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Gender and the populist radical right in Europe

Populist radical right political parties champion traditional models of the family while, at the same time, they paradoxically frame their anti-immigration agenda as a struggle for gender equality, depicting Islam as incompatible with women’s rights.

Distant Voices

Distant Voices is a project that explores crime, punishment and reintegration through songwriting and other forms of creative expression.

IMPRODOVA

IMPRODOVA is focused on how police and other frontline responders (e.g. medical and social work professionals) respond to domestic abuse in European countries. 

Repeat Violence Victimisation

The study seeks to improve understanding about repeat violence victimisation (RVV) in Scotland, by exploring the views and experiences of victims/survivors and their supporters.

Football Fans and Betting

This research aims to support men who gamble regularly to reduce how much time and money they spend on betting, and so improve their wellbeing. 

Sport betting in Malawi: A pilot interview study of male bettors

In recent years Malawi has experienced a significant growth in the availability of gambling products and services. As Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world, there are concerns that this trend will have negative effects on development and health.

In it to win it: An Interdisciplinary investigation of sports betting

This project aims to understand social practices of using mobile phone sports betting apps among young adults in Australia.

Justice Journeys: Informing policy and practice through lived experience

The principal focus of this research is on rape and sexual assault victim-survivors’ end-to-end experiences of the criminal justice system.

Completed projects

Evaluation of Rape Crisis Scotland’s National Advocacy Project (February 2016 - January 2018)

Pervasive Punishment: The Shadow of Penal Supervision (2017-18)

Parenting for Respectability

Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the Body, Law & the State (April 2014-March 2017)

Intimate migrations: Lesbian, gay and bisexual migrants in Scotland (January 2015 - January 2017) 

Lives Sentenced – The Punishment Careers of Persistent Offenders (October 2013 - March 2017)

Lives Sentenced: Experiences of Repeated Punishment (October 2013 - September 2016)

Offender supervision in Europe (Cost Action 1106) (2012-2016)

Mass Supervision – Seen and Heard (2015-2016)

Public understanding and belief in response to media accounts of probation (2014 - 2015)

(Re)Imagining Youth: A Comparative Sociology of Youth Leisure in Scotland and Hong Kong (September 2013 - August 2015)

A socio-cultural exploration at the lives of polio survivors (January-August 2015)

Evaluation of the Police Scotland/Rape Crisis Scotland ‘Support to Report’ Pilot Advocacy Service (February 2014 - January 2015)

Gendering Activism in Populist Radical Right Parties (2012 to 2014)

Understanding Gambling (June 2006 - 2013)

Quality of Engagement in Probation Practice (2010-2012)

 

 


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