Queer Politics of Post-Enlightenment
Presentation / Conference
Kulpa, R. (2021, December)
Queer Politics of Post-Enlightenment. Presented at Working transnationally beyond comparative hierarchies: Exploring relationalities, solidarities and changing conditions in transnational research and pedagogies, Lund University, Sweden
This invited presentation reflected on the contemporary queer studies and the geo-temporal ‘unsettlement’ of Central and Eastern Europe in the occidental (and occidentalist) i...
“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...
Expanding Circles of Failure: The Rise of Bad Anti-Trafficking, and What to Do About It
Digital Artefact
Mendel, J., & Sharapov, K. (2021)
Expanding Circles of Failure: The Rise of Bad Anti-Trafficking, and What to Do About It. [Online]
The anti-trafficking movement has been able to expand and impact on ever-broader circles of life in spite of – and often because of – a failure to achieve its stated goals. Th...
Peer Support and Overdose Prevention Responses: A Systematic ‘State-of-the-Art’ Review
Journal Article
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...
Evidence submission on 'Policing of drugs in Scotland' to Criminal Justice Committee session on the criminal justice aspects of drugs
Other
Aston, E. (2021)
Evidence submission on 'Policing of drugs in Scotland' to Criminal Justice Committee session on the criminal justice aspects of drugs. [https://www.parliament.scot/~/media/committ/1208]
In this brief submission I will focus mainly on evidence pertinent to the policing and drugs in Scotland but I will also endeavour to begin address some of the key topics whic...
Information sharing in community policing in Europe: building public confidence
Journal Article
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
Journal Article
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...
Policing of Drugs in Scotland: Moving beyond the stalemate to redesigning the chess board
Book Chapter
Fotopoulou, M., & Aston, E. (in press)
Policing of Drugs in Scotland: Moving beyond the stalemate to redesigning the chess board. In M. Bacon, & J. Spicer (Eds.), Drug law enforcement, policing and harm reduction: Ending the stalemate. Routledge
This chapter aims to illuminate aspects of the risk environment within which drugs are consumed and policed in Scotland. Firstly, we focus on the macro-level policy context an...
The Scottish Institute For Policing Research Annual Report 2020-21
Report
Aston, E., & Boyle, M. (2021)
The Scottish Institute For Policing Research Annual Report 2020-21. Edinburgh: Scottish Institue for Policing Research
Failure across borders: the spread of bad anti-trafficking
Presentation / Conference
Mendel, J., & Sharapov, K. (2021, August)
Failure across borders: the spread of bad anti-trafficking. Paper presented at RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2021, London
Ineffective and harmful anti-trafficking is being internationalised in some striking ways, partly in response to representations of trafficking networks as borderless and omni...