Priscilla Dunk-West
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 294900 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Priscilla Dunk-West |
| NOMBRES | Priscilla |
| APELLIDO | Dunk-West |
| FIRMA | DUNK-WEST P |
| AFILIACIONES | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5086-8196 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Using creative methods in understanding lesbian/queer women sex worker identities in South Australia
Historically, medical discourses have dominated sex work research alongside assumptions of heterosexuality. Lesbian sex workers, that is, lesbians or queer women who provide sex work services to men, remain a neglected cohort in research. This article seeks to contribute to the epistemic break that has characterised sex work research over the past decade or so in line with the shift towards better understanding sex workers' experiences and demedi…
Qualitative Social Research
This text provides an easy-to-read introduction to qualitative research methods in social work, taking into account contemporary contexts and social conditions. Drawing from a range of social work perspectives, it allows the reader to make the connection between social work values, theory and specific research methods and approaches. Comprised of 11 chapters, it covers overarching epistemological perspectives and knowledge construction; designing…
Built pedagogy and educational citizenship in an Australian alternative learning environment
The impact of built pedagogy has received increased focus within educational research, however to date there has not been a sustained focus on alternative learning environments. The research reported in this paper explored the experiences of young people enroled in a Flexible Learning Options (FLO) programme in South Australia. Interviews with 30 young people were undertaken both at the beginning and end of the school year in 2021, and ethnograph…
Exploring strategies for re‐engaging children and young people in learning while living in out‐of‐home care in the Northern Territory, Australia
The education of children living in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) has been a long‐standing concern for children and their carers, policy‐makers and researchers who have long highlighted the issue of low educational attainment and disengagement among children in care. This study investigates the strategies and practices used within a pilot programme based in the Northern Territory, Australia, that aims to re‐engage children living in OOHC with education…
Being child‐centred
This paper presents findings from a qualitative study that focused on factors that facilitate professional judgement and decision‐making that is child‐centred. Appreciative inquiry informed the methodology that enabled four focus groups ( n = 50) with child protection practitioners who worked with children and young people living out‐of‐home care. The study found that, firstly, child protection practitioners had clear conceptualizations of what c…
First Contact Social Work
Domestic and family violence (DFV) is a pervasive social problem that social workers often encounter in practice. Responses to DFV require specialist and non-specialist services. Research suggests that first contact social workers can experience a lack of confidence, both in engaging with men who use violence and working with women and children who disclose experiencing violence. This article reports on the findings of an Australian survey (N = 1…
What is a good post-separation relationship? The perspectives of Australian parents
Socio-legal research has established the importance of a ‘good’ post-separation parental relationship; however there is little work addressing the definitions and experiences of parents themselves. Thus, we have few insights into how socio-legal expectations align with those of separated parents. This paper draws on interview data from 27 separated Australian parents to explore the question: how do parents define a good post-separation parental r…
Relationship Separation and Help-seeking
Relationship separation affects many Australians with around 20,000 divorces involving children formalised per year. For profit, government and nongovernment organisations all offer services for separated couples and families. Despite promotion of specialist services such as mediation and child-centred services, which seek to assist families to navigate what is a complex interaction between public and legislative structures, there is little known…
Accounting for Self, Sex and Sexuality in UK Social Workers’ Knowledge Base
The social work profession struggles to engage with sexuality under the anti-oppressive banner as deftly as it does with other types of social difference, such as ethnicity, age, class and gender. Despite recent theorising and empirical work about sexuality in social work, little is known about social workers’ perceptions, knowledge and values about sexuality in contemporary professional practice. This exploratory study is the first to examine so…
Understanding Everyday Relationship Work
Relationship maintenance behaviors contribute to the longevity of intimate relationships, yet existing scales are limited. Available measurement tools are primarily constrained to the Relationship Maintenance Strategy Measure (RMSM) and its further revisions. Covering a number of domains, conceptual overlap with other aspects of an intimate relationship (e.g., household division of labor) may exist. Our cross-sectional exploratory study included …
