This concise guide equips readers with the essential skills required to analyze and critically appraise health research evidence, an integral element to evidence-based practice and professional development.

Written by the founding father of media studies, this book offers a unique analysis of the dynamics and wider implications of communications inequality.

Drawing on a breath of context, voices, and ideas, as well as contemporary issues, research, and skills for practice, this book offers a critical and decolonised approach to mental health social work practice for qualifying students.

This book explores the flesh and breath of African feminist politics as embodied in activism over the past thirty years against sexism, militarism, homophobia and transphobia, global economic inequality, and religious fundamentalism, and towards freedoms that can be felt by African women and gender non-conforming people in the everyday.

In combining a critical, philosophical approach with an expertly selected body of practical examples, this landmark text provides both the intellectual understanding and the technical skills required to produce sophisticated, robust literature reviews of the very highest standard.

In 2010 werd Emile Kolthoff benoemd tot eerste hoogleraar Criminologie van de Open Universiteit. Vanuit de leerstoel werd onderzoek naar organisatiecriminaliteit en georganiseerde criminaliteit geïnitieerd, werd het onderwijs in de criminologie opgezet en werd het onderzoeksprogramma De veilige stad met bijbehorende minor ontwikkeld. De politie was daarbij een specifiek aandachtsgebied. In zijn afscheidsrede kijkt Kolthoff terug op de ontwikkelingen binnen het vakgebied sinds de instelling v...

Written by a scholar with firsthand experience as a police officer, military officer, and fire service commander, this book offers a rare and compelling combination of academic insight and operational expertise. It provides a unique perspective for professionals and researchers working in the domains of use of force, public order, and high-risk operations within both military and policing contexts – as well as for those involved in the training, education, and leadership of personnel operat...

Risk asserts the ongoing importance of the analysis of risk in our age of permacrisis and mounting scepticism about experts and science, and calls for a ‘re-turn’ to risk theory. This fully revised and expanded new edition includes a new chapter on risk information and denial in the context of the climate crisis and COVID-19 pandemic.

The book is an ethnography that draws upon 25 years of qualitative research and shipboard field work in the merchant cargo shipping sector. It explores the lives and work of seafarers and how these have changed over time.