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Value for money and the commodification of higher education: front-line narratives (2020)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, L. C., & Wilkinson, M. D. (in press). Value for money and the commodification of higher education: front-line narratives. Teaching in higher education, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2020.1819226

This paper provides a critical interrogation of government-led reform of higher education (HE) in England. Its focus is marketisation, and in particular, the concepts of ‘value for money’ (VFM), teaching excellence, and students as educational consum... Read More about Value for money and the commodification of higher education: front-line narratives.

Barriers to sexual and reproductive education among in-school adolescents in Zomba and Mangochi districts, Malawi (2020)
Journal Article
Likupe, G., Chintsanya, J., Magadi, M., Munthali, A., & Makwemba, M. (2021). Barriers to sexual and reproductive education among in-school adolescents in Zomba and Mangochi districts, Malawi. Sex Education, 21(4), 450-462. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2020.1821181

Teenage pregnancy and child marriage continue to rise in Malawi despite the introduction of compulsory Life Skills education in primary schools in 2002. A qualitative approach, employing focus group discussions with participants was used to explore t... Read More about Barriers to sexual and reproductive education among in-school adolescents in Zomba and Mangochi districts, Malawi.

Does Lecture Format Matter? Exploring Student Preferences in Higher Education (2020)
Journal Article
Young, S., Nichols, H., & Cartwright, A. (2020). Does Lecture Format Matter? Exploring Student Preferences in Higher Education. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 8(1), 30-40

This article offers a contribution to understanding students’ perceptions of lectures based on different formats of lecture delivery. The growth in the use of synchronous and asynchronous learning for lecture delivery raises questions as to whether s... Read More about Does Lecture Format Matter? Exploring Student Preferences in Higher Education.

From Invisible to Conspicuous: The Rise of Victim Activism in the Politics of Justice (2020)
Book Chapter
O’Leary, N., & Green, S. (2020). From Invisible to Conspicuous: The Rise of Victim Activism in the Politics of Justice. In J. Tapley, & P. Davies (Eds.), Victimology : Research, Policy and Activism (159-183). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42288-2_7

Crime victims are now significant voices in criminal justice politics and reform. No longer the invisible or forgotten people of the criminal justice system, the symbolic and political resonance of victimhood has grown to such an extent that the vict... Read More about From Invisible to Conspicuous: The Rise of Victim Activism in the Politics of Justice.

Food Crime: A Review of the UK Institutional Perception of Illicit Practices in the Food Sector (2020)
Journal Article
Rizzuti, A. (2020). Food Crime: A Review of the UK Institutional Perception of Illicit Practices in the Food Sector. Social Sciences, 9(7), Article 112. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci9070112

Food offers highly profitable opportunities to criminal actors. Recent cases, from wine and meat adulteration to milk powder contaminations, have brought renewed attention to forms of harmful activities which have long occurred in the food sector. De... Read More about Food Crime: A Review of the UK Institutional Perception of Illicit Practices in the Food Sector.

'It was like an animal in pain': Institutional thoughtlessness and bereavement in prison (2020)
Journal Article
Wilson, M., Johnston, H., & Walker, L. (in press). 'It was like an animal in pain': Institutional thoughtlessness and bereavement in prison. Criminology & criminal Justice, https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895820930755

Using the concept of institutional thoughtlessness, this article examines a range of issues embedded within daily prison life which have a detrimental effect upon the lives of those bereaved during a prison sentence. Drawing on in-depth qualitative r... Read More about 'It was like an animal in pain': Institutional thoughtlessness and bereavement in prison.

The Literary and Activist Works of Luis J. Rodríguez (2020)
Book Chapter
Metcalf, J. (2020). The Literary and Activist Works of Luis J. Rodríguez. In L. G. Mendoza (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Literature. Oxford University Press

Luis J. Rodríguez is a Chicano memoirist, novelist, poet, children’s author, and activist. Born in 1954 in Mexico, his family migrated to the United States when he was young. As a youth, he spent many years immersed in the street gangs of Los Angeles... Read More about The Literary and Activist Works of Luis J. Rodríguez.

Story-telling as memorialisation: suffering, resilience and victim identities (2020)
Journal Article
Green, S. T., Kondor, K., & Kidd, A. (in press). Story-telling as memorialisation: suffering, resilience and victim identities. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 10(3), 563-583. https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1122

All rights reserved. Is there a relationship between story-telling and memorialisation in the construction of victim identities? This paper seeks to examine these questions and shed light on the cultural dynamics of victimisation with reference to ex... Read More about Story-telling as memorialisation: suffering, resilience and victim identities.

The effectiveness and characteristics of mHealth interventions to increase adolescent’s use of sexual and reproductive health services in Sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a systematic review (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Onukwugha, F., Smith, L., Kaseje, . D., Wafula, . C., Kaseje, . M., Were, V., Orton, B., Hayter, M., Jomeen, . J., & Magadi, . M. The effectiveness and characteristics of mHealth interventions to increase adolescent’s use of sexual and reproductive health services in Sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a systematic review

Operating in the dark: The identification of forced labour in the UK (2020)
Journal Article
Shepherd, R., & Wilkinson, M. (in press). Operating in the dark: The identification of forced labour in the UK. Critical social policy : CSP, https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018320921540

Presented here are the findings of a research study undertaken between 2015 and 2018 that focused on existing arrangements and mechanisms for front-line identification of the victims of forced labour in the UK. The study drew upon interviews with ser... Read More about Operating in the dark: The identification of forced labour in the UK.

