Marian Peacock
Biographic Data
| ID | 265103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marian Peacock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marian |
| FAMILY NAME | Peacock |
| SIGNATURE | PEACOCK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edge Hill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7499-0439 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Legitimate dependency in austerity Britain: Women supporting men experiencing mental illness
This article presents a psychosocial study of men unable to work due to mental illness and their encounters with the UK’s social security system, using the Free Association Narrative Interview (FANI) method. Drawing on interviews with 17 men in North-West England, it highlights the central yet often overlooked role of women, particularly mothers and partners, in male participants’ narratives. It explores how these relationships serve as a form of…
Non-epileptic attack disorder (Nead): Trauma and life events, context and meaning
This paper makes the case for a re-consideration of the role of trauma and life events – and crucially, their social and political context – in relation to non-epileptic attack disorder (NEAD). Trauma and adverse life events have well established links with many health conditions and whilst they are acknowledged to play a part in NEAD, more recent research suggests that such events are not ubiquitous. Currently, when events are seen as salient th…
Women's alcohol consumption in the early parenting period and influences of socio‐demographic and domestic circumstances: A scoping review and narrative synthesis
Beyond the medical encounter: Can the free association narrative interview method extend psychosocial understandings of non-epileptic attack disorder
This exploratory interdisciplinary study was devised to explore how using the free association narrative interview (FANI) method might extend understanding of non-epileptic attack disorder (NEAD) within a psychosocial framework. NEAD is the medical definition of what can be described as embodied events that resemble epilepsy, but which are not associated with the abnormal electrical discharges in the brain found in epilepsy. They are the most fre…
When “Good Enough” Isn’t Good Enough: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Caring for Adults Using Substances at the End of Life
This paper draws on data from one strand of a six-strand, exploratory study on end of life care for adults using substances (AUS). It presents data from the key informant (KI) strand of the study that aimed to identify models of practice in the UK. Participant recruitment was purposive and used snowball sampling to recruit KIs from a range of health and social care, policy and practice backgrounds. Data were collected in 2016–2017 from 20 KIs usi…
Women's informal surveillance of alcohol consumption in intimate heterosexual relationships during the early parenting period
Negotiating identities of 'responsible drinking: Exploring accounts of alcohol consumption of working mothers in their early parenting period
Mothers' alcohol consumption has often been portrayed as problematic: firstly, because of the effects of alcohol on the foetus, and secondly, because of the association between motherhood and morality. Refracted through the disciplinary lens of public health, mothers' alcohol consumption has been the target of numerous messages and discourses designed to monitor and regulate women's bodies and reproductive health. This study explores how mothers …
End of life care for people with alcohol and drug problems: Findings from a Rapid Evidence Assessment
People who use alcohol and other drugs(hereafter "substances") and who are over the age of 40 are now more likely to die of a non-drug related cause than people who use substances under the age of 40. This population will therefore potentially need greater access to palliative and end of life care services. Initially, the purpose of this rapid evidence assessment (REA), conducted August 2016-August 2017, was to explore the peer-reviewed evidence …
Ageing and dying in the contemporary neoliberal prison system: Exploring the 'double burden' for older prisoners
Prison populations across the world are increasing. In the United Kingdom, numbers have doubled in the last two decades, and older prisoners now constitute the fastest growing section of the prison population. One key reason for this shifting prisoner demographic is the growing numbers of men convicted of 'historic' sexual offences, many of whom are imprisoned for the first time in old age, and housed in prisons not suited to their needs. These d…
We Call it Jail Craft: The Erosion of the Protective Discourses Drawn on by Prison Officers Dealing with Ageing and Dying Prisoners in the Neoliberal, Carceral System
The UK prison population has doubled in the last decade, with the greatest increases among prisoners over the age of 60 years, many of whom are sex offenders imprisoned late in life for 'historical' offences. Occurring in a context of 'austerity' and the wider neoliberal project, an under-researched consequence of this increase has been the rising numbers of 'anticipated' prison deaths; that is, deaths that are foreseeable and that require end of…
The Micropolitics of Obesity: Materialism, Markets and Food Sovereignty
This article shifts focus from an individualised and anthropocentric perspective on obesity, and uses a new materialist analysis to explore the assemblages of materialities producing fat and slim bodies. We report data from a study of adults' accounts of food decision-making and practices, investigating circulations of matter and desires that affect the production, distribution, accumulation and dispersal of fat, and disclose a micropolitics of o…
