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Did you realise homosexual male (gay) relationships were only legalised 50 years ago?
Get PDFLesbian and gay men’s relationships are increasingly becoming part of the ‘wallpaper’ of our everyday lives and visible within popular culture. Turn on the telly or tune into the radio, chances are that the programmes are being presented by people who happen to be gay or lesbian. Popular soaps have story-lines that feature people in same-sex relationships facing ordinary issues, rather than narrow, sensationalist issues centring on their sexuality. Pop songs and music videos are equally inclusive. Take, for example, the track Symphony by Clean Bandit featuring Zara Larsson (2017) depicting one man’s grief following the loss of his male lover who was killed in a bike accident. Gay male relationships are also visible in TV adverts such as McCain’s (2017) We Are Family, which portrays two gay dads. In addition, the Lloyds TSB (2017) Taking that Next Step advert features a gay man proposing to his male partner, representing how Lloyds TSB are there to support the key phases of their customers’ everyday lives, such as the birth of a child, first day at school, first teen kiss, and relatives grieving at a funeral. These are remarkable transformations that have taken place in a relatively short space of time. With the ubiquity of gay male relationships in popular culture it may seem hard to believe that homosexual male relationships were once a criminal offence and were only legalised 50 years ago in 1967
‘Healthy relationships education offers a real chance to reduce domestic violence’.
No full textAs part of the new-style sex education curriculum, school pupils will soon start learning about healthy intimate relationships – which could help to significantly reduce future domestic abuse in the UK. In recent research we did on this issue we spoke to various professionals who work with victims of domestic abuse. One of them told us that they believe healthy relationships education needs to be “taught in schools from a young age
World Café: a participatory research tool for the criminologist engaged in seeking world views for transformation
Get PDFThis paper introduces the creative participatory research methodology of ‘World Café’ in the context of our primary research on NPS (new psychoactive substances) usage within the youth and homeless population in Stoke-on-Trent in the UK. Our study involved conducting 6 World Cafes, with a total of 41 participants with homeless hostel service users (n=16), local college students (n=14) and professionals working with illegal drug users (n=11). We offer new pedological insight for a criminological research method that has the potential to be transformative. The ‘World Café’ is a conversational methodology that enables participants and researchers to get a ‘world’ view of issues and it lends itself for discussions pertaining to innovative solutions (Brown with Isaacs, 2005). A world view and innovative solutions can facilitate transformation at an individual level, as well as whole systems change in policy and practice. The role of the criminological researcher is to encourage participants to become active research assistants and our amended model combines this with undergraduate student researchers. Active engagement of research participants at a participatory level facilitates transformation of the research process in reducing power dynamics. We discuss the ‘world café’ approach and its transformative potential considering our first-hand experience of using the methodology to gather data on NPS drug usage
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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