Kate Gibson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3582654 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Gibson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibson |
| SIGNATURE | GIBSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9812-8269 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Doing ‘proper’ food in later older age: Gender and the significance of household meals
Based on longitudinal qualitative research with 46 older adults (80+) in North East England, this paper employs a Bourdieusian framework to examine the intersection of domestic eating, gender, age and identity within later life transitions. From minor 'tweaks' to using convenience foods, our participants employed various strategies to maintain 'proper' meal routines, an everyday practice idealised across the sample. Female participants were parti…
Proving International Crimes, Yvonne McDermott
Delivering green social prescribing: An ethnographic exploration of the place of walking and gardening groups in a social prescribing intervention
Green social prescribing involves link workers referring people from healthcare systems into nature-based activities, expected to offer holistic therapeutic experiences. Using ethnographic methods, we examined the use of referrals and creation of pathways into walking and gardening groups as well as community gyms within a broader social prescribing intervention. We conducted participant observation and interviews with social prescribing clients,…
"Successful" ageing in later older age: A sociology of class and ageing in place
Supporting people to 'age in place' - to live independently at home and remain connected to the community - is an international policy priority. But the process of ageing in place is mediated in a socio-cultural context where neoliberal tropes of successful ageing reproduce a pervasive model about 'ageing well' by elevating ideals of individualised choice and self-governance. Based on two waves of qualitative interviews and interim observations, …
The domestication of remote monitoring: The materialisation of care
Recent years have seen an influx of technologies aimed at enabling older people to remain at home. Remote monitoring is one such technology. By tracking the body as it moves through time and space, remote monitoring enables a care connection which transcends the physical boundaries of the home. Based on 43 interviews conducted with 21 older people trialling remote monitoring, this study critically explores how older people integrate (or not) remo…
Constituting link working through choice and care: An ethnographic account of front-line social prescribing
Link worker social prescribing has become a prominent part of NHS England's personalisation agenda. However, approaches to social prescribing vary, with multiple discourses emerging about the potential of social prescribing and different interpretations of personalisation. The transformational promise of social prescribing is the subject of ongoing debate, whilst the factors that shape the nature of front-line link working practices remain unclea…
“I wouldn't survive it, as simple as that”: Syndemic vulnerability among people living with chronic non-communicable disease during the Covid-19 pandemic
The co-occurrence of COVID-19, non-communicable diseases and socioeconomic disadvantage has been identified as creating a syndemic: a state of synergistic epidemics, occurring when co-occurring health conditions interact with social conditions to amplify the burden of disease. In this study, we use the concept of illness management work to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of people living with, often multiple, chronic heal…
Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the Covid-19 pandemic
He called me out of the blue: An ethnographic exploration of contrasting temporalities in a social prescribing intervention
Social prescribing, a way of connecting patients to local services, is central to the NHS Personalised Care agenda. This paper employs ethnographic data, generated with 19 participants between November 2018 and July 2020, to explore the socio-temporal relations shaping their experiences of a local social prescribing intervention. Our focus is on the ways in which the intervention synchronised with the multitude of shifting, complex and often cont…
Social prescribing and classed inequality: A journey of upward health mobility
Social prescribing, characterised by a link worker connecting patients with local groups and services, is currently being widely implemented in the UK. Taking clients' experiences of a social prescribing intervention in the North of England between November 2019 and July 2020 as its focus, this paper employs ethnographic methods to explore the complex social contexts in which social prescribing is delivered. Building on Bourdieusian approaches to…
Faith and Urban Domestic Sociability in Northern England, 1760–1835
This article examines the relationship between religion and the informal, everyday instances of sociability that took place in urban homes between 1760 and 1835. Using the letters and diaries of middling and labouring individuals living in northern English towns, it suggests that religious practice was not separate from ‘secular’ sociability, but occurred in the same time and space. The article demonstrates that worldly practices and consideratio…
Mothering Illegitimate Children in Late Eighteenth-Century England
[I]n promiscuous and illicit conjunctions ... the mother finds a thousand obstacles in her way; — shame, remorse, the constraint of her sex, and the rigor of laws — that stifle her inclinations to perform this [maternal] duty[.] Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, i, 447. Coachmaker’s Hall, Foster Lane, Cheapside. To-morrow evening, the following Question will be debated: ‘Is a wife to be commended, who receives into her family the i…
