Val Williams
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3701093 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Val Williams |
| NOMBRES | Val |
| APELLIDO | Williams |
| FIRMA | WILLIAMS V |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8608-7842 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 94 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
A social practice theory approach to exploring the ubiquity of quizzes in dementia care settings
Quizzes are a ubiquitous part of the dementia social care landscape. This article explores why. Using an ethnographic approach which draws on close analysis of communication, we examine dementia quizzes as a ‘social practice’, and what such a lens can tell us about their popularity in social care settings. Vignettes of real interactions drawn from ten different quizzes recorded in four different group settings attended by 28 people living with de…
Who knows what about you? Managing topic shifts during ‘conversational’ social care assessments in England
Social care assessments in England are envisaged as conversations, implying an informal and congenial encounter, in which both parties have equal roles. However, a fundamental task during an assessment is to gauge eligibility for resources. This article uses conversation analysis to consider audio recorded data of seven social care assessments in England. The article focuses on topic shifts, where the assessor introduces an ‘assessment relevant’ …
Illuminations
Illuminations
Misfitting and social practice theory
This paper applies social practice theories, which focus on the pattern of everyday activities, such as studying at university or playing music. Some theorists analyse practices by looking at the different elements from which they are formed, and that has helped us to gain insights into how disabled people can get included and excluded from ordinary activities. We focus firstly on common strategies for adjusting practices, namely providing anothe…
Interactional strategies for progressing through quizzes in dementia settings
People with early-to-mid stage dementia frequently attend groups that provide opportunities for socialising and engaging in group activities, such as quizzes. This article uses conversation analysis to investigate the interactional strategies that the staff use to initiate and keep these quizzes ‘on track’, and what they orient to as impediments and facilitators of quiz progression. Specifically, we outline how staff deal with incorrect or ‘non-a…
Misfitting the Research Process
It is increasingly recognized that people living with dementia should be included in qualitative research that foregrounds their voices, but traditional research approaches can leave less room for flexibility than is necessary. This article builds on others who have examined the challenges and rewards of the qualitative research process with people living with dementia. With reference to a specific project on communication and dementia, the resea…
Future lived experience
People with a diagnosis of dementia have often been the subjects of qualitative research; by contrast, this article sets out to reflect on the positioning of people living with dementia in inclusive or 'co-produced' research and the connections between the personal and the collective voice in research. The article seeks to explore the unique hallmarks of inclusive dementia research, compared with some of the other models of inclusive research. Dr…
Being a Disabled Patient
Accessing hospital care and being a patient is a highly individualised process, but it is also dependent on the culture and practices of the hospital and the staff who run it. Each hospital usually has a standard way of ‘doing things’, and a lack of flexibility in this may mean that there are challenges in effectively responding to the needs of disabled people who require ‘reasonably adjusted’ care. Based on qualitative stories told by disabled p…
The Social Care Practitioner as Assessor
The research in this paper aimed to reflect on English social care practitioners’ accounts of their assessment practices, and includes the point of view of disabled people who are assessed. The research took place just after the implementation of the 2014 Care Act, which focuses both on the ‘well-being’ principle and on outcomes defined by service users. We report here on a grounded theory analysis of thirty qualitative interviews with social car…
Direct and indirect ways of managing epistemic asymmetries when eliciting memories
This article aims to explore how epistemic status is negotiated during talk about the life memories of one speaker. Direct questions which foreground 'remembering' can lead to troubled sequences of talk. However, interlocutors sometimes frame their first parts as 'co-rememberings', and the sequential positioning of these can be crucial to the outcome of the talk. We draw on almost 10 hours of video data from dementia settings, where memory is a t…
The Ken. To be destroyed Project Archive
This journal article is based on the Ken. To be destroyed Project Archive. In 2011, Sara Davidmann inherited a family archive of letters,photographs and papers from her mother, Audrey Davidmann. This archive tells the story of Ken and Hazel, Sara’s uncle and aunt, and how it emerged early on in their marriage, in 1958, that Ken was transgender. Sara Davidmann and writer and curator Val Williams have created an archive which preserves and describe…
Understanding disabling barriers
