Sarah Spencer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Spencer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Spencer |
| SIGNATURE | SPENCER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0487-056X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 258 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Identifying delays via preschool language scales in children who are deaf/hard-of-hearing and use spoken language
Standardized language tests guide eligibility for speech-language services in children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing (D/HH) and use spoken language. They must be sensitive enough to detect delays during critical early windows. Clinicians have noted that the Preschool Language Scale–Fifth Edition (PLS-5) may lack sensitivity to spoken language delays in young D/HH children, risking under-identification for intervention. We retrospectively compa…
Being understood: Neurodivergent care leavers’ perspectives on their own communication skills
Background Emerging research has suggested that a significant proportion of children and young people in looked after care present with communication needs including Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and other forms of neurodivergence. It is not known how these young people perceive and experience their communication skills and needs. Aims The aim of this study was to understand how neurodivergent young people with communication support needs…
Migrants with a Precarious Status: Evolving Approaches of European Cities
This is an open access book is an exploration of city responses to migrants with a precarious status in Europe. Free to read online 24/7!
Evaluating engagement with equity in Canadian provincial and territorial primary care policies: Results of a jurisdictional scan
“Swamped with information”: A qualitative study of family physicians' experiences of managing and applying pandemic-related information
Introduction Providing family physicians (FPs) with the information they need is crucial for their participation in a coordinated pandemic or health emergency response, and to allow them to effectively run their practices. Most pandemic planning documents do not address communication plans specific to FPs. This study describes FPs' experiences and challenges with information management during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. Methods We conducted …
Family physicians’ perspectives on collaboration challenges between primary care and specialist care during the Covid-19 pandemic in Canada: A qualitative study
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada had longer wait-times for specialist appointments compared to other Commonwealth countries. During the pandemic, many specialist services were postponed or suspended, impacting access. The purpose of this study was to explore family physicians’ perspectives on specialist care availability during the pandemic and implications for family physician workload and patient management. These experiences can inform f…
“It was horrible for that community, but not for the way we had imagined”: A qualitative study of family physicians’ experiences of caring for communities experiencing marginalisation during Covid-19
The COVID-19 response required family physicians (FPs) to adapt their practice to minimise transmission risks. Policy guidance to facilitate enacting public health measures has been generic and difficult to apply, particularly for FPs working with communities that experience marginalisation. Our objective was to explore the experiences of FPs serving communities experiencing marginalisation during COVID-19, and the impact the pandemic and pandemi…
Do changes in primary care service use over time differ by neighbourhood income? Population-based longitudinal study in British Columbia, Canada
Results raise concerns that equity in access to primary care has deteriorated in BC. Reforms to primary care that fail to attend to the multidimensional needs of low-income communities may entrench existing inequities. Policies that tailor patterns of funding and allocation of resources in accordance with population needs, and that align accountability measures with equity objectives are needed as part of further reform efforts
Understanding suicide clusters through exploring self-harm: Semi-structured interviews with individuals presenting with near-fatal self-harm during a suicide cluster
There was a highly publicised cluster of at least ten suicides in South Wales, United Kingdom, in 2007-2008. We carried out a qualitative descriptive study using cross-case thematic analysis to investigate the experiences and narratives of eight individuals who lived in the area where the cluster occurred and who survived an episode of near-fatal self-harm at the time of the cluster. Interviews were conducted from 01.01.2015 to 31.12.2015. All in…
City networks and the multi-level governance of migration
Hailed for their pragmatism, innovativeness and progressive views, cities and their networks seem to bring a fresh air in current migration debates. Our intent, in this special issue, is to address the scale and significance of this trend by contributing to a greater understanding of their networking activities. Revisiting the conceptual framework used in the literature to date, it addresses the diverse forms of networks, their drivers, internal …
Regimes of motherhood: Social class, the word gap and the optimisation of mothers' talk
The role of working class mothers' talk in explaining their child's 'impoverished' language development and the resulting 'word gap' between social classes is hotly debated. Academic research in this area spans decades, crosses continents, and gathers up a wide range of disciplines and positions, ranging from research seeking to intervene in and optimise mothers' talk, to research that vigorously criticises any attempt to do so. Through an extend…
European city network on migrants with irregular status: Exploring functions and outcomes on a sensitive policy issue
