Claire Cameron
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3674831 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Claire Cameron |
| NOMBRES | Claire |
| APELLIDO | Cameron |
| FIRMA | CAMERON C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2151-4137 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 131 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Biopower, Necropolitics, and the Afterlives of Infants
“An Injurious and Utterly Unfit Environment”
‘Nothing to do and nowhere to go’
Prospective acceptability, feasibility and outcomes of a primary school-led outdoor play intervention for young children
Outdoor play benefits children’s mental wellbeing, social and cognitive development and physical activity levels. However, children’s outdoor play and physical activity have declined in recent years and barriers exist within their physical and social environment. Forest Schools (FS) can encourage outdoor play through familiarisation with local green spaces, but suitable spaces are limited in dense urban areas. The Play in Urban Spaces for Health …
Covid-19 vaccination uptake and risk of severe Covid-19 disease among those in, and released from, prison care in Scotland
Our findings highlight the important role of prisons in facilitating rapid high coverage of vaccination, involving accelerated schedules where appropriate, to help mitigate the raised risk of severe disease outcomes among both those incarcerated and released into the community
Is it the place or the people in the places? Exploration of why young people in deprived coastal communities of England have worse mental health than their peers inland
English adolescents’ mental health is lower in coastal, vs inland, deprived areas. • We used twelve waves of a nationally representative study of adolescents living in England from 2009-2020. • We linked individual and environmental measures to where respondents lived during adolescence. • We then followed them up to 11 years later to assess their mental health as young adults. • Keys drivers of the coastal mental health gap were household socio-…
Transport practices of Māori Kaumātua (Indigenous elders) in Aotearoa New Zealand
Kaumātua rely heavily on private cars for transport, yet when they can no longer drive, this dependence may present barriers to daily living and to maintaining cultural practices, health, and wellbeing. Increased transport infrastructure including public and community transport is needed to allow transport options beyond driving. Transport stakeholders must incorporate wider perspectives, including Indigenous peoples' voices. This study provides …
Perceptions of graduate attribute development and application in PhD graduates from US and NZ universities
With increasing focus on the outcomes of doctoral education, especially regarding employability, we aimed to explore how PhD graduates from humanities and social sciences (HASS), and science disciplines perceived the development of a holistic set of graduate attributes during their doctoral study and the application of these attributes in the workplace. We analysed 136 survey responses and interviews with 21 PhD graduates from one NZ and two US u…
Movers, returners and stayers
This article focuses on the role of place in shaping the (im)mobility aspirations of young people in coastal towns. In the Global North, youth mobility has become a normalised part of the journey to higher education and ‘cosmopolitan’ adulthood. However, we argue that this is only part of the story for young people in coastal towns in England. Many of these coastal towns now face persistent socio-economic and infrastructural challenges. Against t…
Residence in coastal communities in adolescence and health in young adulthood
We used the UK Household Longitudinal Study to examine whether community type (inland or coastal) in adolescence (10-15 years) was associated with five adult health outcomes assessed over 11 waves of follow-up (2009-22). When the analyses were stratified on area deprivation, four of the five health outcomes - self-rated, long-standing illness, psychological distress and mental functioning - showed worse health in increasingly more deprived commun…
Sars-CoV-2 vaccine uptake and risks of severe Covid-19 disease among people prescribed opioid agonist therapy in Scotland
BACKGROUND: There is limited evidence quantifying the risk of severe COVID-19 disease among people with opioid dependence. We examined vaccine uptake and severe disease (admission to critical care or death with COVID-19) among individuals prescribed opioid agonist therapy (OAT). METHOD: A case-control design was used to examine vaccine uptake in those prescribed OAT compared with the general population, and the association between severe disease …
Covid-19 impacts on early career trajectories and mobility of doctoral graduates in Aotearoa New Zealand
This article explores how doctoral graduates in Aotearoa New Zealand are being impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey captured the employment and mobility situations of doctoral graduates from 2019 to early 2021 from six of the eight universities in NZ. The 406 survey responses were analysed using descriptive statistics, as well as drawing on Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) theory in an inductive analysis of freeform comments. Most re…
Spirituality
Spirituality is vital to The Salvation Army’s Bridge model of treatment for alcohol and drug addiction. Spirituality is expressed through Recovery Church, prayer, spirituality lifters, the 12-step programme, and focuses on meaning and purpose. We recruited participants from several regional centers throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and evaluated spirituality using the WHOQol-SRPB and open-ended questions. Most participants held broad understandings…