Disabled people are regularly denied their human rights, since policies and laws are hard to translate literally into practice. This article aims to make connections between social practice theories and Disability Studies, in order to understand the problems faced by disabled people, using different methods to look in detail at how practices are shaped and how disabled people get excluded. Disabled people are active agents in making change, both …
The blurred edges of intellectual disability
The label of ‘intellectual disability’ can be a very blurred concept, because for those on the borders their label often arises from the interaction of the individual with their environment, from their socio-economic status, and from the social role which they choose to undertake. This paper explores the contested notion of intellectual disability in the context of people who have been in trouble with the law in England, and contrasts their situa…
Evidence-based practice and intellectual disabilities and Psychological therapies for adults with intellectual disabilities
Disability studies (DS) has long had a strained relationship with the disciplines of clinical psychology and associated educational practices and therapies. Nevertheless, there is a whole world of
Indirect payments
This paper reports findings from a study that aimed to explore how practitioners were bringing together the demands of the personalisation agenda, in particular the offer of direct payments (DPs), with the Mental Capacity Act, and to investigate current practices of offering and administering indirect payments for people who lack capacity to consent to them, including the use of 'suitable person' proxies under the new regulations (DH, 2009). The …
The John Wall Archive of the Directory of British Photographic Collections , 1977
The Directory of British Photographic Collections was published in 1977. This article discusses the work of John Wall, editor of the Directory, and is accompanied by illustrations from the file cards assembled by Wall in the process of compiling the Directory. The John Wall Archive is held at the Photography and the Archive Research Centre
Your Life, Your Choice
Based on qualitative research with eighty participants, this paper examines the notion of support planning, as it was experienced by people using personal budgets. The research took place during 2009–10, in three demonstration sites in England where support planning was commissioned out from local authorities into user-led organisations. In general, satisfaction with user-led support planning revolved around respectful styles of facilitation, goo…
Best interests decisions
This paper reports on data collected in 2011 from a national study about the operation of the best interests principle, a key feature of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 for England and Wales. The objective was to provide a picture of current professional practices in best interests decision-making. Four contrasting sample sites were selected, in which National Health Service trusts, social care and other organisations were recruited to partici…
Pictures from Robert's
Essay contribution to issue of edited journal
The Daniel Meadows Archive
Val Williams has been working on the Daniel Meadows Archive during a UAL sabbatical term. These photographs were taken at the beginning of Meadows' career, while he was studying photography at Manchester Polytechnic in the north of England. The first stage of the research project has revolved around documents and archived photographs within the collection
Photographs from the Glyndebourne Opera Archive, 1934–1939
These photographs were discovered by Val Williams and Brigitte Lardinois in the archive of the Glyndebourne Opera in Sussex in 2008, during research for a book which would explore the Archive as part of the celebrations for Glyndebourne’s seventy-fifth anniversary. They are taken from a collection of snapshots given to the Archive by Angela Willan, who worked in Glyndebourne’s wardrobe department from 1951 to 1952 and by Mary Lewis, who sang in t…
I do like the subtle touch’
Disabled people have often been denied choice and control in their lives. Although direct payments promise to deliver autonomy for disabled people, much depends on the way direct payments employers and personal assistants handle their interactions. These matters are particularly important for people with learning difficulties, who have routinely been restricted and controlled by their support staff. This paper presents an analysis, based on video…
A bit of common ground
Personalisation is the new mantra in social care; this article focuses on how personalisation can be achieved in practice, by presenting an analysis of data from people with learning disabilities and their personal assistants (PAs), where traditional care relationships have often been shown to be disempowering (Antaki et al., 2007b). The focus here is on the ways in which both parties use references to shared knowledge, joint experiences or perso…
A Heady Relationship
This article looks at the relationship between fashion photography and the museum between 1979 to the present, giving particular attention to the emergence of fashion photography as a part of museum programming in the late 1970s. It explores the often uneasy relationship between photographers and their fashion practice and the ways in which the museum has used fashion photography to increase and democratize audience
Misfitting the Research Process
It is increasingly recognized that people living with dementia should be included in qualitative research that foregrounds their voices, but traditional research approaches can leave less room for flexibility than is necessary. This article builds on others who have examined the challenges and rewards of the qualitative research process with people living with dementia. With reference to a specific project on communication and dementia, the resea…
