Sarah Ball
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3801766 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sarah Ball |
| NOMBRES | Sarah |
| APELLIDO | Ball |
| FIRMA | BALL S |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6712-0574 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Women’s Perceptions of Novel 3-D Printed Vaginal Rings for Multipurpose Prevention
Intravaginal rings (IVRs) can be efficacious, user-controlled devices to prevent pregnancy and HIV. Understanding potential user preferences for device characteristics can promote device uptake and use by informing design optimization. We elicited sensory perceptions from a convenience sample of women aged 18-45 years from a large statewide health system to iteratively inform design of a novel 3D-printed multipurpose (contraception and HIV preven…
Colette Einfeld, Knowledge, Evidence, and Policymaking
Ethics-policy advisory ecosystems
The organisational practices, status and role of policy-focussed ethics advisory committees are significant in relation to scientific advances, societal transformations and crisis situations. Existing research has explored the effectiveness, de/politicisation and deliberative aspects of national ethics bodies, but their role in wider ecosystems of policy advice is neglected. It is sometimes argued that ethics committees have little impact on prac…
Nursing From Within
BACKGROUND: The demanding nature of clinical work can adversely affect nursing professionals, especially without effective self-care strategies to manage stress. Research suggests undergraduate nursing programs should provide education to increase competence regarding self-care. METHOD: A course was developed by nursing faculty aimed at teaching self-care strategies to undergraduate nursing students to help them reduce stress and integrate these …
Coming to Terms with the European Refugee Crisis by Hanspeter Kriesi, Argyrios Altiparmakis, Ábel Bojár, and Ioana-Elena Oană
Introduction to the Special Issue on Activation and the Digital Welfare State
No description supplied
Doing the right thing, not just doing the thing right
Robodebt
Who decides what works? Ethical considerations arising from the Australian Government's use of behavioural insights and Robodebt
Behavioural insights and the use of nudge have attracted a lot of interest among governments across the globe since the introduction of the UK's Behavioural Insights Unit in 2010. One of the key challenges since these early days has been the concern that behavioural policy design, in particular the use of nudges, could be misused to manipulate citizens. When the Robodebt Royal Commission released its report in 2023, these concerns were renewed in…
Beyond administrative burden
Within recent public policy and administration scholarship, there has been a growing focus on the concept of “administrative burden” to describe the learning, compliance and psychological costs incurred by citizens when trying to access services and exercise social and political rights. Specifically, in the context of activation and welfare‐to‐work programmes, scholars have highlighted the effects of administrative burdens on claimants' autonomy,…
Using interpretive political science to understand policy-making in practice
Emerging modes of digitalisation in the delivery of welfare‐to‐work
Countries are increasingly looking to ‘digitalise’ how public services are delivered, with welfare‐to‐work and public employment services being key sites of reform. It is hoped that digitalisation can achieve efficient, effective, and targeted services for those in need and there is now a growing body of research on both the opportunities and pitfalls associated with this transition to digital welfare states. However, as a concept, ‘digitalisatio…
Ethical moments and institutional expertise in UK Government Covid-19 pandemic policy responses
Background: The emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic has required a rapid acceleration of policy decision making, and raised a wide range of ethical issues worldwide, ranging from vaccine prioritisation, welfare and public health ‘trade-offs’, inequalities in policy impacts, and the legitimacy of scientific expertise. Aims and objectives: This paper explores the legacy of the pandemic for future science-advice-policy relationships by inves…
Behavioural Public Policy in Australia
Can Robots Understand Welfare? Exploring Machine Bureaucracies in Welfare-to-Work
The exercise of administrative discretion by street-level workers plays a key role in shaping citizens' access to welfare and employment services. Governance reforms of social services delivery, such as performance-based contracting, have often been driven by attempts to discipline this discretion. In several countries, these forms of market governance are now being eclipsed by new modes of digital governance that seek to reshape the delivery of …
Threading QSEN Competencies Across a Baccalaureate Nursing Program
Background: In response to the development of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies and noting lower standardized test scores, nursing faculty at a midwestern United States university developed three safety and quality labs throughout a traditional baccalaureate curriculum. Method: These labs intentionally integrated the QSEN competencies and occurred over three semesters of the nursing program. Students' learning activi…
Translating behavioral public policy into practice
