CITE research is published in a range of high quality impactful journals and books. Examples of selected outputs this year are provided below – for further details of the full range of our research outputs, please consult individual researcher profiles under the ‘our people’ tab.

Critical Perspectives on Ageing

Carney, G. M., & Nash, P. (2026). Diversity and inequality in the sociology of ageing. In L. Foster, A. Motel-Klingebiel, & B. M. Luo-Hermanson (Eds.), Research handbook on the sociology of ageing (Research Handbooks in Sociology series). Springer. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/research-handbook-on-the-sociology-of-ageing-9781802206623.html?srsltid=AfmBOooLl7KGWKxYZkT0Q3x5CzT80eWtXW3x__q2w5QgiRvtP2qKzsPu

Carney, G. (2026). Review of The Babushka phenomenon: older women and the political sociology of ageing in Russia. International Journal of Aging and Later Life. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.6416

Carney, G. M. (2026). The civic culture in ageing societies. In J. Twigg, & W. Martin (Eds.), Routledge handbook of cultural gerontology (2 ed.). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003292227-8

Disability Research

Byrne, B. (2026). Untapped potential? Incorporation of the United Nations convention on the rights of persons with disabilities and sign language justice: lessons from Northern Ireland. Amicus Curiae.

Conama, J. B., Byrne, B., & O'Connell, N. (Accepted/In press). Education policy, language rights, and the development of deaf education in Ireland: historical and contemporary perspectives. In M. Brown, & S. Roulston (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of education on the island of Ireland Palgrave Macmillan.

Carlisle, P. (2026). Mental health and spirituality - through the lens of epistemic injustice. Journal for the Study of Spirituality. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/20440243.2026.2615282

Montgomery, L., & McKee, J. (Accepted/In press). The evolution of adult safeguarding in Northern Ireland: a historical perspective from Joyce McKee. Journal of Adult Protection.

McIlroy, D., Montgomery, L., & Davidson, G. (2026). Best Interests decision-making processes in learning disability services in Northern Ireland. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 105, Article 102185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2025.102185

Yuan, S., Davidson, G., Kurten, S., & Best, P. (2026). Effectiveness and experiences of online mental health peer support for young people: systematic scoping review. JMIR Mental Health, 13, Article e83139. https://doi.org/10.2196/83139

Grant, A., Lagdon, S., Davidson, G., John, D., Donaghy, M., Duffy, J., Galway, K., & Perra, O. (Accepted/In press). Factors associated with adult mental health and children’s social care professionals’ family-focused practice when parents have mental illness. Journal of Family Process.

Kearns, J., Davidson, G., Shannon, C., & Mulholland, C. (2026). How trauma-informed are we? A comparative framework analysis of early intervention service guidelines for psychosis and trauma-informed principles. Psychosis. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/17522439.2025.2603435

Yates, S., Dunkley-Smith, A., Grant, A., Maybery, D., Piché, G., Weimand, B., & Davidson, G. (Accepted/In press). Identifying directions for interventions, outcome measurement and research with families where a parent has a mental illness. Practice.

Davidson, G., Nolan, E., Irnawati, McCartan, C., Moss, E., Mulholland, C., & Shannon, C. (2026). Mental health awareness mass media campaigns. A rapid evidence review. Mass_media_campaigns_-_rapid_review_report_08.01.26.pdf

Carlisle, P., McIlroy, D., Swords, C., Best, P., Campbell, A., Davidson, G., Kirwan, G., Maddock, A., & Montgomery, L. (2026). Mental health social work on the island of Ireland. In S. Vicary, G. Davidson, P. McCusker, & K. Stone (Eds.), Social work in mental health settings: international perspectives on practice (pp. 170-181). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.32726789.12

Davidson, G., Campbell, J., McCartan, C., Morrison, L., Mulholland, C., & Shannon, C. (2026). Models of mental health. (Second ed.) (Foundations of Mental Health Practice). Bloomsbury Academic. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/models-of-mental-health-9781350477667/

