Lorraine Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635481 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorraine Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorraine |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4188-3949 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Are childcare settings’ food menus fit for purpose? A qualitative analysis in England
Childcare settings have a central role in feeding pre-school-aged infants and children. One of the ways in which childcare settings plan nutritious, balanced, and varied meals and snacks for preschool-aged infants and children (0–5 years) is through the use of a menu. Nevertheless, international studies indicate an overwhelming heterogeneity in uptake of menus, as well as use and format, with variable details of food and drinks provided. Thus, in…
Immersive Realities in the "Place of Flowers" and Southern Sea Country, Australia
This article explores how immersion in deep space-times of the earth, Indigenous storytelling, and virtual realities disrupt dystopian futures shaped by Western scientific perspectives on environmental change and climate events. As a Nyul Nyul sand artist, Larrakia story-keeper, physical geographer, cultural geographer, and creative transmedia producer, we reflect on our journey across First Nations lands through the immersive full-dome film The …
Knowledge and use of voluntary food and drink guidelines in English nurseries? Results from a nationally representative cross-sectional study
Good nutrition in early life is vital for healthy development, and sets the stage for good health throughout the life-course. Most children aged 0–4 years old in the UK spend at least some time each week in an early years’ setting (EYS), such as a nursery or childminder. Unlike schools which serve older children, there are no statutory standards for the food and drinks served to the youngest children in EYS, despite the potential for greater publ…
Analysis of content and online public responses to media articles that raise awareness of the opt-out system of consent to organ donation in England
Background: Preceded by a national media campaign, in May 2020, England switched to a soft opt-out system of organ donation which rests on the assumption that individuals meeting specific criteria have consented to organ donation unless they have expressed otherwise. We aimed to learn more about how the changes were communicated, how people responded and any discrepancies between key messages and how they were interpreted by the public. Methods: …
How involved are parents in their child's early years setting's food decisions and practices
As childhood obesity and poor nutrition rates in England continue to rise, parents and childcare practitioners have key partnership roles in ensuring young children have healthy balanced diets. Yet little is known about parents' understanding and involvement in their childcare settings' food decisions and practices, and how this might be strengthened. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with a purposive sample of 59 parents with one or mo…
The “Cinderella sector”
The quality of food that children eat in early childhood has profound impacts on their future wellbeing. In England, many children eat the majority of meals in early years' settings including nurseries and childminders. We conducted 16 interviews with 18 stakeholders exploring food provision, the use of voluntary nutrition guidelines, and the effects of government support on the early years' sector. Key themes emerging from our thematic analysis …
Facilitators of, and barriers to, personalisation in care homes in England
The personalisation of residential care services is based on three broad principles of valuing personal identity, empowering resident decision-making and fostering care relationships. We analysed 50 Care Quality Commission care home inspection reports to identify factors that the reports indicate facilitate or hinder the delivery of personalised residential care in England. Findings suggest that the provision of personalised services is affected …
What kind of home is your care home? A typology of personalised care provided in residential and nursing homes
This paper examines how care home managers in England conceptualised the approach to delivering personalised care in the homes they managed. We conducted interviews with care home managers and mapped the approaches they described on two distinct characterisations of personalised care prominent in the research and practitioner literature: the importance of close care relationships and the degree of resident choice and decision-making promoted by t…
National policy piloting as steering at a distance
This article contributes to the literature on tools of governance by examining the role of national policy pilots from the perspective of local implementers, using interviews with directors of adult social services in elected local government in England. Previous research in the same settings has shown that local actors often find the experience of participating in national policy pilots frustrating. This article attempts to explain why local aut…
Evaluating direct payments in residential care
This article reports findings from the evaluation of the Direct Payments in Residential Care Trailblazers in England (2014–16). It focuses on the perspective of residential care providers on implementing direct payments, which aimed to improve the level of choice and control over care available to their residents. The article explores the views of providers, using interviews and survey responses of care home managers and owners. Concerns expresse…
Will Direct Payments Make Adult Residential Care more Personalized? Views and Experiences of Social Care Staff in the Direct Payments in Residential Care Trailblazers
Direct payments, i.e. cash payments made directly to the individual in lieu of social care services, have become an established option in council‐funded domiciliary care as a means to better personalize care and support. As part of its agenda to modernize social care, the Government tested their use in long‐term residential care in 18 trailblazing councils in England. This article presents findings from the independent evaluation of this initiati…
Interrogating Institutional Change
