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Engaging young working class men in the delivery of sex and relationships education

Journal Article
Brown, S., & McQueen, F. (2020)
Engaging young working class men in the delivery of sex and relationships education. Sex Education, 20(2), 186-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2019.1636780
Despite a substantial body of research on young people’s wishes about the content and delivery of sex and relationships education (SRE), studies still indicate dissatisfaction...

Women’s studies: bibliometric and content analysis of the formative years

Journal Article
Cronin, B., Davenport, E., & Martinson, A. (1997)
Women’s studies: bibliometric and content analysis of the formative years. Journal of Documentation, 53(2), 123-138. https://doi.org/10.1108/eum0000000007196
Women‘s studies has emerged as a recognised academic specialty in recent years. We explored the social structure of the field by analysing bibliometrically all scholarly artic...

Supporting children and families facing death of a parent: part 2.

Journal Article
Kennedy, C., McIntyre, R., Worth, A., & Hogg, R. (2008)
Supporting children and families facing death of a parent: part 2. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 14, 230-237
The aim was to report on the views of children, parents and key stakeholders of a new bereavement support service for families where a parent is dying from cancer. A qualitat...

The Sensational Katherine Cecil Thurston: An investigation into the life and publishing history of a ‘New Woman’ author

Thesis
An investigation into the life and publishing history of a ‘New Woman’ author. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2808
This thesis investigates the publishing history of a significant New Woman author of the Edwardian period, Katherine Cecil Thurston (1875-1911). Until now Thurston’s literary ...

Trafficking in Human Beings: Made and Cut to Measure? Anti-trafficking Docufictions and the Production of Anti-trafficking Truths

Journal Article
Sharapov, K., & Mendel, J. (2018)
Trafficking in Human Beings: Made and Cut to Measure? Anti-trafficking Docufictions and the Production of Anti-trafficking Truths. Cultural Sociology, 12(4), 540-560. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975518788657
This paper responds to Gozdziak's (2015: 30) call to explore how the knowledge that informs public debates about human trafficking is generated. Media imagery and narratives p...

The feasibility and acceptability of the provision of alcohol screening and brief advice in pharmacies for women accessing emergency contraception: an evaluation study.

Journal Article
Brown, S., Henderson, E., & Sullivan, C. (2013)
The feasibility and acceptability of the provision of alcohol screening and brief advice in pharmacies for women accessing emergency contraception: an evaluation study. BMC Public Health, 14, https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-1139
Background: It is widely accepted that excessive drinking contributes to both health and social problems. There has been considerable interest in the potential of community ph...

Gender, authentic leadership, and identity: an analysis of women leaders' autobiographies.

Journal Article
Sang, K. J., Kapasi, I., Sang, K., & Sitko, R. (2016)
Gender, authentic leadership, and identity: an analysis of women leaders' autobiographies. Gender in Management: An International Journal, 31(5/6), 339-358. https://doi.org/10.1108/GM-06-2015-0058
Purpose: Leadership theories have moved from viewing leadership as a personality trait, towards models that recognise leadership as a social construction. Alongside this theor...

Supporting children and families facing death of a parent: part 1.

Journal Article
Kennedy, C., McIntyre, R., Worth, A., & Hogg, R. (2008)
Supporting children and families facing death of a parent: part 1. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 14, 162-168
The aim is to present findings from a review of key literature and from a scoping of current provision of support for children facing the death of a parent. A summary of the f...

Act now or miss your gender targets.

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Dutton, M. (2015)
Act now or miss your gender targets
VOLUNTARY approach is not enough if Nicola Sturgeon’s ambition of boardroom 50:50 by 2020 is to be realised, says Dr Matthew Dutton.

‘They think it's all up to the girls’: gender, risk and responsibility for contraception

Journal Article
Brown, S. (2015)
‘They think it's all up to the girls’: gender, risk and responsibility for contraception. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 17(3), 312-325. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2014.950983
Much research suggests that attitudes towards responsibility for use of contraception amongst young people are strongly gendered. However, decision making, if ‘decisions’ happ...