Lisa Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 4102156 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0398-993X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
“They want people who are not me”
Widening participation and inclusion are receiving increasing attention in higher education, including through employability strategies aimed at ensuring that students from all backgrounds have the opportunity to succeed. However, both international and Australian evidence suggests that despite ongoing efforts by policymakers and higher education providers to embrace diversity and inclusion, students from low socioeconomic status (SES) background…
Going for gold
Arts-based health research (ABHR) artefacts provide a means for exploring the experiences of diverse populations through using the arts. They are useful for reaching audiences beyond academia, promoting empathy, showcasing under-represented voices and offering insights into human experience not captured by more traditional research methods. To augment the growing usage of ABHR, there have been calls for more studies examining how ABHR artefacts a…
Using Film to Explore Ideas with University Students Around Intergenerational Social Connection
Intergenerational connection (IC) has been posited to mitigate the effects of social isolation and loneliness in older people. Using the film Manawaroa: Still Going Strong, we explored nursing and health sciences’ students’ views about IC, considering themes of loneliness and social connectedness among older people in Aotearoa New Zealand. Thirteen students participated in four online focus groups and data was analyzed using thematic analysis. Fo…
Vivian , the graphic novel
This research explores how the graphic novel Vivian served as the medium for an Arts-Based Knowledge Translation (ABKT) project in the field of palliative care. ABKT seeks to accomplish the goal of disseminating research-based knowledge through the use of the arts. It is regarded as useful for raising awareness about social issues, fostering a deep engagement with audiences and giving new perspectives on topics at hand. The paper describes the pr…
Older Chinese and Korean migrants' experiences of the first Covid ‐19 lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand
Later‐life migrants, as older people living away from their home nations, occupy multiply‐precarious positions in relation to national COVID‐19 pandemic responses. Concern has particularly centred on this group's increased risk of social and linguistic exclusion. We explore the perspectives of later‐life older Chinese and Koreans living in New Zealand during the nation's COVID‐19 lockdown of 2020. This paper presents a sub‐analysis of culturally‐…
How socially cohesive was New Zealand’s first lockdown period from the perspective of culturally diverse older New Zealanders
Aotearoa, New Zealand’s (NZ) initial pandemic response has been held up internationally as a model of social cohesion and compassion, made salient by the ‘team of five million’ messaging promoted by the New Zealand government. This paper considers whether the first New Zealand COVID‐19 lockdown was viewed and experienced as socially cohesive from the perspective of diverse older New Zealanders. This study presents a deductive analysis based on 44…
One Foot in the Rave
Challenging adolescence limited life-course theory, this article presents the results of an online survey in 2016 that aimed to establish if, how and to what extent ageing ravers continue to participate in rave culture. The survey collected data from members of the original rave generation. We explored the ravers’ transitions to adulthood, and how these influenced their participation in club culture. We found that our ravers continued to particip…
Intergenerational Tension or Cohesion during the Covid-19 Pandemic
This paper examines older people’s experiences of intergenerational interaction during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Aotearoa, New Zealand (NZ). This paper presents an analysis of a letter-writing study with older people (mean = 77 years) living in NZ. A total of 760 letters were received from 870 participants. A sub-sample of 412 letters focused on intergenerational interaction were analyzed thematically. This analysis presents a mostly positiv…
Rethinking enhancement substance use
More than mortality data
News media have an important social role during times of disruption including national emergencies. This paper bears witness to the 21 New Zealanders who died during the first lockdown due to COVID‐19 by critically examining the nature of their portrayal in mainstream newspapers. We searched Knowledgebasket for newspapers published between 28 February 2020 and 13 May 2020 relating to COVID‐19 deaths. Of the 147 included articles, 50 were selected…
Social connectedness
While social connectedness is heralded as a key enabler of positive health and social outcomes for older people, rarely have they themselves had the opportunity to express their views about the concept. Working with a diverse group of Pacific, Māori, Asian and New Zealand European older adults, this paper explores what matters to older people when discussing social connectedness? We draw from individual, in-depth interviews with 44 older adults, …
African Caribbean Residents of Edinburgh in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Scotland is gradually coming to terms with its involvement in slavery and colonialism as part of the British Empire. This article places the spotlight on the lives of African Caribbean people who were residents of Edinburgh during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I discuss their varied experiences and contributions: from runaways and men fighting for their freedom in the Scottish courts to women working as servants in city households or m…
