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Dr Stephen Crossley's Outputs (22)

‘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)
Journal Article
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.

Sports Cages as Social Infrastructure: Sociality, Context, and Contest in Hackney's Cages (2024)
Journal Article
Billingham, L., Curry, F., & Crossley, S. (2024). Sports Cages as Social Infrastructure: Sociality, Context, and Contest in Hackney's Cages. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 56(6), 2021-2041. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13090

The concept of social infrastructure has experienced a rapid rise to prominence in recent years, both in academia and in policy. In this article, we explore a case study of cages (also known as Multi‐Use Games Areas) in Hackney, North‐East London. We... Read More about Sports Cages as Social Infrastructure: Sociality, Context, and Contest in Hackney's Cages.

Reducing the need for foodbanks in County Durham (2024)
Report
Crossley, S., Orton, A., Corrigan, D., Davidson, L., Diamond, N., Hall, C., McGrother, I., Smith, K., & Wayte, M. (2024). Reducing the need for foodbanks in County Durham. Centre for Social Justice and Community Action (CSJCA), Durham Christian Partnership (DCP)

In recent years, foodbanks have become an increasingly common part of the voluntary sector landscape throughout the UK. It is estimated that there are over 2800 foodbanks in the UK at the current time, with the number of people using them steadily an... Read More about Reducing the need for foodbanks in County Durham.

‘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, 16(2), 307-322. 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.

‘You either go on the gang life, or you go on that football life’: class, race, and place in imaginaries of South London’s sports cages (2023)
Journal Article
Crossley, S., Curry, F., & Billingham, L. (2024). ‘You either go on the gang life, or you go on that football life’: class, race, and place in imaginaries of South London’s sports cages. Journal of Youth Studies, 27(10), 1494-1509. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2023.2226597

In considering the spatialization of race and the racialization of space, this article explores dominant media representations of sports cages in the UK. To date, media interest in these cages, often found on social housing estates, has revolved arou... Read More about ‘You either go on the gang life, or you go on that football life’: class, race, and place in imaginaries of South London’s sports cages.

“They Tarred Me with the Same Brush”: Navigating Stigma in the Context of Child Removal (2023)
Journal Article
McGrath, J., Lhussier, M., Crossley, S., & Forster, N. (2023). “They Tarred Me with the Same Brush”: Navigating Stigma in the Context of Child Removal. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(12), Article 6162. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20126162

Child removals are increasing in England and Wales. Family court involvement is particularly common among women with multiple disadvantages, and the rates are higher in economically marginalised areas. This article aims to explore women’s narratives... Read More about “They Tarred Me with the Same Brush”: Navigating Stigma in the Context of Child Removal.

Social capital and women’s narratives of homelessness and multiple exclusion in northern England (2023)
Journal Article
McGrath, J., Crossley, S., Lhussier, M., & Forster, N. (2023). Social capital and women’s narratives of homelessness and multiple exclusion in northern England. International Journal for Equity in Health, 22, Article 41. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-023-01846-1

Women experiencing three or more co-occurring issues (homelessness, substance misuse, mental health) are a highly vulnerable population associated with multimorbidity. Taking women’s life stories of trajectories into social exclusion in the north of... Read More about Social capital and women’s narratives of homelessness and multiple exclusion in northern England.

Misrecognising ‘complex’ families: a social harm perspective (2021)
Book Chapter
Crossley, S. (2021). Misrecognising ‘complex’ families: a social harm perspective. In S. Quaid, C. Hugman, & A. Wilcock (Eds.), Negotiating Families and Personal Lives in the 21st Century: Exploring Diversity, Social Change and Inequalities. Routledge

Responsibility, resilience and symbolic power (2021)
Journal Article
King, H., Crossley, S., & Smith, R. (2021). Responsibility, resilience and symbolic power. Sociological Review, 69(5), 920-936. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026120986108

The reciprocal nature of the relationship between the concepts of responsibilisation and resilience appears, in policy and political circles at least, almost natural. Whilst both concepts have been subjected to sustained academic critique for their p... Read More about Responsibility, resilience and symbolic power.

‘We know it works..’: The Troubled Families Programme and the pre-determined boundary judgements of decontextualised policy evaluation (2019)
Journal Article
Silver, D., & Crossley, S. (2020). ‘We know it works..’: The Troubled Families Programme and the pre-determined boundary judgements of decontextualised policy evaluation. Critical Social Policy, 40(4), 566-585. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018319892443

This article draws on the Troubled Families Programme (TFP) to highlight the ways in which particular contexts – such as socioeconomic and symbolic structures – are neglected in forms of evaluation with an establishment orientation. The article probl... Read More about ‘We know it works..’: The Troubled Families Programme and the pre-determined boundary judgements of decontextualised policy evaluation.

Consumption of energy drinks by children and young people: a rapid review examining evidence of physical effects and consumer attitudes (2016)
Journal Article
Visram, S., Cheetham, M., Riby, D., Crossley, S., & Lake, A. (2016). Consumption of energy drinks by children and young people: a rapid review examining evidence of physical effects and consumer attitudes. BMJ Open, 6(10), Article e010380. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010380

Objective To examine patterns of energy drink consumption by children and young people, attitudes towards these drinks, and any associations with health or other outcomes. Design Rapid evidence assessment and narrative synthesis. Data sources 9 elect... Read More about Consumption of energy drinks by children and young people: a rapid review examining evidence of physical effects and consumer attitudes.