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How Riots Spread Between Cities: Introducing the Police Pathway (2021)
Journal Article
Drury, J., Stott, C., Ball, R., Barr, D., Bell, L., Reicher, S., & Neville, F. (2022). How Riots Spread Between Cities: Introducing the Police Pathway. Political Psychology, 43(4), 651-669. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12786

Waves of riots are politically and psychologically significant national events. The role of police perceptions and practices in spreading unrest between cities has been neglected in previous research, even though the police are significant actors in... Read More about How Riots Spread Between Cities: Introducing the Police Pathway.

Postapocalyptic narratives in climate activism: their place and impact in five European cities (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). Postapocalyptic narratives in climate activism: their place and impact in five European cities. Environmental Politics, https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2021.1959123

As climate movements are growing around the world, so too is a postapocalyptic form of environmentalism. While apocalyptic environmentalism warns of future catastrophe in case of inaction, its postapocalyptic sibling assumes that catastrophe is alrea... Read More about Postapocalyptic narratives in climate activism: their place and impact in five European cities.

Qualitative study on mental health and well-being of Syrian refugees and their coping mechanisms towards integration in the UK (2021)
Journal Article
Paudyal, P., Tattan, M., & Cooper, M. J. F. (2021). Qualitative study on mental health and well-being of Syrian refugees and their coping mechanisms towards integration in the UK. BMJ Open, e046065 - e046065. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046065

<jats:sec><jats:title>Objective</jats:title><jats:p>This study aimed to explore the mental well-being of Syrian refugees and identify their coping mechanisms and pathways towards integration into new communities.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:ti... Read More about Qualitative study on mental health and well-being of Syrian refugees and their coping mechanisms towards integration in the UK.

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.

Needs satisfaction in intergroup contact: A multi-national study of pathways toward social change (2021)
Journal Article
Noor. (2021). Needs satisfaction in intergroup contact: A multi-national study of pathways toward social change. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/MDNGF

What role does intergroup contact play in promoting support for social change toward greater social equality? Drawing on the needs-based model of reconciliation, we theorized that when inequality between groups is perceived as illegitimate, disadvant... Read More about Needs satisfaction in intergroup contact: A multi-national study of pathways toward social change.

The Experiences of Children in Custody: A Story of Survival (2021)
Journal Article
Day, A.-M. (2021). The Experiences of Children in Custody: A Story of Survival. Safer Communities, https://doi.org/10.1108/SC-11-2020-0040

This paper explores children’s experiences during their time in custody in England and Wales. Fortyeight children were interviewed, as part of a wider study on children’s pathways into, through and out of custody. The focus of this paper is on childr... Read More about The Experiences of Children in Custody: A Story of Survival.

Practice Nurses' role extension and diagnostic work in long-term conditions: a qualitative metasynthesis and interview study (2021)
Thesis
Tan, V. A. (2021). Practice Nurses' role extension and diagnostic work in long-term conditions: a qualitative metasynthesis and interview study. (Thesis). Keele University

Background
Role extension is common in primary care in the UK, with assessment, diagnosis and management of some conditions by role extended nurses well established. Practice nurses (PNs) are now considered fundamental to the care of patients with... Read More about Practice Nurses' role extension and diagnostic work in long-term conditions: a qualitative metasynthesis and interview study.

Balancing value and effort: a classic grounded theory of frontline police practice (2021)
Thesis
Ash, D. P. (2021). Balancing value and effort: a classic grounded theory of frontline police practice. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis seeks to explain the behaviour of frontline police officers engaged in incident work. Policymakers try to improve police legitimacy by changing how individual police officers interact with the public at police incidents. However, police p... Read More about Balancing value and effort: a classic grounded theory of frontline police practice.

Re-opening live events and large venues after Covid-19 ‘lockdown’: Behavioural risks and their mitigations (2021)
Journal Article
Stott. (2021). Re-opening live events and large venues after Covid-19 ‘lockdown’: Behavioural risks and their mitigations. Safety Science, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105243

This article reviews the behavioural risks and possible mitigations for re-opening large venues for sports and music events when Covid-19 infection rates and hospitalizations begin to decline. We describe the key variables that we suggest will affect... Read More about Re-opening live events and large venues after Covid-19 ‘lockdown’: Behavioural risks and their mitigations.

The COVID-19 pandemic, emergency aid and social work in Brazil (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). The COVID-19 pandemic, emergency aid and social work in Brazil. Qualitative Social Work, 356 - 365. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325020981753

This essay reflects on the implementation of federal government emergency aid in Brazil in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting elements from the work of Social Workers in the context of growing demand for the supply of material provisi... Read More about The COVID-19 pandemic, emergency aid and social work in Brazil.

