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Hidden voices and deep meaning: An ethnography to reveal and render explicit health care assistants, porters and domestics experience and role in the social organisation of end of life care (2025)
Thesis

Encounters with patients who are approaching end of life or dying can affect all staff. Yet health care support staff are rarely mentioned or included in service evaluation or research studies, with their roles often not easily visible, largely happe... Read More about Hidden voices and deep meaning: An ethnography to reveal and render explicit health care assistants, porters and domestics experience and role in the social organisation of end of life care.

Sex education against the algorithm: the algorithmically enforced deplatforming of YouTube sex edutainment (2024)
Journal Article
Garwood-Cross, L., Light, B., Cooper-Ryan, A., & Vasilica, C. (2024). Sex education against the algorithm: the algorithmically enforced deplatforming of YouTube sex edutainment. Journal of Gender Studies, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2024.2374752

Deplatforming of sexual content has increased across social media, usually operationalized by commercially charged, and algorithmically enforced, platform policies. This paper extends work on the algorithmic deplatforming of sex through the case stud... Read More about Sex education against the algorithm: the algorithmically enforced deplatforming of YouTube sex edutainment.

COVID Sex Lives: Race and Ethnicity in Focus (2023)
Report
Merrick, R. K., Light, B., Garwood-Cross, L., & Moore, K. (in press). COVID Sex Lives: Race and Ethnicity in Focus. University of Salford

Race and ethnicity shaped the experiences of men who have sex with
men (MSM) in the United Kingdom during the pandemic. This Covid Sex Lives In Focus Report delves deeper into social aspects that emerged from our findings. Key points in this report... Read More about COVID Sex Lives: Race and Ethnicity in Focus.

Covid Sex Lives: How the Pandemic Impacted the Sex Lives of Men Who Have Sex With Men (2023)
Report
Garwood-Cross, L., Katz, R., Hinds, K., Light, B., & Moore, K. (2023). Covid Sex Lives: How the Pandemic Impacted the Sex Lives of Men Who Have Sex With Men. University of Salford: UKRI AHRC

During the COVID-19 pandemic, messages from the government and public health organizations aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus were turned into media campaigns targeting different groups.

The COVID Sex Lives project sought to understa... Read More about Covid Sex Lives: How the Pandemic Impacted the Sex Lives of Men Who Have Sex With Men.

COVID Sex Lives: Age in Focus (2023)
Report
Light, B., Katz, R., Garwood-Cross, L., & Moore, K. (2023). COVID Sex Lives: Age in Focus. University of Salford: UKRI / AHRC

Age was an important factor that shaped the experiences of men who have sex with men (MSM) in the United Kingdom during the pandemic.

This Covid Sex Lives In Focus Report delves deeper into social aspects that emerged from our findings. The Covid... Read More about COVID Sex Lives: Age in Focus.

The Covid Sex Lives Project: Health Messaging, Hooking Up And Dating Among Men Who Have Sex With Men During The UK COVID-19 Pandemic (2023)
Report

In the context of the pandemic, government and public health measures to mitigate the spread of coronavirus have been translated into media messaging by organisations that target the health of different groups.

Engaging experiences of the minorit... Read More about The Covid Sex Lives Project: Health Messaging, Hooking Up And Dating Among Men Who Have Sex With Men During The UK COVID-19 Pandemic.

Interrogating the possibilities and problems of YouTube sex edutainment content : an Actor-Network Theory approach (2022)
Thesis

British Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) has gained public attention in recent years due to several reports highlighting gaps in provision and a change of statutory guidance for RSE in 2019. Historically RSE has linked sex with risk and shame, s... Read More about Interrogating the possibilities and problems of YouTube sex edutainment content : an Actor-Network Theory approach.

The use of ‘off-the-shelf’ GPS technology to support people living with dementia and their care partners (2022)
Thesis
Ford, M. The use of ‘off-the-shelf’ GPS technology to support people living with dementia and their care partners. (Thesis). University of Salford

This doctoral thesis explores the perceptions and experiences of people living with dementia and their care partners on off-the-shelf Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. ‘Off-the-shelf’ GPS devices are readily available, without a specific us... Read More about The use of ‘off-the-shelf’ GPS technology to support people living with dementia and their care partners.