Laura Hamilton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3632291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Hamilton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamilton |
| SIGNATURE | HAMILTON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hertfordshire |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2388-3278 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 440 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Food aid as a source of support and visibility for migrants with no recourse to public funds (NRPF)
In the UK, migrants with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) conditions are denied full access to social security benefits and the labour market, rendering them ‘invisible’ and dependent on third sector organisations, like foodbanks. This qualitative study explored how third sector organisations used food aid to challenge the invisibilising of those with NRPF. In 2022, semi-structured interviews and focus groups were carried out with 17 organisati…
Sexed by Susanna Rustin
“The People Who Leave Here Are Not the People Who Arrived.”: A Qualitative Analysis of the Therapeutic Process and Identity Transition in the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway
Individuals with personality disorder are often construed as difficult to treat, and sometimes even “untreatable.” In this study, 24 men who had completed treatment on the offender personality disorder treatment pathway participated in focus groups at a high-security prison in the United Kingdom. The results of the data analysis revealed three superordinate themes that captured the impact and experience of the therapeutic process. The three theme…
Changes to household food shopping practices during the Covid-19 restrictions: Evidence from the East of England
Measures to control the spread of COVID-19 have changed the way we shop for food and interact with food environments. This qualitative study explored food shopping practices in the East of England, a large diverse region including coastal, urban and rural settings. In 2020/2021 we interviewed 38 people living in the region and 27 professionals and volunteers providing local support around dietary health. Participants reported disruption to superm…
The whole is more than the sum of its parts – assessing writing using the consensual assessment technique
Evaluating the impact of Academic Literacies teaching (Lea and Street [1998. “Student Writing in Higher Education: An Academic Literacies Approach.” Studies in Higher Education 23 (2): 157–72. doi:10.1080/03075079812331380364]) is difficult, as it involves gauging whether writers (1) gain better understanding of what influences written social interactions, and (2) improve their ability to manipulate language to address readers. Self-report can as…
Social Studies Teachers' Perspectives on Key Civic Outcomes in 2010 and 2019: Civic Development in the Era of Truth Decay
Teachers play a crucial role in supporting students' civic development, which is one way of countering Truth Decay—the diminishing role of facts and analysis in American public life. This Data Note, one in a series, describes changes in high school social studies teachers' perspectives regarding the importance of teaching various topics related to students' civic development and regarding the role of social studies instruction more generally.
American Teacher Panel Civic Education Survey: Technical Documentation
Public schools have the potential to exacerbate or counter Truth Decay (the diminishing role of facts and analysis in American public life) by supporting students' development of knowledge, skills, and dispositions related to civic education. Researchers administered a survey to public-school social studies teachers about their approaches to civic education. This report, one in a series of six, provides technical information about the survey.
Teachers' Civics Instructional Materials: Civic Development in the Era of Truth Decay
Public schools that serve kindergarteners through 12th graders can play a key role in combating Truth Decay by supporting students' civic development and engagement. Teachers' instructional materials provide one window into civic education in schools. This Data Note unpacks ways in which social studies teachers across the United States reported using instructional materials in their classrooms to teach civics.
