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Interrogating the deployment of ‘risk’ and ‘vulnerability’ in the context of early intervention initiatives to prevent child sexual exploitation (2022)
Journal Article
Mythen, G., & Weston, S. (2022). Interrogating the deployment of ‘risk’ and ‘vulnerability’ in the context of early intervention initiatives to prevent child sexual exploitation. Health, Risk and Society, 1 - 19. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698575.2022.2150750

This article draws on data collected from a qualitative study designed to assess the effectiveness of an early intervention programme aimed to raise awareness of Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) among young people. The programme was implemented by a l... Read More about Interrogating the deployment of ‘risk’ and ‘vulnerability’ in the context of early intervention initiatives to prevent child sexual exploitation.

Strangers in our midst: Immigration, social capital and segmented conflict (2022)
Journal Article
Griffiths. (2022). Strangers in our midst: Immigration, social capital and segmented conflict. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 22(4), 559-580. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895820986226

Putnam famously stated in his ‘hunkering down’ thesis that residents of diverse communities experiencing immigration retreat into their homes inhibiting the production of ‘social capital’. Immigration is therefore often posited to disrupt communities... Read More about Strangers in our midst: Immigration, social capital and segmented conflict.

Continued and intensified hostility: The problematisation of immigration in the UK government’s 2021 New Plan for Immigration (2022)
Journal Article
GRIFFITHS, C., & TREBILCOCK, J. (2022). Continued and intensified hostility: The problematisation of immigration in the UK government’s 2021 New Plan for Immigration. Critical Social Policy, 43(3), 401-422. https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221109133

Drawing on Bacchi’s (2009) ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ framework, this article provides a critical analysis of HM Government’s (2021a) New Plan for Immigration. We explore how immigration is problematised, the assumptions that underlie th... Read More about Continued and intensified hostility: The problematisation of immigration in the UK government’s 2021 New Plan for Immigration.

Transnational Healthcare Preferences Among EU Nationals in the UK: A Qualitative Assessment (2022)
Journal Article
Moreh, C., McGhee, D., & Vlachantoni, A. (2022). Transnational Healthcare Preferences Among EU Nationals in the UK: A Qualitative Assessment. Sociological Research Online, 28(2), 462-481. https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804211058744

This article explores the motivational factors behind preferences for medical care in the country of residence or the country of origin among EU nationals living in the UK. Undertaking a thematic analysis on a large-N qualitative data set, the articl... Read More about Transnational Healthcare Preferences Among EU Nationals in the UK: A Qualitative Assessment.

Global Climate Strike Protesters and Media Coverage of the Protests in Truro and Manchester (2021)
Book Chapter
Doherty. (2021). Global Climate Strike Protesters and Media Coverage of the Protests in Truro and Manchester. In When Students Protest: Universities in the Global North

The Global Climate Strike (GCS) movement is by far the largest and most international youth protest movement to date. Drawing on surveys of UK protesters in two demonstrations, in semi-rural Truro in Cornwall and urban Manchester on 15 March 2019 thi... Read More about Global Climate Strike Protesters and Media Coverage of the Protests in Truro and Manchester.

Transnational Healthcare as Process: multiplicity and directionality in the engagements with healthcare among Polish migrants in the UK (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). Transnational Healthcare as Process: multiplicity and directionality in the engagements with healthcare among Polish migrants in the UK. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2021.1941820

Drawing on a mix-methods study comprised of an online questionnaire and semi-structured interviews, this article presents findings about the complexity and development in time of health service use by Polish migrants living in the United Kingdom. The... Read More about Transnational Healthcare as Process: multiplicity and directionality in the engagements with healthcare among Polish migrants in the UK.

A history of abuse: Documenting the harms experienced by the 'Trainspotting Generation' (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). A history of abuse: Documenting the harms experienced by the 'Trainspotting Generation'. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1172

The story of the past 40 years has been the relentless hollowing-out of industrial Britain leading to long-term unemployment and discarded generations that have been excluded socially and economically (Pearson 1987a, 1987b, Buchanan and Young 2000).... Read More about A history of abuse: Documenting the harms experienced by the 'Trainspotting Generation'.

The making of transnational distinction: An embodied cultural perspective on Chinese women students’ mobility (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). The making of transnational distinction: An embodied cultural perspective on Chinese women students’ mobility. British Journal of Sociology of Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2020.1804836

Transnational distinction is highly relevant in an age when western degree inflation intersects with harsh gender expectations for Chinese women student migrants, a significant group of players in the scene of UK higher education. Drawing on particip... Read More about The making of transnational distinction: An embodied cultural perspective on Chinese women students’ mobility.

Navigating the unequal education space in post-9/11 England: British Muslim girls talk about their educational aspirations and future expectations (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Navigating the unequal education space in post-9/11 England: British Muslim girls talk about their educational aspirations and future expectations. Educational Philosophy and Theory, https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2020.1769604

This paper explores educational inequalities through an analysis of the educational aspirations and future expectations of British girls and young women who identify as Muslim. It draws on qualitative interviews and focus group discussions with teen... Read More about Navigating the unequal education space in post-9/11 England: British Muslim girls talk about their educational aspirations and future expectations.

