Pamela Fisher
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3601185 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Pamela Fisher |
| NOMBRES | Pamela |
| APELLIDO | Fisher |
| FIRMA | FISHER P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7121-5485 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 155 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Behaviorally informed interventions can increase take-up of public employment services, but conversion remains challenging
Low take-up of government services continues to challenge public investments in social services. Behaviorally informed interventions, so-called nudges, can overcome barriers that keep eligible individuals from accessing services. We report results from a pre-registered randomized controlled trial (RCT) to test email-based interventions to increase the take-up of publicly funded employment services in British Columbia, Canada. Our RCT design disti…
Disrupted faces, disrupted identities? Embodiment, life stories and acquired facial 'disfigurement
Questions about the relationship between faces, 'disfigurement' and identity intensified following the first facial transplant (2005). Over a decade later, empirical research exploring the influence of acquired facial 'disfigurement' on embodied identity disruption and re-formation remains limited. A common strand of thinking assumes identities are contained within faces. Commentators have suggested that identities can be diminished through 'disf…
Peer education and empowerment
This paper focusses on peer education and specifically on young women peer educators working within the charity Home-Start in the north of England. This work is undertaken in a social context where educational achievement is increasingly measured by certification and occupational hierarchies have been ‘professionalised’ whilst notions of professionalism have been drained of meaning in ways which can be potentially democratising. State educational…
Time for “resilience”
Purpose Since the 2008 financial crisis, state retrenchment has added to the harshness of life for marginalised groups globally. This UK study suggests community activism may promote human capacity and resilience in innovative ways. The purpose of this paper is to address the relationship between non-normative understandings of time and resilience. Design/methodology/approach This research paper is based on qualitative study of the work of a thir…
Advocating Co-Productive Engagement with Marginalised People
Co-production is gaining ground as a key dimension of public policy reform across the globe.This paper argues in favour of social welfare shaped by the principles of co-production and suggests that the promotion of democratic relationships is more likely to enable the agency and recovery of victim-survivors of childhood sexual abuse. The paper, based on an autoethnographical approach, is likely to be of relevance to social care practitioners who …
Professionalism and person-centredness
This paper, based on data taken from in-depth interviews with senior midwives and obstetricians and conducted as part of a critical ethnographic study, argues for a greater appreciation of person-centred, value-led midwifery practice. The paper begins with a discussion of the way midwifery practice is shaped by encoded and embodied knowledge. The paper subsequently focuses on an emergent practice based leadership using an adapted Aristotelian con…
Narrative approaches in mental health
Narrative approaches have exercised an emancipatory influence within mental health. In this article, it is suggested that there is a risk that the emancipatory tradition associated with narrative may be co-opted through contemporary mental health strategy by a narrow agenda which promotes a particular Western and neoliberal form of citizenship. This may limit the way recovery can be imagined by equating it solely with the future-orientated indivi…
An Emancipatory Approach to Practice and Qualitative Inquiry in Mental Health
The right to ‘voice’ has been identified as central in enabling agency and in ensuring human dignity. This paper discusses an understanding of ‘voice’ which has been derived from Charles Taylor's concept of ‘strong evaluation’. Voice, from this perspective, is found within an ongoing process of identity development which is based on a quest for an authentic sense of self embedded in a moral journey. It is argued here that strong evaluation offers…
(Con) Fusing Commerce and Science
It was in the mid seventeenth century that Cardinal John Henry Newman (1858), in his foundational text ‘‘The Idea of a University,’’ first clearly articulated the purpose of the University as being about the pursuit of learning. The emphasis was specifically on learning associated with a liberal education based on the tenet that knowledge is valuable in its own right. Nevertheless, this original invocation of the University has been contested lon…
Identity, emotion and the internal goods of practice
Contemporary transitions in the delivery of health and social care are a global phenomenon. They prompt a particular need to reconsider how quality in relation to professional practice should be understood and whether greater importance should be attached to values such as goodwill, altruism and commitment. Based on a qualitative study of a small voluntary sector organisation in the North of England, this paper addresses how changes in policy art…
Ethics in Qualitative Research
This paper poses questions regarding the ethical prioritisation in qualitative research studies on assessing a person's or a group's fitness to provide informed consent, arguing that this may have unwanted as well as desirable consequences, particularly in relation to rights of citizenship for socially marginalised populations who tend to be labelled vulnerable. Drawing on three theoretical perspectives (Arendt, Honneth and Bourdieu), it is sugge…
