M Webster
Biographic Data
| ID | 13871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Webster |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Webster |
| SIGNATURE | WEBSTER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4167-6376 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Feeding grandchildren: Competing priorities and blurred relational boundaries
With grandparents providing increasing amounts of childcare, through the lens of food, this paper explores how the provision of regular childcare may be blurring the boundaries of the grandmother role. Drawing on semi-structured, photo elicitation interviews with 23 white British grandparents who regularly look after their grandchildren aged 11 years and under, we demonstrate that there were sometimes competing priorities and tensions between gra…
Intensive Grandmothering? Exploring the Changing Nature of Grandmothering in the Context of Changes to Parenting Culture
This article explores the ways in which the intensification of parenting and the notion of children at risk have influenced grandmothers' narratives and practices. Interviews with grandmothers who regularly look after their grandchildren, reveal that their practices are framed around the notions of children to be protected, educated and entertained. Such notions reveal that aspects of grandmothers' roles as protectors, educators, playmates and co…
Childhood epilepsy in contemporary society: Risk perceptions among children and their family members
Although uncertainty is a key characteristic of epilepsy, and despite the close relationship between uncertainty and risk, our understanding of individuals’ experiences of childhood epilepsy in relation to risk is limited. In this paper I explore family members’ perceptions of the risks associated with the condition by drawing on qualitative data collected during 2013 and 2014 from 24 families with a child with epilepsy (including data from 28 pa…
The cycle of uncertainty: Parents' Experiences of Childhood Epilepsy
Uncertainty has been highlighted as an important aspect of experiences of chronic conditions generally and epilepsy in particular. However, there is little research exploring the extent to which uncertainty features in the experiences of family members or the form that this uncertainty may take. Drawing on in-depth semi-structured interviews with 27 parents who had a child with epilepsy, this article explores parents' experiences of uncertainty a…
Siblings' caring roles in families with a child with epilepsy
Despite large amounts of care for chronic conditions being provided within the family, information regarding the extent to which siblings contribute to informal care practices in families where a child has a chronic condition is limited. This article draws on multiple perspective data from 24 families that had a child with epilepsy. In doing so, the article illustrates siblings' significant contribution to caring for their brother or sister and f…
Similarities and differences in the meanings children and their parents attach to epilepsy medications
Diet and identity: Being a Good Parent in the Face of Contradictions Presented by the Ketogenic Diet
The ketogenic diet is a high-fat diet used to treat drug-resistant childhood epilepsy. Given that negative meanings tend to be attached to fatty foods and children's food consumption is seen to be the responsibility of parents, the ketogenic diet may be problematic for parenting identity. This article draws upon in-depth semi-structured interviews with 12 parents from 10 families that have a child whose epilepsy is being treated with the ketogeni…
Behavior, Expectations and Status
We predict effects of behavior patterns and status on performance expectations and group inequality using an integrated theory developed by Fişek, Berger and Norman (1991). We next test those predictions using new experimental techniques we developed to control behavior patterns as independent variables. In a 10-condition experiment, predictions accounted for about 72 percent of variance in the data, with closer fit for women than for men. The ge…
Divergent thinking in arts and science students: The effect of item content
Two four‐item tests of divergent thinking were developed. Both included the item types: uses, similarities, consequences and instances. The first test concerned non‐scientific objects while the second concerned objects that were of specific interest to engineers. One hundred and thirty‐nine engineering students and 94 business studies students took both tests. Using a fluency measure of divergent thinking it was shown that item content has a sign…
Intensive Grandmothering? Exploring the Changing Nature of Grandmothering in the Context of Changes to Parenting Culture
This article explores the ways in which the intensification of parenting and the notion of children at risk have influenced grandmothers' narratives and practices. Interviews with grandmothers who regularly look after their grandchildren, reveal that their practices are framed around the notions of children to be protected, educated and entertained. Such notions reveal that aspects of grandmothers' roles as protectors, educators, playmates and co…
The cycle of uncertainty: Parents' Experiences of Childhood Epilepsy
Uncertainty has been highlighted as an important aspect of experiences of chronic conditions generally and epilepsy in particular. However, there is little research exploring the extent to which uncertainty features in the experiences of family members or the form that this uncertainty may take. Drawing on in-depth semi-structured interviews with 27 parents who had a child with epilepsy, this article explores parents' experiences of uncertainty a…
