New analysis of data from up to 13,000 UK families show that a mum’s level of happiness has a direct effect on her children’s mental health, the stability of her relationship with the children’s father, and her closeness to her children when teenagers. University of Lincoln, College of Social Science Research Harry Benson, Research Director…Continue Reading Happy Wife, Happy Life
Year: 2019
Chain Reaction: Critical Theory Needs Critical Mass—Contradiction, Crisis and the Value-Form, Mike Neary
Krystian Szadkowski and Jakub Krzeski have written a significant paper, In, Against and Beyond: A Marxist Critique for Higher Education in Crisis (2019), setting out a critical framework ‘to render visible what lies beyond the current form of higher education’ (1). Their critical framework attempts to reveal the trigger for ‘a chain reaction’, setting off a process for…Continue Reading Chain Reaction: Critical Theory Needs Critical Mass—Contradiction, Crisis and the Value-Form, Mike Neary
Taxonomy of the form and function of primary care services in or alongside emergency departments: concepts paper
Worldwide, increasing pressure on emergency departments from rising demand,has led to much interest in different models of service delivery, including the use of primary care services in or alongside emergency departments. However, the way these primary care services look and operate varies depending on local context and whether they are required to operate closer to…Continue Reading Taxonomy of the form and function of primary care services in or alongside emergency departments: concepts paper
Film and Identity in Kazakhstan Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia (podcast)
In Film and Identity in Kazakhstan: Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Rico Isaacs uses cinema as an analytical tool to demonstrate the constructed and contested nature of Kazakh national identity. By first tracing the evolution of Kazakh national identity formation and then analyzing data from individual interviews and the Kazakh…Continue Reading Film and Identity in Kazakhstan Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia (podcast)
Nima Moghaddam Publishes New Article with NIHR Collaborators
Objective: Routine outcome monitoring (ROM) is a well-evidenced means of improving psychotherapy’s effectiveness. However, it is unclear how meaningful ROM is for problems that span physical and mental health, such as severe health anxiety. Physical and mental health comorbidities are common amongst severe health anxiety sufferers and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a recommended treatment. Method: Seventy-nine…Continue Reading Nima Moghaddam Publishes New Article with NIHR Collaborators
No Pets Allowed? Companion Animals, Older People and Residential Care
This article is concerned with a particular site of inter-species relationships. Using the lens of liminality, it examines forced separation of older people from their companion animals when they move to a residential or nursing home in the UK. Such residential spaces frequently either exclude companion animals or fail to make adequate provision for them…Continue Reading No Pets Allowed? Companion Animals, Older People and Residential Care
Viewing heterospecific facial expressions: an eye-tracking study of human and monkey viewers
Common facial expressions of emotion have distinctive patterns of facial muscle movements that are culturally similar among humans, and perceiving these expressions is associated with stereotypical gaze allocation at local facial regions that are characteristic for each expression, such as eyes in angry faces. It is, however, unclear to what extent this ‘universality’ view can…Continue Reading Viewing heterospecific facial expressions: an eye-tracking study of human and monkey viewers
Weather-wise? Sporting embodiment, weather work and weather learning in running and triathlon
Weather experiences are currently surprisingly under-explored and under-theorised in sociology and sport sociology, despite the importance of weather in both routine, everyday life and in recreational sporting and physical-cultural contexts. To address this lacuna, here we examine the lived experience of weather, including ‘weather work’ and ‘weather learning’, in our specific physical-cultural worlds of distance-running,…Continue Reading Weather-wise? Sporting embodiment, weather work and weather learning in running and triathlon
Repeatable glucocorticoid expression is associated with behavioural syndromes in males but not females in a wild primate
Behavioural syndromes are a well-established phenomenon in human and non-human animal behavioural ecology. However, the mechanisms that lead to correlations among behaviours and individual consistency in their expression at the apparent expense of behavioural plasticity remain unclear. The ‘state-dependent’ hypothesis posits that inter-individual variation in behaviour arises from inter-individual variation in state and that the…Continue Reading Repeatable glucocorticoid expression is associated with behavioural syndromes in males but not females in a wild primate