Helen Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3723-1094 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1938 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Introduction to special issue: The transformative potential of housing education
‘Somewhere We Can Call Home and…Be Normal’: Findings From the Justice Housing Programme Evaluation
The relationship between homelessness or unstable housing and reincarceration is well documented. The initial month after a person is released from custody is a period of particular vulnerability, with an increased risk of homelessness and return to prison. The Justice Housing Programme (JHP) is a programme developed by the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government to provide transitional accommodation to adults leaving the ACT's prison. This…
The reflective housing practitioner: The role of qualifications for building empathy and person-centered approaches in the housing sector
Tragic events in the UK have led to a call to increase the ‘professionalism’ of those managing and delivering housing-related services. As part of this process, there is a need to build and integrate empathy, solidarity and person-centred approaches into housing learning to support teaching and practice. However, compared to other professions such as education and health, the housing sector has no reflective practice foundation to support this. I…
From Withering to Flourishing: Repairing Academia Through Holistic and Sustainable Care Practices
We are scholars and educators committed to embracing care while working within colonialist, neoliberal, and performative academic environments, and we are withering. Our withering is balanced against our inner strength, a fierce belief in connection and community, and a commitment to harnessing the power of transformation. In this article, we advocate for a radical openness and embracing of care‐based practices to reshape our learning and teachin…
Modelling Drivers of Grievance-Fuelled Violence
Acts of extreme or mass violence perpetrated by lone offenders have become increasingly common in liberal democracies over the past 20 years. Some describe these acts as ideologically motivated, while others attribute them to mental disorder or criminal intent. This has led to the development of distinct research and practice areas. However, there is an increasingly shared view that the distinction between political ideology, criminal intent and …
“People say you’re going home, but I don’t have a home”: Housing After Prison
Recidivism in Australia is high, especially in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). While high-quality stable housing has been shown to reduce recidivism, people released from prison face many barriers in obtaining housing. This paper reports on a qualitative study exploring the housing experiences of 11 people released from prison in the ACT. Participants felt the importance of housing for reintegration and avoiding recidivism, but reported m…
Should there be an app for that? Australian perspectives on the utility of a mobile app to support people in the criminal justice system
Mobile technology presents opportunities within the justice system to support and promote behaviour change and the past decade has seen increased development and use of mobile applications for this purpose. This article aims to contribute to this burgeoning area by presenting the findings of research which scoped the utility of a mobile application (app) intended to support Indigenous people on bail or parole in the Australian Capital Territory. …
The Role of Companionship in Volunteer Homelessness Support Services: A Qualitative Study
Drawing on developments in the application of occupational science to issues of homelessness and tenancy sustainability, this paper will argue for the recognition of authentic, everyday relationships as a core part of tenancy support. Data from a small-scale evaluation of a volunteer-led homelessness support service will be explored through a framework of social support to show the importance of companionship in enabling individuals to exit homel…
Will return‐to‐office mandates prevent proximity bias for employees working from home
This Practice and Policy article examines return‐to‐office mandates, the latest human resource controversy. These mandates are an organisational directive for employees who have been working from home to return to working in their employer's premise. Drawing on the literature and our research on working from home and hybrid working, we consider whether mandates may prevent proximity bias. We conclude that mandates requiring employees to return to…
Making a feminist impact: Mobilising Knowledge Through Scholarly Activism
Purpose This article reflects on our joint experiences co-creating impact through a project in knowledge mobilisation – a website that disseminated resources and facilitated developmental activities for scholar-activists. We examine this project from the perspectives of the first author who created and ran the website and the second author who participated as a community member from the project’s launch. Design/methodology/approach The website at…
Care-full resistance to slow violence: Building Radical Hope Through Creative Encounters With Refugees During the Pandemic
This paper explores the slow violence of the state towards those seeking asylum, alongside resistance to it, through a critical discussion of the role of arts-based practice, care-full practice and the potential for a new politics of hope.It reflects on a series of creative online workshops led by two arts-based refugee organisations based in London, Stories & Supper and Phosphoros Theatre, during the COVID-19 lockdowns in the UK in 2020 and 2021…
Grievance-fuelled violence: Modelling the process of grievance development
Acts of extreme or mass violence perpetrated by lone offenders have become increasingly common in liberal democracies over the past 20 years. Some describe these acts as politically motivated, while others attribute them to mental disorder or criminal intent. This has led to the development of distinct research and practice areas focusing on either violent extremism, mass murder, fixation, stalking, or familial and intimate partner homicide. Howe…
