Judith Green
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630130 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Green |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Green |
| SIGNATURE | GREEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3379-6733 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 71 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 364 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 71 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Reading as therapy: Medicalising Books in an Era of Mental Health Austerity
In the UK, a range of everyday activities are being re-framed as interventions to promote public mental health. Drivers of this include the rising burden of mental ill-health and constrained funding for community-based arts and educational provision, in the context of austerity. A consequent interest in evaluating the health and wellbeing benefits of 'non-pharmacological' interventions has brought into play some diverse logics of effect. Taking C…
Risk ambassadors and saviours: Children and futuring public health interventions
Schools are increasingly positioned as sites for intervening on the bodies and minds of children in the here and now in order to bring about health gain for the future. Public health interventions for schools bring together coalitions of commercial, statutory and philanthropic actors with children and their teachers and carers. Drawing on ethnographic case studies in London, UK, this paper explores two such interventions: one aiming to increase l…
Studying the Over-Time Construction of Knowledge in Educational Settings: A Microethnographic Discourse Analysis Approach
This review presents theoretical underpinnings supporting microethnographic-discourse analytic (ME/DA) approaches to studying educational phenomena. The review is presented in two parts. Part 1 provides an analytic review of two seminal reviews of literature that frame theoretical and methodological developments of microethnography and functions language in classrooms with diverse learners. Part 2 presents two telling case studies that illustrate…
Researching Practices in Literacies Across Languages and Social Domains: International Perspectives
cultural models held in people's minds but are embedded in all aspects of the social situation (i.e., in the physical environment, in how people act and react to each other, etc.) (BLOOME cited by Rhoades, 2019, p.xiv)
The Daily Mile as a public health intervention: A rapid ethnographic assessment of uptake and implementation in South London, UK
Examining TDM in 'real world' settings surfaces adaptions and variations in implementation. This has implications for the likely effects of TDM, and points more broadly to an urgent need for more appropriate methods for evaluating public health impact and implementation in complex contexts
Towards ‘smart cities’ as ‘healthy cities’: Health equity in a digital age
Materialising links between air pollution and health: How societal impact was achieved in an interdisciplinary project
Societal impact is an increasingly important imperative of academic funding. However, there is little research to date documenting how impact is accomplished in practice. Drawing on insights from Actor-Network Theory, we explore the research-policy interface within an interdisciplinary research project on the relationships between air pollution and human health. Health policy impact was important to the researchers for moral as well as pragmatic …
Doktor Kot, Doktor Sla - book doctors, plant doctors and the segmentation of the medical market place in Meghalaya, northeast India
Despite decades of research on India's plural health care market, the practices of many local health traditions outside the allopathic and codified traditions are under-studied. Drawing on interview and observational data, this paper explores the space in which indigenous traditional Khasi healers in Meghalaya state, northeast India, practice. Khasi indigenous healers describe themselves as doktor sla , plant doctors, to distinguish themselves fr…
Qualitative Methods for Health Research
A model of how targeted and universal welfare entitlements impact on material, psycho-social and structural determinants of health in older adults
A growing body of research attests to the impact of welfare regimes on health and health equity. However, the mechanisms that link different kinds of welfare entitlement to health outcomes are less well understood. This study analysed the accounts of 29 older adults in England to delineate how the form of entitlement to welfare and other resources (specifically, whether this was understood as a universal entitlement or as targeted to those in nee…
Using Joint Interviews to Add Analytic Value
Joint interviewing has been frequently used in health research, and is the subject of a growing methodological literature. We review this literature, and build on it by drawing on a case study of how people make decisions about taking statins. This highlights two ways in which a dyadic approach to joint interviewing can add analytic value compared with individual interviewing. First, the analysis of interaction within joint interviews can help to…
Transdisciplinary Dialogues Through Interactional Ethnographic Studies: A Commentary on Skinner