Understanding ethnic variations in HIV prevalence in Kenya: the role of cultural practices (2020)
Journal Article
Magadi, M., Gazimbi, M., Wafula, C., & Kaseje, M. (2021). Understanding ethnic variations in HIV prevalence in Kenya: the role of cultural practices. Culture, health & sexuality, 23(6), 822-839. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2020.1734661

Patterns of HIV prevalence in Kenya suggest that areas where various cultural practices are prevalent bear a disproportionate burden of HIV. This paper examines (i) the contextual effects of cultural practices (polygyny, male circumcision) and relate... Read More about Understanding ethnic variations in HIV prevalence in Kenya: the role of cultural practices.

“ ‘O Prison Darkness … Lions in the Cage’; The ‘Exceptional’ Prison Narratives of Guantanamo Bay” (2020)
Book Chapter
Metcalf, J. (2020). “ ‘O Prison Darkness … Lions in the Cage’; The ‘Exceptional’ Prison Narratives of Guantanamo Bay”. In The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Media (67-87). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36059-7

Prison memoirs often consider the author’s life of crime prior to incarceration and reflect on the behaviors (e.g., greed) or structural violence (e.g., poverty, racism) that led them to the prison. But what happens then, when as in the case of Guant... Read More about “ ‘O Prison Darkness … Lions in the Cage’; The ‘Exceptional’ Prison Narratives of Guantanamo Bay”.

Development and evaluation of a screening tool to aid the diagnosis of a cluster headache (2020)
Journal Article
Buture, A., Boland, J. W., Dikomitis, L., Huang, C., & Ahmed, F. (2020). Development and evaluation of a screening tool to aid the diagnosis of a cluster headache. Brain Sciences, 10(2), Article 77. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10020077

Cluster headache (CH), a severe primary headache, is often misdiagnosed and mismanaged. The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate a screening tool to aid the diagnosis of CH. We developed a novel 12-item screening tool. This was comprised of... Read More about Development and evaluation of a screening tool to aid the diagnosis of a cluster headache.

Gender and release from imprisonment: Convict licensing systems in mid to late 19th century England (2020)
Book Chapter
Johnston, H., & Cox, D. (2020). Gender and release from imprisonment: Convict licensing systems in mid to late 19th century England. In M. Van der Heijden, M. Pluskota, & S. Muurling (Eds.), Women's Criminality in Europe, 1600-1914 (134-147). Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108774543.007

This paper draws on the research undertaken into the lives and prison experiences of around 650 male and female convicts who were released on licence (an early form of parole) from sentences of long term imprisonment (three years to life) in England... Read More about Gender and release from imprisonment: Convict licensing systems in mid to late 19th century England.

Racial and Religious Hate Crime: The UK From 1945 to Brexit (2019)
Book
Laverick, W., & Joyce, P. (2019). Racial and Religious Hate Crime: The UK From 1945 to Brexit. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21317-6

Offers an in-depth discussion of racial and religious hate crime in the UK and also beyond.
Focusses on 1945 until present with some additional attention to the 1930s when anti-Semitism was especially prominent in the UK.
Devotes particular attenti... Read More about Racial and Religious Hate Crime: The UK From 1945 to Brexit.

Hope Walks by Me: Justice & Liberty in the Lands of the Free: Poetry & Prose by Ex-Offenders (2019)
Book
Litten, R., & Metcalf, J. (Eds.). (2019). Hope Walks by Me: Justice & Liberty in the Lands of the Free: Poetry & Prose by Ex-Offenders. London: Barbican Press

Ex-prisoners in Hull joined together with writer Russ Litten and academic Josephine Metcalf for a series of writing workshops.

Hope Walks By Me gathers the fruits of those months – individual poems by men and women, prose pieces, and ‘Group Poems’... Read More about Hope Walks by Me: Justice & Liberty in the Lands of the Free: Poetry & Prose by Ex-Offenders.

Torture and the UK’s ‘War on Asylum’: Medical Power and the Culture of Disbelief (2019)
Book Chapter
Bhatia, M., & Burnett, J. (2019). Torture and the UK’s ‘War on Asylum’: Medical Power and the Culture of Disbelief. In F. Perocco (Ed.), Tortura e migrazioni | Torture and Migration (161-179). Venice: Edizioni Ca’Foscari. https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-358-8/007

This chapter explores medical power in the UK’s ‘war on asylum’, examining how medical expertise has been undermined in the asylum process when this expertise is utilised to add weight to asylum seekers’ claims to have experienced torture. It examine... Read More about Torture and the UK’s ‘War on Asylum’: Medical Power and the Culture of Disbelief.

Towards a Political Economy of Charging Regimes: Fines, Fees and Force in UK Immigration Control (2019)
Journal Article
Burnett, J., & Chebe, F. (2020). Towards a Political Economy of Charging Regimes: Fines, Fees and Force in UK Immigration Control. The British journal of criminology, 60(3), 579-599. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azz070

Charging regimes and the extraction of revenue are integral components of immigration control in the United Kingdom. However, while these have been analysed in their individual guises, to date, there has been little substantive analysis bringing thes... Read More about Towards a Political Economy of Charging Regimes: Fines, Fees and Force in UK Immigration Control.

The menopause and the female police workforce (2019)
Journal Article
Laverick, W., Joyce, P., Calvey, D., & Cain, L. (2019). The menopause and the female police workforce. British journal of community justice : BJCJ, 15(2), 59-81

© 2019 Manchester Metropolitan University. Drawing upon previously unpublished findings from a wider study that addressed the impact of austerity and force change programmes upon the older female police workforce, this paper presents secondary analys... Read More about The menopause and the female police workforce.

Foreword to Coventry (2019)
Book Chapter
Metcalf, J. (2019). Foreword to Coventry. . Livingston Press

A foreword to the 2019 re-released novel Coventry by Joseph Bathanti which won the Novello Literary Award in 2006.