Young children's lives in East London through the pandemic
Children's lives in the Covid‐19 pandemic were subject to unparalleled restrictions on and disruption to their daily lives. This paper explores the day‐to‐day relational, social participation and activities of young children in one East London borough in early 2021, as told through qualitative interviews with their parents. We adopt a social‐ecological model of children's development, a child rights focused understanding of well‐being, underpinne…
Shrinking social spaces
COVID‐19 produced temporary closures and changes to organisational practices in nurseries, which shrank social spaces and presented challenges in providing and accessing parental support. Limited attention has been paid in early childhood literature to the role of nurseries. We explored how one nursery mediated the impact of the pandemic on mothers. Our London case study showed that mothers valued it as social infrastructure and as a broker of su…
The Impact of the Pandemic on Mental Health in Ethnically Diverse Mothers
Restrictions implemented by the UK Government during the COVID-19 pandemic have served to worsen mental health outcomes, particularly amongst younger adults, women, those living with chronic health conditions, and parents of young children. Studies looking at the impact for ethnic minorities have reported inconsistent findings. This paper describes the mental health experiences of mothers from a large and highly ethnically diverse population duri…
What Family Circumstances, During Covid-19, Impact on Parental Mental Health in an Inner City Community in London
The introduction of lockdown due to a public health emergency in March 2020 marked the beginning of substantial changes to daily life for all families with young children. Here we report the experience of families from London Borough of Tower Hamlets with high rates of poverty and ethnic and linguistic diversity. This inner city community, like communities worldwide, has experienced a reduction or closure in access to education, support services,…
Trauma
A recent special issue of this journal focussed on the emergence of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) movement as a key driver of Scottish social policy. In this article, we extend the critiques advanced therein by locating ACEs within a wider cultural turn towards psychological trauma which, over the past decade, has become reified as a master theory across social welfare. Yet, the concept is insubstantial and ill-defined, and the claims …
Exploring the educational experiences of children and young people adopted from care
National monitoring data and research suggest that British adopted children achieve poorer educational outcomes and experience higher levels of emotional, social and learning difficulties in school, compared to the general population. However, few studies have elicited the perspectives of adopted children and adoptive parents in relation to school experiences. The current study used a qualitative design to explore the lived educational experience…
Is the tobacco ‘footfall’ argument justified for tobacco purchases in New Zealand convenience stores
Our results do not support claims that tobacco drives one-quarter of footfall into stores or that customers who purchase tobacco spend almost twice as much as non-tobacco customers. Combined purchases of tobacco and non-tobacco items constituted 5.5% of transactions; the impact on a store's profitability of removing tobacco sales is unknown and could be the focus of future research
Knowledge exchange, foster care and early education
All children have a right to early childhood education, but preschool‐aged fostered children are less likely than others to access formal early childhood education and care (ECEC) services such as nurseries and playgroups. The home learning environment is crucial for this group. Building on an earlier pilot study where foster carers of young children saw education as something that largely happens outside the home, this paper presents a knowledge…
Complex ‘everyday’ lives meet multiple networks
The everyday lives of young fostered children are rarely studied. Using an ethnographic approach including interviews, walks, observation and photomap making, this article reports on the findings from a unique pilot study of the social and educational lives of young foster children (aged 0‒4) in an inner London borough. The following findings are presented: (1) what foster carers do: everyday lives and education; (2) foster carers’ meanings and p…
Security-first thinking and educational practices for young children in foster care in Sweden and England
The Sage Handbook of Early Childhood Policy
Recent authoritative evidence suggests that an estimated 200 million children under five fail to achieve their developmental potential due to factors including poor health and nutrition and the lack of stable high quality care. A significant number of the world's children today lack the basic rights to health, development and protection. In light of such statistics, early childhood services for young children have expanded around the world. The S…
Factors contributing to high PhD completion rates
This exploratory study determined PhD completions at a research-intensive university in New Zealand and considered factors affecting PhD completions. Completion data were calculated for PhD cohorts at the University of Otago from 2000 to 2012 (n = 2770) and survival models determined whether gender, enrolment status, age at admission, citizenship, scholarship status and academic field influenced completion. The impact of the doctoral programme an…
Leaving care
Care leavers in early adulthood
