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Woodthorpe, K. and Dixon, J. eds. 2026. Innovation at the end of life. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
Diaz, C. , Fitz-Symonds, S. and Fisher, T. eds. 2026. Participatory approaches in child and family social work: Creating meaningful relationships and empowering families. Policy Press. (10.51952/9781447373407)
Bates, C. and Jackson, E. eds. 2026. Walking. A sociological field guide. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Abbott, O. and Rowlands, J. 2026. Forgiving and not forgiving as processes of sense-making among victims/survivors of domestic and sexual abuse. Violence Against Women (10.1177/10778012261458794)
Al-Harasis, D. , Kasem, M. and Oates, R. 2026. Experiences of disability: interdisciplinary insights co-design benefits and best practice event summary report. Cardiff University
Anthony, R. et al. 2026. Mental health and well-being-related social support for care-experienced children and young people: a scoping review of type, source, and quality. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse (10.1177/15248380261437098)
Arribas-Ayllon, M. and Papillon, D. 2026. Personalised medicine: From promissory science to infrastructural ethics. In: Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics [3rd edition]. Reference Module in Social Sciences Elsevier(10.1016/B978-0-443-15715-8.00049-2)
Aslam, R. W. et al. 2026. Optimisation of a sexual health and healthy relationships intervention for Further Education in England and Wales (SaFE). Public Health Research 14 (6), pp.33-52. (10.3310/AHDP8546)
Atkinson, P. 2026. Dangerous fun: The social lives of big wave surfers by Ugo Corte [Book Review]. Qualitative Research (10.1177/14687941261442175)
Bagnall, C. L. et al., 2026. A mixed-methods study of how to improve primary-secondary transitions in England: combining academic research with policy and practice consultation. Educational Psychology Review
Bailey, N. and Winchester, N. 2026. Sensemaking, inequity and agency in a precarious transnational workspace: The case of international seafarers. Industrial Relations Journal 57 (2), pp.160-169. (10.1111/irj.70022)
Baker, S. 2026. Managing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: Conservation, restoration and rewilding [Book Review]. Restoration Ecology 34 (3) e70355. (10.1111/rec.70355)
Baker, S. et al. 2026. Barriers to tree planting for net zero in the UK: A policy perspective. Forestry
Bartlett, S. 2026. Prior attainment in science, maths, and language in relation to science subject choices in sixth forms in Wales, UK. International Journal of Science Education (10.1080/09500693.2026.2656824)
Bartlett, S. , Browne, J. and Bullock, A. 2026. How resident doctors' personal and professional development can benefit from a pause in training. Medical Teacher 48 (4), pp.700-711. (10.1080/0142159X.2025.2579099)
Bartlett, S. and Bullock, A. 2026. Protected learning time in community pharmacy and possibilities for upscaling: an exploratory study in Wales, UK. Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice 19 (1) 2629063. (10.1080/20523211.2026.2629063)
Bartlett, S. and Taylor, C. 2026. Why science GCSEs matter more than we think in a post-truth age. [Online].The Conversation. (10.64628/AB.fv6skhxdq)Available at: https://doi.org/10.64628/ab.fv6skhxdq.
Bassetti, C. et al., 2026. Simmel and ethnomethodology: foundational sociological issues from a nondualist perspective. American Sociologist (10.1007/s12108-026-09693-7)
Bates, C. 2026. Walking into the current. In: Bates, C. and Jackson, E. eds. Walking. A sociological field guide. Manchester: Manchester University Press
Bennett, H. et al., 2026. Get Britain working? Continuity and change in Labour’s post-2024 welfare and employment strategy. Social Policy and Society (10.1017/s1474746426101365)
Bernheim, B. et al., 2026. Family‐led decision‐making meetings as an alternative to initial child protection conferences: Findings from a realist evaluation of the Safeguarding Family Group Conferencing pilot in England. Child & Family Social Work (10.1111/cfs.70131)
Berry-Downs, H. 2026. "Shattering" allyship: Affect, fragmentation, and the remaking of pride in schools. Social Sciences 15 (5) 296. (10.3390/socsci15050296)
Bezeczky, Z. et al. 2026. Basic income for care leavers in Wales pilot evaluation: third annual report, 2025 to 2026. Project Report.[Online].Welsh Government. Available at: https://www.gov.wales/basic-income-care-leavers-wales-pilot-evaluation-annual-report-2025-2026.