Behavioral public policy (BPP) has become increasingly popular with governments across the globe but what defines it in practice? It is not a concrete concept, encompassing a series of instruments, evaluation methods and theoretical influences. Using the findings from an ethnographic study of a behavioral insights team in the Australian Government this paper interrogates how BPP has been translated from these discrete components into practice by …
Dramaturgy and crisis management
Dramaturgical perspectives have been used successfully in the past by crisis management researchers. However, previous contributions have been limited because they have been actor‐centered, which has meant that they have tended to ignore the critical role that an audience can play in the drama of a crisis. This article therefore presents a “third act” in which dramaturgical perspectives are used to deliver an actor‐and‐audience centered analysis …
Behavioural insights teams in practice
Behavioural and experimental projects have become increasingly popular with policymakers. Behavioural insights teams have used several policy design and implementation tools drawn from behavioural sciences, especially randomised controlled trials, to test the design of ‘nudge’ interventions. This approach has attained discursive legitimacy in government agencies seeking to use the best available evidence for behaviourally informed, evidence-based…
The Effects of Augmented Reality on Prelicensure Nursing Students' Anxiety Levels
BACKGROUND: Prelicensure nursing students experience high anxiety as they enter the clinical setting, which can have a negative impact on learning care performance and critical thinking. This study explored the viability of an innovative technological teaching strategy, augmented reality (AR), as a platform to prepare students and decrease their anxiety levels when entering a new environment. METHOD: A pretest/posttest quasiexperimental design wa…
Cluster Analysis
Objectives: We sought to identify patterns of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors (KABs) about influenza and influenza vaccination among healthcare personnel (HCP) and define characteristics associated with these patterns. Methods: We used an Internet panel survey of HCP (N = 2265) during March 27-April 17, 2018; clustered HCP by their vaccination-related KABs. Results: Four clusters were identified: Immunization Champions (61.1% of the sample) r…
The boundaries of Behavioural Insights
Background: `Behavioural Insights’ has emerged as an increasingly popular approach to policy making in governments across the globe. Practitioners largely present a frontstage narrative of Behavioural Insights as a coherent concept but this article challenges such a description. Aims & objectives: This article aims to explore the ongoing process of policy translation that the global Behavioural Insights community is subject to. Methods: The data …
How far to nudge? Assessing behavioural public policy
Peter John’s How Far to Nudge represents a concise yet comprehensive book that will offer value to both policy scholars and practitioners interested in the behavioural turn in policy. Behavioural p
The Healthy Meal Index
Collaboration and public policy
Behavioural insights teams in practice
Behavioural and experimental projects have become increasingly popular with policymakers. Behavioural insights teams have used several policy design and implementation tools drawn from behavioural sciences, especially randomised controlled trials, to test the design of ‘nudge’ interventions. This approach has attained discursive legitimacy in government agencies seeking to use the best available evidence for behaviourally informed, evidence-based…
Can Robots Understand Welfare? Exploring Machine Bureaucracies in Welfare-to-Work
The exercise of administrative discretion by street-level workers plays a key role in shaping citizens' access to welfare and employment services. Governance reforms of social services delivery, such as performance-based contracting, have often been driven by attempts to discipline this discretion. In several countries, these forms of market governance are now being eclipsed by new modes of digital governance that seek to reshape the delivery of …
The boundaries of Behavioural Insights
Background: `Behavioural Insights’ has emerged as an increasingly popular approach to policy making in governments across the globe. Practitioners largely present a frontstage narrative of Behavioural Insights as a coherent concept but this article challenges such a description. Aims & objectives: This article aims to explore the ongoing process of policy translation that the global Behavioural Insights community is subject to. Methods: The data …
Dramaturgy and crisis management
Dramaturgical perspectives have been used successfully in the past by crisis management researchers. However, previous contributions have been limited because they have been actor‐centered, which has meant that they have tended to ignore the critical role that an audience can play in the drama of a crisis. This article therefore presents a “third act” in which dramaturgical perspectives are used to deliver an actor‐and‐audience centered analysis …
Beyond administrative burden
Within recent public policy and administration scholarship, there has been a growing focus on the concept of “administrative burden” to describe the learning, compliance and psychological costs incurred by citizens when trying to access services and exercise social and political rights. Specifically, in the context of activation and welfare‐to‐work programmes, scholars have highlighted the effects of administrative burdens on claimants' autonomy,…
