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Paws for dementia (2021)
Book Chapter
Riley, C., Campbell, S., & Clark, A. (2021). Paws for dementia. In M. Hammond, & N. Saunders (Eds.), A design for life : urban practices for an age-friendly city (76-79). Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University Press

The importance of social programmes that activate
the built environment, responding to the diverse
(social, medical or cultural) needs and aspirations of
older people.

Dementia in neighbourhoods (2021)
Book Chapter
Campbell, S., & Clark, A. (2021). Dementia in neighbourhoods. In M. Hammond, & N. Saunders (Eds.), A design for life : urban practices for an age-friendly city (73-75). Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University Press

The importance of interactions, activities and environments for improving quality of life for people living with dementia and their carers.

“You and your laws and us with our laws” : a murderer’s stories navigate conflicting normative domains (2021)
Journal Article
Birkbeck, C., & Rodríguez, J. (2021). “You and your laws and us with our laws” : a murderer’s stories navigate conflicting normative domains. Dilemas : Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social (Impresso), 14(3), 641-658. https://doi.org/10.4322/dilemas.v14n3.43542

Employing Labov’s structural model of stories
and Schönbach’s typology of accounts, we
examine an interview with a murderer in
Venezuela and compare two stories that were
narrated within it: one about the murder and
one about his family life. Wh... Read More about “You and your laws and us with our laws” : a murderer’s stories navigate conflicting normative domains.

Can dementia-friendly initiatives improve people’s lives? (2021)
Journal Article
Ward, R., Clark, A., & Phillipson, L. (2021). Can dementia-friendly initiatives improve people’s lives?

The publication last month (August 2021) of the World Health Organization’s toolkit for creating a dementia-friendly society marks the latest step in the coordination of a worldwide effort to tackle dementia as a global health challenge. But what doe... Read More about Can dementia-friendly initiatives improve people’s lives?.

A health, law and education approach to criminal justice (2021)
Report
Gerry QC, F., Rowland, A., Connelly, L., & Roddy, J. (2021). A health, law and education approach to criminal justice

Submission to the legal and social issues committee, Parliament of Victoria - inquiry into Victoria’s justice system

Creating a transformative space for change : a qualitative evaluation of the RHS Wellbeing Programme for people with long-term conditions (2021)
Journal Article
Howarth, M., Lawler, C., & Da Silva, A. (2021). Creating a transformative space for change : a qualitative evaluation of the RHS Wellbeing Programme for people with long-term conditions. Health and Place, 71, 102654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102654

Purpose: Our research aimed to evaluate the impact of the RHS Wellbeing (WB) Programme on people with long-term conditions.
Findings: A thematic analysis identified how the WB programme facilitated improved social connectivity, sense of wellbeing... Read More about Creating a transformative space for change : a qualitative evaluation of the RHS Wellbeing Programme for people with long-term conditions.

Dementia friendly care : methods to improve stakeholder engagement and decision making (2021)
Journal Article
Innes, A., Smith, S., & Bushell, S. (2021). Dementia friendly care : methods to improve stakeholder engagement and decision making. Journal of Healthcare Leadership, 13, 183-197. https://doi.org/10.2147/JHL.S292939

Dementia friendly (DF) is a term that has been increasingly used in the international literature to describe approaches that include and involve people living with dementia within their communities and wider society. How to support the involvement of... Read More about Dementia friendly care : methods to improve stakeholder engagement and decision making.

Rethinking housing supply and design : Feminist Green New Deal policy paper (2021)
Other
Gibbons, A. (2021). Rethinking housing supply and design : Feminist Green New Deal policy paper

Housing is fundamental to life, security and wellbeing as well as tackling climate change and working towards a zero-carbon future. It also remains a key site of gender and intersectional inequality, with design that does not accommodate diverse need... Read More about Rethinking housing supply and design : Feminist Green New Deal policy paper.

COVID sex lives : survey 1 report (2021)
Report
Garwood-Cross, L., Hakim, J., Hinds, R., Katz, R., Light, B., Mercer, J., …Upton, M. (2021). COVID sex lives : survey 1 report

This report presents initial findings from the first survey of Covid Sex Lives project. Public health
measures to mitigate the spread of coronavirus are translated into media messaging by
organisations that target the health of different groups. Th... Read More about COVID sex lives : survey 1 report.

Towards a digital football studies : current trends and future directions for football cultures research in the post-Covid-19 moment (2021)
Journal Article
Lawrence, S., & Crawford, G. (2022). Towards a digital football studies : current trends and future directions for football cultures research in the post-Covid-19 moment. Leisure Studies, 41(1), 56-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2021.1948595

As the digital revolution continues apace, emergent technologies and means of communication have presented new challenges and opportunities for the field of football studies. In turn, researchers active across the social sciences and beyond have resp... Read More about Towards a digital football studies : current trends and future directions for football cultures research in the post-Covid-19 moment.