Brice, S. et al., 2026. Eating (each other's) (hearts) out: mycelial love and the forest as queer con/figuration. In: Harrison, P. , Secor, A. J. and Joronen, M. eds. Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe. Geotheory Edinburgh University Press
Brown, R. et al. 2026. Student perceptions of people and places in their school that are influential for mental health and emotional wellbeing, and implications for wellbeing policies in Wales. Wellbeing, Space and Society 10 100333. (10.1016/j.wss.2025.100333)
Calzada, I. and Eizaguirre, I. 2026. EcoTechnoPolitics: Towards planetary thinking beyond digital–green twin transitions. Societies 16 (2) 57. (10.3390/soc16020057)
Carlisle, S. et al. 2026. Place attachment and attitudes to landscape change for tree planting and net zero. People and Nature 8 (5), pp.1280-1296. (10.1002/pan3.70287)
Cluver, L. et al., 2026. Are parenting programmes effective at scale? Associations with violence against adolescent girls, parenting and mental health in real-world delivery across eight African countries: a meta-analysis of pre-post surveys. BMJ Global Health 11 (5) e020422. (10.1136/bmjgh-2025-020422)
Collin, C. et al., 2026. Current practices and a novel operational framework for planning research on digital health promotion interventions from development to implementation: scoping review. Journal of Medical Internet Research 28 e82611. (10.2196/82611)
Collins, H. and Evans, R. 2026. Veritocracy: Truth, science, and how to preserve democracy. Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society USA: Bloomsbury.
Collins, M. 2026. Beyond technocracy: reconceptualising individual policy capacity as relational, interpretive, and politically situated - a systematic review.. Presented at: Political Studies Association 76th Annual Conference Oxford, UK 30 March - 1 April 2026.
Collins, M. 2026. Challenging the value of policy cycles and tools. Public Money & Management (10.1080/09540962.2026.2645665)
Collins, M. 2026. Character over competence? Ministerial expectations of civil service policy advisers. Presented at: Defending Public Administration in theory and practice - UK Association for Public Administration Annual Conference Manchester, UK 9-10 September 2026.
Connolly, M. et al. 2026. The philosophical, methodological and empirical problems in OECD's approach to creativity within PISA 2022. Research Papers in Education (10.1080/02671522.2025.2610219)
Cooper, A. and Milne, A. 2026. Improving the experience of care home admission for family carers: the value and impact of care-embedded social work. Journal of Social Work (10.1177/14680173251409722)
Corten, C. et al. 2026. Numbers and demographic characteristics of UK social work students over time. Social Work Education 45 (3), pp.740-756. (10.1080/02615479.2025.2531855)
Cullen, A. and Williams, M. L. 2026. The digital turn in police image work: determinants of adoption, use and perceived effectiveness of social media communications in forces in England & Wales. Policing and Society (10.1080/10439463.2026.2618811)
Davies, B. 2026. The ‘action/inaction conundrum’ in early interventions to prevent extremism. The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society azag030. (10.1093/bjc/azag030)
Day, J. et al., 2026. Contextual factors influencing the implementation of an innovation in child protection services in England: a qualitative analysis using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research. The British Journal of Social Work 56 (3), pp.1077-1096. (10.1093/bjsw/bcaf232)
Delamont, S. 2026. My supervisor was hopeless: narratives, contrastive rhetoric and doctoral supervision. In: Threlfall, S. J. , Carson, J. and Baker, G. eds. Autoethnographic Reflections from the Classroom. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. , pp.155-168. (10.1007/978-3-032-14549-9_11)
