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‘Education as the practice of freedom?’ – prison education and the pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
O'Brien, K., King, H., Phillips, J., & Dalton, P. A. K. (. O. T. D. U. I. C. (2022). ‘Education as the practice of freedom?’ – prison education and the pandemic. Educational Review, 74(3), 685-703. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2021.1996335

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a corner of society where the spotlight has not fallen. As in ‘ordinary’ times, this is the black hole of prisons, whose population consists of predominantly poor, minoritised and often younger adults.... Read More about ‘Education as the practice of freedom?’ – prison education and the pandemic.

Building Bridges Across Diversity: Utilising the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Programme to promote an egalitarian higher education community within three UK prisons (2018)
Journal Article
King, H., Measham, F., & O’Brien, K. (2019). Building Bridges Across Diversity: Utilising the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Programme to promote an egalitarian higher education community within three UK prisons. International journal of bias, identity and diversities in education, 4(1), 66-81. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijbide.2019010105

The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Programme is a unique prison education programme that brings together ‘Inside' (prison) students and ‘Outside' (university) students to learn collaboratively through dialogue and community-building exercises within the... Read More about Building Bridges Across Diversity: Utilising the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Programme to promote an egalitarian higher education community within three UK prisons.

“Skittles & Red Bull is my favourite flavour”: E-cigarettes, smoking, vaping and the changing landscape of nicotine consumption amongst British teenagers – implications for the normalisation debate (2016)
Journal Article
Measham, F., O'Brien, K., & Turnbull, G. (2016). “Skittles & Red Bull is my favourite flavour”: E-cigarettes, smoking, vaping and the changing landscape of nicotine consumption amongst British teenagers – implications for the normalisation debate. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 23(3), 224-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2016.1178708

Aims: From an academic discourse explaining trends in drug-related attitudes and behaviours, “normalisation” now also encompasses public health policy advocating “denormalisation” of smoking. This study explored young people’s attitudes and behaviour... Read More about “Skittles & Red Bull is my favourite flavour”: E-cigarettes, smoking, vaping and the changing landscape of nicotine consumption amongst British teenagers – implications for the normalisation debate.

New psychoactive substances and British drug policy: A view from the cyber-psychonauts (2014)
Journal Article
O'Brien, K., Chatwin, C., Jenkins, C., & Measham, F. (2015). New psychoactive substances and British drug policy: A view from the cyber-psychonauts. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 22(3), 217-223. https://doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2014.989959

Aims: (i) To collect data on the consumption patterns, purchase patterns and motivations of the online NPS community, and (ii) engage this specific group of NPS users in an exploration of recent policy developments in the UK focusing on their experie... Read More about New psychoactive substances and British drug policy: A view from the cyber-psychonauts.

RisKit: The participatory development and observational evaluation of a multi-component programme for adolescent risk behaviour reduction (2014)
Journal Article
Stevens, A., Coulton, S., O'Brien, K., Butler, S., Gladstone, B., & Tonkin, J. (2014). RisKit: The participatory development and observational evaluation of a multi-component programme for adolescent risk behaviour reduction. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 21(1), 24-34. https://doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2013.787526

Aims: to develop and observationally evaluate a multi-component programme for the reduction of risk behaviours in vulnerable adolescents. Methods: the programme was theoretically informed by Catalano and Hawkins’ social development model. It was de... Read More about RisKit: The participatory development and observational evaluation of a multi-component programme for adolescent risk behaviour reduction.

Connecting the Gendered Door: Women, Violence and Doorwork (2007)
Journal Article
Hobbs, D., O'Brien, K., & Westmarland, L. (2007). Connecting the Gendered Door: Women, Violence and Doorwork. British Journal of Sociology, 58(1), 21-38. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2007.00137.x

This paper explores the emerging role of women who work as ‘bouncers’, or doorstaff, in the night-time economy and examines how the cultural capital of the female bouncer is connected to the methods utilized to control licensed premises. It is drawn... Read More about Connecting the Gendered Door: Women, Violence and Doorwork.