Edmund Whitcombe and the detection of homicide in Georgian Shropshire
Edmund Whitcombe was forced to resign his position as a county coroner for Shropshire in 1823, following his conviction in a criminal court for 'grievous misconduct'. An open verdict had been returned on murder victim Sarah Newton, and it was alleged that Whitcombe had deliberately manipulated the inquest for his own personal gain. Despite no evidence of any bribe or criminal intent, Whitcombe was found guilty. The documents generated by the case…
Women and employment in East Germany
Twenty years have passed since German unification. Significant cultural differences persist between former East and West Germany, including eastern and western women's significantly differing orientations towards employment. This study offers a historical perspective on the continuing gender disparities among German women. Drawing on the narratives of eastern women who were interviewed between 1999 and 2002, the study focuses on their perspective…
Tomorrow we live
The present paper explores the fascist vision for education in 1930s Britain through the presentation of extracts from official publications of the British Union of Fascists (BUF), as well as from the writings of Party members. The paper presents a socio‐historical study of British adherents to fascism and provides an account of their thinking in relation to education and schooling, exposing a milieu of ideologues, Party functionaries and serving…
Families Raising Disabled Children
Drawing upon qualitative material from parents and professionals, including ethnography, narrative inquiry, interviews and focus groups, this book brings together feminist and critical disability stud
Families Raising Disabled Children
Preface Acknowledgements Theorising Parents, Professionals and Disabled Babies Methodology Research Encounters Unmaking Children productive Parental Alliances Community Practices Professional, Institutional and Ethical Practices The Gender Dynamics, Transformative Potential and Boundaries of Care Values of Enabling Care and Social Justice References Index
Empowering interventions in health and social care
Wellbeing and empowerment
Health and wellbeing are now located within a policy framework that emphasises the empowerment of the individual 'consumer'. Within this paradigm, empowerment is writ large and wellbeing is seen as a 'civic duty'. The role of the health and social care services has been identified as one of enabling service users to promote their own wellbeing. In this paper, it is argued that dominant narratives relating to 'achievement' and 'normality' may resu…
Experiential knowledge challenges ‘normality’ and individualized citizenship
This paper draws on the narratives of parents of disabled babies in order to conceptualize enabling care. The analysis emerges from the Sheffield site of an ESRC research project ‘Parents, professionals and disabled babies: identifying enabling care’, which is being undertaken by the Universities of Sheffield and Newcastle‐upon‐Tyne. In New Labour Britain individualized citizenship and self‐sufficiency are upheld as the embodiment of ‘the good li…
The "Autodidact", the Pursuit of Subversive Knowledge and the Politics of Change
This paper contrasts two types of "autodidact" located in the UK in different historical periods, which utilised different learning/research technologies to different ends. From the 1920s to the 1960s some working-class activists committed to the Communist Party of Great Britain became "educated" in Marxism (and more) through the processes intrinsic to their politics. This radical acculturation was undertaken outside the universities in consequen…
The linear medical model of disability
This paper draws on the narratives of parents of disabled babies in order to conceptualise notions of enabling care. This analysis emerges from the Sheffield site of an ESRC research project Parents, Professionals and Disabled Babies: Identifying Enabling Care, which brings together the Universities of Sheffield and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The linear heroic narrative is a dominant theme within Western culture. It is competitive and individualistic a…
Abortion in post-communist Germany
Creating a Marxist-Leninist Cultural Identity
Sport constituted an integral part of the GDR's ideology. One particularly important event, in both the sporting and ideological senses, was the Friedensfahrt cycle race. This article considers, through memories of the Friedensfahrt, the views of some women members of Germany's Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). A brief consideration of the theoretical context of German Marxist-Feminism prefaces a discussion of sport and ideology in the GDR, fo…
Post-Communist Feminism in Germany
In December 1989, the ruling communist party of East Germany,the Socialist Unity Party (SED), was reconstituted when it adopted thename Socialist Unity Party-Party of Democratic Socialism (SED-PDS),which was simplified on 4 February 1990 to the Party of DemocraticSocialism.1 The brand of Marxism-Leninism that had prevailed in theGerman Democratic Republic (GDR) appeared to be irredeemablydiscredited, and the new leadership of this successor party…
The linear medical model of disability
This paper draws on the narratives of parents of disabled babies in order to conceptualise notions of enabling care. This analysis emerges from the Sheffield site of an ESRC research project Parents, Professionals and Disabled Babies: Identifying Enabling Care, which brings together the Universities of Sheffield and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The linear heroic narrative is a dominant theme within Western culture. It is competitive and individualistic a…
