determinants of health lens: implications for research funders, researchers, policymakers and practitioners.

The psychic life of gentrification: mapping desire and resentment in the gentrifying city (2021)
Journal Article
Seitz, D. K., & Proudfoot, J. (2021). The psychic life of gentrification: mapping desire and resentment in the gentrifying city. Cultural Geographies, 28(2), 213-219. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474021993427

Following the lead of artists and scholars in Black, feminist, psychoanalytic, and queer studies and geographies, this special issue and editorial call for greater scholarly attention to the conscious and unconscious emotional, psychic, and affective... Read More about The psychic life of gentrification: mapping desire and resentment in the gentrifying city.