The Socio‐Economic Boundaries Shaping Young People's Lunchtime Food Practices on a School Day
Not enough is known about the relationship between socio‐economic deprivation and places where young people purchase food at lunchtime on a school day. This paper draws on qualitative data from 600 + young people aged 13–15 years and illustrates that socioeconomic factors form boundaries that young people have a feeling for when buying food. This informs where they seek out lunch (at school or in local food outlets) and what products, service and…
How do children and their families experience food poverty according to UK newspaper media 2006–15
This paper contributes to scholarship concerned with media representations of poverty by exploring newspaper coverage of food poverty as experienced by UK children and families. Our content analysis of six contrasting print newspapers from 2006–15 finds that reporting of children's and families’ food poverty begins in 2011, peaks in 2014 and is dominated by articles about foodbanks. Narrative analysis identifies differences as well as similaritie…
Making the Case for Financial Aid 2.0
Providing a ''Leg Up: Parental Involvement and Opportunity Hoarding in College
Although higher education scholars are increasingly exploring disparities within institutions, they have yet to examine how parental involvement contributes to social-class variation in students' experiences. We ask, what role do parents play in producing divergent college experiences for students from different class backgrounds? Relying on interviews with 41 families, including mothers, fathers, and their daughters, we find that affluent parent…
Patterns of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption amongst young people aged 13–15 years during the school day in Scotland
BACKGROUND: There is currently little research regarding sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption patterns of young people though adolescents are thought to be frequent consumers of these drinks. There is no research regarding the other foods and drinks consumed alongside SSBs by young people. The aim of this paper is to explore the patterns of SSB purchase and consumption amongst young people aged 13-15 years. METHODS: A purchasing recall ques…
Implications of Changing Family Forms for Children
This paper explores what it means to do a sociology of families, that is, one that acknowledges and considers a wider array of family forms than typically has been explored. We begin by reviewing the existing sociological research on a range of alternative family forms, ultimately focusing on older-parent, adoptive, same-sex, and multiracial families. We describe and critically assess four theoretical approaches to examining family forms-family s…
This is the Biggest Thing You'll Ever Do in Your Life”: Exploring the Occupations of Transgendered People
Despite growing attention to occupational justice issues, there has been very little research examining the everyday occupations of those marginalised by sexual orientation or gender identity. Building on a small body of literature concerning the occupations of gay men and lesbians, this paper explores the occupations of five transgendered persons. Qualitative interview data are used to examine both how participants' gender identities shaped thei…
Marital Name Change as a Window into Gender Attitudes
The need to revise scholars' approach to the measurement of gender attitudes-long dominated by the separate-spheres paradigm-is growing increasingly timely as women's share of the labor force approaches parity with men's. Recent years have seen revived interest in marital name change as a gendered practice with the potential to aid in this task; however, scholars have yet to test its effectiveness as one possible indicator of gender attitudes. In…
Is Hooking Up Bad for Young Women?
“Girls can't be guys in matters of the heart, even though they think they can,” says Laura Sessions Stepp, author of Unhooked: HowYoung Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love, and Lose at Both, published in 2007. In her view, “hooking up”—casual sexual activity ranging from kissing to intercourse—places women at risk of “low self-esteem, depression, alcoholism, and eating disorders.” Stepp is only one of half a dozen journalists currently engaged in the bu…
Gendered Sexuality in Young Adulthood: Double Binds and Flawed Options
Current work on hooking up-or casual sexual activity on college campuses-takes an individualistic, 'battle of the sexes' approach and underestimates the importance of college as a classed location. The authors employ an interactional, intersectional approach using longitudinal ethnographic and interview data on a group of college women's sexual and romantic careers. They find that heterosexual college women contend with public gender beliefs abou…
Assistance and Accountability in Externally Managed Schools: The Case of Edison Schools, Inc
Edison Schools, Inc., is the largest and most visible among a growing number of Education Management Organizations that have entered into contracts to manage public schools, including both conventional and charter schools. Edison's approach to managing schools is comprehensive, and it distinguishes itself from most other school improvement strategies by simultaneously addressing both the resources and assistance provided to schools and the accoun…
Adoption
