The UK’s Prevent policy continues to fail in its fundamental purpose to prevent extremism and has at times even created spaces where extremism flourishes. This article goes beyond the mechanism of implementation providing a conceptual understanding of how Prevent maintains the neoliberal status quo. The promotion of the neoliberal status quo, depoliticisation and a lack…Continue Reading A conceptual critique of Prevent: Can Prevent be saved? No, but…
Month: March 2019
A conceptual critique of Prevent: Can Prevent be saved? No, but…
The UK’s Prevent policy continues to fail in its fundamental purpose to prevent extremism and has at times even created spaces where extremism flourishes. This article goes beyond the mechanism of implementation providing a conceptual understanding of how Prevent maintains the neoliberal status quo. The promotion of the neoliberal status…Continue Reading A conceptual critique of Prevent: Can Prevent be saved? No, but…
CaHRU PhD student Laura Simmons wins Best Presentation Award at the Postgraduate Research Showcase 2019
CaHRU and Lincoln Institute for Health PhD student Laura Simmons presented and won an award for her research into understanding sickness absence in the ambulance service at the annual Postgraduate Research Showcase 2019 on 20th February 2019. The conference was hosted by the Doctoral School at the University of Lincoln and provided postgraduate researchers an opportunity…Continue Reading CaHRU PhD student Laura Simmons wins Best Presentation Award at the Postgraduate Research Showcase 2019
Lincoln Psychologist Discusses Research on Crimewatch
Dr Kay Ritchie from the College of Social Science has appeared on BBC’s Crimewatch Roadshow to discuss her work on improving CCTV images using face averages. Dr Ritchie led a study with psychologists from the University of Lincoln and York, UK, and the University of New South Wales in Australia to create a series of…Continue Reading Lincoln Psychologist Discusses Research on Crimewatch
How do mentally tough athletes overcome self-directed anger, shame, and criticism? A self-forgiveness mediation analysis
In this study, we examined associations among mental toughness, negative emotions and cognition, and self-forgiveness. A sample of 343 competitive tennis players (Mage = 17.56, SD = 2.37) completed questionnaires measuring their tendency to experience shame, anger, and criticism towards themselves, along with mental toughness and self-forgivingness. Mental toughness correlated…Continue Reading How do mentally tough athletes overcome self-directed anger, shame, and criticism? A self-forgiveness mediation analysis
Copenhagen Consensus: physical activity & ageing
HART researchers, Joanna Blackwell and Adam Evans, together with international colleagues representing nine countries and a variety of academic disciplines met in Snekkersten, Denmark, to reach evidence-based consensus about physical activity and older adults. It was recognised that the term ‘older adults’ represents a highly heterogeneous population, encompassing those who remain highly active and healthy…Continue Reading Copenhagen Consensus: physical activity & ageing
The House of Commons Liaison Committee and the Prime Minister
This research explores the Prime Minister’s appearances at the Liaison Committee. Mark Bennister was awarded a parliamentary fellowship in November 2016 to study these sessions. This study has focused on the functioning and effectiveness of the Liaison Committee sessions with the Prime Minister. These sessions have questioned four Prime Ministers since 2002 and provide a rich…Continue Reading The House of Commons Liaison Committee and the Prime Minister
Improving Healthcare for People in Contact with Probation
The key to improving healthcare for people in contact with probation lies in four main areas: commissioning, policy, practice, and research. We have created a toolkit for healthcare commissioners which includes: Information on the likely health needs of people in contact with probation An overview of the roles and responsibilities of…Continue Reading Improving Healthcare for People in Contact with Probation
Should GPs routinely screen for gambling disorders?
Gambling was reclassified from an impulse control disorder to a behavioural addiction in the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 5th edn).1 Conservative estimates indicate that approximately 1% of the UK population exhibit gambling behaviour that warrants a diagnosis of ‘disordered gambling’,2 where disordered gambling refers to the useful term proposed in the DSM-52 re-classification encompassing ‘problem’, ‘pathological’, and…Continue Reading Should GPs routinely screen for gambling disorders?