A5043714576- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Elder Abuse and Neglect
- American and British Literature Analysis
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- ICT in Developing Communities
- RNA regulation and disease
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Virus-based gene therapy research
- Big Data Technologies and Applications
- Reflective Practices in Education
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Education Practices and Evaluation
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Comics and Graphic Narratives
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
Broad Institute
2019-2022
University College London
2014-2022
University of Glasgow
2011-2016
University of Northern Colorado
2014-2016
University of Stirling
2008-2010
Responding to reports of missing persons represents one the biggest demands on resources police organisations. In UK, for example, it is estimated that over 300,000 incidents are recorded by each year which means a person in UK approximately every two minutes. However, there complex web behaviours surround phenomenon can make difficult establish whether someone's disappearance 'intentional' or 'unintentional' they might be at risk harm from themselves others. Drawing set case reconstructions...
This article is about the ways in which young children engage with technological toys and resources at home and, particular, family context makes a difference to children’s engagement these technologies. The data reviewed come from interviews parent-recorded video of four case study as they used specific resources: screen-based games console designed for use, technology-mediated reading scheme, child’s two ‘pets’. We found same repertoire direct pedagogical actions across families when...
Schemes that seek to ensure children have access technology at home have, so far, been aimed over the age of 8. However, there is likely be an increasing policy interest in extending similar schemes pre-school given widespread commitment value early intervention children's education and family life. We draw on three research studies conducted by authors discuss range technologies encounter home, different forms their learning takes support for learning. use these findings provide starting...
This article describes a novel approach to experience sampling as response the challenges of researching everyday lives young children at home. Parents from 11 families used mobile phones send research team combined picture and text messages provide ‘experience snapshots’ their child’s activities six times on each three separate days. The how method aligns with an ecocultural approach, illustrates variation in children’s experiences provides sufficient detail for researchers adapt purposes...
Informed by ‘critical’ approaches to ‘educational technology’, this paper aims move away from presenting a ‘could’ and ‘should’ explanation of children learning with technology more nuanced, context-rich analyses how information communication technologies (ICTs) are being used technologically privileged families at home. Here, critical approach means locating the findings within framework, which not only includes reference policies politics educational technology, but also takes account...
A new body of scholarship on death and loss has emerged as a sub-field within social cultural geography. This work done much to draw geographers' attention questions death, dying remembrance likewise bring spatial perspective interdisciplinary studies. Whilst deathscapes have been framed geographical incorporating material, embodied virtual spaces, date Anglo-American European studies tended focus the literal representational spaces end life, sites bodily remains memorialization. With number...
Families of missing people are often understood as inhabiting a particular space ambiguity, captured in the phrase 'living limbo' (Holmes, 2008). To explore this uncertain ground, we interviewed 25 family members to consider how human absence is acted upon and not just felt within 'in between' grief loss (Wayland, 2007). In paper, represent families active agents spatial stories limbo', provide insights into diverse strategies search/ing (technical, physical emotional) which they engage...
‘Sophie’s story’ is a creative rendition of an interview narrative gathered in research project on missing people. The paper explains why Sophie’s story was written and details the wider intention to provide new resources for police officer training, families people returned We contextualize this cultural intervention with argument about transformative potential writing trauma stories. It suggested that stories produce difficult unknown affects, but ones may ways talking unspeakable events....
This article discusses how children, toys, and play are accommodated in the spaces of contemporary home order to highlight often overlooked connections between as an imaginative space housing a physical location which people reside. We do this by exploring families private, new-build homes Scotland reconfigure domestic through creation new kind internal space—the "toy room." Analysis leads consideration rules routines homemaking join people, places, things together or deliberately separate...
Police investigations of major crimes are typically conducted in contexts where there is contested or ambiguous knowledge about what occurred and such challenges also routinely faced the investigation missing persons. This article examines ways which attempts to 'manufacture certainty' persons cases strongly informed by geographical notions space place. The structured around key phases police investigations, each involves mobilization different forms knowledge. In first stage 'identifying...
ABSTRACTThe challenges of conducting research in the home, especially with preschool children, mean that role home as a site for is often overlooked by educationalists. Our repeat visits to fourteen families included three- or four-year-old child over more than year part our study "Young Children Learning Toys and Technology at Home" enabled us develop relationships resulted 100 percent retention rate. we summarize ecocultural framework informed design describe two methods collecting data...
This paper aims to move away from the notion of a digital divide premised on technology ‘haves and have‐nots’ more nuanced understanding based technological practices. It draws empirical research interviews with eight case‐study families about ways in which information communication technologies (ICT) fit into their everyday lives. The were chosen reflect those owning multiple technologies, rather than be ‘representative’ social make‐up schools or geographical area. intention here is explore...
Two studies investigate the presentation of self-compassion following an interpersonal transgression. In study 1 (N = 228), participants imagined letting someone down. Self-compassionate were less likely to endorse self-critical statements and more self-compassionate statements. Study 2 208) investigated people's preference for versus after let them Less preferred forgive who made More responses just as regardless type response. These findings support hypothesis that leads presentations...
In this paper ‘missing people’ gain an unstable presence through their (restaged) testimonies recounting individual occupations of material urban public space during the lived practice absence. We explore experience’ with reference to homeless geographies, and as constituted by paradoxical spatialities in which people are both absent present. seek understand such geographies absence diverse voices missing people, who discuss embodiment unusual rhythmic city. conclude considering how a new...
Empowerment is often a desired outcome for health programs; however, it rarely evaluated. One way to increase empowerment may be through self-compassion. The authors of the current study aimed determine whether self-compassion and were positively related. Two hundred five women (ages 18 48 years) recruited from pool undergraduate students at university in southeastern United States summer/fall 2012. Participants completed using Qualtrics, an online survey system. wrote about fight romantic...
The paper contributes new ways of thinking about and responding to interview talk in the context recent scholarship on interviewing, orality witnessing. We proceed by paying attention specific examples experience absence via collecting narratives from families missing people. highlight how ambiguous emotions are bound up with broader recognizing such talk, largely exercised here as reflections what is involved witnessing those who communications police. Tensions that may be produced official...
In geography, a conversation around suicide survivors and their suicidal journeys has yet to happen. The current prioritisation of as end points marked on maps patterns death in space regions obscured the lived experience adults who attempt do not die. an effort reduce this invisibility, evidence derived from in-depth interviews with (18 years over reported missing) freely delivered narratives attempts is employed understand complex spatiality retrospect. Situating knowledgeable about...