In the US and many industrialized nations, adoption is a legal act through which a child is placed under the permanent care and guardianship of one or more individuals who are not his or her biological parents. Through adoption, the parental rights and responsibilities of the child's birth parents are dissolved and transferred to the adoptive parents. Although adoptive parents have the same legal status as other parents in the US, assumptions abo…
Hidden Curriculum
The hidden curriculum refers to the unofficial rules, routines, and structures of schools through which students learn behaviors, values, beliefs, and attitudes. Elements of the hidden curriculum do not appear in schools” written goals, formal lesson plans, or learning objectives although they may reflect culturally dominant social values and ideas about what schools should teach. Of the three major approaches to the hidden curriculum, the functi…
Adoptive Parents, Adaptive Parents: Evaluating the Importance of Biological Ties for Parental Investment
Contemporary legal and scholarly debates emphasize the importance of biological parents for children's well-being. Scholarship in this vein often relies on stepparent families even though adoptive families provide an ideal opportunity to explore the role of biology in family life. In this study, we compare two-adoptive-parent families with other families on one key characteristic-parental investment. Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudin…
Trading On Heterosexuality: College Women's Gender Strategies and Homophobia
In this study, the author uses ethnographic and interview data from a women's floor in a university residence hall to examine how some heterosexual women's gender strategies contribute to their homophobia. The author describes a prevailing heterosexual erotic market on campus-the Greek party scene-and the status hierarchy linked to it. Within this hierarchy, heterosexual women assign lesbians low rank because of their assumed disinterest in the e…
Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multilevel, Integrative Approach to Party Rape
This article explains why rates of sexual assault remain high on college campuses. Data are from a study of college life at a large midwestern university involving nine months of ethnographic observation of a women's floor in a “party dorm,” in-depth interviews with 42 of the floor residents, and 16 group interviews with other students. We show that sexual assault is a predictable outcome of a synergistic intersection of processes operating at in…
Models for Value-Added Modeling of Teacher Effects
The use of complex value-added models that attempt to isolate the contributions of teachers or schools to student development is increasing. Several variations on these models are being applied in the research literature, and policy makers have expressed interest in using these models for evaluating teachers and schools. In this article, we present a general multivariate, longitudinal mixed-model that incorporates the complex grouping structures …
Gendered Sexuality in Young Adulthood: Double Binds and Flawed Options
Current work on hooking up-or casual sexual activity on college campuses-takes an individualistic, 'battle of the sexes' approach and underestimates the importance of college as a classed location. The authors employ an interactional, intersectional approach using longitudinal ethnographic and interview data on a group of college women's sexual and romantic careers. They find that heterosexual college women contend with public gender beliefs abou…
Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multilevel, Integrative Approach to Party Rape
This article explains why rates of sexual assault remain high on college campuses. Data are from a study of college life at a large midwestern university involving nine months of ethnographic observation of a women's floor in a “party dorm,” in-depth interviews with 42 of the floor residents, and 16 group interviews with other students. We show that sexual assault is a predictable outcome of a synergistic intersection of processes operating at in…
Adoptive Parents, Adaptive Parents: Evaluating the Importance of Biological Ties for Parental Investment
Contemporary legal and scholarly debates emphasize the importance of biological parents for children's well-being. Scholarship in this vein often relies on stepparent families even though adoptive families provide an ideal opportunity to explore the role of biology in family life. In this study, we compare two-adoptive-parent families with other families on one key characteristic-parental investment. Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudin…
Trading On Heterosexuality: College Women's Gender Strategies and Homophobia
In this study, the author uses ethnographic and interview data from a women's floor in a university residence hall to examine how some heterosexual women's gender strategies contribute to their homophobia. The author describes a prevailing heterosexual erotic market on campus-the Greek party scene-and the status hierarchy linked to it. Within this hierarchy, heterosexual women assign lesbians low rank because of their assumed disinterest in the e…
Providing a ''Leg Up: Parental Involvement and Opportunity Hoarding in College
Although higher education scholars are increasingly exploring disparities within institutions, they have yet to examine how parental involvement contributes to social-class variation in students' experiences. We ask, what role do parents play in producing divergent college experiences for students from different class backgrounds? Relying on interviews with 41 families, including mothers, fathers, and their daughters, we find that affluent parent…
