Simon Crook
Biographic Data
| ID | 223637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Crook |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Crook |
| SIGNATURE | CROOK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1288-1488 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain
The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural barometers of success, the country was entering a newly ‘postfeminist’ era. At the same time, feminist groups identified sites of resurgence and growth in the wake of the fragmentation of the movement's ‘second wave’. Towards the end of the decade, mo…
The Women’s Liberation Movement and the Gendering of Undercover Police Surveillance in 1970s Britain: The Public Inquiry as (Un)Ethical archive
In the 1970s a female police officer went undercover in the feminist movement in Britain. Across two years, she shared plans, conversations, and ephemera with Special Branch, while uncovering nothing that threatened state security. Yet her time in the movement is important to historians; she inadvertently created a rich archive of the feminist movement. For feminist historians, though, the use of this archive, made available by the Undercover Pol…
Responsibility and other dangerous ideas: Who cares, who can, and who should in higher education
Universities are increasingly expected to assume greater responsibility for student mental health, with recent debates in the UK questioning whether institutions should hold a statutory duty of care. This paper critically examines what such responsibility might mean, who within the university is positioned to enact it, and the potential consequences of formalising responsibility through regulation. We distinguish between three overlapping forms o…
Using historical approaches to understand contemporary student loneliness
Student loneliness is a global problem, with universities struggling to tackle an issue that has important implications for student success, satisfaction, and mental health. This research uses archival material from the 1960s and 1970s alongside qualitative discussions with contemporary students to explore the ways that experiences of loneliness within British higher education have changed across recent decades. Such an approach bridges the diver…
Fostering integrated healthcare in rural Australia: A review of service models for older Australians with preventable chronic conditions
Our review examines the operational dynamics and effectiveness of integrated healthcare models in Australia, focusing on their relevance for older rural adults with preventable chronic diseases. Using Whittemore and Knafl's (2005) systematic integrative review methods, we conducted a search across five databases, including Medline-EBSCO, PubMed, CINAHL, EMBASE, and SCOPUS. The Sustainable Integrated Chronic Care Models for Multimorbidity (SELFIE)…
“No One Told You Life Was Gonna Be This Way”: A Qualitative Exploration of Friendship Expectations and Reality in University Life
INTRODUCTION: Young adulthood (ages 18-25) is a high-risk period for loneliness, particularly during educational transitions. Loneliness has negative consequences for mental health, physical health, and educational achievement. Psychologists conceptualize loneliness as emerging from a discrepancy between expected and experienced social connection, but this has been under-explored during young adulthood. METHOD: Drawing on thematic analysis of eig…
An Introduction to Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives
The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State . By Shaul Bar-Haim
Journal Article The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State. By Shaul Bar-Haim Get access The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State. By Shaul Bar-Haim. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2021. +295 pp. ISBN 9780812253153, £60. Sarah Crook Sarah Crook Swansea University, UK [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1288-1488 Search for other works by this au…
Daring to Hope and Daring to Disrupt: Rowbotham Revisits the 1970s
Feeling the Strain: A Cultural History of Stress in Twentieth-century Britain . By Jill Kirby
We should be grateful to her for her forbearance, as this timely text makes a valuable and enjoyable intervention into the literature on twentieth-century Britain. Contributing to the expanding scholarship around the history of stress, which includes Mark Jackson’s The Age of Stress: Science and the Search for Stability and his edited collection Stress in Post-War Britain, to which Kirby contributed, Feeling the Strain explores the means by which…
Historicising the “Crisis” in Undergraduate Mental Health: British Universities and Student Mental Illness, 1944–1968
This article explores how and why student mental health became an issue of concern in British universities between 1944 and 1968. It argues that two factors drew student mental health to the attention of medical professionals across this period: first, it argues that the post-war interest in mental illness drew attention to students, who were seen to be the luminaries of the future, investing their wellbeing with particular social importance. Sec…
