Debbie L Watson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 107329 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Debbie L Watson |
| NOMBRES | Debbie L |
| APELLIDO | Watson |
| FIRMA | WATSON D L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5467-3604 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
‘I Didn't Have A Say’
This comparative study explores young people's experiences of communication and decision‐making during parental divorce in two distinct cultural contexts: Türkiye and England. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 44 young people aged 11–16, the research addresses a gap in the Turkish literature by foregrounding children's perspectives, which are rarely centred in divorce studies from this context. Thematic analysis revealed that fragmented or a…
Diffraction in Textiles-Based Community Craft Groups
Textile-based community crafts are often described as an intervention for bringing people together, improving social connectedness and reducing loneliness. This article draws on Barad’s (2007) method/concept of diffraction to offer a different way of understanding connection and belonging in textile-based community craft groups. In doing so, it considers how artefacts of sewing contributed to the emergence of connections and a sense of belonging …
Multi-species encounters in the city
Being, becoming, belonging
This article uses Feminist New Materialist theoretical perspectives on time and temporality to critically explore the social work practice of life story work, designed to help children who are or have been in public care, or are adopted, assemble a coherent narrative of their care journey, adverse experiences and identity. Interview data presented here was produced with 17 participants (foster carers, adoptive parents and social work professional…
Addressing menstrual stigma through sex education in England- taking a sociomaterial turn
Menstruation and menstrual stigma have recently attracted the attention of education policymakers in England. In 2019, the Department for Education (DfE) published new guidance on delivering relationships, sex and health education that included teaching about menstrual wellbeing and in 2020 made menstrual products freely available in all state-funded primary and secondary schools in England. The DfE argue that these dual interventions are importa…
Material Appropriation for Infant Mortality Reduction
Reducing the risk of Sudden and Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI) is a priority for infant health care services across the globe. Medical knowledge of risk factors for SUDI are well understood and have been part of public health messaging in the UK since the 1990s. These include the 'back to sleep' campaign that focused on newborn sleep position, not over wrapping the infant and to avoid passive smoke. Whilst progress has been made in reducing S…
We need to understand what’s going on because it’s our life ’
Children and young people who live away from birth families (through adoption or being in care) need an understanding of their life story, including reasons for removal from birth family to process what has happened to them and to develop a secure identity. We report data produced with care experienced children and young people using a creative sandboxing method capturing hopes and fears for conversations about care in sand scenes. The themes pre…
Child-dog faeces assemblages and children’s engagements in activist art
Dog fouling is recognised as antisocial, unhealthy and illegal in England, yet it persists. Much action against dog fouling happens in communities and impacts are largely unrecorded. Here, we report an activist project with primary-aged children in Bristol, England that resulted in dog fouling reductions near schools and reflects on the role of children in effecting social change in their local environment. The paper takes a New Materialist turn,…
Children and young people in times of conflict and change
The Arab Spring was not only about citizens toppling the regime in Tunisia, occupying Tahrir Square in Egypt and the streets of Yemen and Bahrain, and militant confrontations in Libya. It was about a generation that had dreams and that is now facing challenges to live in dignity. Not only young people, but children too were part of the uprisings, whether joining their parents or joining the dissent against their parents’ wishes. Others who had no…
Adopters’ views on their children’s life story books
This research, conducted jointly between the UK children’s charity Coram and the University of Bristol, aimed to address the absence in the academic literature of adopters’ perspectives on their children’s life story books. Forty adopters from England and Wales participated in either focus group or telephone interviews. While some of the accounts were of positive experiences, there was a broad consensus that many books were of poor quality, child…
Adopted children and young people's views on their life storybooks
The role of ‘embeddedness’ in the delivery of integrated children's services
Pond life that ‘know their place’
Teaching and learning support assistants (TLSAs) are notoriously underpaid and undervalued as members of school workforces in England and elsewhere in the world, where the discourse of support has worked to legitimize their poor status. This article reports and explores empirical findings through the lens of positioning theory. This theoretical approach has revealed ways in which the positions occupied by TLSAs are consolidated in social acts and…
Children, Families and Communities
By Broadhead Pat, Meleady Chrissy and Delgado Marco Maidenhead : Open University Press , 2008 ISBN 9780335220939 , 120 pp, £19.99 (pb ) Children, Families and Communities documents the development of Sheffield Children’s Centre, recognised initially as an Early Excellence Centre (EEC). The book provides the reader with a privileged insight into the everyday trials and tribulations of a community provision that is constantly fighting for survival,…
Closing the chasm
This article argues that whilst there have been substantial advancements in the ways in which learning is conceptualised, theoretical understandings of assessment, and practices that contribute to meaningful statements of learners’ achievements, have not mirrored these changes in certain learning contexts. The authors challenge contemporary methods of educational assessment, particularly for marginalized groups of learners, specifically young peo…
Learning Through Child Observation
This volume begins by exploring the complexity of provision for children and families. Further chapters highlight such issues as: the need to view the diversity of professional viewpoints in a positive way; the strengths and weaknesses of a range of observational techniques; analysis and reflection following observation sessions; and the use of information gathered. This book is intended for social workers, social work students and practice teach…
Adopters’ views on their children’s life story books
This research, conducted jointly between the UK children’s charity Coram and the University of Bristol, aimed to address the absence in the academic literature of adopters’ perspectives on their children’s life story books. Forty adopters from England and Wales participated in either focus group or telephone interviews. While some of the accounts were of positive experiences, there was a broad consensus that many books were of poor quality, child…
Adopted children and young people's views on their life storybooks
Child-dog faeces assemblages and children’s engagements in activist art
