Rachel Fyson
Biographic Data
| ID | 122500 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Fyson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Fyson |
| SIGNATURE | FYSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3166-4216 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Cognitive Impairment as A Vulnerability for Exploitation: A Scoping Review
Exploitation is a form of abuse that occurs when one person unfairly manipulates another for profit or personal gain. Various individual and social characteristics have the potential to increase an individual’s risk of being exploited. Cognitive impairment is one potential vulnerability factor that has received minimal research attention. This scoping review aimed to investigate cognitive impairment as a factor that may increase an individual’s v…
Social (in)justice on the margins of paid work: Misrecognition, maldistribution and the employment of people with learning difficulties
People with learning difficulties are being denied social justice in their everyday encounters with the labour market. Using concepts developed by Fraser, we argue that this denial of social justice arises from a combination of maldistribution of resources and misrecognition of people's equal humanity and their right to dignity and respect. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 16 people with mild learning difficulties on the margins of paid wor…
The things we’re complaining about, we’re providing as well: Dual-Use” Technologies in the Lives of Victim-Survivors of Domestic Abuse
Purpose This paper aims to provide information for professionals and victim-survivors of domestic abuse on the potential risks and benefits of three “dual-use” technologies: smart doorbells, indoor cameras (such as smart baby monitors and pet cameras) and location tracking apps. Design/methodology/approach This study draws on qualitative interviews conducted as part of a wider mixed-methods study. Participants included UK-based professionals work…
An interview with Dr Deborah Kitson: The Long Campaign for Better Safeguarding for People With Learning Disabilities
Purpose This paper aims to provide a record of the early development of thinking and practice associated with safeguarding adults in the UK. Design/methodology/approach The paper takes the form of a 1:1 interview betwen the author and Dr Deborah Kitson. Findings This interview sheds light on the development of adult safeguarding policy and practice in the UK, particularly how the safeguarding of people with learning disabilities emerged out of ea…
Adult safeguarding observed: How social workers assess and manage risk and uncertainty
Technology-Facilitated Domestic Abuse: An under-Recognised Safeguarding Issue
Responding to domestic abuse is a key element of social work practice, in both child protection and adult safeguarding. This article sets out the ways in which rapid technological advances are being co-opted by perpetrators of domestic abuse to create new ways of exerting control. After starting with a brief reminder of recent UK legislative changes around domestic abuse, the article outlines the main ways in which technologies, including mobile …
Talking about learning disability: Discursive acts in managing an ideological dilemma
Learning disability is a term that can mean different things to different people. It is also a term that has undergone much revision and critique, being linked to stigma and prejudice. Consequently, talking about learning disability can be a delicate matter. This paper analyses the discursive work done by focus group participants (professionals and lay people in supportive roles) to manage their talk about learning disability. We show how partici…
Ambivalence about disability: Why people with mild learning difficulties who are looking for employment may not identify as disabled
UK government policies over several decades have sought to actively encourage disabled people to take up paid employment, most recently by focusing on the ‘gap’ between employment rates of disabled and non-disabled people. These policies implicitly assume a clear distinction between people who are and are not disabled, linked to medically-oriented, hierarchical notions of deservingness. They also assume that people who need support will self-iden…
Improving the inclusivity and credibility of visual research: Interpretive engagement as a route to including the voices of people with learning disabilities in analysis
Visual methods are often used in social science because of the potential for inclusivity and accessibility. In disability studies in particular, inclusive research is widely viewed as best practice and visual methods are often considered more accessible than traditional research methods. However, visual methods can encounter challenges at the stage of analysis: it is at this stage that either rigour or inclusivity are most likely to be compromise…
The demographics of forced marriage of people with learning disabilities: Findings from a national database
Purpose The purpose of this study is to compare the UK demographics of forced marriage of people with learning disabilities and people without learning disabilities to inform effective safeguarding practice. Design/methodology/approach An analysis of all cases of forced marriage reported to the UK Government’s Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) between 2009 and 2015. Findings People with learning disabilities are at five times greater risk of forced marr…
Theorising disability: A Practical and Representative Ontology of Learning Disability
