A narrative systematic review was undertaken of the literature concerning the health of people on probation or parole (community supervision). In this paper, we provide an up-to-date summary of what is known about substance misuse in this context. This includes estimates of the prevalence and complexity of substance misuse in those under community supervision, and…Continue Reading Substance misuse and community supervision: A systematic review of the literature
Year: 2020
Industry perceptions of government interventions: generating an energy efficiency norm
The world has been grappling with energy efficiency for decades. Much attention has been focused on how government can encourage energy efficiency, but there has been essentially none on industry perspectives of which government interventions are necessary to encourage these actions to become the norm. We address this gap through a study of industry views…Continue Reading Industry perceptions of government interventions: generating an energy efficiency norm
Performance Profiling: Theoretical Foundations, Applied Implementations and Practitioner Reflections
Performance profiling is a theory-driven, client-led assessment method utilized by sport psychology professionals to help uncover important physical, psychological, technical, and tactical factors associated with a client’s sport. This holistic technique has been shown to influence a number of psychological constructs important to performance, such as self-awareness and intrinsic motivation. Different variations of the performance…Continue Reading Performance Profiling: Theoretical Foundations, Applied Implementations and Practitioner Reflections
New research network aims to help strengthen mental health services in Bangladesh
New research network aims to help strengthen mental health services in Bangladesh Dr Stephanie Armstrong, School of Health and Social Care is currently working with a new UK-Bangladesh research network that aims to help strengthen mental health services in Bangladesh. Led by Imperial College London – one of the world’s top universities – the Mon…Continue Reading New research network aims to help strengthen mental health services in Bangladesh
PREVENT TRAGEDIES: A CASE STUDY IN FEMALE-TARGETED STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM’S PREVENT COUNTER-TERRORISM POLICY
While international revolutionary groups have frequently attracted international support, the declaration of the caliphate by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2014 and the subsequent growth of foreign fighters leaving their home countries to fight in Syria created a significant concern for Western governments. The United Kingdom was a major source of this foreign fighter flow, becoming…Continue Reading PREVENT TRAGEDIES: A CASE STUDY IN FEMALE-TARGETED STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM’S PREVENT COUNTER-TERRORISM POLICY
Civic University or University of the Earth? A Call for Intellectual Insurgency
This article reviews an attempt to rejuvenate the concept of the civic university in the United Kingdom through the establishment of the Civic University Commission in 2018 by the UPP Foundation. This review is based on a critical appraisal of the concept of ‘civic’ on which the idea of the civic university relies. The review…Continue Reading Civic University or University of the Earth? A Call for Intellectual Insurgency
Ostrom, Floods and Mismatched Property Rights
How societies can cope with flood risk along coasts and riverbanks is a critical theoretical and empirical problem – particularly in the wake of anthropogenic climate change and the increased severity of floods. An example of this challenge is the growing costs of publicly-funded flood defense in Britain and popular outcries during the regular occasions…Continue Reading Ostrom, Floods and Mismatched Property Rights
Parents in lockdown
There has been a great deal of speculation in the media about how relationships have fared during lockdown. Commitment theory sheds some interesting light on the matter in terms of predicting potential winners and losers (Stanley et al 2006). Commitment has two different facets: Dedication is the internal bond between two people that reflects their…Continue Reading Parents in lockdown
The predictors, barriers and facilitators to effective management of acute pain in children by emergency medical services: A systematic mixed studies review
We aimed to identify predictors, barriers and facilitators to effective pre-hospital pain management in children. A segregated systematic mixed studies review was performed. We searched from inception to 30-June-2020: MEDLINE, CINAHL Complete, PsycINFO, EMBASE, Web of Science Core Collection and Scopus. Empirical quantitative, qualitative and multi-method studies of children under 18 years, their relatives or…Continue Reading The predictors, barriers and facilitators to effective management of acute pain in children by emergency medical services: A systematic mixed studies review