Wellbeing and empowerment
Health and wellbeing are now located within a policy framework that emphasises the empowerment of the individual 'consumer'. Within this paradigm, empowerment is writ large and wellbeing is seen as a 'civic duty'. The role of the health and social care services has been identified as one of enabling service users to promote their own wellbeing. In this paper, it is argued that dominant narratives relating to 'achievement' and 'normality' may resu…
Identity, emotion and the internal goods of practice
Contemporary transitions in the delivery of health and social care are a global phenomenon. They prompt a particular need to reconsider how quality in relation to professional practice should be understood and whether greater importance should be attached to values such as goodwill, altruism and commitment. Based on a qualitative study of a small voluntary sector organisation in the North of England, this paper addresses how changes in policy art…
Experiential knowledge challenges ‘normality’ and individualized citizenship
This paper draws on the narratives of parents of disabled babies in order to conceptualize enabling care. The analysis emerges from the Sheffield site of an ESRC research project ‘Parents, professionals and disabled babies: identifying enabling care’, which is being undertaken by the Universities of Sheffield and Newcastle‐upon‐Tyne. In New Labour Britain individualized citizenship and self‐sufficiency are upheld as the embodiment of ‘the good li…
Ethics in Qualitative Research
This paper poses questions regarding the ethical prioritisation in qualitative research studies on assessing a person's or a group's fitness to provide informed consent, arguing that this may have unwanted as well as desirable consequences, particularly in relation to rights of citizenship for socially marginalised populations who tend to be labelled vulnerable. Drawing on three theoretical perspectives (Arendt, Honneth and Bourdieu), it is sugge…
Narrative approaches in mental health
Narrative approaches have exercised an emancipatory influence within mental health. In this article, it is suggested that there is a risk that the emancipatory tradition associated with narrative may be co-opted through contemporary mental health strategy by a narrow agenda which promotes a particular Western and neoliberal form of citizenship. This may limit the way recovery can be imagined by equating it solely with the future-orientated indivi…
Empowering interventions in health and social care
Disrupted faces, disrupted identities? Embodiment, life stories and acquired facial 'disfigurement
Questions about the relationship between faces, 'disfigurement' and identity intensified following the first facial transplant (2005). Over a decade later, empirical research exploring the influence of acquired facial 'disfigurement' on embodied identity disruption and re-formation remains limited. A common strand of thinking assumes identities are contained within faces. Commentators have suggested that identities can be diminished through 'disf…
The "Autodidact", the Pursuit of Subversive Knowledge and the Politics of Change
This paper contrasts two types of "autodidact" located in the UK in different historical periods, which utilised different learning/research technologies to different ends. From the 1920s to the 1960s some working-class activists committed to the Communist Party of Great Britain became "educated" in Marxism (and more) through the processes intrinsic to their politics. This radical acculturation was undertaken outside the universities in consequen…
Advocating Co-Productive Engagement with Marginalised People
Co-production is gaining ground as a key dimension of public policy reform across the globe.This paper argues in favour of social welfare shaped by the principles of co-production and suggests that the promotion of democratic relationships is more likely to enable the agency and recovery of victim-survivors of childhood sexual abuse. The paper, based on an autoethnographical approach, is likely to be of relevance to social care practitioners who …
(Con) Fusing Commerce and Science
It was in the mid seventeenth century that Cardinal John Henry Newman (1858), in his foundational text ‘‘The Idea of a University,’’ first clearly articulated the purpose of the University as being about the pursuit of learning. The emphasis was specifically on learning associated with a liberal education based on the tenet that knowledge is valuable in its own right. Nevertheless, this original invocation of the University has been contested lon…
Abortion in post-communist Germany
An Emancipatory Approach to Practice and Qualitative Inquiry in Mental Health
The right to ‘voice’ has been identified as central in enabling agency and in ensuring human dignity. This paper discusses an understanding of ‘voice’ which has been derived from Charles Taylor's concept of ‘strong evaluation’. Voice, from this perspective, is found within an ongoing process of identity development which is based on a quest for an authentic sense of self embedded in a moral journey. It is argued here that strong evaluation offers…
Women and employment in East Germany
Twenty years have passed since German unification. Significant cultural differences persist between former East and West Germany, including eastern and western women's significantly differing orientations towards employment. This study offers a historical perspective on the continuing gender disparities among German women. Drawing on the narratives of eastern women who were interviewed between 1999 and 2002, the study focuses on their perspective…
Time for “resilience”
