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Background and Aims Young people’s engagement in gambling can be linked to gambling-related harm. This can cause stress, anxiety, relationship issues, debt, and lost opportunities. There is a lack of independently funded, and evidence-based school-based interventions that seek to prevent and reduce the harms associated with gambling. PRoGRAM-A is one of the first independently research funded interventions to prevent gambling related harm in adolescents. This paper presents findings from an embedded process evaluation of the pilot cluster randomised control trial of PRoGRAM-A, with a specific focus on intervention fidelity, feasibility and acceptability. Method Multi-modal study design comprised of qualitative focus groups with students ( N  =  42 ); and individual interviews with teachers ( N  =  7 ), PRoGRAM-A trainers ( N  =  5 ), student friends and family ( N  =  2 ) and stakeholders ( N  =  8 ). Structured Observations of the full cycle of PRoGRAM-A across two intervention schools were also undertaken. Results PRoGRAM-A was delivered with a high degree of fidelity (95%) to the training manual. It was also found to be both feasible and acceptable to students, staff and parents. It was appealing to schools as it allowed teachers to address the topic of gambling, which had already been flagged as an issue for some of the schools, but they lacked the skill and capacity to take action. Peer Supporters enjoyed the interactive nature of the training workshop. Parents and carers were supportive of the intervention and stakeholders recognised the growing need for a non-industry funded school-based intervention to raise awareness among students of gambling and gambling-related harm (GRH). Suggested intervention refinements include embedding examples of lived experience to aid students’ engagement with the topic of gambling and GRH. Increasing social skills activities to ensure students are comfortable and confident when initiating conversations and making follow-up sessions more interactive (in-line with the two-day workshop). Conclusions This study demonstrated that it is feasible and acceptable to deliver the PRoGRAM-A gambling harm reduction intervention within secondary schools with a high degree of fidelity. Addressing the topic of gambling and GRH within the school curriculum was deemed to be acceptable by all sample groups, including students. Trial registration Research Registry researchregistry8699.

Action 3 of the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing plan is to deliver integrated care to improve older adults' lives. Integrated care is vital in meeting the complex needs of people with dementia but little is known about how this is or could be delivered in low and middle income countries (LMIC). This paper provides insights into previously unknown care system structures and on the potential and reality of delivering integrated care in Central America for people with dementia. A social network analysis (SNA) methodology was adopted to engage with providers of services for older adults and families with dementia in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama. Sixty-eight (68) semi-structured interviews were completed, 57 with organisations and 11 with families. Across the five countries there was evidence of fragmentation and low integration within the dementia care systems. A variety of services and types of providers are present in all five countries, and high levels of diversified connections exist among organisations of differing disciplines. However, unawareness among network members about other members that they could potentially form active links with is a barrier on the path to integration. This innovative and robust study demonstrates SNA can be applied to evaluate LMIC care systems. Findings provide baselines of system structures and insights into where resources are needed to fortify integration strategies. Results suggest that Central American countries have the building blocks in place to develop integrated care systems to meet the needs of people with dementia, but the links across service providers are opportunistic rather than context based coordinated integration policies.

A university education is often regarded as a means for increasing social mobility, with attendance at a leading university seen as a pathway to an advantaged socio-economic status. However, inequalities are observable in attendance levels at leading UK universities, with children from less advantaged backgrounds less likely to attend the top universities (generally known as the Russell Group institutions). In this paper, we explore the different levels of assistance provided to state school children in preparing for their university applications. Guidance teachers and pupils at a range of Scottish state schools were interviewed. We find that inequalities exist in the cultivation of guidance provided by state schools, with high attainment schools focusing on preparing applicants to be desirable to leading universities, whilst low attainment schools focus on persuading their students that university is desirable.

This article examines the position of academics within UK quasi-autonomous decision-making. Data have been collected on 2858 individuals, sitting on the boards of 187 Westminster quangos, to assess which social groups and outside institutions hold influence on independent decision-making. These include 200 academics, sitting on 84 different boards. Analysis of the networks generated through mutual memberships of outside institutions shows academics are sitting in strategic positions within the quango sector. This article argues that higher academics have retained their high public position. It utilizes social network analysis to demonstrate that academics hold strategic positions within governance networks, signifying both political influence and associations with the social elite.

This PhD by publication (route 1) concerns narratives of contemporary troubled places that involve the memory and repair of events of hazard, trauma and conflict arising from contested matter. The three artworks published in 2013-16, together with a written exegesis, explore the intersection of troubled places with the miniature medium of microfiche, a cultural practice of transmitting knowledge through time as tiny celluloid, photo-chemical artefacts. A genealogy of microfiche's twentieth-century function in library, military and state epistemes, in real and speculative applications, reveals its entanglement with human desire for a compact, resilient remembrance that will survive crisis. Artistic deployment of obscure microfiche apparatus comments on wider society's incomplete, unclear, forgotten or concealed remembrance, in both physical and virtual media. The research considers the material and memorial challenges of three troubled places, including a gamma-ray burst in the early Universe, a site of genocide legacy, and infrastructure for toxic nuclear waste containment. Through the interface of troubled places and microfiche the research arrives at 'microtopia', a new creative method for the remembrance, archiving, and recall of memories, things, and places. Microtopia is a knowledge practice involving the witnessing of complex sites of remembrance through its production of multiple narratives. Microtopia method gathers evidence of contentious material and technologies, as observed and recorded in conversations, numerical data and photographs. Factual accounts are interwoven with situated micropolitical memories, producing traces of speculative-fabulation. In microtopia artworks, these different narrative modes are expanded and combined through studio editorial collage, poetry and comics illustration, to differently imagine the unclear past, burdened contemporary, and inconceivable futures in troubled places. ii The Practice of Microtopia The resulting publications/artworks offer methods for the management and remembrance of the material remains of an event, and affective encounters of those acting in the sites. The research is situated within the field of contemporary archival-art research, which samples and counter-witnesses official bodies of evidence to insert antagonistic or fictional strata into production of place. The use of microfiche contributes to this research by signalling the continuing need for archives to occupy plural forms of remembrance to counter inevitable medial ruination. Microtopia joins monuments, artefacts, and digital records in support of future re-telling of troubled places.

What does computation sound like, and how can computational processing be integrated into live-coding practice along with code? This article gives insights into three years of artistic research and performance practice with Betablocker, an imaginary central processing unit architecture, specifically designed and implemented for live-coding purposes. It covers the themes of algorithmic composition, sound generation, genetic programming, and autonomous coding in the light of self-manipulating code and artistic research practice.

The ‘microclass’ approach advocated by Grusky, Weeden and colleagues emphasises finegrained occupational differences and their relevance to social reproduction and social mobility. Using recent developments in historical occupational classifications, we adopted a microclass approach to the analysis of intergenerational social mobility using linked census data for Norway and the USA in the late 19th and early 20th century (1850–1910). We describe a procedure that offers an operationalisation of microclass units for these datasets, and show how its application enables us to disentangle different forms of immobility which would not be distinguished in other approaches. Results suggest that microclass immobility is an important part of social reproduction in both Norway and the United States during the era of industrialisation. Both countries reveal a similar balance between ‘big class’ and ‘microclass’ immobility patterns. In Norway, the relative importance of microclasses in social reproduction regimes, when compared to the role of ‘big class’ structures, seems to decline very slightly over the course of industrialisation; but in the USA the relative importance of microclasses seems if anything to increase over the period.

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