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Ten dimensions of dispute over moral panic theory in an age of COVID-19 (2024)
Book Chapter
David, M. (2024). Ten dimensions of dispute over moral panic theory in an age of COVID-19. In Folk Devils and Moral Panics in the COVID-19 Pandemic (8-19). London: Routledge

Emerging from symbolic interactionism, moral panic theory was taken up by Marxists focused on elite regulation. Others saw moral panics following regulative failure. Ten dimensions of dispute over moral panic exist, offering a useful framework to exa... Read More about Ten dimensions of dispute over moral panic theory in an age of COVID-19.

Mechanisms That Promote and Support Family Preservation for Children at the Edge of Care: A Realist Synthesis (2024)
Journal Article
Redgate, S., Smart, D., Barrett, S., Barron, C., Burns, S., Frost, H., …McGovern, R. (2024). Mechanisms That Promote and Support Family Preservation for Children at the Edge of Care: A Realist Synthesis. SAGE Open, 14(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241260998

Children in care of the state are amongst the most disadvantaged in society. They have often experienced adverse childhood experiences leading to their care entry including abuse and neglect. Longitudinal data suggests problems children in care of th... Read More about Mechanisms That Promote and Support Family Preservation for Children at the Edge of Care: A Realist Synthesis.

Can Black Critical Theory sit with Mad Studies in education in Britain? (2024)
Journal Article
Doharty, N. (2024). Can Black Critical Theory sit with Mad Studies in education in Britain?. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2024.2366287

This article draws on the scholarship of Black Critical Theory in education. It enriches this literature by provocatively commanding scholarly and methodological space for Mad Studies to explore, understand and address, distressed Black pupils’ exper... Read More about Can Black Critical Theory sit with Mad Studies in education in Britain?.

Fertility apps, datafication and knowledge production in reproductive health (2024)
Journal Article
Geampana, A. (2024). Fertility apps, datafication and knowledge production in reproductive health. Sociology of Health & Illness, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13793

Despite being the target of much criticism, commercialised digital technologies have proliferated in reproductive health arenas. Fertility applications (apps) are now some of the most popular and ubiquitous digital health tracking technologies, with... Read More about Fertility apps, datafication and knowledge production in reproductive health.

Analysing adherence to guidelines for time-lapse imaging information on UK fertility clinic websites (2024)
Journal Article
Perrotta, M., Zampino, L., Geampana, A., & Bhide, P. (2024). Analysing adherence to guidelines for time-lapse imaging information on UK fertility clinic websites. Human Fertility, 27(1), Article 2346595. https://doi.org/10.1080/14647273.2024.2346595

This study aims to systematically analyze the provision of information on Time-lapse Imaging (TLI) by UK fertility clinic websites. We conducted an analysis of 106 clinic websites that offer fertility treatment to self-funded patients. The analysis a... Read More about Analysing adherence to guidelines for time-lapse imaging information on UK fertility clinic websites.

Relational epistemic safety: what young people facing harm in their communities want and need from professionals tasked with helping them (2024)
Journal Article
Owens, R., Walker, J., & Bradbury-Leather, V. (2024). Relational epistemic safety: what young people facing harm in their communities want and need from professionals tasked with helping them. Journal of Youth Studies, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2024.2348727

When young people are harmed beyond their families, what kinds of professional relationships help to keep them safe? Contextual Safeguarding is an approach to creating safety in community and school contexts that asks how changes can be made in the e... Read More about Relational epistemic safety: what young people facing harm in their communities want and need from professionals tasked with helping them.

Was Hannah Twynnoy Killed by a Tiger in England in 1703? A Historical Sociological Approach (2024)
Journal Article
David, M. (2024). Was Hannah Twynnoy Killed by a Tiger in England in 1703? A Historical Sociological Approach. Sociology Lens, https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12464

This paper approaches globalization through the lens of folk lore, myth, and John Law's hopeful monsters, focusing on Hannah Twynnoy, a woman allegedly killed by a tiger in Malmesbury (England) in 1703. Hannah's death was taken up three hundred years... Read More about Was Hannah Twynnoy Killed by a Tiger in England in 1703? A Historical Sociological Approach.

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.

