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Voicing the Victims of Narcissistic Partners: A Qualitative Analysis of Responses to Narcissistic Injury and Self-esteem Regulation (2019)
Journal Article
Green, A., & Charles, K. (2019). Voicing the Victims of Narcissistic Partners: A Qualitative Analysis of Responses to Narcissistic Injury and Self-esteem Regulation. SAGE Open, 9(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244019846693

Addressing an under-researched aspect of narcissism, this study investigated subclinical ‘grandiose’ and ‘vulnerable’ narcissism within the context of domestic violence. Common triggers evoking narcissistic rage, and differences in narcissistic inju... Read More about Voicing the Victims of Narcissistic Partners: A Qualitative Analysis of Responses to Narcissistic Injury and Self-esteem Regulation.

Health help-seeking by men in Brunei Darussalam: masculinities and ‘doing’ male identities across the life course. (2019)
Journal Article
Idris, D. R., Forrest, S., & Brown, S. (2019). Health help-seeking by men in Brunei Darussalam: masculinities and ‘doing’ male identities across the life course. Sociology of health and illness, 41(6), 1071-1087. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12885

Using data collected through semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions with 37 adult men living in Brunei Darussalam, this paper explores how masculinities and expectations about male roles across the life course influence men’s percepti... Read More about Health help-seeking by men in Brunei Darussalam: masculinities and ‘doing’ male identities across the life course..

The intervention effect of SMS delivery on Chinese adolescent's physical activity. (2019)
Journal Article
Lau, P. W. C., Pitkethly, A. J., Leung, B. W. C., Lau, E. Y., & Wang, J.-J. (2019). The intervention effect of SMS delivery on Chinese adolescent's physical activity. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(5), 787. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16050787

To examine the effects of short messaging service (SMS) frequency and timing on the 13 efficacy of an SMS-intervention for Hong Kong Chinese adolescents. Sixty nine students aged 14 between 12 and 16 (mean age 13.75±.90) were recruited from five scho... Read More about The intervention effect of SMS delivery on Chinese adolescent's physical activity..

Is the jury still out? The decision making processes of jurors (2018)
Thesis
Curley, L. J. Is the jury still out? The decision making processes of jurors. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1254168

The current thesis aimed to identify the process through which jurors reach their decisions, and to investigate the factors that may make the trial by jury process unfair for the individuals involved in criminal trials (i.e., the defendant, the prose... Read More about Is the jury still out? The decision making processes of jurors.

Teaching climate change: understanding the intellectual and emotional challenges (2018)
Thesis
Bhagat, M. Teaching climate change: understanding the intellectual and emotional challenges. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1253694

Introduction and Aims
This study aims to evaluate the relationships between emotions and learning in the context of climate change, a ‘wicked’ subject that has profound and worrying implications for the future. It explores barriers to engagement and... Read More about Teaching climate change: understanding the intellectual and emotional challenges.

The trajectory to elite level: an investigation of the individual and environmental features of within career transitions in sport (2018)
Thesis
Andronikos, G. The trajectory to elite level: an investigation of the individual and environmental features of within career transitions in sport. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1253325

While much of the ‘sport transitions’ literature focusses on the ‘end of career’, research focussing on within career transitions in sport has identified a number of challenging transitions, for example, the move from junior to senior sport. While th... Read More about The trajectory to elite level: an investigation of the individual and environmental features of within career transitions in sport.

Cationic host defence peptides as novel therapeutics for chlamydia infection (2018)
Thesis
Cozar Fernandez, B. Cationic host defence peptides as novel therapeutics for chlamydia infection. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1254078

Chlamydia represents a group of Gram-negative bacteria which can infect and cause disease in a diverse range of organisms. The most well-known member of the family is Chlamydia trachomatis, the most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection acr... Read More about Cationic host defence peptides as novel therapeutics for chlamydia infection.

Young people's early offending: the context of strained leisure careers (2014)
Journal Article
Corr, M.-L. (2014). Young people's early offending: the context of strained leisure careers. Young, 22(2), 113-133. https://doi.org/10.1177/1103308814521621

Criminology has witnessed a growth of interest in the later stages of criminal careers with less attention given to providing an understanding of the onset of offending which goes beyond identifying the precipitative or ‘risk’ factors. Drawing on fin... Read More about Young people's early offending: the context of strained leisure careers.

This is Abuse… Or is it? Domestic abuse perpetrators’ responses to anti-domestic violence publicity (2014)
Journal Article
Gadd, D., Corr, M.-L., Fox, C. L., & Butler, I. (2014). This is Abuse… Or is it? Domestic abuse perpetrators’ responses to anti-domestic violence publicity. Crime, Media, Culture, 10(1), 3-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/1741659013475462

Social marketing has become a key component of policy initiatives aimed at reducing the incidence of domestic abuse. However, its efficacy remains debated, with most measures of effectiveness being somewhat crude. More subtle effects of social market... Read More about This is Abuse… Or is it? Domestic abuse perpetrators’ responses to anti-domestic violence publicity.

