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Putting child health at the centre of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill (2025)
Report
Rowland, A., & Hastie, G. (2025). Putting child health at the centre of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

This report sets out the main themes of the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill and highlights its most significant aspects for children, young people and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) members. Children’s social care and sch... Read More about Putting child health at the centre of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.

Digital Age video as part of FoSS (2024)
Digital Artefact
Edge, C. (2024). Digital Age video as part of FoSS

This session highlighted research through a presentation including a short film, and Q and A exploring ageing women’s experiences of the barriers to digital engagement in the workplace. Intergenerational barriers and perceptions of older women being... Read More about Digital Age video as part of FoSS.

How Do Those Who Have Served Deserve to Be Treated? Military Veterans in the U.K. Social Security System (2024)
Journal Article
Martin, P., Scullion, L., Young, D., Pardoe, J., Hynes, C., & Jones, K. (2024). How Do Those Who Have Served Deserve to Be Treated? Military Veterans in the U.K. Social Security System. Armed Forces and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/0095327x241286860

Military service has often been a basis for civilian welfare entitlements. If mass wartime service justified collective provision, it is now suggested professional militaries have been co-opted to support reformed welfare models in which entitlement... Read More about How Do Those Who Have Served Deserve to Be Treated? Military Veterans in the U.K. Social Security System.

Against the grain: International migrants, the children of migrants and national life expectancy in Sweden, 1990–2019 (2024)
Journal Article
Wallace, M., & Drefahl, S. (2024). Against the grain: International migrants, the children of migrants and national life expectancy in Sweden, 1990–2019. SSM - Population Health, 28, 101726. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2024.101726

International migrants and their children represent increasing shares of the populations of major host countries and have growing potential to affect estimates of national mortality. Yet, while many studies have observed mortality d... Read More about Against the grain: International migrants, the children of migrants and national life expectancy in Sweden, 1990–2019.

The impact of interprofessional student training initiatives in older adults’ care home settings: A scoping review (2024)
Journal Article
Kelly, S., Stephens, M., Clark, A., Chesterton, L., & Hubbard, L. (2024). The impact of interprofessional student training initiatives in older adults’ care home settings: A scoping review. Educational Gerontology, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/03601277.2024.2407201

Interprofessional education (IPE) initiatives, where students from multiple professions learn from, with and about each other, have been implemented in various care environments. However, no reviews have examined the impact they have in older adult’s... Read More about The impact of interprofessional student training initiatives in older adults’ care home settings: A scoping review.

Police engagement with football fans online during the English 2022/23 season (2024)
Journal Article
Ralph, L., Aitken, A., & Robinson, P. (in press). Police engagement with football fans online during the English 2022/23 season. Policing, 18, https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paae102

Dialogue policing favours constructive forms of police-fan engagement, and there is overwhelming evidence that it leads to greater trust and self-regulation behaviours amongst fans. However, little is known about if and how dialogue policing can be f... Read More about Police engagement with football fans online during the English 2022/23 season.

Developing Age-Friendly Communities in an Emergent Post-Pandemic World: Executive Summary (2024)
Report
Kelly, S., & Clark, A. (in press). Developing Age-Friendly Communities in an Emergent Post-Pandemic World: Executive Summary. Dunhill Medical Trust

‘Developing Age-Friendly Communities in an Emergent Post-Pandemic World’ was a research project led by the University of Salford in partnership with Inspiring Communities Together and Manchester Metropolitan University. It was funded by the Dunhill M... Read More about Developing Age-Friendly Communities in an Emergent Post-Pandemic World: Executive Summary.

Developing Age-Friendly Communities In An Emergent Post-Pandemic World: Final Project Report (2024)
Report
Kelly, S., & Clark, A. (in press). Developing Age-Friendly Communities In An Emergent Post-Pandemic World: Final Project Report. Dunhill Medical Trust

This report presents findings from the 'Developing Age-friendly Communities in an Emergent Post-Pandemic World' research project. The Dunhill Medical Trust funded the work, which has been completed by a partnership led by the University of Salford wi... Read More about Developing Age-Friendly Communities In An Emergent Post-Pandemic World: Final Project Report.

RCPCH responds to NSPCC’s corporal punishment data (2024)
Digital Artefact
Rowland, A., Fussey, E., & Kennedy, L. RCPCH responds to NSPCC’s corporal punishment data. [Online]

The negative health impacts of physical punishment in childhood are well documented, clear and need no further debate. Children who experience physical punishment are more likely to develop poorer mental health and are more likely to experience serio... Read More about RCPCH responds to NSPCC’s corporal punishment data.

