Julie Barnett
Biographic Data
| ID | 297935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie Barnett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie |
| FAMILY NAME | Barnett |
| SIGNATURE | BARNETT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bath |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5740-0863 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 81 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 276 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 81 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Understanding the Psychological Impacts of Shielding From Covid‐19 for Immunocompromised Individuals
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to explore the impact of shielding amongst immunocompromised individuals following the COVID-19 pandemic. DESIGN: This study used a cross-sectional exploratory qualitative design. METHODS: A national survey was launched in July 2023 aiming to collect information on the lived experience of individuals who were still shielding. The final question to this study was 'what has been the worst aspect of shielding for you?'. …
Constructions of Excellence and its Relationship with Research Culture in Research-intensive UK University Strategies
‘Excellence’ is part of a routine academic vocabulary. Alongside informal usage, ‘excellence’ features in assessment criteria and lends its name to national research assessment exercises. The term has received criticism for being ill-defined and promoting hypercompetition. A key concern is that expectations of excellence promote practices detrimental to those involved in research, to research quality, and to its societal contributions. Other pers…
Pharmaceutical pollution from health care: A systems-based strategy for mitigating risks to public and environmental health
Human pharmaceuticals are increasingly detected in environments around the world, with growing international calls to mitigate the ecological and human health risks posed by these novel entities. Exposure to pharmaceutical pollutants can negatively affect the behaviour, reproduction, and health of wildlife, contributing towards declining ecological health and global biodiversity loss. Pharmaceuticals in the environment are also driving rising lev…
Prenatal alcohol exposure before pregnancy awareness: A thematic analysis of online forum comments and misinformation
Background: Many women consume alcohol while pregnant before they are aware of the pregnancy, raising concerns about potential harms to the developing fetus. Official guidelines in the United Kingdom recommend abstinence throughout pregnancy, and many women turn to online forums for reassurance and information. However, online forums can also become a source of misinformation, potentially increasing confusion and anxiety among women who have cons…
Increasing diversity in STEM academia: A scoping review of intervention evaluations
Lack of diversity is a significant issue in academic STEM, whether from a social justice, economic, or scientific quality perspective. In this scoping review, we synthesise peer-reviewed evaluations of diversity interventions in academic STEM from high-income countries between 2011 and 2023. One hundred and eighty-four intervention evaluations are identified through database searches (Scopus, Web of Science Core Collection, and IBSS) and forwards…
The use of technology to address loneliness and social isolation among older adults: The role of social care providers
Technology was employed in a variety of ways during the pandemic to address loneliness and social isolation among older adults; many service providers continue to use technology in a hybrid system of care now that pandemic-related social restrictions have been lifted. Our findings emphasise a need for technology-assisted interventions to be designed and deployed in alignment with service users' values, motivations and capabilities. Further, there…
Drawing on borders: A large-scale framing analysis of coronavirus in early UK news maps
Maps are a unique means of combining visual and textual communication, and have been ubiquitous in Covid-19 reporting. This article presents a framing analysis of 4,398 coronavirus-related news maps published across six UK news outlets during the early stages of the pandemic. The authors identified 10 frames: coronavirus was characterized as (1) a national problem; (2) a regional problem; (3) associated with China; (4) an undefined threat; (5) me…
Prescribing Paradigms: Understanding General Practitioner Inclinations Towards Medical and Social Prescribing
General practitioners (GPs) face complex decisions when choosing between prescribing medication or referring patients to social prescriptions. Increasing awareness of overprescribing and the risks of polypharmacy are a key driver of patient‐centred preventative approaches to healthcare. One such approach, increasingly common in the United Kingdom, is social prescribing (SP). GPs have a central role in prescribing medication or referring to a soci…
Through the Eyes of a Young Carer: A Photo Elicitation Study of Protective Resilience
Caregiving is recognised as a source of stress with potential for negative health impacts as well as positive outcomes and development of resilience. For young carers, children, and adolescents providing care for close family members, adaptation through resilience is crucial, yet work using a resilience approach is limited. This study explored protective factors and pathways to resilience in a sample of young carers, through application of the so…
