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Who or what has agency in the discussion of antimicrobial resistance in UK news media (2010-2015)? A transivity analysis
(Sage, 2017-06-21)
The increase in infections resistant to the existing antimicrobial medicines has become a topic of concern for health professionals, policy makers and publics across the globe; however, among the public there is a sense ...
Social representations, identity and social relations among non-heterosexual British Asian men
(Oxford: Elsevier., 2014)
This chapter explores and compares social representations, identity and social relations among non-heterosexual British Asian Indian and British Pakistani men. After an overview of two relevant theories from social psychology ...
Identity Process Theory : Identity, Social Action and Social Change
(Cambridge University Press, 2014)
We live in an ever-changing social world, which constantly calls forth changes to our identities and actions. Advances in science, technology and medicine, political upheaval, and economic development are just some examples ...
Social Psychological Debates about Identity
(Cambridge University Press, 2014)
We live in an ever-changing social world, which constantly calls forth changes to our identities and actions. Advances in science, technology and medicine, political upheaval, and economic development are just some examples ...
The construction of ethnic identity: insights from identity process theory
(SAGE, 2012)
Ethnicity has received much empirical and theoretical attention in the social sciences. Yet, it has scarcely been explored in terms of its relationship with the motivational principles of identity. Here it is argued that ...
When Climate Science Became Climate Politics: British Media Representations of Climate Change in 1988.
(SAGE, 2012-05-11)
Climate change has become a pressing environmental concern for scientists, social commentators and politicians. Previous social science research has explored media representations of climate change in various temporal and ...
Contesting Science by Appealing to its Norms: Readers Discuss Climate Science in The Daily Mail.
(SAGE, 2012)
This study examines the rhetorical aspects of social contestation of climate change in reader comments published in the Daily Mail, subsequent to climategate. The following themes are reported: (1) denigration of climate ...
Fracking in the UK Press: Threat Dynamics in an Unfolding Debate
(Public Understanding of Science, 2014)
Shale gas is a novel source of fossil fuel which is extracted by induced hydraulic fracturing,
or “fracking.” This article examines the the socio-political dimension of fracking as
manifested in the UK press at three key ...
The Construction of British National Identity among British South Asians
(Taylor and Francis, 2012)
This paper explores the social psychological aspects of British national identifica- tion among British South Asians, which constitutes the largest ethnic minority group in Britain. Identity process theory can elucidate ...
Social representations of the Holocaust and Jewish Israeli identity construction: insights from identity process theory.
(Taylor and Francis/ Routledge, 2011)
This study explores how a group of young Israeli Jews understood and defined their ethno-national identities, focusing upon the role of social representations of the Holocaust in the construction of Jewish Israeli identity. ...