Understanding disabling barriers
Disabled people are regularly denied their human rights, since policies and laws are hard to translate literally into practice. This article aims to make connections between social practice theories and Disability Studies, in order to understand the problems faced by disabled people, using different methods to look in detail at how practices are shaped and how disabled people get excluded. Disabled people are active agents in making change, both …
Direct and indirect ways of managing epistemic asymmetries when eliciting memories
This article aims to explore how epistemic status is negotiated during talk about the life memories of one speaker. Direct questions which foreground 'remembering' can lead to troubled sequences of talk. However, interlocutors sometimes frame their first parts as 'co-rememberings', and the sequential positioning of these can be crucial to the outcome of the talk. We draw on almost 10 hours of video data from dementia settings, where memory is a t…
I do like the subtle touch’
Disabled people have often been denied choice and control in their lives. Although direct payments promise to deliver autonomy for disabled people, much depends on the way direct payments employers and personal assistants handle their interactions. These matters are particularly important for people with learning difficulties, who have routinely been restricted and controlled by their support staff. This paper presents an analysis, based on video…
Mental health support needs of people with a learning difficulty
People with learning difficulties, like all disabled people, face social oppression. Much recent policy and practice are underpinned by at least some understanding of this oppression, and the social model of disability has been influential in discussions of services and supports for people with learning difficulties. However, in the area of mental health, the picture is somewhat different. This paper argues that the medical model has predominated…
Best interests decisions
This paper reports on data collected in 2011 from a national study about the operation of the best interests principle, a key feature of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 for England and Wales. The objective was to provide a picture of current professional practices in best interests decision-making. Four contrasting sample sites were selected, in which National Health Service trusts, social care and other organisations were recruited to partici…
Take your partners
This article presents an example of action research, namely a study about emotional distress in young people with learning disabilities. The study brought together a university research centre with an array of policy makers, managers and practitioners, as well as young people with learning disabilities and family members. The researcher’s role in such work has to be flexible, and the article explores the boundaries between practice and research. …
Future lived experience
People with a diagnosis of dementia have often been the subjects of qualitative research; by contrast, this article sets out to reflect on the positioning of people living with dementia in inclusive or 'co-produced' research and the connections between the personal and the collective voice in research. The article seeks to explore the unique hallmarks of inclusive dementia research, compared with some of the other models of inclusive research. Dr…
Indirect payments
This paper reports findings from a study that aimed to explore how practitioners were bringing together the demands of the personalisation agenda, in particular the offer of direct payments (DPs), with the Mental Capacity Act, and to investigate current practices of offering and administering indirect payments for people who lack capacity to consent to them, including the use of 'suitable person' proxies under the new regulations (DH, 2009). The …
The Social Care Practitioner as Assessor
The research in this paper aimed to reflect on English social care practitioners’ accounts of their assessment practices, and includes the point of view of disabled people who are assessed. The research took place just after the implementation of the 2014 Care Act, which focuses both on the ‘well-being’ principle and on outcomes defined by service users. We report here on a grounded theory analysis of thirty qualitative interviews with social car…
Your Life, Your Choice
Based on qualitative research with eighty participants, this paper examines the notion of support planning, as it was experienced by people using personal budgets. The research took place during 2009–10, in three demonstration sites in England where support planning was commissioned out from local authorities into user-led organisations. In general, satisfaction with user-led support planning revolved around respectful styles of facilitation, goo…
Misfitting and social practice theory
This paper applies social practice theories, which focus on the pattern of everyday activities, such as studying at university or playing music. Some theorists analyse practices by looking at the different elements from which they are formed, and that has helped us to gain insights into how disabled people can get included and excluded from ordinary activities. We focus firstly on common strategies for adjusting practices, namely providing anothe…
Interactional strategies for progressing through quizzes in dementia settings