The presentation of gut microbiome-based personalized nutrition on the internet: Simple and accessible, complex and inaccessible
The gut microbiome is related to health and wellbeing, although the precise nature of the relationship and the involvement of and interaction with other factors is not fully understood. In this context, private companies are providing gut microbiome-based personalized nutrition services on the internet. Framed by social representation theory, we conducted an analysis of the websites of 27 companies offering direct-to-consumer personalized nutriti…
I’m going home to breathe and I’m coming back here to just hold my head above the water’: Black students’ strategies for navigating a predominantly white UK university
Twenty-four percent of Black and minority ethnic students in the UK report facing racial harassment at university, and one in twenty leave their studies due to this. But how do those who remain negotiate a hostile climate and what can we learn from their strategies? In our focus groups conducted with 16 Black students at a predominantly white institution, we found a sophisticated awareness of multiple strategies, and awareness of the social and p…
Integrating local and scientific knowledge in disaster risk reduction: A systematic review of motivations, processes, and outcomes
Perspectives of UK adolescents on the youth climate strikes
Adolescents’ Representations of Climate Change: Exploring the Self-other Thema in a Focus Group Study
Research on social representations of risks has indicated that the self-other thema underpins representations of several threats. This focus group study, conducted with adolescents aged 11–14 in the UK, explored the ways in which the self and other were positioned in relation to climate change causes, impacts, and solutions. We found that the self and other were constructed and deployed differently, serving to present the self more positively tha…
DiabetesOnAPlate: The everyday deployment and contestation of diabetes stigma in an online setting
People living with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes (T1DM &T2DM) report that media – including journalism, health promotion, and popular culture – are a primary source of stigmatic representations of diabetes, and that this compromises their physical and mental health. This view of diabetes as stigmatised is not shared by many health professionals and nor the wider public. We used an existing representation of diabetes on Instagram, #DiabetesOnAPlate, …
Black students' experiences of “acceptable” racism at a UK university
Our research, conducted with 30 Black students at a predominantly White institution, used mixed qualitative methods to investigate Black students' sense‐making of experiences that signalled their non‐belonging. All participants experienced both overt and covert racism including the n‐word, racist humour, and negative stereotyping; and this occurred in public and intimate spaces. Our reflexive thematic analysis centred on interactional dynamics th…
Going veggie: Identifying and overcoming the social and psychological barriers to veganism
Can ancient and modern stressors be distinguished? A mixed-methods exploration of psychosocial characteristics and health symptoms in young and older adults
A novel conceptualisation of stress includes a distinction between ancient (AS) and modern stressors (MS); the notion that established adaptive psychophysiological coping processes may enable individuals to better withstand AS than MS. Two consecutive mixed-methods studies assessed the feasibility of distinguishing between AS and MS in young and older adults, using questionnaires and interviews. MS were positively associated with cold symptoms in…
You never feel so Black as when you're contrasted against a White background”: Black students' experiences at a predominantly White institution in the UK
“Old” universities in the UK are typically populated with White middle‐class students who hail from White majority hometowns, whilst “new” universities have more diverse cohorts from diverse hometowns. Our research conducted with 17 Black students at a predominantly White university, examined the initial encounters in which Black students first realise their minority status on campus. We found that White numerical dominance combined with White st…
What's the beef: Debating meat, matters of concern and the emergence of online issue publics
Consumer Acceptance of Cultured Meat: An Updated Review (2018–2020)
Cultured meat is one of a number of alternative proteins which can help to reduce the demand for meat from animals in the future. As cultured meat nears commercialization, research on consumers’ perceptions of the technology has proliferated. We build on our 2018 systematic review to identify 26 empirical studies on consumer acceptance of cultured meat published in peer-reviewed journals since then. We find support for many of the findings of our…
Detecting psychological change through mobilizing interactions and changes in extremist linguistic style
‘Will polar bears melt?’ A qualitative analysis of children’s questions about climate change
