Julie Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583487 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7259-0906 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 69 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 203 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 67 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Spanning boundaries or plugging gaps
The specialist voluntary sector (SVS) provides distinctive and much-valued support to victim-survivors of sexual violence. Nevertheless, in England as in other countries, the funding and commissioning landscape in which SVS services are situated is complex and frequently characterised as fragmented and uncertain. In turn, this context unsettles, and sometimes threatens, SVS services’ unique ways of working and their long-term sustainability. Draw…
Lost in the system
People with intellectual disabilities face significant barriers to accessing mental health services despite high rates of co-occurring conditions. Diagnostic overshadowing, limited clinician training, and rigid service models contribute to exclusion and poor outcomes. While evidence-based therapies like adapted cognitive behavioural therapy show promise, they are rarely implemented consistently. Integrated care models that coordinate health and s…
The Health Needs of Sex Workers and the Factors that Enable or Hinder Their Access to Services
Background ‘Sex work’ encompasses various services, including online and direct selling of sex, both indoors and outdoors. While legal in the United Kingdom, certain activities (e.g., soliciting) are prohibited. Globally, sex workers encounter multiple challenges, with legal frameworks and societal attitudes affecting their health and safety. Despite this, literature on sex workers’ health needs is limited and tends to focus on sexual health and …
Mapping the situation of unaccompanied and separated children in Greece
Little has been published on what is happening to minors who go missing in Greece. • Irregular onward movement and invisible immobility likely account for disappearances. • Pragmatic solutions are needed to address the systemic difficulties facing Greece. • More must be done to maintain minors’ safety and account for abscondences. • Referral actors require improved compliance with their mandatory reporting duties. Greece has long been one of the …
Non-graduate entry a retrograde step for the police professionalisation agenda
Since its inception the College of Policing has promoted policing as a profession and it has established a code of ethics, a body of knowledge and graduate entry in pursuit of its ambition. The graduate entry programme has been the subject of criticism and in response a non-graduate entry route has been introduced. Graduate entry is fundamental to most professions and this change could undermine the professionalisation agenda. This article uses a…
Childhood Maltreatment and Its Long-Term Psychosocial Outcomes
Despite multiple meta-analyses investigating the consequences of childhood maltreatment, the scope, validity and credibility of the evidence remain fragmented and inconsistent. This umbrella review aimed to quantify its impact on various psychosocial outcomes; compare effects across subcategories of maltreatment; and assess the quality of existing evidence. We searched 11 databases from inception to December 24, 2024, for meta-analyses on childho…
Developing a Co‐Produced Practice Framework to Support Personalised Safety Planning for Adults Experiencing Suicidality
INTRODUCTION: Suicide safety plans are widely used internationally in health and social care settings. This study aimed to co-produce a framework for supporting personalised safety planning, sensitive to the needs, preferences and values of people experiencing suicidality. METHODS: Phase 1 conducted semi-structured interviews to explore the views and preferences of adults with lived experience of suicidality on the content and implementation of p…
The Scope, Range and Use of Voluntary Sector Specialist Sexual Violence Services in England
Sexual violence is a global problem with significant individual and societal health and social costs. Services that support victim‐survivors of sexual violence across a range of sectors are crucial. This study investigated the scope, range, funding and commissioning of voluntary sector specialist (VSS) sexual violence services in England and victim‐survivors’ experiences of using such services. The specialist voluntary sector plays a pivotal role…
Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022
BACKGROUND: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. METHODS: ). For school-aged children and adolescents, we report thinness (BMI 2 SD above the median). FINDINGS: From 1990 to 20…
Professionalising the police pragmatically
The College of Policing has stated its intention to have policing recognised as a profession. In pursuit of this ambition, they have created a Code of Ethics and introduced a graduate entry requirement for new recruits. These changes reflect common features of established professions such as medicine and the law. Another common feature of established professions is an established body of knowledge that informs professional practice. The College h…
