Jacqueline H Watts
Biographic Data
| ID | 262902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacqueline H Watts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacqueline H |
| FAMILY NAME | Watts |
| SIGNATURE | WATTS J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 161 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Being a Former Carer
In the United Kingdom, policy has formalized the role of carers through the introduction of new rights and entitlements to support. However, this support is directed only at current carers with the needs of former carers being unacknowledged. Yet, when caregiving comes to an end, the transition to a life as a “former” carer can be challenging. This article reports findings from a small-scale qualitative study about the experiences of former carer…
Former carers
The aim of this review is to explore existing knowledge about former carers. These are individuals who were previously unpaid carers but for whom caregiving has now ended. Research has focused on the phase of caregiving when carers are actively providing care. Thus, while there is an extensive literature about caregiving, there is limited understanding about the post-caregiving experiences of former carers. Electronic searches of major bibliograp…
Student Nurses Learning about Death, Dying, and Loss
Concerns about the care provided to people dying from life-threatening illness have prompted a number of international reforms to improve the quality of palliative and end-of-life (EOL) care. The majority of this care is provided by nurses. They spend more time with dying patients than any other health professionals and therefore, need specific clinical skills and knowledge. Palliative and EOL care education is increasingly being positioned as a …
Exploring the “Social” of Social Work in Palliative Care
Social work is one of a number of caring professions that contribute to the practice of palliative care that is now delivered in hospitals, hospices, and in the community. Most palliative care social work is undertaken as part of a medical speciality that draws on the multidisciplinary professional team that has as its aim the meeting of practical, psychological, physical, and spiritual needs of dying people and their families. This article repor…
Working as a Hospice Volunteer
Drawing on recent qualitative research undertaken in a large English hospice, this article discusses the experience of being a hospice volunteer. The research explored a range of issues connected to the process and experience of voluntary work in this setting including who volunteers, what roles volunteers take up, how they are trained and supported, and the ways in which role boundaries are established and maintained. The research revealed that …
Above the death pits, beneath the flag
Above the death pits, beneath the flag: youth voyages to Poland and the performance of Israeli national identity." Mortality, 15(3), pp. 266–267
Ethical and practical challenges of participant observation in sensitive health research
Participant observation is now increasingly used within qualitative health research and has been found to offer opportunities for the collection and synthesis of rich data about health and illness experience. This method, often used over an extended period, enables the researcher to build an in-depth understanding of the research context and can be the basis for the development of relationships between the researcher and the 'researched'. Researc…
I Come Because I Can
Hospices are now the established institutionalized home of specialist palliative care practice in the United Kingdom. Despite attempts to widen access, the dominant patient group continues to be cancer sufferers. A multidisciplinary approach to the support of patients characterizes this field of health care, with both skilled professionals and volunteers attending to patients' physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Day care, as one type of pro…
Leaders of men
Although women's experience of working in management has been studied extensively, the particular challenges they face in this role within male-dominated professions merits further attention.This article draws on research into the career experiences of women civil engineers in the UK to critically discuss the possibilities for women to pursue a management pathway within construction. A feminist theoretical framework has been used to analyse data …
And a time to die
And a time to die: How American hospitals shape the end of life. By SHARON R. KAUFMAN, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2005, 400pp, US$18.00, paperback (ISBN 0226426858). This book, drawing
Fluid Bonds
Journeying with Morrie
The spiritual welfare of dying people has in recent years moved from the domain of religion to become the concern of health care professionals, particularly as part of the ideal of holism that underpins palliative care. Professional delivery of spiritual care incorporates the features of assessment, control, and treatment which may involve varying degrees of intrusion into the patient's deeply personal inner self. Using a case study approach, thi…
IV. Can't Take a Joke? Humour as Resistance, Refuge and Exclusion in a Highly Gendered Workplace
Allowed into a Man's World' Meanings of Work-Life Balance
This article discusses how women working as civil engineers within the UK construction industry perceive work-life balance and considers strategies they use to achieve this. The findings are presented of a qualitative research project that explored the experiences of women in this role, focusing on the subcultural context of a profession that is dominated by the values of presenteeism and infinite availability. A feminist post-structuralist frame…