Understanding welfare conditionality in the context of a generational habitus: A qualitative study of older citizens in England
One health’ and development priorities in resource-constrained countries: Policy lessons from avian and pandemic influenza preparedness in Zambia
'One World, One Health' has become a key rallying theme for the integration of public health and animal health priorities, particularly in the governance of pandemic-scale zoonotic infectious disease threats. However, the policy challenges of integrating public health and animal health priorities in the context of trade and development issues remain relatively unexamined, and few studies to date have explored the implications of global disease go…
The effect of reduced street lighting on road casualties and crime in England and Wales: Controlled interrupted time series analysis
BACKGROUND: Many local authorities in England and Wales have reduced street lighting at night to save money and reduce carbon emissions. There is no evidence to date on whether these reductions impact on public health. We quantified the effect of 4 street lighting adaptation strategies (switch off, part-night lighting, dimming and white light) on casualties and crime in England and Wales. METHODS: Observational study based on analysis of geograph…
Working for the public health: Politics, Localism and Epistemologies of Practice
The recent move of public health back to English local government has reignited debates about the role of a medicalised public health profession. The explicit policy rationale for the move was that local government is the arena in which the social determinants of health can be addressed, and that public health specialists could provide neutral evidence to support action on these. However, if a discourse of 'evidence-based' policy is in principle …
More than A to B: The role of free bus travel for the mobility and wellbeing of older citizens in London
This study contributes to the literature on mobility and wellbeing at older ages through an empirical exploration of the meanings of free bus travel for older citizens, addressing the meanings this holds for older people in urban settings, which have been under-researched. Taking London as a case study, where older citizens have free access to a relatively extensive public transport network through a Freedom Pass, we explore from a public health …
We Can All Just Get on a Bus and Go: Rethinking Independent Mobility in the Context of the Universal Provision of Free Bus Travel to Young Londoners
This paper uses qualitative data from interviews with 118 young Londoners (age 12-18) to examine how the universal provision of free bus travel has affected young people's independent mobility. Drawing on Sen's capabilities approach, we argue that free bus travel enhanced young Londoners' capabilities to shape their daily mobility, both directly by increasing financial access and indirectly by facilitating the acquisition of the necessary skills,…
Trust in health care encounters and systems: A case study of British pensioners living in Spain
Research on trust in health care faces two enduring challenges. Firstly, there are conceptual ambiguities in distinguishing trust from related concepts, such as confidence or dependence. Second, the tacit understandings which underpin the 'faith' element of trust are difficult to explicate. A case study of British pensioners who have moved to Spain provides an opportunity to explore trust in a setting where they often have a choice of where to ac…
Thinking about changing mobility practices: How a Social Practice Approach Can Help
Policy efforts directed at encouraging physical activity have had minimal success to date. Drawing on Bourdieu's theory of practice, we suggest that a social practice framing might provide useful ways of thinking about why and how some practices do and could change. This article takes three case studies of transformations in mobility practices to explore conditions of possibility for change, using a secondary analysis of qualitative data from stu…
Risk and Misfortune
Addressing the challenges of improving primary care quality in Uzbekistan: A qualitative study of Chronic Heart Failure management
Uzbekistan has a well-developed primary care system, with universal access to care, but faces challenges in improving the quality of clinical care provided. This study aimed to identify barriers to quality improvement by focusing on one common condition, Chronic Heart Failure (CHF), for which there are evidence-based international guidelines for management. To identify the challenges to improving the quality of care for CHF in line with such guid…
Health impacts of free bus travel for young people: Evaluation of a natural experiment in London
BACKGROUND: We used the introduction of free bus travel for young people in London in 2005 as a natural experiment with which to assess its effects on active travel, car use, road traffic injuries, assaults, and on one measure of social inclusion, total number of trips made. METHODS: A controlled before-after analysis was conducted. We estimated trips by mode and distances travelled in the preintroduction and postintroduction periods using data f…
The domestication of an everyday health technology: A case study of electric toothbrushes
