Jan Idle
Biographic Data
| ID | 178884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Idle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Idle |
| SIGNATURE | IDLE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5966-6400 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Disability-inclusive iterative workshops as a co-design method
People with cognitive disability are subject to harm in their daily interactions, such as being ignored, humiliated and disrespected. Our study sought to explore this ‘everyday harm’ empirically. This article presents a case study of the use of disability-inclusive iterative workshops as a co-design method. The workshop method had two key outcomes. First, it confirmed that participants were very familiar with the concept (everyday harm) that the …
Understanding everyday harm between young people with cognitive disability and support workers
This article develops a typology of everyday harm from empirical data to understand the many, often subtle, ways that people with cognitive disability experience harm in their relationships with paid support workers. The analysis draws on the concepts of recognition and misrecognition to highlight how interpersonal relationships and organisational environments (policies and culture) interrelate and influence harm occurring in everyday interaction…
Five Factors for Effective Policy to Improve Attitudes towards People with Disability
Improving community attitudes and behaviours is core to improving inclusion for people with disability. To identify ways to achieve such change, we analysed data from qualitative interviews with sixty-one expert stakeholders in Australia, informed by our preceding literature review on effective interventions. We identified five themes describing factors with the potential to change attitudes and behaviours to improve inclusion and reduce discrimi…
Regulating vulnerability
This article analyses policy frameworks designed to protect people with disability from harm in service provision settings and respond to their experiences of violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation, with a focus on the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).The creation of a new disability services market has facilitated greater choice and empowerment for NDIS participants, but has also exposed them to new risks and vulnerabil…
Policy representation of everyday harm experienced by people with disability
People with disability are at heightened risk of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation (VANE) with policy geared towards responding to and eliminating VANE harm. Yet not all harm experienced by people with disability is captured within the VANE harm. Many people also experience harm in everyday interactions that leave them feeling uncomfortable, devalued, disrespected, threatened or silenced. Our multi‐method study begins with the term ‘every…
Dire consequences
Although tens of thousands of households are on the waiting-list for social housing in Australia, little is known about how they experience waiting for social housing. Drawing on 75 interviews conducted with people on the waiting-list (waitees) in three Australian states, we examine the impact of waiting on waitees utilising the concept of triple precarity. Double precarity refers to the insecure employment and housing that a substantial proporti…
Child Sexual Abuse, Alcohol and Other Drug use and the Criminal Justice System
Adverse childhood experiences, including childhood sexual abuse, have significant immediate and lifelong effects including higher risks of alcohol and other drug use and contact with the criminal justice system. The concept of trauma to describe adverse experiences and later behaviours provides potential to reshape prevention and responses for victims. We draw on survivor accounts to a national enquiry, the Australian Royal Commission into Instit…
Applying for Social Housing in Australia – The Centrality of Cultural, Social and Emotional Capital
Social housing scarcity has underpinned the development of detailed social housing application processes across Australia. Applications require the strongest possible evidence of disadvantage and need, conceptualized in this paper as the required demonstration of “inverse distinction”. Drawing on 47 in-depth interviews in three Australian states with people who have expert knowledge of the application process, we argue that the onerous requiremen…
Disability and family violence prevention
Background: The paper draws on empirical evidence from a project investigating service responses to disabled women and children experiencing domestic and family violence (DFV). Service provision in these sectors is often rationed due to resource constraints, and increasingly marketised, and disabled people often do not have their needs met. Their opportunities for participation in policy and practice are also constrained. Aims and objectives: Our…
Landscape
‘It was just something you did’
This article uses family photographs to discuss the labour of home dressmaking in Australia in the 1960s. These images reveal the products of this domestic labour in garments of economy and style and allude to the affective labour associated with the socialization of girls. The clothes produced by mothers for their daughters can be viewed as a performative act of mothering at that time. Drawing on conversations, discussions and interviews with th…
Mrs Dance strikes the first cut
This paper takes its title from the oil painting by George Pitt Morison held in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, called '12 August 1829. The Foundation of Perth. Mrs Dance strikes the first cut to mark the founding of Perth
Walking to Work
The settler community must negotiate the difference of the stranger and the melancholy and violence of a past haunted by colonization and death. Through writing the details of everyday contact in a walk across the city this essay explores notions of community. It owes much to the writing of Linnell Secomb who writes of the haunted nature of the settler community in the Australian context. Secomb writes of community through the ideas of Jean Luc N…
Dire consequences
Although tens of thousands of households are on the waiting-list for social housing in Australia, little is known about how they experience waiting for social housing. Drawing on 75 interviews conducted with people on the waiting-list (waitees) in three Australian states, we examine the impact of waiting on waitees utilising the concept of triple precarity. Double precarity refers to the insecure employment and housing that a substantial proporti…
Applying for Social Housing in Australia – The Centrality of Cultural, Social and Emotional Capital
