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‘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.

“Whatever I said didn’t register with her”: medical fatphobia and interactional and relational disconnect in healthcare encounters (2024)
Journal Article
Kost, C., Jamie, K., & Mohr, E. (2024). “Whatever I said didn’t register with her”: medical fatphobia and interactional and relational disconnect in healthcare encounters. Frontiers in Sociology, 9, Article 1303919. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1303919

Introduction: This article focuses on medical fatphobia as a specific phenomenon structuring interactions between patients and healthcare practitioners. Throughout the article, we use ‘fat’ and ‘fatphobia’ as the preferred terms in the body positivit... Read More about “Whatever I said didn’t register with her”: medical fatphobia and interactional and relational disconnect in healthcare encounters.

Innovating in the Time of Covid: Adapting Services for Young People Experiencing Extra‐Familial Risks and Harms (2024)
Journal Article
Peace, D., Goldsmith, C., & Lefevre, M. (2024). Innovating in the Time of Covid: Adapting Services for Young People Experiencing Extra‐Familial Risks and Harms. Child & Family Social Work, https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.13163

This paper explores how seven organisations from the children's social care sector in England adapted their service during the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions to better meet the needs of young people experiencing extra-familial risks and harms. Partic... Read More about Innovating in the Time of Covid: Adapting Services for Young People Experiencing Extra‐Familial Risks and Harms.

Pandemic Life-lines: A Multimodal Autoethnography of COVID-19 Illness, Isolation, and Shared Immunities (2024)
Journal Article
Filipe, A. (2024). Pandemic Life-lines: A Multimodal Autoethnography of COVID-19 Illness, Isolation, and Shared Immunities. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 11(1), 1-32. https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.11.1.7359

As a crosscutting concept in biology, anthropology, and philosophy, immunity has been a critical ‘site’ of debate on the relations between self and other, organism and environment, risk and responsibility, the corporeal and the political. In this Res... Read More about Pandemic Life-lines: A Multimodal Autoethnography of COVID-19 Illness, Isolation, and Shared Immunities.

Introduction: Marginalised Voices in Criminology (2024)
Book Chapter
Addison, M., & Stockdale, K. J. (2024). Introduction: Marginalised Voices in Criminology. In M. Addison, & K. J. Stockdale (Eds.), Marginalised Voices in Criminology. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003260967-1

This book is about people who are under-heard and under-served in criminology; it is an attempt to make space and amplify voices that are too often omitted or overlooked, spoken about, or for. In essence, it is a project about listening, and not only... Read More about Introduction: Marginalised Voices in Criminology.

Dis/ableist Criminology: applying disability theory within a criminological context (2024)
Book Chapter
Macdonald, S. J., & Peacock, D. (2024). Dis/ableist Criminology: applying disability theory within a criminological context. In K. J. Stockdale, & M. Addison (Eds.), Marginalised Voices in Criminology. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003260967-3

This chapter is a call for the discipline of criminology to begin to re-engage with the marginalised voices of disabled people who have been excluded, pathologised and silenced within this field of study. By tracing the parallel developments of crime... Read More about Dis/ableist Criminology: applying disability theory within a criminological context.

Final Reflections (2024)
Book Chapter
Stockdale, K. J., & Addison, M. (2024). Final Reflections. In K. J. Stockdale, & M. Addison (Eds.), Marginalised Voices in Criminology. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003260967-16

It is important to explicitly acknowledge in the conclusion of the book that we, as editors of the collection, do not have all the answers when it comes to addressing deep-seated issues relating to race, gender, class, dis/ability, sexuality, and oth... Read More about Final Reflections.