Parenting during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020: Academia, Labour and Care Work
The Covid-19 pandemic instigated fundamental challenges and changes to parents' working lives in Britain. This viewpoint article reflects upon the experience of balancing childrearing responsibilities with academic work across the Spring and Summer of 2020. It positions the removal of formal and informal childcare networks within the history of feminist demands around childcare and sets it against the background of the recent history of women and…
A disastrous blow’: Psychiatric risk, social indicators and medical authority in abortion reform in post-war Britain
The Second World War lent impetus to the creation of new models and explanatory frameworks of risk, encouraging a closer reading of the relationship between individual psychiatric disorder and social disarray. This article interrogates how conceptions of psychiatric risk were animated in debates around abortion reform to forge new connections between social conditions and psychiatric vulnerability in post-war Britain. Drawing upon the arguments t…
The Labour Party, Feminism and Maureen Colquhoun's Scandals in 1970s Britain
Maureen Colquhoun (1928-) was the Tribunite Labour MP for Northampton North during the turbulent period of Labour government between 1974 and 1979. An avowed feminist, she praised the women’s liberation movement in parliament and introduced bills that brought feminist issues to parliamentary attention. Britain’s first openly lesbian MP, she was outed by the Daily Mail in 1976 and passionately defended her relationship and the rights of gay women.…
The Women’s Liberation Movement and the Politics of Class in Britain
The Women’s Liberation Movement and the Politics of Class in Britain." Contemporary British History, 34(2), pp. 329–330
Race, ethnicity and the women's movement in England, 1968-1993
"Race, ethnicity and the women’s movement in England, 1968–1993." Women's History Review, 27(4), pp. 650–651
The women's liberation movement, activism and therapy at the grassroots, 1968-1985
The women's liberation movement was the impetus for the founding of new institutions of psychological and mental health care for women in the late 1970s and 1980s. This article draws upon the archive of one such site, based in Islington, North London, to explore the ways that members of the movement interacted with local politics and were attentive to racial and economic oppression. It demonstrates that consciousness-raising groups and feminist m…
A Ruby and Triangled Sign upon the Forehead of Taurus: Modalities of Revelation in Megalithic Archaeoastronomy and James Joyce's Novels Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
This paper proceeds from the concurrent interpretation of two distinct, apparently unrelated disciplinary contexts, at the crossroads of the positivism of archaeology and the imaginary world of literature. The character of the reciprocal relationship between megalithism in Neolithic Portugal and the writings of the twentieth-century author, James Joyce, is transfigured through the introduction of a third element of interpretation, a deeply parado…
Young lives on the left: Sixties activism and the liberation of the self
Young lives on the left: sixties activism and the liberation of the self." Contemporary British History, 31(1), pp. 141–142
In Conversation with the Women's Liberation Movement: Intergenerational Histories of Second Wave Feminism, British Library, 12 Oct. 2013
On Saturday 12 October 2013, 250 people, mostly women, gathered in the British Library’s Conference Centre for the History of Feminism Network’s autumn event. It was the culmination of months of planning by Sarah Crook and Signy Gutnick Allen, the co-conveners of the Network; Professor Barbara Taylor, from Queen Mary, University of London and the Raphael Samuel History Centre; and Polly Russell, from the British Library. What had started with a b…
Seeing eye-to-eye on ICT: Science student and teacher perceptions of laptop use across 14 Australian schools
As schools start investigating and investing in the idea of 1:1 iPads and tablets, are there any lessons that can be learnt from recent 1:1 laptop deployments? In Australia, since 2008, 1:1 laptops have been introduced into every secondary school. This study reports on a survey designed to investigate frequency and type of laptop use, and the alignment of teacher and student perceptions of that use. Data was obtained from 14 secondary schools fro…
Rock Art and Shamanism
Historicising the “Crisis” in Undergraduate Mental Health: British Universities and Student Mental Illness, 1944–1968
This article explores how and why student mental health became an issue of concern in British universities between 1944 and 1968. It argues that two factors drew student mental health to the attention of medical professionals across this period: first, it argues that the post-war interest in mental illness drew attention to students, who were seen to be the luminaries of the future, investing their wellbeing with particular social importance. Sec…
Parenting during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020: Academia, Labour and Care Work
