Joan Eakin
Biographic Data
| ID | 326510 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Eakin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan |
| FAMILY NAME | Eakin |
| SIGNATURE | EAKIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1104-3626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 284 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Advancing the Impact of Critical Qualitative Research on Policy, Practice, and Science
Discourses of research impact shape the ways in which critical qualitative research and researchers are evaluated in contemporary academic environments. Mainstream conceptualizations of research impact arise from a positivist perspective that challenges the aims and approaches of critical qualitative research. In this paper, we propose a framework for conceptualizing the impact of critical qualitative research on policy, practice, and science. Af…
Value-adding' Analysis: Doing More With Qualitative Data
Much qualitative research produces little new knowledge. We argue that this is largely due to deficits of analysis. Researchers too seldom venture beyond cataloguing data into pre-existing concepts and scouting for 'themes,' and fail to exploit the distinctive powers of insight of qualitative methodology. The paper introduces a 'value-adding' approach to qualitative analysis that aims to extend and enrich researchers' analytic interpretive practi…
Doing Science Differently: A Framework for Assessing the Careers of Qualitative Scholars in the Health Sciences
Hiring and promotion of qualitative researchers in the health sciences, in Canada and internationally, is impacted by the prestige of quantification as the ultimate measure of scientific quality in current academic and health-care settings. This is further exacerbated by neoliberal notions of productivity, which offer very limited forms of assessment for different ways of producing knowledge or doing science differently. While qualitative researc…
Beyond bare bones: Critical, theoretically engaged qualitative research in public health
Educating Critical Qualitative Health Researchers in the Land of the Randomized Controlled Trial
Drawing on long experience as a sociologist in the health academy, I explore the challenges of practicing and teaching critical qualitative research in an environment dominated by very different scientific reasoning. I account for the transgressive positioning of qualitative research in the health sciences in terms of the role of social theory in interpretive research, rising interest in qualitative approaches among health professionals, research…
Contingent work and ill-health: Conceptualizing the links
The hazards of helping: Work, mission and risk in non-profit social service organizations
Non-profit organizations play an important role in the provision of health and social services. No longer temporary providers of emergency services, non-profit organizations appear to be permanent features of the social service landscape. Despite some of the intrinsic rewards that work in non-profit organizations offers, jobs in these organizations can be characterized by high demands, long working hours, low pay and exposure to violence and infe…
"So, are you back to work yet?" Re-conceptualizing 'work' and 'return to work' in the context of primary bone cancer
Neoliberalizing Home Care: Managed Competition and Restructuring Home Care in Ontario
Food assistance through “surplus” food: Insights from an ethnographic study of food bank work
Reframing the evaluation of qualitative health research: Reflections on a review of appraisal guidelines in the health sciences
In this article, we explore the form of evaluation put forward by guidelines used in the health sciences for appraising qualitative research and we begin to articulate an alternative posture. Most guidelines are derivative of the modes of assessment developed by clinical epidemiologists as part of the promotion of evidence‐based medicine (EBM). They are predominantly proceduralist in orientation, equating quality with the proper execution of rese…
Charitable food assistance as symbolic gesture: An ethnographic study of food banks in Ontario
Power‐centred approach to work stress: A reply to Smail's commentary
Gender, class, work‐related stress and health: Toward a power‐centred approach
The purpose of this paper is to consider how gender, class and power have been addressed in the work stress literature and to propose an alternative approach that highlights the role of power in the development of work‐related stress. We begin with a discussion and critique of prominent work‐related stress models. The models' conceptualizations of work‐related stress and their relationships to issues of class and gender are used as focal points f…
Wealth, equity and health care: A Critique of a "Population Health" Perspective on the Determinants of Health
Health and the Social Relations of Work: A Study of the Health-related Experiences of Employees in Small Workplaces
On the basis of a qualitative study of health in small enterprises, this paper attempts to theorise the social production of illness and injury in the workplace. Particular features of working life in small workplaces, especially their personalised social relations and low polarisation of employer-employee interests, shape workers' perceptions of the employment relationship and of health in relation to work. Strained authority relations at work c…
Towards a critical social science perspective on health promotion research
As part of our on-going efforts to formulate an alternative paradigm for health promotion research, we discuss an approach that we have called a 'critical social science perspective' (CSSP). This perspective consists of a set of 'reflexive' questions concerning the implicit assumptions and ideology underlying the research process, and the role of power, contradiction and dialectical relationships in theory and research practice. The paper briefly…
The Problem of Legitimacy in the Experience of Work-Related Back Injury
