Sally Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sally Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sally |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5865-8858 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 166 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 64 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Building community agency: Latinx adults learning English within safe spaces
Adult Latinx immigrants in the United States often face the dual challenge of acquiring English language skills while navigating sociopolitical climates that may deter participation in institutionally affiliated programs. Community-based spaces, such as churches, can serve as safe and affirming environments for language learning. This mixed-methods study investigates the design and implementation of an adult English program grounded in culturally…
Picturebooks and beyond: Multilingual parents and children’s family literacy practices
This qualitative study examines the family literacy practices of five multilingual families engaging with picturebooks at home. Using sociocultural theory, translanguaging, and multimodality, the study explores how multilingual parents and young children co-construct literacy experiences beyond traditional print-centric and monolingual paradigms. Data from questionnaires, interviews, reading recordings, and multimodal artifacts reveal rich litera…
Mark 15: 16–32
Risk and the importance of absent symptoms in constructions of the ‘cancer candidate’
Cancer is a disease that is imbued with notions of risk, with individuals expected to avoid ‘risky’ behaviours and act swiftly when symptoms indicating a risk of cancer emerge. Cancer symptoms, however, are often ambiguous and indicative of a number of other conditions, making it difficult for people to assess when symptoms may, or may not, be the result of cancer. Here, we discuss interview data from a study examining the symptom appraisal and h…
James F. Kay, Theologian for Pulpit and Pew
Managing coastal flood risk to residential properties in England: Integrating spatial planning, engineering and insurance
Reflections and projections on a decade of climate science
Public & private accounts of help-seeking: The implications of research methods on the presentation of narratives
For people with symptoms that could indicate cancer, prompt presentation to a health care practitioner facilitates early diagnosis, improves survival, and is encouraged by public health agencies and cancer charities. Nevertheless, time to presentation from symptom onset (the patient interval) is known to vary widely. We report findings from a mixed-methods study examining help-seeking among people with symptoms of lung or colorectal cancer. Patie…
Discourses, Bodies, and Questions of Sharedness in Kenya’s Wellness Communities
This article contemplates the construction of sharedness that underlies the success of alternative lifestyle communities in Eastern Africa. In Kenya, a new tourism niche market that focuses on yoga, mindfulness, and alternative medicine is flourishing. Tourists travel to East Africa to practice yoga, but also to introduce local communities to ‘alternative lifestyles’. By considering Western and Kenyan practitioners’ discourses about the benefits …
Pushing against hegemonic practices: Emergent bilinguals respond to children’s literature
There is a need to gain insight into the ways technology positively impacts the literacy development of young children learning English as a new language given public scrutiny about the use of technology in early childhood classrooms. When thinking about the future, being multiliterate is important and requires learners to make, remake, and interpret signs in multiple modes [Rowsell and Harwood, 2015. “‘Let it Go’: Exploring the Image of the Chil…
Engaging young working class men in the delivery of sex and relationships education
Despite a substantial body of research on young people’s wishes about the content and delivery of sex and relationships education (SRE), studies still indicate dissatisfaction with the way lessons are provided. This discussion takes place in a public health context where young people’s sexual activity is viewed negatively as a risk to health, and advice focusses on the need to prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections. This…
Multi-decadal shoreline change in coastal natural world heritage sites – a global assessment
Natural World Heritage Sites (NWHS), which are of Outstanding Universal Value, are increasingly threatened by natural and anthropogenic pressures. This is especially true for coastal NWHS, which are additionally subject to erosion and flooding. This paper assesses shoreline change from 1984 to 2016 within the boundaries of 67 designated sites, providing a first global consistent assessment of its drivers. It develops a transferable methodology ut…
Response to Luke A. Powery
This is a response by Dr. Sally A. Brown to Luke Powery’s lecture on the PTS and Slavery Report
The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5°C
The need to stabilize global climate Climate change will be the greatest threat to humanity and global ecosystems in the coming years, and there is a pressing need to understand and communicate the impacts of warming, across the perspectives of the natural and social sciences. Hoegh-Guldberg et al. review the climate change–impact literature, expanding on the recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They provide evidence of…
The global and regional impacts of climate change under representative concentration pathway forcings and shared socioeconomic pathway socioeconomic scenarios
This paper presents an evaluation of the global and regional consequences of climate change for heat extremes, water resources, river and coastal flooding, droughts, agriculture and energy use. It presents change in hazard and resource base under different rates of climate change (representative concentration pathways (RCP)), and socio-economic impacts are estimated for each combination of RCP and shared socioeconomic pathway. Uncertainty in the …