Access to and utilisation of sexual and reproductive healthcare for women and girls with cerebral palsy
Women with cerebral palsy have the same sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRH) needs and rights as non-disabled women across the life course. Multi-level barriers prevent their SRH needs from being met in a timely way. Grouped according to Bronfenbrenner’s socio-ecological model, these include physical and psychosocial determinants. The aim of this scoping review was to collate global literature of access to, and utilisation of, SRH for women w…
Working the Edge
The specialist voluntary sector plays a crucial role in supporting survivors of sexual violence. However, in England, short-term funding underpins the sector's financial stability. This article examines sector leaders' ways of coping, resisting and being affected by funding practices. Using the concept of edgework, we show how funding and commissioning dynamics push individuals to the edge of service sustainability, job satisfaction, and emotiona…
Sibling Experiences of Adverse Childhood Experiences
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events during childhood known to affect health and well-being across the life span. The detrimental impact ACEs have on children and young people is well-established. It is also known that 85 to 90% of children have at least one sibling. Using this as the foundation for our inquiry, the purpose of this scoping review was to understand what we currently know about the experiences of siblings livin…
Kinship Care and Child Protection in High-Income Countries
Kinship care is a global phenomenon with a long history, which in high-income countries (HICs) at least, is being increasingly formalized through legislation and policy. There are many benefits to kinship care, including improved child mental health and well-being when compared to other types of out-of-home care. Despite this, kinship care is not without its risks with a lack of support and training for kinship carers putting children at an incre…
Lights in the darkness’, part 1
In this two-part article, we investigate communication with parents following the death of a child. Parents who have lost a child need to communicate with a wide range of professionals, and the quality of the communication that parents have with these groups can radically affect their experience of bereavement. In this UK-based interview study, we investigate why particular types of communication are deemed particularly (in)effective, by examinin…
Lights in the darkness’ , part 2
In this two-part article, we investigate communication with parents following the death of a child. Parents who have lost a child need to communicate with a wide range of professionals, and the quality of the communication that parents have with these groups can radically affect their experience of bereavement. In this UK-based interview study, we investigate why particular types of communication are deemed particularly (in)effective, by examinin…
The multiple and competing functions of local reviews of serious child abuse cases in England
When children are killed or seriously harmed from abuse or neglect, there is pressure to ‘learn the lessons’ to prevent similar events. England has a long-established system of locally-based multi-agency reviews for this, but the recurrence of tragedies and repetitive findings raise questions about its effectiveness. Reflecting and building on our research into reviews completed between 2017 and 2021, we analyse the complexity that routine critic…
Re-envisaging professional curiosity and challenge
The Gothic Revival in nineteenth century Catholic America
Patrick Charles Keely was arguably America’s greatest nineteenth century Catholic architect. He was responsible for the designs of hundreds of Catholic churches and cathedrals across the north-east of the region throughout the century. He was also instrumental in transforming contemporary Catholic church designs, when he introduced Gothic Revival styles to Catholic church building in the 1840s. By categorising and documenting the styles of the no…
Is there ‘discretionary space’ in rank-based police constabularies for graduate constables to think critically and make autonomous decisions
The Police Education and Qualification Framework (PEFQ) mandated that from 2020 police recruits must be educated to degree level. This change has generated much debate around the relationship between academia and the police. There has been less discussion about parallel organisational change. To explore the opportunities for graduate officers to find the ‘discretionary space’ to employ the skills associated with university study, 234 police const…
Improving the visibility and description of theory in qualitative research
The relationship between theory and qualitative research has been much debated. In 2014, based on an analysis of qualitative studies, we published a five-point typology on the levels of visibility expounded in such studies. The typology captured a range of theoretical visibility - from seemingly absent to consistently applied. In 2020, we undertook a project to critique and revise the typology, guided by the ADAPT-ITT framework. ADAPT-ITT was dev…
The use of technology to support children and young people experiencing domestic violence and abuse during the Covid-19 pandemic