Testimonial injustice: exploring ‘credibility’ as a barrier to justice for people with learning disabilities/autism who report sexual violence (2024)
Journal Article
Williams, H., & Jobe, A. (2024). Testimonial injustice: exploring ‘credibility’ as a barrier to justice for people with learning disabilities/autism who report sexual violence. Disability and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2024.2323455

Rape/sexual assault cases have high levels of attrition, with reports of sexual violence from people with learning disabilities/autism disproportionately represented. This paper presents the results of a small qualitative study in the UK which focuse... Read More about Testimonial injustice: exploring ‘credibility’ as a barrier to justice for people with learning disabilities/autism who report sexual violence.

Educating education workers (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine
Gamsu, S. (in press). Educating education workers

How do we educate education workers within education unions? This short piece examines the theoretical and strategic implications of political education within the University and Colleges Union and reflects on how we might seek to develop an alternat... Read More about Educating education workers.

Gig Economy (2024)
Book Chapter
Jamie, K., & Musilek, K. (in press). Gig Economy. In The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Blackwell

The so-called gig economy, whereby self-employed workers are paid for completing discrete tasks, is changing the landscape of work in the west. Although freelance work has always been a part of the labor market, it was typically concentrated in areas... Read More about Gig Economy.

Using interview excerpts to facilitate focus group discussion (2024)
Journal Article
Geampana, A., & Perrotta, M. (2024). Using interview excerpts to facilitate focus group discussion. Qualitative Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941241234283

The use of interviews and focus groups is well-established in the social science methods literature. However, discussion on how research can combine these two methods in creative ways is less common. While researchers are generally aware of the poten... Read More about Using interview excerpts to facilitate focus group discussion.

Innovation in Social Care: New Approaches for Young People Affected by Extra-Familial Risks and Harms (2024)
Book
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.

Foregrounding Meaning and Motive in the Domestic Abuse Perpetration of and Response to Neurodivergent Men (2024)
Journal Article
Renehan, N. (2024). Foregrounding Meaning and Motive in the Domestic Abuse Perpetration of and Response to Neurodivergent Men. Deviant Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2024.2319638

Typological approaches have thus far neglected the perpetration, profiles, and response to neurodivergent men who are autistic, have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and those experiencing psychosis. This article addresses this gap, though ad... Read More about Foregrounding Meaning and Motive in the Domestic Abuse Perpetration of and Response to Neurodivergent Men.

Social work beyond the pandemic: Exploring social work values for a new eco-social world (2024)
Journal Article
Banks, S., Bertotti, T., Cairns, L., Shears, J., Shum, M., Sobočan, A. M., …Úriz, M. J. (2024). Social work beyond the pandemic: Exploring social work values for a new eco-social world. International Social Work, https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728241227062

This article draws on a series of international research-focused webinars with social workers in 2022. They were designed to examine the rethinking of professional values during the pandemic in the context of other global crises, particularly the cli... Read More about Social work beyond the pandemic: Exploring social work values for a new eco-social world.

Bystander experiences of domestic violence and abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic (2024)
Journal Article
Walker, A., Fenton, R. A., Parry, B., Barton, E. R., Snowdon, L. C., Donovan, C., …Hughes, K. (2024). Bystander experiences of domestic violence and abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 8(2), 141-161. https://doi.org/10.1332/23986808y2024d000000020

This article seeks to understand the experiences of bystanders to domestic violence and abuse (DVA) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Wales. Globally, professionals voiced concern over the COVID-19 restrictions exacerbating conditions for DVA to occur.... Read More about Bystander experiences of domestic violence and abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic.

For Better or Worse? Improving the Response to Domestic Abuse Offenders on Probation (2024)
Journal Article
Renehan, N., & Gadd, D. (2024). For Better or Worse? Improving the Response to Domestic Abuse Offenders on Probation. The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azae003

As the Ministry of Justice looks to develop a ‘new generation’ of programmes to reduce reoffending, we reflect on what can be learnt from the only accredited domestic abuse programme in England and Wales, Building Better Relationships (BBR). Findings... Read More about For Better or Worse? Improving the Response to Domestic Abuse Offenders on Probation.