Measuring Relationship Quality in an International Study
Objective: This study reports on the operationalization and testing of the newly developed Relationship Quality (RQ) scale, designed to assess an individual’s perception of his or her RQ in their current partnership. Methods: Data were generated through extended sampling from an original U.K.-based research project, Enduring Love? Couple relationships in the 21st century. This mixed methods study was designed to investigate how couples experience…
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Health Inequalities
Social work has arguably been swept up in more of the ‘psy’ than ‘social’ in recent years, with individualisation and marketisation dominating public life and filtering through to service design and provision. New media are saturated with stories of ‘individual empowerment’ and ‘awareness raising’ as though these were all it takes to shift deeply unequal social relations. This text is a welcome and timely anathema to such discourses so prevalent …
Introducing Gender and Women’s Studies
PART 1: THEORY AND POLITICS Conceptualising Gender D.Richardson Feminist Theory S.Hines Feminism, Social Movements and the Gendering of Politics N. Charles Men, Masculinities and Feminism V.Robinson PART 2: BODIES/IDENTITIES Gendered Bodies: Gendered Lives K.Woodward Racing the Feminist Agenda: Exploring the Intersections Between Race, Ethnicity and Gender K.Reed Sexuality Y.Taylor PART 3: INSTITUTIONS Families, Domesticity and Intimacy S.Jackson…
Emotion work and the management of stigma in female sex workers' long-term intimate relationships
Very little empirical work examines female sex workers' experiences in sociological detail, particularly within an Australian context. Drawing from a small-scale sample of female sex workers in South Australia, our findings suggest that sex workers' ongoing negotiations within private relationships represent 'emotion work', as described by Hochschild, which was understood as limiting the effect of stigma. Taking the lead from social scripts assoc…
G.H. Mead
Socio-cultural risk? Reporting on a Qualitative Study with Female Street-Based Sex Workers
Risk narratives are of increasing importance in contemporary social life in that they help in understanding and anticipating the shifts that characterise our late modern landscape. Our qualitative research explores risk as it relates to violence toward street-based sex workers in a suburban Australian setting. Female street-based sex workers represent a highly stigmatised and marginalised group. International studies report that they experience h…
Pedagogy beyond the culture wars
In recent decades there have been various calls for a pedagogical revolution in universities to address a new technology-savvy generation of students. These developments have been met with concern about the postmodern relativizing of educational achievement and accusations of the 'dumbing down' of course content. Moving beyond such culture war divisions between orthodox and progressive worldviews, this article outlines how reference to popular cu…
Being child‐centred
This paper presents findings from a qualitative study that focused on factors that facilitate professional judgement and decision‐making that is child‐centred. Appreciative inquiry informed the methodology that enabled four focus groups ( n = 50) with child protection practitioners who worked with children and young people living out‐of‐home care. The study found that, firstly, child protection practitioners had clear conceptualizations of what c…
What is a good post-separation relationship? The perspectives of Australian parents
Socio-legal research has established the importance of a ‘good’ post-separation parental relationship; however there is little work addressing the definitions and experiences of parents themselves. Thus, we have few insights into how socio-legal expectations align with those of separated parents. This paper draws on interview data from 27 separated Australian parents to explore the question: how do parents define a good post-separation parental r…
First Contact Social Work
Domestic and family violence (DFV) is a pervasive social problem that social workers often encounter in practice. Responses to DFV require specialist and non-specialist services. Research suggests that first contact social workers can experience a lack of confidence, both in engaging with men who use violence and working with women and children who disclose experiencing violence. This article reports on the findings of an Australian survey (N = 1…
Measuring Relationship Quality in an International Study
Objective: This study reports on the operationalization and testing of the newly developed Relationship Quality (RQ) scale, designed to assess an individual’s perception of his or her RQ in their current partnership. Methods: Data were generated through extended sampling from an original U.K.-based research project, Enduring Love? Couple relationships in the 21st century. This mixed methods study was designed to investigate how couples experience…
Emotion work and the management of stigma in female sex workers' long-term intimate relationships
