Elizabeth West
Biographic Data
| ID | 1708653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth West |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | West |
| SIGNATURE | WEST E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5093-4720 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 248 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
TikTok Too Much? A Qualitative Investigation of Adolescent TikTok Use, Motivation, and Consequences
TikTok use has grown rapidly since the COVID-19 pandemic, especially among adolescents. The goal of this study is to understand how and why teenagers use TikTok and how teenagers perceive these behaviors and motivations as contributing to their mental well-being. This qualitative, descriptive study involved interviewing teenagers one-on-one via Zoom regarding their TikTok use and how they perceived TikTok as influencing their well-being ( N = 31;…
The Silver Sword and the New Windmill Series: The Legacy of Ian and Anne Serraillier
Ian Serraillier is best remembered for his children’s book, The Silver Sword , first published in 1956. However, along with his wife Anne, he was also instrumental in creating The New Windmill Series, an imprint of Heinemann Educational Books, and one of the first collections of teenage fiction aimed for the education market. This article discusses the way in which Serraillier’s ideological beliefs, rooted in his Quaker faith, can be traced not o…
Andrew Maunder, Enid Blyton, A Literary Life
Enid Blyton, A Literary Life is published by Palgrave Macmillan as part of its longstanding Literary Lives series, which places influential writers within their historical, cultural and social contexts. That Enid Blyton has, over fifty five years since her death, achieved a place within this series is testament to the curious position she has occupied at the cusp of commercial and cultural conversations for three quarters of a century. The series…
Afterword: In and beyond the Boundaries of Medievalism
In its special issue, “The ‘Medieval’ Undone: Imagining a New Global Past,” boundary 2 reveals connections of medieval studies beyond the field's self-declared boundary of 500 – 1500 AD. Though focusing on medieval studies, these essays underscore the field's long-standing role in promoting an Anglocentric paradigm of time and history. The implications reach beyond the 1500s, into the settler and colonial periods of early America, serving as a re…
Growing Sideways in Twenty-First Century British Culture: Challenging Boundaries between Childhood and Adulthood. Anne Malewski
General and LGBTQ-specific factors associated with mental health and suicide risk among LGBTQ students
This study investigated general and LGBTQ-specific factors associated with having a current mental health problem, use of mental health services, suicide risk and self-harm in 1948 LGBTQ university students (ages 16-25) who took part in the Youth Chances community study in the UK. In multivariate logistic regression, factors associated with all four outcomes were female gender, sexual abuse, other abuse or violence, and being transgender. Further…
Reaching the Right People: Reflexive Practice to Support Effective Recruitment, Participation, and Engagement in Research With Communities Affected by Stigma
Recruiting participants to qualitative studies is often a challenge-reaching the right people, and the right people choosing to participate, is a primary consideration for researchers. For research on HIV, as a condition which continues to be stigmatized, this can be magnified. However, being part of the HIV voluntary sector and occupying a role of 'HIV advocate' can provide routes to overcome this challenge. Using the example of the researcher's…
Non-binary and binary transgender youth: Comparison of mental health, self-harm, suicidality, substance use and victimization experiences
Background : Little research has compared the mental health and victimization experiences of non-binary youth depending on their sex assigned at birth (SAAB), or compared these two groups with binary transgender youth. Aims : To compare mental health, self-harm and suicidality, substance use and victimization experiences between non-binary and binary transgender young adults, both male assigned at birth (MAAB) and female assigned at birth (FAAB).…
The quasi-market for adult residential care in the UK: Do for-profit, not-for-profit or public sector residential care and nursing homes provide better quality care
Time frames and self-hurting: That was then, this is now
In this article, we explore the different time frames through which 25 adults who have used non-suicidal self-hurting throughout their lives evaluate their experiences. Participants in the study on which this article is based were drawn from a non-clinical population recruited mainly through dedicated websites. All were interviewed in 2008 in South London. The participants all used time frames to structure their narratives about their use of self…
The emotional costs of caring incurred by men and women in the British labour market