Modelling drivers of grievance-fuelled violence
Acts of extreme or mass violence perpetrated by lone offenders have become increasingly common in liberal democracies over the past 20 years. Some describe these acts as politically motivated, while others attribute them to mental disorder or criminal intent. However, there is an increasingly common view that the distinction between political ideology, criminal intent and personal motivation is blurred, and that the violence carried out by these …
Digital justice: A rapid evidence assessment of the use of mobile technology for offender behavioural change
The increasing availability and use of mobile technology have allowed for innovative solutions to address a range of issues, especially in relation to health behaviour change. Such technological advances have also created opportunities within the justice context and the past decade has seen the development and use of mobile technology in the criminal justice system. Yet, little systematic research exists in this area. This study begins to fill th…
Caregiver views on father-child contact in prison during the Covid-19 pandemic: Implications for the use of video visits
It is generally understood that visits to see incarcerated family members are good for children, families and those in prison. Much research has focused on the impact of prison visits on children and incarcerated mothers, ‘parents’ as a generic group or barriers to contact, while less attention has been paid to the effect of prison visits on incarcerated fathers. When COVID-19 spread across the globe in early 2020, prisons restricted in-person vi…
The Transformative Potential of Restorative Justice: What the Mainstream Can Learn from the Margins
Restorative justice is an idea and a practice that has had a significant impact on criminology over the past four decades and has proliferated throughout the criminal justice system. Yet from the beginning of this movement, there have been worries that the mainstreaming of restorative justice will lead to its dilution, or even corruption, and undermine its transformative potential. Developing alongside the growing institutionalization of restorat…
Working from home during Covid‐19: What does this mean for the ideal worker norm
The ideal worker norm is associated with specific ways of working. The ideal worker is a man who works long hours, is constantly available, and highly productive. Emerging research suggests that the shock of COVID‐19, which forced millions of employees to work from home, may have been powerful enough to disrupt the ideal worker norm. We therefore ask: how did working from home during the pandemic impact the ideal worker norm? We apply Acker's ide…
Just a bunch of what ifs and unknowns’: The post-prison service provision experiences of people in Canberra, Australia
If I don't get a job in six months' time, I can see myself being back in there’: Post‐prison employment experiences of people in Canberra
Research has consistently shown that gaining employment after release helps to reduce recidivism, but also that people who have been in prison face many barriers to finding secure employment. This article presents qualitative data from the experiences of 11 people who had been released from prison in the Australian Capital Territory. We focus on the challenges these participants encountered with obtaining employment post‐release, including not ha…
The Evolution of Complementary Cognition: Humans Cooperatively Adapt and Evolve through a System of Collective Cognitive Search
We propose a new theory of human cognitive evolution, which we term Complementary Cognition. We build on evidence for individual neurocognitive specialization regarding search abilities in the modern population, and propose that our species cooperatively searches and adapts through a system of group-level cognition. This paper sets out a coherent theory to explain why Complementary Cognition evolved and the conditions responsible for its emergenc…
Vehicular Ramming Attacks: Assessing the Effectiveness of Situational Crime Prevention Using Crime Script Analysis
The theoretical basis of Situational Crime Prevention (SCP) posits that to reduce crime it is first necessary to understand the interaction between the physical environment and criminal decision making. Situational efforts are commonly applied to specific crimes that are frequent in nature and, due to regular interaction with situational determinants, occur within temporal and spatial clusters. However, SCP is also regularly employed to prevent l…
Cross-jurisdictional review of Australian legislation governing outlaw motorcycle gangs
Assessing the behavioural trajectories of terrorists: The role of psychological resilience
Within studies critically examining terrorist behaviour, the examination of mental health has largely focused on the relationship with the movement towards terrorist involvement. The impact of engagement in terrorism upon mental health has rarely been studied. However, recent research has shown that there is an association between terrorist engagement and the occurrence of mental health problems across the spectrum of terrorist involvement. This …
Contact experiences and needs of children of prisoners before and during Covid‐19: Findings from an Australian survey
Most of the research examining children visiting a parent in prison indicates that visits have a positive impact on children's well-being, their connection to the imprisoned parent and the parent themselves. However, the COVID-19 pandemic brought about a significant change to prison visits worldwide, with limits or bans on face-to-face contact. Understanding the experiences and needs of children during this period remains limited. This paper pres…
Capabilities, Housing, and Basic Justice: An Approach to Policy Evaluation