Diaz, C. and Fisher, T. 2026. Concluding reflections. In: Diaz, C. , Fitz-Symonds, S. and Fisher, T. eds. Participatory Approaches in Child and Family Social Work. Policy Press. , pp.228-234. (10.51952/9781447373407.ch012)
Diaz, C. , Fitz-Symonds, S. and Newton, E. 2026. Children in Care Councils. In: Diaz, C. , Fitz-Symonds, S. and Fisher, T. eds. Participatory Approaches in Child and Family Social Work. Policy Press. , pp.191-205. (10.51952/9781447373407.ch010)
Dixon, J. et al. 2026. The use of mental capacity and mental health laws in the care of people living with dementia in residential and hospital settings: A systematic review of the literature. Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice 25 (3), pp.654-673. (10.1177/14713012251367810)
Dixon, J. et al. 2026. ‘I don’t think there’s many British African Caribbean men that talk positively about mental health services’: Risk, trust, racism and the Mental Health Act. Health, Risk and Society 28 (1-2), pp.1-19. (10.1080/13698575.2025.2577454)
Dixon, J. and Williams, J. 2026. The development of adult safeguarding in Wales: An interview with Professor John Williams. The Journal of Adult Protection: Evidence-based practice in relation to safeguarding adults (10.1108/JAP-05-2026-0022)
Doheny, S. et al. 2026. Counselling patients in the predictive genetics clinic for Huntington’s Disease: a qualitative analysis of ethnographic observations. Journal of Genetic Counseling 35 (3) e70240. (10.1002/jgc4.70240)
Doheny, S. et al. 2026. Non‐directiveness and authenticity in the predictive genetic clinic. Sociology of Health & Illness 48 (2) e70149. (10.1111/1467-9566.70149)
Elliott, M. et al. 2026. Induction, training, and the registration of the residential childcare workforce. Residential Treatment for Children and Youth (10.1080/0886571x.2026.2682944)
Embling, R. et al. 2026. Secondary schools' preparation for roll-out of Curriculum for Wales: Case studies of approaches to health and well-being in the context of national education system reform. The Curriculum Journal 37 (2), pp.212-229. (10.1002/curj.342)
England, E. and Henley, J. 2026. 'It matters how they see you': 'Maternal Activation' as a strategy to navigate contradictory discourses of motherhood and neoliberal activism in the Welsh homelessness system. Social Policy and Society 25 (1), pp.30-43. (10.1017/S1474746424000046)
Evans, R. et al. 2026. How might we improve the mental health and well-being of care-experienced children and young people? Review and map of intervention theories. Journal of Social Work 26 (2), pp.289-329. (10.1177/14680173251336997)
Felstead, A. et al. 2026. The spatial anatomy of working at home: concepts, measures and types of spaces used. Industrial Relations Journal (10.1111/irj.70032)
Fitz-Symonds, S. and Powell, S. 2026. Digital participation and technology in social work. In: Diaz, C. , Fitz-Symonds, S. and Fisher, T. eds. Participatory Approaches in Child and Family Social Work. Policy Press. , pp.206-227. (10.51952/9781447373407.ch011)
Fitz-Symonds, S. and Stabler, L. 2026. Advocacy for children in care. In: Diaz, C. , Fitz-Symonds, S. and Fisher, T. eds. Participatory Approaches in Child and Family Social Work. Policy Press. , pp.167-188. (10.51952/9781447373407.ch009)
Gater, R. 2026. Continuity and change: the employment orientation of contemporary marginalised working-class young men. Work, Employment and Society 40 (1), pp.26-44. (10.1177/09500170251375724)
Gater, R. 2026. Interrogating positive, healthy and progressive masculinities: conceptual frameworks and their limits for marginalized men. Journal of Gender Studies (10.1080/09589236.2026.2629861)
Gater, R. 2026. Men’s wellbeing groups are growing - and helping fill gaps in mental health support. [Online].The Conversation. (10.64628/AB.pykm7adja)Available at: https://doi.org/10.64628/ab.pykm7adja.