Education and Self-Reliance among Care Leavers
Claire Cameron reports results from a study on the use of services by a group of young people who have left local authority care, where the proportion holding educational qualifications is above the average for care leavers. Using the concept of self-reliance, she explores how care leavers managed and directed their educational participation and achievement against a background of a lack of financial, familial and inter-personal support. The arti…
From Attachment to Recognition for Children in Care
Attachment theory has, over the last half-century, offered important insights into the nature of early experience and into human relationships more generally. These lessons have been influential in improving child-care attitudes and provision. While acknowledging such advances, our argument in this article is that the dominance accorded attachment theory in policy and professional discourse has reached a point where understandings of human relati…
The child care workforce
At a time of major expansion in `child care' services, the workforce becomes a major issue. Drawing on a number of linked studies of the child care workforce, the article first provides an analysis of the situation of the current workforce, including the highly gendered nature of the work, low pay and high job satisfaction, and how the work is understood. It then considers whether, at a time of increasing demand for workers in both child care and…
Complex ‘everyday’ lives meet multiple networks
The everyday lives of young fostered children are rarely studied. Using an ethnographic approach including interviews, walks, observation and photomap making, this article reports on the findings from a unique pilot study of the social and educational lives of young foster children (aged 0‒4) in an inner London borough. The following findings are presented: (1) what foster carers do: everyday lives and education; (2) foster carers’ meanings and p…
Movers, returners and stayers
This article focuses on the role of place in shaping the (im)mobility aspirations of young people in coastal towns. In the Global North, youth mobility has become a normalised part of the journey to higher education and ‘cosmopolitan’ adulthood. However, we argue that this is only part of the story for young people in coastal towns in England. Many of these coastal towns now face persistent socio-economic and infrastructural challenges. Against t…
Towards a theory of upbringing in foster care in Europe
Across Europe, foster care is the preferred intervention for children who cannot live with their birth families, yet just what states look for from foster care is rarely articulated. Its use and intended purpose can reflect not only historical peculiarities but also the nature of the welfare regime existing in a particular country. This article reports on a preliminary exploration of fostering across 11 European countries, reflecting different ca…
Continuing educational participation among children in care in five countries
Young people who have spent all or part of their childhoods in public care are at particular risk of social exclusion as adults and yet the pathway out of exclusion identified by policy-makers at both European and national levels, namely, education, is very difficult to access. Using data from a five-country study of the post-compulsory educational pathways of young people in public care, this paper examines the rates of participation of young pe…
Exploring the educational experiences of children and young people adopted from care
National monitoring data and research suggest that British adopted children achieve poorer educational outcomes and experience higher levels of emotional, social and learning difficulties in school, compared to the general population. However, few studies have elicited the perspectives of adopted children and adoptive parents in relation to school experiences. The current study used a qualitative design to explore the lived educational experience…
Residence in coastal communities in adolescence and health in young adulthood
We used the UK Household Longitudinal Study to examine whether community type (inland or coastal) in adolescence (10-15 years) was associated with five adult health outcomes assessed over 11 waves of follow-up (2009-22). When the analyses were stratified on area deprivation, four of the five health outcomes - self-rated, long-standing illness, psychological distress and mental functioning - showed worse health in increasingly more deprived commun…
Trauma
A recent special issue of this journal focussed on the emergence of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) movement as a key driver of Scottish social policy. In this article, we extend the critiques advanced therein by locating ACEs within a wider cultural turn towards psychological trauma which, over the past decade, has become reified as a master theory across social welfare. Yet, the concept is insubstantial and ill-defined, and the claims …
Found in (survey) translation
We liaised with a wharekura (Māori language immersion school) to translate and disseminate an online survey for a group of Māori youth in Southland, New Zealand (NZ). The focus of this article is not results, but the processes of respondent orientation and engagement to more genuinely include Māori in a youth survey. An online survey about transport and well‐being was conducted with older teenagers from 12 schools, including the wharekura. After …
Sponsored Places
The implementation of the Children Act 1989, with its emphasis on family support through the provision of non-stigmatizing local services and on local authorities working in partnership with voluntary and private service providers, has given a new focus to the use of independent day-care services to support children in need and their families. This article uses data from research in England and Wales on the implementation of the Children Act as i…