Dog fouling is recognised as antisocial, unhealthy and illegal in England, yet it persists. Much action against dog fouling happens in communities and impacts are largely unrecorded. Here, we report an activist project with primary-aged children in Bristol, England that resulted in dog fouling reductions near schools and reflects on the role of children in effecting social change in their local environment. The paper takes a New Materialist turn,…
Closing the chasm
This article argues that whilst there have been substantial advancements in the ways in which learning is conceptualised, theoretical understandings of assessment, and practices that contribute to meaningful statements of learners’ achievements, have not mirrored these changes in certain learning contexts. The authors challenge contemporary methods of educational assessment, particularly for marginalized groups of learners, specifically young peo…
Learning Through Child Observation
This volume begins by exploring the complexity of provision for children and families. Further chapters highlight such issues as: the need to view the diversity of professional viewpoints in a positive way; the strengths and weaknesses of a range of observational techniques; analysis and reflection following observation sessions; and the use of information gathered. This book is intended for social workers, social work students and practice teach…
Children, Families and Communities
By Broadhead Pat, Meleady Chrissy and Delgado Marco Maidenhead : Open University Press , 2008 ISBN 9780335220939 , 120 pp, £19.99 (pb ) Children, Families and Communities documents the development of Sheffield Children’s Centre, recognised initially as an Early Excellence Centre (EEC). The book provides the reader with a privileged insight into the everyday trials and tribulations of a community provision that is constantly fighting for survival,…
Closing the chasm
This article argues that whilst there have been substantial advancements in the ways in which learning is conceptualised, theoretical understandings of assessment, and practices that contribute to meaningful statements of learners’ achievements, have not mirrored these changes in certain learning contexts. The authors challenge contemporary methods of educational assessment, particularly for marginalized groups of learners, specifically young peo…
Pond life that ‘know their place’
Teaching and learning support assistants (TLSAs) are notoriously underpaid and undervalued as members of school workforces in England and elsewhere in the world, where the discourse of support has worked to legitimize their poor status. This article reports and explores empirical findings through the lens of positioning theory. This theoretical approach has revealed ways in which the positions occupied by TLSAs are consolidated in social acts and…
The role of ‘embeddedness’ in the delivery of integrated children's services
Children and young people in times of conflict and change
The Arab Spring was not only about citizens toppling the regime in Tunisia, occupying Tahrir Square in Egypt and the streets of Yemen and Bahrain, and militant confrontations in Libya. It was about a generation that had dreams and that is now facing challenges to live in dignity. Not only young people, but children too were part of the uprisings, whether joining their parents or joining the dissent against their parents’ wishes. Others who had no…
Adopters’ views on their children’s life story books
This research, conducted jointly between the UK children’s charity Coram and the University of Bristol, aimed to address the absence in the academic literature of adopters’ perspectives on their children’s life story books. Forty adopters from England and Wales participated in either focus group or telephone interviews. While some of the accounts were of positive experiences, there was a broad consensus that many books were of poor quality, child…
Adopted children and young people's views on their life storybooks
We need to understand what’s going on because it’s our life ’
Children and young people who live away from birth families (through adoption or being in care) need an understanding of their life story, including reasons for removal from birth family to process what has happened to them and to develop a secure identity. We report data produced with care experienced children and young people using a creative sandboxing method capturing hopes and fears for conversations about care in sand scenes. The themes pre…
Child-dog faeces assemblages and children’s engagements in activist art
Dog fouling is recognised as antisocial, unhealthy and illegal in England, yet it persists. Much action against dog fouling happens in communities and impacts are largely unrecorded. Here, we report an activist project with primary-aged children in Bristol, England that resulted in dog fouling reductions near schools and reflects on the role of children in effecting social change in their local environment. The paper takes a New Materialist turn,…
Material Appropriation for Infant Mortality Reduction
Reducing the risk of Sudden and Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI) is a priority for infant health care services across the globe. Medical knowledge of risk factors for SUDI are well understood and have been part of public health messaging in the UK since the 1990s. These include the 'back to sleep' campaign that focused on newborn sleep position, not over wrapping the infant and to avoid passive smoke. Whilst progress has been made in reducing S…
Being, becoming, belonging
This article uses Feminist New Materialist theoretical perspectives on time and temporality to critically explore the social work practice of life story work, designed to help children who are or have been in public care, or are adopted, assemble a coherent narrative of their care journey, adverse experiences and identity. Interview data presented here was produced with 17 participants (foster carers, adoptive parents and social work professional…
Addressing menstrual stigma through sex education in England- taking a sociomaterial turn
Menstruation and menstrual stigma have recently attracted the attention of education policymakers in England. In 2019, the Department for Education (DfE) published new guidance on delivering relationships, sex and health education that included teaching about menstrual wellbeing and in 2020 made menstrual products freely available in all state-funded primary and secondary schools in England. The DfE argue that these dual interventions are importa…
Diffraction in Textiles-Based Community Craft Groups
Textile-based community crafts are often described as an intervention for bringing people together, improving social connectedness and reducing loneliness. This article draws on Barad’s (2007) method/concept of diffraction to offer a different way of understanding connection and belonging in textile-based community craft groups. In doing so, it considers how artefacts of sewing contributed to the emergence of connections and a sense of belonging …
Multi-species encounters in the city
‘I Didn't Have A Say’
This comparative study explores young people's experiences of communication and decision‐making during parental divorce in two distinct cultural contexts: Türkiye and England. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 44 young people aged 11–16, the research addresses a gap in the Turkish literature by foregrounding children's perspectives, which are rarely centred in divorce studies from this context. Thematic analysis revealed that fragmented or a…
Sociology (12 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Children's Rights and Participation (7 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Aesthetics (4 obras) · Business (4 obras) · Child Welfare and Adoption (4 obras) · Art (3 obras) · Developmental psychology (3 obras) · Medicine (3 obras)