Sue Wilkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 263264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sue Wilkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sue |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilkinson |
| SIGNATURE | WILKINSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7146-3016 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 91 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1259 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 91 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 17 |
Simulating and visualising indoor seismic damage
Earthquakes pose a significant risk to human lives because they can cause severe damage to structural and non-structural components of buildings, thereby harming building occupants. Accordingly, reducing earthquakes’ social, economic and environmental losses requires significant effort. Indoor seismic damage, which refers to damage caused by earthquakes inside buildings, such as falling objects, broken furniture and collapsed walls, is especially…
A pathway towards resilient cities
Cyclone resistant housing in Fiji
Fiji housing stock suffers extensive damage during the annual cyclone season, leading to high costs in repairing and reconstructing the damaged properties. Historically Fijian houses were resilient, and the communities could self-recover from natural hazards. The country's more recent disasters have been beyond the country's ability to self-recover. Reasons for this include reliance on international aid, new housing types and materials, populatio…
Knowledge types and knowledge transfer mechanisms for effective resilience knowledge-sharing between cities – A case study of New Zealand
Choosing a holistic urban resilience assessment tool
An integrated framework for assessment of smart city resilience
Cities are becoming smarter in their functions; however, they are not necessarily resilient and able to survive the impact of disasters. An integrated, smart and resilient city is a quest for today and future sustainability that has been scarcely studied. Therefore, this current paper develops a comprehensive framework for re-evaluating cities’ smartness and assessing their resilience against unforeseen disruptive events. A top-down approach is a…
Planning the resilient city
Evaluating socio-economic recovery as part of building back better in Kaikoura, New Zealand
Impact of flagship projects on the recovery of a city post-disaster
A social resilience measurement tool for Tanzania’s water supply systems
Comparing Client Values between Business-as-Usual Construction and Postdisaster Reconstruction
The complexity and resources required for postdisaster reconstruction projects can present a formidable challenge for project participants. Exploring client values in a postdisaster situation can assist in assessing contracting services and developing a suitable contractual framework for reconstruction projects. This study focuses on an analysis of client values in postdisaster reconstruction projects. In so doing, it investigates how client valu…
Celebrating 30 years of Feminism & Psychology
Feminism & Psychology ( F&P) was launched in 1991 with a sense of possibility, enthusiasm and excitement as well as a sense of urgent need – to critique and reconstruct mainstream psychology (theory, research methods, and clinical practice). Thirty years have now passed since the first issue was produced. Thirty volumes with three or four issues have been published each year, thanks to the efforts of many. On the occasion of F&P’s 30th anniversar…
Investigating the technical dimension of water supply resilience to disasters
South African community in Auckland
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the resilience of the South African community in Auckland to a potential hazard event. Design/methodology/approach The research collected data from both primary and secondary sources. The research used parametric and non-parametric analytical procedures for quantitative data and a general inductive approach to qualitative data analysis and a three-step coding cycle for interviews. A content anal…
Social capacities in fostering water supply resilience in Vanuatu
Purpose In March 2015 Vanuatu experienced Tropical Cyclone (TC) Pam, a category 5 cyclone with estimated wind speeds of 250 kph and one of the worst disasters in Vanuatu’s history. Prior to the cyclone, one-third of water in Vanuatu was collected by means of rainwater harvesting systems; around one quarter of these systems were damaged due to the cyclone and no longer functional. The purpose of this paper is to investigate social and organisation…
Urbanisation and disaster risk
Community resources and the ability to organise them in times of challenges are essential in resilience. This study investigated the resilience of the Nigerian community in Auckland to the risk of natural hazards. Auckland has a multi-hazard landscape and an increasing rate of urbanisation which encompasses diverse communities and nationalities. The study examined five resources, the social, economic, communication, disaster competency and physic…
A conceptual framework for measuring livelihood resilience
Resilient Post Disaster Recovery through Building Back Better
"Building Back Better" (BBB) has been a popular slogan in disaster recovery efforts around the world, including the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, the 2009 Samoan Tsunami, the 2010 Haiti Earthquake and the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. BBB has recently been identified as one of four priorities of action for disaster risk reduction globally in the next 15 years by the United Nations Sendai Framework. However, there has consistently been a mismatch…
Client values within post-disaster reconstruction contracting services