This article contributes to the ongoing development of the theorisation of learning disability, focusing on the value of the ontological turn. We argue that while social theory has influenced understandings of disability within academia, particularly within disability studies, it has had a limited impact on the discursive and practical use of the term 'learning disability'. How 'learning disability' is constructed is of direct consequence to the …
Forced marriage of people with learning disabilities: A human rights issue
This paper reports some of the findings of an exploratory study which sought to better understand the demographics of forced marriage of people with learning disabilities and the contexts in which such marriages may occur. It was found that forced marriages of people with and without learning disabilities showed broad similarities in relation to ethnicity, some differences in terms of age and substantial differences in terms of gender. Men and wo…
I was just gobsmacked’: Care workers’ responses to BBC Panorama’s ‘Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed’; invoking mental states as a means of distancing from abusive practices
This article draws upon discourse analytic techniques and discursive psychology to examine how care workers build accounts of viewing the BBC Panorama programme ‘Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed’, which graphically documented the abuse of people with learning disabilities in a residential care setting. A total of 56 interviews were conducted as part of a project concerning adult safeguarding. The analysis considers how care workers report their…
Acquired Brain Injury, Social Work and the Challenges of Personalisation: Table 1
Increasing numbers of adults in the UK are living with acquired brain injury (ABI), with those affected requiring immediate medical care and longer-term rehabilitative and social care. Despite their social needs, limited attention has been paid to people with ABI within the social work literature and their needs are also often overlooked in policy and guidance. As a means of highlighting the challenge that ABI presents to statutory social work, t…
Building an Evidence Base for Adult Safeguarding? Problems with the Reliability and Validity of Adult Safeguarding Databases
This article considers current adult safeguarding policy guidelines for England, which require local authorities to collect adult safeguarding data for the purposes of research and service development. It then moves on to report some of the findings from an evaluation of adult safeguarding in one English local authority, focussing on how the adult safeguarding database was populated from case records and how the resultant data was utilised. It fo…
Women, Disability and Mental Distress
Journal Article Women, Disability and Mental Distress Get access Women, Disability and Mental Distress, Julia L. T. Smith, Farnham, Ashgate, 2015, pp. 162, ISBN 9781409454007, £60 (hb) (also available as an e-book in both PDF and ePUB formats) Rachel Fyson Rachel Fyson University of Nottingham [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 45, Issue…
Preventing the Emotional Abuse and Neglect of People with Intellectual Disability: Stopping Insult and Injury
Journal Article Preventing the Emotional Abuse and Neglect of People with Intellectual Disability: Stopping Insult and Injury Get access Preventing the Emotional Abuse and Neglect of People with Intellectual Disability: Stopping Insult and Injury, Sally Robinson, London, Jessica Kingsley, 2013, pp. 220, ISBN 978-1-84905-230-6, £19.99 pb Rachel Fyson Rachel Fyson Associate Professor Associate Professor, School of Sociology & Social Policy, Univers…
Inclusion or outcomes? Tensions in the involvement of people with learning disabilities in strategic planning
Social inclusion is a key principle that underpins the provision of services for people with learning disabilities in England. Learning Disability Partnership Boards, which are responsible for local strategic planning of learning disability services, hold a particular role in promoting inclusion since they are required both to operate inclusively and to achieve inclusive outcomes. This study sought to explore the extent to which these ambitions f…
Outcomes following adult safeguarding alerts: A critical analysis of key factors
Purpose This paper seeks to report some of the findings from an evaluation of adult safeguarding in one English local authority. The evaluation was commissioned in the context of concern regarding the number of safeguarding investigations that resulted in inconclusive outcomes. Design/methodology/approach All adult social care teams in the local authority were asked to complete a short pro forma about the five most recent adult safeguarding alert…
Anti-social behaviour orders and young people with learning disabilities
This paper sets out to critically explore the use of anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) in relation to young people with learning disabilities. It brings together an emerging body of evidence, from a range of sources, which suggests that these marginalized and vulnerable young people are over-represented amongst those made subject to ASBOs. In this context it will provide a critique of existing practice, within both welfare and criminal justice…
Learning Difficulties and Sexual Vulnerability: A Social Approach
This book reports on new research that seeks to challenge the assumption, prevalent amongst many social care professionals, that people with learning difficulties are necessarily sexually vulnerable and therefore automatically in need of ‘protection’. To do this, Hollomotz uses the social model of disability as a lens through which to examine the life experiences, including sexual experiences, of a group of adults with learning difficulties. Her …
Human Rights and Social Wrongs: Issues in Safeguarding Adults with Learning Disabilities