Sexual abuse by superintending staff in the nineteenth-century lunatic asylum: medical practice, complaint, and risk (2021)
Journal Article
Tomkins. (2021). Sexual abuse by superintending staff in the nineteenth-century lunatic asylum: medical practice, complaint, and risk. History of Psychiatry, 69-84. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X20967299

The nineteenth century witnessed a great shift in how insanity was regarded and treated. Well documented is the emergence of psychiatry as a distinct area of medicine and the role played by county lunatic asylums. What remains unclear are the relatio... Read More about Sexual abuse by superintending staff in the nineteenth-century lunatic asylum: medical practice, complaint, and risk.

Mass meets mosh: Exploring healthcare professionals' perspectives on social identity processes and health risks at a religious pilgrimage and music festivals. (2021)
Journal Article
Stott. (2021). Mass meets mosh: Exploring healthcare professionals' perspectives on social identity processes and health risks at a religious pilgrimage and music festivals. Social Science and Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113763

RATIONALE: The field of mass gathering medicine has tended to focus on physical factors in the aggravation and mitigation of health risks in mass gatherings to the neglect of psychosocial factors. OBJECTIVES: This study sought to explore perspectives... Read More about Mass meets mosh: Exploring healthcare professionals' perspectives on social identity processes and health risks at a religious pilgrimage and music festivals..

Student motivations for studying criminology: A narrative inquiry (2021)
Journal Article
Griffiths, C., & Trebilcock, J. (2021). Student motivations for studying criminology: A narrative inquiry. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 22(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895821993843

The number of students studying criminology at university has significantly increased. Yet, criminology students have been all but ignored in research, despite being key stakeholders and ambassadors in the criminological enterprise. Drawing on the an... Read More about Student motivations for studying criminology: A narrative inquiry.

Mary Corcoran (2021) ‘The Woolf Report 30 Years on: the third sector legacy’. (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Corcoran. (2021, February). Mary Corcoran (2021) ‘The Woolf Report 30 Years on: the third sector legacy’. Presented at After Strangeways webinar series, London (Virtual)

This paper considers the response of activists and prison reforming NGOs to the prison disturbances in England in 1990. These prison uprisings led to an apparent flourishing of cooperation between the criminal justice authorities, state and civil soc... Read More about Mary Corcoran (2021) ‘The Woolf Report 30 Years on: the third sector legacy’..

Coming Inside and/or Playing Outside: The (Legal) Futures of LGBTIQ Rights in the United Kingdom (2021)
Book Chapter
(2021). Coming Inside and/or Playing Outside: The (Legal) Futures of LGBTIQ Rights in the United Kingdom. In The Queer Outside in Law: Recognising LGBTIQ People in the United Kingdom (233-271)

In this chapter, we draw from Davina Cooper (2019) to consider how we—as legal advocates and scholars—might “play” with(in) the state to pursue LGBTIQ rights. We do this by exploring four case studies of reform in the United Kingdom: self-determinati... Read More about Coming Inside and/or Playing Outside: The (Legal) Futures of LGBTIQ Rights in the United Kingdom.

Disentangling Practitioners’ Understandings of Child Sexual Exploitation: The Risks of Assuming Otherwise? (2021)
Journal Article
Weston, S., & Mythen, G. (2021). Disentangling Practitioners’ Understandings of Child Sexual Exploitation: The Risks of Assuming Otherwise?. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 22(4), 618-635. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895821993525

This paper reports findings from a qualitative study investigating the efficacy and the effects of a Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) awareness raising intervention with young people. Drawing on in-depth interviews with members of a multi-agency team... Read More about Disentangling Practitioners’ Understandings of Child Sexual Exploitation: The Risks of Assuming Otherwise?.

Protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people around the world: Beyond marriage equality and the decriminalisation of homosexuality (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). Protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people around the world: Beyond marriage equality and the decriminalisation of homosexuality

Discussions about the human rights of LGBTIQ people tend to centre around two vastly different issues, namely, marriage equality and the criminalisation of same-sex sexual conduct. However, looking only at these two high-profile issues ignores the ma... Read More about Protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people around the world: Beyond marriage equality and the decriminalisation of homosexuality.

Loneliness, Food Poverty, and Perceived Benefits of Communal Food Consumption from a Charity Service (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). Loneliness, Food Poverty, and Perceived Benefits of Communal Food Consumption from a Charity Service. Journal of Poverty, 1 - 15. https://doi.org/10.1080/10875549.2020.1869667

In the study, 686 (345 male) patrons of a UK charity communal food service reported their demographic attributes, loneliness, food poverty, and benefits of the service. Food poverty was associated with loneliness. Women reported greater benefits of t... Read More about Loneliness, Food Poverty, and Perceived Benefits of Communal Food Consumption from a Charity Service.

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.