City engagement in transnational municipal networks in the migration field (TMNs) is widely seen as positive. Yet, the evidence for that optimism is limited and analysis of the functions and outcomes of these networks leaves many questions unanswered. This article presents a case study of the City Initiative on Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe (C-MISE) as a contribution to our understanding. On the basis of documentary evidence and interv…
“It just sounds proper common”: Exploring the social meanings expressed by nonstandard grammar
Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) in Young People Leaving Care in England: A Study Profiling the Language, Literacy and Communication Abilities of Young People Transitioning from Care to Independe…
Research indicates children and young people in care have a high prevalence of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) as part of a complex set of vulnerabilities. This study describes the profile of language, literacy and communication abilities of a cohort of care leavers. The language, literacy and communication abilities of 44 young people leaving care between the ages of 16 and 26 years were assessed using standardized measures. Demographic da…
Reframing ‘integration’: Acknowledging and addressing five core critiques
Empirical and theoretical insights from the rich body of research on ‘integration’ in migration studies have led to increasing recognition of its complexity. Among European scholars, however, there remains no consensus on how integration should be defined nor what the processes entail. Integration has, moreover, been the subject of powerful academic critiques, some decrying any further use of the concept. In this paper we argue that it is both ne…
Marriage Migration and Integration
Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe: Evolving Conceptual and Policy Challenges
This series is the official book series of IMISCOE, the largest network of excellence on migration and diversity in the world. It comprises publications which present empirical and theoretical research on different aspects of international migration. The authors are all specialists, and the publications a rich source of information for researchers and others involved in international migration studies
Municipal Activism on Irregular Migrants: The Framing of Inclusive Approaches at the Local Level
This article explores the ways in which city policymakers in Europe frame the reasons for provision of welfare services to migrants with irregular status. In the context of restrictive national legal and policy frameworks, the article explores a tendency toward municipal activism in extending access to services, providing a typology of six policy frames used by policy makers that identify the intended beneficiaries and stated policy aims. Drawing…
Multi-level governance of an intractable policy problem: Migrants with irregular status in Europe
This article explores the responses of European local authorities to the public service needs of residents with irregular immigration status and the tensions with national governments to which this can give rise. Drawing on a study of responses by national and local tiers, including a mapping of national legal frameworks on entitlements to health care and education, it identifies factors that lead to divergence between local and national policy f…
Fluoride levels in drinking water and hypothyroidism: Response to Grimes and Newton et al
A response to criticisms of a previously published paper (http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2014-204971)
Marriage migration and integration: Interrogating assumptions in academic and policy debates
In both policy and academic debates in Britain, as elsewhere in Europe, concern is increasingly expressed over the implications of spousal immigration for ‘integration’. Continued practices of ‘homeland’ transnational marriage within some ethnic minority communities, in particular, are presented as problematic, and new immigration restrictions likely to particularly affect such groups are justified on the grounds of promoting integration. The evi…
Conceptualising integration: A framework for empirical research, taking marriage migration as a case study
Enquiry into the factors which impact on 'integration' requires clarity on the nature of the integration processes in which individuals are engaged, the intersection of those processes and the factors that may affect their operation over time. Elaborating on debates among European scholars which conceptualise integration as a series of multi-directional, inter-active processes in related but separate domains, we use the term 'effectors' to explor…
Postcode Lottery for Europe’s Undocumented Children: Unravelling an Uneven Geography of Entitlements in the European Union
This article explores the competing policy imperatives within and between tiers of government and policy makers’ perceptions of the relative “deservingness” of undocumented children, which contribute to an uneven geography of entitlements to public services across the European Union. While scholars have contrasted the formal exclusion of undocumented migrants with their informal inclusion, the article explores the tension between formal exclusion…
Anger Regulation and Social Acceptance in Early Adolescence: Associations With Gender and Ethnicity
Anger regulation among adolescents is important to investigate given theoretical and empirical support for its critical association with peer relationships. This study examined two aspects of anger regulation (i.e., inhibition, dysregulation) using self-report and peer-nominations and their associations with social acceptance among 163 Black and White adolescents ([Formula: see text] = 13.87 years). We explored gender and ethnicity differences in…
Same- and Other-Sex Popularity and Preference During Early Adolescence
This study examined the longitudinal and bidirectional relations between same-sex (SS) and other-sex (OS) popularity and preference across one school year. Participants were 271 sixth-grade students who completed peer nomination measures at three time points in their schools. Tests of cross-lagged autoregressive models indicated that SS popularity predicted later OS popularity and vice versa. OS preference predicted later SS preference but not vi…