Young Children in Rural Areas
This article is based on the results of the first stage of a study of the Children Act (day care and preschool education), and looks at how the Children Act 1989 has been put into practice with respect to services for children under eight, in rural local authorities in England and Wales. It considers the duties given by the Act to local authorities from a rural perspective, including providing a range of services for children in need, reviewing t…
Foreign Nationals in English Prisons
This paper draws on the results of the Cambridge Family Ties Project which investigated ties from prisoners' points of view. It argues that current policy and practice in relation to foreign national prisoners can be improved. The neglect of this group means that there are no accurate statistics concerning them. However, all the indications are that they form a significant proportion of the UK prison population, especially among those with longer…
Foreign Nationals in English Prisons
Fifty male and 55 female prisoners who were normally resident outside the UK were interviewed in twelve English prisons. All were convicted with sentences of 18 months or more and had been in prison for at least two months. Twenty‐four nationalities were represented but prisoners resident in the Republic of Ireland were excluded from the study. All had been convicted for offences related to the import of illegal drugs though had not been selected…
The children Act 1989 and early childhood services
This paper considers the implications of including general and non-welfare day care services for children under 8 years in the Children Act, a mainly welfare measure. Day care services do not benefit from becoming subject to any broad principles contained within the Act. With respect to these particular services, the Act is essentially conservative in its approach and modest in its scope. It perpetuates the status quo, in particular the division …
Sponsored Places
The implementation of the Children Act 1989, with its emphasis on family support through the provision of non-stigmatizing local services and on local authorities working in partnership with voluntary and private service providers, has given a new focus to the use of independent day-care services to support children in need and their families. This article uses data from research in England and Wales on the implementation of the Children Act as i…
Men in the Nursery
Men in the Nursery is an examination of the issues surrounding gender and childcare. 99% of childcare workers are women. This text considers the case for employing more men and what steps might be taken to achieve this
Promise or Problem? A Review of the Literature on Men Working in Early Childhood Services
Few men care for, or teach, young children. The 1991 UK census found that less than 1% of nursery nurses were male, while 14% of nursery/primary teachers were male. A similarly gendered picture can be found across European, North American and Australian studies of early childhood services, such as childcare centres and early education. The practice and prospect of men early childhood workers are both encouraged and resisted. The aim of this artic…
The child care workforce
At a time of major expansion in `child care' services, the workforce becomes a major issue. Drawing on a number of linked studies of the child care workforce, the article first provides an analysis of the situation of the current workforce, including the highly gendered nature of the work, low pay and high job satisfaction, and how the work is understood. It then considers whether, at a time of increasing demand for workers in both child care and…
Care Work
Introduction Part 1: Thematic Critique 1. Nineteenth Century Understandings of Care Work 2. Who are Today's Care Workers? 3. Gender Issues and Care Workers 4. Knowledge and Education for Care Workers: What is Good Enough 5. Location, Location, Location: The Importance of Where Care Work Takes Place Part 2: Changing Care Work Organisations 6. The Changing Face of Care Work 7. The Professional Care Worker: The Social Pedagogue in Northern Europe 8.…
Variations in duty arrangements to respond to concerns about children's welfare
Reception and initial contact arrangements and practices in social services play a key role in safeguarding children and providing an avenue for the public and professionals to report concerns about a child's welfare. This paper reports on findings from a small-scale study, commissioned in the wake of the Laming Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Victoria Climbié. The aim of the study was an exploration of the arrangements lo…
La atención a personas dependientes en Europa
Ante la constatacin de importantes cambios demogrficos, econmicos y sociales en Europa que afectan a la provisin de servicios de apoyo a las personas dependientes, la Comisin Europea financi la investigacin "La atencin a personas dependientes en Europa (conceptos actuales y perspectivas futuras)" que a continuacin se presenta. Entre los seis pases que conforman la muestra se encuentran importantes diferencias conceptuales y estructurales en la at…
The 1989 Children Act
The Children Act 1989 was introduced into a context of early years provision which was characterized by a structural and conceptual divide between ‘day care’ services, provided by Social Services Departments, and pre-school educational services, provided by Education Departments. The Children Act 1989 includes day care within the range of ‘family support services’ to be provided for children ‘in need’ and, although it requires collaboration betwe…
