L Senier
Biographic Data
| ID | 172127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Senier |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Senier |
| SIGNATURE | SENIER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-9897-6752 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Communication recovery in the classroom: A mixed-methods evaluation of a pilot program
Introduction Classrooms are environments for learning and growth, yet they also present opportunities for microaggressions to occur that may perpetuate feelings of exclusion in various educational contexts. Communication recovery frameworks offer guidance on how to engage in discussions that include diverse viewpoints, emphasizing the importance of empathy, humility, and active listening. Objective In this study, we implemented and evaluated a pi…
Values at the tap: How organizational culture shapes water unaffordability and environmental justice in U.S. cities
Rising household water rates have made unaffordability a public-health and environmental-justice concern, yet the cultural drivers of water utility affordability policies remain unclear. Integrating Schlosberg’s three justice dimensions with Schwartz’s human values theory, we examine how organizational values inside municipal water utilities shape pricing and customer assistance. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 37 managers, staff, an…
Masking (Not Masking) Up: An STS Visual-Intersectional Approach to Understanding Publics and Science in Times of Rapid Change
In this paper we argue that a visual-intersectional approach can advance the field of science and technology studies (STS). Although there is a small but important body of work using visual methods in STS, it has rarely incorporated intersectional approaches. We use visual imagery about mask wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study to illustrate the potential power of a visual-intersectional approach in STS. We chose masks for three r…
Learning in Crisis: Training Students to Monitor and Address Irresponsible Knowledge Construction by US Federal Agencies under Trump
Immediately after President Trump’s inauguration, US federal science agencies began deleting information about climate change from their websites, triggering alarm among scientists, environmental activists, and journalists about the administration’s attempt to suppress information about climate change and promulgate climate denialism. The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) was founded in late 2016 to build a multidisciplinary colla…
Blending Insights from Implementation Science and the Social Sciences to Mitigate Inequities in Screening for Hereditary Cancer Syndromes
Genomic screening to identify people at high risk for adult-onset hereditary conditions has potential to improve population health. However, if not equitably accessible, genomics-informed screening programs will exacerbate existing health inequities or give rise to new ones. To realize the disease prevention potential of these screening tools, we need strategies to broaden their reach. We propose a conceptual framework that merges insights from i…
Navigating the evidentiary turn in public health: Sensemaking strategies to integrate genomics into state-level chronic disease prevention programs
Why environmental exposures
Concerns about environmental health are rising. Publics, scientists and policymakers have grown increasingly alarmed about adverse health effects arising from catastrophic accidents such as the Bho
The strategic defense of physician autonomy: State public health agencies as countervailing powers
The socio-exposome: Advancing exposure science and environmental justice in a postgenomic era
We propose the socio-exposome as a conceptual framework for integrative environmental health research. Environmental scientists coined the term " exposome" with the goal of inventorying and quantifying environmental exposures as precisely as scientists measure genes and gene expression. To date, the exposome's proponents have not thoroughly engaged social scientific theoretical and methodological expertise, although the exclusion of sociological …
Exposed Science: Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health
An Ecological Perspective on Medical Care: Environmental, Occupational, and Public Health Impacts of Medical Supply and Pharmaceutical Chains
Tangible evidence, trust and power: Public perceptions of community environmental health studies
It's Your Most Precious Thing: Worst-Case Thinking, Trust, and Parental Decision Making about Vaccinations
School Custodians and Green Cleaners: New Approaches to Labor—Environment Coalitions
Coalitions between labor unions and environmental organizations often dissolve in class tensions that appear to force unions to choose between job security and occupational or environmental health. This article examines a successful blue—green coalition that worked to substitute cleaning products used in Boston public schools with safer alternatives. The coalition succeeded in part through the role of bridge builders, who unified a diverse group …
A Lab of Our Own: Environmental Causation of Breast Cancer and Challenges to the Dominant Epidemiological Paradigm
There are challenges to the dominant research paradigm in breast cancer science. In the United States, science and social activism create paradigmatic shifts. Using interviews, ethnographic observations, and an extensive review of the literature, we create a three-dimensional model to situate changes in scientific controversy concerning environmental causes of breast cancer. We identify three paradigm challenges posed by activists and some scient…
A Lab of Our Own: Environmental Causation of Breast Cancer and Challenges to the Dominant Epidemiological Paradigm
There are challenges to the dominant research paradigm in breast cancer science. In the United States, science and social activism create paradigmatic shifts. Using interviews, ethnographic observations, and an extensive review of the literature, we create a three-dimensional model to situate changes in scientific controversy concerning environmental causes of breast cancer. We identify three paradigm challenges posed by activists and some scient…
Tangible evidence, trust and power: Public perceptions of community environmental health studies
