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Previous research has established that the success of strikes, and social movements more broadly, depends on their ability to garner support from the public. However, there is scant published research investigating the response of the public to strike action by healthcare workers. In this study, we address this gap through a study of public responses to UK nursing strikes in 2022–2023, using a data set drawn from Twitter of more than 2300 publicly available tweets. We focus on negative tweets, investigating which societal discourses social media users draw on to oppose strike action by nurses. Using a combination of corpus‐based approaches and discourse analysis, we identified five categories of opposition: (i) discourse discrediting nurses; (ii) discourse discrediting strikes by nurses; (iii) discourse on the National Health System; (iv) discourse about the fairness of strikers' demands and (v) discourse about potential harmful impact. Our findings show how social media users operationalise wider societal discourses about the nursing profession (e.g., associations with care, gender, vocation and sacrifice) as well as recent crises such as the Covid‐19 pandemic to justify their opposition. The results also provide valuable insights into misconceptions about nursing, strike action and patient harm, which can inform strategies for public communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores trust in organisations by analysing interview data from students and staff who have disclosed or reported gender‐based violence and harassment (GBVH) to their higher education institution in the UK since 2016. GBVH contributes to gender inequality in higher education (HE), and increased reporting of it may not only help prevent GBVH, but also improve gender equality by helping to retain women and gender minorities within HE. Around half of the interviewees in this study (n = 12) expressed distrust in their institution, yet despite this they still reported or disclosed their experiences to their institution. Existing literature in this area, particularly the concept of institutional betrayal, assumes that survivors of GBVH trust their institutions—including HE institutions—because they are dependent upon said institutions. Our data challenges this assumption, and in this article, we analyse participants' trust orientations in the context of their reasons for reporting. We argue that dependence on and trust in institutions are separate phenomena, in that members of an organisation may be dependent upon the organisation in various ways, but their trust in the organisation reflects their structural positioning within it. To develop the theorisation of trust in institutional betrayal, we draw on and extend Luhmann's concept of 'system trust' as well as other sociological theories of trust. Finally, the article introduces the concept of 'unwilling trust'—a contradiction between an individual acting in trusting ways despite feeling a lack of trust—to explain this disconnect between dispositions and actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The COVID‐19 pandemic has had both a psychological and physiological effect on the human race. For those working in health care, particularly in critical care, the pandemic has put unprecedented strain on staff. Witnessing suffering during crisis in an organizational setting can be a traumatic experience and critical care nurses often risked, not only their own lives, but their psychological well‐being, so that those infected with the virus might have a better chance at survival. Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the challenges to mental health and psychological well‐being experienced by Critical Care Nurses during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Study Design: A longitudinal, qualitative study involving semi‐structured interviews with 54 critical care nurses across 38 hospitals in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis. Results: Four key themes were identified which represent the challenges faces by critical care nurses during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Lack of control, Psychological trauma, Unexpected leadership, Public‐political betrayal. Conclusions: While public‐political praise may lead to a short‐term lift in morale for front line workers; where it is not accompanied by practical support in terms of appropriate equipment, leadership, emotional support and renumeration it is likely to be damaging in the longer term. Relevance to Clinical Practice: This study has provided a greater understanding of the factors which affected the well‐being and mental health of critical care nurses during a global pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Psychoanalysis can advance our understanding of responses from the hierarchy of mainstream religious denominations to disclosures of abuse by clergy. This paper takes analytic insights to discuss how and why the Anglican institutional church has responded so callously to disclosures of child sexual abuse within the church. Inhumane responses have led to feelings of institutional betrayal in survivor groups. The subject is explored firstly in the context of organizational and group dynamics, and, secondly, by analysing defences that underly the interaction between the person who has been abused and the member of the church hierarchy who is hearing the disclosure. Defences and deceptions have been consciously and unconsciously