Education and Self-Reliance among Care Leavers
Claire Cameron reports results from a study on the use of services by a group of young people who have left local authority care, where the proportion holding educational qualifications is above the average for care leavers. Using the concept of self-reliance, she explores how care leavers managed and directed their educational participation and achievement against a background of a lack of financial, familial and inter-personal support. The arti…
Understandings of Care Work With Young Children
This paper reviews some of the ways in which early childhood professionals in England discuss aspects of practice in nurseries for preschool age children. The ways in which professionals talk about and react to early childhood practice tell us much about contemporary understandings of such practice and how concepts and policies developed over time are being interpreted and translated on the ground. The data for the study were obtained using a vid…
Our young people are worse’
Introducing continental European approaches to UK child welfare practice raises a problem of comparison: to what extent are the problems and issues similar to or different from one country compared to another. Social pedagogues trained in continental Europe and working in English residential care services often encountered the phrase ‘our young people are worse’ from their English colleagues, with the implication that the social pedagogic approac…
Continuing educational participation among children in care in five countries
Young people who have spent all or part of their childhoods in public care are at particular risk of social exclusion as adults and yet the pathway out of exclusion identified by policy-makers at both European and national levels, namely, education, is very difficult to access. Using data from a five-country study of the post-compulsory educational pathways of young people in public care, this paper examines the rates of participation of young pe…
Leaving care
The impact of an increase in excise tax on the retail price of tobacco in New Zealand
Tobacco companies do not appear to be increasing the RRPs of budget brands in line with tobacco excise tax increases. The increasing price differential between budget brands, and mainstream and premium brands may undermine cessation and impede realisation of New Zealand's Smokefree 2025 goal
Tobacco retail outlet density and risk of youth smoking in New Zealand
Restricting the permitted density of tobacco retail outlets around schools should be part of comprehensive tobacco control. In this regard, both smokers and non-smokers support the introduction of increased regulation of the tobacco retail environment to achieve our national smoke-free 2025 goal
Towards a theory of upbringing in foster care in Europe
Across Europe, foster care is the preferred intervention for children who cannot live with their birth families, yet just what states look for from foster care is rarely articulated. Its use and intended purpose can reflect not only historical peculiarities but also the nature of the welfare regime existing in a particular country. This article reports on a preliminary exploration of fostering across 11 European countries, reflecting different ca…
Do Reports of Age and Circumstances of First Intercourse Differ in a Birth Cohort When Asked Seventeen Years Apart
Conclusions about temporal changes in age and circumstances of first intercourse are generally derived from retrospective reports by people of various ages in cross-sectional studies, with an inherent assumption of no bias stemming from time since the event. We examined this assumption through repeated questions on age and circumstances of first heterosexual intercourse (FHI) at ages 21 and 38 in a birth cohort. Despite considerable movement in i…
From Attachment to Recognition for Children in Care
Attachment theory has, over the last half-century, offered important insights into the nature of early experience and into human relationships more generally. These lessons have been influential in improving child-care attitudes and provision. While acknowledging such advances, our argument in this article is that the dominance accorded attachment theory in policy and professional discourse has reached a point where understandings of human relati…
The Sage Handbook of Early Childhood Policy
Recent authoritative evidence suggests that an estimated 200 million children under five fail to achieve their developmental potential due to factors including poor health and nutrition and the lack of stable high quality care. A significant number of the world's children today lack the basic rights to health, development and protection. In light of such statistics, early childhood services for young children have expanded around the world. The S…
Factors contributing to high PhD completion rates
This exploratory study determined PhD completions at a research-intensive university in New Zealand and considered factors affecting PhD completions. Completion data were calculated for PhD cohorts at the University of Otago from 2000 to 2012 (n = 2770) and survival models determined whether gender, enrolment status, age at admission, citizenship, scholarship status and academic field influenced completion. The impact of the doctoral programme an…
Prevalence and characteristics of tobacco purchases in convenience stores
Tobacco products constitute a small proportion of items purchased from Dunedin convenience stores and are typically not purchased with non-tobacco items. Our findings are inconsistent with arguments that most small retailers rely on tobacco sales
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