Elizabeth Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 3626304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6594-5967 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 76 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 289 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 75 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Promoting Alaska native wellbeing and suicide prevention in rural schools
Introduction Suicide is a leading cause of death among youth in the United States, with particularly high rates among American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) youth in rural areas. Schools can serve as critical settings for suicide prevention by fostering mental health and caring environments. This can be done by teaching and supporting staff and community adults to work together to reduce mental health risks and enhance student wellbeing. The Pr…
Enhancing Safety for Separating Families Affected by Domestic and Family Violence
Relationship separation constitutes a period of significant risk for families, with many parents and children experiencing an escalation in domestic and family violence (DFV) as they move through the separation process. While research demonstrating associated risks and adverse impacts is well documented, modifiable factors associated with increased safety for this vulnerable group have received less attention. This scoping review addresses this g…
Family violence risk screening and case management pathways in the Australian family courts
Ableist institutions and party selection processes
Political parties in the UK and elsewhere have, to varying degrees, tried to diversify the pool of candidates from which they can select. Attempts to eradicate the range of institutional and cultural barriers experienced by candidates from under-represented groups, such as women and racially minoritized communities, are beginning to bear fruit. However, less attention has been paid to the specific processes and norms which might make it harder fo…
Allostatic Load and Healthcare Access Among Stroke Survivors
Space and Literary Studies
Patient perspectives of jail based Moud treatment
Cost analysis of Moud implementation and sustainability in Massachusetts jails
BACKGROUND: In 2018 Massachusetts mandated that county jails offer all FDA-approved medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) to incarcerated individuals with OUD. Estimating costs needed to implement and sustain an MOUD program are not clearly known in jail facilities. The objective of this study was to identify the type of MOUD model deployed by the jails serving as research sites for the Massachusetts JCOIN hub, determine which resources were…
Making Political Parties Accessible for People with Disabilities
Despite constituting around 16% of the world’s population, we know little about the extent to which political parties encourage people with disabilities to participate in political parties. This article aims to fill that gap by providing a comparative analysis of political parties in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. The research develops a framework for assessing the accessibility of political parties. The research finds ev…
Comparing policy responses to incels in Sweden and the UK
There is increasing awareness of the gendered violence undertaken by incels (involuntary celibates), both online and offline. Much of the analysis of the phenomenon has focused on what incels mean for our understanding of gender, as well as the role that the internet plays in fostering extremist ideologies. This article instead provides a comparative critical frame analysis of policy responses in Sweden and the United Kingdom. Using critical fram…
Feminist politics and gender equality in Britain
According to some indicators, Britain has become a more gender-equal society over the past two decades. And yet, as we argue in this article, these gains are undermined by persistent gendered inequalities and violence. Progress has been made principally in relation to what we might think of as liberal feminist demands—especially access to power. Yet even this progress is undermined by persistent and pervasive gendered violence and inequality—all …
Someone Like Me? Disability Identity and Representation Perceptions
Studies have shown that citizens from minoritized groups, including women and people of color, tend to feel better represented by politicians who share their identity, often translating into electoral support. Is this also the case for disabled people, one of the largest yet often ignored minority groups in our societies? Analyses of data from a conjoint survey experiment with 6,000 respondents in the UK and US show that disabled people indeed fe…
Intersectionality and social movements
Demands for intersectional organising have long been a priority for Black feminists, and in recent years it has also been taken up by a wide variety of social movement actors operating across different contexts. Analysing and actualising intersectionality as a strategic and generative tool presents a series of theoretical and empirical challenges and opportunities. In this article, we think through and about intersectionality in relation to two d…
Financial Well-Being Among US Adults with Vascular Conditions
These results indicated differences in the financial ramifications of vascular conditions among racial and ethnic groups. Findings suggest the need for interventions targeting FWB of individuals with vascular conditions, particularly those from minority groups
No Level Playing Field
While one in five people in the UK are disabled, their number among elected representatives remains disproportionately low. In ongoing efforts to make politics more inclusive and diverse, disabled people often remain sidelined. As a politically relevant identity, disability is associated with a shared set of experiences and policy interests which are often overlooked. This is at least in part owing to the under‐representation of disabled politici…
Gender, disability and political representation
