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The role of networking and social media tools during job search: an information behaviour perspective (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mowbray, J., Hall, H., Raeside, R., & Robertson, P. (2016, June). The role of networking and social media tools during job search: an information behaviour perspective. Presented at Ninth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science, Uppsala, Sweden

Introduction. The paper presents a critical analysis of the extant literature pertaining to the networking behaviour of young jobseekers in both offline and online environments. A framework derived from information behaviour theory is proposed as a b... Read More about The role of networking and social media tools during job search: an information behaviour perspective.

Securing Disunion: young people’s nationalism, identities and (in)securities in the campaign for an independent Scotland (2016)
Journal Article
Botterill, K., Hopkins, P., Sanghera, G., & Arshad, R. (2016). Securing Disunion: young people’s nationalism, identities and (in)securities in the campaign for an independent Scotland. Political Geography, 55, 124-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.09.002

This paper explores ethnic and religious minority youth perspectives of security and nationalism in Scotland during the independence campaign in 2014. We discuss how young people co-construct narratives of Scottish nationalism alongside minority eth... Read More about Securing Disunion: young people’s nationalism, identities and (in)securities in the campaign for an independent Scotland.

The importance of context : understanding the nature of anti-social behaviour in rural Scotland. (2016)
Book Chapter
Wooff, A. (2016). The importance of context : understanding the nature of anti-social behaviour in rural Scotland. In J. F. Donnermeyer (Ed.), The Routledge international handbook of rural criminology. Routledge

This chapter seeks to provide a starting point for understanding anti-social behaviour (herein ASB) within a rural context, and how this provides important illumination of the broader social processes affecting rural communities. Based on analysis of... Read More about The importance of context : understanding the nature of anti-social behaviour in rural Scotland..

Policing the countryside in a devolving United Kingdom. (2016)
Book Chapter
Yarwood, R., & Wooff, A. (2016). Policing the countryside in a devolving United Kingdom. In J. F. Donnemeyer (Ed.), The Routledge international handbook of rural criminology (375-386). Routledge

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"We Don't See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are": Questioning the "Outsider" in Polish Migration Research (2015)
Journal Article
Botterill, K. (2015). "We Don't See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are": Questioning the "Outsider" in Polish Migration Research. Forum: Qualitative Social Research / Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, 16(2),

This article offers a reflexive account of conducting research on Polish migration to Scotland from the perspective of the "outsider." The contribution argues for a revision to the insider/outsider dichotomy viewing it as inadequately nuanced in rela... Read More about "We Don't See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are": Questioning the "Outsider" in Polish Migration Research.

Embodied inter subjective engagement in mother-infant tactile communication: a cross-cultural study of Japanese and Scottish mother-infant behaviors during infant pick-up (2015)
Journal Article
Negayama, K., Delafield-Butt, J. T., Momose, K., Ishijima, K., Kawahara, N., Lux, E. J., Murphy, A., & Kaliarntas, K. (2015). Embodied inter subjective engagement in mother-infant tactile communication: a cross-cultural study of Japanese and Scottish mother-infant behaviors during infant pick-up. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 66. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00066

This study examines the early development of cultural differences in a simple, embodied, and intersubjective engagement between mothers putting down, picking up, and carrying their infants between Japan and Scotland. Eleven Japanese and ten Scottish... Read More about Embodied inter subjective engagement in mother-infant tactile communication: a cross-cultural study of Japanese and Scottish mother-infant behaviors during infant pick-up.

Relationships and responses: Policing anti-social behaviour in rural Scotland (2014)
Journal Article
Wooff, A. (2015). Relationships and responses: Policing anti-social behaviour in rural Scotland. Journal of Rural Studies, 39, 287-295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2014.11.003

Rural policing, with a few notable exceptions, has been largely absent from the geographic and criminology literature. Yet, examining rural policing is important for revealing details about rural society, and the role that the police play in controll... Read More about Relationships and responses: Policing anti-social behaviour in rural Scotland.

Influencing expert judgment: attributions of crime causality. (2011)
Journal Article
Murray, J., Thomson, M. E., Cooke, D. J., & Charles, K. E. (2011). Influencing expert judgment: attributions of crime causality. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 16, 126-143. https://doi.org/10.1348/135532510X490183

Purpose: The present research aimed to investigate the effects of attribution on expert clinical judgment in comparison to semi-experts and lay-people. Two research questions were addressed. Firstly, would experts be less subject to attributional m... Read More about Influencing expert judgment: attributions of crime causality..

Mobility and Immobility in the European Union: Experiences of Young Polish People Living in the UK (2011)
Journal Article
Botterill, K. (2011). Mobility and Immobility in the European Union: Experiences of Young Polish People Living in the UK. Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny, 6(1),

Mobility' is a zeitgeist of the European Union. European enlargement and the removal of borders in Central and Eastern Europe has reinvigorated geographical mobility in Europe while the extension of neo-liberal economic reform across the region has b... Read More about Mobility and Immobility in the European Union: Experiences of Young Polish People Living in the UK.

Oh what a tangled weave we weave: experiences of doing multiple perspectives research in families (2010)
Journal Article
Harden, J., Backett-Milburn, K., Hill, M., & MacLean, A. (2010). Oh what a tangled weave we weave: experiences of doing multiple perspectives research in families. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 13, 441-452. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645571003650979

It is not uncommon to explore the views of parents and children in qualitative research with families. Yet the implications and challenges of a multiple perspective approach often remain at a relatively taken‐for‐granted level. In this article we dra... Read More about Oh what a tangled weave we weave: experiences of doing multiple perspectives research in families.

From Gutenberg to Gates: a study of socio-technical change in the Edinburgh printing industry (2007)
Thesis
Parnell, M. P. From Gutenberg to Gates: a study of socio-technical change in the Edinburgh printing industry. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3804

Printing has a long and illustrious history as a craft industry. This study explores the effects of technological change on skilled workers in the Edinburgh general printing industry. Three, initially distinct, areas of sociological theory concerni... Read More about From Gutenberg to Gates: a study of socio-technical change in the Edinburgh printing industry.

Sensational Interests, Mating Effort, and Personality: Evidence for Cross-Cultural Validity (2005)
Journal Article
Egan, V., Figueredo, A. J., Wolf, P., McBride, K., Sefcek, J., Vasquez, G., & Charles, K. (2005). Sensational Interests, Mating Effort, and Personality: Evidence for Cross-Cultural Validity. Journal of Individual Differences, 26(1), 11-19. https://doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001.26.1.11

We assessed whether violent or macabre interests ("sensational interests") were related to mating effort and a higher-order personality construct reflecting the combined features of higher Extraversion, lower Psychoticism, and lower Neuroticism in 1,... Read More about Sensational Interests, Mating Effort, and Personality: Evidence for Cross-Cultural Validity.

Mating effort correlates with self-reported delinquency in a normal adolescent sample (2004)
Journal Article
Charles, K. E., & Egan, V. (2005). Mating effort correlates with self-reported delinquency in a normal adolescent sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 38(5), 1035-1045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2004.06.021

Previous research on males, undergraduates and delinquents has shown that high mating effort is significantly correlated with delinquency, promiscuity and coercive sexual behaviour. Mating effort is defined in terms of the r/K trade-off with parental... Read More about Mating effort correlates with self-reported delinquency in a normal adolescent sample.