Rebecca Murray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3797446 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Murray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Murray |
| SIGNATURE | MURRAY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2834-7690 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rayner, Jonathan. Screening the Fleet
Neufeld, Matthew. Early Modern Naval Health Care in England 1650–1750
Stille, Mark E. Pearl Harbor
Macfarlane, Daniel. The Lives of Lake Ontario
Faith, bordering and modern slavery
In this paper we consider the imbrication of UK immigration and border controls into support environments of the anti-modern slavery sphere. We draw on the findings of a 3.5 years ESRC-funded study to explore how the increasingly strident government anti-migrant agenda - broadly seen in the ‘hostile environment’, a culture of disbelief and an overarching preeminence of border controls over human rights protections - is percolating into care provi…
The sanctuary spectrum
The sanctuary spectrum
In this article we utilise an abolitionist lens to interrogate initiatives delivered under the auspices of 'sanctuary' within the higher education (HE) sector in order to (re)imagine it in this space. 'Sanctuary' is broadly understood to mean safety and protection - underpinned by the need to resist immigration control and create spaces of refuge for precarious migrants. The 'sanctuary spectrum' is a medium through which we explore conceptual thi…
Disrupting binary thinking about sanctuary initiatives in the UK and Australia
Despite their geographical distance, the UK and Australia share proximity with their hostile immigration policies and managed migration practices, characterised by inhumanity under the guise of deterrence. People Seeking Asylum (PSA) who seek sanctuary typically endure protracted temporariness, which denies them access to state resources and imposes limitations on access to post-compulsory education. Despite state-endorsed exclusion, universities…
A Systematic Review of Characteristics of Students With Emotional Disturbance in Special Education Research
We conducted a systematic literature review examining the participant characteristics of studies of students with emotional disturbance (ED) with the purpose of better understanding potential similarities and differences between students with ED in research and the population of students with ED. Results indicate (a) participants with reported demographics were predominantly White or Black/African American and male; (b) participants in research s…
Forced migrants in higher education
This paper explores how the hostile environment manifests in UK higher education. Our findings highlight the specific challenges encountered by asylum seekers in negotiating access to, and participating fully in, higher education. This group are categorised as international students, rendering them ineligible for student finance to meet the cost of living and university tuition fees in addition to exclusion from mainstream benefits and the labour…
UK University Initiatives Supporting Forced Migrants
This article reports on a decade (2008–2018) of university-led “sanctuary scholarships,” which mitigate the challenges encountered by forced migrants with unsettled immigration status in accessing university: primarily financial barriers imposed by their categorization as international students and ineligibility for student funding. Secondary and primary empirical data was analyzed to i) map a decade of sanctuary scholarships delivered across the…
Duvet woman versus action man
Media portrayals of conditions such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) demand exploration as the media is a potent source of information and meaning, and as such has the potential to inform public and professional understandings. To date, there is little systematic exploration of print media representations of CFS/ME. In this study, we address that gap by exploring the voices of CFS/ME sufferers in the English print me…
Mission-based policing
This paper presents a model of urban policing based on deployment by serious crime. The deployment of line officers transitions from a district-based focus on ‘keeping a lid on crime’ to permanent staging of personnel within hot zones, based on POP intelligence assessment of serious crime characteristics, and carried out inside a model based on command integrity instead of current, highly decentralized (line-level) decision-making. A strategic mo…
Sexual Humor in Hollywood Films
After rating male and female characters in the top-grossing comedy films for each year (1951-2000), the authors predicted that during times of greater social and economic threat female film characters who joke about sex would be less physically attractive, and male characters would be lower in socioeconomic status. These qualities have been found in prior research to denote desirability in potential mates. Results were generally consistent with p…
Compassion and cruelty
What's So Funny About a Poke in the Eye? The Prevalence of Violence in Comedy Films and Its Relation to Social and Economic Threat in the United States, 1951-2000
We examined the violent content of the top-grossing comedy films from 1951 to 2000. Comedic violence increased sharply around 1970 and has been relatively consistent since then. Aggressors were depicted in somewhat more positive terms than targets, but in general, the message of comedic violence was not one of good triumphing over evil. Top-grossing comedy films featured more violence when unemployment, suicide, homicide, divorce, and the consume…
Kindergarten Pedagogy
Forced migrants in higher education
This paper explores how the hostile environment manifests in UK higher education. Our findings highlight the specific challenges encountered by asylum seekers in negotiating access to, and participating fully in, higher education. This group are categorised as international students, rendering them ineligible for student finance to meet the cost of living and university tuition fees in addition to exclusion from mainstream benefits and the labour…
Sexual Humor in Hollywood Films
After rating male and female characters in the top-grossing comedy films for each year (1951-2000), the authors predicted that during times of greater social and economic threat female film characters who joke about sex would be less physically attractive, and male characters would be lower in socioeconomic status. These qualities have been found in prior research to denote desirability in potential mates. Results were generally consistent with p…
Faith, bordering and modern slavery