Marital Name Change as a Window into Gender Attitudes
The need to revise scholars' approach to the measurement of gender attitudes-long dominated by the separate-spheres paradigm-is growing increasingly timely as women's share of the labor force approaches parity with men's. Recent years have seen revived interest in marital name change as a gendered practice with the potential to aid in this task; however, scholars have yet to test its effectiveness as one possible indicator of gender attitudes. In…
Implications of Changing Family Forms for Children
This paper explores what it means to do a sociology of families, that is, one that acknowledges and considers a wider array of family forms than typically has been explored. We begin by reviewing the existing sociological research on a range of alternative family forms, ultimately focusing on older-parent, adoptive, same-sex, and multiracial families. We describe and critically assess four theoretical approaches to examining family forms-family s…
How do children and their families experience food poverty according to UK newspaper media 2006–15
This paper contributes to scholarship concerned with media representations of poverty by exploring newspaper coverage of food poverty as experienced by UK children and families. Our content analysis of six contrasting print newspapers from 2006–15 finds that reporting of children's and families’ food poverty begins in 2011, peaks in 2014 and is dominated by articles about foodbanks. Narrative analysis identifies differences as well as similaritie…
This is the Biggest Thing You'll Ever Do in Your Life”: Exploring the Occupations of Transgendered People
Despite growing attention to occupational justice issues, there has been very little research examining the everyday occupations of those marginalised by sexual orientation or gender identity. Building on a small body of literature concerning the occupations of gay men and lesbians, this paper explores the occupations of five transgendered persons. Qualitative interview data are used to examine both how participants' gender identities shaped thei…
Changes to household food shopping practices during the Covid-19 restrictions: Evidence from the East of England
Measures to control the spread of COVID-19 have changed the way we shop for food and interact with food environments. This qualitative study explored food shopping practices in the East of England, a large diverse region including coastal, urban and rural settings. In 2020/2021 we interviewed 38 people living in the region and 27 professionals and volunteers providing local support around dietary health. Participants reported disruption to superm…
Patterns of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption amongst young people aged 13–15 years during the school day in Scotland
BACKGROUND: There is currently little research regarding sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption patterns of young people though adolescents are thought to be frequent consumers of these drinks. There is no research regarding the other foods and drinks consumed alongside SSBs by young people. The aim of this paper is to explore the patterns of SSB purchase and consumption amongst young people aged 13-15 years. METHODS: A purchasing recall ques…
Assistance and Accountability in Externally Managed Schools: The Case of Edison Schools, Inc
Edison Schools, Inc., is the largest and most visible among a growing number of Education Management Organizations that have entered into contracts to manage public schools, including both conventional and charter schools. Edison's approach to managing schools is comprehensive, and it distinguishes itself from most other school improvement strategies by simultaneously addressing both the resources and assistance provided to schools and the accoun…
Models for Value-Added Modeling of Teacher Effects
The use of complex value-added models that attempt to isolate the contributions of teachers or schools to student development is increasing. Several variations on these models are being applied in the research literature, and policy makers have expressed interest in using these models for evaluating teachers and schools. In this article, we present a general multivariate, longitudinal mixed-model that incorporates the complex grouping structures …
Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multilevel, Integrative Approach to Party Rape
This article explains why rates of sexual assault remain high on college campuses. Data are from a study of college life at a large midwestern university involving nine months of ethnographic observation of a women's floor in a “party dorm,” in-depth interviews with 42 of the floor residents, and 16 group interviews with other students. We show that sexual assault is a predictable outcome of a synergistic intersection of processes operating at in…
Adoption
In the US and many industrialized nations, adoption is a legal act through which a child is placed under the permanent care and guardianship of one or more individuals who are not his or her biological parents. Through adoption, the parental rights and responsibilities of the child's birth parents are dissolved and transferred to the adoptive parents. Although adoptive parents have the same legal status as other parents in the US, assumptions abo…