Climate change poses a grave threat to future generations, yet relatively little research examines children’s understandings of the issue. This study examines the questions children ask about climate change – rather than their answers to adults’ questions – exploring whether their questions suggest they view climate change as psychologically proximal or distant. Children aged 10–12 from 14 UK schools took part in an online event, asking scientist…
Exploring the influences on men’s engagement with weight loss services: A qualitative study
A medical diagnosis or referral serves as a strong motivator for men to engage with weight loss services by invoking fear of negative consequences of not losing weight. Men perceived weight loss services to be feminised spaces, in which they felt self-conscious and out of place. As a result, men were deterred from engaging and considered their options were limited. Implications for service design and commissioning are discussed. Involving men in …
Youth perceptions of climate change: A narrative synthesis
Despite the scale of the predicted impact of climate change on future generations, most of the academic literature investigating perceptions of climate change relates to adults or young adults rather than children and adolescents. In this review, we synthesize literature relating to 8‐ to 19‐year‐old's perceptions and understandings of climate change, in order to identify trends and inconsistencies, potential gaps in knowledge, and directions for…
An Array of Deficits: Unpacking Nimby Discourses in Wind Energy Developers' Conceptualizations of Their Local Opponents
UK energy policy contains ambitious goals for increased deployment of renewable energy technologies (RETs), but concern remains about the potential of local opposition to obstruct proposed developments. Despite emerging academic consensus that characterizing opposition to RET siting as NIMBYism is problematic, the discourse remains strong in popular debate. This article responds to calls for sociological research on both ascriptions of NIMBYism a…
Ingredients of institutional reputations and citizen engagement with regulators
The purpose of this study is to examine the link between the reputational components of efficacy and moral reliability of institutions, and citizens' compliance with institutional recommendations. Research on bureaucratic reputations highlights the significance of positive political reputations based on credibility and legitimacy, but the impact of these components is not systematically isolated and studied. We draw insights from political psycho…
Experiences of Loneliness Associated with Being an Informal Caregiver: A Qualitative Investigation
Although providing care to a family member or friend may provide psychological benefits, informal (i.e. unpaid) caregivers also encounter difficulties which may negatively affect their quality of life as well as their mental and physical health. Loneliness is one important challenge that caregivers face, with this psychological state being associated with morbidity and premature mortality. Although previous research has identified loneliness as a…
What's in a name? Consumer perceptions of in vitro meat under different names
Youth perceptions of climate change: A narrative synthesis
Despite the scale of the predicted impact of climate change on future generations, most of the academic literature investigating perceptions of climate change relates to adults or young adults rather than children and adolescents. In this review, we synthesize literature relating to 8‐ to 19‐year‐old's perceptions and understandings of climate change, in order to identify trends and inconsistencies, potential gaps in knowledge, and directions for…
The social amplification of risk on Twitter: The case of ash dieback disease in the United Kingdom
It has long been recognised that the traditional media play a key role in representing risk and are a significant source of information which can shape how \npeople perceive and respond to hazard events. Early work utilising the social amplification of risk framework (SARF) sought to understand the discrepancy between expert and lay perceptions of risk and patterns of risk intensification and attenuation with reference to the media. However, the …
Renewable Energy and Sociotechnical Change: Imagined Subjectivities of ‘the Public’ and Their Implications
The public’ are potentially implicated in processes of sociotechnical change as political actors who welcome or resist technology development in general, or in particular places and settings. We argue in this paper that the potential influence of public subjectivities on sociotechnical change is realised not only through moments of active participation and protest, but also through ‘the public’ being imagined, given agency, and invoked for variou…
What's the beef: Debating meat, matters of concern and the emergence of online issue publics
Going veggie: Identifying and overcoming the social and psychological barriers to veganism
Black students' experiences of “acceptable” racism at a UK university
Our research, conducted with 30 Black students at a predominantly White institution, used mixed qualitative methods to investigate Black students' sense‐making of experiences that signalled their non‐belonging. All participants experienced both overt and covert racism including the n‐word, racist humour, and negative stereotyping; and this occurred in public and intimate spaces. Our reflexive thematic analysis centred on interactional dynamics th…
Lonely within the mother: An exploratory study of first-time mothers' experiences of loneliness
