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Methods for clinical evaluation (2020)
Book Chapter
Kenney, L., Kyberd, P., Galpin, A., Chadwell, A., Granat, M., Thies, S., & Head, J. (2020). Methods for clinical evaluation. In K. Nazarpour (Ed.), Control of Prosthetic Hands : challenges and emerging avenues (29-67). Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET). https://doi.org/10.1049/PBHE022E_ch3

This chapter begins with an introduction to the challenges of measurement in upper limb prosthetics. This is followed by an overview of the traditional approaches to evaluation and their strengths and weaknesses. By traditional approaches, we mean te... Read More about Methods for clinical evaluation.

Child prosthetics – a perspective (2020)
Book Chapter
Dyson, M., Wheeler, G., Langley, J., Needham, A., Mills, N., & Head, J. (2020). Child prosthetics – a perspective. In K. Nazarpour (Ed.), Control of prosthetic hands : challenges and emerging avenues (175-188). Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). https://doi.org/10.1049/PBHE022E_ch9

This chapter summarises conversations between researchers working in healthcare and academia linked through membership of the Starworks Network, a UK National Institute for Health Research initiative to accelerate the translation of child prosthetics... Read More about Child prosthetics – a perspective.

Global commercial and sexual exploitation of children (2020)
Book Chapter
Laser-Maira, J., Hounmenou, C., & Peach, D. (2020). Global commercial and sexual exploitation of children. In H. Pontell (Ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.592

The term commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) refers to the for-profit sexual exploitation of children and youth through buying, trading, or selling sexual acts. CSEC is a subset of children and youth who are victims of human trafficking... Read More about Global commercial and sexual exploitation of children.

Occupational therapy (2020)
Book Chapter
Prior, Y., Adams, J., & Hammond, A. (2020). Occupational therapy. In D. L. Scott, J. Galloway, A. Cope, A. Pratt, & V. Strand (Eds.), Oxford Textbook of Rheumatoid Arthritis (311-320). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198831433.003.0026

People with rheumatoid arthritis can find it painful, tiring, and frustrating to perform their daily activities, work, family and social responsibilities, and leisure. While drug therapy has improved outcomes, many still experience limitations in the... Read More about Occupational therapy.

Chapter 26 : Occupational therapy (2020)
Book Chapter
Hammond, A., Adams, J., & Prior, Y. (2020). Chapter 26 : Occupational therapy. In D. Scott, J. Galloway, A. Cope, A. Pratt, & V. Strand (Eds.), Oxford Textbook of Rheumatoid Arthritis. Oxford: Oxford University Press

People with rheumatoid arthritis can find it painful, tiring and frustrating to perform their daily activities, work, family and social responsibilities, and leisure. Whilst drug therapy has improved outcomes, many still experience limitations in the... Read More about Chapter 26 : Occupational therapy.

The gendered nature of prison work : empathy, mothering and emotions of female prison officers in a women's prison (2020)
Book Chapter
Wood, A. (2020). The gendered nature of prison work : empathy, mothering and emotions of female prison officers in a women's prison. In K. Lockwood (Ed.), Mothering from the inside : research on motherhood and imprisonment (145-162). Emerald Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-343-320201011

Academic literature portrays prison officers in various ways; as insensitive figures lurking in the background (Cohen & Taylor, 1972) as brutes prone to violence (Kauffman, 1988) or more positively as noble people struggling to get the job done as be... Read More about The gendered nature of prison work : empathy, mothering and emotions of female prison officers in a women's prison.

Negotiating pregnancy, new motherhood and imprisonment (2020)
Book Chapter
Abbott, L., & Lockwood, K. (2020). Negotiating pregnancy, new motherhood and imprisonment. In K. Lockwood (Ed.), Mothering from the inside : research on motherhood and imprisonment (49-66). Emerald Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-343-320201006

Around 7% of the female prison population are pregnant (Albertson, O'Keeffe, Lessing-Turner, Burke & Renfrew, 2014; Kennedy, Marshall, Parkinson, Delap & Abbott, 2016; Prison Reform Trust, 2019). However, although recent years have witnessed growing... Read More about Negotiating pregnancy, new motherhood and imprisonment.

The ties that bind : stories of women in prison who are mothers to older adult children (2020)
Book Chapter
Lockwood, K. (2020). The ties that bind : stories of women in prison who are mothers to older adult children. In K. Lockwood (Ed.), Mothering from the inside : research on motherhood and imprisonment (105-125). Emerald Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-343-320201009

Focussing on the individual stories of mothers in prison and those who have recently been released from prison, within this chapter, I consider the way in which women story motherhood in relation to older adult children. Presenting three interrelated... Read More about The ties that bind : stories of women in prison who are mothers to older adult children.

