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Our current and former Ph.D. students have published several peer-reviewed articles, books and book chapters. We are proud of their accomplishments and wish to highlight some of them here.
Publications by our current PhD students:
Libby Ashurst has published two book chapters in Contemporary practice with young people who sexually abuse: Evidence-based developments, edited by M. Calder. The chapters include: “Emotional intelligence and the practitioner working with sexually harmful behaviour” and “Training in social services” (2011).
Justyna Bell has submitted an article to the journal, Studia Sociologica (“Migration as multiple pathways: Narrative interviews with Polish migrants in Belfast, Northern Ireland”). The special issue will feature articles on migration, identity and ethnicity.
Ciaran Burke has published an article in Sociological Research Online (The biographical illumination: A Bourdieusian analysis of the role of theory in educational research,” 2011).
Nathan Emmerich is the author of a book (Medical Ethics Education: Interdisciplinary and Social Theoretical Perspectives) which will be published in 2012. He is the author of five articles that have appeared in the Journal of Medical Ethics (“Whatever happened to medical politics?” 2011), Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy (“Anti-theory in action? Planning for pandemics, triage and ICU Or: How not to bite the bullet,” 2011), Bioethics (“Literature, history and the humanisation of bioethics,” 2011), and Research Ethics Review (“The business of medicine and society,” 2009; “On the ethics committee: The expert member, the lay member and the absentee ethicist,” 2009).
Julie Harris is the co-author of an article published in the journal, Qualitative Health Research (“Methadone as social control: Institutionalized stigma and the prospect of recovery,” 2012).
Peter Johnson published an article in Children and Society (“'You just get blocked'. Teenage drinkers: reckless rebellion or responsible reproduction?” 2011).
Romana Khaoury is the author of a book chapter (“ ‘It changed me it showed me both sides of the story': Young people's understandings and views of citizenship in Northern Ireland,” 2008). She is the co-author of a second book chapter ("'Not a problem here?' 'Race' and Racism in Northern Ireland," 2008) and her contribution on Northern Ireland appeared in the Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Society in 2007. She is the co-author of “Racial attitudes and prejudice towards migrant workers,” published by ANIMATE in 2005.
Maurice Mahon has a co-authored article that appeared in the Irish Probation Journal (“The role of theory in promoting social work values and its potential effect on outcomes in work with domestically violent men,” 2009).
Christina O’Neill is the co-author of an article that was published in International Journal of Drug Policy (“Experiences with mephedrone pre- and post-legislative controls: Perceptions of safety and sources of supply,” 2011).
Joanne Wilson is a co-author of an article published in Health Expectations (“Translating policy into practice: A case study in the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease,” 2011), and a co-author of Teenage Drinking Cultures, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in 2011. She has an article that appeared in The Psychologist (“Existing data – worth a second look?” 2012) and a co-authored book chapter (“Young people, sexual content and solicitation online,” 2011).
Publications by some of our PhD students who have graduated
Theresa McShane, Ph.D.
Theresa is the author of the book, Blades, Blood and Bandages: The Experiences of People who Self-injure. The book will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012.
Sandrine Roginsky, Ph.D.
Sandrine is co-author of an article published in the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy (“Civil society as a contested field of meanings,” 2009).
Jorun Rugkasa, Ph.D.
Jorun has seven co-authored journal articles that have been published in Journal of Medical Ethics (“Threats and offers in community mental health care: An ethics analysis,” 2011), Medical Law Review (“Lawfulness of a randomised trial of the new community treatment order regime for England and Wales,” 2011), The Psychiatrists (“Community treatment orders in England and Wales, clinicians’ views and use: A national survey,” 2011), Qualitative Health Research (“Practical issues in recruiting research participants from minority ethnic communities,” 2011), The Lancet (“Oxford Community Treatment Order Evaluation Trial (OCTET): A single-outcome randomised controlled trial of compulsory outpatient treatment in psychosis,” 2010), British Medical Bulletin (“Coercion and compulsion in community mental health care,” 2010, and Psychiatry (“Community treatment orders,” 2009).
Caral Stevenson, Ph.D.
Caral has an article in press in the journal, Drugs, Education, Prevention and Policy (“Cannabis use: What’s law got to do with it? Perceptions and Knowledge of Cannabis Policy from the User Perspective in Northern Ireland”). Her chapter on cannabis users’ perceptions of drug dealers appeared in the edited book, Cannabis in Europe: Dynamics in Perception, Policy and Markets (Pabst Science Publishers). She is a co-author of three other forthcoming articles that will appear in Critical Public Health, the International Journal of Drug Policy and Drugs, Education, Prevention and Policy.