Purpose Since the 2008 financial crisis, state retrenchment has added to the harshness of life for marginalised groups globally. This UK study suggests community activism may promote human capacity and resilience in innovative ways. The purpose of this paper is to address the relationship between non-normative understandings of time and resilience. Design/methodology/approach This research paper is based on qualitative study of the work of a thir…
Edmund Whitcombe and the detection of homicide in Georgian Shropshire
Edmund Whitcombe was forced to resign his position as a county coroner for Shropshire in 1823, following his conviction in a criminal court for 'grievous misconduct'. An open verdict had been returned on murder victim Sarah Newton, and it was alleged that Whitcombe had deliberately manipulated the inquest for his own personal gain. Despite no evidence of any bribe or criminal intent, Whitcombe was found guilty. The documents generated by the case…
Creating a Marxist-Leninist Cultural Identity
Sport constituted an integral part of the GDR's ideology. One particularly important event, in both the sporting and ideological senses, was the Friedensfahrt cycle race. This article considers, through memories of the Friedensfahrt, the views of some women members of Germany's Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). A brief consideration of the theoretical context of German Marxist-Feminism prefaces a discussion of sport and ideology in the GDR, fo…
Post-Communist Feminism in Germany
In December 1989, the ruling communist party of East Germany,the Socialist Unity Party (SED), was reconstituted when it adopted thename Socialist Unity Party-Party of Democratic Socialism (SED-PDS),which was simplified on 4 February 1990 to the Party of DemocraticSocialism.1 The brand of Marxism-Leninism that had prevailed in theGerman Democratic Republic (GDR) appeared to be irredeemablydiscredited, and the new leadership of this successor party…
Abortion in post-communist Germany
Experiential knowledge challenges ‘normality’ and individualized citizenship
This paper draws on the narratives of parents of disabled babies in order to conceptualize enabling care. The analysis emerges from the Sheffield site of an ESRC research project ‘Parents, professionals and disabled babies: identifying enabling care’, which is being undertaken by the Universities of Sheffield and Newcastle‐upon‐Tyne. In New Labour Britain individualized citizenship and self‐sufficiency are upheld as the embodiment of ‘the good li…
The "Autodidact", the Pursuit of Subversive Knowledge and the Politics of Change
This paper contrasts two types of "autodidact" located in the UK in different historical periods, which utilised different learning/research technologies to different ends. From the 1920s to the 1960s some working-class activists committed to the Communist Party of Great Britain became "educated" in Marxism (and more) through the processes intrinsic to their politics. This radical acculturation was undertaken outside the universities in consequen…
The linear medical model of disability
This paper draws on the narratives of parents of disabled babies in order to conceptualise notions of enabling care. This analysis emerges from the Sheffield site of an ESRC research project Parents, Professionals and Disabled Babies: Identifying Enabling Care, which brings together the Universities of Sheffield and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The linear heroic narrative is a dominant theme within Western culture. It is competitive and individualistic a…
Families Raising Disabled Children
Drawing upon qualitative material from parents and professionals, including ethnography, narrative inquiry, interviews and focus groups, this book brings together feminist and critical disability stud
Families Raising Disabled Children
Preface Acknowledgements Theorising Parents, Professionals and Disabled Babies Methodology Research Encounters Unmaking Children productive Parental Alliances Community Practices Professional, Institutional and Ethical Practices The Gender Dynamics, Transformative Potential and Boundaries of Care Values of Enabling Care and Social Justice References Index
Empowering interventions in health and social care
Wellbeing and empowerment
Health and wellbeing are now located within a policy framework that emphasises the empowerment of the individual 'consumer'. Within this paradigm, empowerment is writ large and wellbeing is seen as a 'civic duty'. The role of the health and social care services has been identified as one of enabling service users to promote their own wellbeing. In this paper, it is argued that dominant narratives relating to 'achievement' and 'normality' may resu…
Tomorrow we live
The present paper explores the fascist vision for education in 1930s Britain through the presentation of extracts from official publications of the British Union of Fascists (BUF), as well as from the writings of Party members. The paper presents a socio‐historical study of British adherents to fascism and provides an account of their thinking in relation to education and schooling, exposing a milieu of ideologues, Party functionaries and serving…
Women and employment in East Germany
Twenty years have passed since German unification. Significant cultural differences persist between former East and West Germany, including eastern and western women's significantly differing orientations towards employment. This study offers a historical perspective on the continuing gender disparities among German women. Drawing on the narratives of eastern women who were interviewed between 1999 and 2002, the study focuses on their perspective…
Ethics in Qualitative Research
This paper poses questions regarding the ethical prioritisation in qualitative research studies on assessing a person's or a group's fitness to provide informed consent, arguing that this may have unwanted as well as desirable consequences, particularly in relation to rights of citizenship for socially marginalised populations who tend to be labelled vulnerable. Drawing on three theoretical perspectives (Arendt, Honneth and Bourdieu), it is sugge…
