A multi-country study of image-based sexual abuse: Extent, relational nature and correlates of victimisation experiences

This study examined image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) victimisation in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand (n = 6,109). Findings showed that 37.7% (n = 2,306) of respondents had at least one IBSA victimisation experience since 16 years of age. Logistic regression analyses further identified that demographic characteristics (age, sexuality, disability/assistance), attitudes towards IBSA, and experiential variables (online dating and sexual self-image behaviours, IBSA perpetration) were each predictors of IBSA victimisation. Though gender did not predict the overall extent of IBSA victimisation, the relational contexts and impacts of IBSA remained gendered in particular ways. Implications of the study are discussed with respect to conceptualising gendered violence and future research

Social entrepreneurship and social innovation: A bibliometric review and research agenda

Despite the increasing focus on scientific maturity in social entrepreneurship (SE) and social innovation (SI), scholars still place a greater focus on defining theoretical boundaries than on the commonalities and complementarities between these phenomena. We address this gap by investigating when, how, and to what extent SE and SI are interrelated via a bibliometric analysis of the intersection of the SE and SI theoretical domains that combines cocitation analysis, historiography, and bibliographic coupling. Building on these results, we advance the theoretical debate by introducing a novel framework, documenting that while the SI process can occur beyond social enterprises’ boundaries, SE can contribute to creating, enabling, and scaling SI solutions. Moreover, we document historical convergence in a new trend accompanying the increase in SI research under the SE umbrella. This leads to a research agenda that can prompt the cross-pollination of these theories, fostering a novel theoretical construct through this combination

Decolonising Congregational Music

Perusal of the Christian Congregational License International (CCLI) charts indicates that this musical worship canon, much like academic curricula, is authored by songwriters who are overwhelmingly male and white. While the CCLI is not a total representation of all congregational singing, it is perhaps the only mechanism we have of systematically assessing this area. The system is also reflective of those reaping the economic and prestigious benefits associated with incorporation. While some scholars have established that worship music has the ability to transcend geographical boundaries and connect worshippers to global networks, others such as Evans identified its deleterious impacts in undermining local contributions. Few, however, have examined this topic from a decolonial perspective. Black Majority Churches (BMC) signified by their musical practices and expertise are deemed to be amongst the fastest growing branches of Christianity in the UK and their songwriters and worship leaders are one of the groups invisible within the CCLI. Using semi-constructed interviews with members of UK BMC churches and representatives from CCLI, this chapter will explore some of the complexities in regard to decolonising congregational music in the UK

Understanding change – developing a typology of therapy outcomes from the experience of adolescents with depression

Background: Outcome measures mostly focusing on symptom reduction to measure change cannot indicate whether any personally meaningful change has occurred. There is a need to broaden the current understanding of outcomes for adolescent depression and identify whether holistic, interlinked patterns of change may be more clinically meaningful. Objective: To create a typology of therapy outcomes based on the experiences of adolescents with depression. Method: Interview data from 83 participants from a clinical trial of the psychological treatment of adolescent depression was analysed using ideal type analysis. Results: Six ideal types were constructed, reflecting different evaluations of the holistic impact of therapy: “I’ve worked on my relationships”, “With the insight from therapy, and feeling validated, I can cope with life challenges better”, “My mood still goes up and down”, “If I want things to change, I need to help myself”, “Therapy might help, but it hasn’t been enough”, and “I don’t feel therapy has helped me”. Conclusion: Assessing change using outcome measures may not reflect the interconnected experience for adolescents or the contextual meaning of symptom change. The typology developed offers a way of considering the impact of therapy, taking into account how symptom change is experienced within a broader perspective

Decadent Aesthetics in Cyril Scott’sTranslations and Song Settings

Of the early twentieth-century composers inspired by decadent and symbolist verse, Cyril Scott (1879-1970) produced the greatest number of literary translations and musical adaptations. This essay considers Scott’s literary translations of Charles Baudelaire and Stefan George alongside his song settings of Ernest Dowson’s poems within the context of the cosmopolitan aesthetic circles in which he moved. The essay argues that a productive reading of his work takes into account a “nineties” decadent aesthetics that emphasizes sensuality, mood, and interstitiality and can be read across both his literary translations and song settings

The British State, Citizenship Rights and Gendered Folk Devils: The Case of Shamima Begum