Understanding the attitudes and acceptability of extra-genital Chlamydia testing in young women: Evaluation of a feasibility study
In this study, self-sampling of throat samples is largely acceptable; however, the acceptability of taking an ano-rectal sample for C. trachomatis testing in young women was lower in younger women. The study suggests further research to investigate the acceptability of extra-genital testing as an addition to routine C. trachomatis testing, and whether this increases detection and prevents infective sequelae for women
I wouldn’t have let you in if you’d had a folder”: Access and resistance in a qualitative interview study
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss methodological issues connected to being a member of a stigmatised group invited to take part in a research study. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on experiences of interviewing young parents and their families about teenage parenthood. The paper reflects on how the feelings of young parents about being under surveillance all the time, by official agencies and in their communities, coul…
Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering by Kelly M. Kapic
Health help-seeking by men in Brunei Darussalam: Masculinities and 'Doing' Male Identities Across the Life Course
Using data collected through semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions with 37 adult men living in Brunei Darussalam, this paper explores how masculinities and expectations about male roles across the life course influence men's perceptions, of and attitudes towards health and health help-seeking behaviour. Bruneian men gave accounts that consistently spoke of a series of masculine roles and associated attributes and behaviours, whic…
Mediterranean Unesco World Heritage at risk from coastal flooding and erosion due to sea-level rise
UNESCO World Heritage sites (WHS) located in coastal areas are increasingly at risk from coastal hazards due to sea-level rise. In this study, we assess Mediterranean cultural WHS at risk from coastal flooding and erosion under four sea-level rise scenarios until 2100. Based on the analysis of spatially explicit WHS data, we develop an index-based approach that allows for ranking WHS at risk from both coastal hazards. Here we show that of 49 cult…
Teenage Pregnancy, Parenting and Intergenerational Relations
Drawing on interviews and focus groups with young mothers and fathers, their parents and other relatives, this book provides a rich exploration of the experience of being a teenage parent now, and for
They think it's all up to the girls’: Gender, risk and responsibility for contraception
Much research suggests that attitudes towards responsibility for use of contraception amongst young people are strongly gendered. However, decision making, if 'decisions' happen at all, is bound up with notions of hegemonic masculine and feminine roles as well as factors concerning relationship status. Data from two earlier qualitative studies were re-analysed with an emphasis on findings related to gender and responsibility for use of contracept…
Using focus groups in naturally occurring settings
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the experiences of conducting focus groups amongst acquaintances in naturally occurring settings, where participants were known to each other and participation was less about being recruited, and more about being there when the focus group took place. Design/methodology/approach – This was a qualitative study of multi-generational experiences of teenage parenting, and used interviews and focus …
Assessment literacy: The foundation for improving student learning
Whenever reviewing a book on assessment in higher education, one is likely to ask how much such a volume is likely to be needed in a field where much has already been published: from how-to guides
The feasibility and acceptability of the provision of alcohol screening and brief advice in pharmacies for women accessing emergency contraception: An evaluation study
It is feasible for pharmacists to carry out screening and brief advice, and most customers find it acceptable. However, pharmacist take-up of the service and participation in the study was low. Pharmacists were enthusiastic about providing screening and other health promotion services; targeting different population groups for alcohol screening may be more successful. Delivery of the AUDIT tool by pharmacists may not obtain reliable responses fro…
Safe and just operating spaces for regional social-ecological systems
Humanity faces a major global challenge in achieving wellbeing for all, while simultaneously ensuring that the biophysical processes and ecosystem services that underpin wellbeing are exploited within scientifically informed boundaries of sustainability. We propose a framework for defining the safe and just operating space for humanity that integrates social wellbeing into the original planetary boundaries concept (Rockström et al., 2009a,b) for …
Expanding Volunteer Vacation Participation An Exploratory Study on the Mini-Mission Concept
There has been a considerable growth in the volunteer vacation concept in the U.S. since around the mid—1980s. The increased demand has been attributed to an increased sense of global awareness among the Baby Boom generation, along with a growing willingness to make a contribution to other societies while on vacation. This study consisted of two parts, the first of which was an identification and description of some of the major organizations in …
Yoga Tourism as a Niche Within the Wellness Tourism Market
Yoga tourism has emerged and grown with the 'travel to feel well' trend. This study explored this under-researched market by interviewing and surveying a group of yoga retreat participants in central Indiana, USA. This research, while exploratory in nature, delineated the socio-demographic and motivational characteristics of yoga tourists and provided empirical evidences that an individual's involvement level with yoga, physical health as well as…