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore and prioritize the key client values within contracting services for reconstructing the built environment in post-disaster situations. Design/methodology/approach A literature review, semi-structured interviews and questionnaire survey were included in this study. A comparative analysis was used to obtain different perspectives between public and private sectors. Findings A total of 39 client values…
Legislation for building back better of horizontal infrastructure
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine how post-disaster legislation can be used to support building back better (BBB) in the horizontal infrastructure sector (roading, water, wastewater and stormwater networks). Design/methodology/approach A case study approach was taken looking at the rebuild following the Canterbury earthquakes in New Zealand. Data were collected through document analysis and semi-structured open-ended interviews wi…
X. Refusing to live with advanced dementia
Intervening With Conversation Analysis in Telephone Helpline Services
This article overviews the way conversation analytic work on telephone helplines can make an impact in practical situations. It takes three illustrative themes in helpline research: (a) the giving, receiving, and resisting of advice; (b) the expression of strong emotion and its identification, management, and then coordination with helpline goals; and (c) how helplines’ policies and practices shape the interactions between caller and call taker. …
Build back better
The 'build back better' (BBB) concept signals an opportunity to decrease the vulnerability of communities to future disasters during post-disaster reconstruction and recovery. The 2009 Victorian bushfires in Australia serve as a case study for this assessment of the application of core BBB principles and their outcomes. The results show that several BBB measures were successfully implemented in Victoria and are relevant for any post-disaster reco…
Resource challenges for housing reconstruction
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify resourcing challenges that face housing rebuild following the 2009 Victorian “Black Saturday” bushfires in Australia and to examine the impacts of resource shortages on longer term community recovery. Design/methodology/approach The research methodology included a longitudinal study which consists of a questionnaire survey, field‐based interviews and observations to track trends evident in the surv…
Representing Our Own Experience
Focus groups in feminist research
Transitions from heterosexuality to lesbianism
This article explored the discursive production of a major disjuncture in sexual identity in adult life: women's accounts of transitions to lesbianism after a substantial period of heterosexuality. Eighty semistructured interviews with self-identified lesbians, all with at least 10 years prior heterosexual experience (plus additional materials drawn from published autobiographical sources), were ana lyzed within a social constructionist framework…
Focus Groups
Focus groups are little used in feminist psychology, despite their methodological advantages. Following a brief introduction to the method, the article details three key ways in which the use of focus groups addresses the feminist critique of traditional methods in psychology. Focus groups are relatively naturalistic and so avoid the charge of artificiality; they offer social contexts for meaning-making and so avoid the charge of decontextualizat…
Surprise As an Interactional Achievement
The expression of surprise—at something unexpected—is a key form of emotional display. Focusing on displays of surprise performed by means of reaction tokens (akin to Goffman's “response cries”), such as wow, gosh, oh my god, ooh!, phew, we use an ethnomethodological, conversation-analytic approach to analyze surprise in talk-in-interaction. Our key contribution is to detach the psychology of surprise from its social expression by showing how co-…
Focus Groups in Health Research
Focus group method is becoming increasingly popular among qualitative researchers. After introducing focus group method and briefly overviewing its use in health research, this article shows that the distinctive (and under-used) feature of focus group method is its generation of interactive data. Illustrating my argument with examples from health- related focus group research (including my own data on breast cancer), I argue that this feature mak…
Thinking differently about thinking positive
The role of reflexivity in feminist psychology
Attitudes Towards Lesbians and Gay Men and Support for Lesbian and Gay Human Rights Among Psychology Students
A questionnaire comprising two scales, the short form of the Attitudes Towards Lesbians and Gay Men Scale (ATLG-S; Herek, 1984) and the newly devised Support for Lesbian and Gay Human Rights Scale (SLGHR) were administered to 226 students taking undergraduate psychology courses at universities in the United Kingdom, to assess their attitudes towards lesbians and gay men, and their level of support for lesbian and gay human rights. The results ind…
Gender and body hair
Women with Breast Cancer Talking Causes
This article explores three different approaches - content analytic, biographical and discursive - to analysing the same data set (women with breast cancer talking about causes, and Blaxter’s classic work on ‘lay aetiology’). It compares these three approaches in relation to the key epistemological problems of ‘context’, ‘footing’ and ‘multiple versions’ - and concludes that a discursive approach offers better solutions to these problems than do …
Body Hair Removal
The Re-Branding of Marriage
Recent developments in same-sex partnership legislation are reviewed in the light of human rights activism, feminist and LGBT debates, and our own decision to marry. We argue that critiques of marriage based on its reproduction of gendered power relations or its reinforcement of compulsory heterosexuality cannot be applied without problems to same-sex marriage, but that other critiques remain clearly relevant: in particular, state surveillance an…
Theorizing Heterosexuality
Representing Our Own Experience
Pursuing a Response by Repairing an Indexical Reference