Very little empirical work examines female sex workers' experiences in sociological detail, particularly within an Australian context. Drawing from a small-scale sample of female sex workers in South Australia, our findings suggest that sex workers' ongoing negotiations within private relationships represent 'emotion work', as described by Hochschild, which was understood as limiting the effect of stigma. Taking the lead from social scripts assoc…
Socio-cultural risk? Reporting on a Qualitative Study with Female Street-Based Sex Workers
Risk narratives are of increasing importance in contemporary social life in that they help in understanding and anticipating the shifts that characterise our late modern landscape. Our qualitative research explores risk as it relates to violence toward street-based sex workers in a suburban Australian setting. Female street-based sex workers represent a highly stigmatised and marginalised group. International studies report that they experience h…
Accounting for Self, Sex and Sexuality in UK Social Workers’ Knowledge Base
The social work profession struggles to engage with sexuality under the anti-oppressive banner as deftly as it does with other types of social difference, such as ethnicity, age, class and gender. Despite recent theorising and empirical work about sexuality in social work, little is known about social workers’ perceptions, knowledge and values about sexuality in contemporary professional practice. This exploratory study is the first to examine so…
Understanding Everyday Relationship Work
Relationship maintenance behaviors contribute to the longevity of intimate relationships, yet existing scales are limited. Available measurement tools are primarily constrained to the Relationship Maintenance Strategy Measure (RMSM) and its further revisions. Covering a number of domains, conceptual overlap with other aspects of an intimate relationship (e.g., household division of labor) may exist. Our cross-sectional exploratory study included …
G.H. Mead
Pedagogy beyond the culture wars
In recent decades there have been various calls for a pedagogical revolution in universities to address a new technology-savvy generation of students. These developments have been met with concern about the postmodern relativizing of educational achievement and accusations of the 'dumbing down' of course content. Moving beyond such culture war divisions between orthodox and progressive worldviews, this article outlines how reference to popular cu…
Socio-cultural risk? Reporting on a Qualitative Study with Female Street-Based Sex Workers
Risk narratives are of increasing importance in contemporary social life in that they help in understanding and anticipating the shifts that characterise our late modern landscape. Our qualitative research explores risk as it relates to violence toward street-based sex workers in a suburban Australian setting. Female street-based sex workers represent a highly stigmatised and marginalised group. International studies report that they experience h…
Pedagogy beyond the culture wars
In recent decades there have been various calls for a pedagogical revolution in universities to address a new technology-savvy generation of students. These developments have been met with concern about the postmodern relativizing of educational achievement and accusations of the 'dumbing down' of course content. Moving beyond such culture war divisions between orthodox and progressive worldviews, this article outlines how reference to popular cu…
G.H. Mead
Introducing Gender and Women’s Studies
PART 1: THEORY AND POLITICS Conceptualising Gender D.Richardson Feminist Theory S.Hines Feminism, Social Movements and the Gendering of Politics N. Charles Men, Masculinities and Feminism V.Robinson PART 2: BODIES/IDENTITIES Gendered Bodies: Gendered Lives K.Woodward Racing the Feminist Agenda: Exploring the Intersections Between Race, Ethnicity and Gender K.Reed Sexuality Y.Taylor PART 3: INSTITUTIONS Families, Domesticity and Intimacy S.Jackson…
Emotion work and the management of stigma in female sex workers' long-term intimate relationships
Very little empirical work examines female sex workers' experiences in sociological detail, particularly within an Australian context. Drawing from a small-scale sample of female sex workers in South Australia, our findings suggest that sex workers' ongoing negotiations within private relationships represent 'emotion work', as described by Hochschild, which was understood as limiting the effect of stigma. Taking the lead from social scripts assoc…
Measuring Relationship Quality in an International Study
Objective: This study reports on the operationalization and testing of the newly developed Relationship Quality (RQ) scale, designed to assess an individual’s perception of his or her RQ in their current partnership. Methods: Data were generated through extended sampling from an original U.K.-based research project, Enduring Love? Couple relationships in the 21st century. This mixed methods study was designed to investigate how couples experience…
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Health Inequalities
Social work has arguably been swept up in more of the ‘psy’ than ‘social’ in recent years, with individualisation and marketisation dominating public life and filtering through to service design and provision. New media are saturated with stories of ‘individual empowerment’ and ‘awareness raising’ as though these were all it takes to shift deeply unequal social relations. This text is a welcome and timely anathema to such discourses so prevalent …