Porn, pride and pessimism
This qualitative study contributes to knowledge about the strategies women use to establish their presence in professional roles in the highly gendered construction sector.The article focuses on construction site culture that is hierarchical and 'laddish' with sexual harassment an entrenched feature of life on site.Women find this threatening but are unable to challenge it, because being part of the 'building team' requires their silence. These n…
The outsider within
Feminist research practice is firmly established within the academy and is concerned to develop ways of understanding reality that place women at their centre. However, researching women who do not identify with feminist aims presents feminist researchers with particular challenges in relation to appropriate method and ethical practice. This article discusses these challenges focusing on the issues of 'gatekeeper' access, informed consent and the…
Allowed into a Man's World' Meanings of Work-Life Balance
This article discusses how women working as civil engineers within the UK construction industry perceive work-life balance and considers strategies they use to achieve this. The findings are presented of a qualitative research project that explored the experiences of women in this role, focusing on the subcultural context of a profession that is dominated by the values of presenteeism and infinite availability. A feminist post-structuralist frame…
Leaders of men
Although women's experience of working in management has been studied extensively, the particular challenges they face in this role within male-dominated professions merits further attention.This article draws on research into the career experiences of women civil engineers in the UK to critically discuss the possibilities for women to pursue a management pathway within construction. A feminist theoretical framework has been used to analyse data …
Porn, pride and pessimism
This qualitative study contributes to knowledge about the strategies women use to establish their presence in professional roles in the highly gendered construction sector.The article focuses on construction site culture that is hierarchical and 'laddish' with sexual harassment an entrenched feature of life on site.Women find this threatening but are unable to challenge it, because being part of the 'building team' requires their silence. These n…
The outsider within
Feminist research practice is firmly established within the academy and is concerned to develop ways of understanding reality that place women at their centre. However, researching women who do not identify with feminist aims presents feminist researchers with particular challenges in relation to appropriate method and ethical practice. This article discusses these challenges focusing on the issues of 'gatekeeper' access, informed consent and the…
Ethical and practical challenges of participant observation in sensitive health research
Participant observation is now increasingly used within qualitative health research and has been found to offer opportunities for the collection and synthesis of rich data about health and illness experience. This method, often used over an extended period, enables the researcher to build an in-depth understanding of the research context and can be the basis for the development of relationships between the researcher and the 'researched'. Researc…
IV. Can't Take a Joke? Humour as Resistance, Refuge and Exclusion in a Highly Gendered Workplace
Former carers
The aim of this review is to explore existing knowledge about former carers. These are individuals who were previously unpaid carers but for whom caregiving has now ended. Research has focused on the phase of caregiving when carers are actively providing care. Thus, while there is an extensive literature about caregiving, there is limited understanding about the post-caregiving experiences of former carers. Electronic searches of major bibliograp…
Working as a Hospice Volunteer
Drawing on recent qualitative research undertaken in a large English hospice, this article discusses the experience of being a hospice volunteer. The research explored a range of issues connected to the process and experience of voluntary work in this setting including who volunteers, what roles volunteers take up, how they are trained and supported, and the ways in which role boundaries are established and maintained. The research revealed that …
The outsider within
Feminist research practice is firmly established within the academy and is concerned to develop ways of understanding reality that place women at their centre. However, researching women who do not identify with feminist aims presents feminist researchers with particular challenges in relation to appropriate method and ethical practice. This article discusses these challenges focusing on the issues of 'gatekeeper' access, informed consent and the…
IV. Can't Take a Joke? Humour as Resistance, Refuge and Exclusion in a Highly Gendered Workplace
Allowed into a Man's World' Meanings of Work-Life Balance
This article discusses how women working as civil engineers within the UK construction industry perceive work-life balance and considers strategies they use to achieve this. The findings are presented of a qualitative research project that explored the experiences of women in this role, focusing on the subcultural context of a profession that is dominated by the values of presenteeism and infinite availability. A feminist post-structuralist frame…