Utilizing the Moral Nobility of Older Chinese Women in Governance – the Uses of Humility, Empathy and an Ethics of Care in Moral Clinics in Huzhou City (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Utilizing the Moral Nobility of Older Chinese Women in Governance – the Uses of Humility, Empathy and an Ethics of Care in Moral Clinics in Huzhou City. British Journal of Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12736

This paper examines the emergence of the role of “moral doctors” who volunteer in what are called “moral clinics” in Huzhou city. In these moral clinics, the characteristics, experiences, and attributes of older women, in particular, are highly value... Read More about Utilizing the Moral Nobility of Older Chinese Women in Governance – the Uses of Humility, Empathy and an Ethics of Care in Moral Clinics in Huzhou City.

Stakeholder Identities in Britain's Neoliberal Ethical Community: Polish narratives of earned citizenship in the context of the UK's EU Referendum (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Stakeholder Identities in Britain's Neoliberal Ethical Community: Polish narratives of earned citizenship in the context of the UK's EU Referendum. British Journal of Sociology, 1104-1127. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12485

This article examines the narrative strategies through which Polish migrants in the UK challenge the formal rights of political membership and attempt to redefine the boundaries of ‘citizenship’ along notions of deservedness. The analysed qualitative... Read More about Stakeholder Identities in Britain's Neoliberal Ethical Community: Polish narratives of earned citizenship in the context of the UK's EU Referendum.

Challenging bias in ecological education discourses: Emancipatory development education in developing countries (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Challenging bias in ecological education discourses: Emancipatory development education in developing countries. Ecological Economics, 373-381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.11.020

This paper uses a critical framework integrating Capability, Feminist and Critical Pedagogic theories to challenge the reductive focus within sustainability discourses on the physical environment, and education's typical 'development' focus on econom... Read More about Challenging bias in ecological education discourses: Emancipatory development education in developing countries.

Governing through ' the family' in China: the cultivation of ethical political subjects through officials' nearest and dearest (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Governing through ' the family' in China: the cultivation of ethical political subjects through officials' nearest and dearest. Families, Relationships and Societies, https://doi.org/10.1332/204674318x15271465130398

In this article we argue that the families of Communist Party members are increasingly being seen as both part of the problem and part of the solution to eradicating corruption in contemporary China. Our findings reveal how families are being investi... Read More about Governing through ' the family' in China: the cultivation of ethical political subjects through officials' nearest and dearest.

Community energy: entanglements of community, state, and private sector (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Community energy: entanglements of community, state, and private sector. Geography Compass, https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12378

The decarbonisation of energy systems is leading to a reconfiguration of the geographies of energy. One example is the emergence of community energy, which has become a popular object of study for geographers. Although widely acknowledged to be a con... Read More about Community energy: entanglements of community, state, and private sector.

Nation boundedness and international students’ marginalisation: what’s emotion got to do with it? (2018)
Journal Article
Hayes. (2018). Nation boundedness and international students’ marginalisation: what’s emotion got to do with it?. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 27(2-3), 288-306. https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2018.1453305

This paper contributes to an understanding of the ways in which not being bound to the nation of education, in legal and cultural terms, excludes international students. Based on narrative interviews with 20 students from 6 countries, the paper consi... Read More about Nation boundedness and international students’ marginalisation: what’s emotion got to do with it?.

Strategies for improving mental health and wellbeing used by older people living with HIV: A qualitative investigation (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Strategies for improving mental health and wellbeing used by older people living with HIV: A qualitative investigation. AIDS care, 102-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2018.1468016

Recent research into “successful ageing” and “resilience” in the context of ageing with HIV highlights older people living with HIV’s (OPLWH) adaptations and coping strategies hitherto neglected by early research’s emphasis on difficulties and challe... Read More about Strategies for improving mental health and wellbeing used by older people living with HIV: A qualitative investigation.

'I'm a PROUD Israeli': Homonationalism, Belonging and the Insecurity of the Jewish-Israeli Body (2018)
Journal Article
Mandelbaum, M. (2018). 'I'm a PROUD Israeli': Homonationalism, Belonging and the Insecurity of the Jewish-Israeli Body. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 160-179. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-018-0093-0

The section ‘gay rights in Israel’, part of the gaytlvguide.com website promoting gay life and culture in Israel, narrates Israel as ‘… one of the world’s most progressive countries in terms of equality for sexual minorities… by far the most tolerant... Read More about 'I'm a PROUD Israeli': Homonationalism, Belonging and the Insecurity of the Jewish-Israeli Body.

Right-wing Extremism/Radicalism: Reconstructing the Concept (2018)
Journal Article
Carter. (2018). Right-wing Extremism/Radicalism: Reconstructing the Concept. Journal of Political Ideologies, 23(2), 157-182. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2018.1451227

This article reconstructs the concept of right-wing extremism/radicalism. Using Mudde’s influential 1995 study as a foundation, it first canvasses the recent academic literature to explore how the concept has been described and defined. It suggests t... Read More about Right-wing Extremism/Radicalism: Reconstructing the Concept.