People with early-to-mid stage dementia frequently attend groups that provide opportunities for socialising and engaging in group activities, such as quizzes. This article uses conversation analysis to investigate the interactional strategies that the staff use to initiate and keep these quizzes ‘on track’, and what they orient to as impediments and facilitators of quiz progression. Specifically, we outline how staff deal with incorrect or ‘non-a…
The blurred edges of intellectual disability
The label of ‘intellectual disability’ can be a very blurred concept, because for those on the borders their label often arises from the interaction of the individual with their environment, from their socio-economic status, and from the social role which they choose to undertake. This paper explores the contested notion of intellectual disability in the context of people who have been in trouble with the law in England, and contrasts their situa…
Warworks
English collections of women photographers in national museums
Major collections have an important, but often unexamined position in the historiography of photography. In addition to offering evidence of the past or a reflection of contemporary times. they call attention to particular artists or genres. It is unusual in Britain for major public collections to bear the names of their curators; instead. collections becomc identificd with the institution that houses and cares for them. Rarely do we question the…
Warworks
Mental health support needs of people with a learning difficulty
People with learning difficulties, like all disabled people, face social oppression. Much recent policy and practice are underpinned by at least some understanding of this oppression, and the social model of disability has been influential in discussions of services and supports for people with learning difficulties. However, in the area of mental health, the picture is somewhat different. This paper argues that the medical model has predominated…
Take your partners
This article presents an example of action research, namely a study about emotional distress in young people with learning disabilities. The study brought together a university research centre with an array of policy makers, managers and practitioners, as well as young people with learning disabilities and family members. The researcher’s role in such work has to be flexible, and the article explores the boundaries between practice and research. …
A Heady Relationship
This article looks at the relationship between fashion photography and the museum between 1979 to the present, giving particular attention to the emergence of fashion photography as a part of museum programming in the late 1970s. It explores the often uneasy relationship between photographers and their fashion practice and the ways in which the museum has used fashion photography to increase and democratize audience
Photographs from the Glyndebourne Opera Archive, 1934–1939
These photographs were discovered by Val Williams and Brigitte Lardinois in the archive of the Glyndebourne Opera in Sussex in 2008, during research for a book which would explore the Archive as part of the celebrations for Glyndebourne’s seventy-fifth anniversary. They are taken from a collection of snapshots given to the Archive by Angela Willan, who worked in Glyndebourne’s wardrobe department from 1951 to 1952 and by Mary Lewis, who sang in t…
I do like the subtle touch’
Disabled people have often been denied choice and control in their lives. Although direct payments promise to deliver autonomy for disabled people, much depends on the way direct payments employers and personal assistants handle their interactions. These matters are particularly important for people with learning difficulties, who have routinely been restricted and controlled by their support staff. This paper presents an analysis, based on video…
A bit of common ground
Personalisation is the new mantra in social care; this article focuses on how personalisation can be achieved in practice, by presenting an analysis of data from people with learning disabilities and their personal assistants (PAs), where traditional care relationships have often been shown to be disempowering (Antaki et al., 2007b). The focus here is on the ways in which both parties use references to shared knowledge, joint experiences or perso…
The Daniel Meadows Archive
Val Williams has been working on the Daniel Meadows Archive during a UAL sabbatical term. These photographs were taken at the beginning of Meadows' career, while he was studying photography at Manchester Polytechnic in the north of England. The first stage of the research project has revolved around documents and archived photographs within the collection
Pictures from Robert's
Essay contribution to issue of edited journal
Best interests decisions
This paper reports on data collected in 2011 from a national study about the operation of the best interests principle, a key feature of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 for England and Wales. The objective was to provide a picture of current professional practices in best interests decision-making. Four contrasting sample sites were selected, in which National Health Service trusts, social care and other organisations were recruited to partici…
The John Wall Archive of the Directory of British Photographic Collections , 1977
The Directory of British Photographic Collections was published in 1977. This article discusses the work of John Wall, editor of the Directory, and is accompanied by illustrations from the file cards assembled by Wall in the process of compiling the Directory. The John Wall Archive is held at the Photography and the Archive Research Centre
Your Life, Your Choice