Putting a Name to it: Diagnosis in Contemporary Society
Jutel, A.G. Putting a Name to it: Diagnosis in Contemporary Society . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press 2011 £23.50 (hbk ) 175 pp ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-0067-9; ISBN-10: 1-4214-0067-7 ‘With a diagnosis, things don’t necessarily get better, but they become clearer’. With this timely and enjoyable book, Annemarie Goldstein Jutel makes a claim to establish a sociology of diagnosis that will make things clearer, and probably better too. She not…
Parental Power and Special Educational Needs: The case of specific learning difficulties
Research on parents of children with special educational needs has revealed their lack of power and the difficulty of establishing genuine partnership with professionals. This paper focuses on a predominantly middle‐class group, parents of children with specific learning difficulties. In the light of the Government's recent emphasis on parental rights, the paper explores what educational provision these parents want for their children, the strate…
Using focus groups in naturally occurring settings
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the experiences of conducting focus groups amongst acquaintances in naturally occurring settings, where participants were known to each other and participation was less about being recruited, and more about being there when the focus group took place. Design/methodology/approach – This was a qualitative study of multi-generational experiences of teenage parenting, and used interviews and focus …
Professionalising Teaching: Enhancing the status of teaching, improving the experience of learning and supporting innovation in higher education
Extant literature on professions suggests that there is a readily recognisable set of characteristics of a profession, but this is a contested issue, particularly in the area of recognising the professionalism of those who teach and support learning in higher education. In the UK, the Institute for Learning and Teaching was set up as a result of the Dearing report to recognise the experience and expertise of those working in these areas. The ILT …
What Makes Men Talk About Health
This paper compares two research projects which explored men's beliefs about their health. The concern of the paper is not with the findings themselves, but with the methodological issues concerned, in particular, the issue of interviewing men about health. The paper first discusses relevant issues from the literature concerning gender and interviewing. It then goes on to describe the two research projects, both of which involved interviews with …
Effective Contributions from Research to Educational Conversations: Style and strategy
Health help-seeking by men in Brunei Darussalam: Masculinities and 'Doing' Male Identities Across the Life Course
Using data collected through semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions with 37 adult men living in Brunei Darussalam, this paper explores how masculinities and expectations about male roles across the life course influence men's perceptions, of and attitudes towards health and health help-seeking behaviour. Bruneian men gave accounts that consistently spoke of a series of masculine roles and associated attributes and behaviours, whic…
Seeing the strange in the familiar: Unpacking racialized practices in early childhood settings
In this article, three educators share case studies describing racial biases and segregationist practices in early schooling. The authors draw upon critical race theory as a lens and employ critical discourse analysis to uncover classed and raced biases within and across three early childhood contexts. While the cases are situated in specific public school settings – a parent teacher association (PTA) fundraiser, a mandated literacy program, and …
Culture Is the Way They Live Here”: Young Latin@s and Parents Navigate Linguistic and Cultural Borderlands in U.S. Schools
Throughout the United States, deficit perspectives contribute to Latino students' failure in terms of school success. This happens because many educators still regard bilingualism as a deficit. We examined the discourse of one family to better understand how deficit, assimilationist discourse affected them and their two children. We came to understand that, influenced by deficit messages, parents celebrated accelerated English acquisition. Implic…
The implementation of a national curriculum and teachers’ classroom thinking
The implementation of any curriculum initiative at classroom level depends largely on teachers’ existing ideas about their day‐to‐day teaching and the extent to which they regard the new policy as desirable and practical. Past records for curriculum initiatives show extraordinarily modest levels of pedagogical implementation, in part because curriculum innovators have failed to ‘start where the teachers are’. The extent to which curriculum initia…
I wouldn’t have let you in if you’d had a folder”: Access and resistance in a qualitative interview study
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss methodological issues connected to being a member of a stigmatised group invited to take part in a research study. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on experiences of interviewing young parents and their families about teenage parenthood. The paper reflects on how the feelings of young parents about being under surveillance all the time, by official agencies and in their communities, coul…
Film‐based creative arts enquiry: Qualitative researchers as auteurs
Purpose Inspired by an exciting revival of interest in the working methods and processes of the creative arts, the purpose of this paper is to make use of the auteur approach to film production, to further develop knowledge about sensuous methodologies in qualitative research. Design/methodology/approach An exegesis of the authors’ particular experiences in producing and disseminating a short documentary film is used to construct a framework from…
