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Tensions in intergenerational practice guidance: intergroup contact versus community development (2020)
Journal Article
Wright Bevans, K., Murray, M., & Lamont, A. (2020). Tensions in intergenerational practice guidance: intergroup contact versus community development. International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 14(2), https://doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.3228

Intergenerational practice (IP) is an approach within community health promotion which aims to bring older and younger community members together in collaborative activity. Little research has critically examined the assumptions and values within IP... Read More about Tensions in intergenerational practice guidance: intergroup contact versus community development.

Ritual Morphospace Revisited: The form, function, and factor structure of ritual practice (2020)
Journal Article
Kapitany, R. (2020). Ritual Morphospace Revisited: The form, function, and factor structure of ritual practice. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0436

Human rituals exhibit bewildering diversity, from the Mauritian Kavadi to Catholic communion. Is this diversity
infinitely plastic or are there some general dimensions along which ritual features vary? We analysed two cross-cultural datasets, one dr... Read More about Ritual Morphospace Revisited: The form, function, and factor structure of ritual practice.

Charitable Purposes, Demonstrable Benefit and the Role of the Charity Commission: The Fourth Pemsel Head Recast (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Charitable Purposes, Demonstrable Benefit and the Role of the Charity Commission: The Fourth Pemsel Head Recast. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 445-465

The Charities Act 2011 requires that charitable purposes must fit within one or more of the statutory descriptions of ‘charity’ and, demonstrably, be in the public benefit. From the perspective of the now dismantled fourth Pemsel head of charity, thi... Read More about Charitable Purposes, Demonstrable Benefit and the Role of the Charity Commission: The Fourth Pemsel Head Recast.