The material basis of elite schooling: capital and the state (2024)
Journal Article
Gamsu, S., Courtois, A., & Boden, R. (2024). The material basis of elite schooling: capital and the state. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 45(3), 305-324. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2024.2335001

This editorial for the special issue outlines a framework for understanding the material basis for elite schooling. It examines how we can conceptualise the paradoxical nature of the relations between capital, the state and elite schools. It synthes... Read More about The material basis of elite schooling: capital and the state.

Criminal Justice Policy and Victim-Survivor Empowerment: A Case Study of Domestic Violence Disclosure Schemes in England and Wales (2024)
Journal Article
Barlow, C., Walklate, S., & Renehan, N. (2024). Criminal Justice Policy and Victim-Survivor Empowerment: A Case Study of Domestic Violence Disclosure Schemes in England and Wales. feminists@law, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.1259

Empowering victim-survivors has long been recognised as one key strategy in reducing domestic abuse. This article explores whether Domestic Violence Disclosure Schemes as a criminal justice response to preventing domestic abuse in the United Kingdom... Read More about Criminal Justice Policy and Victim-Survivor Empowerment: A Case Study of Domestic Violence Disclosure Schemes in England and Wales.

Addressing the Black Box of AI - A Model and Research Agenda on the Co-Constitution of Aging and Artificial Intelligence (2024)
Journal Article
Gallistl, V., Banday, M. U. L., Berridge, C., Grigorovich, A., Jarke, J., Mannheim, I., …Peine, A. (2024). Addressing the Black Box of AI - A Model and Research Agenda on the Co-Constitution of Aging and Artificial Intelligence. The Gerontologist, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnae039

Algorithmic technologies and (large) data infrastructures, often referred to as Artificial Intelligence (AI), have received increasing attention from gerontological research in the last decade. While there is much literature that dissects and explore... Read More about Addressing the Black Box of AI - A Model and Research Agenda on the Co-Constitution of Aging and Artificial Intelligence.

A ‘Cultural Models’ Approach to Psychotherapy for Refugees and Asylum Seekers: A Case Study from the UK (2024)
Journal Article
Ziyachi, M., & Castellani, B. (2024). A ‘Cultural Models’ Approach to Psychotherapy for Refugees and Asylum Seekers: A Case Study from the UK. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(5), Article 650. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21050650

Despite the existence of significant research on the mental health care challenges of migrants, particularly refugees and asylum seekers, less attention has been paid to treatment approaches. We used a case study from the UK to look at the topic from... Read More about A ‘Cultural Models’ Approach to Psychotherapy for Refugees and Asylum Seekers: A Case Study from the UK.

‘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.

‘Known to services’ or ‘Known by professionals’: Relationality at the core of trauma-informed responses to extra-familial harm (2024)
Journal Article
Firmin, C., Langhoff, K., Eyal-Lubling, R., Ana Maglajlic, R., & Lefevre, M. (2024). ‘Known to services’ or ‘Known by professionals’: Relationality at the core of trauma-informed responses to extra-familial harm. Children and Youth Services Review, 160, Article 107595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107595

Efforts to shift from criminal justice to welfare-based responses to exploitation and other forms of extra-familial risks and harms, have centred relational approaches. In particular, the role that relationships between professionals and young people... Read More about ‘Known to services’ or ‘Known by professionals’: Relationality at the core of trauma-informed responses to extra-familial harm.

Explosive and Harmful Impulses: A Subset of Child and Adolescent-to-Parent Violence and Abuse (2024)
Journal Article
Rutter, N. (2024). Explosive and Harmful Impulses: A Subset of Child and Adolescent-to-Parent Violence and Abuse. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605241244470

"Filial harm" refers to harms experienced by a parent and caused by their child, with increasing umbrella terminology developing to capture all forms of harm despite differing experiences and contexts. In this paper, based on a Glaserian Grounded The... Read More about Explosive and Harmful Impulses: A Subset of Child and Adolescent-to-Parent Violence and Abuse.

‘Levelling up’ social mobility? Comparing the social and spatial mobility for university graduates across districts of Britain (2024)
Journal Article
Yu, Y., Gamsu, S., & Forsberg, H. (2024). ‘Levelling up’ social mobility? Comparing the social and spatial mobility for university graduates across districts of Britain. The British Journal of Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13089

Social and spatial mobility have been subject to substantial recent sociological and policy debate. Complementing other recent work, in this paper we explore these patterns in relation to higher education. Making use of high‐quality data from the hig... Read More about ‘Levelling up’ social mobility? Comparing the social and spatial mobility for university graduates across districts of Britain.

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.