The use of synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists (SCRAs) within the homeless population
Background Synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists (SCRAs) have become increasingly associated with a range of physical, mental health and societal harms. In response, several countries have introduced legislation aimed at restricting their supply and use. While these legislative changes have led to a decrease in SCRA use within the general population, SCRAs remain popular within vulnerable populations, in particular the homeless. This article pr…
Bereaved Families’ Perspectives of End-of-Life Care. Towards a Bicultural Whare Tapa Whā Older person’s Palliative Care Model
Collaborative story production with bereaved family carers of people who died in advanced age
Purpose Is collaborative story production (CSP) a useful method to collaborate with bereaved families to record their reflections on the end of life circumstances and care of people of advanced age? The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach Drawing from Te Pākeketanga, a bicultural study involving 58 bereaved Māori and non-Māori families on behalf of 52 older relatives, the authors describe the CSP method. Researchers and …
Working bi-culturally within a palliative care research context
It is increasingly recognised that palliative care research needs to pay more attention to culture if the diverse needs of service users are to be appropriately met. However, in most countries research, practice and policy in palliative care remains predicated upon a specific cultural understanding of the ‘good death’, firmly rooted in a Western world view. In this paper we present the formation of a new multi-disciplinary palliative care researc…
A Feminist Quality Appraisal Tool
Quality appraisal tools used in systematic reviews to evaluate health literature do not adequately address issues related to gender. This oversight is significant because disparities between genders have been identified as a major health equity concern, and systematic reviews are regarded as a powerful means for informing policy that could redress gender inequities. In this paper, we present our Feminist Quality Appraisal Tool that offers researc…
A Furious Battleground
Any examination of jazz in the 1910s routinely includes some discussion of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band (ODJB) and Lieutenant James Reese Europe. The ODJB, often decried as imitators rather than innovators, occupy a precarious position in the jazz narrative. While scholars generally recognize the ODJB as the first band to release a jazz recording, this recognition is tempered by ongoing debates as to the appropriateness of labeling their musi…
Illegal Leisure Revisited
This book updates the progress into adulthood of the cohort of fourteen-year-olds who were recruited and tracked until they were eighteen years old. Illegal Leisure (1998) described their adolescent journeys and lifestyles, focusing on their early regular drinking and extensive ‘recreational’ drug use. This new edition revisits these original chapters, providing commentaries around them to discuss current implications of the original publication,…
The Voices of Kentucky Employers
This study explored Kentucky employers’ preparedness for the aging workforce using focus groups and a survey. Although employers perceived many benefits of older workers, five key challenges of an aging workforce emerged: institutional knowledge loss, older workers’ dependent care commitments, health and safety problems, generation gaps, and lack of technical skills. The results also suggested potential solutions and organizational practices to a…
Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes and Bullying Victimization
Bullying is a serious problem within the U.S. school system. Prior research suggests that victimization is stratified by race and ethnicity. However, few studies consider factors that may moderate this relationship. This article extends research on this topic by considering whether stereotypes moderate bullying among racial and ethnic youth. Youth who violate stereotypes may experience derogatory treatment. This study examines whether violated ra…
Workplace Racial Discrimination and Middle Class Vulnerability
Middle-class minority workers have skill and human capital credentials which should confer protections and relative workplace power. Moreover, they often work in more bureaucratic contexts where culturally proscribed status markers, such as race, should matter little if at all. In this article, we challenge such assumptions by quantitatively and qualitatively examining several hundred cases of workplace racial discrimination and the degree of mid…
Marriage, mortgage, motherhood
Art therapy for relief of symptoms associated with HIV/Aids
Symptom management for persons living with HIV/AIDS is an extremely important component of care management. The importance of pharmacologic interventions for management of symptoms is well recognized, and non-pharmacologic strategies such as art therapy are gaining interest in lay and professional communities. The aim of this research project was to test the feasibility and effectiveness of art therapy for relief of symptoms experienced by people…
Integrating Women's History into an Early American History Course
The authors present three lesson ideas that integrate women's history into the curriculum and that support the development of important social studies skills. The first lesson, for teachers to use at the beginning of the school year, encourages students to think critically about the nature of history and the importance of understanding the point of view of those portrayed in the historical narrative and that of the historian. The second lesson en…
The Normalization of 'Sensible' Recreational Drug Use