Hidden Curriculum
The hidden curriculum refers to the unofficial rules, routines, and structures of schools through which students learn behaviors, values, beliefs, and attitudes. Elements of the hidden curriculum do not appear in schools” written goals, formal lesson plans, or learning objectives although they may reflect culturally dominant social values and ideas about what schools should teach. Of the three major approaches to the hidden curriculum, the functi…
Adoptive Parents, Adaptive Parents: Evaluating the Importance of Biological Ties for Parental Investment
Contemporary legal and scholarly debates emphasize the importance of biological parents for children's well-being. Scholarship in this vein often relies on stepparent families even though adoptive families provide an ideal opportunity to explore the role of biology in family life. In this study, we compare two-adoptive-parent families with other families on one key characteristic-parental investment. Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudin…
Trading On Heterosexuality: College Women's Gender Strategies and Homophobia
In this study, the author uses ethnographic and interview data from a women's floor in a university residence hall to examine how some heterosexual women's gender strategies contribute to their homophobia. The author describes a prevailing heterosexual erotic market on campus-the Greek party scene-and the status hierarchy linked to it. Within this hierarchy, heterosexual women assign lesbians low rank because of their assumed disinterest in the e…
Assistance and Accountability in Externally Managed Schools: The Case of Edison Schools, Inc
Edison Schools, Inc., is the largest and most visible among a growing number of Education Management Organizations that have entered into contracts to manage public schools, including both conventional and charter schools. Edison's approach to managing schools is comprehensive, and it distinguishes itself from most other school improvement strategies by simultaneously addressing both the resources and assistance provided to schools and the accoun…
Gendered Sexuality in Young Adulthood: Double Binds and Flawed Options
Current work on hooking up-or casual sexual activity on college campuses-takes an individualistic, 'battle of the sexes' approach and underestimates the importance of college as a classed location. The authors employ an interactional, intersectional approach using longitudinal ethnographic and interview data on a group of college women's sexual and romantic careers. They find that heterosexual college women contend with public gender beliefs abou…
Is Hooking Up Bad for Young Women?
“Girls can't be guys in matters of the heart, even though they think they can,” says Laura Sessions Stepp, author of Unhooked: HowYoung Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love, and Lose at Both, published in 2007. In her view, “hooking up”—casual sexual activity ranging from kissing to intercourse—places women at risk of “low self-esteem, depression, alcoholism, and eating disorders.” Stepp is only one of half a dozen journalists currently engaged in the bu…
Marital Name Change as a Window into Gender Attitudes
The need to revise scholars' approach to the measurement of gender attitudes-long dominated by the separate-spheres paradigm-is growing increasingly timely as women's share of the labor force approaches parity with men's. Recent years have seen revived interest in marital name change as a gendered practice with the potential to aid in this task; however, scholars have yet to test its effectiveness as one possible indicator of gender attitudes. In…
This is the Biggest Thing You'll Ever Do in Your Life”: Exploring the Occupations of Transgendered People
Despite growing attention to occupational justice issues, there has been very little research examining the everyday occupations of those marginalised by sexual orientation or gender identity. Building on a small body of literature concerning the occupations of gay men and lesbians, this paper explores the occupations of five transgendered persons. Qualitative interview data are used to examine both how participants' gender identities shaped thei…
Implications of Changing Family Forms for Children
This paper explores what it means to do a sociology of families, that is, one that acknowledges and considers a wider array of family forms than typically has been explored. We begin by reviewing the existing sociological research on a range of alternative family forms, ultimately focusing on older-parent, adoptive, same-sex, and multiracial families. We describe and critically assess four theoretical approaches to examining family forms-family s…
Patterns of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption amongst young people aged 13–15 years during the school day in Scotland
BACKGROUND: There is currently little research regarding sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption patterns of young people though adolescents are thought to be frequent consumers of these drinks. There is no research regarding the other foods and drinks consumed alongside SSBs by young people. The aim of this paper is to explore the patterns of SSB purchase and consumption amongst young people aged 13-15 years. METHODS: A purchasing recall ques…
The Socio‐Economic Boundaries Shaping Young People's Lunchtime Food Practices on a School Day