This paper uses a framework of human rights to explore the high levels of bullying and abuse experienced by adults with learning disabilities. It will identify the different needs of people with different degrees of learning disability before moving on to focus on the particular needs of those with mild learning disabilities who are targeted within local communities. It goes on to suggest a need for a change in assessment practice, away from task…
Independence and learning disabilities: Why we must also recognize vulnerability
Services for adults with learning disabilities are currently based on the promotion of four key principles: rights, independence, choice and social inclusion. This paper will argue that, while these principles are welcome, they need to be balanced against a fifth principle ‐ that vulnerable adults should be adequately protected against the risk of abuse. It will draw on both recent high‐profile cases of violence and abuse against people with lear…
Supported living through Supporting People: The experiences of people with learning disabilities
This article reports the findings of research which examined the impact that the Supporting People programme has had on housing and support for adults with learning disabilities. The issue was explored from the perspectives of local Supporting People teams, commissioners and providers of specialist learning disability social care services, and people with learning disabilities themselves
Independence or protection – does it have to be a choice? Reflections on the abuse of people with learning disabilities in Cornwall
This commentary will use recent events in Cornwall to highlight the ongoing abuse of adults with learning disabilities in England. It will critically explore how two parallel policy agendas — namely, the promotion of choice and independence for adults with learning disabilities and the development of adult protection policies — have failed to connect, thus allowing abuse to continue to flourish. It will be argued that the abuse of people with lea…
Outcomes following adult safeguarding alerts: A critical analysis of key factors
Purpose This paper seeks to report some of the findings from an evaluation of adult safeguarding in one English local authority. The evaluation was commissioned in the context of concern regarding the number of safeguarding investigations that resulted in inconclusive outcomes. Design/methodology/approach All adult social care teams in the local authority were asked to complete a short pro forma about the five most recent adult safeguarding alert…
Theorising disability: A Practical and Representative Ontology of Learning Disability
This article contributes to the ongoing development of the theorisation of learning disability, focusing on the value of the ontological turn. We argue that while social theory has influenced understandings of disability within academia, particularly within disability studies, it has had a limited impact on the discursive and practical use of the term 'learning disability'. How 'learning disability' is constructed is of direct consequence to the …
Foster fathers: Their experiences and contributions to fostering
The paper reports some of the findings of an exploratory study that looks at foster fathers’ experiences of fostering and discusses their routes into foster care and their perspectives on their roles and tasks. The study collected quantitative and qualitative data by approaching all foster fathers registered with a single independent fostering agency based in south‐east England. They were asked about their personal and professional attributes, an…
Independence or protection – does it have to be a choice? Reflections on the abuse of people with learning disabilities in Cornwall
This commentary will use recent events in Cornwall to highlight the ongoing abuse of adults with learning disabilities in England. It will critically explore how two parallel policy agendas — namely, the promotion of choice and independence for adults with learning disabilities and the development of adult protection policies — have failed to connect, thus allowing abuse to continue to flourish. It will be argued that the abuse of people with lea…
Independence and learning disabilities: Why we must also recognize vulnerability
Services for adults with learning disabilities are currently based on the promotion of four key principles: rights, independence, choice and social inclusion. This paper will argue that, while these principles are welcome, they need to be balanced against a fifth principle ‐ that vulnerable adults should be adequately protected against the risk of abuse. It will draw on both recent high‐profile cases of violence and abuse against people with lear…
Forced marriage of people with learning disabilities: A human rights issue
This paper reports some of the findings of an exploratory study which sought to better understand the demographics of forced marriage of people with learning disabilities and the contexts in which such marriages may occur. It was found that forced marriages of people with and without learning disabilities showed broad similarities in relation to ethnicity, some differences in terms of age and substantial differences in terms of gender. Men and wo…
Human Rights and Social Wrongs: Issues in Safeguarding Adults with Learning Disabilities
This paper uses a framework of human rights to explore the high levels of bullying and abuse experienced by adults with learning disabilities. It will identify the different needs of people with different degrees of learning disability before moving on to focus on the particular needs of those with mild learning disabilities who are targeted within local communities. It goes on to suggest a need for a change in assessment practice, away from task…