Entitlement to concessionary public transport and wellbeing: A qualitative study of young people and older citizens in London, UK
Thinking about changing mobility practices: How a Social Practice Approach Can Help
Policy efforts directed at encouraging physical activity have had minimal success to date. Drawing on Bourdieu's theory of practice, we suggest that a social practice framing might provide useful ways of thinking about why and how some practices do and could change. This article takes three case studies of transformations in mobility practices to explore conditions of possibility for change, using a secondary analysis of qualitative data from stu…
The Travelling Citizen: Emergent Discourses of Moral Mobility in a Study of Cycling in London
Drawing on accounts of travelling within London, this article explores the ways in which mobility discourses are tied to the responsibilities of 'a good citizen' and suggests that car-dominated automobility has been significantly fractured, at least in one urban setting. A consensus hierarchy of transport modes now configures driving as immoral, as well as dysfunctional, and cycling, in contrast, as particularly laudable. Within this new moral ec…
The Myth of the Objective Transcript: Transcribing as a Situated Act
Transcribing is a tool commonly used by researchers, both those concerned with the study of language and those concerned with exploring other dimensions of everyday life through language. Underlying much of this work is the belief that it is possible to write talk down in an objective way. In this commentary, we argue that transcribing is a situated act within a study or program of research embedded in a conceptual ecology of a discipline (Green …
Shifting discourses of professionalism: A case study of general practitioners in the United Kingdom
This paper addresses shifting constructions of professional identity in the context of debates about reflexive modernisation and the changing role of professionals in the provision of primary healthcare. Data are drawn from interviews with 20 early-career general practitioners (GPs), who accounted for their orientations towards work in rather different ways from those typically reported in much primary care research. In particular, they reported …
Using Joint Interviews to Add Analytic Value
Joint interviewing has been frequently used in health research, and is the subject of a growing methodological literature. We review this literature, and build on it by drawing on a case study of how people make decisions about taking statins. This highlights two ways in which a dyadic approach to joint interviewing can add analytic value compared with individual interviewing. First, the analysis of interaction within joint interviews can help to…
Risk and the Construction of Social Identity: Children's Talk about Accidents
This paper draws on data from a focus group based study of children's stories about accidents. It examines the ways in which talk about accident risks is utilised as a resource for constructing social identities. In their stories, children claimed responsibility for managing their own accident risks, and in doing so constructed themselves and their peers as mature risk assessors and managers. Furthermore, stories about accidents were used to cons…
Translators and mediators: Bilingual Young People's Accounts of Their Interpreting Work in Health Care
More than A to B: The role of free bus travel for the mobility and wellbeing of older citizens in London
This study contributes to the literature on mobility and wellbeing at older ages through an empirical exploration of the meanings of free bus travel for older citizens, addressing the meanings this holds for older people in urban settings, which have been under-researched. Taking London as a case study, where older citizens have free access to a relatively extensive public transport network through a Freedom Pass, we explore from a public health …
Controlling the 'bed state: Negotiating Hospital Organisation
This paper examines hospital staff's reports of the 'problem' of the acute emergency admission. It is argued that from the initial framing of the problem in terms of crisis and efficiency, through to the apparent solution in a management regime of Bed Management, an important aspect of the organisation of the hospital was achieved. This aspect of organisation stressed the ascendancy of the hospital as the main unit of organisation - together with…
Epistemology, evidence and experience: Evidence based health care in the work of Accident Alliances
Evidence based health care has attracted considerable interest from NHS commissioners, public health specialists and sociologists as both a rational approach to decision making and as representing an ideological shift in health care. This paper explores the social construction of 'evidence' in one arena, that of the work of Accident Alliances. Interviews with key participants and observations of meetings suggest a high level of consensus that evi…
Entitlement to concessionary public transport and wellbeing: A qualitative study of young people and older citizens in London, UK
We Can All Just Get on a Bus and Go: Rethinking Independent Mobility in the Context of the Universal Provision of Free Bus Travel to Young Londoners
