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- A healthy State? Putting the 2025 Spending Review into context
- Protecting Belfast from tidal flooding, IN Agenda NI, Vol 124 Jun 2025, pp16-18
- Use of teaching assistants in schools
- Ctrl hate delete: the new anti-feminist backlash and how we fight it
- Solidarity and social esteem: the case of unpaid carers during COVID-19 in Northern Ireland, IN International Journal of Care and Caring, Vol 9 No 2 2025, pp341–358
- Variety in carers’ views regarding care responsibilities from an intersectional perspective, IN International Journal of Care and Caring, Vol 9 No 2 2025, pp214-231
- Briefing on Pathways to Work Green Paper: impact on unpaid carers
- State of Caring in Scotland 2024: health and social care support for unpaid carers
- The Carer’s Leave Act one year on: April 2025
- Place-based partnerships: challenges and opportunities
- Advancing people-centred, place-based approaches
- Game on (Scotland's gaming industry), IN Holyrood, Vol 551 2 Jun 2025, pp24-25
- Higher education finances and funding in England (House of Commons Library research briefing no CBP10037)
- How homelessness services survive on a carousel of short-term contracts, IN Inside Housing, Vol 42 No 5 May 2025, pp36, 38-39
- New education strategy launched, IN Agenda NI, Vol 124 Jun 2025, pp74-76
- Does social media influence local elected leaders? A study of online engagement methods through the lens of cycling policymaking in the United Kingdom, IN Local Government Studies, 25 May 2025 (advance article), pp1-23
- Intergenerational offending: a narrative review of the literature
- Queer spheres: making and un-making worlds and nations through London’s LGBTQ+ night spaces
- A wave of issues on flood planning, IN Property Week, Vol 92 No 19 23 May 2025, pp35-37
- Beyond retail (town centres), IN Property Week, Vol 92 No 19 23 May 2025, pp30-33