Gater, R. et al. 2026. Self-organized men’s mental health and well-being groups—An emerging social development. American Journal of Men's Health 20 (2) 15579883261426876. (10.1177/15579883261426876)
Gerson, S. A. et al. 2026. Doll play improves false belief reasoning: Evidence from a randomized-control trial. PLoS ONE 21 (3) e0343698. (10.1371/journal.pone.0343698)
Gissel Rasmussen, L. et al., 2026. Social prescribing initiatives connecting general practice patients with community-based physical activity: A scoping review with expert interviews. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 54 (2), pp.189-209. (10.1177/14034948241299878)
Giudici, A. and Pultar, A. 2026. Shaping illiberal citizenries: Far-right justifications of educational structures. European Educational Research Journal 25 (1), pp.126-145. (10.1177/14749041241308600)
Giudici, A. , Ruoss, T. and Wright, S. 2026. Contested identities in Europe: Historical insights into the construction of citizenship education from the bottom up. European Educational Research Journal 25 (1), pp.3-13. (10.1177/14749041251403832)
Gordon, D. , Nandy, S. and Perez Cabral, G. 2026. The legal poverty lines in Brazil: contributions from a human rights-based approach to poverty. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice 34 (1), pp.78-99. (10.1332/17598273Y2025D000000045)
Groves, C. et al., 2026. Opening reflexive spaces: Maps as an anticipatory tool in expert interviews. Qualitative Research (10.1177/14687941251406038)
Gundur, R. V. et al., 2026. The commercialization of ransomware: from spray-and-prey to big game hunting to the ransom bazaar. Crime and Delinquency (10.1177/00111287261440146)
Guo, X. et al., 2026. The association between academic pressure and adolescent depressive symptoms and self-harm: a prospective longitudinal study in the UK. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health 10 (4), pp.265-272. (10.1016/S2352-4642(25)00342-6)
Harding, C. et al., 2026. Diagnostic models for male lower urinary tract symptom management in primary care. British Journal of General Practice (10.3399/BJGP.2025.0513)
Havlicek, J. , Holland, S. and Taussig, H. 2026. Navigating relationships with birth family after aging out of foster care: experiences of young people. Families in Society 107 (2), pp.400-419. (10.1177/10443894241303193)
Hearing, F. et al., 2026. Feasibility of THINK AGAIN, a programme to prevent dating and relationship violence and gender-based violence in English secondary schools. Health Education Journal (10.1177/00178969261433392)
Herrero Romero, R. et al., 2026. Feasibility and pilot study protocol of the SURE programme: a co-designed whole-school approach intervention to promote migrant-background adolescents wellbeing in secondary education. Pilot and Feasibility Studies (10.1186/s40814-026-01853-3)
Holmes, L. et al., 2026. Just because we can does not mean we should: Responsible and meaningful uses of administrative data in the evaluation of complex interventions in children’s social care. The British Journal of Social Work bcag017. (10.1093/bjsw/bcag017)
Hoolachan, J. , Preece, J. and Moore, T. 2026. Student accommodation in Scotland: home, emotions and diverse experiences. Housing, Theory and Society (10.1080/14036096.2026.2622948)
Housley, W. and Dahl, P. 2026. Digital society, interaction order and automation. Emerald Publishing Limited.
Housley, W. and Dahl, P. 2026. Digital society, interaction order and automation. Emerald Publishing Limited. (10.1108/978-1-83753-878-2)
Hughes, M. et al., 2026. Securing the UK's AI research ecosystem. In: Walker-Munro, B. and Shih, T. eds. The Routledge International Handbook of Research Security. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. , pp.408-434. (10.4324/9781003583431-25)
Jackson, E. and Bates, C. 2026. Introduction: A sociological field guide. In: Bates, C. and Jackson, E. eds. Walking. A sociological field guide. Manchester: Manchester University Press
James, D. 2026. Education research: the ecosystem and the common good. Research Intelligence 166 (Spring), pp.12-13.