used within the organization that have obstructed contact with reality, and so hindered it both in fulfilling its task in responding appropriately to what has taken place, and in adapting to changing circumstances. Churches have been active agents in re-traumatising individuals. Examples to illustrate are taken from hearings on the Anglican Church by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England, UK. The idea of organizational redemption is presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the role of convergent media and the film, Windrush Betrayal (2020), in representing and challenging borders, mobilities and UK government immigration policies. Print and digital news provide important contexts for exploring media geographies of current events. Documentary film is also a provocative medium for investigative analyses that go beyond more general headline reporting. This study seeks to expand on earlier studies by examining how complementary mediums such as digital news media and film can respond to each other and become part of dynamic transnational conversations around place and identity. Media formats have been pushed to incorporate new settings and styles as Covid-19 restrictions have been implemented and alternative approaches utilised in media production. Adopting innovative techniques for filming in response to pandemic restrictions, Windrush Betrayal illustrates the ongoing impacts of immigration policies on Caribbean Diaspora populations in the UK. This paper provides a timely opportunity to tease out the ways in which changes in government immigration policies, media work practices and the production of migration narratives can highlight hidden geographical stories and marginalised voices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reconsiders some of the narratives constructed by the Royal Commission into British nuclear tests in Australia (1984–85), primarily those surrounding the role of nuclear physicist Ernest Titterton. Labelled a 'Dr Strangelove figure' by the Royal Commission's president, Jim McClelland, Titterton's perceived betrayal of Australia during the nuclear tests facilitated the bolstering of nationalistic sentiment among those involved in the Commission. Problematising Titterton's characterisation as a 'Dr Strangelove figure', planted in the pursuit of British interests, allows for insight into the role played by imperialism in Britain's nuclear program, and into Australia's contemporary history more generally. Considering nuclear testing in the context of empire demonstrates that Titterton's appointment was in fulfilment of imperial obligations to both Britain and Australia, while his individual allegiances transcended Britain. Rather, Titterton's allegiances lay with the promotion and development of nuclear physics, facilitated by and taking advantage of networks spanning across the Anglosphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An essay on the gendered narratives of the dissolution of the marriage of Leontes and Hermione in playwright William Shakespeare's late play"The Winter's Tale". The article talks about female sexual betrayal, tyranny and domestic abuse as the reason for the break down of the marriage. Also discussed are adultery and abuse as the justifications for marital separation as per the early modern English church courts. The article also presents narratives on sexual slander as a reason for separation.

Organisational injustice, betrayal, moral transgression, wrongdoing, or breach of deeply held values and beliefs can manifest in frontline staff as Post Traumatic Embitterment Disorder (PTED), Moral Injury and/or PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). PTED and Moral Injury are fundamentally the same and could not be discriminated from each other. The constructs of PTED and Moral Injury can be assimilated into that of PTSD, rather than exist as comorbid conditions. Chronic embitterment is of clinical significance and often a symptom of PTSD, which may be inextricably linked to the traumatic incident(s) and often expressed as persistent blame of self or others, in DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for PTSD, D2 and D3. Chronic embitterment and moral pain can maintain PTSD symptoms. • Moral Injury and PTED cannot be discriminated from each other. • Moral Injury and PTED can be assimilated into the diagnostic criteria for PTSD and may be superfluous. • Embitterment is often a symptom of PTSD, expressed as blame in DSM-5 PTSD criteria D3. • Chronic embitterment reactions can be pathological and not an attitude. • Organisational injustice can lead to the development of Moral Injury and PTED. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the aspects of jealousy, gender, and spectatorship in British renaissance drama. Anxiety about sexual betrayal pervades the drama of the English Renaissance. Traditionally the material of comedy, cuckoldry or the fear of cuckoldry becomes a tragic theme as well in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Not only does jealousy dominate the plots of many plays, but songs about the cuckolded and the abandoned, jokes and saws about the unreliability of wives and lovers. Extraliterary evidence certainly reinforces the view that anxiety about female sexual fidelity ran high in English Renaissance culture, historians report, for instance, that the opprobrious terms cuckold, whore, and whoremaster account for most of the defamation suits brought in sixteenth century church courts.