Sarah Burch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Burch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Burch |
| SIGNATURE | BURCH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Anglia Ruskin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3177-408X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 239 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2027 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Toward a Canadian agenda for sustainability transition research
Sustainability transitions research has expanded well beyond its original empirical settings, yet questions remain about how transition perspectives can be meaningfully translated across political economies with distinctive configurations of institutional, geographic, environmental, and historical characteristics. In Canada, these questions are especially salient, as political-economic particularities both complicate the application of transition…
Building capacity for sustainability transformations through transdisciplinary experimentation: Empirical evidence from a novel methodology deployed in 7 countries
In 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) established that global greenhouse gas emissions trajectories are not on track to limiting warming to less than 2 ° C above pre-industrial averages (IPCC 2022a). Given that broader progress towards ambitious climate change and sustainability goals remains incremental, a whole-of-society approach, including transformative innovation in the private sector, is required to trigger the nece…
Delivering trauma-informed outreach to women involved in street-based prostitution: Enablers and Barriers
The social work profession recognises the value of trauma-informed care for women with multiple disadvantage. For women involved in street-based prostitution this is mostly descriptive in nature with limited practice-based investigation. Guided by the principles of qualitative feminist research, this article explores the enablers and barriers in delivering trauma-informed outreach to women involved in street-based prostitution. Semi-structured in…
Building parliamentary capacities for advancing the disaster risk reduction agenda: Notes and reflections from a capacity-building field training for parliamentarians of the Americas and the Caribbean
Pluralizing Debates on the Anthropocene Requires Engaging with the Diversity of Existing Scholarship
A recent article in this journal (Jackson 2021 Jackson, M. 2021. On decolonizing the Anthropocene: Disobedience via plural constitutions. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 111 (3):698–708. doi: 10.1080/24694452.2020.1779645.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) validly emphasized that debates about the Anthropocene need to recognize a diverse range of perspectives, worldviews, and forms of knowledge. In…
Acceptance, obedience and resistance: Children's perceptions of street trading in Nigeria
Street trading is an under‐researched form of child labour. This study explores experiences of children aged 10–15 in Nigeria, using interviews and focus groups. Children largely accepted the need to contribute economically to the family, as well as their own school expenses. Trading was demanding, and there were hidden costs, such as reduced school attendance, but an emphasis on obedience made challenge difficult. Children felt resistance, but k…
I'm not just a number on a sheet, I’m a person’: Domiciliary care, self and getting older
Social care funding is reducing in spite of a growing older population. Within this context, domiciliary services are increasingly failing to deliver care that respects the individuality and heterogeneity of older people. To date, there has been limited research in the U.K. that explores, from the older person's perspective, how care practices interact with self. Using biographical-narrative methodology, this study takes a constructionist approac…
Transition Experiments: Opening Up Low-Carbon Transition Pathways for Canada through Innovation and Learning
Canada is embarking on a low-carbon energy transition that will involve the diffusion of innovations and the reconfiguration of energy systems. This article examines the potential contribution that transition experiments can make to this process. Transition experiments can be understood as deliberate interventions that test novel configurations of social and technical elements that could lead to substantial low-carbon change. The analysis suggest…
Learning through evaluation – A tentative evaluative scheme for sustainability transition experiments
Cultural studies and anthropology
Triggering transformative change: A development path approach to climate change response in communities
While climate change action plans are becoming more common, it is still unclear whether communities have the capacity, tools, and targets in place to trigger the transformative levels of change required to build fundamentally low-carbon, resilient, healthy communities. Evidence increasingly supports the finding that this transformation is not triggered by climate policy alone, but rather is shaped by a broad array of decisions and practices that …
Accelerating the sustainability transition: Exploring synergies between adaptation and mitigation in British Columbian communities
Who are the young people who are not in education, employment or training? An application of the risk factors to a rural area in the UK
Young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) are a focus of government attention in the UK. For social service professionals the mechanisms underpinning the individual experience of NEET are critical to designing effective interventions. International comparisons point to similar experiences at the level of the individual family. This article examines the factors that may contribute to a young person becoming NEET and appl…
Embedding climate change adaptation in biodiversity conservation: A case study of England
Envisioning sustainability: Recent progress in the use of participatory backcasting approaches for sustainability research