Technology is an ever-increasing part of most people’s lives and it has been crucial for the delivery of support by domestic violence and abuse (DVA) services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Paradoxically, this same technology has provided perpetrators with new and growing opportunities to continue or escalate their abusive behaviours. This article draws on the experiences of a specialist DVA service for children and young people (CYP) in the Unite…
The Typology and Topography of Child Abuse and Neglect
Effective child protection systems and processes require reliable and accurate data. The aim of this study was to determine what data could be extracted from hospital records in a single site that reflected a child's journey from admission with suspected abuse to the decisions regarding substantiation made by the multidisciplinary child protection team. A retrospective study of the case records of 452 children referred to a major UK children's te…
School Nurse Perspectives of Working with Children and Young People in the United Kingdom during the Covid-19 Pandemic
School nurses are public health specialists with an integral role in the safeguarding of children and young people. This study gathered information about school nurses' approaches to overcome practice restrictions as a result of COVID-19. A cross-sectional survey was administered to school nurses across the United Kingdom. Quantitative data were analysed descriptively. Qualitative data (free-text responses to open-ended questions) were analysed u…
Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019
BACKGROUND: Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. METHODS: We used data from 1990 to 2019 on people aged 30-79 years from population-representative studies with measurement of blood pressure and data on blo…
Engaging with children as co-researchers
Participatory approaches have become de rigueur in social research involving children. A growing trend is research by children where researchers engage (or employ) children as co-researchers or primary researchers. In this paper, we critique the ethical, methodological and practical issues associated with this participatory approach. The discussion is framed around six challenges: (1) Children lack research competence; (2) A comprehensive trainin…
The myths surrounding people with albinism in South Africa and Zimbabwe
The myths associated with albinism in South Africa and Zimbabwe have a profound influence on the lives of people with the condition, from the moment of their birth until their death. The beliefs and superstitions surrounding the condition affect family life and interfere with access to education, employment and marriage. Drawing on a common interest in albinism, specialist research interests, and recent multi-disciplinary studies and research car…
Beyond words”
The use of photo elicitation is limited within the field of psychology despite its theoretical and practical potential. It offers significant benefits as a qualitative method that could present a new and interesting way of exploring previously understood topics within the discipline. Within our discussion, we present a step-by-step guide outlining the key practical stages and ethical assurances involved in photo elicitation research, using our on…
How theory is used and articulated in qualitative research
Vignette development and administration
This paper is a discussion regarding vignette development and administration as a means of protecting research participants in social research. Health and social care researchers investigate a plethora of issues that may be sensitive or upsetting, for example, abuse or bereavement. This exposes participants to potential emotional harm caused by revisiting the original trauma. Using research methods that offer a protective layer is important. Evid…
The state of qualitative research in health and social science literature
Pluralism and creativity are inherent and important parts of the qualitative endeavour. The multiplicity of approaches and methods can, however, be confusing. We undertook a focused mapping review and synthesis to obtain a snap-shot profile of the state of qualitative research in health and social science literature. We retrieved 102 qualitative articles published between January and March 2015 from six leading health and social science journals.…
Engaging with Fathers
Health professionals’ beliefs about domestic abuse and the issue of disclosure
Domestic abuse is increasingly recognised as a serious, worldwide public health concern. There is a significant body of literature regarding domestic abuse, but little is known about health professionals' beliefs about domestic abuse disclosure. In addition, the intersection between health professionals' beliefs and abused women's views remains uninvestigated. We report on a two-phase, qualitative study using Critical Incident Technique (CIT) tha…
Gender and child neglect
Neglect can lead to significantly poor outcomes for children in the short and long term. Definitions of neglect and research reflect underlying theoretical assumptions about gender roles. Research into professional practice with child abuse and neglect suggests that practice too is also highly gendered with a focus on mothers. Policies with regard to child protection in general, and child neglect in particular, do not address gender issues in an …
