Working, living and dying in COVID times: perspectives from frontline adult social care workers in the UK, is available to read here. The co-authored article written by Luke Telford – Criminology and Sociology Lecturer are Staffordshire University – Daniel Briggs and Anthony Ellis aimed ‘to explore 15 UK adult social care workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.’ 

Luke said that it is “based on qualitative research with care workers during the pandemic, outlining the state’s failure to adequately protect both staff and vulnerable residents in care homes”

Dr Leanne Savigar-Shaw‘s – Lecturer in Policing – author journal on Procedural justice as a reward to the compliant: an ethnography of police–citizen interaction in police custody is now available on Taylor and Francis here. 

The “paper contributes to the literature on Procedural Justice Theory (PJT) by exploring its capacity to explain the dynamic interactions between police and citizens within the context of police detention.”

Professor Claire Gwinnett (lecturer in Forensics and Director for the Centre for Crime Justice and Security), Amy Osborne (PhD Researcher) and Andrew Jackson (Emeritus Professor) have had paper published, called ‘The application of tape lifting for microplastic pollution monitoring‘.

Claire said it ‘is a study where we have tested the use of a tape created and patented at Staffordshire University for forensic crime scene work for the us of microplastic recovery’.

You can read ‘The application of tape lifting for microplastic pollution monitoring’ on Science Direct, here. 

Dr Luke Telford, Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology, has co-authored a journal article with Daniel Briggs (Universidad Europea de Madrid SLU) called ‘Targets and overwork: Neoliberalism and the maximisation of profitability from the workplace’. You can access the the article on Sage Journals, here. 

Dr Leanne Savigar-Shaw‘s article about ‘x-ray specs: the hidden cost of an invisible distraction’ has been published in the Young Driver Focus 2021 report. Read the report here.

Dr Leanne Savigar-Shaw, Policing Lecturer, has co-written an article on driver distraction with Helen Wells and Gemma Briggs. ‘The Inconvenient Truth About Mobile Phone Distraction: Understanding the Means, Motive and Opportunity for Driver Resistance to Legal and Safety Messages’ is on The British Journal of Criminology here.

Dr Leanne Savigar-Shaw‘s – Lecturer in Policing – co-authored article on Policing the COVID-19 pandemic: police officer well-being and commitment to democratic modes of policing has been published on Taylor and Francis online. You can access the article here. 

Dr Luke Telford‘s (Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology) article has been published on Sage Journals. You can access the article, ‘There is nothing there’: Deindustrialization and loss in a coastal town here. 

Dr Joanne Beswick, Senior Lecturer in Law, has co-written an article with Ash Samantha and Jo Samanta that has been published in the Medical Law Review. You can read ‘Responsible Practice or Restricted Practice? An Empirial Study of the Use of Clinical Guidelines in Medical Negligence Litigation’ here.

Luke Telford, Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology, has co authored a book Researching the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Critical Blueprint for the Social Sciences, with Daniel Briggs, Anthony Ellis and Anthony Lloyd.

The book will be published in July 2021. Find out more here.