Social housing scarcity has underpinned the development of detailed social housing application processes across Australia. Applications require the strongest possible evidence of disadvantage and need, conceptualized in this paper as the required demonstration of “inverse distinction”. Drawing on 47 in-depth interviews in three Australian states with people who have expert knowledge of the application process, we argue that the onerous requiremen…
Regulating vulnerability
This article analyses policy frameworks designed to protect people with disability from harm in service provision settings and respond to their experiences of violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation, with a focus on the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).The creation of a new disability services market has facilitated greater choice and empowerment for NDIS participants, but has also exposed them to new risks and vulnerabil…
Walking to Work
The settler community must negotiate the difference of the stranger and the melancholy and violence of a past haunted by colonization and death. Through writing the details of everyday contact in a walk across the city this essay explores notions of community. It owes much to the writing of Linnell Secomb who writes of the haunted nature of the settler community in the Australian context. Secomb writes of community through the ideas of Jean Luc N…
Mrs Dance strikes the first cut
This paper takes its title from the oil painting by George Pitt Morison held in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, called '12 August 1829. The Foundation of Perth. Mrs Dance strikes the first cut to mark the founding of Perth
‘It was just something you did’
This article uses family photographs to discuss the labour of home dressmaking in Australia in the 1960s. These images reveal the products of this domestic labour in garments of economy and style and allude to the affective labour associated with the socialization of girls. The clothes produced by mothers for their daughters can be viewed as a performative act of mothering at that time. Drawing on conversations, discussions and interviews with th…
Landscape
Disability and family violence prevention
Background: The paper draws on empirical evidence from a project investigating service responses to disabled women and children experiencing domestic and family violence (DFV). Service provision in these sectors is often rationed due to resource constraints, and increasingly marketised, and disabled people often do not have their needs met. Their opportunities for participation in policy and practice are also constrained. Aims and objectives: Our…
Applying for Social Housing in Australia – The Centrality of Cultural, Social and Emotional Capital
Social housing scarcity has underpinned the development of detailed social housing application processes across Australia. Applications require the strongest possible evidence of disadvantage and need, conceptualized in this paper as the required demonstration of “inverse distinction”. Drawing on 47 in-depth interviews in three Australian states with people who have expert knowledge of the application process, we argue that the onerous requiremen…
Dire consequences
Although tens of thousands of households are on the waiting-list for social housing in Australia, little is known about how they experience waiting for social housing. Drawing on 75 interviews conducted with people on the waiting-list (waitees) in three Australian states, we examine the impact of waiting on waitees utilising the concept of triple precarity. Double precarity refers to the insecure employment and housing that a substantial proporti…
Child Sexual Abuse, Alcohol and Other Drug use and the Criminal Justice System
Adverse childhood experiences, including childhood sexual abuse, have significant immediate and lifelong effects including higher risks of alcohol and other drug use and contact with the criminal justice system. The concept of trauma to describe adverse experiences and later behaviours provides potential to reshape prevention and responses for victims. We draw on survivor accounts to a national enquiry, the Australian Royal Commission into Instit…
Five Factors for Effective Policy to Improve Attitudes towards People with Disability
Improving community attitudes and behaviours is core to improving inclusion for people with disability. To identify ways to achieve such change, we analysed data from qualitative interviews with sixty-one expert stakeholders in Australia, informed by our preceding literature review on effective interventions. We identified five themes describing factors with the potential to change attitudes and behaviours to improve inclusion and reduce discrimi…
Regulating vulnerability
This article analyses policy frameworks designed to protect people with disability from harm in service provision settings and respond to their experiences of violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation, with a focus on the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).The creation of a new disability services market has facilitated greater choice and empowerment for NDIS participants, but has also exposed them to new risks and vulnerabil…
Policy representation of everyday harm experienced by people with disability
People with disability are at heightened risk of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation (VANE) with policy geared towards responding to and eliminating VANE harm. Yet not all harm experienced by people with disability is captured within the VANE harm. Many people also experience harm in everyday interactions that leave them feeling uncomfortable, devalued, disrespected, threatened or silenced. Our multi‐method study begins with the term ‘every…
Disability-inclusive iterative workshops as a co-design method
People with cognitive disability are subject to harm in their daily interactions, such as being ignored, humiliated and disrespected. Our study sought to explore this ‘everyday harm’ empirically. This article presents a case study of the use of disability-inclusive iterative workshops as a co-design method. The workshop method had two key outcomes. First, it confirmed that participants were very familiar with the concept (everyday harm) that the …
Understanding everyday harm between young people with cognitive disability and support workers
This article develops a typology of everyday harm from empirical data to understand the many, often subtle, ways that people with cognitive disability experience harm in their relationships with paid support workers. The analysis draws on the concepts of recognition and misrecognition to highlight how interpersonal relationships and organisational environments (policies and culture) interrelate and influence harm occurring in everyday interaction…
Political science (6 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Business (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (3 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (3 works)