Five key dimensions of normalization are identified: availability/access; drug trying rates; usage rates; accommodating attitudes to 'sensible' recreational drug use especially by non users; and degree of cultural accommodation of illegal drug use. A review of recent UK research is provided for each measure. The NW England Longitudinal Study continues to monitor normalization based on the recapture of 465 young adults (in year 2000) of a cohort p…
Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes and Bullying Victimization
Bullying is a serious problem within the U.S. school system. Prior research suggests that victimization is stratified by race and ethnicity. However, few studies consider factors that may moderate this relationship. This article extends research on this topic by considering whether stereotypes moderate bullying among racial and ethnic youth. Youth who violate stereotypes may experience derogatory treatment. This study examines whether violated ra…
Workplace Racial Discrimination and Middle Class Vulnerability
Middle-class minority workers have skill and human capital credentials which should confer protections and relative workplace power. Moreover, they often work in more bureaucratic contexts where culturally proscribed status markers, such as race, should matter little if at all. In this article, we challenge such assumptions by quantitatively and qualitatively examining several hundred cases of workplace racial discrimination and the degree of mid…
Older Chinese and Korean migrants' experiences of the first Covid ‐19 lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand
Later‐life migrants, as older people living away from their home nations, occupy multiply‐precarious positions in relation to national COVID‐19 pandemic responses. Concern has particularly centred on this group's increased risk of social and linguistic exclusion. We explore the perspectives of later‐life older Chinese and Koreans living in New Zealand during the nation's COVID‐19 lockdown of 2020. This paper presents a sub‐analysis of culturally‐…
Bereaved Families’ Perspectives of End-of-Life Care. Towards a Bicultural Whare Tapa Whā Older person’s Palliative Care Model
How socially cohesive was New Zealand’s first lockdown period from the perspective of culturally diverse older New Zealanders
Aotearoa, New Zealand’s (NZ) initial pandemic response has been held up internationally as a model of social cohesion and compassion, made salient by the ‘team of five million’ messaging promoted by the New Zealand government. This paper considers whether the first New Zealand COVID‐19 lockdown was viewed and experienced as socially cohesive from the perspective of diverse older New Zealanders. This study presents a deductive analysis based on 44…
One Foot in the Rave
Challenging adolescence limited life-course theory, this article presents the results of an online survey in 2016 that aimed to establish if, how and to what extent ageing ravers continue to participate in rave culture. The survey collected data from members of the original rave generation. We explored the ravers’ transitions to adulthood, and how these influenced their participation in club culture. We found that our ravers continued to particip…
Intergenerational Tension or Cohesion during the Covid-19 Pandemic
This paper examines older people’s experiences of intergenerational interaction during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Aotearoa, New Zealand (NZ). This paper presents an analysis of a letter-writing study with older people (mean = 77 years) living in NZ. A total of 760 letters were received from 870 participants. A sub-sample of 412 letters focused on intergenerational interaction were analyzed thematically. This analysis presents a mostly positiv…
More than mortality data
News media have an important social role during times of disruption including national emergencies. This paper bears witness to the 21 New Zealanders who died during the first lockdown due to COVID‐19 by critically examining the nature of their portrayal in mainstream newspapers. We searched Knowledgebasket for newspapers published between 28 February 2020 and 13 May 2020 relating to COVID‐19 deaths. Of the 147 included articles, 50 were selected…
Social connectedness
While social connectedness is heralded as a key enabler of positive health and social outcomes for older people, rarely have they themselves had the opportunity to express their views about the concept. Working with a diverse group of Pacific, Māori, Asian and New Zealand European older adults, this paper explores what matters to older people when discussing social connectedness? We draw from individual, in-depth interviews with 44 older adults, …
Collaborative story production with bereaved family carers of people who died in advanced age
Purpose Is collaborative story production (CSP) a useful method to collaborate with bereaved families to record their reflections on the end of life circumstances and care of people of advanced age? The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach Drawing from Te Pākeketanga, a bicultural study involving 58 bereaved Māori and non-Māori families on behalf of 52 older relatives, the authors describe the CSP method. Researchers and …
The Voices of Kentucky Employers
This study explored Kentucky employers’ preparedness for the aging workforce using focus groups and a survey. Although employers perceived many benefits of older workers, five key challenges of an aging workforce emerged: institutional knowledge loss, older workers’ dependent care commitments, health and safety problems, generation gaps, and lack of technical skills. The results also suggested potential solutions and organizational practices to a…
Integrating Women's History into an Early American History Course