In this response article, I welcome the development of the capabilities approach as a normative evaluative approach to policy. This development provides a useful and interesting contribution to how we think about housing, particularly with regard to normative engagement with housing issues. Highlighting some of the issues with a housing-related use of the capabilities approach by the author, I suggest that the theory of justice created by John Ra…
Judgement and choice in the 1999 South African election
In this article, we set out the basic points of the theoretical \nframework of voter choice that underlie the Opinion '99 research project. In \ncontrast to prevailing theories that have characterized voter choice in South \nAfrica as an ethnic or racial census, this approach emphasizes the role of how \nvoters learn about government performance and the alternatives offered by \nopposition parties. We then deduce a very simplified model that cons…
Contact experiences and needs of children of prisoners before and during Covid‐19: Findings from an Australian survey
Most of the research examining children visiting a parent in prison indicates that visits have a positive impact on children's well-being, their connection to the imprisoned parent and the parent themselves. However, the COVID-19 pandemic brought about a significant change to prison visits worldwide, with limits or bans on face-to-face contact. Understanding the experiences and needs of children during this period remains limited. This paper pres…
Can economic interests trump ethnic hostility? Trading ties versus outgroup hostility in Australian perceptions of China as a security threat
Will China’s rise be peaceful? One of the key reasons for an optimistic outlook is the extensive economic ties which exist between China and its neighbors. According to a venerable strand of thought among policymakers and scholars alike, trading ties ought to foster bonds of amity among nations and thus reduce the chances of war. Here, we test this proposition using spatial economic data and survey research on opinion toward China as a security t…
Nuts, schiz, psycho: An exploration of young homeless people's perceptions and dilemmas of defining mental health
Care-full resistance to slow violence: Building Radical Hope Through Creative Encounters With Refugees During the Pandemic
This paper explores the slow violence of the state towards those seeking asylum, alongside resistance to it, through a critical discussion of the role of arts-based practice, care-full practice and the potential for a new politics of hope.It reflects on a series of creative online workshops led by two arts-based refugee organisations based in London, Stories & Supper and Phosphoros Theatre, during the COVID-19 lockdowns in the UK in 2020 and 2021…
Working from home during Covid‐19: What does this mean for the ideal worker norm
The ideal worker norm is associated with specific ways of working. The ideal worker is a man who works long hours, is constantly available, and highly productive. Emerging research suggests that the shock of COVID‐19, which forced millions of employees to work from home, may have been powerful enough to disrupt the ideal worker norm. We therefore ask: how did working from home during the pandemic impact the ideal worker norm? We apply Acker's ide…
Capabilities, Housing, and Basic Justice: An Approach to Policy Evaluation
In this response article, I welcome the development of the capabilities approach as a normative evaluative approach to policy. This development provides a useful and interesting contribution to how we think about housing, particularly with regard to normative engagement with housing issues. Highlighting some of the issues with a housing-related use of the capabilities approach by the author, I suggest that the theory of justice created by John Ra…
The Transformative Potential of Restorative Justice: What the Mainstream Can Learn from the Margins
Restorative justice is an idea and a practice that has had a significant impact on criminology over the past four decades and has proliferated throughout the criminal justice system. Yet from the beginning of this movement, there have been worries that the mainstreaming of restorative justice will lead to its dilution, or even corruption, and undermine its transformative potential. Developing alongside the growing institutionalization of restorat…
If I don't get a job in six months' time, I can see myself being back in there’: Post‐prison employment experiences of people in Canberra
Research has consistently shown that gaining employment after release helps to reduce recidivism, but also that people who have been in prison face many barriers to finding secure employment. This article presents qualitative data from the experiences of 11 people who had been released from prison in the Australian Capital Territory. We focus on the challenges these participants encountered with obtaining employment post‐release, including not ha…
Vehicular Ramming Attacks: Assessing the Effectiveness of Situational Crime Prevention Using Crime Script Analysis
The theoretical basis of Situational Crime Prevention (SCP) posits that to reduce crime it is first necessary to understand the interaction between the physical environment and criminal decision making. Situational efforts are commonly applied to specific crimes that are frequent in nature and, due to regular interaction with situational determinants, occur within temporal and spatial clusters. However, SCP is also regularly employed to prevent l…
Do public consultations work? The case of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Bill
Conducting a public consultation is a popular way to draw on wider expertise in framing legislation in the UK. In Wales, low scrutinising capacity of a relatively small legislative chamber and limited civil service resources to prepare legislation may contribute to the popularity of consultations. Public consultations may also resonate with themes of inclusion and participation in Welsh governance. The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Bill …
Parent and child views on anonymity: ‘I’ve got nothing to hide’