In an ethnographic study of work-related back injury, the problem of legitimacy was a central feature of workers' experiences. Injured workers encountered suspicion in their workplaces regarding the validity of their claims to back injury and their need for compensable time off work. The experience was associated, in most instances, with damaged relations at work and jeopardized job security. Underpinning workers' experience were the nature of me…
Survival of the Fittest? The Democratization of Hospital Administration in Quebec
In 1973 the Canadian Province of Quebec “democratized” its hospital boards of directors by replacing their traditional lay community or religious members with individuals more representative of the hospitals' major interest groups. In the province's English-speaking hospitals, patients, community organizations, physicians and nonprofessional hospital employees elected representatives to boards that were formerly comprised mostly of business execu…
Hospital power structure and the democratization of hospital administration in Quebec
Charitable food assistance as symbolic gesture: An ethnographic study of food banks in Ontario
Wealth, equity and health care: A Critique of a "Population Health" Perspective on the Determinants of Health
Food assistance through “surplus” food: Insights from an ethnographic study of food bank work
Value-adding' Analysis: Doing More With Qualitative Data
Much qualitative research produces little new knowledge. We argue that this is largely due to deficits of analysis. Researchers too seldom venture beyond cataloguing data into pre-existing concepts and scouting for 'themes,' and fail to exploit the distinctive powers of insight of qualitative methodology. The paper introduces a 'value-adding' approach to qualitative analysis that aims to extend and enrich researchers' analytic interpretive practi…
Towards a critical social science perspective on health promotion research
As part of our on-going efforts to formulate an alternative paradigm for health promotion research, we discuss an approach that we have called a 'critical social science perspective' (CSSP). This perspective consists of a set of 'reflexive' questions concerning the implicit assumptions and ideology underlying the research process, and the role of power, contradiction and dialectical relationships in theory and research practice. The paper briefly…
Educating Critical Qualitative Health Researchers in the Land of the Randomized Controlled Trial
Drawing on long experience as a sociologist in the health academy, I explore the challenges of practicing and teaching critical qualitative research in an environment dominated by very different scientific reasoning. I account for the transgressive positioning of qualitative research in the health sciences in terms of the role of social theory in interpretive research, rising interest in qualitative approaches among health professionals, research…
Health and the Social Relations of Work: A Study of the Health-related Experiences of Employees in Small Workplaces
On the basis of a qualitative study of health in small enterprises, this paper attempts to theorise the social production of illness and injury in the workplace. Particular features of working life in small workplaces, especially their personalised social relations and low polarisation of employer-employee interests, shape workers' perceptions of the employment relationship and of health in relation to work. Strained authority relations at work c…
Beyond bare bones: Critical, theoretically engaged qualitative research in public health
Gender, class, work‐related stress and health: Toward a power‐centred approach
The purpose of this paper is to consider how gender, class and power have been addressed in the work stress literature and to propose an alternative approach that highlights the role of power in the development of work‐related stress. We begin with a discussion and critique of prominent work‐related stress models. The models' conceptualizations of work‐related stress and their relationships to issues of class and gender are used as focal points f…
"So, are you back to work yet?" Re-conceptualizing 'work' and 'return to work' in the context of primary bone cancer
Doing Science Differently: A Framework for Assessing the Careers of Qualitative Scholars in the Health Sciences
Hiring and promotion of qualitative researchers in the health sciences, in Canada and internationally, is impacted by the prestige of quantification as the ultimate measure of scientific quality in current academic and health-care settings. This is further exacerbated by neoliberal notions of productivity, which offer very limited forms of assessment for different ways of producing knowledge or doing science differently. While qualitative researc…
Contingent work and ill-health: Conceptualizing the links
Hospital power structure and the democratization of hospital administration in Quebec
Advancing the Impact of Critical Qualitative Research on Policy, Practice, and Science
Discourses of research impact shape the ways in which critical qualitative research and researchers are evaluated in contemporary academic environments. Mainstream conceptualizations of research impact arise from a positivist perspective that challenges the aims and approaches of critical qualitative research. In this paper, we propose a framework for conceptualizing the impact of critical qualitative research on policy, practice, and science. Af…
Survival of the Fittest? The Democratization of Hospital Administration in Quebec
In 1973 the Canadian Province of Quebec “democratized” its hospital boards of directors by replacing their traditional lay community or religious members with individuals more representative of the hospitals' major interest groups. In the province's English-speaking hospitals, patients, community organizations, physicians and nonprofessional hospital employees elected representatives to boards that were formerly comprised mostly of business execu…
Hospital power structure and the democratization of hospital administration in Quebec
The Problem of Legitimacy in the Experience of Work-Related Back Injury