Multi-level governance of an intractable policy problem: Migrants with irregular status in Europe
This article explores the responses of European local authorities to the public service needs of residents with irregular immigration status and the tensions with national governments to which this can give rise. Drawing on a study of responses by national and local tiers, including a mapping of national legal frameworks on entitlements to health care and education, it identifies factors that lead to divergence between local and national policy f…
Reframing ‘integration’: Acknowledging and addressing five core critiques
Empirical and theoretical insights from the rich body of research on ‘integration’ in migration studies have led to increasing recognition of its complexity. Among European scholars, however, there remains no consensus on how integration should be defined nor what the processes entail. Integration has, moreover, been the subject of powerful academic critiques, some decrying any further use of the concept. In this paper we argue that it is both ne…
Municipal Activism on Irregular Migrants: The Framing of Inclusive Approaches at the Local Level
This article explores the ways in which city policymakers in Europe frame the reasons for provision of welfare services to migrants with irregular status. In the context of restrictive national legal and policy frameworks, the article explores a tendency toward municipal activism in extending access to services, providing a typology of six policy frames used by policy makers that identify the intended beneficiaries and stated policy aims. Drawing…
Conceptualising integration: A framework for empirical research, taking marriage migration as a case study
Enquiry into the factors which impact on 'integration' requires clarity on the nature of the integration processes in which individuals are engaged, the intersection of those processes and the factors that may affect their operation over time. Elaborating on debates among European scholars which conceptualise integration as a series of multi-directional, inter-active processes in related but separate domains, we use the term 'effectors' to explor…
Marriage migration and integration: Interrogating assumptions in academic and policy debates
In both policy and academic debates in Britain, as elsewhere in Europe, concern is increasingly expressed over the implications of spousal immigration for ‘integration’. Continued practices of ‘homeland’ transnational marriage within some ethnic minority communities, in particular, are presented as problematic, and new immigration restrictions likely to particularly affect such groups are justified on the grounds of promoting integration. The evi…
Racial Differences in Self-Rated Health at Similar Levels of Physical Functioning: An Examination of Health Pessimism in the Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study
The results suggest greater health pessimism among Black elders and expand previous work by including objective functioning in multidimensional models to deconstruct race variations in the SRH of older adults
Strangers and Citizens: A Positive Approach to Migrants and Refugees
City networks and the multi-level governance of migration
Hailed for their pragmatism, innovativeness and progressive views, cities and their networks seem to bring a fresh air in current migration debates. Our intent, in this special issue, is to address the scale and significance of this trend by contributing to a greater understanding of their networking activities. Revisiting the conceptual framework used in the literature to date, it addresses the diverse forms of networks, their drivers, internal …
International Health Worker Mobility: Causes, Consequences, and Best Practices
Postcode Lottery for Europe’s Undocumented Children: Unravelling an Uneven Geography of Entitlements in the European Union
This article explores the competing policy imperatives within and between tiers of government and policy makers’ perceptions of the relative “deservingness” of undocumented children, which contribute to an uneven geography of entitlements to public services across the European Union. While scholars have contrasted the formal exclusion of undocumented migrants with their informal inclusion, the article explores the tension between formal exclusion…
European city network on migrants with irregular status: Exploring functions and outcomes on a sensitive policy issue
City engagement in transnational municipal networks in the migration field (TMNs) is widely seen as positive. Yet, the evidence for that optimism is limited and analysis of the functions and outcomes of these networks leaves many questions unanswered. This article presents a case study of the City Initiative on Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe (C-MISE) as a contribution to our understanding. On the basis of documentary evidence and interv…
Same- and Other-Sex Popularity and Preference During Early Adolescence
This study examined the longitudinal and bidirectional relations between same-sex (SS) and other-sex (OS) popularity and preference across one school year. Participants were 271 sixth-grade students who completed peer nomination measures at three time points in their schools. Tests of cross-lagged autoregressive models indicated that SS popularity predicted later OS popularity and vice versa. OS preference predicted later SS preference but not vi…
Friendship and Adjustment: A Focus on Mixed-Grade Friendships
Equality and Human Rights Commission: A Decade in the Making
This article traces the origins of the Commission over the decade before it opened its doors in October 2007, and the contentious debates and political trade‐offs which led to its emergence in its current form; a history which throws light on the challenges it now faces. Inclusion of human rights in a 'single equality body’, concessions on disability, the promise of a single Equality Act and the Commission's third arm, community relations, were m…
