PUBLICATIONS

monographs

Critical Community Psychology: The Basics. Routledge, forthcoming.

The Community Psychology of Loneliness. Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2027.

Austerity. Taylor & Francis, 2025.
Winner of the 2026 British Psychological Society Book Award, Academic Monograph Category.

The Self-Help Industry: Is the Self-Help Industry Really Helping or Are We Being Misled? John Hunt Publishing, 2025.

book chapters & research reports

Chapter in Community Health Psychology: An Introductory Approach to Critical Public Health, 2026.

Co-authored chapter in Community Psychology in Action: Striving towards Social Justice and Wellbeing in Challenging Times, 2025.

Young, Marginalised but Not Radicalised: A Comparative Study of Positive Approaches to Youth Radicalisation. IARS Publications, 2017. Contributing author. Commissioned comparative report produced through an Erasmus+ Key Action 3 European policy-experimentation project.

peer reviewed articles

“Co-production/co-design or Participatory Action Research (PAR)? Pointers for when to consider co-production/co-design or PAR.” Qualitative Research Journal (2026): 1–16. In press.

“The philosophical foundations of participatory action research: Pragmatism, critical theory, constructivism, feminist epistemology and participatory democracy.” Qualitative Research Journal, Vol. 26.1 (2026): 102–116.

“Participatory action research as a research approach: Advantages, limitations and criticisms.” Qualitative Research Journal, Vol. 23.3 (2023): 287–297.

“A thematic analysis of homelessness practitioners’ perception of the impacts of welfare reforms in the UK: ‘Hard to maintain my own mental equilibrium’.” Housing, Care and Support, Vol. 26.3/4 (2023): 65–83.

“A photoelicitation exploration on formerly homeless people's experience with Universal Credit: System error and ‘the government don’t care’.” Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 50 (2022): 2458–2474.

With V. M. D. S. Coêlho, W. J. D. Santos, G. B. Santos, and A. G. D. C. D. Ceballos. “Common mental disorders and risk behaviours in motorcyclists’ victims of traffic-accidents.” Revista Portuguesa de Enfermagem de Saúde Mental, No. 22 (2019): 27–34.

“On the news today: Challenging homelessness through participatory action research.” Housing, Care and Support, Vol. 21.1 (2018): 13–25.

public scholarship

“Individual grit won’t make men beautiful.” The Guardian, March 9, 2026.

“The psychological toll of austerity.” The Psychologist, 2025.

“‘I’m not a stranger – neither are millions of others like me’.” The Psychologist, 2025.

“Collaboration key to promoting progressive social change.” The Psychologist, 2025.

“Brief Lives: Paulo Freire (1921–1997).” Philosophy Now, Vol. 167 (2025): 46–47.

“Participatory Action Research – breathing life into Psychology.” The Psychologist, 2024.

“Is the totalitarianism of happiness really making us happier?” The Psychologist, 2024.

“Cost of living crisis: What research says about the potential psychological impact.” The Conversation, 2022.

“A festival of community psychology.” The Psychologist, 2022.

“Shedding light on homelessness.” The Psychologist, Vol. 35 (2022): 6.

“‘Visible subalternism’ and Ukraine.” The Psychologist, 2022.

“Unframed lives.” The Psychologist, Vol. 33 (2020): 68–69.

“We must act to decolonise Psychology.” The Psychologist, Vol. 33 (2020).

“What if art and research could be used as a form of community dialogue, as a space for people with lived experience of homelessness to empower themselves? A reflection on Unframed Lives at Brighton Fringe, UK.” The Community Psychologist, Vol. 52.3 (2019): 59–61.

“Enclosures, beneficence and fluid spaces – the practice of informal mental distress work: In conversation with Dr Carl Walker.” Psychology of Women Section Review, Vol. 19.1 (2017).

“Homelessness: A case for preventative action.” Dissident Voice, October 22, 2016.

commentaries & letters

“There is a need to address social inequalities for vulnerable people and service providers.” Rapid Response to “Consider prioritising homeless people on waiting lists to improve their health, says NICE.” BMJ, Vol. 375 (2021): n2447.

“COVID-19: The interruption of supportive accommodation would place the temporarily housed homeless at higher risk.” Rapid Response to “Mitigating the wider health effects of COVID-19 pandemic response.” BMJ, Vol. 369 (2020): m1557.