In this paper we consider the imbrication of UK immigration and border controls into support environments of the anti-modern slavery sphere. We draw on the findings of a 3.5 years ESRC-funded study to explore how the increasingly strident government anti-migrant agenda - broadly seen in the ‘hostile environment’, a culture of disbelief and an overarching preeminence of border controls over human rights protections - is percolating into care provi…
Disrupting binary thinking about sanctuary initiatives in the UK and Australia
Despite their geographical distance, the UK and Australia share proximity with their hostile immigration policies and managed migration practices, characterised by inhumanity under the guise of deterrence. People Seeking Asylum (PSA) who seek sanctuary typically endure protracted temporariness, which denies them access to state resources and imposes limitations on access to post-compulsory education. Despite state-endorsed exclusion, universities…
What's So Funny About a Poke in the Eye? The Prevalence of Violence in Comedy Films and Its Relation to Social and Economic Threat in the United States, 1951-2000
We examined the violent content of the top-grossing comedy films from 1951 to 2000. Comedic violence increased sharply around 1970 and has been relatively consistent since then. Aggressors were depicted in somewhat more positive terms than targets, but in general, the message of comedic violence was not one of good triumphing over evil. Top-grossing comedy films featured more violence when unemployment, suicide, homicide, divorce, and the consume…
Kindergarten Pedagogy
What's So Funny About a Poke in the Eye? The Prevalence of Violence in Comedy Films and Its Relation to Social and Economic Threat in the United States, 1951-2000
We examined the violent content of the top-grossing comedy films from 1951 to 2000. Comedic violence increased sharply around 1970 and has been relatively consistent since then. Aggressors were depicted in somewhat more positive terms than targets, but in general, the message of comedic violence was not one of good triumphing over evil. Top-grossing comedy films featured more violence when unemployment, suicide, homicide, divorce, and the consume…
Compassion and cruelty
Sexual Humor in Hollywood Films
After rating male and female characters in the top-grossing comedy films for each year (1951-2000), the authors predicted that during times of greater social and economic threat female film characters who joke about sex would be less physically attractive, and male characters would be lower in socioeconomic status. These qualities have been found in prior research to denote desirability in potential mates. Results were generally consistent with p…
Mission-based policing
This paper presents a model of urban policing based on deployment by serious crime. The deployment of line officers transitions from a district-based focus on ‘keeping a lid on crime’ to permanent staging of personnel within hot zones, based on POP intelligence assessment of serious crime characteristics, and carried out inside a model based on command integrity instead of current, highly decentralized (line-level) decision-making. A strategic mo…
Duvet woman versus action man
Media portrayals of conditions such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) demand exploration as the media is a potent source of information and meaning, and as such has the potential to inform public and professional understandings. To date, there is little systematic exploration of print media representations of CFS/ME. In this study, we address that gap by exploring the voices of CFS/ME sufferers in the English print me…
UK University Initiatives Supporting Forced Migrants
This article reports on a decade (2008–2018) of university-led “sanctuary scholarships,” which mitigate the challenges encountered by forced migrants with unsettled immigration status in accessing university: primarily financial barriers imposed by their categorization as international students and ineligibility for student funding. Secondary and primary empirical data was analyzed to i) map a decade of sanctuary scholarships delivered across the…
A Systematic Review of Characteristics of Students With Emotional Disturbance in Special Education Research
We conducted a systematic literature review examining the participant characteristics of studies of students with emotional disturbance (ED) with the purpose of better understanding potential similarities and differences between students with ED in research and the population of students with ED. Results indicate (a) participants with reported demographics were predominantly White or Black/African American and male; (b) participants in research s…
Forced migrants in higher education
This paper explores how the hostile environment manifests in UK higher education. Our findings highlight the specific challenges encountered by asylum seekers in negotiating access to, and participating fully in, higher education. This group are categorised as international students, rendering them ineligible for student finance to meet the cost of living and university tuition fees in addition to exclusion from mainstream benefits and the labour…
The sanctuary spectrum
The sanctuary spectrum
In this article we utilise an abolitionist lens to interrogate initiatives delivered under the auspices of 'sanctuary' within the higher education (HE) sector in order to (re)imagine it in this space. 'Sanctuary' is broadly understood to mean safety and protection - underpinned by the need to resist immigration control and create spaces of refuge for precarious migrants. The 'sanctuary spectrum' is a medium through which we explore conceptual thi…
Disrupting binary thinking about sanctuary initiatives in the UK and Australia
Despite their geographical distance, the UK and Australia share proximity with their hostile immigration policies and managed migration practices, characterised by inhumanity under the guise of deterrence. People Seeking Asylum (PSA) who seek sanctuary typically endure protracted temporariness, which denies them access to state resources and imposes limitations on access to post-compulsory education. Despite state-endorsed exclusion, universities…
Faith, bordering and modern slavery
In this paper we consider the imbrication of UK immigration and border controls into support environments of the anti-modern slavery sphere. We draw on the findings of a 3.5 years ESRC-funded study to explore how the increasingly strident government anti-migrant agenda - broadly seen in the ‘hostile environment’, a culture of disbelief and an overarching preeminence of border controls over human rights protections - is percolating into care provi…
Rayner, Jonathan. Screening the Fleet
Neufeld, Matthew. Early Modern Naval Health Care in England 1650–1750
Stille, Mark E. Pearl Harbor
Macfarlane, Daniel. The Lives of Lake Ontario
Sociology (11 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Comedy (2 works)