Anti-social behaviour orders and young people with learning disabilities
This paper sets out to critically explore the use of anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) in relation to young people with learning disabilities. It brings together an emerging body of evidence, from a range of sources, which suggests that these marginalized and vulnerable young people are over-represented amongst those made subject to ASBOs. In this context it will provide a critique of existing practice, within both welfare and criminal justice…
Acquired Brain Injury, Social Work and the Challenges of Personalisation: Table 1
Increasing numbers of adults in the UK are living with acquired brain injury (ABI), with those affected requiring immediate medical care and longer-term rehabilitative and social care. Despite their social needs, limited attention has been paid to people with ABI within the social work literature and their needs are also often overlooked in policy and guidance. As a means of highlighting the challenge that ABI presents to statutory social work, t…
The things we’re complaining about, we’re providing as well: Dual-Use” Technologies in the Lives of Victim-Survivors of Domestic Abuse
Purpose This paper aims to provide information for professionals and victim-survivors of domestic abuse on the potential risks and benefits of three “dual-use” technologies: smart doorbells, indoor cameras (such as smart baby monitors and pet cameras) and location tracking apps. Design/methodology/approach This study draws on qualitative interviews conducted as part of a wider mixed-methods study. Participants included UK-based professionals work…
Technology-Facilitated Domestic Abuse: An under-Recognised Safeguarding Issue
Responding to domestic abuse is a key element of social work practice, in both child protection and adult safeguarding. This article sets out the ways in which rapid technological advances are being co-opted by perpetrators of domestic abuse to create new ways of exerting control. After starting with a brief reminder of recent UK legislative changes around domestic abuse, the article outlines the main ways in which technologies, including mobile …
Ambivalence about disability: Why people with mild learning difficulties who are looking for employment may not identify as disabled
UK government policies over several decades have sought to actively encourage disabled people to take up paid employment, most recently by focusing on the ‘gap’ between employment rates of disabled and non-disabled people. These policies implicitly assume a clear distinction between people who are and are not disabled, linked to medically-oriented, hierarchical notions of deservingness. They also assume that people who need support will self-iden…
Building an Evidence Base for Adult Safeguarding? Problems with the Reliability and Validity of Adult Safeguarding Databases
This article considers current adult safeguarding policy guidelines for England, which require local authorities to collect adult safeguarding data for the purposes of research and service development. It then moves on to report some of the findings from an evaluation of adult safeguarding in one English local authority, focussing on how the adult safeguarding database was populated from case records and how the resultant data was utilised. It fo…
Inclusion or outcomes? Tensions in the involvement of people with learning disabilities in strategic planning
Social inclusion is a key principle that underpins the provision of services for people with learning disabilities in England. Learning Disability Partnership Boards, which are responsible for local strategic planning of learning disability services, hold a particular role in promoting inclusion since they are required both to operate inclusively and to achieve inclusive outcomes. This study sought to explore the extent to which these ambitions f…
Foster fathers: Their experiences and contributions to fostering
The paper reports some of the findings of an exploratory study that looks at foster fathers’ experiences of fostering and discusses their routes into foster care and their perspectives on their roles and tasks. The study collected quantitative and qualitative data by approaching all foster fathers registered with a single independent fostering agency based in south‐east England. They were asked about their personal and professional attributes, an…
Supported living through Supporting People: The experiences of people with learning disabilities
This article reports the findings of research which examined the impact that the Supporting People programme has had on housing and support for adults with learning disabilities. The issue was explored from the perspectives of local Supporting People teams, commissioners and providers of specialist learning disability social care services, and people with learning disabilities themselves
Independence or protection – does it have to be a choice? Reflections on the abuse of people with learning disabilities in Cornwall
This commentary will use recent events in Cornwall to highlight the ongoing abuse of adults with learning disabilities in England. It will critically explore how two parallel policy agendas — namely, the promotion of choice and independence for adults with learning disabilities and the development of adult protection policies — have failed to connect, thus allowing abuse to continue to flourish. It will be argued that the abuse of people with lea…
Independence and learning disabilities: Why we must also recognize vulnerability