Since the beginning of the 1990s the public healthcare system in England has been subject to reforms. This has resulted in a structurally hybrid system of public service with elements of the market. Utilizing a theory of new institutionalism, this article explores National Health Service ( NHS ) managers' views on competition and cooperation as mechanisms for commissioning health services. We interrogate the extent of institutional change in the …
Socio‐economic and environmental origins of cholera epidemics in Mozambique
The origins of cholera incidence in Africa are socio‐economic and environmental. Moreover, the nature of Vibrio cholerae transmission and survival presents a persistent risk of cholera. The Infectious Disease Risk Management Program (IDRM) in Mozambique confronted this in one of the recent most cholera‐prevalent locations of the world. The first phase of the program suggests that recognizing the complexity of cholera is crucial to its effective m…
New Sweden in America
Journal Article New Sweden in America. Ed. by Carol E. Hoffecker, Richard Waldron, Lorraine E. Williams, and Barbara E. Benson. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1995. 366 pp. $49.50, ISBN 0-87413-520-6.) Get access Matti E. Kaups Matti E. Kaups University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 2, September 1996, Page 592, https://…
Northern Intellectual Reaction to Military Rule During the Civil War
Notes1. James G. Randall, Constitutional Problems under Lincoln (Urbana, Illinois, 1951), 49–50.2. Charles Fairman, The Law of Martial Rule (Chicago, 1930), 1–66.3. James Randall, “Civil and Military Relationships under Lincoln,” Pennsylvania magazine of History and Biography, LXIX (1945), 199–205.4. Ex Parte Merryman, 17 Federal Cases 144, Case No. 9, p. 487 (1861).5. John Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln (New York, 1890), VIII, 36–37; Opin…
The Acceptance of the Civil War by Northern Intellectuals
Northern Intellectual Reaction to the Policy of Emancipation
The UnCivil War--Washington During the Reconstruction, 1865-1878
Giants Lived in Those Days
The Civil War and Intellectuals of the North
The Civil War stands out as the gravest conflict in American history, between the Revolutionary War and World War II. Termed a Second American Revolution by the Beards in reference to its effect upon the American economy, the Civil War also helped to bring about changes of farreaching importance in other aspects of American life and thought. The minds of the intellectuals of the North were inevitably influenced by the parade of events and in the …
The Interracial Conference of the National Council of Negro Women
National policy piloting as steering at a distance
This article contributes to the literature on tools of governance by examining the role of national policy pilots from the perspective of local implementers, using interviews with directors of adult social services in elected local government in England. Previous research in the same settings has shown that local actors often find the experience of participating in national policy pilots frustrating. This article attempts to explain why local aut…
Interrogating Institutional Change
Since the beginning of the 1990s the public healthcare system in England has been subject to reforms. This has resulted in a structurally hybrid system of public service with elements of the market. Utilizing a theory of new institutionalism, this article explores National Health Service ( NHS ) managers' views on competition and cooperation as mechanisms for commissioning health services. We interrogate the extent of institutional change in the …
Will Direct Payments Make Adult Residential Care more Personalized? Views and Experiences of Social Care Staff in the Direct Payments in Residential Care Trailblazers
Direct payments, i.e. cash payments made directly to the individual in lieu of social care services, have become an established option in council‐funded domiciliary care as a means to better personalize care and support. As part of its agenda to modernize social care, the Government tested their use in long‐term residential care in 18 trailblazing councils in England. This article presents findings from the independent evaluation of this initiati…
The Interracial Conference of the National Council of Negro Women
The Civil War and Intellectuals of the North
The Civil War stands out as the gravest conflict in American history, between the Revolutionary War and World War II. Termed a Second American Revolution by the Beards in reference to its effect upon the American economy, the Civil War also helped to bring about changes of farreaching importance in other aspects of American life and thought. The minds of the intellectuals of the North were inevitably influenced by the parade of events and in the …
The UnCivil War--Washington During the Reconstruction, 1865-1878
Giants Lived in Those Days
Northern Intellectual Reaction to the Policy of Emancipation
The Acceptance of the Civil War by Northern Intellectuals
Northern Intellectual Reaction to Military Rule During the Civil War
Notes1. James G. Randall, Constitutional Problems under Lincoln (Urbana, Illinois, 1951), 49–50.2. Charles Fairman, The Law of Martial Rule (Chicago, 1930), 1–66.3. James Randall, “Civil and Military Relationships under Lincoln,” Pennsylvania magazine of History and Biography, LXIX (1945), 199–205.4. Ex Parte Merryman, 17 Federal Cases 144, Case No. 9, p. 487 (1861).5. John Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln (New York, 1890), VIII, 36–37; Opin…
New Sweden in America
Journal Article New Sweden in America. Ed. by Carol E. Hoffecker, Richard Waldron, Lorraine E. Williams, and Barbara E. Benson. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1995. 366 pp. $49.50, ISBN 0-87413-520-6.) Get access Matti E. Kaups Matti E. Kaups University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 2, September 1996, Page 592, https://…
Socio‐economic and environmental origins of cholera epidemics in Mozambique
The origins of cholera incidence in Africa are socio‐economic and environmental. Moreover, the nature of Vibrio cholerae transmission and survival presents a persistent risk of cholera. The Infectious Disease Risk Management Program (IDRM) in Mozambique confronted this in one of the recent most cholera‐prevalent locations of the world. The first phase of the program suggests that recognizing the complexity of cholera is crucial to its effective m…
Interrogating Institutional Change