Blake-Holmes, K., McCartan, C., Allchin, B., Bagge, S., Davidson, G., Grant, A., Harris, J., Lagdon, S., Loudon, E., Maynard, E., Reupert, A., Yates, S., & Williams, G. (2026). Parental mental ill-health: experiences of navigating multiple services, a systematic review conducted by learnt and lived experience researchers. Health and Social Care in the Community. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1155/hsc/3187904

Kerr, S., McIlroy, D., & Davidson, G. (2026). Restraint in health and social care settings. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 105, Article 102195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2026.102195

Vicary, S., Davidson, G., McCusker, P., & Stone, K. (Eds.) (2026). Social work in mental health settings: international perspectives on practice. (Research in Social Work). Policy Press. https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/social-work-in-mental-health-settings

Lombardo, C., Guo, L., Martin, S., Crepaz-Keay, D., Boss, M., Thorpe, L., Solomon, S., Morton, A., Davidson, G., Kousoulis, A., & van Bortel, T. (2026). Suicidal thoughts and self‐harm behavior during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the United Kingdom: a repeated cross‐sectional population‐based survey study. Health Science Reports, 9(4), Article e72045. https://doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.72045

Yuan, S., Davidson, G., & Best, P. (2026). Typology of online mental health peer support for young people: a systematic scoping review. Children and Youth Services Review, 180, Article 108662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108662

Decoloniality and minoritised groups

Belluigi, D. Z. (2025). Criminalisation of intellectual thought: representations for consciousness about dissent, resistance and remembrance. Criminological Encounters, 7(1), 30-56. Article 1. https://www.criminologicalencounters.org/index.php/crimenc/article/view/180

Murphy, F., & Vieten, U. M. (2025). Decolonising refugee integration paradigms: visions for a new politics of inclusion and participation in Europe and beyond. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 48(11), 2103–2118. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2438284

Vieten, U. M. (2026). Unequal access – categorising refugees in European resettlement and humanitarian admission programmes. Ethnic and Racial Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2026.2649381

Gender and Sexuality

Sung, S. (2025). Balancing work and family in policy and practice: coping strategies for Korean working mothers in dual-earner families. In S. Sung (Ed.), Gender, Family and Policy: International Perspectives (pp. 78-96). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802205558

Corr, M.-L., Diver, A., McAlister, S., Mooney, S., Hanna, C., & McDonald, A. (2025). "Totally Invisible": The experiences of domestic violence and abuse victims/survivors and children engaging with private law family court processes in Northern Ireland. Commission for Victims of Crime NI. https://www.cvocni.org/publications/family-courts-research

Marjit, J., Belluigi, D. Z., & Dhawan, N. B. (2026, March). Visual studies of Indian universities: A summary of the project processes. In SPARC (Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration) National Conclave 2026.

Vieten, U. M., & Poynting, S. (2026). Toxic gender essentialism: normalising far-right orientations in gender, sexuality and race relations. Journal of Intercultural Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2026.2626253

Murphy, F. & U. M. Vieten (Eds). (2026, forthcoming July) Unsettling Integration. Decolonial Acts of Belonging. Routledge.

Educational inequalities

Li, Z., Wu, J., Thurston, A., & O'Keeffe, J. (2026). A systematic review of second language (L2) student writers’ metacognitive experiences. British Educational Research Journal. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.70109, https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.70109

Murray, J. M., Sánchez-Franco, S. C., Sarmiento, O. L., Kimbrough, E. O., Tate, C., Montgomery, S. C., Kumar, R., Dunne, L., Thurston, A., Gildea, A., Ramalingam, A., Krupka, E. L., Montes, F., Zhou, H., Moore, L., Bauld, L., Llorente, B., Kee, F., & Hunter, R. F. (2026). Mediation analysis investigating the mechanisms of two school-based smoking prevention interventions in adolescents from Northern Ireland and Bogotá. Frontiers in Public Health, 14, Article 1758481. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1758481

O'Hare, L., Poland, C., O'Hara, L., Gildea, A., Wang, J., Miller, S., & Dunne, L. (2026). Evaluating the effects of the crescendo programme on music and self-regulation with 5–6-year-old pupils: a quasi-experimental study. Education Sciences, 16(1), Article 92. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci16010092, https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci16010092