Individual differences in first language acquisition and their theoretical implications (2020)
Book Chapter
Kidd, E., Bidgood, A., Donnelly, S., Durrant, S., Peter, M., & Rowland, C. (2020). Individual differences in first language acquisition and their theoretical implications. In C. Rowland, A. Theakston, B. Ambridge, & K. Twomey (Eds.), Current perspectives on child language acquisition : how children use their environment to learn (189-219). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.27.09kid

Much of Lieven’s pioneering work has helped move the study of individual differences to the centre of child language research. The goal of the present chapter is to illustrate how the study of individual differences provides crucial insights into the... Read More about Individual differences in first language acquisition and their theoretical implications.

A psychology of survival? (2020)
Book Chapter
Weinberg, A. (2020). A psychology of survival?. In A. Weinberg, A. Antoniou, & C. Cooper (Eds.), Brexit in the workplace : a psychology of survival? (142-157). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788977012.00015

The climax and implications of Brexit are profiled in this chapter, taking account of the high stakes politics that held centre stage for so long. Uncertainty and risk are key themes in this national story of political psychology as Boris Johnson bec... Read More about A psychology of survival?.

A psychology of Brexit (2020)
Book Chapter
Weinberg, A. (2020). A psychology of Brexit. In A. Weinberg, A. Antoniou, & C. Cooper (Eds.), Brexit in the workplace : a psychology of survival? (1-16). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788977012.00007

This book is for winners and losers – past, present and future. Brexit is not just a decision to be rejoiced, regretted or recriminated, but about the adjustments to working lives which it demands. It is about – and not in any particular order – p... Read More about A psychology of Brexit.

Taking sides with Swedish protesters : gaining and maintaining trust in the field (2020)
Book Chapter
Vestergren, S., & Drury, J. (2020). Taking sides with Swedish protesters : gaining and maintaining trust in the field. In Y. Gülsüm Acar, S. Moss, & O. Uluğ (Eds.), Researching peace and conflict : field experiences and methodological reflections (149-171). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44113-5_9

Researching protests and activism can contain various challenges, even more so when then the researcher embeds themselves in the protest context. Based on an ethnographic study of an environmental campaign in Sweden we will in this chapter discuss... Read More about Taking sides with Swedish protesters : gaining and maintaining trust in the field.

The good, the bad and the ugly : how do people living with HIV experience care in the health system? (2020)
Book Chapter
Amos, I., Chester, R., Angelina, N., & Merial, R. (2020). The good, the bad and the ugly : how do people living with HIV experience care in the health system?. In M. Croston, & S. Rutter (Eds.), Psychological perspectives in HIV care : an inter-professional approach (6-29). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315211404-1

What it is like to live with HIV in the global north has changed dramatically over the last two decades. There have been significant developments in the treatment and prevention of HIV, and the healthcare landscape continues to evolve. This chapter... Read More about The good, the bad and the ugly : how do people living with HIV experience care in the health system?.

Disrupting the boundaries of the Academe : co-creating knowledge and sex work ‘academic-activism’ (2020)
Book Chapter
Connelly, L., & Sanders, T. (2020). Disrupting the boundaries of the Academe : co-creating knowledge and sex work ‘academic-activism’. In S. Walklate, K. Fitz-Gibbon, J. Maher, & J. McCulloch (Eds.), The Emerald Handbook of Feminism, Criminology and Social Change. Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-955-720201018

In this chapter, we reflect on how the criminological agenda can move towards disrupting the boundaries that exist between the academe and sex work activism. We do so as academics who strive to affect social change outside of the academe but we do no... Read More about Disrupting the boundaries of the Academe : co-creating knowledge and sex work ‘academic-activism’.

Violence in the city : inequality, intimidation and fear (2020)
Book Chapter
Ellis, A., & Cook, E. (2020). Violence in the city : inequality, intimidation and fear. In R. Atkinson, & J. Dobson (Eds.), Urban Crisis, Urban Hope : A Policy Agenda for UK Cities (49-54). London: Anthem

Causal relationships or casual associations? Assessing the nature and character of mental illness/disorder and crime (2020)
Book Chapter
Cummins, I. (2020). Causal relationships or casual associations? Assessing the nature and character of mental illness/disorder and crime. In P. Taylor, S. Morley, & J. Powell (Eds.), Mental Health and Punishments : critical perspectives in theory and practice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351240611-4

The link between mental illness, violence and other offending remains an area of controversy. The debate can become polarised around two extremes: that no such link exists or the mentally ill as a group are violent. This chapter will place these deba... Read More about Causal relationships or casual associations? Assessing the nature and character of mental illness/disorder and crime.

“And you didn’t tell them that they were getting robbed!?” : emotional labour, ethnography and danger (2020)
Book Chapter
Ellis, A. (2020). “And you didn’t tell them that they were getting robbed!?” : emotional labour, ethnography and danger. In J. Phillips, J. Waters, C. Westaby, & A. Fowler (Eds.), Emotional Labour in Criminal Justice and Criminology. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429055669-12

This chapter considers emotional labour during the conduct of dangerous ethnography. Specifically, the chapter draws upon the author’s experiences of immersive ethnography over prolonged periods of time with individuals involved in violence and a ran... Read More about “And you didn’t tell them that they were getting robbed!?” : emotional labour, ethnography and danger.