I Am Not on the Footing of Kept Women”: Extra-Marital Love in Eighteenth-Century England
This article uses the letters of one woman, ‘E.B.’, to indicate the experience of a woman engaged in an extra-marital sexual relationship in eighteenth-century England. Most existing studies of extra-marital relationships emphasise exploitation, social ostracism and economic precariousness. This article argues in contrast that women could manipulate mainstream discourses of romantic love in order to construct a positive self-identity and negotiat…
Amatory Pleasures: Explorations in eighteenth-century sexual culture, Julie Peakman
Julie Peakman begins the volume with an extract from Venus School-Mistress, Or Birchen Sports, an early nineteenth-century ode to sexual pleasures, namely the author Theresa Berkeley’s opinion that
Marriage Choice and Kinship among the English Catholic Elite, 1680–1730
Historians of marriage have long debated an individual choice versus kin-based marriage strategy, emphasizing financial gain, patronage, and political alliance as the primary goals of kin. This article challenges the dominance of a Protestant evidence base and a failure to recognize religious motivations in the history of marriage. Examining a Catholic recusant family, it argues that the preservation of Catholicism was a primary imperative that i…
Occupational stigma as a primary barrier to health care for street-based sex workers in Canada
Individuals working in the sex industry continue to experience many negative health outcomes. As such, disentangling the factors shaping poor health access remains a critical public health priority. Within a quasi-criminalised prostitution environment, this study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of occupational stigma associated with sex work and its relationship to barriers to accessing health services. Analyses draw on baseline questionnaire da…
Homelessness among a cohort of women in street-based sex work: The need for safer environment interventions
These findings indicate a critical need for safer environment interventions that mitigate the social and physical risks faced by homeless FSWs and increase access to safe, secure housing for women
Peer Support using a Mobile Access Van Promotes Safety and Harm Reduction Strategies among Sex Trade Workers in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Drug sharing with clients as a risk marker for increased violence and sexual and drug-related harms among survival sex workers
Previous studies have described links between violence, decreased condom use and drug sharing among intimate partners, though limited information exists about the predictors of drug sharing among female sex workers and their clients. The following analysis explored the association between sharing illicit drugs with clients and sexual and drug-related harms among survival sex workers. A total of 198 women participated in interview-administered que…
Mapping violence and policing as an environmental–structural barrier to health service and syringe availability among substance-using women in street-level sex work
Community-based HIV prevention research among substance-using women in survival sex work: The Maka Project Partnership
Substance-using women who exchange sex for money, drugs or shelter as a means of basic subsistence (ie. survival sex) have remained largely at the periphery of HIV and harm reduction policies and services across Canadian cities. This is notwithstanding global evidence of the multiple harms faced by this population, including high rates of violence and poverty, and enhanced vulnerabilities to HIV transmission among women who smoke or inject drugs.…
Sexual and Drug-related Vulnerabilities for HIV Infection Among Women Engaged in Survival Sex Work in Vancouver, Canada
Social prescribing and classed inequality: A journey of upward health mobility
Social prescribing, characterised by a link worker connecting patients with local groups and services, is currently being widely implemented in the UK. Taking clients' experiences of a social prescribing intervention in the North of England between November 2019 and July 2020 as its focus, this paper employs ethnographic methods to explore the complex social contexts in which social prescribing is delivered. Building on Bourdieusian approaches to…
Sexual and Drug-related Vulnerabilities for HIV Infection Among Women Engaged in Survival Sex Work in Vancouver, Canada
Constituting link working through choice and care: An ethnographic account of front-line social prescribing
Link worker social prescribing has become a prominent part of NHS England's personalisation agenda. However, approaches to social prescribing vary, with multiple discourses emerging about the potential of social prescribing and different interpretations of personalisation. The transformational promise of social prescribing is the subject of ongoing debate, whilst the factors that shape the nature of front-line link working practices remain unclea…
Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the Covid-19 pandemic
"Successful" ageing in later older age: A sociology of class and ageing in place
Supporting people to 'age in place' - to live independently at home and remain connected to the community - is an international policy priority. But the process of ageing in place is mediated in a socio-cultural context where neoliberal tropes of successful ageing reproduce a pervasive model about 'ageing well' by elevating ideals of individualised choice and self-governance. Based on two waves of qualitative interviews and interim observations, …
