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A novel alternative. Book groups, women, and workplace networking (2015)
Journal Article
Alsop, R. (2015). A novel alternative. Book groups, women, and workplace networking. Women's studies international forum, 52, 30-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2015.07.006

Drawing on the results of a small qualitative research project involving four work-based book groups – three in the UK and one in the USA- this article examines the ways in which participation in workplace reading groups facilitates women’s networkin... Read More about A novel alternative. Book groups, women, and workplace networking.

‘Dark am I, yet lovely’: Tracing diabolical evil and femininities in gothic fusion tribal belly dance (2014)
Journal Article
Dearey, M. (2014). ‘Dark am I, yet lovely’: Tracing diabolical evil and femininities in gothic fusion tribal belly dance. Dance, movement & spiritualities, 1(3), 373-391. https://doi.org/10.1386/dmas.1.3.373_1

While belly dance as a dance genre has been recognised for its ‘ambivalence’ (Downey et al, 2010: 379) in terms of its empowerment of women’s identities and body types and essentialising of narrowly constructed femininities, it has nonetheless in the... Read More about ‘Dark am I, yet lovely’: Tracing diabolical evil and femininities in gothic fusion tribal belly dance.

"I’ve been there, done that…" : a study of youth gang desistance (2014)
Journal Article
Gormally, S. (2015). "I’ve been there, done that…" : a study of youth gang desistance. Youth justice : the journal of the National Association for Youth Justice, 15(2), 148-165. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473225414549679

This article, based on research conducted in Glasgow, Scotland, analyses the complex process of desistance from youth gangs. The discussion is multifaceted focusing on the agency of the young people themselves as well as on how relationships within t... Read More about "I’ve been there, done that…" : a study of youth gang desistance.

Exploring the diverse motivations of transnational higher education in China: complexities and contradictions (2014)
Journal Article
Hou, J., Montgomery, C., & McDowell, L. (2014). Exploring the diverse motivations of transnational higher education in China: complexities and contradictions. Journal of education for teaching : JET, 40(3), 300-318. https://doi.org/10.1080/02607476.2014.903028

This article analyses the current situation of transnational higher education (TNE) in China by conducting a comprehensive documentary analysis. It first situates the phenomenon in global transnational mobility in higher education and then explores t... Read More about Exploring the diverse motivations of transnational higher education in China: complexities and contradictions.

The policing of Internet sex offences: pluralised governance versus hierarchies of standing (2013)
Journal Article
Yar, M. (2013). The policing of Internet sex offences: pluralised governance versus hierarchies of standing. Policing and Society, 23(4), 482-497. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2013.780226

This article considers the dominant structure and patterns of policing as related to Internet-based sex offences. It is argued that the policing of Internet sex offences occupies an anomalous position, as compared to other forms of online offending.... Read More about The policing of Internet sex offences: pluralised governance versus hierarchies of standing.

The tight-rope between vulgarity and chastity, how middle-class white women in the South of Brazil construct 'modern' sexual identities (2013)
Journal Article
Turner, J. (2014). The tight-rope between vulgarity and chastity, how middle-class white women in the South of Brazil construct 'modern' sexual identities. Journal of gender studies, 23(1), 81-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2012.752349

This article focuses on the lived experience of whiteness in self-identified white women from the middle classes in the Southern Brazilian city of Florianópolis and their attempts to reclaim and embody sexualities in which pleasure is as much the pro... Read More about The tight-rope between vulgarity and chastity, how middle-class white women in the South of Brazil construct 'modern' sexual identities.

The good, the bad and the vague: assessing emerging Conservative drug policy (2012)
Journal Article
Watson, J. (2013). The good, the bad and the vague: assessing emerging Conservative drug policy. Critical social policy : CSP, 33(2), 285-304. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018312457861

New Labour came to power promising to offer a new, evidence based approach towards drug policy. However, despite early promise, the latter years of the Labour government descended towards tabloid led criminal justice populism. During the same period,... Read More about The good, the bad and the vague: assessing emerging Conservative drug policy.

Understanding the English ‘riots’ of 2011: ‘mindless criminality’ or youth ‘Mekin Histri’ in austerity Britain? (2012)
Journal Article
Cooper, C. (2012). Understanding the English ‘riots’ of 2011: ‘mindless criminality’ or youth ‘Mekin Histri’ in austerity Britain?. Youth and Policy, 109(September), 6-26

The mainstream view permeating media and political discourses following the 2011 ‘riots'in England is that the disturbances are evidence of a moral decline and mindless criminality,implying that the nation's more settled traditions have been corroded... Read More about Understanding the English ‘riots’ of 2011: ‘mindless criminality’ or youth ‘Mekin Histri’ in austerity Britain?.

Imagining 'radical' youth work possibilities - challenging the 'symbolic violence' within the mainstream tradition in contemporary state-led youth work practice in England (2011)
Journal Article
Cooper, C. (2012). Imagining 'radical' youth work possibilities - challenging the 'symbolic violence' within the mainstream tradition in contemporary state-led youth work practice in England. Journal of Youth Studies, 15(1), 53-71. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2011.618489

This paper critically assesses the contemporary mainstream state-led youth work tradition in England. Its particular focus is possibilities within this tradition for engaging disadvantaged young people in activities that facilitate resistance to oppr... Read More about Imagining 'radical' youth work possibilities - challenging the 'symbolic violence' within the mainstream tradition in contemporary state-led youth work practice in England.

Prison(er) auto/biography, 'true crime', and teaching, learning, and research in criminology (2011)
Journal Article
Dearey, M., Petty, B., Thompson, B., Lear, C. R., Gadsby, S., & Gibbs, D. (2011). Prison(er) auto/biography, 'true crime', and teaching, learning, and research in criminology. Critical Survey, 23(3), 86-102. https://doi.org/10.3167/cs.2011.230307

The main aim of this essay is to explore prisoner life writing within the specific, richly and multiply dependent context of teaching and learning undergraduate criminology at an English university, from the authorial viewpoint of a teacher and her s... Read More about Prison(er) auto/biography, 'true crime', and teaching, learning, and research in criminology.

The 'neo-orthodox' in Cyprus: Religious resurgence and western orthodoxy (2010)
Journal Article
Argyrou, V. (2010). The 'neo-orthodox' in Cyprus: Religious resurgence and western orthodoxy. Journal of Mediterranean studies, 19(1), 27-42

This essay explores that resurgence of religion in the Greek-speaking world popularly known as ‘neo-Orthodoxy’. It distinguishes between two versions, one that broadly conforms to the stereotype of revitalised religion as a particularistic, exclusive... Read More about The 'neo-orthodox' in Cyprus: Religious resurgence and western orthodoxy.

Ethics and governance in social work research in the UK (2006)
Journal Article
Dominelli, L., & Holloway, M. (2008). Ethics and governance in social work research in the UK. The British journal of social work, 38(5), 1009-1024. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcm123

The application of formal research ethics and governance structures in social work research have lagged behind those applicable in health, although in the UK, social care has been deemed to be covered by those that were used in the NHS. Whilst this l... Read More about Ethics and governance in social work research in the UK.