Electronic copies of Faculty of Social Sciences book chapters and sections. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1045 2026-09-30T09:52:46Z 2026-09-30T09:52:46Z Hennessy, Catherine Whittaker, Anna Dawson, Alison Shore, Colin Haynes, Richard Bradwell, Hannah Cooper, Leonie Jones, Ray Tomaz, Simone Ritchie, John http://hdl.handle.net/1893/37972 2026-04-11T00:24:10Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Intergenerational connectivity for promoting health and well-being across ages, places and spaces Author(s): Hennessy, Catherine; Whittaker, Anna; Dawson, Alison; Shore, Colin; Haynes, Richard; Bradwell, Hannah; Cooper, Leonie; Jones, Ray; Tomaz, Simone; Ritchie, John Editor(s): Phillips, Judith; Douglas, Elaine Abstract: Introduction: healthy ageing in an increasingly digital world The expanding digitalisation of everyday life that has occurred over the past 30 years has affected all segments of society from youngest to oldest. Digital connectivity—connectedness through digital technology—is recognised as having growing importance in linking individuals to community, information and other resources. It increasingly mediates connections to material and virtual supports that are relevant to healthy ageing and reducing health inequalities in later life (De Santis et al, 2023). Xu et al (2021) highlight the implications of this trend as meaning that ‘digital technology will continue to shape the way we access health information, connect with loved ones, and stay active’ to the extent that ‘digital access has become a new social determinant of health’ (p134). Developments in eHealth promotion (Muellmann et al, 2018), for example, highlight the potential of digital applications to support those living with long-term conditions and improving and maintaining their health and well-being. Evidence is also emerging of the potential benefits of digital applications such as videogames for health on physical, cognitive and social aspects of adult, including older adult, users’ health-related quality of life (Marston and Hall, 2016).

2026-01-01T00:00:00Z Dickson, Nic http://hdl.handle.net/1893/37900 2026-03-12T01:05:09Z 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: What I wish I’d known then: my three top tips for engaging ‘vulnerable’ women in arts-based research. Author(s): Dickson, Nic Editor(s): Clover, Darlene E; Dzulkifli, Suriani; Gelderman, Hannah; Sanford, Kathy Abstract: Throughout my adult life I have worked with so-called vulnerable groups in various roles, including as a social researcher, community artist and adult educator. Through this engagement, I have learnt to view vulnerability as an ‘amorphous concept’, which is often quite meaningless to how research participants view themselves (van den Hoonaardan 2019, p. 3). For my PhD study, I chose to work with women who could be considered acutely vulnerable, as all were survivors of childhood sexual abuse, sexual exploitation and recent homelessness. In this module, I reflect on my experiences of facilitating a collaborative, arts-based research study with nine ‘vulnerable’, yet extremely powerful, young women. Please note that for some readers the content may be difficult; although no reference is made explicitly to the participants’ abuse histories, the trauma they endured is seen to impact on their ability to fully engage in the study.

2025-01-01T00:00:00Z Rutherford, Alasdair McDonnell, Diarmuid Mohan, John http://hdl.handle.net/1893/37868 2026-02-01T01:07:03Z 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The impact of COVID-19 on the formation and dissolution of charitable organisations Author(s): Rutherford, Alasdair; McDonnell, Diarmuid; Mohan, John Abstract: COVID-19 represents an existential threat to many charitable organisations, while simultaneously spurring new, large-scale forms of voluntary activity. Using comprehensive publicly available data from UK regulators, this chapter examines the impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on the registration of new charities and the deregistration of existing organisations. The pandemic is a once-in-a-century event and thus posited to alter the expected or ‘normal’ levels of registrations and deregistrations. Data for this study come from the publicly available charity registers of seven regulatory agencies. The charity registers were collected using a Python web-scraping script that has been running on the 28th of each month since August 2020. The analysis compares the numbers of foundations and dissolutions in 2020 to what we would expect based on the trends from previous years, and examines variation in these trends by key organisational and geographic factors. As well as the level of applications for foundation and dissolution by charities, this chapter considers implications for the capacity of the charity regulators to process these applications.

2022-01-01T00:00:00Z Smith, Joseph http://hdl.handle.net/1893/37818 2026-01-27T01:14:19Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: History in the Curriculum Author(s): Smith, Joseph Editor(s): Rata, Elizabeth Abstract: First paragraph: Around the world the subject of history provokes more impassioned debate in the public sphere than any other. To be sure, we are veterans of the ‘Reading Wars’ and the ‘Maths Wars’, but school history seems more of an attritional forever war. Debates over school history matter because they seem a battle over the soul of the nation, or of humanity at large. The stories we tell our children matter because they tell us who we think we are. No question is more immediate or more disputed.

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