Rachael Dagnall joined the University of Lincoln in 2018 following a 17-year career as a Chartered and Registered Forensic Psychologist within Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS). Rachael will deliver a talk on how her previous experiences of working within the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway (OPDP) services have enabled her to become part of…Continue Reading Prisons in a Pandemic – Examining the Impact on Prisoner Well-Being and Mental Health
Category: Children, Families and Community
Reflections on interviewing at a distance with young fathers and professionals
Following Young Fathers Further is a 4-year qualitative longitudinal and participatory study exploring the lives and support needs of young fathers, funded by UKRI. The pandemic has required us all to adapt our research in various ways. In this presentation, the research team will talk through some of our reflections on interviewing and conducting research…Continue Reading Reflections on interviewing at a distance with young fathers and professionals
Covid-19: Relationships between children and their non-resident parents in the early months of the pandemic
Covid-19 has had particular ramifications for separated families. It has introduced potential barriers to children seeing their non-resident parents and risks to these parents having the earnings to provide financial support. Using data from the UKHLS Covid-19 study, for June 2020, this paper presents an encouraging picture of more solid relationships and financial support arrangements…Continue Reading Covid-19: Relationships between children and their non-resident parents in the early months of the pandemic
Face Masks and Face Recognition
Face masks present a new challenge for face identification in Western cultures, but we are used to seeing people with the upper half of their face covered by sunglasses. My collaborators and I set out to establish whether face masks present any greater a problem for face recognition than sunglasses. Our results showed that people…Continue Reading Face Masks and Face Recognition
Caregiving Dads, Breadwinning Mums: Transforming Gender in Work and Childcare?
Despite a gradual increase in fathers’ time with children and its positive effects on families, mothers continue to bear main responsibility for childcare, and fathers for breadwinning. This mixed-methods project seeks to identify routes and barriers to greater gender equality in the home. Funded by the Nuffield Foundation, it investigates opposite-sex couples who share childcare…Continue Reading Caregiving Dads, Breadwinning Mums: Transforming Gender in Work and Childcare?
Rural gym spaces and masculine physical cultures in an ‘age of change’: Rurality, masculinity, inequalities and harm in ‘the gym
The gym is an increasing site for social research, with much work identifying the importance of understanding gender construction and performance in forming policy to address inequalities in gym access, and harms within gym-going cultures. This paper draws on findings from a multi-year ethnography in rural South-West England to address a gap in the existing…Continue Reading Rural gym spaces and masculine physical cultures in an ‘age of change’: Rurality, masculinity, inequalities and harm in ‘the gym
Researching retired ex-servicemen: reflections on ethnographic encounters
The opportunities and challenges that younger, female, civilian researchers can encounter when undertaking ethnographic research with predominantly male military veterans are relatively underexplored sociologically. This is despite a growing literature on reflexivity in military studies over the past decade. To address this gap, we draw on symbolic interactionist insights to examine the reflective account of…Continue Reading Researching retired ex-servicemen: reflections on ethnographic encounters
Optimising social procurement policy outcomes through cross-sector collaboration in the Australian construction industry
Social procurement policies are an emerging policy instrument being used by governments around the world to leverage infrastructure and construction spending to address intractable social problems in the communities they represent. The relational nature of social procurement policies requires construction firms to develop new collaborative partnerships with organisations from the government, not-for-profit and community sectors….Continue Reading Optimising social procurement policy outcomes through cross-sector collaboration in the Australian construction industry
Facial first impressions form two clusters representing approach-avoidance
Existing models of facial first impressions indicate between two and four factors that underpin all social trait judgements. Here, we submitted several large databases of these first impression ratings to unsupervised learning algorithms with the aim of clustering together faces, rather than traits, to examine the ways in which impressions may be grouped together. Experiment…Continue Reading Facial first impressions form two clusters representing approach-avoidance