Not enough is known about the relationship between socio‐economic deprivation and places where young people purchase food at lunchtime on a school day. This paper draws on qualitative data from 600 + young people aged 13–15 years and illustrates that socioeconomic factors form boundaries that young people have a feeling for when buying food. This informs where they seek out lunch (at school or in local food outlets) and what products, service and…
How do children and their families experience food poverty according to UK newspaper media 2006–15
This paper contributes to scholarship concerned with media representations of poverty by exploring newspaper coverage of food poverty as experienced by UK children and families. Our content analysis of six contrasting print newspapers from 2006–15 finds that reporting of children's and families’ food poverty begins in 2011, peaks in 2014 and is dominated by articles about foodbanks. Narrative analysis identifies differences as well as similaritie…
Making the Case for Financial Aid 2.0
Providing a ''Leg Up: Parental Involvement and Opportunity Hoarding in College
Although higher education scholars are increasingly exploring disparities within institutions, they have yet to examine how parental involvement contributes to social-class variation in students' experiences. We ask, what role do parents play in producing divergent college experiences for students from different class backgrounds? Relying on interviews with 41 families, including mothers, fathers, and their daughters, we find that affluent parent…
Social Studies Teachers' Perspectives on Key Civic Outcomes in 2010 and 2019: Civic Development in the Era of Truth Decay
Teachers play a crucial role in supporting students' civic development, which is one way of countering Truth Decay—the diminishing role of facts and analysis in American public life. This Data Note, one in a series, describes changes in high school social studies teachers' perspectives regarding the importance of teaching various topics related to students' civic development and regarding the role of social studies instruction more generally.
American Teacher Panel Civic Education Survey: Technical Documentation
Public schools have the potential to exacerbate or counter Truth Decay (the diminishing role of facts and analysis in American public life) by supporting students' development of knowledge, skills, and dispositions related to civic education. Researchers administered a survey to public-school social studies teachers about their approaches to civic education. This report, one in a series of six, provides technical information about the survey.
Teachers' Civics Instructional Materials: Civic Development in the Era of Truth Decay
Public schools that serve kindergarteners through 12th graders can play a key role in combating Truth Decay by supporting students' civic development and engagement. Teachers' instructional materials provide one window into civic education in schools. This Data Note unpacks ways in which social studies teachers across the United States reported using instructional materials in their classrooms to teach civics.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts – assessing writing using the consensual assessment technique
Evaluating the impact of Academic Literacies teaching (Lea and Street [1998. “Student Writing in Higher Education: An Academic Literacies Approach.” Studies in Higher Education 23 (2): 157–72. doi:10.1080/03075079812331380364]) is difficult, as it involves gauging whether writers (1) gain better understanding of what influences written social interactions, and (2) improve their ability to manipulate language to address readers. Self-report can as…
Changes to household food shopping practices during the Covid-19 restrictions: Evidence from the East of England
Measures to control the spread of COVID-19 have changed the way we shop for food and interact with food environments. This qualitative study explored food shopping practices in the East of England, a large diverse region including coastal, urban and rural settings. In 2020/2021 we interviewed 38 people living in the region and 27 professionals and volunteers providing local support around dietary health. Participants reported disruption to superm…
“The People Who Leave Here Are Not the People Who Arrived.”: A Qualitative Analysis of the Therapeutic Process and Identity Transition in the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway
Individuals with personality disorder are often construed as difficult to treat, and sometimes even “untreatable.” In this study, 24 men who had completed treatment on the offender personality disorder treatment pathway participated in focus groups at a high-security prison in the United Kingdom. The results of the data analysis revealed three superordinate themes that captured the impact and experience of the therapeutic process. The three theme…
Sexed by Susanna Rustin
Food aid as a source of support and visibility for migrants with no recourse to public funds (NRPF)
In the UK, migrants with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) conditions are denied full access to social security benefits and the labour market, rendering them ‘invisible’ and dependent on third sector organisations, like foodbanks. This qualitative study explored how third sector organisations used food aid to challenge the invisibilising of those with NRPF. In 2022, semi-structured interviews and focus groups were carried out with 17 organisati…
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