Loneliness is associated with life transitions such as new motherhood, yet there are few studies investigating the issue in this population. Using data from semi-structured interviews and an interpretative phenomenological analysis, this exploratory study sought to understand seven new mothers' experiences of loneliness. Experiences were organised around three themes, reflecting loneliness arising from making unfavourable self-comparisons with pe…
Doing social media analytics
In the few years since the advent of 'Big Data' research, social media analytics has begun to accumulate studies drawing on social media as a resource and tool for research work. Yet, there has been relatively little attention paid to the development of methodologies for handling this kind of data. The few works that exist in this area often reflect upon the implications of 'grand' social science methodological concepts for new social media resea…
Healthful grocery shopping. Perceptions and barriers
You never feel so Black as when you're contrasted against a White background”: Black students' experiences at a predominantly White institution in the UK
“Old” universities in the UK are typically populated with White middle‐class students who hail from White majority hometowns, whilst “new” universities have more diverse cohorts from diverse hometowns. Our research conducted with 17 Black students at a predominantly White university, examined the initial encounters in which Black students first realise their minority status on campus. We found that White numerical dominance combined with White st…
Precautionary advice about mobile phones: Public understandings and intended responses
There is a widespread academic and policy debate about public responses to precaution in public health campaigns. This paper explores these issues in relation to the precautionary stance adopted in the UK around the regulation of mobile telecommunications. The aim of the paper is to examine the nature of attitudes to precaution, and the way in which these, along with other relevant variables, relate to the intention to adopt relevant behaviours. …
Slums of hope: Sanitising silences within township tour reviews
A qualitative study on intersectional stigma and sexual health among women on opioid substitution treatment in England: Implications for research, policy and practice
Towards an understanding of British public attitudes concerning human cloning
I’m going home to breathe and I’m coming back here to just hold my head above the water’: Black students’ strategies for navigating a predominantly white UK university
Twenty-four percent of Black and minority ethnic students in the UK report facing racial harassment at university, and one in twenty leave their studies due to this. But how do those who remain negotiate a hostile climate and what can we learn from their strategies? In our focus groups conducted with 16 Black students at a predominantly white institution, we found a sophisticated awareness of multiple strategies, and awareness of the social and p…
Ash dieback and other tree pests and pathogens: Dispersed risk events and the Social Amplification of Risk Framework
It is widely acknowledged within the risk literature that the mass media play a pivotal role in shaping information about risk events for audiences. While some risk events reflect occurrences specific to particular times and locations, other risk events are more difficult to temporally and spatially situate as they are dispersed across years or months and are not constrained to particular geographic locations. Studies examining the relationship b…
Researching with Twitter timeline data: A demonstration via "everyday" socio-political talk around welfare provision
Increasingly, social media platforms are understood by researchers to be valuable sites of politically-relevant discussions. However, analyses of social media data are typically undertaken by focusing on 'snapshots' of issues using query-keyword search strategies. This paper develops an alternative, less issue-based, mode of analysing Twitter data. It provides a framework for working qualitatively with longitudinally-oriented Twitter data (user-t…
Doing stigma: Online commenting around weight-related news media
Weight stigma results from the mediatisation of ‘obesity’: conceptually, a medicalised problem resulting from personal bodily irresponsibility. We undertake a frame analysis of 1452 comments on a thematically related online news article published via The Guardian, about the status of ‘obesity’ as a disability in European Union (EU) employment law. We identify three themes: (1) weight as a lifestyle choice or disability, (2) weight as an irrespons…
Consumers’ avoidance of information on red meat risks: Information exposure effects on attitudes and perceived knowledge
In accordance with cognitive dissonance theory, individuals generally avoid information that is not consistent with their cognitions, to avoid psychological discomfort associated with tensions arising from contradictory beliefs. Information avoidance may thus make risk communication less successful. To address this, we presented information on red meat risks to red meat consumers. To explore information exposure effects, attitudes toward red meat…
Engagement, representativeness and legitimacy in the development of food and nutrition policy
Can ancient and modern stressors be distinguished? A mixed-methods exploration of psychosocial characteristics and health symptoms in young and older adults