Evaluating the effectiveness of domestic abuse prevention education: Are certain children more or less receptive to the messages conveyed? (2014)
Journal Article
Fox, C. L., Corr, M.-L., Gadd, D., & Sim, J. (2016). Evaluating the effectiveness of domestic abuse prevention education: Are certain children more or less receptive to the messages conveyed?. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 21(1), 212-227. https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.12046

Purpose
A number of school-based domestic abuse prevention programmes have been developed in the United Kingdom, but evidence as to the effectiveness of such programmes is limited. The aim of the research was to evaluate the effectiveness of one suc... Read More about Evaluating the effectiveness of domestic abuse prevention education: Are certain children more or less receptive to the messages conveyed?.

Young teenagers' experiences of domestic abuse (2013)
Journal Article
Fox, C. L., Corr, M.-L., Gadd, D., & Butler, I. (2014). Young teenagers' experiences of domestic abuse. Journal of Youth Studies, 17(4), 510-526. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2013.780125

This article reports on the first findings from the Boys to Men Research Project. In total, 1143 pupils aged 13–14 years completed a questionnaire to assess their experiences of domestic abuse as victims, witnesses and perpetrators. Overall, 45% of p... Read More about Young teenagers' experiences of domestic abuse.

Narratives of Travel and Tourism. (2012)
Book
(2012). J. Tivers, & T. Rakić (Eds.), Narratives of Travel and Tourism. Ashgate Publishing

Travel and tourism 'stories' have been told and recorded within every culture, in every period of oral and written history, and across the breadth of the fact/fiction continuum. Taking two broad themes as its starting point - travellers and their nar... Read More about Narratives of Travel and Tourism..

Rethinking the consumption of places (2012)
Journal Article
Rakić, T., & Chambers, D. (2012). Rethinking the consumption of places. Annals of Tourism Research, 39, 1612-1633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2011.12.003

The phenomenological concept of embodiment has underpinned the ‘performance turn’ in tourism studies which, along with the ‘mobilities paradigm’, has contributed to the disruption of the occularcentric and static nature of Urry’s original (1990, 1995... Read More about Rethinking the consumption of places.

The Development of a Holistic and Quantitative Tool for the Assessment and Improvement of Survey Quality. (2011)
Thesis
Chen, T. The Development of a Holistic and Quantitative Tool for the Assessment and Improvement of Survey Quality. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4404

There are a variety of guidelines and methods available to measure and assess survey quality. Most of these are based on qualitative descriptions. In practice, they are not easy to implement and it is very difficult to make comparisons between survey... Read More about The Development of a Holistic and Quantitative Tool for the Assessment and Improvement of Survey Quality..

The capabilities approach as a framework for labour market information on young people. (2010)
Book Chapter
Lindsay, C., & McQuaid, R. W. (2010). The capabilities approach as a framework for labour market information on young people. In C. Larsen, J. Kipper, & A. Schmid (Eds.), Regional Monitoring Approaches for the Reduction and the Prevention of Youth Unemployment in Europe (152-159). Rainer Hampp Verlag, Muenchen

This paper considers some of the potential uses of the capabilities approach to widen and deepen the labour market information that we collect on youth employment and unemployment.

Hermeneutical Phenomenology: Girls with Asperger's syndrome and anxiety and Western Herbal Medicine. (2010)
Thesis
Stewart, C. A. Hermeneutical Phenomenology: Girls with Asperger's syndrome and anxiety and Western Herbal Medicine. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4486

Anxiety in young people with Asperger’s syndrome (AS) is of serious concern. With a greater prevalence of girls with AS than previously considered, there is a paucity of research into experiences of anxiety in this population. Girls with AS and their... Read More about Hermeneutical Phenomenology: Girls with Asperger's syndrome and anxiety and Western Herbal Medicine..

Innovative techniques in tourism research: An exploration of visual methods and academic filmmaking (2010)
Journal Article
Rakić, T., & Chambers, D. (2010). Innovative techniques in tourism research: An exploration of visual methods and academic filmmaking. International Journal of Tourism Research, 12, 379-389. https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.761

While visual methods have long been utilised as legitimate research techniques in the social sciences, within mainstream tourism research these techniques are rarely employed. This paper thus seeks to question current research practices in tourism by... Read More about Innovative techniques in tourism research: An exploration of visual methods and academic filmmaking.