Deanna L Williamson
Biographic Data
| ID | 307502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deanna L Williamson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deanna L |
| FAMILY NAME | Williamson |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMSON D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
UEval: Bringing Community-Based Experiential Learning to the Evaluation Classroom
This practice note describes the unique features of, and lessons learned from, UEval, an innovative one-week “evaluation institute” at the Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta. This initiative responds to an identified community and university need to provide contextual and socially relevant evaluation-focused educational opportunities to learners across disciplines and sectors. UEval is guided by principles of participatory and experienti…
On shifting ground: First-time parents' ideal world of paid work and family time
We examined first-time fathers' and mothers' perspectives about their ideal world of support in the context of dominant social ideology, ethno-cultural ideals, and the pragmatics of their everyday family, workplace, and socioeconomic circumstances during their first 18 months as parents. Twelve Canadian-born and six Chinese immigrant couples participated in individual in-depth interviews. We conducted a three-part analysis: fathers' perspectives,…
The Self-Sufficiency Trap: A Critical Examination of Welfare-to-Work
This article examines the notion of self-sufficiency as the central goal of recent policy efforts in Canada to move social assistance recipients into the labor market. The authors base their examination on a longitudinal, institutional-ethnographic study of 17 welfare-to-work participants attempting to make the transition from social assistance to employment in the province of Alberta, Canada. Findings from a thematic analysis of in-depth intervi…
Questioning the Suitability of Traditional Self-Report Family Functioning Measures for Single-Parent Families with Young Children
Family functioning is a common interest of social science and health researchers. Most often, well-established self-report instruments are used to measure family functioning. Although these instruments have been used with families of diverse compositions, our experiences using one of the commonly used instruments, the McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD), suggest that it is not appropriate for single-parent families with young children. In add…
Interpreter-facilitated cross-language interviews: A Research Note
This research note focuses on interpreter-facilitated cross-language qualitative interviews. Although researchers have written about strategies and procedures for working with interpreters, rarely have they offered adequate detail to determine the relative merits of various approaches, and little attention has been paid to the influence that interpreters have on the validity of qualitative data. We advance this body of literature by describing an…
Dis-integrated policy: Welfare-to-Work Participants' Experiences of Integrating Paid Work and Unpaid Family Work
Using a critical feminist theoretical lens, we followed 17 families for one year – as they attempted to make the transition from welfare to work – eliciting narrative accounts of their day-to-day lives. We used an institutional–ethnographic methodology to analyse the data. Our study shows that the juncture at which unpaid caring work and paid employment meet may be more difficult to negotiate for low-income lone-parent families than for coupled, …
Health as a resource for everyday life: Advancing the conceptualization
This paper examines the conceptualization of health as a resource and the implications that such a definition has for public health programs and policies. First introduced in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, health is commonly defined by practitioners, policy makers, and scholars as a resource for everyday life. However, despite frequent references to health as a resource, little attention has been paid to the meaning of this one-line phr…
Participatory Action Research: Practical Strategies for Actively Engaging and Maintaining Participation in Immigrant and Refugee Communities
In this research we examined the processes involved in implementing and maintaining a participatory action research (PAR) project by uncovering how theoretical PAR tenets hold up in the reality of a community-based project addressing immigrants' and refugees' mental health needs. Qualitative data from focus groups with these newcomers were analyzed for thematic content. Findings reveal that active participation is seen as the gateway into a PAR p…
Welfare Reforms and the Cognitive Development of Young Children
Welfare or Work: Which Is Better for Canadian Children
This study examined whether the employment status of parents in poor families is a predictor of child development by comparing the verbal development of preschool children in working poor and welfare-dependent families. Findings show that verbal development scores of both groups of children were below the norm, regardless of parents' source of income. Findings also indicated that children from working poor families had slightly higher levels of v…
The Role of the Health Sector in Addressing Poverty