Accounting for Self, Sex and Sexuality in UK Social Workers’ Knowledge Base
The social work profession struggles to engage with sexuality under the anti-oppressive banner as deftly as it does with other types of social difference, such as ethnicity, age, class and gender. Despite recent theorising and empirical work about sexuality in social work, little is known about social workers’ perceptions, knowledge and values about sexuality in contemporary professional practice. This exploratory study is the first to examine so…
Understanding Everyday Relationship Work
Relationship maintenance behaviors contribute to the longevity of intimate relationships, yet existing scales are limited. Available measurement tools are primarily constrained to the Relationship Maintenance Strategy Measure (RMSM) and its further revisions. Covering a number of domains, conceptual overlap with other aspects of an intimate relationship (e.g., household division of labor) may exist. Our cross-sectional exploratory study included …
What is a good post-separation relationship? The perspectives of Australian parents
Socio-legal research has established the importance of a ‘good’ post-separation parental relationship; however there is little work addressing the definitions and experiences of parents themselves. Thus, we have few insights into how socio-legal expectations align with those of separated parents. This paper draws on interview data from 27 separated Australian parents to explore the question: how do parents define a good post-separation parental r…
Relationship Separation and Help-seeking
Relationship separation affects many Australians with around 20,000 divorces involving children formalised per year. For profit, government and nongovernment organisations all offer services for separated couples and families. Despite promotion of specialist services such as mediation and child-centred services, which seek to assist families to navigate what is a complex interaction between public and legislative structures, there is little known…
Being child‐centred
This paper presents findings from a qualitative study that focused on factors that facilitate professional judgement and decision‐making that is child‐centred. Appreciative inquiry informed the methodology that enabled four focus groups ( n = 50) with child protection practitioners who worked with children and young people living out‐of‐home care. The study found that, firstly, child protection practitioners had clear conceptualizations of what c…
First Contact Social Work
Domestic and family violence (DFV) is a pervasive social problem that social workers often encounter in practice. Responses to DFV require specialist and non-specialist services. Research suggests that first contact social workers can experience a lack of confidence, both in engaging with men who use violence and working with women and children who disclose experiencing violence. This article reports on the findings of an Australian survey (N = 1…
Built pedagogy and educational citizenship in an Australian alternative learning environment
The impact of built pedagogy has received increased focus within educational research, however to date there has not been a sustained focus on alternative learning environments. The research reported in this paper explored the experiences of young people enroled in a Flexible Learning Options (FLO) programme in South Australia. Interviews with 30 young people were undertaken both at the beginning and end of the school year in 2021, and ethnograph…
Exploring strategies for re‐engaging children and young people in learning while living in out‐of‐home care in the Northern Territory, Australia
The education of children living in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) has been a long‐standing concern for children and their carers, policy‐makers and researchers who have long highlighted the issue of low educational attainment and disengagement among children in care. This study investigates the strategies and practices used within a pilot programme based in the Northern Territory, Australia, that aims to re‐engage children living in OOHC with education…
Qualitative Social Research
This text provides an easy-to-read introduction to qualitative research methods in social work, taking into account contemporary contexts and social conditions. Drawing from a range of social work perspectives, it allows the reader to make the connection between social work values, theory and specific research methods and approaches. Comprised of 11 chapters, it covers overarching epistemological perspectives and knowledge construction; designing…
Using creative methods in understanding lesbian/queer women sex worker identities in South Australia
Historically, medical discourses have dominated sex work research alongside assumptions of heterosexuality. Lesbian sex workers, that is, lesbians or queer women who provide sex work services to men, remain a neglected cohort in research. This article seeks to contribute to the epistemic break that has characterised sex work research over the past decade or so in line with the shift towards better understanding sex workers' experiences and demedi…
Sociology (14 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras) · Social science (5 obras) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (4 obras) · Geography (4 obras) · Medicine (4 obras) · Pedagogy (4 obras)