The ecocide-genocide nexus: for a ‘logics of destruction approach’ which definitely overcomes liberal definitional legalism and its deceptive bearing on ecocide-genocide prevention (2024)
Journal Article
Frade, C. (in press). The ecocide-genocide nexus: for a ‘logics of destruction approach’ which definitely overcomes liberal definitional legalism and its deceptive bearing on ecocide-genocide prevention. #Journal not on list, 9(Special Issue: Climate Change Criminology), 1-13

This article is an intervention in a growing scholarly literature and debate on ecocide, genocide and their nexus aimed as much at the teaching of these issues as at their study and research. The context for this debate is what the Permanent Peoples’... Read More about The ecocide-genocide nexus: for a ‘logics of destruction approach’ which definitely overcomes liberal definitional legalism and its deceptive bearing on ecocide-genocide prevention.

Sex education against the algorithm: the algorithmically enforced deplatforming of YouTube sex edutainment (2024)
Journal Article
Garwood-Cross, L., Light, B., Cooper-Ryan, A., & Vasilica, C. (2024). Sex education against the algorithm: the algorithmically enforced deplatforming of YouTube sex edutainment. Journal of Gender Studies, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2024.2374752

Deplatforming of sexual content has increased across social media, usually operationalized by commercially charged, and algorithmically enforced, platform policies. This paper extends work on the algorithmic deplatforming of sex through the case stud... Read More about Sex education against the algorithm: the algorithmically enforced deplatforming of YouTube sex edutainment.

Developing Age-Friendly Communities in an Emergent Post-Pandemic World: Phase 2 Elicitation Interviews Report (2024)
Report
Kelly, S., Clark, A., Ahmed, A., & Blezard, E. Developing Age-Friendly Communities in an Emergent Post-Pandemic World: Phase 2 Elicitation Interviews Report. Dunhill Medical Trust

This report presents findings from Phase 2 of the 'Developing Age-friendly Communities in an Emergent Post-Pandemic World' research project. The Dunhill Medical Trust funded the work which has been completed by a partnership led by the University of... Read More about Developing Age-Friendly Communities in an Emergent Post-Pandemic World: Phase 2 Elicitation Interviews Report.

‘Child First’ and desistance (2024)
Book Chapter
Hazel, N., & Case, S. (2024). ‘Child First’ and desistance. In Desistance and Children (37-56). Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447369127.ch002

The neoliberal focus on crime reduction has meant that many youth justice systems see ‘desistance’ from crime as their primary goal. This chapter contends that their attempts to address children’s offending directly and literally has promoted a reduc... Read More about ‘Child First’ and desistance.

Composite Critical Criminology & Collective Stewardship (Khalifa): a theoretical exploration of preventing environmental crimes in Malaysia (2024)
Journal Article
Quraishi, M. (2024). Composite Critical Criminology & Collective Stewardship (Khalifa): a theoretical exploration of preventing environmental crimes in Malaysia. #Journal not on list, 9(1), 1-14

This paper identifies and
interrogates a novel theoretical lens to address
environmental ‘crime’ understood as a ‘composite
critical criminological’ approach (Quraishi, 2020:90)
incorporating three main conceptual strands:
1)Evaluating pert... Read More about Composite Critical Criminology & Collective Stewardship (Khalifa): a theoretical exploration of preventing environmental crimes in Malaysia.

Child Protection - Update RCPCH Conference 2024 (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Fussey, E., & Rowland, A. (2024, March). Child Protection - Update RCPCH Conference 2024. Presented at Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Annual Conference 2024, Birmingham

Police use of Twitter during a sporting mega-event (2023)
Journal Article
Aitken, A., Ralph, L., & Robinson, P. (2023). Police use of Twitter during a sporting mega-event. Policing, 17, https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paad016

There exists a range of sporting mega-event security case studies from respective Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, FIFA World Cup, and UEFA European Football Championships. This literature tends to focus on outlining the policing and physical secur... Read More about Police use of Twitter during a sporting mega-event.

Community perceptions of private security at a mega-event (2021)
Journal Article
Aitken, A. (2021). Community perceptions of private security at a mega-event. Security Journal, 37, 985-1005. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41284-021-00309-y

The pluralisation of policing has caused much debate in criminology. Yet very few studies examine how the public perceive private security. This article addresses this gap by drawing on empirical qualitative data from the 2014 Commonwealth Games in G... Read More about Community perceptions of private security at a mega-event.