The authors present three lesson ideas that integrate women's history into the curriculum and that support the development of important social studies skills. The first lesson, for teachers to use at the beginning of the school year, encourages students to think critically about the nature of history and the importance of understanding the point of view of those portrayed in the historical narrative and that of the historian. The second lesson en…
Alcohol, cannabis, ecstasy and cocaine
The Normalization of 'Sensible' Recreational Drug Use
Five key dimensions of normalization are identified: availability/access; drug trying rates; usage rates; accommodating attitudes to 'sensible' recreational drug use especially by non users; and degree of cultural accommodation of illegal drug use. A review of recent UK research is provided for each measure. The NW England Longitudinal Study continues to monitor normalization based on the recapture of 465 young adults (in year 2000) of a cohort p…
Integrating Women's History into an Early American History Course
The authors present three lesson ideas that integrate women's history into the curriculum and that support the development of important social studies skills. The first lesson, for teachers to use at the beginning of the school year, encourages students to think critically about the nature of history and the importance of understanding the point of view of those portrayed in the historical narrative and that of the historian. The second lesson en…
Art therapy for relief of symptoms associated with HIV/Aids
Symptom management for persons living with HIV/AIDS is an extremely important component of care management. The importance of pharmacologic interventions for management of symptoms is well recognized, and non-pharmacologic strategies such as art therapy are gaining interest in lay and professional communities. The aim of this research project was to test the feasibility and effectiveness of art therapy for relief of symptoms experienced by people…
Marriage, mortgage, motherhood
Workplace Racial Discrimination and Middle Class Vulnerability
Middle-class minority workers have skill and human capital credentials which should confer protections and relative workplace power. Moreover, they often work in more bureaucratic contexts where culturally proscribed status markers, such as race, should matter little if at all. In this article, we challenge such assumptions by quantitatively and qualitatively examining several hundred cases of workplace racial discrimination and the degree of mid…
Illegal Leisure Revisited
This book updates the progress into adulthood of the cohort of fourteen-year-olds who were recruited and tracked until they were eighteen years old. Illegal Leisure (1998) described their adolescent journeys and lifestyles, focusing on their early regular drinking and extensive ‘recreational’ drug use. This new edition revisits these original chapters, providing commentaries around them to discuss current implications of the original publication,…
The Voices of Kentucky Employers
This study explored Kentucky employers’ preparedness for the aging workforce using focus groups and a survey. Although employers perceived many benefits of older workers, five key challenges of an aging workforce emerged: institutional knowledge loss, older workers’ dependent care commitments, health and safety problems, generation gaps, and lack of technical skills. The results also suggested potential solutions and organizational practices to a…
Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes and Bullying Victimization
Bullying is a serious problem within the U.S. school system. Prior research suggests that victimization is stratified by race and ethnicity. However, few studies consider factors that may moderate this relationship. This article extends research on this topic by considering whether stereotypes moderate bullying among racial and ethnic youth. Youth who violate stereotypes may experience derogatory treatment. This study examines whether violated ra…
A Furious Battleground
Any examination of jazz in the 1910s routinely includes some discussion of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band (ODJB) and Lieutenant James Reese Europe. The ODJB, often decried as imitators rather than innovators, occupy a precarious position in the jazz narrative. While scholars generally recognize the ODJB as the first band to release a jazz recording, this recognition is tempered by ongoing debates as to the appropriateness of labeling their musi…
A Feminist Quality Appraisal Tool
Quality appraisal tools used in systematic reviews to evaluate health literature do not adequately address issues related to gender. This oversight is significant because disparities between genders have been identified as a major health equity concern, and systematic reviews are regarded as a powerful means for informing policy that could redress gender inequities. In this paper, we present our Feminist Quality Appraisal Tool that offers researc…
Working bi-culturally within a palliative care research context
It is increasingly recognised that palliative care research needs to pay more attention to culture if the diverse needs of service users are to be appropriately met. However, in most countries research, practice and policy in palliative care remains predicated upon a specific cultural understanding of the ‘good death’, firmly rooted in a Western world view. In this paper we present the formation of a new multi-disciplinary palliative care researc…
Collaborative story production with bereaved family carers of people who died in advanced age
Purpose Is collaborative story production (CSP) a useful method to collaborate with bereaved families to record their reflections on the end of life circumstances and care of people of advanced age? The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach Drawing from Te Pākeketanga, a bicultural study involving 58 bereaved Māori and non-Māori families on behalf of 52 older relatives, the authors describe the CSP method. Researchers and …