Anger Regulation and Social Acceptance in Early Adolescence: Associations With Gender and Ethnicity
Anger regulation among adolescents is important to investigate given theoretical and empirical support for its critical association with peer relationships. This study examined two aspects of anger regulation (i.e., inhibition, dysregulation) using self-report and peer-nominations and their associations with social acceptance among 163 Black and White adolescents ([Formula: see text] = 13.87 years). We explored gender and ethnicity differences in…
Are fluoride levels in drinking water associated with hypothyroidism prevalence in England? A large observational study of GP practice data and fluoride levels in drinking water
BACKGROUND: While previous research has suggested that there is an association between fluoride ingestion and the incidence of hypothyroidism, few population level studies have been undertaken. In England, approximately 10% of the population live in areas with community fluoridation schemes and hypothyroidism prevalence can be assessed from general practice data. This observational study examines the association between levels of fluoride in wate…
Regimes of motherhood: Social class, the word gap and the optimisation of mothers' talk
The role of working class mothers' talk in explaining their child's 'impoverished' language development and the resulting 'word gap' between social classes is hotly debated. Academic research in this area spans decades, crosses continents, and gathers up a wide range of disciplines and positions, ranging from research seeking to intervene in and optimise mothers' talk, to research that vigorously criticises any attempt to do so. Through an extend…
Context, institution or accountability? Exploring the factors that shape the performance of national human rights and equality bodies
The past two decades witnessed a global proliferation of national human rights and equality bodies. Yet the research literature remains critical of their performance, positing a series of explanations for the gap between the expectations of civil society and the contribution they make. Through a comparative analysis of six statutory human rights and equality bodies in the United Kingdom and Ireland, this article explores the range of factors that…
Examining Appearance‐Based Rejection Sensitivity During Early Adolescence
The present study of 150 adolescents ( M age = 13.05 years) examined the associations between appearance‐based rejection sensitivity (Appearance‐ RS ) and psychological adjustment during early adolescence, and evaluated three types of other‐gender peer experiences (other‐gender friendship, peer acceptance, and romantic relationships) as moderators. Appearance‐ RS was found to be uniquely related to two types of social anxiety, but not to self‐est…
Mutual Best Friendship Involvement, Best Friends’ Rejection Sensitivity, and Psychological Maladaptation
A human rights commission for the UK
The political settlement in Northern Ireland in 1998 included provision for the establishment of a Human Rights Commission in Northern Ireland and in Ireland, the latest in a growing number of such institutions world wide. This article describes the functions of the Northern Ireland body, its relationship with an Equality Commission to be established under the same Act, and its political context. It then explains the debate on whether there shoul…
Education for Citizenship: The Crick Report
The weakness of police authorities and the case for reform
Immigration Control, Black Workers and the Economy
The weakness of police authorities and the case for reform
Strangers and Citizens: A Positive Approach to Migrants and Refugees
The Never-Never Land of Immigration, Nationality, and Citizenship
A human rights commission for the UK
The political settlement in Northern Ireland in 1998 included provision for the establishment of a Human Rights Commission in Northern Ireland and in Ireland, the latest in a growing number of such institutions world wide. This article describes the functions of the Northern Ireland body, its relationship with an Equality Commission to be established under the same Act, and its political context. It then explains the debate on whether there shoul…
Education for Citizenship: The Crick Report
Computers in the Classroom: Moving from Tool to Medium
Currently the use of the computer is limited by the perception of it as a platform with advanced software tools to solve specific problems such as balancing a budget or computing grade point averages. While this is not a bad use of computers it does not fully employ their potential. By expanding our view of computer as tool to computer as medium that facilitates communication and sharing, we can fundamentally change the way we think and learn. Th…
International Health Worker Mobility: Causes, Consequences, and Best Practices
Equality and Human Rights Commission: A Decade in the Making
This article traces the origins of the Commission over the decade before it opened its doors in October 2007, and the contentious debates and political trade‐offs which led to its emergence in its current form; a history which throws light on the challenges it now faces. Inclusion of human rights in a 'single equality body’, concessions on disability, the promise of a single Equality Act and the Commission's third arm, community relations, were m…
Racial Differences in Self-Rated Health at Similar Levels of Physical Functioning: An Examination of Health Pessimism in the Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study
The results suggest greater health pessimism among Black elders and expand previous work by including objective functioning in multidimensional models to deconstruct race variations in the SRH of older adults
Friendship and Adjustment: A Focus on Mixed-Grade Friendships
The migration debate
Introduction: Migration policy in the 21st Century Protection: Asylum and refugee policy Migration for work and study Family migration Irregular migration 'Integration' and Citizenship Conclusion