He called me out of the blue: An ethnographic exploration of contrasting temporalities in a social prescribing intervention
Social prescribing, a way of connecting patients to local services, is central to the NHS Personalised Care agenda. This paper employs ethnographic data, generated with 19 participants between November 2018 and July 2020, to explore the socio-temporal relations shaping their experiences of a local social prescribing intervention. Our focus is on the ways in which the intervention synchronised with the multitude of shifting, complex and often cont…
Peer Support using a Mobile Access Van Promotes Safety and Harm Reduction Strategies among Sex Trade Workers in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Delivering green social prescribing: An ethnographic exploration of the place of walking and gardening groups in a social prescribing intervention
Green social prescribing involves link workers referring people from healthcare systems into nature-based activities, expected to offer holistic therapeutic experiences. Using ethnographic methods, we examined the use of referrals and creation of pathways into walking and gardening groups as well as community gyms within a broader social prescribing intervention. We conducted participant observation and interviews with social prescribing clients,…
Faith and Urban Domestic Sociability in Northern England, 1760–1835
This article examines the relationship between religion and the informal, everyday instances of sociability that took place in urban homes between 1760 and 1835. Using the letters and diaries of middling and labouring individuals living in northern English towns, it suggests that religious practice was not separate from ‘secular’ sociability, but occurred in the same time and space. The article demonstrates that worldly practices and consideratio…
Community-based HIV prevention research among substance-using women in survival sex work: The Maka Project Partnership
Substance-using women who exchange sex for money, drugs or shelter as a means of basic subsistence (ie. survival sex) have remained largely at the periphery of HIV and harm reduction policies and services across Canadian cities. This is notwithstanding global evidence of the multiple harms faced by this population, including high rates of violence and poverty, and enhanced vulnerabilities to HIV transmission among women who smoke or inject drugs.…
Sexual and Drug-related Vulnerabilities for HIV Infection Among Women Engaged in Survival Sex Work in Vancouver, Canada
Drug sharing with clients as a risk marker for increased violence and sexual and drug-related harms among survival sex workers
Previous studies have described links between violence, decreased condom use and drug sharing among intimate partners, though limited information exists about the predictors of drug sharing among female sex workers and their clients. The following analysis explored the association between sharing illicit drugs with clients and sexual and drug-related harms among survival sex workers. A total of 198 women participated in interview-administered que…
Mapping violence and policing as an environmental–structural barrier to health service and syringe availability among substance-using women in street-level sex work
Peer Support using a Mobile Access Van Promotes Safety and Harm Reduction Strategies among Sex Trade Workers in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Homelessness among a cohort of women in street-based sex work: The need for safer environment interventions
These findings indicate a critical need for safer environment interventions that mitigate the social and physical risks faced by homeless FSWs and increase access to safe, secure housing for women
Occupational stigma as a primary barrier to health care for street-based sex workers in Canada
Individuals working in the sex industry continue to experience many negative health outcomes. As such, disentangling the factors shaping poor health access remains a critical public health priority. Within a quasi-criminalised prostitution environment, this study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of occupational stigma associated with sex work and its relationship to barriers to accessing health services. Analyses draw on baseline questionnaire da…
Marriage Choice and Kinship among the English Catholic Elite, 1680–1730
Historians of marriage have long debated an individual choice versus kin-based marriage strategy, emphasizing financial gain, patronage, and political alliance as the primary goals of kin. This article challenges the dominance of a Protestant evidence base and a failure to recognize religious motivations in the history of marriage. Examining a Catholic recusant family, it argues that the preservation of Catholicism was a primary imperative that i…
Amatory Pleasures: Explorations in eighteenth-century sexual culture, Julie Peakman
Julie Peakman begins the volume with an extract from Venus School-Mistress, Or Birchen Sports, an early nineteenth-century ode to sexual pleasures, namely the author Theresa Berkeley’s opinion that
I Am Not on the Footing of Kept Women”: Extra-Marital Love in Eighteenth-Century England
This article uses the letters of one woman, ‘E.B.’, to indicate the experience of a woman engaged in an extra-marital sexual relationship in eighteenth-century England. Most existing studies of extra-marital relationships emphasise exploitation, social ostracism and economic precariousness. This article argues in contrast that women could manipulate mainstream discourses of romantic love in order to construct a positive self-identity and negotiat…
Faith and Urban Domestic Sociability in Northern England, 1760–1835