In an ethnographic study of work-related back injury, the problem of legitimacy was a central feature of workers' experiences. Injured workers encountered suspicion in their workplaces regarding the validity of their claims to back injury and their need for compensable time off work. The experience was associated, in most instances, with damaged relations at work and jeopardized job security. Underpinning workers' experience were the nature of me…
Towards a critical social science perspective on health promotion research
As part of our on-going efforts to formulate an alternative paradigm for health promotion research, we discuss an approach that we have called a 'critical social science perspective' (CSSP). This perspective consists of a set of 'reflexive' questions concerning the implicit assumptions and ideology underlying the research process, and the role of power, contradiction and dialectical relationships in theory and research practice. The paper briefly…
Wealth, equity and health care: A Critique of a "Population Health" Perspective on the Determinants of Health
Health and the Social Relations of Work: A Study of the Health-related Experiences of Employees in Small Workplaces
On the basis of a qualitative study of health in small enterprises, this paper attempts to theorise the social production of illness and injury in the workplace. Particular features of working life in small workplaces, especially their personalised social relations and low polarisation of employer-employee interests, shape workers' perceptions of the employment relationship and of health in relation to work. Strained authority relations at work c…
Gender, class, work‐related stress and health: Toward a power‐centred approach
The purpose of this paper is to consider how gender, class and power have been addressed in the work stress literature and to propose an alternative approach that highlights the role of power in the development of work‐related stress. We begin with a discussion and critique of prominent work‐related stress models. The models' conceptualizations of work‐related stress and their relationships to issues of class and gender are used as focal points f…
Power‐centred approach to work stress: A reply to Smail's commentary
Reframing the evaluation of qualitative health research: Reflections on a review of appraisal guidelines in the health sciences
In this article, we explore the form of evaluation put forward by guidelines used in the health sciences for appraising qualitative research and we begin to articulate an alternative posture. Most guidelines are derivative of the modes of assessment developed by clinical epidemiologists as part of the promotion of evidence‐based medicine (EBM). They are predominantly proceduralist in orientation, equating quality with the proper execution of rese…
Charitable food assistance as symbolic gesture: An ethnographic study of food banks in Ontario
Food assistance through “surplus” food: Insights from an ethnographic study of food bank work
Neoliberalizing Home Care: Managed Competition and Restructuring Home Care in Ontario
The hazards of helping: Work, mission and risk in non-profit social service organizations
Non-profit organizations play an important role in the provision of health and social services. No longer temporary providers of emergency services, non-profit organizations appear to be permanent features of the social service landscape. Despite some of the intrinsic rewards that work in non-profit organizations offers, jobs in these organizations can be characterized by high demands, long working hours, low pay and exposure to violence and infe…
"So, are you back to work yet?" Re-conceptualizing 'work' and 'return to work' in the context of primary bone cancer
Contingent work and ill-health: Conceptualizing the links
Educating Critical Qualitative Health Researchers in the Land of the Randomized Controlled Trial
Drawing on long experience as a sociologist in the health academy, I explore the challenges of practicing and teaching critical qualitative research in an environment dominated by very different scientific reasoning. I account for the transgressive positioning of qualitative research in the health sciences in terms of the role of social theory in interpretive research, rising interest in qualitative approaches among health professionals, research…
Beyond bare bones: Critical, theoretically engaged qualitative research in public health
Doing Science Differently: A Framework for Assessing the Careers of Qualitative Scholars in the Health Sciences
Hiring and promotion of qualitative researchers in the health sciences, in Canada and internationally, is impacted by the prestige of quantification as the ultimate measure of scientific quality in current academic and health-care settings. This is further exacerbated by neoliberal notions of productivity, which offer very limited forms of assessment for different ways of producing knowledge or doing science differently. While qualitative researc…
Value-adding' Analysis: Doing More With Qualitative Data
Much qualitative research produces little new knowledge. We argue that this is largely due to deficits of analysis. Researchers too seldom venture beyond cataloguing data into pre-existing concepts and scouting for 'themes,' and fail to exploit the distinctive powers of insight of qualitative methodology. The paper introduces a 'value-adding' approach to qualitative analysis that aims to extend and enrich researchers' analytic interpretive practi…
Advancing the Impact of Critical Qualitative Research on Policy, Practice, and Science
Discourses of research impact shape the ways in which critical qualitative research and researchers are evaluated in contemporary academic environments. Mainstream conceptualizations of research impact arise from a positivist perspective that challenges the aims and approaches of critical qualitative research. In this paper, we propose a framework for conceptualizing the impact of critical qualitative research on policy, practice, and science. Af…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Social science (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Qualitative research (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)