Prior conversation analytic research has demonstrated that when, following a sequence-initiating action, a response is relevantly missing (or is forthcoming but is apparently inadequate), speakers may use a range of practices for pursuing a response (or a more adequate response). These practices—such as response prompts, preference reversals, or turn extensions—treat the missing (or inadequate) response as indicative of some problem, and they may…
Validating Women's Experience? Dilemmas in Feminist Research
A conceptual framework for measuring livelihood resilience
Bisexuality “a la mode”
Whose breast is it anyway
Constructing ethnicity statistics in talk-in-interaction
This article ‘looks behind’ official statistics, analysing the social context of their production. It uses conversation analysis to examine how an organization’s ethnic monitoring statistics are constructed in and through interactions between callers and volunteers on its telephone helpline. In particular, it examines how the process of self-categorization is shaped by the response categories on the organization’s monitoring form and by the forma…
Feminism & Psychology
Intervening With Conversation Analysis in Telephone Helpline Services
This article overviews the way conversation analytic work on telephone helplines can make an impact in practical situations. It takes three illustrative themes in helpline research: (a) the giving, receiving, and resisting of advice; (b) the expression of strong emotion and its identification, management, and then coordination with helpline goals; and (c) how helplines’ policies and practices shape the interactions between caller and call taker. …
Insertion Repair
Insertion repair is a practice in which speakers halt their talk-in-progress to go back and add something else into the turn before resuming (e.g., inserting “blind” in “this girl's fixed up on a da— a blind date”). This article provides the first systematic examination of the technology of insertion repair, based on an analysis of more than 500 instances. We first overview the practice of insertion repair; then examine how the inserted material …
Feminist Research Traditions in Health Psychology
This article discusses three key traditions of feminist research: positivist empiricist, experiential and discursive. It explores the ways in which each is used in developing understandings of women's health and improving health care services, focusing in particular on breast cancer research and activism, including my own work in this area. It is argued that all three research traditions are important for advancing feminist political goals: posit…
Reformulating place
Sexual Contradictions
Using illustrations from everyday life, literature, therapy, and feminism, this is an account of the psychology of women's social subordination
Letter
Letter
The role of reflexivity in feminist psychology
Women's organisations in psychology
Following recent contentions that the impact of feminist psychology has been relatively limited, this article examines some of the strategies employed by one type of academic institution - academic-professional societies - to contain challenges to their scholarship and organisation. It focuses on women's attempts to organise within their national psychological societies in five countries, with particular attention to comparisons between the UK an…
Feminism & Psychology
Institutional power and historical hegemony
Sexism continues to be rife in psychology — sustained by the operation of institutional power. I argue that Williams' (1991) article provides a good example of such power in operation — specifically, the power to reconstruct history — thereby illustrating my original thesis (Wilkinson, 1990b). I present further examples of institutional power in action and consider the implications of my analysis for women's organisations in psychology and for di…
Heterosexual Feminist Identities
Theorizing Heterosexuality
IV Lesbian Psychology in Britain
Feminism & Psychology
Whose breast is it anyway
Lesbian psychology in Britain
Re-Viewing Heterosexuality
Doing it by Degrees
Critical Connections
Women and Madness
The social construction of heterosexuality
Following a long tradition of social constructionist work on homosexuality, a social constructionist approach is starting to be used in the analysis of heterosexuality. This paper identifies some of the key issues raised by this work, focusing, in particular, on the coercive nature of heterosexuality; heterosexual self‐identification; and the relationship between heterosexual sexual behaviour and sexual identity. It also examines the political an…
Virgins and Queers
Radical feminism has critiqued heterosexuality both as a primary means through which people are constituted as women and as men, and as inherently oppressive for women. Two recent developments challenge this critique: the concept of 'virgin' heterosexuality, a form of heterosexuality in which the performance of heterosexual sex, with or without sexual intercourse, is voluntarily chosen, and 'queer' heterosexuality, a concept derived from postmode…
The Feminism & Psychology Undergraduate Prize 1994
On Reviewing
Transitions from heterosexuality to lesbianism
This article explored the discursive production of a major disjuncture in sexual identity in adult life: women's accounts of transitions to lesbianism after a substantial period of heterosexuality. Eighty semistructured interviews with self-identified lesbians, all with at least 10 years prior heterosexual experience (plus additional materials drawn from published autobiographical sources), were ana lyzed within a social constructionist framework…
Representing the Other-Part One
Representing the Other-Part Two
Making Connections
Sociology (60 works) · Psychology (58 works) · Gender Studies (35 works) · Computer Science (32 works) · Gender Studies (27 works) · Political science (26 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (21 works) · Business (20 works) · Engineering (19 works) · Social Psychology (19 works)