The construction of a hegemonic social representation : climate crisis and the role of COVID-19 in defining survival (2021)
Journal Article
Magioglou, T., & Coen, S. (2021). The construction of a hegemonic social representation : climate crisis and the role of COVID-19 in defining survival. European Psychologist, 26(3), 230-240. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000442

The present paper discusses how Climate Change and the COVID-19 pandemic can be read as two facets of a Hegemonic Social Representation under construction, the representation of Survival, reshaping other hegemonic, socially shared representations in... Read More about The construction of a hegemonic social representation : climate crisis and the role of COVID-19 in defining survival.

‘All avatars aren’t we’: football and the experience of football-themed digital content during a global pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
Crawford, G., Fenton, A., Chadwick, S., & Lawrence, S. (2022). ‘All avatars aren’t we’: football and the experience of football-themed digital content during a global pandemic. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 57(4), 515-531. https://doi.org/10.1177/10126902211021529

This paper explores the contemporary nature of association football consumption. In particular, we argue that the Covid-19 pandemic reveals the contemporary and particular nature of the relationship between football and its supporters, which is incre... Read More about ‘All avatars aren’t we’: football and the experience of football-themed digital content during a global pandemic.

Longitudinal study of child and family social workers (wave 3) (2021)
Report
Johnson, C., Sanders-Earley, A., Earl, S., Winterbotham, M., McLaughlin, H., Pollock, S., …McCaughan, S. (2021). Longitudinal study of child and family social workers (wave 3)

In 2018, the Department for Education (DfE) commissioned a consortium led by IFF
Research, working with social work academics at Manchester Metropolitan University
and the University of Salford, to conduct a longitudinal study tracking the careers... Read More about Longitudinal study of child and family social workers (wave 3).

Grasping the social life of documents in human service practice (2021)
Book Chapter
Whitaker, E. (2021). Grasping the social life of documents in human service practice. In K. Jacobsson, & J. Gubrium (Eds.), Doing Human Service Ethnography (83-99). Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.47674/9781447355809

Human service work of all kinds is full of documentation; it is central to the creation and maintenance of the work itself and to stabilising local professional cultures and identities. Yet, all too often, practices of authorship and readership are o... Read More about Grasping the social life of documents in human service practice.

A double-edged sword : children’s experiences of visiting a parent in prison in Scotland (2021)
Journal Article
Lockwood, K., Long, T., Loucks, N., Raikes, B., & Sharratt, K. (2021). A double-edged sword : children’s experiences of visiting a parent in prison in Scotland. Probation Journal, 69(2), 159-176. https://doi.org/10.1177/02645505211025592

Prison visits are recognised as an important feature of a humane prison system, providing important benefits for prisoners and their family in maintaining ties (McCarthy & Adams, 2017). Scotland has a history of penal welfarism and a right-based agen... Read More about A double-edged sword : children’s experiences of visiting a parent in prison in Scotland.

Nurse education in the UK : moving beyond the EU regulations? (2021)
Journal Article
Leigh, J. (2021). Nurse education in the UK : moving beyond the EU regulations?. British Journal of Nursing, 30(12), 756-757. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2021.30.12.756

In 2018 the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) launched its Future Nurse and Realising Professionalism standards (NMC, 2018a; 2018b; 2018c). Collectively, these three-part standards specify the knowledge and skills that NMC registrants must demonstr... Read More about Nurse education in the UK : moving beyond the EU regulations?.

SPARC 2021 - Against all odds : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts (2021)
Book
Thomas, A., Ibrahim, A., Abraham, A., Halilu, A., Adeosun, A., Court, A., …Whitehead, H. (2021). H. Bury, S. Gowda, T. Ireland, L. Mitchell, E. Oginni, T. Poppelreuter, …D. Whitnall (Eds.), SPARC 2021 - Against all odds : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts. Salford, United Kingdom: University of Salford

Welcome to the Book of Abstracts for the 2021 SPARC conference. Our conference is called “Against All Odds” as we celebrate the achievements of our PGRs and their supervisors, who have continued to excel despite the most challenging circumstances. Fo... Read More about SPARC 2021 - Against all odds : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts.

Strategies to combatting violence in society, including violence against women and girls (2021)
Report
Connelly, L., Roddy, J., & Rowland, A. (2021). Strategies to combatting violence in society, including violence against women and girls

For at least two decades it has been recognised that violence is not an intractable social problem or an inevitable part of the human condition. Our global society can do much to address and prevent violence. For every person who dies as a result of... Read More about Strategies to combatting violence in society, including violence against women and girls.

Interactionist research : extending methods, extending fields (2021)
Book Chapter
Whitaker, E., & Atkinson, P. (2021). Interactionist research : extending methods, extending fields. In D. vom Lehn, N. Ruiz-Junco, & W. Gibson (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism (425-434). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429276767-43

Symbolic interactionist research has long been associated with qualitative methods, and with ethnographic fieldwork in particular. This chapter outlines the basic principles that underpin such affinity, while acknowledging that there is no one-to-on... Read More about Interactionist research : extending methods, extending fields.