Kathryn McEwan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6694041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn McEwan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | McEwan |
| SIGNATURE | MCEWAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4063-035X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Suffering, Silence, and the State
Assisted dying has returned to UK policy debate amid legislative scrutiny and growing hospice sector instability. This paper brings 1994 Mass Observation data into dialog with contemporary debates to examine how members of the public understood suffering, autonomy, and care at the end of life. We show that assisted dying was framed as a pragmatic response to anticipated suffering and feared dependency, while palliative care was largely absent fro…
Invisible Skills, Unequal Burdens
Co-production and participatory research now occupy a prominent place within sociology and across neighbouring disciplines, framed as more inclusive and democratic forms of knowledge-making. Yet the emotional labour that sustains these collaborations often goes unrecognised. This article examines both the nature of that invisible labour and its unequal distribution, falling disproportionately on early-career and precariously employed researchers.…
Better conversations
Death education remains unevenly embedded within higher education despite professional and civic relevance. This article presents the conceptual rationale and pedagogical design of Better Conversations, a two-week undergraduate intervention integrating public health palliative care (Kellehear), constructivist staging (Yang et al.), and life-death education frameworks (Phan et al.). Drawing on trauma-informed and culturally reflexive pedagogy, the…
Co‐Producing Personalised Discharge Planning
BACKGROUND: Informal caregivers are often expected to support patients transitioning from hospital to home and yet are routinely overlooked in discharge planning. This gap can leave caregivers unprepared and unsupported, contributing to avoidable complications and distress. In response, we co-designed a personalised discharge planning toolkit to support meaningful conversations between hospital staff and informal caregivers. METHODS: Using a part…
For Want of a Nail’
A crucial part of theory-driven realist thinking is retroduction, the process of looking backwards for explanation of how and why things may be. Conducted early in the realist evaluation process, it provides a foundation for evidenced 'theory gleaning'. Despite retroduction being an inherent part of the realist process, it is often 'hidden' in realist reports. This paper explains the thinking behind, alongside an example of, a framework created b…
Drinking Carling Out of Stella Glasses
As trends of social and economic change allow precarity to inch into the lives of those who may have been more accustomed to security (Standing, 2011, 2014), this paper addresses the response of some young people who are caught "betwixt and between" in potentially liminal states (Turner, 1967). Those whose families have undertaken intra- or intergenerational social mobility and who have made a home in a place, Ingleby Barwick in Teesside, that se…
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Drinking Carling Out of Stella Glasses
As trends of social and economic change allow precarity to inch into the lives of those who may have been more accustomed to security (Standing, 2011, 2014), this paper addresses the response of some young people who are caught "betwixt and between" in potentially liminal states (Turner, 1967). Those whose families have undertaken intra- or intergenerational social mobility and who have made a home in a place, Ingleby Barwick in Teesside, that se…
For Want of a Nail’
A crucial part of theory-driven realist thinking is retroduction, the process of looking backwards for explanation of how and why things may be. Conducted early in the realist evaluation process, it provides a foundation for evidenced 'theory gleaning'. Despite retroduction being an inherent part of the realist process, it is often 'hidden' in realist reports. This paper explains the thinking behind, alongside an example of, a framework created b…
Co‐Producing Personalised Discharge Planning
BACKGROUND: Informal caregivers are often expected to support patients transitioning from hospital to home and yet are routinely overlooked in discharge planning. This gap can leave caregivers unprepared and unsupported, contributing to avoidable complications and distress. In response, we co-designed a personalised discharge planning toolkit to support meaningful conversations between hospital staff and informal caregivers. METHODS: Using a part…
Suffering, Silence, and the State
Assisted dying has returned to UK policy debate amid legislative scrutiny and growing hospice sector instability. This paper brings 1994 Mass Observation data into dialog with contemporary debates to examine how members of the public understood suffering, autonomy, and care at the end of life. We show that assisted dying was framed as a pragmatic response to anticipated suffering and feared dependency, while palliative care was largely absent fro…
Invisible Skills, Unequal Burdens
Co-production and participatory research now occupy a prominent place within sociology and across neighbouring disciplines, framed as more inclusive and democratic forms of knowledge-making. Yet the emotional labour that sustains these collaborations often goes unrecognised. This article examines both the nature of that invisible labour and its unequal distribution, falling disproportionately on early-career and precariously employed researchers.…
Better conversations
Death education remains unevenly embedded within higher education despite professional and civic relevance. This article presents the conceptual rationale and pedagogical design of Better Conversations, a two-week undergraduate intervention integrating public health palliative care (Kellehear), constructivist staging (Yang et al.), and life-death education frameworks (Phan et al.). Drawing on trauma-informed and culturally reflexive pedagogy, the…
Citizen journalism (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (2 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (2 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (2 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (2 works) · Participatory action research (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Action research (1 works)