There is considerable debate around the application of ethical principles and the notion of risk in qualitative research, and as such it is becoming increasingly important that we have empirical evidence to draw upon to contribute to these arguments. In this article, we use discourse analysis to look at what Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service users think about the role of anonymity in research. We consider the viewpoints of children and t…
Being Shut Out in the Dark”: Young Survivors' Experiences of Reporting a Sexual Offence
In Britain in the past 25 years there have been substantial changes in police responses to survivors of rape and sexual assault. Little is known about the impact of these changes on young survivors. In this article, the authors draw on interviews with nine youth aged 14 to 16 who reported a sexual offense to one police service in England. They discuss the degree of choice that young people get from the point of making the decision to report to th…
A UK survey on how homeless shelters respond to the mental health needs of homeless young people
Young homeless people have mental health needs. Research and national policies have highlighted that accommodation providers need to offer holistic interventions to encourage this vulnerable group to break the cycle of homelessness. Currently no research literature documents how homeless shelters respond to mental health needs. This research was intended to address this research question.A postal questionnaire was sent to 132 managers of homeless…
The reflective housing practitioner: The role of qualifications for building empathy and person-centered approaches in the housing sector
Tragic events in the UK have led to a call to increase the ‘professionalism’ of those managing and delivering housing-related services. As part of this process, there is a need to build and integrate empathy, solidarity and person-centred approaches into housing learning to support teaching and practice. However, compared to other professions such as education and health, the housing sector has no reflective practice foundation to support this. I…
The Evolution of Complementary Cognition: Humans Cooperatively Adapt and Evolve through a System of Collective Cognitive Search
We propose a new theory of human cognitive evolution, which we term Complementary Cognition. We build on evidence for individual neurocognitive specialization regarding search abilities in the modern population, and propose that our species cooperatively searches and adapts through a system of group-level cognition. This paper sets out a coherent theory to explain why Complementary Cognition evolved and the conditions responsible for its emergenc…
Type 2 diabetes prevention and self-management among Nicaraguan ethnic minorities: Findings From Phase 3 of a Community-Based Participatory Research Study
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore physical environmental, medical environmental, and individual factors in a sample of ethnic minority adults with or at-risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D) on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. Design/methodology/approach The study used a cross-sectional descriptive design guided by a community-based participatory research framework. Three coastal communities in the South Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAS) o…
Desert Island Texts
Items from New Castle, Delaware
"Class and Gender in Charlotte Brontë's "Shirley
Class and Gender in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley
Whenever I teach Charlotte Bronte, both in degree and adult education classes, I find that almost every female and virtually no male student has read at least one of her novels in their adolescence. Her most well-known work is Jane Eyre which is ironic, since this was a novel carefully kept away from well-bred Victorian adolescent girls as too passionate and titilating, but in this century given the seal of thorough approval by parents and teache…
Reflections on a course on ‘women and literature’
The Enemy Within? The Process of Internment of Enemy Aliens in Queensland 1939–45
Gender, Race, and Region in the Writings of Grace King, Ruth McEnery Stuart, and Kate Chopin
Scarlett's Women: Gone with the Wind and its Female Fans
One of the most successful books ever published and the basis of one of the most popular and highly praised Hollywood films, Gone with the Wind has entered world culture in a way that few other stories have. The book was published in June 1936; the film premiered on December 15, 1939. The book has sold 25 million copies, has been translated into twenty-seven languages, and won the 1936 Pulitzer Prize. The film received eight Oscars and has been c…
Anniversaries, sequels and bandwagons: Gone with the wind, 1989–91
(1993). Anniversaries, sequels and bandwagons: Gone with the wind, 1989–91. Women: A Cultural Review: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 78-90
‘The Griot from Tennessee’: The saga of Alex Haley's Roots
The Reception of Black American Servicemen in Australia During World War Ii: The Resilience of "White Australia"
The deployment of Black American service personnel in Australia from December 1941 challenged the basic precepts on which Commonwealth legislative and administrative policies were constructed. Commitment to racial homogeneity had, since 1901, demonstrated that bipartisan agreement and cooperation, at the political level, was possible over such a cardinal policy and practice. Certainly, no other issue in Australian politics and society could surmo…
Judgement and choice in the 1999 South African election
In this article, we set out the basic points of the theoretical \nframework of voter choice that underlie the Opinion '99 research project. In \ncontrast to prevailing theories that have characterized voter choice in South \nAfrica as an ethnic or racial census, this approach emphasizes the role of how \nvoters learn about government performance and the alternatives offered by \nopposition parties. We then deduce a very simplified model that cons…