Services for adults with learning disabilities are currently based on the promotion of four key principles: rights, independence, choice and social inclusion. This paper will argue that, while these principles are welcome, they need to be balanced against a fifth principle ‐ that vulnerable adults should be adequately protected against the risk of abuse. It will draw on both recent high‐profile cases of violence and abuse against people with lear…
Human Rights and Social Wrongs: Issues in Safeguarding Adults with Learning Disabilities
This paper uses a framework of human rights to explore the high levels of bullying and abuse experienced by adults with learning disabilities. It will identify the different needs of people with different degrees of learning disability before moving on to focus on the particular needs of those with mild learning disabilities who are targeted within local communities. It goes on to suggest a need for a change in assessment practice, away from task…
Anti-social behaviour orders and young people with learning disabilities
This paper sets out to critically explore the use of anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) in relation to young people with learning disabilities. It brings together an emerging body of evidence, from a range of sources, which suggests that these marginalized and vulnerable young people are over-represented amongst those made subject to ASBOs. In this context it will provide a critique of existing practice, within both welfare and criminal justice…
Learning Difficulties and Sexual Vulnerability: A Social Approach
This book reports on new research that seeks to challenge the assumption, prevalent amongst many social care professionals, that people with learning difficulties are necessarily sexually vulnerable and therefore automatically in need of ‘protection’. To do this, Hollomotz uses the social model of disability as a lens through which to examine the life experiences, including sexual experiences, of a group of adults with learning difficulties. Her …
Outcomes following adult safeguarding alerts: A critical analysis of key factors
Purpose This paper seeks to report some of the findings from an evaluation of adult safeguarding in one English local authority. The evaluation was commissioned in the context of concern regarding the number of safeguarding investigations that resulted in inconclusive outcomes. Design/methodology/approach All adult social care teams in the local authority were asked to complete a short pro forma about the five most recent adult safeguarding alert…
Inclusion or outcomes? Tensions in the involvement of people with learning disabilities in strategic planning
Social inclusion is a key principle that underpins the provision of services for people with learning disabilities in England. Learning Disability Partnership Boards, which are responsible for local strategic planning of learning disability services, hold a particular role in promoting inclusion since they are required both to operate inclusively and to achieve inclusive outcomes. This study sought to explore the extent to which these ambitions f…
Preventing the Emotional Abuse and Neglect of People with Intellectual Disability: Stopping Insult and Injury
Journal Article Preventing the Emotional Abuse and Neglect of People with Intellectual Disability: Stopping Insult and Injury Get access Preventing the Emotional Abuse and Neglect of People with Intellectual Disability: Stopping Insult and Injury, Sally Robinson, London, Jessica Kingsley, 2013, pp. 220, ISBN 978-1-84905-230-6, £19.99 pb Rachel Fyson Rachel Fyson Associate Professor Associate Professor, School of Sociology & Social Policy, Univers…
Building an Evidence Base for Adult Safeguarding? Problems with the Reliability and Validity of Adult Safeguarding Databases
This article considers current adult safeguarding policy guidelines for England, which require local authorities to collect adult safeguarding data for the purposes of research and service development. It then moves on to report some of the findings from an evaluation of adult safeguarding in one English local authority, focussing on how the adult safeguarding database was populated from case records and how the resultant data was utilised. It fo…
Women, Disability and Mental Distress
Journal Article Women, Disability and Mental Distress Get access Women, Disability and Mental Distress, Julia L. T. Smith, Farnham, Ashgate, 2015, pp. 162, ISBN 9781409454007, £60 (hb) (also available as an e-book in both PDF and ePUB formats) Rachel Fyson Rachel Fyson University of Nottingham [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 45, Issue…
I was just gobsmacked’: Care workers’ responses to BBC Panorama’s ‘Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed’; invoking mental states as a means of distancing from abusive practices
This article draws upon discourse analytic techniques and discursive psychology to examine how care workers build accounts of viewing the BBC Panorama programme ‘Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed’, which graphically documented the abuse of people with learning disabilities in a residential care setting. A total of 56 interviews were conducted as part of a project concerning adult safeguarding. The analysis considers how care workers report their…
Acquired Brain Injury, Social Work and the Challenges of Personalisation: Table 1
Increasing numbers of adults in the UK are living with acquired brain injury (ABI), with those affected requiring immediate medical care and longer-term rehabilitative and social care. Despite their social needs, limited attention has been paid to people with ABI within the social work literature and their needs are also often overlooked in policy and guidance. As a means of highlighting the challenge that ABI presents to statutory social work, t…
