@ClaptonGary

Senior lecturer in social work, University of Edinburgh. Also keen footballer...

 Edinburgh
sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/social_work/clapton_gary
Joined February 2013
  • Tweets17
  • Following17
  • Followers112
Gary Clapton retweeted
FACT@FACTukorg9 Jan 2014
By focusing on #Savile, what were we NOT looking at? Great blog post by @VivCree @ClaptonGary & Mark Smith discoversociety.org/moral-pa…
1
8
3
Beware of being seen near children or animals, even when they are your own (if you are a man) wp.me/p2Yj14-3z via @wordpressdotcom
1
1
1
Gary Clapton retweeted
Viviene Cree@VivCree30 Jul 2013
Historical abuse is difficult to square with present values:'The past is a foreign country...' wp.me/p2Yj14-K via @wordpressdotcom

‘The past is a foreign country…’

Some of my previous blogs concerned child sexual abuse, and more specifically, Jimmy Savile and the Yewtree Report. This blog concerns a topic no less controversial. I’d like to argue that what we …

moralpanicseminarseries.wordpress.com
1
1
Sign up for the new CPD course on Evaluation Research Methods at the University of Edinburgh organised by yours truly epay.ed.ac.uk/browse/extra_i…
2
3
Gary Clapton retweeted
Viviene Cree@VivCree29 Jul 2013
Call for abstracts for papers at final seminar #moralpanics and the state, Cardiff: moralpanicseminars.wordpress: apply by fri 27 September
5
1
hi maggie, practising my tweeting
point about Savile is that due process has not taken place (and now cannot) therefore all sorts of things can be attributed theagentapsley
Ingredients of a mp? 'Facts' from a dodgy survey,a quote from an 'expert' and the 'there's more than weformat of press statements#swscmedia
one sign of a moral panic is the phrase 'it's just the tip of the iceberg'
Taking part in #moralpanic debate next Tuesday 14th from 8 until 9pm @swscmedia. Background: wp.me/p2Yj14-w via @wordpressdotcom
2
1
Some background for next Tuesday's debate. A ‘Good’ Moral Panic? wp.me/p2Yj14-w via @wordpressdotcom
Load more