The Use of Population Health and Health Promotion Research by Health Regions in Canada
Health behaviours and health: Evidence That the Relationship Is Not Conditional on Income Adequacy
Poverty Status, Health Behaviours and Health: Implications for Social Assistance and Health Care Policy
Deanna L. Williamson, Janet E. Fast, Poverty Status, Health Behaviours and Health: Implications for Social Assistance and Health Care Policy, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Mar., 1998), pp. 1-25
Poverty and Medical Treatment: When Public Policy Compromises Accessibility
The Self-Sufficiency Trap: A Critical Examination of Welfare-to-Work
This article examines the notion of self-sufficiency as the central goal of recent policy efforts in Canada to move social assistance recipients into the labor market. The authors base their examination on a longitudinal, institutional-ethnographic study of 17 welfare-to-work participants attempting to make the transition from social assistance to employment in the province of Alberta, Canada. Findings from a thematic analysis of in-depth intervi…
Participatory Action Research: Practical Strategies for Actively Engaging and Maintaining Participation in Immigrant and Refugee Communities
In this research we examined the processes involved in implementing and maintaining a participatory action research (PAR) project by uncovering how theoretical PAR tenets hold up in the reality of a community-based project addressing immigrants' and refugees' mental health needs. Qualitative data from focus groups with these newcomers were analyzed for thematic content. Findings reveal that active participation is seen as the gateway into a PAR p…
Dis-integrated policy: Welfare-to-Work Participants' Experiences of Integrating Paid Work and Unpaid Family Work
Using a critical feminist theoretical lens, we followed 17 families for one year – as they attempted to make the transition from welfare to work – eliciting narrative accounts of their day-to-day lives. We used an institutional–ethnographic methodology to analyse the data. Our study shows that the juncture at which unpaid caring work and paid employment meet may be more difficult to negotiate for low-income lone-parent families than for coupled, …
Interpreter-facilitated cross-language interviews: A Research Note
This research note focuses on interpreter-facilitated cross-language qualitative interviews. Although researchers have written about strategies and procedures for working with interpreters, rarely have they offered adequate detail to determine the relative merits of various approaches, and little attention has been paid to the influence that interpreters have on the validity of qualitative data. We advance this body of literature by describing an…
Poverty Status, Health Behaviours and Health: Implications for Social Assistance and Health Care Policy
Deanna L. Williamson, Janet E. Fast, Poverty Status, Health Behaviours and Health: Implications for Social Assistance and Health Care Policy, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Mar., 1998), pp. 1-25
On shifting ground: First-time parents' ideal world of paid work and family time
We examined first-time fathers' and mothers' perspectives about their ideal world of support in the context of dominant social ideology, ethno-cultural ideals, and the pragmatics of their everyday family, workplace, and socioeconomic circumstances during their first 18 months as parents. Twelve Canadian-born and six Chinese immigrant couples participated in individual in-depth interviews. We conducted a three-part analysis: fathers' perspectives,…
Poverty and Medical Treatment: When Public Policy Compromises Accessibility
Welfare or Work: Which Is Better for Canadian Children
This study examined whether the employment status of parents in poor families is a predictor of child development by comparing the verbal development of preschool children in working poor and welfare-dependent families. Findings show that verbal development scores of both groups of children were below the norm, regardless of parents' source of income. Findings also indicated that children from working poor families had slightly higher levels of v…
Health behaviours and health: Evidence That the Relationship Is Not Conditional on Income Adequacy
Welfare Reforms and the Cognitive Development of Young Children
The Role of the Health Sector in Addressing Poverty
Questioning the Suitability of Traditional Self-Report Family Functioning Measures for Single-Parent Families with Young Children
Family functioning is a common interest of social science and health researchers. Most often, well-established self-report instruments are used to measure family functioning. Although these instruments have been used with families of diverse compositions, our experiences using one of the commonly used instruments, the McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD), suggest that it is not appropriate for single-parent families with young children. In add…
The Use of Population Health and Health Promotion Research by Health Regions in Canada
Poverty Status, Health Behaviours and Health: Implications for Social Assistance and Health Care Policy
Deanna L. Williamson, Janet E. Fast, Poverty Status, Health Behaviours and Health: Implications for Social Assistance and Health Care Policy, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Mar., 1998), pp. 1-25