The Covid-19 pandemic instigated fundamental challenges and changes to parents' working lives in Britain. This viewpoint article reflects upon the experience of balancing childrearing responsibilities with academic work across the Spring and Summer of 2020. It positions the removal of formal and informal childcare networks within the history of feminist demands around childcare and sets it against the background of the recent history of women and…
The women's liberation movement, activism and therapy at the grassroots, 1968-1985
The women's liberation movement was the impetus for the founding of new institutions of psychological and mental health care for women in the late 1970s and 1980s. This article draws upon the archive of one such site, based in Islington, North London, to explore the ways that members of the movement interacted with local politics and were attentive to racial and economic oppression. It demonstrates that consciousness-raising groups and feminist m…
Rock Art and Shamanism
Seeing eye-to-eye on ICT: Science student and teacher perceptions of laptop use across 14 Australian schools
As schools start investigating and investing in the idea of 1:1 iPads and tablets, are there any lessons that can be learnt from recent 1:1 laptop deployments? In Australia, since 2008, 1:1 laptops have been introduced into every secondary school. This study reports on a survey designed to investigate frequency and type of laptop use, and the alignment of teacher and student perceptions of that use. Data was obtained from 14 secondary schools fro…
In Conversation with the Women's Liberation Movement: Intergenerational Histories of Second Wave Feminism, British Library, 12 Oct. 2013
On Saturday 12 October 2013, 250 people, mostly women, gathered in the British Library’s Conference Centre for the History of Feminism Network’s autumn event. It was the culmination of months of planning by Sarah Crook and Signy Gutnick Allen, the co-conveners of the Network; Professor Barbara Taylor, from Queen Mary, University of London and the Raphael Samuel History Centre; and Polly Russell, from the British Library. What had started with a b…
Young lives on the left: Sixties activism and the liberation of the self
Young lives on the left: sixties activism and the liberation of the self." Contemporary British History, 31(1), pp. 141–142
Race, ethnicity and the women's movement in England, 1968-1993
"Race, ethnicity and the women’s movement in England, 1968–1993." Women's History Review, 27(4), pp. 650–651
The women's liberation movement, activism and therapy at the grassroots, 1968-1985
The women's liberation movement was the impetus for the founding of new institutions of psychological and mental health care for women in the late 1970s and 1980s. This article draws upon the archive of one such site, based in Islington, North London, to explore the ways that members of the movement interacted with local politics and were attentive to racial and economic oppression. It demonstrates that consciousness-raising groups and feminist m…
A Ruby and Triangled Sign upon the Forehead of Taurus: Modalities of Revelation in Megalithic Archaeoastronomy and James Joyce's Novels Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
This paper proceeds from the concurrent interpretation of two distinct, apparently unrelated disciplinary contexts, at the crossroads of the positivism of archaeology and the imaginary world of literature. The character of the reciprocal relationship between megalithism in Neolithic Portugal and the writings of the twentieth-century author, James Joyce, is transfigured through the introduction of a third element of interpretation, a deeply parado…
A disastrous blow’: Psychiatric risk, social indicators and medical authority in abortion reform in post-war Britain
The Second World War lent impetus to the creation of new models and explanatory frameworks of risk, encouraging a closer reading of the relationship between individual psychiatric disorder and social disarray. This article interrogates how conceptions of psychiatric risk were animated in debates around abortion reform to forge new connections between social conditions and psychiatric vulnerability in post-war Britain. Drawing upon the arguments t…
The Labour Party, Feminism and Maureen Colquhoun's Scandals in 1970s Britain
Maureen Colquhoun (1928-) was the Tribunite Labour MP for Northampton North during the turbulent period of Labour government between 1974 and 1979. An avowed feminist, she praised the women’s liberation movement in parliament and introduced bills that brought feminist issues to parliamentary attention. Britain’s first openly lesbian MP, she was outed by the Daily Mail in 1976 and passionately defended her relationship and the rights of gay women.…
The Women’s Liberation Movement and the Politics of Class in Britain
The Women’s Liberation Movement and the Politics of Class in Britain." Contemporary British History, 34(2), pp. 329–330
Feeling the Strain: A Cultural History of Stress in Twentieth-century Britain . By Jill Kirby
We should be grateful to her for her forbearance, as this timely text makes a valuable and enjoyable intervention into the literature on twentieth-century Britain. Contributing to the expanding scholarship around the history of stress, which includes Mark Jackson’s The Age of Stress: Science and the Search for Stability and his edited collection Stress in Post-War Britain, to which Kirby contributed, Feeling the Strain explores the means by which…