The socio-exposome: Advancing exposure science and environmental justice in a postgenomic era
We propose the socio-exposome as a conceptual framework for integrative environmental health research. Environmental scientists coined the term " exposome" with the goal of inventorying and quantifying environmental exposures as precisely as scientists measure genes and gene expression. To date, the exposome's proponents have not thoroughly engaged social scientific theoretical and methodological expertise, although the exclusion of sociological …
It's Your Most Precious Thing: Worst-Case Thinking, Trust, and Parental Decision Making about Vaccinations
The strategic defense of physician autonomy: State public health agencies as countervailing powers
A Lab of Our Own: Environmental Causation of Breast Cancer and Challenges to the Dominant Epidemiological Paradigm
There are challenges to the dominant research paradigm in breast cancer science. In the United States, science and social activism create paradigmatic shifts. Using interviews, ethnographic observations, and an extensive review of the literature, we create a three-dimensional model to situate changes in scientific controversy concerning environmental causes of breast cancer. We identify three paradigm challenges posed by activists and some scient…
School Custodians and Green Cleaners: New Approaches to Labor—Environment Coalitions
Coalitions between labor unions and environmental organizations often dissolve in class tensions that appear to force unions to choose between job security and occupational or environmental health. This article examines a successful blue—green coalition that worked to substitute cleaning products used in Boston public schools with safer alternatives. The coalition succeeded in part through the role of bridge builders, who unified a diverse group …
It's Your Most Precious Thing: Worst-Case Thinking, Trust, and Parental Decision Making about Vaccinations
Tangible evidence, trust and power: Public perceptions of community environmental health studies
An Ecological Perspective on Medical Care: Environmental, Occupational, and Public Health Impacts of Medical Supply and Pharmaceutical Chains
Exposed Science: Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health
The socio-exposome: Advancing exposure science and environmental justice in a postgenomic era
We propose the socio-exposome as a conceptual framework for integrative environmental health research. Environmental scientists coined the term " exposome" with the goal of inventorying and quantifying environmental exposures as precisely as scientists measure genes and gene expression. To date, the exposome's proponents have not thoroughly engaged social scientific theoretical and methodological expertise, although the exclusion of sociological …
Why environmental exposures
Concerns about environmental health are rising. Publics, scientists and policymakers have grown increasingly alarmed about adverse health effects arising from catastrophic accidents such as the Bho
The strategic defense of physician autonomy: State public health agencies as countervailing powers
Navigating the evidentiary turn in public health: Sensemaking strategies to integrate genomics into state-level chronic disease prevention programs
Blending Insights from Implementation Science and the Social Sciences to Mitigate Inequities in Screening for Hereditary Cancer Syndromes
Genomic screening to identify people at high risk for adult-onset hereditary conditions has potential to improve population health. However, if not equitably accessible, genomics-informed screening programs will exacerbate existing health inequities or give rise to new ones. To realize the disease prevention potential of these screening tools, we need strategies to broaden their reach. We propose a conceptual framework that merges insights from i…
Learning in Crisis: Training Students to Monitor and Address Irresponsible Knowledge Construction by US Federal Agencies under Trump
Immediately after President Trump’s inauguration, US federal science agencies began deleting information about climate change from their websites, triggering alarm among scientists, environmental activists, and journalists about the administration’s attempt to suppress information about climate change and promulgate climate denialism. The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) was founded in late 2016 to build a multidisciplinary colla…
Masking (Not Masking) Up: An STS Visual-Intersectional Approach to Understanding Publics and Science in Times of Rapid Change
In this paper we argue that a visual-intersectional approach can advance the field of science and technology studies (STS). Although there is a small but important body of work using visual methods in STS, it has rarely incorporated intersectional approaches. We use visual imagery about mask wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study to illustrate the potential power of a visual-intersectional approach in STS. We chose masks for three r…
Communication recovery in the classroom: A mixed-methods evaluation of a pilot program
Introduction Classrooms are environments for learning and growth, yet they also present opportunities for microaggressions to occur that may perpetuate feelings of exclusion in various educational contexts. Communication recovery frameworks offer guidance on how to engage in discussions that include diverse viewpoints, emphasizing the importance of empathy, humility, and active listening. Objective In this study, we implemented and evaluated a pi…
Values at the tap: How organizational culture shapes water unaffordability and environmental justice in U.S. cities
Rising household water rates have made unaffordability a public-health and environmental-justice concern, yet the cultural drivers of water utility affordability policies remain unclear. Integrating Schlosberg’s three justice dimensions with Schwartz’s human values theory, we examine how organizational values inside municipal water utilities shape pricing and customer assistance. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 37 managers, staff, an…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Public health (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Engineering (4 works)