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Publications

The school has a thriving research community which includes both staff and research students. Below are just a small selection of our most recent publications. Further information about publications can be found on individual staff pages.

Recent books and reports

Science and the politics of openness

Edited by Brigitte Nerlich, Sarah Hartley, Sujatha Raman and Alexander Smith
Manchester University Press, 2018

Climate Change Communication and the Internet

Edited by Nelya Koteyko, Brigitte Nerlich and Iina Hellsten
Routledge, 2017

Climate Change and Poverty

Tony Fitzpatrick
Policy Press, 2014

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International Handbook on Social Policy and the Environment

Edited by Tony Fitzpatrick
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014

Religious and Sexual Identities: A Multi-faith Exploration of Young Adults

Religious and Sexual Identities

Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip and Sarah-Jane Page
Ashgate, 2013

The Use and Abuse of Memory: Interpreting World War II in Contemporary European Politics

The Use and Abuse of Memory

Edited by Christian Karner and Bram Mertens
Transaction Publishers, 2013

Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Life

Edited by Peter Nynäs and Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip
Ashgate, 2012

The Ashgate Research Companion to Contemporary Religion and Sexuality

The Ashgate Research Companion to Contemporary Religion and Sexuality

Stephen J. Hunt and Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip
Ashgate, 2012

The Power of Scientific Knowledge: From Research to Public Policy

Reiner Grundmann and Nico Stehr
Cambridge University Press, 2012

Recent articles

Cauvain, J. and Karvonen, A. (2018) Social housing providers as unlikely low-carbon innovators, Energy and Buildings, Vol. 177: 394-401.
Collins LC, Jaspal R and Nerlich B, 2018. “Who or what has agency in the discussion of antimicrobial resistance in UK news and media (2010-2015)? A transitivity analysis” Health 22(6), 521-540.
Nerlich, B. (2018). Triangulating the history of science communication: Faraday, Marcet and Smart. History and Philosophy of Language Sciences Blog, 17 October: https://hiphilangsci.net/2018/10/16/triangulating-history-scicomm
“Does ethnicity and culture affect the non-compliancy of cervical cancer screening?” MOJ Public Health 2018:7(4):219-227 – with Leah Hennessey, Gary G Adams.
Helliwell, R. and Tomei, (2016). Practicing stewardship: EU biofuels policy and certification in the UK and Guatemala. J. Agric Hum Values. In Press doi: 10.1007/s10460-016-9737-9
Patterson, A. and Fyson, R. (2016) 'I was just gobsmacked': Care workers' responses to BBC Panorama's 'Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed'; invoking mental states as a means of distancing from abusive practices Discourse and Society, DOI: 10.1177/0957926516665555
Genova, E. (2016). 'Between rock and a hard place': Bulgarian highly skilled migrants' experience of external and internal stereotypes in the context of the European crisis, National Identities, DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2015.1136609
Grundmann, R. (2016). The Problem of Expertise in Knowledge Societies, Minerva. DOI: 10.1007/s11024-016-9308-7
Grundmann, R. (2016). Climate change as a wicked social problem, Nature Geoscience, 9, 562–563 DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2780
Grundmann, R. (2016) Climate Change and the Social Sciences, Discover Society, 4 October. http://discoversociety.org/2016/10/04/focus-climate-change-and-the-social-sciences
Schäfer, M., Berglez, P., Wessler, H., Eide, E., Nerlich, B., and O'Neill, S. (2016). Investigating mediated climate change communication: A best-practice guide. Open Resource: http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:961854/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Collins, L. C., and Nerlich, B. (2016). Uncertainty discourses in the context of climate change: A corpus-assisted analysis of UK national newspaper articles. Communications, 41(3), 291-313. DOI: 10.1515/commun-2016-0009
Nerlich, B., Jaspal, R. and van Vuuren, K. (2016). Embracing and resisting climate identities in the Australian press: Sceptics, scientists and politics. Public Understanding of Science 25(7), 807-824. http://pus.sagepub.com/content/25/7/807.full.pdf+html
Nerlich, B., 'The invention of nature' http://discoversociety.org/2016/08/02/viewpoint-the-invention-of-nature
Thondhlana, J., Madziva, R. and McGrath S (2016) ' Negotiating Employability: Migrant capitals, networking strategies and their roles in shaping labour market trajectories and outcomes for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK', The Sociological Review.
Nerlich, B. and McLeod, C., (2016) The dilemma of raising awareness 'responsibly' EMBO Reports.
Morris, C., Helliwell R., and Raman S. (2016) 'Framing the Agricultural use of Antibiotics and Antimicrobial Resistance in UK National Newspapers and the Farming Press'. Journal of Rural Studies.
Boycott N., Schneider J., McMurran, M., (2016) " Evaluation of a cognitive-behavioural intervention augmenting individual placement and support", Mental Health and Social Inclusion, Vol. 20 Iss: 2.
Ferguson, H. Patterns of Engagement and Non-Engagement of Young Fathers in Early Intervention and Safeguarding Work, Social Policy and Society.
Fitzpatrick, T. (2016) 'The Sixth Giant? Environmental Policy and the Labour Government, 1945-51', Journal of Social Policy, 45(1): 65-82.
Hamilton, I. S. (2016) 'Employment of ex-prisoners with mental health problems: a review', Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, Vol. 2 Iss 1.
Mustafa, A. (2016) ' What is Prevent really preventing?', 2 February 2016, Discover Society, Issue 29, [online].
Nerlich, B. (2015). COP21: A new chance for common sense and common action?, Media Representations of Climate Change Politics at COP21: The end of the beginning (chapter 4, pp. 14-16), edited by Michael Brüggemann, University of Hamburg.
James, D., Pilnick, A., Hall, A. and Collins, L. (2016) Participants' Use of Enacted Scenes in Research Interviews: A Method for Reflexive Analysis in Health and Social Care. Social Science & Medicine: 38-45.
Pearce, W., Hartley, S. and Nerlich, B. (2016) (in press) 'Transparency: issues are not that simple' Nature (correspondence).
Perry-Young, L., Owen, G., Kelly, S. and Owens, C. 2016. How people come to recognise a problem and seek medical help for a person showing early signs of dementia: A systematic review and meta-ethnography, Dementia.
James, D., Pilnick, A., Hall, A. and Collins, L. (2016) Participants' Use of Enacted Scenes in Research Interviews: A Method for Reflexive Analysis in Health and Social Care. Social Science & Medicine: 38-45.
Trusson, D., Pilnick, A. and Roy, S. (2016) 'A new normal? : Women's experiences of biographical disruption and liminality following treatment for early stage breast cancer' Social Science &Medicine Vol 151, pp.121-129.
Wright, C., Maylorc U., and Becker, S. 2016 'Young black males: resilience and the use of capital to transformschool 'failure'', Critical Studies in Education, Vol, 57, No1, 21-34.
Wright, C. 'Intersectionality and gender inequality in the Labour Market' February 2016, British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium (blog).

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