A novel conceptualisation of stress includes a distinction between ancient (AS) and modern stressors (MS); the notion that established adaptive psychophysiological coping processes may enable individuals to better withstand AS than MS. Two consecutive mixed-methods studies assessed the feasibility of distinguishing between AS and MS in young and older adults, using questionnaires and interviews. MS were positively associated with cold symptoms in…
Representing disability in charity promotions
Social psychological research in relation to charity advertising in the area of disability has attempted to distinguish between ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ images and the way in which these are related to their fundraising potential. In the light of the critique of charity advertising offered by a number of disability theorists, it is suggested that this perspective would be enhanced by consideration of the attitudes of disabled people to charity a…
Risk Perception and Experience: Hazard Personality Profiles and Individual Differences
The dominance of the “psychometric” paradigm and the consequent emphasis on personality profiles of hazards has resulted in little attention being given to individual variability in risk judgments. This study examines how far differences in experience of risk activities can explain individual variability in risk assessments. A questionnaire study ( n = 172) was used to explore the relationships between experience and risk perceptions in relation …
The social amplification of risk and the hazard sequence: The October 1995 oral contraceptive pill scare
Hazard notifications routinely occur as part of the identification or management of a hazard. It is argued that a series of such notifications - a hazard sequence - may affect public responses to future notifications about that hazard and also that hazard sequences can help explain patterns of risk amplification, particularly how a risk becomes normalised. Exploration of the hazard sequence also means exploring hazard templates: frameworks throug…
Managing the possible health risks of mobile telecommunications: Public understandings of precautionary action and advice
It has been suggested that precautionary approaches to managing possible health risks mobile telecommunications (MT) technology may cause or exacerbate public concerns. In contrast, precautionary approaches to managing such risks in the UK have been framed as a way of reducing public concerns. This article presents evidence from a series of focus groups about publics’ understandings of the actions taken and advice given about potential MT health …
Adolescents’ views of food and eating: Identifying barriers to healthy eating
Contemporary Western society has encouraged an obesogenic culture of eating amongst youth. Multiple factors may influence an adolescent's susceptibility to this eating culture, and thus act as a barrier to healthy eating. Given the increasing prevalence of obesity amongst adolescents, the need to reduce these barriers has become a necessity. Twelve focus group discussions of single‐sex groups of boys or girls ranging from early to‐mid adolescence…
Industrial constructions of publics and public knowledge: A qualitative investigation of practice in the UK chemicals industry
While the rhetoric of public engagement is increasingly commonplace within industry, there has been little research that examines how lay knowledge is conceptualized and whether it is really used within companies. Using the chemicals sector as an example, this paper explores how companies conceive of publics and “public knowledge,” and how this relates to modes of engagement/communication with them. Drawing on qualitative empirical research in fo…
Towards an understanding of British public attitudes concerning human cloning
Precautionary advice about mobile phones: Public understandings and intended responses
There is a widespread academic and policy debate about public responses to precaution in public health campaigns. This paper explores these issues in relation to the precautionary stance adopted in the UK around the regulation of mobile telecommunications. The aim of the paper is to examine the nature of attitudes to precaution, and the way in which these, along with other relevant variables, relate to the intention to adopt relevant behaviours. …
Imagined publics and engagement around renewable energy technologies in the UK
Against the backdrop of the imperatives for actors within the institutional framework of energy socio-technical systems to engage with the public, the aim of this paper is to consider interdependencies between the principles and practice of engagement and the nature of the imagined publics with whom engagement is being undertaken. Based on an analysis of 19 interviews with actors in the renewable energy industry, the paper explores how publics ar…
Perceived efficacy and attitudes towards genetic science and science governance
Arguments for public involvement in science and technology are often based on ideas of developing a more capable public and the assumed effects this may have for science. However, such a relationship is yet to be sufficiently explored and recent work indicates that a more involved public may have counterintuitive effects. Using nationally representative survey data for the UK and Northern Ireland, the effects of the public’s own beliefs about inv…
Renewable Energy and Sociotechnical Change: Imagined Subjectivities of ‘the Public’ and Their Implications