This paper uses qualitative data from interviews with 118 young Londoners (age 12-18) to examine how the universal provision of free bus travel has affected young people's independent mobility. Drawing on Sen's capabilities approach, we argue that free bus travel enhanced young Londoners' capabilities to shape their daily mobility, both directly by increasing financial access and indirectly by facilitating the acquisition of the necessary skills,…
Trust in health care encounters and systems: A case study of British pensioners living in Spain
Research on trust in health care faces two enduring challenges. Firstly, there are conceptual ambiguities in distinguishing trust from related concepts, such as confidence or dependence. Second, the tacit understandings which underpin the 'faith' element of trust are difficult to explicate. A case study of British pensioners who have moved to Spain provides an opportunity to explore trust in a setting where they often have a choice of where to ac…
Working for the public health: Politics, Localism and Epistemologies of Practice
The recent move of public health back to English local government has reignited debates about the role of a medicalised public health profession. The explicit policy rationale for the move was that local government is the arena in which the social determinants of health can be addressed, and that public health specialists could provide neutral evidence to support action on these. However, if a discourse of 'evidence-based' policy is in principle …
Risk and Misfortune; The Social Construction of Accidents
The medico-legal production of fatal accidents
There has been a considerable sociological interest in suicide, but accidents have attracted little theoretical study. This paper is concerned with the ways in which some fatalities are classified as 'accidental death' through the processes of the Coroner's Court. Critiques of the positivist tradition in suicide research are taken as a departure to examine the role of the Coroner in the classification of some deaths as accidental. The modern Engl…
A model of how targeted and universal welfare entitlements impact on material, psycho-social and structural determinants of health in older adults
A growing body of research attests to the impact of welfare regimes on health and health equity. However, the mechanisms that link different kinds of welfare entitlement to health outcomes are less well understood. This study analysed the accounts of 29 older adults in England to delineate how the form of entitlement to welfare and other resources (specifically, whether this was understood as a universal entitlement or as targeted to those in nee…
The domestication of an everyday health technology: A case study of electric toothbrushes
Food Safety and Consumers: Constructions of Choice and Risk
This paper argues that food safety did not arise as a “new” obsession at the end of the twentieth century, but has been an intermittent object of public and policy concern over the last two hundred years in the UK. However, the nature of food policy has shifted over that period, from an orientation towards protecting a largely ignorant public from fraud, through controlling the risks potentially arising from negligence in food–handling, to inform…
Jointly constructed narratives in classrooms: Co-construction of friendship and community through language
Primary care in accident and emergency and general practice: A comparison
Modernisation as a professionalising strategy: The case of critical care in England
There has been broad agreement about how to characterise the processes of 'modernisation' of the public sector in welfare societies, but rather less consensus on the impact of this modernisation on professionals. This paper takes critical care in England as a case study to explore how professionals in one setting account for the changes associated with modernisation. In contrast to reports from other arenas, critical care professionals were posit…
Reading between the words: Social cues to lesson participation
Understanding welfare conditionality in the context of a generational habitus: A qualitative study of older citizens in England
The effect of reduced street lighting on road casualties and crime in England and Wales: Controlled interrupted time series analysis
BACKGROUND: Many local authorities in England and Wales have reduced street lighting at night to save money and reduce carbon emissions. There is no evidence to date on whether these reductions impact on public health. We quantified the effect of 4 street lighting adaptation strategies (switch off, part-night lighting, dimming and white light) on casualties and crime in England and Wales. METHODS: Observational study based on analysis of geograph…
Anatomy of Giving: Millionaires in the Late 19th Century
William Rufus, Henry I and the Royal Demesne
The Sheriffs of William the Conqueror
Ethnography and Language in Educational Settings
Talking to learn: Social and academic requirements for classroom participation
Talk is one of the primary ways people have of learning. The question that must be asked is What is it that is being learned? One generally accepted notion is that through talking and interacting with others, people learn about self, about others, and about the world. Recently, however, other types of learning have been identified. For example, through participating in a variety of communicative situations, people learn conversational rules for w…