Research on gender in education: Monitoring bleakness or instigating change
Scotland has a rather small community of researchers with a particular concern for gender in education. Its smallness is a matter for regret. However, as Maneka Gandhi (quoted in Lindsay Paterson's, 1993a, editorial to the second issue of Scottish Affairs) said 'never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world; it is the only thing that ever has done so'. She was speaking in the Lothian European Lectures associated with t…
Influences upon Teachers' Attitudes to Different Types of Innovation: A Study of Scottish Integrated Science
(1982). Influences upon Teachers' Attitudes to Different Types of Innovation: A Study of Scottish Integrated Science. Curriculum Inquiry: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 35-51
Factors influencing Teachers’ responses to curricular innovations
Discerning the Public Presence of God
An encounter between strangers in public space is critically interrogated from both socio-cultural and theological perspectives to uncover “operational” (experiential) connections between Christian worship and public action. The article concludes with the constructive proposal that perceiving the presence of the God of redemptive promise in public space forms the primary link between worship and witness, sanctuary and street
The culture of practice in pre‐school provision: Outsider and insider perspectives
This paper explores, contrasts, and considers some of the implications of the different ways in which the culture of practice in pre‐school provision is construed by various actors (‘outsiders’ and ‘insiders’) in the enterprise. ‘Outsiders’ means those with responsibility for the formulation of the curriculum, the inspection of provision and the training of pre‐school staff (typically managers and assessors). The perspectives of two types of insi…
The Conceptualisation of Attainment
Scottish Science Teachers' Perceptions of Effective Science Teaching
S ummary . 157 science teachers from 39 schools in Scotland completed a 44‐item questionnaire on their perceptions of effective science teaching. An earlier study using a 106‐item questionnaire isolated eight factors which, it was suggested, were characteristic of styles of effective teaching among science teachers in England. The 44‐item version consisted of those items which, in the English study, had high loadings on the eight factors. There w…
Scottish Science Teachers' Perceptions of Effective Science Teaching
S ummary . 157 science teachers from 39 schools in Scotland completed a 44‐item questionnaire on their perceptions of effective science teaching. An earlier study using a 106‐item questionnaire isolated eight factors which, it was suggested, were characteristic of styles of effective teaching among science teachers in England. The 44‐item version consisted of those items which, in the English study, had high loadings on the eight factors. There w…
The Conceptualisation of Attainment
Factors influencing Teachers’ responses to curricular innovations
The evaluation of school science departments
Influences upon Teachers' Attitudes to Different Types of Innovation: A Study of Scottish Integrated Science
(1982). Influences upon Teachers' Attitudes to Different Types of Innovation: A Study of Scottish Integrated Science. Curriculum Inquiry: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 35-51
Teacher Attitudes and Innovation Characteristics. Let's Try Again: A Rejoinder
Teacher Attitudes and Innovation Characteristics—Let's Try Again: A Rejoinder
A cursory reading of Common's response to our paper (Common, 1983, this issue) led us to ask why she had used our work as a basis for introducing her own ideas on settings for innovations and on power as a condition for the implementation of innovations. At most, we would have expected that she would have referred to our contribution to the study of innovation as something concerned with issues different from those of her paper. A more careful re…
Urinary-Free Cortisol Excretion in Relation to Age in Acutely Stressed Persons with Depressive Symptoms
We examined the relationship between age and urinary excretion of free cortisol in acutely stressed middle-aged and elderly persons. We observed that elderly persons under stress excreted larger amounts of urinary-free cortisol than did middle-aged persons; Pearson's r between age and cortisol = 0.38, p less than 0.05. When the sample was stratified by severity of depressive symptoms, the relationship between age and cortisol excretion was strong…
Effective Contributions from Research to Educational Conversations: Style and strategy
Research on gender in education: Monitoring bleakness or instigating change
Scotland has a rather small community of researchers with a particular concern for gender in education. Its smallness is a matter for regret. However, as Maneka Gandhi (quoted in Lindsay Paterson's, 1993a, editorial to the second issue of Scottish Affairs) said 'never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world; it is the only thing that ever has done so'. She was speaking in the Lothian European Lectures associated with t…
Parental Power and Special Educational Needs: The case of specific learning difficulties
Research on parents of children with special educational needs has revealed their lack of power and the difficulty of establishing genuine partnership with professionals. This paper focuses on a predominantly middle‐class group, parents of children with specific learning difficulties. In the light of the Government's recent emphasis on parental rights, the paper explores what educational provision these parents want for their children, the strate…
“But is it fair?”: An exploratory study of student perceptions of the consequential validity of assessment
The implementation of a national curriculum and teachers’ classroom thinking