Of Providence and Rhetoric: The Failure of Alexander Crummell's Anglo-African Nationalism
This is the post-print version of a published article: West, E. (2004). Of Providence and Rhetoric: The Failure of Alexander Crummell’s Anglo-African Nationalism. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 5(3)
In the Beginning There Was Death: "Spiritual Desolation and the Search for Self in Jamaica Kincaid's "Autobiography of My Mother
Elizabeth J. West, In the Beginning There Was Death: Spiritual Desolation and the Search for Self in Jamaica Kincaid's "Autobiography of My Mother", South Central Review, Vol. 20, No. 2/4 (Summer - Winter, 2003), pp. 2-23
Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and Twentieth-Century American Poetry
This broad overview by an established poet and cultural critic reveals the rich tapestry of African American poetry as it has emerged over the past century. From early 20th-century writings to present-day poetry slams, African American poetry exhibits an impressive range of style and substance. Lorenzo Thomas has written an important new history of the genre that offers a critical reassessment of its development in the 20th century within the con…
Research communications
Hierarchies and cliques in the social networks of health care professionals: Implications for the Design of Dissemination Strategies
Organization Building in the Wake of Ethnic Conflict: A Comparison of Three Ethnic Groups
Ethnic Minority Media: An International Perspective
A Time to Grow and a Time to Die: Growth and Mortality of Credit Unions in New York City, 1914-1990
One vision of organizational evolution suggests that old and large organizations become increasingly dominant over their environment. A second suggests that as organizations age they become less able to respond to new challenges. In this article the authors investigate which of these visions best characterizes the evolution of state-chartered credit unions in New York City from 1914 through 1990 by analyzing the effects of organizational age, siz…
School Desegregation, Interracial Exposure, and Antibusing Activity in Contemporary Urban America
Prior research emphasized either resource mobilization or grievance explanations of antibusing activity. This article argues that both explanations imply that racial competition generated collective action against busing. It suggests that increases in interracial exposure in schools and neighborhoods trigger racial and ethnic conflict. This article examines these competition arguments using data on antibusing events, school desegration, and inter…
Ethnic Conflict and the Rise and Fall of Ethnic Newspapers
Contemporary research on collective action claims that organizations play a central role in facilitating many kinds of collective actions. We reverse the causal link and ask whether ethnic conflict affects the life chances of social movement organizations. We analyze the effects of ethnic conflict,fluctuations in the economy, and organizational density on the rates offounding andfailure of white immigrant and African-American newspaper organizati…
A Time to Grow and a Time to Die: Growth and Mortality of Credit Unions in New York City, 1914-1990
One vision of organizational evolution suggests that old and large organizations become increasingly dominant over their environment. A second suggests that as organizations age they become less able to respond to new challenges. In this article the authors investigate which of these visions best characterizes the evolution of state-chartered credit unions in New York City from 1914 through 1990 by analyzing the effects of organizational age, siz…
Ethnic Conflict and the Rise and Fall of Ethnic Newspapers
Contemporary research on collective action claims that organizations play a central role in facilitating many kinds of collective actions. We reverse the causal link and ask whether ethnic conflict affects the life chances of social movement organizations. We analyze the effects of ethnic conflict,fluctuations in the economy, and organizational density on the rates offounding andfailure of white immigrant and African-American newspaper organizati…
School Desegregation, Interracial Exposure, and Antibusing Activity in Contemporary Urban America
Prior research emphasized either resource mobilization or grievance explanations of antibusing activity. This article argues that both explanations imply that racial competition generated collective action against busing. It suggests that increases in interracial exposure in schools and neighborhoods trigger racial and ethnic conflict. This article examines these competition arguments using data on antibusing events, school desegration, and inter…
Non-binary and binary transgender youth: Comparison of mental health, self-harm, suicidality, substance use and victimization experiences
Background : Little research has compared the mental health and victimization experiences of non-binary youth depending on their sex assigned at birth (SAAB), or compared these two groups with binary transgender youth. Aims : To compare mental health, self-harm and suicidality, substance use and victimization experiences between non-binary and binary transgender young adults, both male assigned at birth (MAAB) and female assigned at birth (FAAB).…