Edmund Whitcombe and the detection of homicide in Georgian Shropshire
Edmund Whitcombe was forced to resign his position as a county coroner for Shropshire in 1823, following his conviction in a criminal court for 'grievous misconduct'. An open verdict had been returned on murder victim Sarah Newton, and it was alleged that Whitcombe had deliberately manipulated the inquest for his own personal gain. Despite no evidence of any bribe or criminal intent, Whitcombe was found guilty. The documents generated by the case…
Identity, emotion and the internal goods of practice
Contemporary transitions in the delivery of health and social care are a global phenomenon. They prompt a particular need to reconsider how quality in relation to professional practice should be understood and whether greater importance should be attached to values such as goodwill, altruism and commitment. Based on a qualitative study of a small voluntary sector organisation in the North of England, this paper addresses how changes in policy art…
An Emancipatory Approach to Practice and Qualitative Inquiry in Mental Health
The right to ‘voice’ has been identified as central in enabling agency and in ensuring human dignity. This paper discusses an understanding of ‘voice’ which has been derived from Charles Taylor's concept of ‘strong evaluation’. Voice, from this perspective, is found within an ongoing process of identity development which is based on a quest for an authentic sense of self embedded in a moral journey. It is argued here that strong evaluation offers…
(Con) Fusing Commerce and Science
It was in the mid seventeenth century that Cardinal John Henry Newman (1858), in his foundational text ‘‘The Idea of a University,’’ first clearly articulated the purpose of the University as being about the pursuit of learning. The emphasis was specifically on learning associated with a liberal education based on the tenet that knowledge is valuable in its own right. Nevertheless, this original invocation of the University has been contested lon…
Narrative approaches in mental health
Narrative approaches have exercised an emancipatory influence within mental health. In this article, it is suggested that there is a risk that the emancipatory tradition associated with narrative may be co-opted through contemporary mental health strategy by a narrow agenda which promotes a particular Western and neoliberal form of citizenship. This may limit the way recovery can be imagined by equating it solely with the future-orientated indivi…
Professionalism and person-centredness
This paper, based on data taken from in-depth interviews with senior midwives and obstetricians and conducted as part of a critical ethnographic study, argues for a greater appreciation of person-centred, value-led midwifery practice. The paper begins with a discussion of the way midwifery practice is shaped by encoded and embodied knowledge. The paper subsequently focuses on an emergent practice based leadership using an adapted Aristotelian con…
Peer education and empowerment
This paper focusses on peer education and specifically on young women peer educators working within the charity Home-Start in the north of England. This work is undertaken in a social context where educational achievement is increasingly measured by certification and occupational hierarchies have been ‘professionalised’ whilst notions of professionalism have been drained of meaning in ways which can be potentially democratising. State educational…
Time for “resilience”
Purpose Since the 2008 financial crisis, state retrenchment has added to the harshness of life for marginalised groups globally. This UK study suggests community activism may promote human capacity and resilience in innovative ways. The purpose of this paper is to address the relationship between non-normative understandings of time and resilience. Design/methodology/approach This research paper is based on qualitative study of the work of a thir…
Advocating Co-Productive Engagement with Marginalised People
Co-production is gaining ground as a key dimension of public policy reform across the globe.This paper argues in favour of social welfare shaped by the principles of co-production and suggests that the promotion of democratic relationships is more likely to enable the agency and recovery of victim-survivors of childhood sexual abuse. The paper, based on an autoethnographical approach, is likely to be of relevance to social care practitioners who …
Disrupted faces, disrupted identities? Embodiment, life stories and acquired facial 'disfigurement
Questions about the relationship between faces, 'disfigurement' and identity intensified following the first facial transplant (2005). Over a decade later, empirical research exploring the influence of acquired facial 'disfigurement' on embodied identity disruption and re-formation remains limited. A common strand of thinking assumes identities are contained within faces. Commentators have suggested that identities can be diminished through 'disf…
Behaviorally informed interventions can increase take-up of public employment services, but conversion remains challenging
Low take-up of government services continues to challenge public investments in social services. Behaviorally informed interventions, so-called nudges, can overcome barriers that keep eligible individuals from accessing services. We report results from a pre-registered randomized controlled trial (RCT) to test email-based interventions to increase the take-up of publicly funded employment services in British Columbia, Canada. Our RCT design disti…
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