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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.

Teaching About Homelessness – Embodied Learning, Recognising Prior Learning and Experience, and the Key Role of Empathy (2024)
Book Chapter
Irving, A., Harding, J., & Moss, O. (2024). Teaching About Homelessness – Embodied Learning, Recognising Prior Learning and Experience, and the Key Role of Empathy. In Developing and Implementing Teaching in Sensitive Subject and Topic Areas: A Comprehensive Guide for Professionals in FE and HE Settings (59-69). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83753-126-420241006

The adoption of a research-informed approach to teaching about homelessness has allowed the authors to provide diverse groups of learners with a range of traditional and more embodied educative experiences, both inside and outside of the classroom. W... Read More about Teaching About Homelessness – Embodied Learning, Recognising Prior Learning and Experience, and the Key Role of Empathy.

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.

Anti-Social Behaviour among Homeless People: Assumptions or Reality? (2014)
Book Chapter
Harding, J., & Irving, A. (2014). Anti-Social Behaviour among Homeless People: Assumptions or Reality?. In Anti-social Behaviour in Britain (155-165). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137399311_13

Historically, the visible engagement of homeless people in activities considered to be ‘anti-social’, such as drunkenness and begging, have made them the target of government action on public disorder, engendering antipathy, as much as sympathy, from... Read More about Anti-Social Behaviour among Homeless People: Assumptions or Reality?.

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.