Women face multiple barriers during political recruitment and representational processes. Concomitantly, a burgeoning scholarship has revealed the existence of various obstacles to elected office faced by disabled people. While studies have examined the intersections between gender, race and class, we know little about how the intersection between disability and gender shapes people’s experiences. This article provides an exploratory case-study a…
Adult third culture kids and sojourner intercultural communication
Lessons Learned from Implementation of a Post-opioid Overdose Outreach Program in a Rural Massachusetts Community
Reclaiming party politics research
In a 2021 Special Issue in European Political Science, Anika Gauja and Karina Kosiara-Pedersen review the sub-field of party politics research. In doing so, they argue party politics scholarship reflects the broader development of the political science discipline, illustrating the evolving relationship between politics researchers and the organisations they study. In this reply, we argue that the party politics sub-field reflects the wider discip…
Disability policy and UK political parties
In his study of disability and policy making in Canada, Michael Prince conceptualised the idea of ‘absent citizens’ to describe how people with disabilities were marginalised in the political process and disability policy treated in a piecemeal fashion. This article examines whether disabled people in the UK also constitute absent citizens by analysing the election manifestos produced by the two main parties over the past decade. The research fin…
Predictors of Functioning and Recovery Among Men and Women Veterans with Schizophrenia
Disability and political representation
Around one-sixth of the European population have a disability, yet there are few self-declared disabled politicians. Despite scholarly and political interest in the under-representation of various social groups, little attention has been paid to disabled people. This article identifies and analyses the barriers to elected office faced by disabled people by drawing upon interviews with 51 candidates and elected politicians in the United Kingdom. I…
Political intersectionality and disability activism
Social movement scholars have increasingly examined how political intersectionality helps reveal and explain whose issues and interests are marginalised or privileged within particular activist spaces and discourses. Hitherto, much of the intersectional analysis into social movements has interrogated questions of sameness, difference and power in relation to feminist, anti-racist and queer organising; this article builds upon our knowledge of soc…
Gender and politics research in Europe
Over the past twenty years, the field of “gender and politics” has flourished in European political science. An example of this is the growing number of “gender and politics” scholars and the increased attention paid to gender perspectives in the study of the political. Against this backdrop, we take stock of how the “gender and politics” field has developed over the years. We argue that the field has now entered a stage of “consolidation”, which…
The problems with feminist nostalgia
Contemporary feminisms are ineluctably drawn into comparisons with historic discourses, forms of praxis and tactical repertoires. While this can underscore points of continuity and commonality in ongoing struggles, it can also result in nostalgia for a more unified and purposeful feminist politics. Kate Eichhorn argues that our interest in nostalgia should be to understand feminist temporalities, and in particular the specific context in which we…
Disability and political representation
Around one-sixth of the European population have a disability, yet there are few self-declared disabled politicians. Despite scholarly and political interest in the under-representation of various social groups, little attention has been paid to disabled people. This article identifies and analyses the barriers to elected office faced by disabled people by drawing upon interviews with 51 candidates and elected politicians in the United Kingdom. I…
Diversity Matters
Women's organisations can help address some specific challenges faced by different groups of women during the political recruitment process. This article explores whether US and UK organisations do so. Legislative composition analysis confirms women of colour are under-represented, although they are better represented in the USA than in the UK; women with disabilities are under-represented in both countries, along with younger women in the USA an…
The Gender of News and News of Gender
In the months leading up to the 2010 British General Election, pundits were claiming that women would be specifically targeted by all political parties. However, this focus never materialized and it was just more business as usual but with the added novelty of televised leaders’ debates, which meant that coverage was more male ordered than ever. The study on which this article is based monitored articles published in the four weeks leading up to …
Stand by your man’
Doing Politics Differently? Applying a Feminist Institutionalist Lens to the U.K. Women's Equality Party
The U.K. Women's Equality Party (WEP) was established in 2015 to “bring about change by winning—support, votes and seats.” It has thus far recruited tens of thousands of members and run candidates in European, national, devolved, and local elections. This article provides one of the first empirical analyses of this new actor in U.K. politics. Adopting a feminist institutionalist lens, we examine the extent to which WEP “does things differently” b…
Supply or Demand? Women Candidates and the Liberal Democrats
The numerical under-representation of women in Westminster is a source of particular embarrassment for the Liberal Democrats who claim to fight for equality of opportunity for all. This article addresses the current situation within the Liberal Democrats through empirical analysis of qualitative and quantitative research. It identifies recruitment, political culture and thoughts on positive action as the key themes in relation to the question of …
