“PPI? That sounds like Payment Protection Insurance”: Reflections and learning from a substance use and homelessness study Experts by Experience group
Journal Article
Foster, R., Carver, H., Wallace, J., Dunedin, A., Burridge, S., Foley, P., …Parkes, T. (2021)
“PPI? That sounds like Payment Protection Insurance”: Reflections and learning from a substance use and homelessness study Experts by Experience group. Research Involvement and Engagement, 7(1), Article 82. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-021-00324-8
Background
Patient and Public Involvement in research is important for citizenship, accountability and transparency, and has the practical benefit of helping to ensure its qua...
Peer Support and Overdose Prevention Responses: A Systematic ‘State-of-the-Art’ Review
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Mercer, F., Miler, J. A., Pauly, B., Carver, H., Hnízdilová, K., Foster, R., & Parkes, T. (2021)
Peer Support and Overdose Prevention Responses: A Systematic ‘State-of-the-Art’ Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(22), Article 12073. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182212073
Overdose prevention for people who use illicit drugs is essential during the current overdose crisis. Peer support is a process whereby individuals with lived or living experi...
Information sharing in community policing in Europe: building public confidence
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Aston, L., O'Neill, M., Hail, Y., & Wooff, A. (in press)
Information sharing in community policing in Europe: building public confidence. European Journal of Criminology, https://doi.org/10.1177/14773708211037902
The literature on the importance of procedural justice in policing is extensive. Using the context of information sharing in community policing, this paper argues that interac...
Workplace Preparedness for an Ageing Workforce: A Case Study
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Egdell, V., Raeside, R., Chen, T., & Maclean, G. (2022)
Workplace Preparedness for an Ageing Workforce: A Case Study. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 42(9/10), 890-907. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-07-2021-0175
Design/methodology/approach
A questionnaire survey of workplaces was undertaken in the Fife region of Scotland, which in economic and demographic terms is representative of wi...
Quantifying prescribed high dose opioids in the community and risk of overdose
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Schofield, J., Steven, D., Foster, R., Matheson, C., Baldacchino, A., McAuley, A., & Parkes, T. (2021)
Quantifying prescribed high dose opioids in the community and risk of overdose. BMC Public Health, 21(1), Article 1174. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11162-4
Background
Opioid prescribing for a range of health issues is increasing globally. The risk of fatal and non-fatal overdose is increased among people prescribed strong opioids...
‘It maybe doesn’t seem much, but to me it’s my kingdom’: staff and client experiences of Housing First in Scotland
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Miler, J. A., Foster, R., Hnizdilova, K., Murdoch, H., & Parkes, T. (2022)
‘It maybe doesn’t seem much, but to me it’s my kingdom’: staff and client experiences of Housing First in Scotland. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 29(3), 231-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2021.1926429
Housing First (HF) represents a significant shift in the way that the problem of homelessness and co-occuring challenges including problem substance use, is addressed. HF inte...
"We are 'free range' prison officers", the experiences of Scottish Prison Service (SPS) Throughcare Support Officers (TSOs) working in custody and the community
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Maycock, M., McGuckin, K., & Morrison, K. (2020)
"We are 'free range' prison officers", the experiences of Scottish Prison Service (SPS) Throughcare Support Officers (TSOs) working in custody and the community. Probation Journal, 67(4), 358-374. https://doi.org/10.1177/0264550520954898
Between 2015 and 2019, forty-one Throughcare Support Officers (TSOs) supported people serving short sentences leaving custody across eleven Scottish Prison Service (SPS) estab...
Restorative Justice Policy in Context: A Legal-Archaeological Analysis
Journal Article
Maglione, G. (2022)
Restorative Justice Policy in Context: A Legal-Archaeological Analysis. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 35, 493-517. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-020-09747-0
This paper provides an original, in-depth analysis of English and Welsh criminal and penal policy on restorative justice. By using a historically-discursive approach—legal arc...
Provision of peer support at the intersection of homelessness and problem substance use services: a systematic ‘state of the art’ review
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Miler, J. A., Carver, H., Foster, R., & Parkes, T. (2020)
Provision of peer support at the intersection of homelessness and problem substance use services: a systematic ‘state of the art’ review. BMC Public Health, 20(1), Article 641. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-8407-4
Background
Peer support refers to a process whereby individuals with lived experience of a particular phenomenon provide support to others by explicitly drawing on their perso...
Trade unions and career services: Potential partners for promoting social justice at work
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Robertson, P. J., Cimini, N., Post, J., & Corry, J. (2020)
Trade unions and career services: Potential partners for promoting social justice at work. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 44(1), 5-12. https://doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.4401
This paper argues that trade unions represent natural allies for career services, as they have shared interests in addressing issues of social justice at work. This potentiall...