Historicising the “Crisis” in Undergraduate Mental Health: British Universities and Student Mental Illness, 1944–1968
This article explores how and why student mental health became an issue of concern in British universities between 1944 and 1968. It argues that two factors drew student mental health to the attention of medical professionals across this period: first, it argues that the post-war interest in mental illness drew attention to students, who were seen to be the luminaries of the future, investing their wellbeing with particular social importance. Sec…
Parenting during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020: Academia, Labour and Care Work
The Covid-19 pandemic instigated fundamental challenges and changes to parents' working lives in Britain. This viewpoint article reflects upon the experience of balancing childrearing responsibilities with academic work across the Spring and Summer of 2020. It positions the removal of formal and informal childcare networks within the history of feminist demands around childcare and sets it against the background of the recent history of women and…
Daring to Hope and Daring to Disrupt: Rowbotham Revisits the 1970s
The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State . By Shaul Bar-Haim
Journal Article The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State. By Shaul Bar-Haim Get access The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State. By Shaul Bar-Haim. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2021. +295 pp. ISBN 9780812253153, £60. Sarah Crook Sarah Crook Swansea University, UK [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1288-1488 Search for other works by this au…
Using historical approaches to understand contemporary student loneliness
Student loneliness is a global problem, with universities struggling to tackle an issue that has important implications for student success, satisfaction, and mental health. This research uses archival material from the 1960s and 1970s alongside qualitative discussions with contemporary students to explore the ways that experiences of loneliness within British higher education have changed across recent decades. Such an approach bridges the diver…
Fostering integrated healthcare in rural Australia: A review of service models for older Australians with preventable chronic conditions
Our review examines the operational dynamics and effectiveness of integrated healthcare models in Australia, focusing on their relevance for older rural adults with preventable chronic diseases. Using Whittemore and Knafl's (2005) systematic integrative review methods, we conducted a search across five databases, including Medline-EBSCO, PubMed, CINAHL, EMBASE, and SCOPUS. The Sustainable Integrated Chronic Care Models for Multimorbidity (SELFIE)…
“No One Told You Life Was Gonna Be This Way”: A Qualitative Exploration of Friendship Expectations and Reality in University Life
INTRODUCTION: Young adulthood (ages 18-25) is a high-risk period for loneliness, particularly during educational transitions. Loneliness has negative consequences for mental health, physical health, and educational achievement. Psychologists conceptualize loneliness as emerging from a discrepancy between expected and experienced social connection, but this has been under-explored during young adulthood. METHOD: Drawing on thematic analysis of eig…
An Introduction to Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives
The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain
The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural barometers of success, the country was entering a newly ‘postfeminist’ era. At the same time, feminist groups identified sites of resurgence and growth in the wake of the fragmentation of the movement's ‘second wave’. Towards the end of the decade, mo…
The Women’s Liberation Movement and the Gendering of Undercover Police Surveillance in 1970s Britain: The Public Inquiry as (Un)Ethical archive
In the 1970s a female police officer went undercover in the feminist movement in Britain. Across two years, she shared plans, conversations, and ephemera with Special Branch, while uncovering nothing that threatened state security. Yet her time in the movement is important to historians; she inadvertently created a rich archive of the feminist movement. For feminist historians, though, the use of this archive, made available by the Undercover Pol…
Responsibility and other dangerous ideas: Who cares, who can, and who should in higher education
Universities are increasingly expected to assume greater responsibility for student mental health, with recent debates in the UK questioning whether institutions should hold a statutory duty of care. This paper critically examines what such responsibility might mean, who within the university is positioned to enact it, and the potential consequences of formalising responsibility through regulation. We distinguish between three overlapping forms o…
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