Forced marriage of people with learning disabilities: A human rights issue
This paper reports some of the findings of an exploratory study which sought to better understand the demographics of forced marriage of people with learning disabilities and the contexts in which such marriages may occur. It was found that forced marriages of people with and without learning disabilities showed broad similarities in relation to ethnicity, some differences in terms of age and substantial differences in terms of gender. Men and wo…
Theorising disability: A Practical and Representative Ontology of Learning Disability
This article contributes to the ongoing development of the theorisation of learning disability, focusing on the value of the ontological turn. We argue that while social theory has influenced understandings of disability within academia, particularly within disability studies, it has had a limited impact on the discursive and practical use of the term 'learning disability'. How 'learning disability' is constructed is of direct consequence to the …
The demographics of forced marriage of people with learning disabilities: Findings from a national database
Purpose The purpose of this study is to compare the UK demographics of forced marriage of people with learning disabilities and people without learning disabilities to inform effective safeguarding practice. Design/methodology/approach An analysis of all cases of forced marriage reported to the UK Government’s Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) between 2009 and 2015. Findings People with learning disabilities are at five times greater risk of forced marr…
Improving the inclusivity and credibility of visual research: Interpretive engagement as a route to including the voices of people with learning disabilities in analysis
Visual methods are often used in social science because of the potential for inclusivity and accessibility. In disability studies in particular, inclusive research is widely viewed as best practice and visual methods are often considered more accessible than traditional research methods. However, visual methods can encounter challenges at the stage of analysis: it is at this stage that either rigour or inclusivity are most likely to be compromise…
Talking about learning disability: Discursive acts in managing an ideological dilemma
Learning disability is a term that can mean different things to different people. It is also a term that has undergone much revision and critique, being linked to stigma and prejudice. Consequently, talking about learning disability can be a delicate matter. This paper analyses the discursive work done by focus group participants (professionals and lay people in supportive roles) to manage their talk about learning disability. We show how partici…
Ambivalence about disability: Why people with mild learning difficulties who are looking for employment may not identify as disabled
UK government policies over several decades have sought to actively encourage disabled people to take up paid employment, most recently by focusing on the ‘gap’ between employment rates of disabled and non-disabled people. These policies implicitly assume a clear distinction between people who are and are not disabled, linked to medically-oriented, hierarchical notions of deservingness. They also assume that people who need support will self-iden…
Adult safeguarding observed: How social workers assess and manage risk and uncertainty
Technology-Facilitated Domestic Abuse: An under-Recognised Safeguarding Issue
Responding to domestic abuse is a key element of social work practice, in both child protection and adult safeguarding. This article sets out the ways in which rapid technological advances are being co-opted by perpetrators of domestic abuse to create new ways of exerting control. After starting with a brief reminder of recent UK legislative changes around domestic abuse, the article outlines the main ways in which technologies, including mobile …
Cognitive Impairment as A Vulnerability for Exploitation: A Scoping Review
Exploitation is a form of abuse that occurs when one person unfairly manipulates another for profit or personal gain. Various individual and social characteristics have the potential to increase an individual’s risk of being exploited. Cognitive impairment is one potential vulnerability factor that has received minimal research attention. This scoping review aimed to investigate cognitive impairment as a factor that may increase an individual’s v…
Social (in)justice on the margins of paid work: Misrecognition, maldistribution and the employment of people with learning difficulties
People with learning difficulties are being denied social justice in their everyday encounters with the labour market. Using concepts developed by Fraser, we argue that this denial of social justice arises from a combination of maldistribution of resources and misrecognition of people's equal humanity and their right to dignity and respect. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 16 people with mild learning difficulties on the margins of paid wor…
The things we’re complaining about, we’re providing as well: Dual-Use” Technologies in the Lives of Victim-Survivors of Domestic Abuse
Purpose This paper aims to provide information for professionals and victim-survivors of domestic abuse on the potential risks and benefits of three “dual-use” technologies: smart doorbells, indoor cameras (such as smart baby monitors and pet cameras) and location tracking apps. Design/methodology/approach This study draws on qualitative interviews conducted as part of a wider mixed-methods study. Participants included UK-based professionals work…
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