A UK survey on how homeless shelters respond to the mental health needs of homeless young people
Young homeless people have mental health needs. Research and national policies have highlighted that accommodation providers need to offer holistic interventions to encourage this vulnerable group to break the cycle of homelessness. Currently no research literature documents how homeless shelters respond to mental health needs. This research was intended to address this research question.A postal questionnaire was sent to 132 managers of homeless…
Confidentiality and Autonomy: The Challenge(s) of Offering Research Participants a Choice of Disclosing Their Identity
In this article, the authors present one of the key ethical features of research: confidentiality as maintained by nondis-closure of participants' identities. In light of (a) the contingency that certain participants might vest interest in research studies through their identity and (b) the concept of respect for participants' autonomy, the authors consider the possibilities of offering research participants the choice of nonconfidentiality, affo…
Being Shut Out in the Dark”: Young Survivors' Experiences of Reporting a Sexual Offence
In Britain in the past 25 years there have been substantial changes in police responses to survivors of rape and sexual assault. Little is known about the impact of these changes on young survivors. In this article, the authors draw on interviews with nine youth aged 14 to 16 who reported a sexual offense to one police service in England. They discuss the degree of choice that young people get from the point of making the decision to report to th…
Early Villages on the Persian Gulf Littoral: Revisiting Tol-e Pir and the Galehdār Valley
The archaeological site of Tol-e Pir is situated in the Galehdār Valley, in the south of Fars Province. The site was discovered by Sir M. Aurel Stein in 1933 and is the only prehistoric mound on or adjacent to the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf that has been excavated. Ceramic material from the surface and excavations is similar to material from well dated sites in the highland Kur River Basin and indicate that the site was occupied during the…
Nuts, schiz, psycho: An exploration of young homeless people's perceptions and dilemmas of defining mental health
Desert Island Texts
Parent and child views on anonymity: ‘I’ve got nothing to hide’
There is considerable debate around the application of ethical principles and the notion of risk in qualitative research, and as such it is becoming increasingly important that we have empirical evidence to draw upon to contribute to these arguments. In this article, we use discourse analysis to look at what Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service users think about the role of anonymity in research. We consider the viewpoints of children and t…
A comparison of threats, vulnerabilities and management approaches in global seagrass bioregions
Global seagrass habitats are threatened by multiple anthropogenic factors. Effective management of seagrasses requires information on the relative impacts of threats; however, this information is rarely available. Our goal was to use the knowledge of experts to assess the relative impacts of anthropogenic activities in six global seagrass bioregions. The activities that threaten seagrasses were identified at an international seagrass workshop and…
Refugees and the Meaning of Home: Cypriot Narratives of Loss, Longing and Daily Life in London
This book explores the meaning of home for Cypriot refugees living in London since their island was torn apart by war. Taking an innovative approach, it looks at how spaces, time, social networks and
Complex Care of Older People and Integrated Care Pharmacy Team at Whittington Health / Cuidado Complejo de las Personas Mayores y de del equipo farmaceutico de Atención Integral en Salud en Whittingto…
Introduction: Whittington Health NHS Trust located in London UK was established in April 2011 following the merger of The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust with NHS Islington and NHS Haringey community health services -an "integrated care organisation", providing general hospital and community services to 500,000 people primarily living in Islington and Haringey. Whittington Health has an income of 281m and more than 4,000 staff delivering care acro…
The 'Peaks and Troughs' of Societal Violence: Revisiting the Actions of Turkish and Kurdish Shopkeepers during the 2011 London Riots
This article examines an instance of contained violence during the 2011 riots in London, when Turkish and Kurdish 'shopkeepers' in Dalston, East London prevented rioters from entering the area. Introducing a 'peaks' and 'troughs' approach to the sociological study of violence, the article argues that we need to look at the troughs of non-violence in order to understand the peaks of violence and vice-versa. Based on a small-scale empirical study, …
Can economic interests trump ethnic hostility? Trading ties versus outgroup hostility in Australian perceptions of China as a security threat
Will China’s rise be peaceful? One of the key reasons for an optimistic outlook is the extensive economic ties which exist between China and its neighbors. According to a venerable strand of thought among policymakers and scholars alike, trading ties ought to foster bonds of amity among nations and thus reduce the chances of war. Here, we test this proposition using spatial economic data and survey research on opinion toward China as a security t…
The principles of housing
In The Principles of Housing, Peter King aims to provide a conceptual approach to the key issues within housing. He outlines his purpose as threefold; to provide a conceptual framework through whic
Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile, by Diana Allan
Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian ExileDiana AllanStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014, pp. 328
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