Poverty and Medical Treatment: When Public Policy Compromises Accessibility
Health behaviours and health: Evidence That the Relationship Is Not Conditional on Income Adequacy
Welfare or Work: Which Is Better for Canadian Children
This study examined whether the employment status of parents in poor families is a predictor of child development by comparing the verbal development of preschool children in working poor and welfare-dependent families. Findings show that verbal development scores of both groups of children were below the norm, regardless of parents' source of income. Findings also indicated that children from working poor families had slightly higher levels of v…
The Role of the Health Sector in Addressing Poverty
The Use of Population Health and Health Promotion Research by Health Regions in Canada
Welfare Reforms and the Cognitive Development of Young Children
Health as a resource for everyday life: Advancing the conceptualization
This paper examines the conceptualization of health as a resource and the implications that such a definition has for public health programs and policies. First introduced in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, health is commonly defined by practitioners, policy makers, and scholars as a resource for everyday life. However, despite frequent references to health as a resource, little attention has been paid to the meaning of this one-line phr…
Participatory Action Research: Practical Strategies for Actively Engaging and Maintaining Participation in Immigrant and Refugee Communities
In this research we examined the processes involved in implementing and maintaining a participatory action research (PAR) project by uncovering how theoretical PAR tenets hold up in the reality of a community-based project addressing immigrants' and refugees' mental health needs. Qualitative data from focus groups with these newcomers were analyzed for thematic content. Findings reveal that active participation is seen as the gateway into a PAR p…
Dis-integrated policy: Welfare-to-Work Participants' Experiences of Integrating Paid Work and Unpaid Family Work
Using a critical feminist theoretical lens, we followed 17 families for one year – as they attempted to make the transition from welfare to work – eliciting narrative accounts of their day-to-day lives. We used an institutional–ethnographic methodology to analyse the data. Our study shows that the juncture at which unpaid caring work and paid employment meet may be more difficult to negotiate for low-income lone-parent families than for coupled, …
Questioning the Suitability of Traditional Self-Report Family Functioning Measures for Single-Parent Families with Young Children
Family functioning is a common interest of social science and health researchers. Most often, well-established self-report instruments are used to measure family functioning. Although these instruments have been used with families of diverse compositions, our experiences using one of the commonly used instruments, the McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD), suggest that it is not appropriate for single-parent families with young children. In add…
Interpreter-facilitated cross-language interviews: A Research Note
This research note focuses on interpreter-facilitated cross-language qualitative interviews. Although researchers have written about strategies and procedures for working with interpreters, rarely have they offered adequate detail to determine the relative merits of various approaches, and little attention has been paid to the influence that interpreters have on the validity of qualitative data. We advance this body of literature by describing an…
The Self-Sufficiency Trap: A Critical Examination of Welfare-to-Work
This article examines the notion of self-sufficiency as the central goal of recent policy efforts in Canada to move social assistance recipients into the labor market. The authors base their examination on a longitudinal, institutional-ethnographic study of 17 welfare-to-work participants attempting to make the transition from social assistance to employment in the province of Alberta, Canada. Findings from a thematic analysis of in-depth intervi…
On shifting ground: First-time parents' ideal world of paid work and family time
We examined first-time fathers' and mothers' perspectives about their ideal world of support in the context of dominant social ideology, ethno-cultural ideals, and the pragmatics of their everyday family, workplace, and socioeconomic circumstances during their first 18 months as parents. Twelve Canadian-born and six Chinese immigrant couples participated in individual in-depth interviews. We conducted a three-part analysis: fathers' perspectives,…
UEval: Bringing Community-Based Experiential Learning to the Evaluation Classroom
This practice note describes the unique features of, and lessons learned from, UEval, an innovative one-week “evaluation institute” at the Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta. This initiative responds to an identified community and university need to provide contextual and socially relevant evaluation-focused educational opportunities to learners across disciplines and sectors. UEval is guided by principles of participatory and experienti…
Psychology (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Population (4 works)