Siblings' caring roles in families with a child with epilepsy
Despite large amounts of care for chronic conditions being provided within the family, information regarding the extent to which siblings contribute to informal care practices in families where a child has a chronic condition is limited. This article draws on multiple perspective data from 24 families that had a child with epilepsy. In doing so, the article illustrates siblings' significant contribution to caring for their brother or sister and f…
Diet and identity: Being a Good Parent in the Face of Contradictions Presented by the Ketogenic Diet
The ketogenic diet is a high-fat diet used to treat drug-resistant childhood epilepsy. Given that negative meanings tend to be attached to fatty foods and children's food consumption is seen to be the responsibility of parents, the ketogenic diet may be problematic for parenting identity. This article draws upon in-depth semi-structured interviews with 12 parents from 10 families that have a child whose epilepsy is being treated with the ketogeni…
Divergent thinking in arts and science students: The effect of item content
Two four‐item tests of divergent thinking were developed. Both included the item types: uses, similarities, consequences and instances. The first test concerned non‐scientific objects while the second concerned objects that were of specific interest to engineers. One hundred and thirty‐nine engineering students and 94 business studies students took both tests. Using a fluency measure of divergent thinking it was shown that item content has a sign…
Behavior, Expectations and Status
We predict effects of behavior patterns and status on performance expectations and group inequality using an integrated theory developed by Fişek, Berger and Norman (1991). We next test those predictions using new experimental techniques we developed to control behavior patterns as independent variables. In a 10-condition experiment, predictions accounted for about 72 percent of variance in the data, with closer fit for women than for men. The ge…
Diet and identity: Being a Good Parent in the Face of Contradictions Presented by the Ketogenic Diet
The ketogenic diet is a high-fat diet used to treat drug-resistant childhood epilepsy. Given that negative meanings tend to be attached to fatty foods and children's food consumption is seen to be the responsibility of parents, the ketogenic diet may be problematic for parenting identity. This article draws upon in-depth semi-structured interviews with 12 parents from 10 families that have a child whose epilepsy is being treated with the ketogeni…
Similarities and differences in the meanings children and their parents attach to epilepsy medications
Siblings' caring roles in families with a child with epilepsy
Despite large amounts of care for chronic conditions being provided within the family, information regarding the extent to which siblings contribute to informal care practices in families where a child has a chronic condition is limited. This article draws on multiple perspective data from 24 families that had a child with epilepsy. In doing so, the article illustrates siblings' significant contribution to caring for their brother or sister and f…
The cycle of uncertainty: Parents' Experiences of Childhood Epilepsy
Uncertainty has been highlighted as an important aspect of experiences of chronic conditions generally and epilepsy in particular. However, there is little research exploring the extent to which uncertainty features in the experiences of family members or the form that this uncertainty may take. Drawing on in-depth semi-structured interviews with 27 parents who had a child with epilepsy, this article explores parents' experiences of uncertainty a…
Childhood epilepsy in contemporary society: Risk perceptions among children and their family members
Although uncertainty is a key characteristic of epilepsy, and despite the close relationship between uncertainty and risk, our understanding of individuals’ experiences of childhood epilepsy in relation to risk is limited. In this paper I explore family members’ perceptions of the risks associated with the condition by drawing on qualitative data collected during 2013 and 2014 from 24 families with a child with epilepsy (including data from 28 pa…
Intensive Grandmothering? Exploring the Changing Nature of Grandmothering in the Context of Changes to Parenting Culture
This article explores the ways in which the intensification of parenting and the notion of children at risk have influenced grandmothers' narratives and practices. Interviews with grandmothers who regularly look after their grandchildren, reveal that their practices are framed around the notions of children to be protected, educated and entertained. Such notions reveal that aspects of grandmothers' roles as protectors, educators, playmates and co…
Feeding grandchildren: Competing priorities and blurred relational boundaries
With grandparents providing increasing amounts of childcare, through the lens of food, this paper explores how the provision of regular childcare may be blurring the boundaries of the grandmother role. Drawing on semi-structured, photo elicitation interviews with 23 white British grandparents who regularly look after their grandchildren aged 11 years and under, we demonstrate that there were sometimes competing priorities and tensions between gra…
Psychology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Epilepsy (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Epilepsy research and treatment (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Diet and metabolism studies (2 works)