Doing the right thing, not just doing the thing right
Emerging modes of digitalisation in the delivery of welfare‐to‐work
Countries are increasingly looking to ‘digitalise’ how public services are delivered, with welfare‐to‐work and public employment services being key sites of reform. It is hoped that digitalisation can achieve efficient, effective, and targeted services for those in need and there is now a growing body of research on both the opportunities and pitfalls associated with this transition to digital welfare states. However, as a concept, ‘digitalisatio…
Translating behavioral public policy into practice
Behavioral public policy (BPP) has become increasingly popular with governments across the globe but what defines it in practice? It is not a concrete concept, encompassing a series of instruments, evaluation methods and theoretical influences. Using the findings from an ethnographic study of a behavioral insights team in the Australian Government this paper interrogates how BPP has been translated from these discrete components into practice by …
The Healthy Meal Index
Ethical moments and institutional expertise in UK Government Covid-19 pandemic policy responses
Background: The emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic has required a rapid acceleration of policy decision making, and raised a wide range of ethical issues worldwide, ranging from vaccine prioritisation, welfare and public health ‘trade-offs’, inequalities in policy impacts, and the legitimacy of scientific expertise. Aims and objectives: This paper explores the legacy of the pandemic for future science-advice-policy relationships by inves…
Changes in self-rated health and subjective social status over time in a cohort of healthcare personnel
As part of a prospective cohort study of 1354 female and 347 male healthcare personnel, we examined the stability of subjective social status over ~7 months and the prospective association between subjective social status and self-rated health status. Most (82%) subjective social status ratings were stable (within ±1 point). Lower baseline subjective social status among healthcare personnel was associated with more subsequent reports of fatigue a…
Who decides what works? Ethical considerations arising from the Australian Government's use of behavioural insights and Robodebt
Behavioural insights and the use of nudge have attracted a lot of interest among governments across the globe since the introduction of the UK's Behavioural Insights Unit in 2010. One of the key challenges since these early days has been the concern that behavioural policy design, in particular the use of nudges, could be misused to manipulate citizens. When the Robodebt Royal Commission released its report in 2023, these concerns were renewed in…
How far to nudge? Assessing behavioural public policy
Peter John’s How Far to Nudge represents a concise yet comprehensive book that will offer value to both policy scholars and practitioners interested in the behavioural turn in policy. Behavioural p
Managing the health effects of climate change
Jails, HIV Testing, and Linkage to Care Services
Linkage to HIV Care for Jail Detainees
Selected Findings from the Cross-Site Evaluation of the Federal Healthy Start Program
Changes in self-rated health and subjective social status over time in a cohort of healthcare personnel
As part of a prospective cohort study of 1354 female and 347 male healthcare personnel, we examined the stability of subjective social status over ~7 months and the prospective association between subjective social status and self-rated health status. Most (82%) subjective social status ratings were stable (within ±1 point). Lower baseline subjective social status among healthcare personnel was associated with more subsequent reports of fatigue a…
The Healthy Meal Index
The boundaries of Behavioural Insights
Background: `Behavioural Insights’ has emerged as an increasingly popular approach to policy making in governments across the globe. Practitioners largely present a frontstage narrative of Behavioural Insights as a coherent concept but this article challenges such a description. Aims & objectives: This article aims to explore the ongoing process of policy translation that the global Behavioural Insights community is subject to. Methods: The data …
How far to nudge? Assessing behavioural public policy
Peter John’s How Far to Nudge represents a concise yet comprehensive book that will offer value to both policy scholars and practitioners interested in the behavioural turn in policy. Behavioural p
The Effects of Augmented Reality on Prelicensure Nursing Students' Anxiety Levels
BACKGROUND: Prelicensure nursing students experience high anxiety as they enter the clinical setting, which can have a negative impact on learning care performance and critical thinking. This study explored the viability of an innovative technological teaching strategy, augmented reality (AR), as a platform to prepare students and decrease their anxiety levels when entering a new environment. METHOD: A pretest/posttest quasiexperimental design wa…
Cluster Analysis
Objectives: We sought to identify patterns of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors (KABs) about influenza and influenza vaccination among healthcare personnel (HCP) and define characteristics associated with these patterns. Methods: We used an Internet panel survey of HCP (N = 2265) during March 27-April 17, 2018; clustered HCP by their vaccination-related KABs. Results: Four clusters were identified: Immunization Champions (61.1% of the sample) r…