Reading between the words: Social cues to lesson participation
Anglo-Norman Studies V: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1982
Multiple Perspective Analyses of Classroom Discourse
Primary care in accident and emergency and general practice: A comparison
The medico-legal production of fatal accidents
There has been a considerable sociological interest in suicide, but accidents have attracted little theoretical study. This paper is concerned with the ways in which some fatalities are classified as 'accidental death' through the processes of the Coroner's Court. Critiques of the positivist tradition in suicide research are taken as a departure to examine the role of the Coroner in the classification of some deaths as accidental. The modern Engl…
Controlling the 'bed state: Negotiating Hospital Organisation
This paper examines hospital staff's reports of the 'problem' of the acute emergency admission. It is argued that from the initial framing of the problem in terms of crisis and efficiency, through to the apparent solution in a management regime of Bed Management, an important aspect of the organisation of the hospital was achieved. This aspect of organisation stressed the ascendancy of the hospital as the main unit of organisation - together with…
Essays on Women, Medicine and Health (Book)
Achieving Rational Management: Bed Managers and the Crisis in Emergency Admissions
This paper uses data from a qualitative study to examine the extent to which the perceived problems of dealing with the acute emergency hospital admission can be used to illuminate the interface between professional and managerial authority in hospitals. Clinicians, nurses and managers all described emergency admissions as constituting a 'constant crisis' in their hospital. There were practical senses in which this was a realistic depiction of th…
Challenging Medicine (Book)
Medicine, Health and Risk: Sociological Approaches/Risk (Book)
Jointly constructed narratives in classrooms: Co-construction of friendship and community through language
The Myth of the Objective Transcript: Transcribing as a Situated Act
Transcribing is a tool commonly used by researchers, both those concerned with the study of language and those concerned with exploring other dimensions of everyday life through language. Underlying much of this work is the belief that it is possible to write talk down in an objective way. In this commentary, we argue that transcribing is a situated act within a study or program of research embedded in a conceptual ecology of a discipline (Green …
Risk and the Construction of Social Identity: Children's Talk about Accidents
This paper draws on data from a focus group based study of children's stories about accidents. It examines the ways in which talk about accident risks is utilised as a resource for constructing social identities. In their stories, children claimed responsibility for managing their own accident risks, and in doing so constructed themselves and their peers as mature risk assessors and managers. Furthermore, stories about accidents were used to cons…
Chapter 4: Discourse Analysis, Learning, and Social Practice: A Methodological Study
Risk and Misfortune; The Social Construction of Accidents
The Impact of Context on Data
From accidents to risk: Public health and preventable injury
In the nineteenth century reports of Registrar General, fatal accidents were separated from other causes of death because they had neither natural nor motivated causes. As individual and unpredictable misfortunes, they attracted little interest from public health. Accidental injury became a legitimate object of public health concern in the middle of the twentieth century, when accident prevention became professionalised. With the rise of epidemio…
What difference does the difference make? Understanding difference across perspectives
In this discussion, we examine how theory‐method relations shape what could, and could not, be known about problem‐based learning (PBL) through the different approaches to discourse analysis used. We show how, by reading and analyzing the articles as a collective body of work rather than as individual articles, we created a telling case, one that makes previously obscure theoretical relations between theory and method suddenly apparent (Mitchell,…
Evolution of Qualitative Research Methodology: Looking Beyond Defense to Possibilities
The authors discuss where qualitative research may be headed in the light of where it has been, situating their conversation in the current political context
Epistemology, evidence and experience: Evidence based health care in the work of Accident Alliances
Evidence based health care has attracted considerable interest from NHS commissioners, public health specialists and sociologists as both a rational approach to decision making and as representing an ideological shift in health care. This paper explores the social construction of 'evidence' in one arena, that of the work of Accident Alliances. Interviews with key participants and observations of meetings suggest a high level of consensus that evi…
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