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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'.

Towards Estimation of Emotions From Eye Pupillometry With Low-Cost Devices (2021)
Journal Article
Rafique, S., Fleury, M., Kanwal, N., Karamat, I., & Asghar, M. (2021). Towards Estimation of Emotions From Eye Pupillometry With Low-Cost Devices. IEEE Access, 5354 - 5370. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.3048311

Emotional care is important for some patients and their caregivers. Within a clinical or home care situation, technology can be employed to remotely monitor the emotional response of such people. This paper considers pupillometry as a non-invasive wa... Read More about Towards Estimation of Emotions From Eye Pupillometry With Low-Cost Devices.

Queer juxtapositions in the art of Francis Bacon and Lilliput magazine (2021)
Journal Article
Janes. (2021). Queer juxtapositions in the art of Francis Bacon and Lilliput magazine. Visual Culture in Britain, 275-295. https://doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2020.1822755

Francis Bacon made extensive use of photographs and other images from the visual culture of his time in the production of works that were implicitly queer. Homosexual men were widely represented in prose and through cartoons as camply effeminate ‘pan... Read More about Queer juxtapositions in the art of Francis Bacon and Lilliput magazine.

“Return of the repressed”: Exposure to police violence increases protest and self-sacrifice intentions for the Yellow Vests (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). “Return of the repressed”: Exposure to police violence increases protest and self-sacrifice intentions for the Yellow Vests. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 1171 - 1186. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430220920707

<jats:p> Worldwide, it is not uncommon to observe violent police reactions against social movements. These are often rationalized by decision makers as efficient ways to contain violence from protesters. In France for instance, the ongoing Yellow Ves... Read More about “Return of the repressed”: Exposure to police violence increases protest and self-sacrifice intentions for the Yellow Vests.

Knit One, Play One: Comparing the Effects of Amateur Knitting and Amateur Music Participation on Happiness and Wellbeing (2020)
Journal Article
Lamont. (2020). Knit One, Play One: Comparing the Effects of Amateur Knitting and Amateur Music Participation on Happiness and Wellbeing. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 1303-1322. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-019-09734-z

Previous research suggests that engaging in creative and meaningful leisure activities enhances mental health, wellbeing and quality of life. However, studies often explore specific creative activities in isolation. We compared happiness and wellbein... Read More about Knit One, Play One: Comparing the Effects of Amateur Knitting and Amateur Music Participation on Happiness and Wellbeing.

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.

Group problem management plus for decreasing psychological distress in Syrian refugees in Turkey (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Group problem management plus for decreasing psychological distress in Syrian refugees in Turkey. European Journal of Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa165.627

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:sec> <jats:title>Background</jats:title> <jats:p>The crisis in Syria has caused millions of Syrians to seek refuge in neighboring countries and Europe. Refugees often experience war related traumatic events and... Read More about Group problem management plus for decreasing psychological distress in Syrian refugees in Turkey.

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.

Time, class and privilege in career imagination: Exploring study-to-work transition of Chinese international students in UK universities through a Bourdieusian lens (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Time, class and privilege in career imagination: Exploring study-to-work transition of Chinese international students in UK universities through a Bourdieusian lens. Time and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X20951333

Existing research and policy on international students’ study-to-work transition fall short of a temporal theoretical perspective that is sensitive to the fluid and class-stratified nature of their career imagination. Career imagination refers to how... Read More about Time, class and privilege in career imagination: Exploring study-to-work transition of Chinese international students in UK universities through a Bourdieusian lens.

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.

Mental mapping and multinational migrations: a geographical imaginations approach (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Mental mapping and multinational migrations: a geographical imaginations approach. Geographical Research, https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12435

Researching migration decision-making raises certain methodological issues due to complexity of these practices and the diversity of possibilities that exist for aspiring migrants. Migrants are increasingly engaging in multiple migrations, moving bet... Read More about Mental mapping and multinational migrations: a geographical imaginations approach.

4. 'The Only Blond Girl in Manila’: Challenges and Opportunities as a White Western Young Woman Postgraduate Researching in Asia (2020)
Book Chapter
(2020). 4. 'The Only Blond Girl in Manila’: Challenges and Opportunities as a White Western Young Woman Postgraduate Researching in Asia. In Handbook on Gender in Asia

Exploring gender as a fundamental factor in the way that lives of individuals, families and societies across Asia are organized, this timely Handbook studies the importance of modernization and globalization for understanding gender in Asia ...

The Costs of Caregiving: Exploring the Perceived Burden of Dementia among Bangladeshi Caregivers in Britain (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). The Costs of Caregiving: Exploring the Perceived Burden of Dementia among Bangladeshi Caregivers in Britain. American Journal of Family Therapy, https://doi.org/10.1080/01926187.2020.1777911

AbstractThere are currently 700,000 carers caregiving for 850,000 people with dementia in Britain, with Bangladeshi caregivers three times more likely to provide family care compared with their White British counterparts. However, few studies have be... Read More about The Costs of Caregiving: Exploring the Perceived Burden of Dementia among Bangladeshi Caregivers in Britain.

Dementia and revivalist Islam: New perspectives to understanding dementia and tackling stigma. (2020)
Journal Article
Hossain, M., & Mughal, F. (2020). Dementia and revivalist Islam: New perspectives to understanding dementia and tackling stigma. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.13412

The notion of stigma and its influence on the understanding of dementia has commonly been recognized as a great challenge to seeking healthcare services for South Asians in England. The aim of this commentary is to examine how Muslims view, understan... Read More about Dementia and revivalist Islam: New perspectives to understanding dementia and tackling stigma..

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.

Traditional gender roles and effects of dementia caregiving within a South Asian ethnic group in England (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Traditional gender roles and effects of dementia caregiving within a South Asian ethnic group in England. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 330-336. https://doi.org/10.1159/000506363

Background: Despite the integral role that women play in the care of older adults in South Asian families, limited empirical data are available on the impact of migration from South Asia to England. The purpose of this research was to examine caring... Read More about Traditional gender roles and effects of dementia caregiving within a South Asian ethnic group in England.

Dementia knowledge and attitudes of the general public among the Bangladeshi community in England: a focus group study (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Dementia knowledge and attitudes of the general public among the Bangladeshi community in England: a focus group study. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 290-296. https://doi.org/10.1159/000506123

Background: Worldwide, an increasingly ageing population mean more people may suffer from dementia. Despite the rapid growth of older Bangladeshi immigrants living in the UK, there is little evidence about how community members understand and view th... Read More about Dementia knowledge and attitudes of the general public among the Bangladeshi community in England: a focus group study.