Porn, pride and pessimism
This qualitative study contributes to knowledge about the strategies women use to establish their presence in professional roles in the highly gendered construction sector.The article focuses on construction site culture that is hierarchical and 'laddish' with sexual harassment an entrenched feature of life on site.Women find this threatening but are unable to challenge it, because being part of the 'building team' requires their silence. These n…
And a time to die
And a time to die: How American hospitals shape the end of life. By SHARON R. KAUFMAN, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2005, 400pp, US$18.00, paperback (ISBN 0226426858). This book, drawing
Fluid Bonds
Journeying with Morrie
The spiritual welfare of dying people has in recent years moved from the domain of religion to become the concern of health care professionals, particularly as part of the ideal of holism that underpins palliative care. Professional delivery of spiritual care incorporates the features of assessment, control, and treatment which may involve varying degrees of intrusion into the patient's deeply personal inner self. Using a case study approach, thi…
I Come Because I Can
Hospices are now the established institutionalized home of specialist palliative care practice in the United Kingdom. Despite attempts to widen access, the dominant patient group continues to be cancer sufferers. A multidisciplinary approach to the support of patients characterizes this field of health care, with both skilled professionals and volunteers attending to patients' physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Day care, as one type of pro…
Leaders of men
Although women's experience of working in management has been studied extensively, the particular challenges they face in this role within male-dominated professions merits further attention.This article draws on research into the career experiences of women civil engineers in the UK to critically discuss the possibilities for women to pursue a management pathway within construction. A feminist theoretical framework has been used to analyse data …
Above the death pits, beneath the flag
Above the death pits, beneath the flag: youth voyages to Poland and the performance of Israeli national identity." Mortality, 15(3), pp. 266–267
Ethical and practical challenges of participant observation in sensitive health research
Participant observation is now increasingly used within qualitative health research and has been found to offer opportunities for the collection and synthesis of rich data about health and illness experience. This method, often used over an extended period, enables the researcher to build an in-depth understanding of the research context and can be the basis for the development of relationships between the researcher and the 'researched'. Researc…
Working as a Hospice Volunteer
Drawing on recent qualitative research undertaken in a large English hospice, this article discusses the experience of being a hospice volunteer. The research explored a range of issues connected to the process and experience of voluntary work in this setting including who volunteers, what roles volunteers take up, how they are trained and supported, and the ways in which role boundaries are established and maintained. The research revealed that …
Exploring the “Social” of Social Work in Palliative Care
Social work is one of a number of caring professions that contribute to the practice of palliative care that is now delivered in hospitals, hospices, and in the community. Most palliative care social work is undertaken as part of a medical speciality that draws on the multidisciplinary professional team that has as its aim the meeting of practical, psychological, physical, and spiritual needs of dying people and their families. This article repor…
Student Nurses Learning about Death, Dying, and Loss
Concerns about the care provided to people dying from life-threatening illness have prompted a number of international reforms to improve the quality of palliative and end-of-life (EOL) care. The majority of this care is provided by nurses. They spend more time with dying patients than any other health professionals and therefore, need specific clinical skills and knowledge. Palliative and EOL care education is increasingly being positioned as a …
Former carers
The aim of this review is to explore existing knowledge about former carers. These are individuals who were previously unpaid carers but for whom caregiving has now ended. Research has focused on the phase of caregiving when carers are actively providing care. Thus, while there is an extensive literature about caregiving, there is limited understanding about the post-caregiving experiences of former carers. Electronic searches of major bibliograp…
Being a Former Carer
In the United Kingdom, policy has formalized the role of carers through the introduction of new rights and entitlements to support. However, this support is directed only at current carers with the needs of former carers being unacknowledged. Yet, when caregiving comes to an end, the transition to a life as a “former” carer can be challenging. This article reports findings from a small-scale qualitative study about the experiences of former carer…
Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Nursing (8 works) · Palliative care (6 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (6 works) · Social science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works)