African Caribbean Residents of Edinburgh in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Scotland is gradually coming to terms with its involvement in slavery and colonialism as part of the British Empire. This article places the spotlight on the lives of African Caribbean people who were residents of Edinburgh during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I discuss their varied experiences and contributions: from runaways and men fighting for their freedom in the Scottish courts to women working as servants in city households or m…
The use of synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists (SCRAs) within the homeless population
Background Synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists (SCRAs) have become increasingly associated with a range of physical, mental health and societal harms. In response, several countries have introduced legislation aimed at restricting their supply and use. While these legislative changes have led to a decrease in SCRA use within the general population, SCRAs remain popular within vulnerable populations, in particular the homeless. This article pr…
Bereaved Families’ Perspectives of End-of-Life Care. Towards a Bicultural Whare Tapa Whā Older person’s Palliative Care Model
Rethinking enhancement substance use
More than mortality data
News media have an important social role during times of disruption including national emergencies. This paper bears witness to the 21 New Zealanders who died during the first lockdown due to COVID‐19 by critically examining the nature of their portrayal in mainstream newspapers. We searched Knowledgebasket for newspapers published between 28 February 2020 and 13 May 2020 relating to COVID‐19 deaths. Of the 147 included articles, 50 were selected…
Social connectedness
While social connectedness is heralded as a key enabler of positive health and social outcomes for older people, rarely have they themselves had the opportunity to express their views about the concept. Working with a diverse group of Pacific, Māori, Asian and New Zealand European older adults, this paper explores what matters to older people when discussing social connectedness? We draw from individual, in-depth interviews with 44 older adults, …
Older Chinese and Korean migrants' experiences of the first Covid ‐19 lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand
Later‐life migrants, as older people living away from their home nations, occupy multiply‐precarious positions in relation to national COVID‐19 pandemic responses. Concern has particularly centred on this group's increased risk of social and linguistic exclusion. We explore the perspectives of later‐life older Chinese and Koreans living in New Zealand during the nation's COVID‐19 lockdown of 2020. This paper presents a sub‐analysis of culturally‐…
How socially cohesive was New Zealand’s first lockdown period from the perspective of culturally diverse older New Zealanders
Aotearoa, New Zealand’s (NZ) initial pandemic response has been held up internationally as a model of social cohesion and compassion, made salient by the ‘team of five million’ messaging promoted by the New Zealand government. This paper considers whether the first New Zealand COVID‐19 lockdown was viewed and experienced as socially cohesive from the perspective of diverse older New Zealanders. This study presents a deductive analysis based on 44…
One Foot in the Rave
Challenging adolescence limited life-course theory, this article presents the results of an online survey in 2016 that aimed to establish if, how and to what extent ageing ravers continue to participate in rave culture. The survey collected data from members of the original rave generation. We explored the ravers’ transitions to adulthood, and how these influenced their participation in club culture. We found that our ravers continued to particip…
Intergenerational Tension or Cohesion during the Covid-19 Pandemic
This paper examines older people’s experiences of intergenerational interaction during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Aotearoa, New Zealand (NZ). This paper presents an analysis of a letter-writing study with older people (mean = 77 years) living in NZ. A total of 760 letters were received from 870 participants. A sub-sample of 412 letters focused on intergenerational interaction were analyzed thematically. This analysis presents a mostly positiv…
Vivian , the graphic novel
This research explores how the graphic novel Vivian served as the medium for an Arts-Based Knowledge Translation (ABKT) project in the field of palliative care. ABKT seeks to accomplish the goal of disseminating research-based knowledge through the use of the arts. It is regarded as useful for raising awareness about social issues, fostering a deep engagement with audiences and giving new perspectives on topics at hand. The paper describes the pr…
Using Film to Explore Ideas with University Students Around Intergenerational Social Connection
Intergenerational connection (IC) has been posited to mitigate the effects of social isolation and loneliness in older people. Using the film Manawaroa: Still Going Strong, we explored nursing and health sciences’ students’ views about IC, considering themes of loneliness and social connectedness among older people in Aotearoa New Zealand. Thirteen students participated in four online focus groups and data was analyzed using thematic analysis. Fo…
Sociology (21 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Medicine (17 works) · Political science (14 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Aotearoa (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Demography (5 works)