All Outputs (6)

Manifesting the Imagined Homeless Body: A Case Study of the Men’s Social Services Centre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK (2024)
Journal Article
Moss, O., & Irving, A. (in press). Manifesting the Imagined Homeless Body: A Case Study of the Men’s Social Services Centre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. Urban Planning, 9, https://doi.org/10.17645/up.7842

In this article, we explore the changing ways in which the homeless body has been conceptualised by architects and providers of accommodation for single homeless individuals. Tracing developments from the post-war period to the present, we focus on t... Read More about Manifesting the Imagined Homeless Body: A Case Study of the Men’s Social Services Centre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.

Exploring the relationship between housing conditions and capabilities: a qualitative case study of private hostel residents (2021)
Journal Article
Irving, A. (2023). Exploring the relationship between housing conditions and capabilities: a qualitative case study of private hostel residents. Housing Studies, 38(6), 985-1005. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2021.1928004

While housing can facilitate many of the freedoms associated with a ‘well-lived’ life, the Capabilities Approach (CA) is yet to have transformed housing research and evaluation. This paper explores the relationship between housing conditions and well... Read More about Exploring the relationship between housing conditions and capabilities: a qualitative case study of private hostel residents.

Keeping It in the Family: Intersectionality and ‘Class A’ Drug Dealing by Females in the West of Scotland (2019)
Journal Article
Holligan, C., & Mclean, R. Keeping It in the Family: Intersectionality and ‘Class A’ Drug Dealing by Females in the West of Scotland. Societies, 9(1), 22. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc9010022

Post-industrial urban landscapes connected with neo-liberalism may provide novel opportunities for the emancipation of working-class women who were traditionally, like women of other social classes, largely subjugated to men socially and economically... Read More about Keeping It in the Family: Intersectionality and ‘Class A’ Drug Dealing by Females in the West of Scotland.

The legitimacy of offender management programmes in a post-TR landscape (2018)
Journal Article
Rowe, M., Irving, A., & Soppitt, S. (2018). The legitimacy of offender management programmes in a post-TR landscape. Safer Communities, 17(2), 69-80. https://doi.org/10.1108/sc-07-2017-0028

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the under-considered perspectives of service users engaged in various community sentences based on a “strengths-based” approach to desistance. Further to recent changes in the sector, the paper conside... Read More about The legitimacy of offender management programmes in a post-TR landscape.

Co‐producing Approaches to the Management of Dementia through Social Prescribing (2015)
Journal Article
Baker, K., & Irving, A. (2016). Co‐producing Approaches to the Management of Dementia through Social Prescribing. Social Policy and Administration, 50(3), 379-397. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12127

A promising approach to the management of dementia is ‘social prescribing’. Social prescribing is a form of ‘co-production’ that involves linking patients with non-clinical activities, typically delivered by voluntary and community groups, in an effo... Read More about Co‐producing Approaches to the Management of Dementia through Social Prescribing.

Triage: line or nets? Early intervention and the youth justice system (2014)
Journal Article
Soppitt, S., & Irving, A. (2014). Triage: line or nets? Early intervention and the youth justice system. Safer Communities, 13(4), 147-160. https://doi.org/10.1108/sc-08-2014-0013

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a discussion of the value of early diversion schemes, underpinned by the principles of restorative justice (RJ), for First Time Entrants (FTEs) into the criminal justice system (CJS). Design/methodo... Read More about Triage: line or nets? Early intervention and the youth justice system.