Mutual Best Friendship Involvement, Best Friends’ Rejection Sensitivity, and Psychological Maladaptation
Examining Appearance‐Based Rejection Sensitivity During Early Adolescence
The present study of 150 adolescents ( M age = 13.05 years) examined the associations between appearance‐based rejection sensitivity (Appearance‐ RS ) and psychological adjustment during early adolescence, and evaluated three types of other‐gender peer experiences (other‐gender friendship, peer acceptance, and romantic relationships) as moderators. Appearance‐ RS was found to be uniquely related to two types of social anxiety, but not to self‐est…
Context, institution or accountability? Exploring the factors that shape the performance of national human rights and equality bodies
The past two decades witnessed a global proliferation of national human rights and equality bodies. Yet the research literature remains critical of their performance, positing a series of explanations for the gap between the expectations of civil society and the contribution they make. Through a comparative analysis of six statutory human rights and equality bodies in the United Kingdom and Ireland, this article explores the range of factors that…
Anger Regulation and Social Acceptance in Early Adolescence: Associations With Gender and Ethnicity
Anger regulation among adolescents is important to investigate given theoretical and empirical support for its critical association with peer relationships. This study examined two aspects of anger regulation (i.e., inhibition, dysregulation) using self-report and peer-nominations and their associations with social acceptance among 163 Black and White adolescents ([Formula: see text] = 13.87 years). We explored gender and ethnicity differences in…
Same- and Other-Sex Popularity and Preference During Early Adolescence
This study examined the longitudinal and bidirectional relations between same-sex (SS) and other-sex (OS) popularity and preference across one school year. Participants were 271 sixth-grade students who completed peer nomination measures at three time points in their schools. Tests of cross-lagged autoregressive models indicated that SS popularity predicted later OS popularity and vice versa. OS preference predicted later SS preference but not vi…
Are fluoride levels in drinking water associated with hypothyroidism prevalence in England? A large observational study of GP practice data and fluoride levels in drinking water
BACKGROUND: While previous research has suggested that there is an association between fluoride ingestion and the incidence of hypothyroidism, few population level studies have been undertaken. In England, approximately 10% of the population live in areas with community fluoridation schemes and hypothyroidism prevalence can be assessed from general practice data. This observational study examines the association between levels of fluoride in wate…
Conceptualising integration: A framework for empirical research, taking marriage migration as a case study
Enquiry into the factors which impact on 'integration' requires clarity on the nature of the integration processes in which individuals are engaged, the intersection of those processes and the factors that may affect their operation over time. Elaborating on debates among European scholars which conceptualise integration as a series of multi-directional, inter-active processes in related but separate domains, we use the term 'effectors' to explor…
Postcode Lottery for Europe’s Undocumented Children: Unravelling an Uneven Geography of Entitlements in the European Union
This article explores the competing policy imperatives within and between tiers of government and policy makers’ perceptions of the relative “deservingness” of undocumented children, which contribute to an uneven geography of entitlements to public services across the European Union. While scholars have contrasted the formal exclusion of undocumented migrants with their informal inclusion, the article explores the tension between formal exclusion…
Fluoride levels in drinking water and hypothyroidism: Response to Grimes and Newton et al
A response to criticisms of a previously published paper (http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2014-204971)
Marriage migration and integration: Interrogating assumptions in academic and policy debates
In both policy and academic debates in Britain, as elsewhere in Europe, concern is increasingly expressed over the implications of spousal immigration for ‘integration’. Continued practices of ‘homeland’ transnational marriage within some ethnic minority communities, in particular, are presented as problematic, and new immigration restrictions likely to particularly affect such groups are justified on the grounds of promoting integration. The evi…
Multi-level governance of an intractable policy problem: Migrants with irregular status in Europe
This article explores the responses of European local authorities to the public service needs of residents with irregular immigration status and the tensions with national governments to which this can give rise. Drawing on a study of responses by national and local tiers, including a mapping of national legal frameworks on entitlements to health care and education, it identifies factors that lead to divergence between local and national policy f…
Municipal Activism on Irregular Migrants: The Framing of Inclusive Approaches at the Local Level
This article explores the ways in which city policymakers in Europe frame the reasons for provision of welfare services to migrants with irregular status. In the context of restrictive national legal and policy frameworks, the article explores a tendency toward municipal activism in extending access to services, providing a typology of six policy frames used by policy makers that identify the intended beneficiaries and stated policy aims. Drawing…
Marriage Migration and Integration
Political science (25 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (10 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (9 works)