Intersectionality as feminist praxis in the UK
The problems with feminist nostalgia
Contemporary feminisms are ineluctably drawn into comparisons with historic discourses, forms of praxis and tactical repertoires. While this can underscore points of continuity and commonality in ongoing struggles, it can also result in nostalgia for a more unified and purposeful feminist politics. Kate Eichhorn argues that our interest in nostalgia should be to understand feminist temporalities, and in particular the specific context in which we…
Critical Waves
Feminist scholars frequently question the wave narrative, fearing the way in which it constructs generational divides and suggests periods of inactivity, whilst others have found it a useful way of understanding the chronological and ideological development of feminism. This article seeks to avoid rehashing well-rehearsed debates concerning the pros and cons of the narrative, instead seeking to emphasise the importance of engaging with the themes…
Selecting the 'Right Sort
Analyses of by-elections traditionally focus on explorations of electoral behaviour, rather than on patterns of political recruitment. However, who the parties select is important, as the candidate essentially constitutes the temporary face of the party. Furthermore, each party adapts their selection rules during by-elections to facilitate a greater role for the centre in the process. Combining qualitative research with selection and election dat…
Feminist allies and strategic partners
Western political parties have been in decline in recent decades and they continue to be viewed as male institutions. Despite this, electoral politics is important to the women’s movement as a means by which to advance feminist interests. This article builds upon feminist critiques of political parties by analyzing original qualitative data undertaken with feminists in the United States and United Kingdom in order to explore how activists view po…
Women's Parties
Women's parties have a unique and important role to play in the representation of women and women's issues and interests. They are neither a new nor a rare phenomenon and have emerged in a variety of contexts across time and space. And yet we know relatively little about them. This article argues that women's parties matter and that the study of women's parties matters. We contend that women's parties constitute a discrete party family; while the…
Contemporary crises in European politics
Someone Like Me? Disability Identity and Representation Perceptions
Studies have shown that citizens from minoritized groups, including women and people of color, tend to feel better represented by politicians who share their identity, often translating into electoral support. Is this also the case for disabled people, one of the largest yet often ignored minority groups in our societies? Analyses of data from a conjoint survey experiment with 6,000 respondents in the UK and US show that disabled people indeed fe…
Disability policy and UK political parties
In his study of disability and policy making in Canada, Michael Prince conceptualised the idea of ‘absent citizens’ to describe how people with disabilities were marginalised in the political process and disability policy treated in a piecemeal fashion. This article examines whether disabled people in the UK also constitute absent citizens by analysing the election manifestos produced by the two main parties over the past decade. The research fin…
Out of the Hands of the Parties
At the next general election the percentage of women elected to the smaller House of Commons risks being lower than in the current parliament, where they constitute 22 percent of all MPs. The 2008–10 Speaker's Conference identified many of the barriers faced by women and other under‐represented groups and made a series of recommendations, only some of which have been introduced. The Government favours a voluntary approach to Recommendation 24, wh…
From Sandals to Suits
The Liberal Democrats have traditionally been viewed as a ‘bottom-up’ party with a relatively high degree of influence open to grass-roots members and party activists. However, following the dramatic increase in the number of Liberal Democrat MPs at the 1997 election the party has increasingly tried to professionalise its operation, leading to a more top-down approach. This article argues that the professionalisation process has not only changed …
A System Dynamics Model for Planning Cardiovascular Disease Interventions
Planning programs for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a challenge to every community that wants to make the best use of its limited resources. Selecting programs that provide the greatest impact is difficult because of the complex set of causal pathways and delays that link risk factors to CVD. We describe a system dynamics simulation model developed for a county health department that incorporates and tracks the e…
The Women’s Equality Party
Women’s political parties are designed to increase women’s representation in politics. More than 30 have been established in Europe since 1987, yet there has been little systematic analysis of why and when they emerge, how they organise and what challenges they face. We argue that the study of women’s parties can offer insights into questions concerning inter and intra-party power relations and the relationship between social movements and politi…
What Makes a (Third) Wave
The wave narrative has come to frame academic and popular discussions of western feminist activism. Yet there are overlapping and contradictory ways of interpreting “third-wave feminism,” which has resulted in much confusion surrounding its use and relevancy within western feminist praxis. Hence the need for a greater understanding of the term “third-wave feminism.” This article sets out a framework for understanding third-wave feminism, highligh…
Layering Engagement
