All Outputs (13)

How does race work in social work education? Everyday racial logics, distinctions and practices in social work qualifying programmes in England. (2022)
Journal Article
Morton, J., Jeyasingham, D., Vindegg, J., & Fjeldheim, S. (2022). How does race work in social work education? Everyday racial logics, distinctions and practices in social work qualifying programmes in England. British Journal of Social Work, 53(1), 552-569. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac120

This article presents findings from a study which explored the everyday ways race works on social work programmes in England. The study focused on how race was spoken about and conceptualised, how people were categorised and ordered according to race... Read More about How does race work in social work education? Everyday racial logics, distinctions and practices in social work qualifying programmes in England..

Ethics review, reflective equilibrium and reflexivity (2021)
Journal Article
Morton, J. (2022). Ethics review, reflective equilibrium and reflexivity. Nursing Ethics, 29(1), 49-62. https://doi.org/10.1177/09697330211003252

Background: Research Ethics Committees (RECs) or their equivalent review applications for prospective research with human participants. Reviewers use universally agreed principles to make decisions about whether prospective health and social care... Read More about Ethics review, reflective equilibrium and reflexivity.

Child safety, protection, and safeguarding in the time of COVID-19 in Great Britain : proposing a conceptual framework (2020)
Journal Article
Thembekile Levine, D., Morton, J., & O'Reilly, M. (2020). Child safety, protection, and safeguarding in the time of COVID-19 in Great Britain : proposing a conceptual framework. Child Abuse and Neglect, 110(Part 2), 104668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104668

Background: Great Britain has the highest coronavirus death rate in Europe. While the pandemic clearly poses a risk to the lives and wellbeing of vulnerable groups, necessary public health measures taken to delay or limit the spread of the virus have... Read More about Child safety, protection, and safeguarding in the time of COVID-19 in Great Britain : proposing a conceptual framework.

Mental health, big data and research ethics : parity of esteem in mental health research from a UK perspective (2019)
Journal Article
Morton, J., & O'Reilly, M. (2019). Mental health, big data and research ethics : parity of esteem in mental health research from a UK perspective. Clinical Ethics, 14(4), 165-172. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477750919876243

Central to ethical debates in contemporary mental health research are the rhetoric of parity of esteem, challenges underpinned by the social construct of vulnerability, and the tendency to homogenise the population diagnosed with mental health condit... Read More about Mental health, big data and research ethics : parity of esteem in mental health research from a UK perspective.

How is 'racism' understood in literature about the experiences of black and minority ethnic social work students in Britain? A conceptual review (2019)
Journal Article
Jeyasingham, D., & Morton, J. (2019). How is 'racism' understood in literature about the experiences of black and minority ethnic social work students in Britain? A conceptual review. Social Work Education, 38(5), 563-575. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2019.1584176

This conceptual review interrogates a body of literature concerned with black and minority ethnic (BME) social work students in Britain since 2008. This period has coincided with an increasing focus on diversity in Higher Education, but also lower p... Read More about How is 'racism' understood in literature about the experiences of black and minority ethnic social work students in Britain? A conceptual review.

‘Text- work’ in research ethics review : the significance of an institutional ethics review document in and beyond committee meetings (2018)
Journal Article
Morton, J. (2018). ‘Text- work’ in research ethics review : the significance of an institutional ethics review document in and beyond committee meetings. Accountability in research, 25(7-8), 387-403. https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2018.1537790

This article analyzes how a formal text (the Ethics Review Form) available at National Health Service Research Ethics Committees (NHSRECs) in the UK was used in meetings. Derived from the work of Dorothy Smith on incorporating texts into institutiona... Read More about ‘Text- work’ in research ethics review : the significance of an institutional ethics review document in and beyond committee meetings.

Identity, difference and the meaning of 'culture' in health and social care practice (2016)
Book Chapter
Morton, J., & Myers, J. (2016). Identity, difference and the meaning of 'culture' in health and social care practice. In A. Ahmed, & M. Rogers (Eds.), Working with marginalised groups : from policy to practice (21-35). Palgrave

The social work of sexuality : rethinking approaches to social work education (2013)
Journal Article
Morton, J., Jeyasingham,, D., & Hicks, S. (2013). The social work of sexuality : rethinking approaches to social work education. Health and Social Care Education, 2(2), 16-19. https://doi.org/10.11120/hsce.2013.00027

This paper discusses teaching about sexuality on university social work programmes, and is based upon a presentation at the Joint World Conference on Social Work and Social Development in Stockholm 2012. The authors analyse dominant, anti-discri... Read More about The social work of sexuality : rethinking approaches to social work education.

Emotion in crisis: Primary and secondary mental health contexts (2010)
Journal Article
Morton, J. (2010). Emotion in crisis: Primary and secondary mental health contexts. Journal of Social Work Practice, 24(4), 461-474. https://doi.org/10.1080/02650531003594036

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between emotion and the experience of a mental health crisis, in particular how this relationship is understood in crisis resolution services and formal mental health (primary and secondary) se... Read More about Emotion in crisis: Primary and secondary mental health contexts.

Crisis resolution: A service response to mental distress (2010)
Journal Article
Morton, J. (2010). Crisis resolution: A service response to mental distress. Practice, 21(3), 143-158. https://doi.org/10.1080/09503150902807599

Crisis Resolution Teams (CRTs) along with other specialist mental health teams (Early Intervention and Assertive Outreach) have emerged as a definite service direction in secondary mental health services and are firmly embedded in mental health poli... Read More about Crisis resolution: A service response to mental distress.

The emotional context of mental health practice (2009)
Book Chapter
Morton, J. (2009). The emotional context of mental health practice. In J. Chandler, J. Barry, E. Berg, & S. Piipola (Eds.), Dilemmas for Human Services Papers from the 12th International Research Conference, 2008 (132-137). London: University of East London

This paper will consider some recent sociological writing on emotion and mental health and examine the significance of this for social work practice in the field of mental health. What does an emotionally contented life look like? In the medicalised... Read More about The emotional context of mental health practice.

Summary of research for participants and the Health Research Authority ‘An ethnographic study of National Health Service Research Ethics Committees : mapping ethics review’ Dr Julie Morton, April 2017
Report
Dr Julie Morton, April 2017

Background to the study Ethical regulation in general and ethics review more specifically are perceived as challenging for researchers and have been subject to critique from both qualitative and quantitative research paradigms. Existing critique cl... Read More about Summary of research for participants and the Health Research Authority ‘An ethnographic study of National Health Service Research Ethics Committees : mapping ethics review’ Dr Julie Morton, April 2017.

Mapping the review of ethics in research : the work of National Health Service (NHS) Research Ethics Committees in England
Thesis
Morton, J. Mapping the review of ethics in research : the work of National Health Service (NHS) Research Ethics Committees in England. (Thesis). University of Salford

Background: The effects of ethical regulation in the form of review and bureaucratic procedures on research are perceived as challenging for researchers. The centrality of the achievement of informed consent in ethical regulation and review has also... Read More about Mapping the review of ethics in research : the work of National Health Service (NHS) Research Ethics Committees in England.