Introducing the idea of 'assumed shared food narratives' in the context of social networks: Reflections from a qualitative study conducted in Nottingham, England
This study explores the ways in which social networks might shape accounts about food practices. Drawing on insights from the work of Christakis and Fowler () whose claims about the linkages between obesity and social networks have been the subject of vigorous debate in the sociological literature, we present qualitative data from a study of women's' accounts of social networks and food practices, conducted in Nottingham, England. We tentatively …
The discordant pleasures of everyday eating: Reflections on the social gradient in obesity under neo-liberalism
Dependency denied: Health inequalities in the neo-liberal era
Shaming Encounters: Reflections on Contemporary Understandings of Social Inequality and Health
The idea that social inequality has deleterious consequences for population health is well established within social epidemiology and medical sociology (Marmot and Wilkinson, 2001; Scambler, 2012). In this article, we critically examine arguments advanced by Wilkinson and Pickett in The Spirit Level (2009) that in more unequal countries population health suffers, in part, because of the stress and anxiety arising from individuals making invidious…
Dependency denied: Health inequalities in the neo-liberal era
The discordant pleasures of everyday eating: Reflections on the social gradient in obesity under neo-liberalism
Ageing and dying in the contemporary neoliberal prison system: Exploring the 'double burden' for older prisoners
Prison populations across the world are increasing. In the United Kingdom, numbers have doubled in the last two decades, and older prisoners now constitute the fastest growing section of the prison population. One key reason for this shifting prisoner demographic is the growing numbers of men convicted of 'historic' sexual offences, many of whom are imprisoned for the first time in old age, and housed in prisons not suited to their needs. These d…
The Micropolitics of Obesity: Materialism, Markets and Food Sovereignty
This article shifts focus from an individualised and anthropocentric perspective on obesity, and uses a new materialist analysis to explore the assemblages of materialities producing fat and slim bodies. We report data from a study of adults' accounts of food decision-making and practices, investigating circulations of matter and desires that affect the production, distribution, accumulation and dispersal of fat, and disclose a micropolitics of o…
Introducing the idea of 'assumed shared food narratives' in the context of social networks: Reflections from a qualitative study conducted in Nottingham, England
This study explores the ways in which social networks might shape accounts about food practices. Drawing on insights from the work of Christakis and Fowler () whose claims about the linkages between obesity and social networks have been the subject of vigorous debate in the sociological literature, we present qualitative data from a study of women's' accounts of social networks and food practices, conducted in Nottingham, England. We tentatively …
Shaming Encounters: Reflections on Contemporary Understandings of Social Inequality and Health
The idea that social inequality has deleterious consequences for population health is well established within social epidemiology and medical sociology (Marmot and Wilkinson, 2001; Scambler, 2012). In this article, we critically examine arguments advanced by Wilkinson and Pickett in The Spirit Level (2009) that in more unequal countries population health suffers, in part, because of the stress and anxiety arising from individuals making invidious…
Negotiating identities of 'responsible drinking: Exploring accounts of alcohol consumption of working mothers in their early parenting period
Mothers' alcohol consumption has often been portrayed as problematic: firstly, because of the effects of alcohol on the foetus, and secondly, because of the association between motherhood and morality. Refracted through the disciplinary lens of public health, mothers' alcohol consumption has been the target of numerous messages and discourses designed to monitor and regulate women's bodies and reproductive health. This study explores how mothers …
Women's informal surveillance of alcohol consumption in intimate heterosexual relationships during the early parenting period
Dependency denied: Health inequalities in the neo-liberal era
Shaming Encounters: Reflections on Contemporary Understandings of Social Inequality and Health
The idea that social inequality has deleterious consequences for population health is well established within social epidemiology and medical sociology (Marmot and Wilkinson, 2001; Scambler, 2012). In this article, we critically examine arguments advanced by Wilkinson and Pickett in The Spirit Level (2009) that in more unequal countries population health suffers, in part, because of the stress and anxiety arising from individuals making invidious…
The discordant pleasures of everyday eating: Reflections on the social gradient in obesity under neo-liberalism
Ageing and dying in the contemporary neoliberal prison system: Exploring the 'double burden' for older prisoners
Prison populations across the world are increasing. In the United Kingdom, numbers have doubled in the last two decades, and older prisoners now constitute the fastest growing section of the prison population. One key reason for this shifting prisoner demographic is the growing numbers of men convicted of 'historic' sexual offences, many of whom are imprisoned for the first time in old age, and housed in prisons not suited to their needs. These d…