Based on qualitative research with eighty participants, this paper examines the notion of support planning, as it was experienced by people using personal budgets. The research took place during 2009–10, in three demonstration sites in England where support planning was commissioned out from local authorities into user-led organisations. In general, satisfaction with user-led support planning revolved around respectful styles of facilitation, goo…
The blurred edges of intellectual disability
The label of ‘intellectual disability’ can be a very blurred concept, because for those on the borders their label often arises from the interaction of the individual with their environment, from their socio-economic status, and from the social role which they choose to undertake. This paper explores the contested notion of intellectual disability in the context of people who have been in trouble with the law in England, and contrasts their situa…
Evidence-based practice and intellectual disabilities and Psychological therapies for adults with intellectual disabilities
Disability studies (DS) has long had a strained relationship with the disciplines of clinical psychology and associated educational practices and therapies. Nevertheless, there is a whole world of
Indirect payments
This paper reports findings from a study that aimed to explore how practitioners were bringing together the demands of the personalisation agenda, in particular the offer of direct payments (DPs), with the Mental Capacity Act, and to investigate current practices of offering and administering indirect payments for people who lack capacity to consent to them, including the use of 'suitable person' proxies under the new regulations (DH, 2009). The …
The Ken. To be destroyed Project Archive
This journal article is based on the Ken. To be destroyed Project Archive. In 2011, Sara Davidmann inherited a family archive of letters,photographs and papers from her mother, Audrey Davidmann. This archive tells the story of Ken and Hazel, Sara’s uncle and aunt, and how it emerged early on in their marriage, in 1958, that Ken was transgender. Sara Davidmann and writer and curator Val Williams have created an archive which preserves and describe…
Understanding disabling barriers
Disabled people are regularly denied their human rights, since policies and laws are hard to translate literally into practice. This article aims to make connections between social practice theories and Disability Studies, in order to understand the problems faced by disabled people, using different methods to look in detail at how practices are shaped and how disabled people get excluded. Disabled people are active agents in making change, both …
Being a Disabled Patient
Accessing hospital care and being a patient is a highly individualised process, but it is also dependent on the culture and practices of the hospital and the staff who run it. Each hospital usually has a standard way of ‘doing things’, and a lack of flexibility in this may mean that there are challenges in effectively responding to the needs of disabled people who require ‘reasonably adjusted’ care. Based on qualitative stories told by disabled p…
The Social Care Practitioner as Assessor
The research in this paper aimed to reflect on English social care practitioners’ accounts of their assessment practices, and includes the point of view of disabled people who are assessed. The research took place just after the implementation of the 2014 Care Act, which focuses both on the ‘well-being’ principle and on outcomes defined by service users. We report here on a grounded theory analysis of thirty qualitative interviews with social car…
Direct and indirect ways of managing epistemic asymmetries when eliciting memories
This article aims to explore how epistemic status is negotiated during talk about the life memories of one speaker. Direct questions which foreground 'remembering' can lead to troubled sequences of talk. However, interlocutors sometimes frame their first parts as 'co-rememberings', and the sequential positioning of these can be crucial to the outcome of the talk. We draw on almost 10 hours of video data from dementia settings, where memory is a t…
Interactional strategies for progressing through quizzes in dementia settings
People with early-to-mid stage dementia frequently attend groups that provide opportunities for socialising and engaging in group activities, such as quizzes. This article uses conversation analysis to investigate the interactional strategies that the staff use to initiate and keep these quizzes ‘on track’, and what they orient to as impediments and facilitators of quiz progression. Specifically, we outline how staff deal with incorrect or ‘non-a…
Misfitting the Research Process
It is increasingly recognized that people living with dementia should be included in qualitative research that foregrounds their voices, but traditional research approaches can leave less room for flexibility than is necessary. This article builds on others who have examined the challenges and rewards of the qualitative research process with people living with dementia. With reference to a specific project on communication and dementia, the resea…
Future lived experience
People with a diagnosis of dementia have often been the subjects of qualitative research; by contrast, this article sets out to reflect on the positioning of people living with dementia in inclusive or 'co-produced' research and the connections between the personal and the collective voice in research. The article seeks to explore the unique hallmarks of inclusive dementia research, compared with some of the other models of inclusive research. Dr…
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