Hierarchies and cliques in the social networks of health care professionals: Implications for the Design of Dissemination Strategies
The quasi-market for adult residential care in the UK: Do for-profit, not-for-profit or public sector residential care and nursing homes provide better quality care
The emotional costs of caring incurred by men and women in the British labour market
General and LGBTQ-specific factors associated with mental health and suicide risk among LGBTQ students
This study investigated general and LGBTQ-specific factors associated with having a current mental health problem, use of mental health services, suicide risk and self-harm in 1948 LGBTQ university students (ages 16-25) who took part in the Youth Chances community study in the UK. In multivariate logistic regression, factors associated with all four outcomes were female gender, sexual abuse, other abuse or violence, and being transgender. Further…
Reaching the Right People: Reflexive Practice to Support Effective Recruitment, Participation, and Engagement in Research With Communities Affected by Stigma
Recruiting participants to qualitative studies is often a challenge-reaching the right people, and the right people choosing to participate, is a primary consideration for researchers. For research on HIV, as a condition which continues to be stigmatized, this can be magnified. However, being part of the HIV voluntary sector and occupying a role of 'HIV advocate' can provide routes to overcome this challenge. Using the example of the researcher's…
Afterword: In and beyond the Boundaries of Medievalism
In its special issue, “The ‘Medieval’ Undone: Imagining a New Global Past,” boundary 2 reveals connections of medieval studies beyond the field's self-declared boundary of 500 – 1500 AD. Though focusing on medieval studies, these essays underscore the field's long-standing role in promoting an Anglocentric paradigm of time and history. The implications reach beyond the 1500s, into the settler and colonial periods of early America, serving as a re…
Organization Building in the Wake of Ethnic Conflict: A Comparison of Three Ethnic Groups
Ethnic Conflict and the Rise and Fall of Ethnic Newspapers
Contemporary research on collective action claims that organizations play a central role in facilitating many kinds of collective actions. We reverse the causal link and ask whether ethnic conflict affects the life chances of social movement organizations. We analyze the effects of ethnic conflict,fluctuations in the economy, and organizational density on the rates offounding andfailure of white immigrant and African-American newspaper organizati…
Ethnic Minority Media: An International Perspective
A Time to Grow and a Time to Die: Growth and Mortality of Credit Unions in New York City, 1914-1990
One vision of organizational evolution suggests that old and large organizations become increasingly dominant over their environment. A second suggests that as organizations age they become less able to respond to new challenges. In this article the authors investigate which of these visions best characterizes the evolution of state-chartered credit unions in New York City from 1914 through 1990 by analyzing the effects of organizational age, siz…
School Desegregation, Interracial Exposure, and Antibusing Activity in Contemporary Urban America
Prior research emphasized either resource mobilization or grievance explanations of antibusing activity. This article argues that both explanations imply that racial competition generated collective action against busing. It suggests that increases in interracial exposure in schools and neighborhoods trigger racial and ethnic conflict. This article examines these competition arguments using data on antibusing events, school desegration, and inter…
Organization Building in the Wake of Ethnic Conflict: A Comparison of Three Ethnic Groups
Hierarchies and cliques in the social networks of health care professionals: Implications for the Design of Dissemination Strategies
Research communications
Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and Twentieth-Century American Poetry
This broad overview by an established poet and cultural critic reveals the rich tapestry of African American poetry as it has emerged over the past century. From early 20th-century writings to present-day poetry slams, African American poetry exhibits an impressive range of style and substance. Lorenzo Thomas has written an important new history of the genre that offers a critical reassessment of its development in the 20th century within the con…
In the Beginning There Was Death: "Spiritual Desolation and the Search for Self in Jamaica Kincaid's "Autobiography of My Mother
Elizabeth J. West, In the Beginning There Was Death: Spiritual Desolation and the Search for Self in Jamaica Kincaid's "Autobiography of My Mother", South Central Review, Vol. 20, No. 2/4 (Summer - Winter, 2003), pp. 2-23