The implementation of any curriculum initiative at classroom level depends largely on teachers’ existing ideas about their day‐to‐day teaching and the extent to which they regard the new policy as desirable and practical. Past records for curriculum initiatives show extraordinarily modest levels of pedagogical implementation, in part because curriculum innovators have failed to ‘start where the teachers are’. The extent to which curriculum initia…
What Makes Men Talk About Health
This paper compares two research projects which explored men's beliefs about their health. The concern of the paper is not with the findings themselves, but with the methodological issues concerned, in particular, the issue of interviewing men about health. The paper first discusses relevant issues from the literature concerning gender and interviewing. It then goes on to describe the two research projects, both of which involved interviews with …
Professionalising Teaching: Enhancing the status of teaching, improving the experience of learning and supporting innovation in higher education
Extant literature on professions suggests that there is a readily recognisable set of characteristics of a profession, but this is a contested issue, particularly in the area of recognising the professionalism of those who teach and support learning in higher education. In the UK, the Institute for Learning and Teaching was set up as a result of the Dearing report to recognise the experience and expertise of those working in these areas. The ILT …
Essential Tips for Organizing Conferences & Events
Many conferences and training events are organised by individuals who have little experience of doing so. Some have had the task thrust upon them without being offered adequate training, and have little idea of the time, experience and care needed to plan and manage events effectively. Each conference is different, and each can present a new problem to the unprepared, even to the most experienced conference organiser.This book provides immediate,…
Expanding Volunteer Vacation Participation An Exploratory Study on the Mini-Mission Concept
There has been a considerable growth in the volunteer vacation concept in the U.S. since around the mid—1980s. The increased demand has been attributed to an increased sense of global awareness among the Baby Boom generation, along with a growing willingness to make a contribution to other societies while on vacation. This study consisted of two parts, the first of which was an identification and description of some of the major organizations in …
The culture of practice in pre‐school provision: Outsider and insider perspectives
This paper explores, contrasts, and considers some of the implications of the different ways in which the culture of practice in pre‐school provision is construed by various actors (‘outsiders’ and ‘insiders’) in the enterprise. ‘Outsiders’ means those with responsibility for the formulation of the curriculum, the inspection of provision and the training of pre‐school staff (typically managers and assessors). The perspectives of two types of insi…
Travelling with a Purpose: Understanding the Motives and Benefits of Volunteer Vacationers
With the growing trend of volunteer vacations, research has been warranted in regard to understanding the motivational factors of individuals who participate in such endeavors. With this understanding, the goal is to increase these travel offerings in the industry, which will bring better understanding between cultures. This study examines different travel motivation factors for someone who chooses to use part of their vacation participating in v…
Yoga Tourism as a Niche Within the Wellness Tourism Market
Yoga tourism has emerged and grown with the 'travel to feel well' trend. This study explored this under-researched market by interviewing and surveying a group of yoga retreat participants in central Indiana, USA. This research, while exploratory in nature, delineated the socio-demographic and motivational characteristics of yoga tourists and provided empirical evidences that an individual's involvement level with yoga, physical health as well as…
Culture Is the Way They Live Here”: Young Latin@s and Parents Navigate Linguistic and Cultural Borderlands in U.S. Schools
Throughout the United States, deficit perspectives contribute to Latino students' failure in terms of school success. This happens because many educators still regard bilingualism as a deficit. We examined the discourse of one family to better understand how deficit, assimilationist discourse affected them and their two children. We came to understand that, influenced by deficit messages, parents celebrated accelerated English acquisition. Implic…
Speaking Again of the Trinity
This essay argues, with Catherine M. LaCugna and others, that affirming that God is divine being-in-communion, the Three-in-One in whom power is equally shared, and in whom unity and difference wholly coincide has thoroughly practical consequences for congregational life. Dominant cultural models from outside the church that too often structure patterns of power and influence within the ecclesial community can be challenged, and a fresh theologic…
Exploring the text-Practice Interface: Acquiring the Virtue of Hermeneutical Modesty
The theological conversation about Christian practices emerged amid the convergence of two streams of theory—the social practices theory of Alasdair MacIntyre and narrative approaches to biblical hermeneutics. This essay argues that, as a result, something of a narrativist consensus, more tacit than explicit, about the hermeneutical relationship between a community's reading of the Bible and the assessment of its practices tended to be assumed un…
Effective Practice in Youth Justice
Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date review of research and the implications for practice, the second edition of Effective Practice in Youth Justice considers core areas of youth justice practice, such as how to engage young people effectively within the context of recent changes to the youth justice system brought about by the introduction of the scaled approach and the Youth Rehabilitation Order. It also provides an overview of the availabl…
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