We Call it Jail Craft: The Erosion of the Protective Discourses Drawn on by Prison Officers Dealing with Ageing and Dying Prisoners in the Neoliberal, Carceral System
The UK prison population has doubled in the last decade, with the greatest increases among prisoners over the age of 60 years, many of whom are sex offenders imprisoned late in life for 'historical' offences. Occurring in a context of 'austerity' and the wider neoliberal project, an under-researched consequence of this increase has been the rising numbers of 'anticipated' prison deaths; that is, deaths that are foreseeable and that require end of…
The Micropolitics of Obesity: Materialism, Markets and Food Sovereignty
This article shifts focus from an individualised and anthropocentric perspective on obesity, and uses a new materialist analysis to explore the assemblages of materialities producing fat and slim bodies. We report data from a study of adults' accounts of food decision-making and practices, investigating circulations of matter and desires that affect the production, distribution, accumulation and dispersal of fat, and disclose a micropolitics of o…
Introducing the idea of 'assumed shared food narratives' in the context of social networks: Reflections from a qualitative study conducted in Nottingham, England
This study explores the ways in which social networks might shape accounts about food practices. Drawing on insights from the work of Christakis and Fowler () whose claims about the linkages between obesity and social networks have been the subject of vigorous debate in the sociological literature, we present qualitative data from a study of women's' accounts of social networks and food practices, conducted in Nottingham, England. We tentatively …
End of life care for people with alcohol and drug problems: Findings from a Rapid Evidence Assessment
People who use alcohol and other drugs(hereafter "substances") and who are over the age of 40 are now more likely to die of a non-drug related cause than people who use substances under the age of 40. This population will therefore potentially need greater access to palliative and end of life care services. Initially, the purpose of this rapid evidence assessment (REA), conducted August 2016-August 2017, was to explore the peer-reviewed evidence …
When “Good Enough” Isn’t Good Enough: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Caring for Adults Using Substances at the End of Life
This paper draws on data from one strand of a six-strand, exploratory study on end of life care for adults using substances (AUS). It presents data from the key informant (KI) strand of the study that aimed to identify models of practice in the UK. Participant recruitment was purposive and used snowball sampling to recruit KIs from a range of health and social care, policy and practice backgrounds. Data were collected in 2016–2017 from 20 KIs usi…
Women's informal surveillance of alcohol consumption in intimate heterosexual relationships during the early parenting period
Negotiating identities of 'responsible drinking: Exploring accounts of alcohol consumption of working mothers in their early parenting period
Mothers' alcohol consumption has often been portrayed as problematic: firstly, because of the effects of alcohol on the foetus, and secondly, because of the association between motherhood and morality. Refracted through the disciplinary lens of public health, mothers' alcohol consumption has been the target of numerous messages and discourses designed to monitor and regulate women's bodies and reproductive health. This study explores how mothers …
Beyond the medical encounter: Can the free association narrative interview method extend psychosocial understandings of non-epileptic attack disorder
This exploratory interdisciplinary study was devised to explore how using the free association narrative interview (FANI) method might extend understanding of non-epileptic attack disorder (NEAD) within a psychosocial framework. NEAD is the medical definition of what can be described as embodied events that resemble epilepsy, but which are not associated with the abnormal electrical discharges in the brain found in epilepsy. They are the most fre…
Women's alcohol consumption in the early parenting period and influences of socio‐demographic and domestic circumstances: A scoping review and narrative synthesis
Non-epileptic attack disorder (Nead): Trauma and life events, context and meaning
This paper makes the case for a re-consideration of the role of trauma and life events – and crucially, their social and political context – in relation to non-epileptic attack disorder (NEAD). Trauma and adverse life events have well established links with many health conditions and whilst they are acknowledged to play a part in NEAD, more recent research suggests that such events are not ubiquitous. Currently, when events are seen as salient th…
Legitimate dependency in austerity Britain: Women supporting men experiencing mental illness
This article presents a psychosocial study of men unable to work due to mental illness and their encounters with the UK’s social security system, using the Free Association Narrative Interview (FANI) method. Drawing on interviews with 17 men in North-West England, it highlights the central yet often overlooked role of women, particularly mothers and partners, in male participants’ narratives. It explores how these relationships serve as a form of…
Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Narrative (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Environmental health (4 works)