Since the beginning of the 1990s the public healthcare system in England has been subject to reforms. This has resulted in a structurally hybrid system of public service with elements of the market. Utilizing a theory of new institutionalism, this article explores National Health Service ( NHS ) managers' views on competition and cooperation as mechanisms for commissioning health services. We interrogate the extent of institutional change in the …
Will Direct Payments Make Adult Residential Care more Personalized? Views and Experiences of Social Care Staff in the Direct Payments in Residential Care Trailblazers
Direct payments, i.e. cash payments made directly to the individual in lieu of social care services, have become an established option in council‐funded domiciliary care as a means to better personalize care and support. As part of its agenda to modernize social care, the Government tested their use in long‐term residential care in 18 trailblazing councils in England. This article presents findings from the independent evaluation of this initiati…
Evaluating direct payments in residential care
This article reports findings from the evaluation of the Direct Payments in Residential Care Trailblazers in England (2014–16). It focuses on the perspective of residential care providers on implementing direct payments, which aimed to improve the level of choice and control over care available to their residents. The article explores the views of providers, using interviews and survey responses of care home managers and owners. Concerns expresse…
Analysis of content and online public responses to media articles that raise awareness of the opt-out system of consent to organ donation in England
Background: Preceded by a national media campaign, in May 2020, England switched to a soft opt-out system of organ donation which rests on the assumption that individuals meeting specific criteria have consented to organ donation unless they have expressed otherwise. We aimed to learn more about how the changes were communicated, how people responded and any discrepancies between key messages and how they were interpreted by the public. Methods: …
How involved are parents in their child's early years setting's food decisions and practices
As childhood obesity and poor nutrition rates in England continue to rise, parents and childcare practitioners have key partnership roles in ensuring young children have healthy balanced diets. Yet little is known about parents' understanding and involvement in their childcare settings' food decisions and practices, and how this might be strengthened. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with a purposive sample of 59 parents with one or mo…
The “Cinderella sector”
The quality of food that children eat in early childhood has profound impacts on their future wellbeing. In England, many children eat the majority of meals in early years' settings including nurseries and childminders. We conducted 16 interviews with 18 stakeholders exploring food provision, the use of voluntary nutrition guidelines, and the effects of government support on the early years' sector. Key themes emerging from our thematic analysis …
Facilitators of, and barriers to, personalisation in care homes in England
The personalisation of residential care services is based on three broad principles of valuing personal identity, empowering resident decision-making and fostering care relationships. We analysed 50 Care Quality Commission care home inspection reports to identify factors that the reports indicate facilitate or hinder the delivery of personalised residential care in England. Findings suggest that the provision of personalised services is affected …
What kind of home is your care home? A typology of personalised care provided in residential and nursing homes
This paper examines how care home managers in England conceptualised the approach to delivering personalised care in the homes they managed. We conducted interviews with care home managers and mapped the approaches they described on two distinct characterisations of personalised care prominent in the research and practitioner literature: the importance of close care relationships and the degree of resident choice and decision-making promoted by t…
National policy piloting as steering at a distance
This article contributes to the literature on tools of governance by examining the role of national policy pilots from the perspective of local implementers, using interviews with directors of adult social services in elected local government in England. Previous research in the same settings has shown that local actors often find the experience of participating in national policy pilots frustrating. This article attempts to explain why local aut…
Knowledge and use of voluntary food and drink guidelines in English nurseries? Results from a nationally representative cross-sectional study
Good nutrition in early life is vital for healthy development, and sets the stage for good health throughout the life-course. Most children aged 0–4 years old in the UK spend at least some time each week in an early years’ setting (EYS), such as a nursery or childminder. Unlike schools which serve older children, there are no statutory standards for the food and drinks served to the youngest children in EYS, despite the potential for greater publ…
Are childcare settings’ food menus fit for purpose? A qualitative analysis in England
Childcare settings have a central role in feeding pre-school-aged infants and children. One of the ways in which childcare settings plan nutritious, balanced, and varied meals and snacks for preschool-aged infants and children (0–5 years) is through the use of a menu. Nevertheless, international studies indicate an overwhelming heterogeneity in uptake of menus, as well as use and format, with variable details of food and drinks provided. Thus, in…
Immersive Realities in the "Place of Flowers" and Southern Sea Country, Australia
This article explores how immersion in deep space-times of the earth, Indigenous storytelling, and virtual realities disrupt dystopian futures shaped by Western scientific perspectives on environmental change and climate events. As a Nyul Nyul sand artist, Larrakia story-keeper, physical geographer, cultural geographer, and creative transmedia producer, we reflect on our journey across First Nations lands through the immersive full-dome film The …
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