James, D. and Azubuike, O. B. 2026. The volume, value and composition of investment in education research.
James, D. et al. 2026. Making the most of education research: the ecosystem and the common good.
Jefferson, R. et al., 2026. Addressing rates of low mood and anxiety among adolescent girls: Co-production of programme theories with adolescent girls and professionals. Public Health Research (10.3310/GJOD1728)
Jenkins, J. , Blakely, H. and Davies, R. 2026. Devolution and power: employment rights, bargaining and risk. Industrial Relations Journal 57 (2), pp.150-159. (10.1111/irj.70015)
Jessiman, P. et al., 2026. Building research partnerships with local government: Reviewing five years of a Public Health Intervention Responsive Studies Team (PHIRST). NIHR Open Research 6 21. (10.3310/nihropenres.14221.1)
Jessiman, P. et al., 2026. P13-6 Building research partnerships with local government: a qualitative study reviewing five years of a Public Health Intervention Responsive Studies Team [Poster]. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 80 (S1), pp.A25. (10.1136/ukphsc-2026-abstracts.58)
Jimenez Lugo, P. 2026. The accomplishment of rights, obligations and other expectations: attending to the lived details of classroom order to consider the ethnographic grasp of elusive emotions. Ethnography and Education 21 (1), pp.59-74. (10.1080/17457823.2026.2618886)
Johnston, I. et al., 2026. Methodological challenges in determining the effectiveness of intimate partner violence perpetrator programmes: A systematic review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse (10.1177/15248380261437078)
Jones, E. et al. 2026. The role of social workers in medicines management for older adults: Insights from Wales. The British Journal of Social Work 56 (2), pp.629-649. (10.1093/bjsw/bcaf291)
Jones, M. et al., 2026. Connecting evidence with decision-making in adult social care: A cross-sectional staff survey. Journal of Social Work 26 (1), pp.3-23. (10.1177/14680173251336107)
Keemink, J. R. et al., 2026. Evidence on the preparedness and practice needs of the home care workforce to support older LGBTQ+ people: a rapid review protocol. BMJ Open 16 (2) e110207. (10.1136/bmjopen-2025-110207)
Klein, M. et al., 2026. “It’s almost as if I’ve relapsed”: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of addiction therapists’ experiences with supporting their clients through repeated relapse. Journal of Drug Issues 56 (1), pp.171-187. (10.1177/00220426241277775)
Kolosowska, A. et al., 2026. Implementation evaluation of a whole systems approach (WSA) to childhood overweight and obesity in local communities: findings from the Children and Families Pilot in Wales, UK. BMC Public Health (10.1186/s12889-026-27489-9)
Kuang, K. , Liu, S. and Chen, R. 2026. Mental health communication among sexual and gender minority groups in China: a longitudinal investigation of help-seeking intentions and behaviors. Health Communication (10.1080/10410236.2026.2670547)
Lagana, G. and Pearce, S. 2026. The role of European Union (EU) metagovernance in supporting the voluntary and community sector in Northern Ireland. European Policy Analysis 12 (1) e70009. (10.1002/epa2.70009)
Langergaard, S. et al., 2026. Process evaluation of a supportive intervention targeting social isolation among older people in Danish senior centres: Explanatory factors of implementation failure. PLoS ONE 21 (1) e0341550. (10.1371/journal.pone.0341550)
Leah, C. et al., 2026. Stigma, race, and testimonial injustice in mental health detention: Professionals experience of Compulsory Assessment and Treatment under The Mental Health Act 1983. PLOS Mental Health 3 (3) e0000567. (10.1371/journal.pmen.0000567)
Levi, M. 2026. Book Review: Russia in Four Criminals by Federico Varese. Theoretical Criminology (10.1177/13624806261454475)
Lewis, J. and Bartlett, A. 2026. Bigfooting: The mapping of the making of a field. Fortean Times 469 (April), pp.30-37.
