An account of a recasting of a theoretical model of integrated lives from a model of collective capability - a theoretical model rooted in Amartya Sen's Capability Approach, in order to make sense of the way that adult early childhood…

First year students often feel ill-equipped academically and emotionally, hindering their
integration and adjustment into university life. This report describes a standardised
orientation program for first year undergraduate students focusing on peer and academic
support based on…

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The purpose of the research was to assess the impact of the process of professional development of English foreign language teachers in Israel who participated in the Explicit Multisensory Phonics Intervention Programme. Previous research focused on changes in knowledge, practices,…

The contributors to 'Domestic Service And the Formation of European Identity: Understanding the Globalization of Domestic Work, 16th-21st Centuries' analyze the situation of domestic workers in both the past and present, contributing to existing knowledge concerning their individual characteristics, origins,…

The closing decades of the twentieth century saw a dramatic shift from institutional to community-based care for the mentally ill. This paper describes a study of the social representation of mental illness by mental health professionals working in Britain and…

Originally published in Rhizomes, an international peer-reviewed online journal. Reprinted in Giffney, N. ed., 2008. Queering the Non/Human. London: Ashgate., Subjectivities configured as post-human may challenge investments in former configurations of what it means to be human, but there remains…

This essay analyses Nancy Cunard's contribution to the struggle for racial justice in England and her work with the black communities in Liverpool and London (whose histories and experiences differ radically from their counterparts in the United States) in the…

Following the deaths of Victoria Climbié and of Peter Connelly (Baby P) the media has raged about social work competence, the public have expressed dismay and the government has responded with proposals designed to alter practice procedures. Altering procedures gives…

This presented the new research methodology for Gypsy Traveller Accommodation Assessments (since 2004 a statutory requirement under UK housing law), which was pioneered by the Cambridge sub-region study and generated over £200k of external research funding Anglia Ruskin. The article…