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Identity and cross-border student mobility: The mainland China–Hong Kong experience (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). Identity and cross-border student mobility: The mainland China–Hong Kong experience. European Educational Research Journal, 65-73. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474904114565155

This article is drawn from research in an ongoing multiple case study of the identity constructions of tertiary-level border-crossing students from mainland China to Hong Kong. It begins by outlining the contextual and conceptual background of the st... Read More about Identity and cross-border student mobility: The mainland China–Hong Kong experience.

Brands at Work: The Search for Meaning in Mundane Work (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). Brands at Work: The Search for Meaning in Mundane Work. Organization Studies, 29 - 53. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840614553382

Brand scholarship traditionally resides within the marketing literature and focuses on organizations’ external relationships with customers. However, increasing critical attention in organization studies has focused on the brand in order to understan... Read More about Brands at Work: The Search for Meaning in Mundane Work.

What is a Cohesive Community Anyway? The Role of Mainstream Media in Narratives of (Dis)Integration (2014)
Journal Article
Holohan, S. (2014). What is a Cohesive Community Anyway? The Role of Mainstream Media in Narratives of (Dis)Integration. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 27 - 45. https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-00701009

The perceived failure of minority communities to integrate into mainstream culture and society has been of such concern in recent years that there have been a series of political endeavors to shore up notions of citizenship, inclusion, and (national)... Read More about What is a Cohesive Community Anyway? The Role of Mainstream Media in Narratives of (Dis)Integration.

Dementia, women and sexuality: how the intersection of ageing, gender and sexuality magnify dementia concerns among lesbian and bisexual women (2014)
Journal Article
(2014). Dementia, women and sexuality: how the intersection of ageing, gender and sexuality magnify dementia concerns among lesbian and bisexual women. Dementia, 1494-1514. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301214564446

There is a growing appreciation of the significance of socio-cultural context for the experiences of an individual living with dementia. There is, too, an emergent awareness that dementia is a gendered issue, disproportionately affecting women compar... Read More about Dementia, women and sexuality: how the intersection of ageing, gender and sexuality magnify dementia concerns among lesbian and bisexual women.

Has radical participatory online media really 'failed'?: indymedia and its legacies. (2014)
Journal Article
(2014). Has radical participatory online media really 'failed'?: indymedia and its legacies. Convergence, 419 - 437. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856514541352

This article evaluates the contemporary state of radical participatory online news network Indymedia. After examining criticisms levelled at Indymedia from within critical communications and social movement studies, it provides a tabulated overview o... Read More about Has radical participatory online media really 'failed'?: indymedia and its legacies..

A transnational bicultural place model of cultural selves and psychological citizenship: the case of Chinese immigrants in Britain (2014)
Journal Article
(2014). A transnational bicultural place model of cultural selves and psychological citizenship: the case of Chinese immigrants in Britain. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 440 - 450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2014.10.005

The transnational bicultural place of Hong Kong (HK) Chinese immigrants in United Kingdom (UK) comprises bicultural social networks of UK British and UK Chinese connected transnationally by a third network of home compatriots (HK Chinese). Through de... Read More about A transnational bicultural place model of cultural selves and psychological citizenship: the case of Chinese immigrants in Britain.

Policing Drunkenness in Victorian Cumbria (2014)
Presentation / Conference
(2014, September). Policing Drunkenness in Victorian Cumbria. Presented at British Crime Historians Symposium 4, Liverpool

Drunkenness assumed increasing importance as a ‘problem’ in the discourses of the nineteenth century. This is a bottom-up study to examine the extent to which the policing of drunkenness was informed by local cultures, rather than directed by policie... Read More about Policing Drunkenness in Victorian Cumbria.