Lewis, J. and Bartlett, A. 2026. The shape of Bigfoot: Transmuting absences into credible knowledge claims. Cultural Sociology 20 (1), pp.75-95. (10.1177/17499755241264879)
Lewis, J. and Bartlett, A. 2026. ‘It ain’t no unicorn’: meet the researchers who’ve interviewed 130 Bigfoot hunters. [Online].The Conversation. (10.64628/AB.rnnfsfecf)Available at: https://doi.org/10.64628/ab.rnnfsfecf.
Liu, S. 2026. Thomas Julian, Wilken Rowan and Rennie Ellie, Wi-Fi [Book Review]. Mobile Media & Communication 14 (2), pp.476-477. (10.1177/20501579251370445)
Liu, S. and Downey, J. 2026. The return of resource nationalism? A multilingual topic analysis of news coverage on critical minerals across 16 countries (2015 – 2025). The Extractive Industries and Society 27 101959. (10.1016/j.exis.2026.101959)
Liu, S. and Kuang, K. 2026. Climate race or collaboration? Effects of strategy framing on trust in government, nationalist sentiments, and climate action intention in international politics. Journalism 27 (1), pp.143-162. (10.1177/14648849241285508)
Loucks, N. et al., 2026. Children at the centre: considering the whole child in a national model of support for children with a parent in prison. Social Sciences 15 (2) 137. (10.3390/socsci15020137)
Lowthian, E. et al., 2026. Educational pathways and outcomes for care‐experienced children: A 16‐year longitudinal study. British Educational Research Journal (10.1002/berj.70155)
Lyng, K. D. et al., 2026. Development and initial evaluation of a patient decision aid to support decision-making in care-seeking patients with subacromial pain syndrome in primary care. Musculoskeletal Science and Practice 84 103595. (10.1016/j.msksp.2026.103595)
MacDonald, S. et al. 2026. Multiagency collaborations to support well‐being amongst care‐experienced children and young people in school and during transition to further education college: Stakeholder perspectives on facilitators, challenges and innovations. Child & Family Social Work (10.1111/cfs.70109)
Maddox, L. et al., 2026. Interventions to reduce empathy-based stress and enhance compassionate care in mental health wards: a systematic review. BMC Health Services Research 26 117. (10.1186/s12913-025-13861-9)
Mannay, D. 2026. ‘Second star to the right [of the universe], and straight on till morning’: following directions and finding new ones on international journeys in creative research methods. Journal of Creative Research Methods 2 (1), pp.121-131. (10.1332/30502969Y2026D000000016)
Mannay, D. 2026. Visual challenges to the social sciences. In: Hansen, S. , Korroch, K. and Patarin-Jossec, J. eds. The Routledge Companion to Visual Studies. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge
Marston, K. 2026. Future girl? Exploring girls’ digital sexual cultures through speculative fabrications. Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning 26 (2), pp.139-155. (10.1080/14681811.2024.2429304)
Martin, M. et al., 2026. Fidelity of Intervention delivery in Psychosocial and behavioral Programs (FIPP): A modified Delphi study and final guideline. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 10 (1) e12. (10.1017/cts.2025.10219)
Mawoyo, T. et al., 2026. Health Action in ScHools for a Thriving Adolescent Generation (HASHTAG): a feasibility trial of a school-based intervention for mental health promotion and prevention among adolescents in South Africa. Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health 13 e51. (10.1017/gmh.2026.10149)
Maxwell, N. 2026. 'Shove that. There’s always hope': Young people’s lived experience of child criminal exploitation. Journal of Youth Studies 29 (1), pp.54-70. (10.1080/13676261.2024.2397025)
Maxwell, N. , Khurana, K. and Cserző, D. 2026. ‘They’re not seeing young people as victims’: Professional perspectives on policy and practice for criminally exploited children in Wales. Youth Justice (10.1177/14732254261428267)
McAuley, C. et al. 2026. Understanding the subjective well-being of 10-and-11-year old foster children in Wales: relationships and their interconnectedness with places, possessions and activities. Child Indicators Research (10.1007/s12187-026-10381-8)
McGill, E. and Moore, G. 2026. Process evaluation of complex interventions: evolving perspectives. In: Richards, D. A. et al., Complex Interventions in Health: An Overview of Research Methods. London, UK: Routledge. , pp.197-207. (10.4324/9781003495642-26)
Mlynář, J. et al., 2026. “What the world is made up of”: The Chicago School’s alternates and laterals in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. American Sociologist 57 , pp.196-232. (10.1007/s12108-025-09659-1)
Moles, K. and Bailey, S. 2026. Why we keep swimming in polluted waters – researchers. [Online].The Conversation Trust. (10.64628/AB.7fxnd73tu)Available at: https://doi.org/10.64628/AB.7fxnd73tu.