The last fifteen years have seen dramatic changes in the UK within both the television industry and televisual storytelling techniques. Rapid technological changes have not only increased the variety of screen devices, they have also changed the boundaries of the industry itself as the internet opened up distribution avenues and alternatives for viewer attention in the form of social media. The traditional pillars of the UK television industry, t…
I was there when she passed’
There is evidence that older widowed women provide narrative accounts of the events that led up to the deaths of their husbands. These accounts are qualitatively different from other parts of their interviews. This study examines interviews from older widowers and asks what features characterise their narrative accounts of their wife's death. The data show that men do speak of the death of their wife in a qualitatively different way than they do …
From Finance to Equality
Recent debates within the gender and politics field have reflected a shift to consider how, when, where, why and by whom the representation of women's interests occurs (Lovenduski 2008). Indeed, Celis et al. have suggested that those who seek to act on behalf of women may not necessarily be female (2008). This possibility is significant and requires both conceptual and empirical analysis. This article begins this process by adopting a case study …
Reclaiming party politics research
In a 2021 Special Issue in European Political Science, Anika Gauja and Karina Kosiara-Pedersen review the sub-field of party politics research. In doing so, they argue party politics scholarship reflects the broader development of the political science discipline, illustrating the evolving relationship between politics researchers and the organisations they study. In this reply, we argue that the party politics sub-field reflects the wider discip…
Gender and politics research in Europe
Over the past twenty years, the field of “gender and politics” has flourished in European political science. An example of this is the growing number of “gender and politics” scholars and the increased attention paid to gender perspectives in the study of the political. Against this backdrop, we take stock of how the “gender and politics” field has developed over the years. We argue that the field has now entered a stage of “consolidation”, which…
Weathering the Storm
Weathering the Storm
Weathering the Storm
Ring Lardner
A Prospective Study of Life Stress, Social Support, and Adaptation in Early Adolescence
Educación Básica Y Parvularia
Los problemas de la educación básica y parvularia en el país, al igual que en muchos otros países, se pueden reducir a dos grandes categorías: la cobertura y la calidad. El bajo nivel de escolaridad de la población refleja la herencia de un proceso que ha excluido históricamente a amplios sectores y que se manifiesta a través de diferencias en niveles de escolaridad por área geográfica y por ramos de ingresos y género. Todo ello dificulta la tare…
Pilot-Testing a Statewide Outcome Monitoring System
Timely information provided by an effective outcome monitoring system (OMS) is key to making improvements in treatment program effectiveness, service provision, and client outcomes. The California Treatment Outcome Project (CalTOP) developed and pilot-tested an automated outcome monitoring system for California's alcohol and other drug (AOD) system of care. CalTOP was designed to track client movement through treatment programs, measure standardi…
Evaluation of the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act
The Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act (SACPA) represents a major shift in criminal justice policy. Eligible offenders can now be sentenced to drug treatment instead of either supervision without treatment or incarceration. UCLA is conducting an independent evaluation of SACPA that will continue over a 5 1/2 year period ending June 30, 2006. Analysis of data collected during the first year of implementation provides information on the flow …
Evaluation of the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act
Representing a major shift in criminal justice policy, Proposition 36 became law in November 2000 as the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act (SACPA), permitting eligible offenders to receive probation with drug treatment instead of probation or incarceration. UCLA's Integrated Substance Abuse Programs was chosen by the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to conduct an independent evaluation of SACPA. Analysis of the first thre…
Outcomes of Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs Among American Indians in California
Objectives. We examined differences in substance abuse treatment outcomes between American Indians and their non–American Indian counterparts in California, during 2000 to 2002. Methods. A total of 368 American Indians and a matched sample of 368 non–American Indians from 39 substance abuse treatment programs in 13 California counties were assessed at multiple time points. Records on arrests, driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs,…
Implementation of a Statewide Outcome Monitoring System
The authors analyze the pilot implementation of a statewide automated outcome monitoring system (OMS) in California, using the perspectives of substance abuse treatment providers responsible for its day-to-day operation. To gain a better understanding of changes experienced by staff and their perceptions of barriers and facilitators of implementation, they conducted 28 focus groups designed to inform midstream adjustments to the system prior to i…
Impact of California’s Proposition 36 on the Drug Treatment System
Objectives. California’s Proposition 36 offers nonviolent drug offenders community-based treatment as an alternative to incarceration or probation without treatment. We examined how treatment capacity changed to accommodate Proposition 36 clients and whether displacement of other clients was an unintended consequence. Methods. Treatment admissions were compared for the year before and 2 years after the law was enacted. Surveys of county administr…
Grass‐roots Influence
