All Outputs (7)

Working, living and dying in COVID times : perspectives from frontline adult social care workers in the UK (2021)
Journal Article
Briggs, D., Telford, L., Lloyd, A., & Ellis, A. (2021). Working, living and dying in COVID times : perspectives from frontline adult social care workers in the UK. Safer Communities, 20(3), 208-222. https://doi.org/10.1108/SC-04-2021-0013

Purpose This paper aims to explore 15 UK adult social care workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach This paper’s 15 open-ended interviews with adult social care workers are complemented by digital ethnograp... Read More about Working, living and dying in COVID times : perspectives from frontline adult social care workers in the UK.

A ticking time bomb of future harm : lockdown, child abuse and future violence (2021)
Journal Article
Ellis, A., Briggs, D., Lloyd, A., & Telford, L. (2021). A ticking time bomb of future harm : lockdown, child abuse and future violence. Abuse, 2(1), 37-48. https://doi.org/10.37576/abuse.2021.017

The Covid-19 pandemic and the implementation of national lockdowns has generated significant changes in the citizenry’s material realities. Although the efficacy of lockdown is yet to be determined, emerging evidence points to a rise in unintended ha... Read More about A ticking time bomb of future harm : lockdown, child abuse and future violence.

New hope or old futures in disguise? Neoliberalism, the Covid-19 pandemic and the possibility for social change (2020)
Journal Article
Ellis, A., Briggs, D., Lloyd, A., & Telford, L. (2020). New hope or old futures in disguise? Neoliberalism, the Covid-19 pandemic and the possibility for social change. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 40(9/10), 831-848. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-07-2020-0268

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the implications of both the Covid-19 pandemic and UK lockdown for the social, political and economic future of the UK. Drawing on primary data obtained during the lockdown and the theoretical conc... Read More about New hope or old futures in disguise? Neoliberalism, the Covid-19 pandemic and the possibility for social change.

A de-civilizing reversal or system normal? Rising lethal violence in post-recession austerity United Kingdom (2019)
Journal Article
Ellis, A. (2019). A de-civilizing reversal or system normal? Rising lethal violence in post-recession austerity United Kingdom. British Journal of Criminology, 59(4), 862-878. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azz001

This article offers incipient theoretical analysis and reflections on the recent rises in lethal violence recorded in the UK. The rises have attracted considerable media attention, with the more informed discussions drawing plausible causal associati... Read More about A de-civilizing reversal or system normal? Rising lethal violence in post-recession austerity United Kingdom.

Liberalism, lack and living the dream : re-considering youth, consumer sovereignty and the attractions of night-time leisure in Magaluf (2018)
Journal Article
Ellis, A., Briggs, D., Winlow, S., Silva Esquinas, A., Cordero Verdugo, R., & Ramiro Perez Suarez, J. (2018). Liberalism, lack and living the dream : re-considering youth, consumer sovereignty and the attractions of night-time leisure in Magaluf. Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 2(2), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.5617/jea.6446

Much of the academic literature on alcohol-based leisure focuses on the pleasures of hedonism and youthful cultural exploration in environments free from the prescriptions, pressures and routines of everyday life. In this article – in which we presen... Read More about Liberalism, lack and living the dream : re-considering youth, consumer sovereignty and the attractions of night-time leisure in Magaluf.

'Throughout my life I've had people walk all over me': trauma in the lives of violent men (2017)
Journal Article
Ellis, A., Winlow, S., & Hall, S. (2017). 'Throughout my life I've had people walk all over me': trauma in the lives of violent men. Sociological Review, 65(4), 699-713. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026117695486

In this article we present original qualitative data gathered during prolonged ethnographic fieldwork with violent men in deindustrialised communities in the north of England. We use the data as an empirical platform for a theoretical exploration of... Read More about 'Throughout my life I've had people walk all over me': trauma in the lives of violent men.

The last night of freedom : consumerism, deviance and the ‘stag party’ (2016)
Journal Article
Briggs, D., & Ellis, A. (2017). The last night of freedom : consumerism, deviance and the ‘stag party’. Deviant Behavior, 38(7), 756-767. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2016.1197678

This article offers an ethnographic examination of the stag party phenomenon in the UK. Stag parties have become socially expected as a rite of passage, pre-marriage celebration for men that usually involves excessive alcohol consumption and engageme... Read More about The last night of freedom : consumerism, deviance and the ‘stag party’.