This article examines the relationship between religion and the informal, everyday instances of sociability that took place in urban homes between 1760 and 1835. Using the letters and diaries of middling and labouring individuals living in northern English towns, it suggests that religious practice was not separate from ‘secular’ sociability, but occurred in the same time and space. The article demonstrates that worldly practices and consideratio…
Mothering Illegitimate Children in Late Eighteenth-Century England
[I]n promiscuous and illicit conjunctions ... the mother finds a thousand obstacles in her way; — shame, remorse, the constraint of her sex, and the rigor of laws — that stifle her inclinations to perform this [maternal] duty[.] Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, i, 447. Coachmaker’s Hall, Foster Lane, Cheapside. To-morrow evening, the following Question will be debated: ‘Is a wife to be commended, who receives into her family the i…
Social prescribing and classed inequality: A journey of upward health mobility
Social prescribing, characterised by a link worker connecting patients with local groups and services, is currently being widely implemented in the UK. Taking clients' experiences of a social prescribing intervention in the North of England between November 2019 and July 2020 as its focus, this paper employs ethnographic methods to explore the complex social contexts in which social prescribing is delivered. Building on Bourdieusian approaches to…
“I wouldn't survive it, as simple as that”: Syndemic vulnerability among people living with chronic non-communicable disease during the Covid-19 pandemic
The co-occurrence of COVID-19, non-communicable diseases and socioeconomic disadvantage has been identified as creating a syndemic: a state of synergistic epidemics, occurring when co-occurring health conditions interact with social conditions to amplify the burden of disease. In this study, we use the concept of illness management work to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of people living with, often multiple, chronic heal…
Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the Covid-19 pandemic
He called me out of the blue: An ethnographic exploration of contrasting temporalities in a social prescribing intervention
Social prescribing, a way of connecting patients to local services, is central to the NHS Personalised Care agenda. This paper employs ethnographic data, generated with 19 participants between November 2018 and July 2020, to explore the socio-temporal relations shaping their experiences of a local social prescribing intervention. Our focus is on the ways in which the intervention synchronised with the multitude of shifting, complex and often cont…
The domestication of remote monitoring: The materialisation of care
Recent years have seen an influx of technologies aimed at enabling older people to remain at home. Remote monitoring is one such technology. By tracking the body as it moves through time and space, remote monitoring enables a care connection which transcends the physical boundaries of the home. Based on 43 interviews conducted with 21 older people trialling remote monitoring, this study critically explores how older people integrate (or not) remo…
Constituting link working through choice and care: An ethnographic account of front-line social prescribing
Link worker social prescribing has become a prominent part of NHS England's personalisation agenda. However, approaches to social prescribing vary, with multiple discourses emerging about the potential of social prescribing and different interpretations of personalisation. The transformational promise of social prescribing is the subject of ongoing debate, whilst the factors that shape the nature of front-line link working practices remain unclea…
"Successful" ageing in later older age: A sociology of class and ageing in place
Supporting people to 'age in place' - to live independently at home and remain connected to the community - is an international policy priority. But the process of ageing in place is mediated in a socio-cultural context where neoliberal tropes of successful ageing reproduce a pervasive model about 'ageing well' by elevating ideals of individualised choice and self-governance. Based on two waves of qualitative interviews and interim observations, …
Proving International Crimes, Yvonne McDermott
Delivering green social prescribing: An ethnographic exploration of the place of walking and gardening groups in a social prescribing intervention
Green social prescribing involves link workers referring people from healthcare systems into nature-based activities, expected to offer holistic therapeutic experiences. Using ethnographic methods, we examined the use of referrals and creation of pathways into walking and gardening groups as well as community gyms within a broader social prescribing intervention. We conducted participant observation and interviews with social prescribing clients,…
Doing ‘proper’ food in later older age: Gender and the significance of household meals
Based on longitudinal qualitative research with 46 older adults (80+) in North East England, this paper employs a Bourdieusian framework to examine the intersection of domestic eating, gender, age and identity within later life transitions. From minor 'tweaks' to using convenience foods, our participants employed various strategies to maintain 'proper' meal routines, an everyday practice idealised across the sample. Female participants were parti…
Sociology (14 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Nursing (8 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Sex work and related issues (7 works) · Environmental health (6 works)