Civilised Communities: Reconsidering the 'Gloomy Tale' of Immigration and Social Order in a Changing Town (2014)
Journal Article
Griffiths, C. (2014). Civilised Communities: Reconsidering the 'Gloomy Tale' of Immigration and Social Order in a Changing Town. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azu064

Immigration and its effects on crime, social disorder and community tensions remains a pervasive feature of public, government and academic discourse. This discourse often considers immigration, and immigrants themselves, as a threat to the community... Read More about Civilised Communities: Reconsidering the 'Gloomy Tale' of Immigration and Social Order in a Changing Town.

Experiences of Racial Microaggression Among Migrant Nurses in the United Kingdom. (2014)
Journal Article
(2014). Experiences of Racial Microaggression Among Migrant Nurses in the United Kingdom. Global Qualitative Nursing Research, 2333393614532618 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1177/2333393614532618

In this article, we explore the experiences of racial microaggression among migrant nurses in the United Kingdom. Eleven migrant nurses kept a reflective diary for 6 weeks to record and reflect on their experiences of living and working in the United... Read More about Experiences of Racial Microaggression Among Migrant Nurses in the United Kingdom..

‘My Friends are my Family’: an argument about the limitations of contemporary law's recognition of relationships in later life. (2013)
Journal Article
(2013). ‘My Friends are my Family’: an argument about the limitations of contemporary law's recognition of relationships in later life. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 347-363. https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2013.801688

Current law and social policy in the various UK legal systems privilege the conjugal couple, biological and filial relationships. Friendship remains on the margins of regulatory recognition. Yet friendship is of growing significance in contemporary s... Read More about ‘My Friends are my Family’: an argument about the limitations of contemporary law's recognition of relationships in later life..

Tactics, traditions and opportunities: British and French crop-trashing actions in comparative perspective (2012)
Journal Article
(2012). Tactics, traditions and opportunities: British and French crop-trashing actions in comparative perspective. European Journal of Political Research, 540 -562. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6765.2011.02048.x

This article compares the tactic of trashing genetically modified crops in activist campaigns in Britain and France. In Britain, most crop trashing was carried out covertly, while in France most activists undertook open, public actions. In seeking an... Read More about Tactics, traditions and opportunities: British and French crop-trashing actions in comparative perspective.

Affective displacements: Understanding emotions and sexualities in refugee law (2011)
Journal Article
(2011). Affective displacements: Understanding emotions and sexualities in refugee law. https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969X1103600308

Validating asylum claims on the basis of a person’s sexual orientation relies on discerning what constitutes sexuality and a ‘well founded fear’ of persecution. This administrative process works by suturing narratives of ‘functioning’ sexuality to sp... Read More about Affective displacements: Understanding emotions and sexualities in refugee law.

Grindring Bodies: Racial and Affective Economies of Online Queer Desire (2011)
Journal Article
(2011). Grindring Bodies: Racial and Affective Economies of Online Queer Desire

Online technologies provide new participatory spaces for gay men to organise sexual and intimate encounters. While these spaces are often characterised as enabling new forms of sexual subjectivity and queer sociability, they mobilise new sexual templ... Read More about Grindring Bodies: Racial and Affective Economies of Online Queer Desire.

Then and now: evolving community in the context of a retirement village (2011)
Journal Article
(2011). Then and now: evolving community in the context of a retirement village. Ageing and society, 103 - 129. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X11000079

There is currently much debate in the United Kingdom policy and practice literature about how best to respond to the care and accommodation needs of people as they retire and grow older. Against a policy background which espouses the benefits of ‘ li... Read More about Then and now: evolving community in the context of a retirement village.

'I don't think they knew we could do these sorts of things': social representations of community and participation in community arts by older people (2010)
Journal Article
(2010). 'I don't think they knew we could do these sorts of things': social representations of community and participation in community arts by older people. Journal of Health Psychology, 777 -785. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105310368069

As people age the character of their social relationships change. There is evidence that older people who reside in disadvantaged communities often experience social isolation, which in turn has been found to be associated with a variety of health pr... Read More about 'I don't think they knew we could do these sorts of things': social representations of community and participation in community arts by older people.