Enablers of help‐seeking for deaf and disabled children following abuse and barriers to protection
Research internationally has highlighted the increased vulnerability of deaf or disabled children to abuse and the frequently inadequate response of services. However, first‐hand accounts of deaf or disabled children have rarely been sought. This paper reports selected findings from one of the first studies exploring experiences of deaf and disabled children regarding help‐seeking following maltreatment. Innovative and sensitive research methods …
Advancing the science of literature reviewing in social research
Literature reviews are an important and popular part of synthesising evidence across a range of disciplines. There are numerous approaches, each with their distinctive features and purposes. The aim of this article is to advance the science of literature reviewing by describing a new form of review: The ‘Focused Mapping Review and Synthesis’ (FMRS). We critique the approach and highlight its similarities and differences in relation to existing re…
Precarious participation
Tango
Noticing and helping the neglected child
This systematic review examined the evidence on the extent to which practitioners are equipped to recognize and respond to the indications that a child's needs are likely to be, or are being neglected. This paper examines the methodological issues arising from the review. A systematic process of progressive filtering yielded 112 papers representing primary studies that inform the international research agenda for child neglect. A final dataset of…
Religiousness and Depressive Symptoms in Five Ethnic Adolescent Groups
This study examined the relation between religiousness and depressive symptoms in African American, Asian American, European American, Hispanic American, and Native American adolescents (N = 13,317) in the United States with self-esteem and school attachment as potential mediators in this link. The data were taken from a nationally represented sample of adolescents in Grades 7 through 12, from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health …
The multiple and competing functions of local reviews of serious child abuse cases in England
When children are killed or seriously harmed from abuse or neglect, there is pressure to ‘learn the lessons’ to prevent similar events. England has a long-established system of locally-based multi-agency reviews for this, but the recurrence of tragedies and repetitive findings raise questions about its effectiveness. Reflecting and building on our research into reviews completed between 2017 and 2021, we analyse the complexity that routine critic…
A study of disabled children and child protection in Scotland — A hidden group
Re-envisaging professional curiosity and challenge
Scoping reviews
Literature reviews generally analyse and synthesis the evidence (or lack thereof) in a particular topic area and they are an increasingly popular form of scholarly activity. The scoping review is a popular literature review approach that has been adopted across the social and health sciences over the last fifteen years. With this upsurge in use, differences of opinion about how to analyse and report scoping reviews has also grown. Drawing on work…
Tango, gifle et caresse
Le tango argentin éclaire les relations de l'art à la violence. La danse manifeste les potentialités que possède l'art de mettre en scène la violence (par exemple en explicitant les rapports de domination entre les sexes ou dans la pédagogie), de la réinscrire ou de la rejouer. Dans sa pratique, le tango suscite des débats sur la violence entre ses partenaires eux-mêmes
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Accessing Narrative
Tn keeping with time-honored anthropological tradition, my investigations into elite narratives/plots in Argentina suddenly came into focus around a puzzle. I had been probing texts related to a tale of coming of age, specifically the famous account of gaucho adventure on the pampas, Don Segundo Sombra by Ricardo Guiraldes, a novella that has compelled generations of Argentines and one that has special appeal for the Argentine elite. Don Segundo …
Paper Tangos
Tango, gifle et caresse
Le tango argentin éclaire les relations de l'art à la violence. La danse manifeste les potentialités que possède l'art de mettre en scène la violence (par exemple en explicitant les rapports de domination entre les sexes ou dans la pédagogie), de la réinscrire ou de la rejouer. Dans sa pratique, le tango suscite des débats sur la violence entre ses partenaires eux-mêmes
Desdemona's Lament
How can Argentine women, after imprisonment and torture, reconstruct what happened to them, represent their experiences, and understand how doing theatre in prison helped them? Men exprisoners acknowledge that women have advanced further in developing strategies that move beyond the hierarchical and authoritarian activism of the Leftist resistance
Engaging With Fathers
Avoiding jargon, each chapter within this text contains summaries of the main points, examples of research, exercises, key issues to consider and suggestions for further reading.