Of Providence and Rhetoric: The Failure of Alexander Crummell's Anglo-African Nationalism
This is the post-print version of a published article: West, E. (2004). Of Providence and Rhetoric: The Failure of Alexander Crummell’s Anglo-African Nationalism. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 5(3)
The emotional costs of caring incurred by men and women in the British labour market
Time frames and self-hurting: That was then, this is now
In this article, we explore the different time frames through which 25 adults who have used non-suicidal self-hurting throughout their lives evaluate their experiences. Participants in the study on which this article is based were drawn from a non-clinical population recruited mainly through dedicated websites. All were interviewed in 2008 in South London. The participants all used time frames to structure their narratives about their use of self…
Non-binary and binary transgender youth: Comparison of mental health, self-harm, suicidality, substance use and victimization experiences
Background : Little research has compared the mental health and victimization experiences of non-binary youth depending on their sex assigned at birth (SAAB), or compared these two groups with binary transgender youth. Aims : To compare mental health, self-harm and suicidality, substance use and victimization experiences between non-binary and binary transgender young adults, both male assigned at birth (MAAB) and female assigned at birth (FAAB).…
The quasi-market for adult residential care in the UK: Do for-profit, not-for-profit or public sector residential care and nursing homes provide better quality care
Reaching the Right People: Reflexive Practice to Support Effective Recruitment, Participation, and Engagement in Research With Communities Affected by Stigma
Recruiting participants to qualitative studies is often a challenge-reaching the right people, and the right people choosing to participate, is a primary consideration for researchers. For research on HIV, as a condition which continues to be stigmatized, this can be magnified. However, being part of the HIV voluntary sector and occupying a role of 'HIV advocate' can provide routes to overcome this challenge. Using the example of the researcher's…
General and LGBTQ-specific factors associated with mental health and suicide risk among LGBTQ students
This study investigated general and LGBTQ-specific factors associated with having a current mental health problem, use of mental health services, suicide risk and self-harm in 1948 LGBTQ university students (ages 16-25) who took part in the Youth Chances community study in the UK. In multivariate logistic regression, factors associated with all four outcomes were female gender, sexual abuse, other abuse or violence, and being transgender. Further…
Growing Sideways in Twenty-First Century British Culture: Challenging Boundaries between Childhood and Adulthood. Anne Malewski
Andrew Maunder, Enid Blyton, A Literary Life
Enid Blyton, A Literary Life is published by Palgrave Macmillan as part of its longstanding Literary Lives series, which places influential writers within their historical, cultural and social contexts. That Enid Blyton has, over fifty five years since her death, achieved a place within this series is testament to the curious position she has occupied at the cusp of commercial and cultural conversations for three quarters of a century. The series…
Afterword: In and beyond the Boundaries of Medievalism
In its special issue, “The ‘Medieval’ Undone: Imagining a New Global Past,” boundary 2 reveals connections of medieval studies beyond the field's self-declared boundary of 500 – 1500 AD. Though focusing on medieval studies, these essays underscore the field's long-standing role in promoting an Anglocentric paradigm of time and history. The implications reach beyond the 1500s, into the settler and colonial periods of early America, serving as a re…
The Silver Sword and the New Windmill Series: The Legacy of Ian and Anne Serraillier
Ian Serraillier is best remembered for his children’s book, The Silver Sword , first published in 1956. However, along with his wife Anne, he was also instrumental in creating The New Windmill Series, an imprint of Heinemann Educational Books, and one of the first collections of teenage fiction aimed for the education market. This article discusses the way in which Serraillier’s ideological beliefs, rooted in his Quaker faith, can be traced not o…
TikTok Too Much? A Qualitative Investigation of Adolescent TikTok Use, Motivation, and Consequences
TikTok use has grown rapidly since the COVID-19 pandemic, especially among adolescents. The goal of this study is to understand how and why teenagers use TikTok and how teenagers perceive these behaviors and motivations as contributing to their mental well-being. This qualitative, descriptive study involved interviewing teenagers one-on-one via Zoom regarding their TikTok use and how they perceived TikTok as influencing their well-being ( N = 31;…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Medicine (8 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Population (5 works)