This article examines the self‐perceived influence of the specified associated organisations and associated organisations within the Liberal Democrats. The analysis is set within the wider theoretical context of political party construction and the dichotomy between the elite and grassroots activists. The article tests the thesis that there is a hierarchical structure of ancillary organisations within the party and that this determines which orga…
Supply or Demand? Women Candidates and the Liberal Democrats
The numerical under-representation of women in Westminster is a source of particular embarrassment for the Liberal Democrats who claim to fight for equality of opportunity for all. This article addresses the current situation within the Liberal Democrats through empirical analysis of qualitative and quantitative research. It identifies recruitment, political culture and thoughts on positive action as the key themes in relation to the question of …
Character, audience agency and transmedia drama
Changes in the television industry with regards to the development of new media technologies are having a significant impact on audience engagement with television drama. This article explores how the internet is being used to extend audience engagement onto platforms other than the television set to the point where television drama should increasingly be reconsidered as trans-media drama. However audience engagement with the various elements of …
Stand by your man’
A System Dynamics Model for Planning Cardiovascular Disease Interventions
Planning programs for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a challenge to every community that wants to make the best use of its limited resources. Selecting programs that provide the greatest impact is difficult because of the complex set of causal pathways and delays that link risk factors to CVD. We describe a system dynamics simulation model developed for a county health department that incorporates and tracks the e…
Transmedia Television
The early years of the twenty-first century have seen dramatic changes within the television industry. The development of the internet and mobile phone as platforms for content directly linked to television programming has offered a challenge to the television set’s status as the sole domestic access point to audio-visual dramatic content. Viewers can engage with ‘television’ without ever turning a television set on. Whilst there has already been…
From Sandals to Suits
The Liberal Democrats have traditionally been viewed as a ‘bottom-up’ party with a relatively high degree of influence open to grass-roots members and party activists. However, following the dramatic increase in the number of Liberal Democrat MPs at the 1997 election the party has increasingly tried to professionalise its operation, leading to a more top-down approach. This article argues that the professionalisation process has not only changed …
Two heads are better than one? Assessing the implications of the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition for UK politics
The Westminster model is recognized the world over as delivering strong, stable one-party government with hung parliaments an anomaly. The recent UK general election has proved the exception to the rule, with 2010 providing the first hung parliament since 1974. Unlike the 1974 minority administration, 2010 saw the formation of a coalition government for the first time in over 70 years. Bringing together the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, tw…
Parties, Gender Quotas and Candidate Selection in France
Women make up just 19 per cent of Parliaments around the world.1 This is a constant source of frustration for those who wish to see Parliaments resemble the populations they seek to represent. The under-representation of women crosses regional and sub-regional boundaries, this is particularly true of Europe: for instance, women do relatively well in the Nordic countries and Germany, but are less successful in France, the UK and Italy. Moreover, t…
The Gender of News and News of Gender
In the months leading up to the 2010 British General Election, pundits were claiming that women would be specifically targeted by all political parties. However, this focus never materialized and it was just more business as usual but with the added novelty of televised leaders’ debates, which meant that coverage was more male ordered than ever. The study on which this article is based monitored articles published in the four weeks leading up to …
Out of the Hands of the Parties
At the next general election the percentage of women elected to the smaller House of Commons risks being lower than in the current parliament, where they constitute 22 percent of all MPs. The 2008–10 Speaker's Conference identified many of the barriers faced by women and other under‐represented groups and made a series of recommendations, only some of which have been introduced. The Government favours a voluntary approach to Recommendation 24, wh…
From Finance to Equality
Recent debates within the gender and politics field have reflected a shift to consider how, when, where, why and by whom the representation of women's interests occurs (Lovenduski 2008). Indeed, Celis et al. have suggested that those who seek to act on behalf of women may not necessarily be female (2008). This possibility is significant and requires both conceptual and empirical analysis. This article begins this process by adopting a case study …
Selecting the 'Right Sort
Analyses of by-elections traditionally focus on explorations of electoral behaviour, rather than on patterns of political recruitment. However, who the parties select is important, as the candidate essentially constitutes the temporary face of the party. Furthermore, each party adapts their selection rules during by-elections to facilitate a greater role for the centre in the process. Combining qualitative research with selection and election dat…
Political science (51 works) · Sociology (47 works) · Law (39 works) · Politics (37 works) · Law (35 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (28 works) · Gender Studies (25 works) · Gender Studies (22 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (19 works)