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Gender Essentialism and U.S. Attitudes Towards the Media Coverage of Women’s Sport (2025)
Journal Article
Gemar, A., Allison, R., & Pope, S. (online). Gender Essentialism and U.S. Attitudes Towards the Media Coverage of Women’s Sport. Communication and Sport, https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251327958

This article examines public attitudes towards the media coverage of women’s sport in a context of recent growth but also continued inequality in both quantity and quality of coverage. Drawing from literature on the role of gender ideology in underpi... Read More about Gender Essentialism and U.S. Attitudes Towards the Media Coverage of Women’s Sport.

The Balancing Act: Reflections From Three Projects on Negotiating Participation and Protection in Doing Research With Children and Young People on Violence and Abuse (2025)
Journal Article
Rabe, J., Jobson, C., & Cairns, L. O. (2025). The Balancing Act: Reflections From Three Projects on Negotiating Participation and Protection in Doing Research With Children and Young People on Violence and Abuse. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 24, https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069251323626

The interplay between participation and protection often sits in tension in research with children and young people (CYP), especially on topics related to violence and abuse. Drawing upon our three doctoral research projects, which involved different... Read More about The Balancing Act: Reflections From Three Projects on Negotiating Participation and Protection in Doing Research With Children and Young People on Violence and Abuse.

Under the Microscope: Shifting Perspectives on an Ethics Case in Participatory Health Research in a German Care Home (2025)
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von Köppen, M., Banks, S., Brear, M., Drinkwater, J., Higgins, M., & Shabangu, P. (online). Under the Microscope: Shifting Perspectives on an Ethics Case in Participatory Health Research in a German Care Home. Ethics and Social Welfare, https://doi.org/10.1080/17496535.2025.2460112

This article starts from an academic researcher’s written ethics case drawn from a participatory action research project in a residential care home for older people in Germany. The case contains an implicit dilemma for the academic researcher about w... Read More about Under the Microscope: Shifting Perspectives on an Ethics Case in Participatory Health Research in a German Care Home.

‘There are too many women with love brains’: Domestic Violence and Victim Blaming in China (2025)
Journal Article
Miao, L., & Westmarland, N. (online). ‘There are too many women with love brains’: Domestic Violence and Victim Blaming in China. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, https://doi.org/10.1332/23986808Y2025D000000073

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.

Sexual violence in higher education: staff knowledge, understanding and confidence in supporting minoritized students who disclose sexual violence (2025)
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Gunby, C., Machin, L., Smailes, H., Ansari, S., Chantler, K., Bradbury-Jones, C., Butterby, K., & Donovan, C. (online). Sexual violence in higher education: staff knowledge, understanding and confidence in supporting minoritized students who disclose sexual violence. Gender and Education, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2025.2471304

Sexual violence on UK university campuses has received research and policy attention. However, little is known about the experiences of and responses to student victim-survivors with minoritized identities and how inequalities linked to race, sexuali... Read More about Sexual violence in higher education: staff knowledge, understanding and confidence in supporting minoritized students who disclose sexual violence.

Fatphobia as a form of gender-based violence: Fat women, public space and body belonging work (2025)
Journal Article
Mohr, E., Jamie, K., & Hockin-Boyers, H. (online). Fatphobia as a form of gender-based violence: Fat women, public space and body belonging work. Fat Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2025.2469357

In this article we propose bringing together theoretical frameworks from fat studies and research into street harassment, as a form of gendered violence, to provide a novel lens for thinking about fat women’s experiences of public space. By focusing... Read More about Fatphobia as a form of gender-based violence: Fat women, public space and body belonging work.

If You Want the University to Change, Don't Theorise—Organise! (2025)
Journal Article
Gamsu, S. (online). If You Want the University to Change, Don't Theorise—Organise!. The British Journal of Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13200

Organising as workers to build industrial power within our universities is a key element of how we respond to redundancies, marketisation and other political pressures on higher education. This piece argues that academics, as a subset of university w... Read More about If You Want the University to Change, Don't Theorise—Organise!.

Searching for a needle in a haystack? An exploratory study into the policing of ‘needle spiking’ in the UK (2025)
Journal Article
Westmarland, N., & McCarry, M. (online). Searching for a needle in a haystack? An exploratory study into the policing of ‘needle spiking’ in the UK. Policing and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2025.2462742

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.

The Impossibility of ‘Good Mothering’ in Child Welfare Systems When Referred for Non-Traditional Harms (2025)
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Rutter, N., Firmin, C., Garvey, D., O’Brien, K., & Owens, R. (2025). The Impossibility of ‘Good Mothering’ in Child Welfare Systems When Referred for Non-Traditional Harms. Social Sciences, 14(2), Article 97. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14020097

Due to harmful narratives within child welfare and child protection services and systems, mothers in contact with these services who aim to meet the symbolic representation of the ‘ideal mother’ frequently find themselves being portrayed as the ‘bad... Read More about The Impossibility of ‘Good Mothering’ in Child Welfare Systems When Referred for Non-Traditional Harms.

Students’ Perceptions of Racial Diversity and Inclusion in UK Universities (2025)
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Jones, C., & Boliver, V. (2025). Students’ Perceptions of Racial Diversity and Inclusion in UK Universities. Social Sciences, 14(2), Article 84. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14020084

Building on previous studies of racial inequality in higher education, this paper reports the findings of an online survey (N = 407) exploring the extent to which UK university students recognised the existence of racism in wider society and perceive... Read More about Students’ Perceptions of Racial Diversity and Inclusion in UK Universities.

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)
Journal Article
Gadouleau, M., & Kutner, D. C. (2025). Generalising the maximum independent set algorithm via Boolean networks. Information and Computation, 303, 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)
Journal Article
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, 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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.