Muslims in Medieval Italy
Muslims in Medieval Italy: The Colony at Lucera is the history of a Muslim colony in the southern Italian city of Lucera during the Middle Ages. Author Julie Taylor draws on a vast array of primary sources, unpublished manuscripts, and archeological data to provide a detailed account of the lives of Muslims against the backdrop of the social and political complexities of medieval Lucera. Taylor's work illuminates the legal and social status of Mu…
Engaging with Fathers
Human Rights Protection in Australia
In Ghaidan v Mendoza , the English Court of Appeal held that s 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998 (UK) c 42 required that a previously enacted UK statute be interpreted so as to preclude express or implied discrimination against same-sex couples, consistently with art 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights . The Court considered that s 2(2) of the Rent Act 1977 (UK) c 42, which referred to a person living with the original tenant ‘as his or he…
Gender and child neglect
Neglect can lead to significantly poor outcomes for children in the short and long term. Definitions of neglect and research reflect underlying theoretical assumptions about gender roles. Research into professional practice with child abuse and neglect suggests that practice too is also highly gendered with a focus on mothers. Policies with regard to child protection in general, and child neglect in particular, do not address gender issues in an …
Religiousness and Depressive Symptoms in Five Ethnic Adolescent Groups
This study examined the relation between religiousness and depressive symptoms in African American, Asian American, European American, Hispanic American, and Native American adolescents (N = 13,317) in the United States with self-esteem and school attachment as potential mediators in this link. The data were taken from a nationally represented sample of adolescents in Grades 7 through 12, from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health …
Lack of adequate sun protection for children with oculocutaneous albinism in South Africa
Children with albinism living away from home in rural areas appear to have inadequate sun protection strategies. Changes in health policy could address these deficiencies. We recommend providing more detailed health care information, giving advice on appropriate styles of hat to wear and how to assess commercial SPF products. Health promotional material should also be evaluated to determine its effectiveness among user groups
Gender and Child Welfare in Society
Considers ways in which raising questions about gender can help researchers and practitioners better understand family relationships and issues in children's development. Draws on current developments in thinking about gender relations. Offers an overview of sociological, psychological and developmental perspectives on family relationships, child welfare outcomes and the practice/policy realities of professional interventions with families. Chapt…
Recognition of neglect and early response
This paper summarizes the key findings from a systematic literature review that sought to identify existing evidence about the ways in which the needs of neglected children and their parents are signalled and the response to those needs. Using systematic review guidelines, 14 databases were searched for primary research studies published in English from 1995 to 2005. An initial 20 480 items were systematically filtered down to 63 papers for inclu…
The myths surrounding people with albinism in South Africa and Zimbabwe
The myths associated with albinism in South Africa and Zimbabwe have a profound influence on the lives of people with the condition, from the moment of their birth until their death. The beliefs and superstitions surrounding the condition affect family life and interfere with access to education, employment and marriage. Drawing on a common interest in albinism, specialist research interests, and recent multi-disciplinary studies and research car…
Noticing and helping the neglected child
This systematic review examined the evidence on the extent to which practitioners are equipped to recognize and respond to the indications that a child's needs are likely to be, or are being neglected. This paper examines the methodological issues arising from the review. A systematic process of progressive filtering yielded 112 papers representing primary studies that inform the international research agenda for child neglect. A final dataset of…
Djuna Barnes and Affective Modernism
Prospects for Democratization in the Arab World
Daunting challenges lie ahead for countries undergoing political transitions in the Arab world. Researchers identify the challenges these countries face and suggest policy approaches that may help foster enduring democracies
Democratization in the Arab World
Daunting challenges lie ahead for Arab countries where revolutions have upended longstanding authoritarian regimes. This monograph aims to help policymakers understand the challenges ahead, form well-founded expectations, shape diplomatic approaches, and take practical steps to foster positive change
Identity, health and women. A critical social psychological perspective
Identity, health and women. A critical social psychological perspective, by J.A. Christodoulou (Foreword by J. Sixsmith), Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 240 pp., £55.00 (hardback), ISBN 978
Vignette development and administration
This paper is a discussion regarding vignette development and administration as a means of protecting research participants in social research. Health and social care researchers investigate a plethora of issues that may be sensitive or upsetting, for example, abuse or bereavement. This exposes participants to potential emotional harm caused by revisiting the original trauma. Using research methods that offer a protective layer is important. Evid…
Dental neglect as a marker of broader neglect
Public health nurses take their child protection role seriously, but rarely make a link between dental caries and child neglect. Clear guidance on oral health assessment is required for public health nurses. Establishing formal communication pathways between child dental care providers and public health nurses may help close gaps in care pathways. However, further research is required into how these communication mechanisms can be improved
Death Dressed As a Dancer
Tango dancers in Buenos Aires milongas (dance clubs) create a mise-en-scène where intimacy and anonymity clash. Their tango and the rules of etiquette they practice share dissonant experiences of violence, exclusion, and trauma with an Argentine grotesque, the grotesco criollo
Engaging with children as co-researchers
Participatory approaches have become de rigueur in social research involving children. A growing trend is research by children where researchers engage (or employ) children as co-researchers or primary researchers. In this paper, we critique the ethical, methodological and practical issues associated with this participatory approach. The discussion is framed around six challenges: (1) Children lack research competence; (2) A comprehensive trainin…
Psychology (38 works) · Sociology (33 works) · Political science (29 works) · Medicine (28 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (17 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Nursing (14 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Social science (12 works)