The revoking of Shamima Begum’s citizenship exemplifies much of the purposes of contemporary anti-Muslim racism and underlines its significant gendered element. Both state and media actors constructed the 15-year old as a problematic other, both to justify conditional citizenship ideologically, and to use her case to strengthen and add to the framework for making it legal. This comes in a context in which British Muslims and members of the British Windrush generation are being denied citizenship and the rights that go with it. We argue that Shamima Begum’s construction as a gendered folk devil must be understood in the context of nation states shifting their purpose and legitimacy from ‘civil rights’ to ‘national security’ and strengthening two-tier citizenship rights to control residents of colour, increase the state’s authoritarian purpose and, as part of an ongoing process, to transform the concept of ‘national security’ into legal reality, to further militarise the state and its borders against the ‘migrant crisis’ and, ultimately, to stifle dissent

Shorter night-time sleep duration and later sleep timing from infancy to adolescence

Background: Here we 1) examined the trajectories of night-time sleep duration, bedtime and mid-point of night-time sleep (MPS) from infancy to adolescence, and 1) explored perinatal risk factors for persistent poor sleep health. Methods: This study used data from 12,962 participants in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). Parent or self-reported night-time sleep duration, bedtime and wake-up time were collected from questionnaires at 6, 18 and 30 months, and at 3.5, 4-5, 5-6, 6-7, 9, 11, and 15-16 years. Child’s sex, birth weight, gestational age, health, and temperament, together with mother’s family adversity index (FAI), age at birth, prenatal socio-economic status, and postnatal anxiety and depression, were included as risk factors for persistent poor sleep health. Latent Class Growth Analyses were applied first to detect trajectories of night-time sleep duration, bedtime and MPS, and we then applied logistic regressions for the longitudinal associations between risk factors and persistent poor sleep health domains. Results: We obtained four trajectories for each of the three sleep domains. In particular, we identified a trajectory characterized by persistent shorter sleep, a trajectory of persistent later bedtime, and a trajectory of persistent later MPS. Two risk factors were associated with the three poor sleep health domains: higher FAI with increased risk of persistent shorter sleep (OR=1.20, 95% CI=1.11-1.30, p<0.001), persistent later bedtime (OR=1.28, 95% CI=1.19-1.39, p<0.001), and persistent later MPS (OR=1.30, 95% CI=1.22-1.38, p<0.001); and higher maternal socio-economic status with reduced risk of persistent shorter sleep (OR=0.99, 95% CI=0.98-1.00, p=0.048), persistent later bedtime (OR=0.98, 95% CI=0.97-0.99, p<0.001), and persistent later MPS (OR=0.99, 95% CI=0.98-0.99, p<0.001). Conclusions: We detected trajectories of persistent poor sleep health (i.e., shorter sleep duration, later bedtime, and later MPS) from infancy to adolescence, and specific perinatal risk factors linked to persistent poor sleep health domains

The Victorian Geological Illustrations of Crystal Palace Park, London: cycles of conservation and neglect, 1993–2023

In 2023, two decades after the restoration of the Victorian Geological Illustrations by the London Borough of Bromley—and the visit of the late HRH Prince Phillip to mark the completion of the restorations—it is clear that these internationally significant sculptures are in a worse state than ever before. Although interest in them remains high, and in spite of the best efforts of the Friends of the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs to protect and interpret them, it is plain that they are greatly at risk. In the year that marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the description of Megalosaurus, depicted in all its magnificence in the park, it is a matter of urgency that we promote the significance of a site that really should be recognized for what it is—world heritage—and its current state of neglect

Barthold Heinrich Brockes’ Physico-Theology of Smell

Studies on the significance of olfaction for philosophical aesthetics are justifiably interested in innovative literary explorations of links between aesthetic values and olfactory perceptions. In this context, the early Enlightenment poetry by Barthold Heinrich Brockes has remained neglected: literary historians rarely pay attention to his approaches to smell, and the few pertinent studies appeared in German only. This article introduces the English-speaking public to the valuation of smell in the theological aesthetics of Brockes’ poems, and it concludes with a sketch of his contribution to the tradition of modern cultic smelling, in which the olfactory and the aesthetic are variously intertwined. He thematises smelling as an emotional climax of human relations to external nature which are validated by a sacred essence of the experiential world, the awareness of which can be conjured up through innerworldly poetic thought. This interpretive pattern of olfactory culture has remained relevant to the present day