A5021071967- Sex work and related issues
- Gender Politics and Representation
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Foucault, Power, and Ethics
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
- Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality
- African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues
- Social and Educational Sciences
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Humor Studies and Applications
- Gender, Security, and Conflict
- Community Health and Development
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
University of Edinburgh
2015-2024
UK Centre for Tobacco & Alcohol Studies
2019
Glasgow Centre for Population Health
2018
Citizens’ juries provide deliberative fora within which members of the public can debate complex policy issues. In this article, we reflect on our experience undertaking three citizens’ addressing health inequalities, to explore positive and facilitative role that humor play group-based research focusing sensitive We demonstrate how both participants researchers engaged in production ways troubled prevailing power dynamics facilitated relationships. conclude by recommending researchers,...
Abstract Background Despite widespread age-of-sale restrictions on tobacco, adolescents continue to obtain cigarettes and experiment with smoking. This mixed-methods study aimed understand how European access the policy context may influence this process, using a realist evaluation approach. is first assess across various contexts. Methods A survey of 4104 students was combined qualitative data from focus groups among 319 aged 14–19 seven countries. Data were synthesized explore mechanisms...
This article is a response to ‘Losing Sight of Women's Rights: The Unregulated Introduction Gender Self-Identification as Case Study Policy Capture in Scotland’ by Kath Murray, Lucy Hunter Blackburn and Lisa MacKenzie, published Scottish Affairs 28(3). Murray et al. sought explore the legal status women, particularly with regard discrimination legislation, concluded that interests trans women had begun systematically erode non-trans Scotland. In this response, we aim correct some erroneous...
Abstract In 2017, the UK government limited number of children for a whom low-income family could claim means tested benefit (the “child element” “Universal Credit”) to two. Since then, over 400,000 families—including 1.5 million children—have been affected by “two-child limit.” Emerging research indicates that limit has done little influence fertility rates, nothing workforce participation, and great deal increase financial hardship poverty. Via synthesis existing research, critical...
Smoke-Free School Policies (SFSP) are primarily designed to ensure educational spaces remain free of second-hand smoke, whilst contributing a reduction in adolescent smoking by challenging the practice per se. Evidence regarding latter goal is inconclusive, however, with most studies suggesting SFSPs ineffective reducing prevalence. A dearth qualitative research limits our understanding why this inefficacy persists and how it might be addressed. This paper addresses lacuna through critical...
Abstract Informed consent is medico-legal orthodoxy and the principal means by which research encounters with body are regulated in UK. However, biomedical advancements increasingly frustrate degree to informed can be practiced, whilst introducing ambiguity into its legal significance. What more, feminist theory fundamentally disrupts ideologically liberal foundations of consent, exposing it as a potentially inadequate mode bioethical regulation. This paper explores these critiques reference...
Within much feminist scholarship, the concept of vulnerability is understood to possess progressive potential. Troubling Liberalism’s individualism, theorists conceive subject as situated and formed through her various relational dependencies. Concurrently, term appears in contemporary social policy. An emergent literature suggests, however, that policy academic representations diverge ideologically significant ways. In this article, I make a contribution body work. explore how 21...
Definitions of violence are never merely descriptive. Rather, defining is an evaluative and normative project, struggles over which reflect a range contexts, particularly relations power. Given this, I argue that feminists should focus on what understandings achieve, rather than striving to provide conclusive definition. This requires critical genealogical analysis discourse. In this article, undertake such analysis: exploring how selection 21 Westminster policy-actors define vis-à-vis...
Abstract We are living through cruel and frightening times. How should a progressive policy studies respond? Critique undoubtedly plays role: the task of exposing structural conditions, political interests power asymmetries that lie beneath ‘prosaic surface’ is an urgent one. But these primarily deconstructive efforts enough? Can they lead us out this quagmire, alone? In article, we argue something additional – more generative hopeful also required. response, introduce ‘critical utopian...
Despite efforts to reduce adolescent smoking via minimum age-of-sale legislation, many young people continue access tobacco through a mix of social and commercial sources. Little is known about the roles habitus, capital, topographies in shaping under-age tobacco. This article draws on Bourdieu's theory practice data generated from 56 focus groups with 14- 19-year-olds across seven European cities answer question "via what sources by means do adolescents obtain tobacco?" We find that use...
In this chapter, I explore the analytical and political significance bestowed on conceptual category of gender, by both policy documents policy-actors.
‘Violence’ is an essentially contested concept (De Haan 2008; Mider 2013). What causes ‘violence’ similarly subject to debate (Cavanaugh 2012; Lawson 2012). Both matters have piqued the interests of critical social theorists who posit that signification and use are saturated with, expressive of, instrumental in, practices power (Galtung 1969; Young 1990). Relatedly, feminist long argued dominant discourses violence reflect masculine (Easteal et al. Smart 1990), whilst ‘violence against women...
The contested ontological and normative status of women’s autonomous capacities has long been a central feature feminist sex-work/prostitution debates (Benedet 2013; Davidson 1995; MacKinnon 2011; Meyers 2014; Miriam 2005; Nussbaum 1998).
A growing body of (primarily feminist) scholarship frames ‘vulnerability’ as an inescapably constitutive feature human existence: ontology the body, which shapes our somatic, affective, and emotional experiences (Butler 2016; Cole Fineman 2008; Gilson 2011). Within this work, vulnerability provides a lynchpin concept through to rearticulate key themes in feminist theory (e.g. embodiment, relationality positionality), offering new lexicon with critically evaluate injustice (Cole 2016). These...