Threading QSEN Competencies Across a Baccalaureate Nursing Program
Background: In response to the development of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies and noting lower standardized test scores, nursing faculty at a midwestern United States university developed three safety and quality labs throughout a traditional baccalaureate curriculum. Method: These labs intentionally integrated the QSEN competencies and occurred over three semesters of the nursing program. Students' learning activi…
Translating behavioral public policy into practice
Behavioral public policy (BPP) has become increasingly popular with governments across the globe but what defines it in practice? It is not a concrete concept, encompassing a series of instruments, evaluation methods and theoretical influences. Using the findings from an ethnographic study of a behavioral insights team in the Australian Government this paper interrogates how BPP has been translated from these discrete components into practice by …
Dramaturgy and crisis management
Dramaturgical perspectives have been used successfully in the past by crisis management researchers. However, previous contributions have been limited because they have been actor‐centered, which has meant that they have tended to ignore the critical role that an audience can play in the drama of a crisis. This article therefore presents a “third act” in which dramaturgical perspectives are used to deliver an actor‐and‐audience centered analysis …
Behavioural insights teams in practice
Behavioural and experimental projects have become increasingly popular with policymakers. Behavioural insights teams have used several policy design and implementation tools drawn from behavioural sciences, especially randomised controlled trials, to test the design of ‘nudge’ interventions. This approach has attained discursive legitimacy in government agencies seeking to use the best available evidence for behaviourally informed, evidence-based…
Ethical moments and institutional expertise in UK Government Covid-19 pandemic policy responses
Background: The emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic has required a rapid acceleration of policy decision making, and raised a wide range of ethical issues worldwide, ranging from vaccine prioritisation, welfare and public health ‘trade-offs’, inequalities in policy impacts, and the legitimacy of scientific expertise. Aims and objectives: This paper explores the legacy of the pandemic for future science-advice-policy relationships by inves…
Behavioural Public Policy in Australia
Can Robots Understand Welfare? Exploring Machine Bureaucracies in Welfare-to-Work
The exercise of administrative discretion by street-level workers plays a key role in shaping citizens' access to welfare and employment services. Governance reforms of social services delivery, such as performance-based contracting, have often been driven by attempts to discipline this discretion. In several countries, these forms of market governance are now being eclipsed by new modes of digital governance that seek to reshape the delivery of …
Emerging modes of digitalisation in the delivery of welfare‐to‐work
Countries are increasingly looking to ‘digitalise’ how public services are delivered, with welfare‐to‐work and public employment services being key sites of reform. It is hoped that digitalisation can achieve efficient, effective, and targeted services for those in need and there is now a growing body of research on both the opportunities and pitfalls associated with this transition to digital welfare states. However, as a concept, ‘digitalisatio…
Collaboration and public policy
Who decides what works? Ethical considerations arising from the Australian Government's use of behavioural insights and Robodebt
Behavioural insights and the use of nudge have attracted a lot of interest among governments across the globe since the introduction of the UK's Behavioural Insights Unit in 2010. One of the key challenges since these early days has been the concern that behavioural policy design, in particular the use of nudges, could be misused to manipulate citizens. When the Robodebt Royal Commission released its report in 2023, these concerns were renewed in…
Beyond administrative burden
Within recent public policy and administration scholarship, there has been a growing focus on the concept of “administrative burden” to describe the learning, compliance and psychological costs incurred by citizens when trying to access services and exercise social and political rights. Specifically, in the context of activation and welfare‐to‐work programmes, scholars have highlighted the effects of administrative burdens on claimants' autonomy,…
Using interpretive political science to understand policy-making in practice
Nursing From Within
BACKGROUND: The demanding nature of clinical work can adversely affect nursing professionals, especially without effective self-care strategies to manage stress. Research suggests undergraduate nursing programs should provide education to increase competence regarding self-care. METHOD: A course was developed by nursing faculty aimed at teaching self-care strategies to undergraduate nursing students to help them reduce stress and integrate these …
Coming to Terms with the European Refugee Crisis by Hanspeter Kriesi, Argyrios Altiparmakis, Ábel Bojár, and Ioana-Elena Oană
Introduction to the Special Issue on Activation and the Digital Welfare State
No description supplied
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