The public’ are potentially implicated in processes of sociotechnical change as political actors who welcome or resist technology development in general, or in particular places and settings. We argue in this paper that the potential influence of public subjectivities on sociotechnical change is realised not only through moments of active participation and protest, but also through ‘the public’ being imagined, given agency, and invoked for variou…
Development of strategies for effective communication of food risks and benefits across Europe: Design and conceptual framework of the FoodRisC project
The FoodRisC project offers a unique approach to the investigation of food risk/benefit communication. The effective spread of food risk/benefit information will assist initiatives aimed at reducing the burden of food-related illness and disease, reducing the economic impact of food crises and ensuring that confidence in safe and nutritious food is fostered and maintained in Europe
Public Claims about Automatic External Defibrillators: An Online Consumer Opinions Study
The value, credibility and implications of the findings of this study are considered within the context of existing AED research, and related to technology acceptance theory. From a methodological perspective, this study demonstrates the potential value of online consumer reviews as a novel data source for exploring the parameters of public debate relating to emerging health care technologies
Using 'may contain' labelling to inform food choice: A qualitative study of nut allergic consumers
May contain' labelling was interpreted in the light of judgements about the product, producer and previous personal experience. It is vital that these interpretation strategies are taken into account by those responsible for labelling itself and for the provision of advice to nut allergic individuals. Suggestions to improve labelling and advice to the allergic individual are considered
The process of setting micronutrient recommendations: A cross-European comparison of nutrition-related scientific advisory bodies
Objective To examine the workings of the nutrition-related scientific advisory bodies in Europe, paying particular attention to the internal and external contexts within which they operate. Design Desk research based on two data collection strategies: a questionnaire completed by key informants in the field of micronutrient recommendations and a case study that focused on mandatory folic acid (FA) fortification. Setting Questionnaire-based data w…
Making sense of unfamiliar risks in the countryside: The case of Lyme disease
Engagement, representativeness and legitimacy in the development of food and nutrition policy
Whose Lyme is it anyway? Subject positions and the construction of responsibility for managing the health risks from Lyme disease
Experience of Lyme disease and preferences for precautions: A cross-sectional survey of UK patients
The results suggest that the risk of LD is set in the context of the restorative benefits of countryside practices, and that it may be counterproductive to overemphasize pre- or during-visit precautions. Simultaneously, having experienced LD is not associated with any withdrawal from countryside
Consumer involvement in dietary guideline development: Opinions from European stakeholders
Objective The involvement of consumers in the development of dietary guidelines has been promoted by national and international bodies. Yet, few best practice guidelines have been established to assist with such involvement. Design Qualitative semi-structured interviews explored stakeholders’ beliefs about consumer involvement in dietary guideline development. Setting Interviews were conducted in six European countries: the Czech Republic, German…
Designing mobile tools for integrative healthcare: Enhancing the patient-practitioner relationship
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Healthful grocery shopping. Perceptions and barriers
Scientific decision-making and stakeholder consultations: The case of salt recommendations
Strategies for dismissing dietary risks: Insights from user-generated comments online
Communication around chronic dietary risks has proved challenging as dietary health risks are ostensibly met with attenuated perceptions of their likelihood and consequences. In this article, we examine the strategies that an online public use to negotiate risk messages from expert stakeholders that may be incongruent with their own position on a risk. Progressing from conceptualisations of amplification as laid out in the social amplification of…
Food crisis coverage by social and traditional media: A case study of the 2008 Irish dioxin crisis
The world of communication has changed significantly in the last decade as a result of the evolution of social media. Food crisis managers and communicators should be cognizant of the messages presented to the public by all media channels during a crisis. Using the 2008 Irish dioxin contamination incident as an example, a quantitative content analysis was carried out to investigate the relationship between social and traditional media. Messages p…
Psychology (43 works) · Sociology (42 works) · Political science (40 works) · Medicine (30 works) · Public relations (28 works) · Social Psychology (26 works) · Business (25 works) · Computer Science (22 works) · Risk Perception and Management (18 works) · Law (16 works)