Moody, C. and Dixon, J. 2026. The first-hand needs of informal caregivers of people living with dementia, in residential care settings: A scoping review. Health and Social Care in the Community 5590836. (10.1155/hsc/5590836)
Moore, G. 2026. Annual Research Review: Improving school climate to improve child and adolescent mental health and reduce inequalities. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 67 (4), pp.566-587. (10.1111/jcpp.70061)
Moore, G. 2026. Evaluating population-level health interventions. In: Complex Interventions in Health: An Overview of Research Methods. London, UK: Routledge. , pp.229-237. (10.4324/9781003495642-29)
Morgan, K. et al. 2026. Policy on the move: active travel to school among 7–16-year-olds in Wales and its links to school policy and socio-demographic factors. BMC Public Health 26 1298. (10.1186/s12889-026-26995-0)
Mulcahy, J. et al. 2026. Together, a Chance: piloting family social workers in two women’s prisons in England, UK. In: Bald, C. J. and Martinez Herrero, M. I. eds. The Routledge International Handbook of Criminal Justice Social Work. Routledge. , pp.179-187. (10.4324/9781003717270-20)
Muraleetharan, V. et al., 2026. Understanding the limited effectiveness of a whole-school relationships and sexual-health programme: fidelity of implementation, reach and acceptability of Positive Choices. Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning (10.1080/14681811.2026.2649905)
Nielsen, T. B. et al., 2026. How a long COVID rehabilitation intervention works: refining its programme theory through a realist-informed qualitative study. BMC Health Services Research 26 107. (10.1186/s12913-025-13916-x)
Nielsen, T. B. et al., 2026. Exploring the implementation of a long COVID rehabilitation intervention: a mixed-methods process evaluation. BMC Health Services Research (10.1186/s12913-026-14876-6)
Oatley, R. and Atkinson, T. 2026. Together in later life: How extra care housing can support couples affected by dementia. Housing, Care and Support 29 (1), pp.43-55. (10.1108/HCS-03-2025-0006)
Olive, R. , Foley, R. and Moles, K. 2026. The blue Un/Commons: Tracing new directions in research on outdoor swimming, health and place. Health & Place 97 103571. (10.1016/j.healthplace.2025.103571)
Opoku, R. et al., 2026. Mapping the evidence on outcomes of childhood out-of-home care: A scoping review of reviews. PLoS ONE 21 (2) e0325409. (10.1371/journal.pone.0325409)
O'Sullivan, K. et al. 2026. Understanding residents’ experiences of home, health, and wellbeing in new and novel low carbon homes. Housing Studies 41 (1), pp.234-254. (10.1080/02673037.2025.2453015)
Page, N. et al. 2026. Emotional and behavioural difficulties in gender minority compared to cisgender adolescents: identity specific findings from a contemporary national study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 67 (3), pp.312-320. (10.1111/jcpp.70050)
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