Future visioning of local climate change: A framework for community engagement and planning with scenarios and visualisation
Ethical Considerations when Involving Older People in Public Service Participation Processes
In the United Kingdom, as in many other countries, New Labour governments have heavily promoted different forms of ‘service-user involvement’ in decision making about public services. The current orthodoxy would appear to be that involvement activities carry with them de facto benefits that are both affirmative and empowering. However, relatively little research has been carried out into considering the real impact (emotional or otherwise) of inv…
Sustainable development paths: Investigating the roots of local policy responses to climate change
As the implications of a changing climate come into focus, attention must shift to effectively stimulating action in response to this dramatically pervasive phenomenon. Responses to climate change, however, are embedded in institutional procedures, technological pathways and cultural practices that are characterized by deep inertia. By paying express attention to linkages among disciplines, this paper takes steps towards contributing a richer def…
Making local futures tangible—Synthesizing, downscaling, and visualizing climate change scenarios for participatory capacity building
Transforming barriers into enablers of action on climate change: Insights from three municipal case studies in British Columbia, Canada
Collaboration, facilities and communities in day care services for older people: Collaboration, facilities and communities in day care services
Collaborative working in care for older people is often seen as a desirable goal. However, there can be problems with this approach. This paper reports on a single blind randomized controlled trial which was carried out to compare outcomes of rehabilitation in two settings: a day hospital and social services day centres augmented by visiting therapists. The subjects were 105 older patients. Principal outcome measures were the Barthel Index, Phila…
Evaluating Health Interventions for Older People
In recent years there has been a growing emphasis on evidencebased medicine and measuring outcomes of health care. The evaluation of health interventions for older people has increasingly relied upon the use of standardized assessment instruments, which are seen as providing detailed, holistic and patient-centred information. This article argues that such an approach has several drawbacks which may have serious implications for the evaluation and…
Transforming barriers into enablers of action on climate change: Insights from three municipal case studies in British Columbia, Canada
Future visioning of local climate change: A framework for community engagement and planning with scenarios and visualisation
Making local futures tangible—Synthesizing, downscaling, and visualizing climate change scenarios for participatory capacity building
Accelerating the sustainability transition: Exploring synergies between adaptation and mitigation in British Columbian communities
Who are the young people who are not in education, employment or training? An application of the risk factors to a rural area in the UK
Young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) are a focus of government attention in the UK. For social service professionals the mechanisms underpinning the individual experience of NEET are critical to designing effective interventions. International comparisons point to similar experiences at the level of the individual family. This article examines the factors that may contribute to a young person becoming NEET and appl…
Sustainable development paths: Investigating the roots of local policy responses to climate change
As the implications of a changing climate come into focus, attention must shift to effectively stimulating action in response to this dramatically pervasive phenomenon. Responses to climate change, however, are embedded in institutional procedures, technological pathways and cultural practices that are characterized by deep inertia. By paying express attention to linkages among disciplines, this paper takes steps towards contributing a richer def…
Collaboration, facilities and communities in day care services for older people: Collaboration, facilities and communities in day care services
Collaborative working in care for older people is often seen as a desirable goal. However, there can be problems with this approach. This paper reports on a single blind randomized controlled trial which was carried out to compare outcomes of rehabilitation in two settings: a day hospital and social services day centres augmented by visiting therapists. The subjects were 105 older patients. Principal outcome measures were the Barthel Index, Phila…
Transition Experiments: Opening Up Low-Carbon Transition Pathways for Canada through Innovation and Learning
Canada is embarking on a low-carbon energy transition that will involve the diffusion of innovations and the reconfiguration of energy systems. This article examines the potential contribution that transition experiments can make to this process. Transition experiments can be understood as deliberate interventions that test novel configurations of social and technical elements that could lead to substantial low-carbon change. The analysis suggest…
Embedding climate change adaptation in biodiversity conservation: A case study of England
Delivering trauma-informed outreach to women involved in street-based prostitution: Enablers and Barriers
The social work profession recognises the value of trauma-informed care for women with multiple disadvantage. For women involved in street-based prostitution this is mostly descriptive in nature with limited practice-based investigation. Guided by the principles of qualitative feminist research, this article explores the enablers and barriers in delivering trauma-informed outreach to women involved in street-based prostitution. Semi-structured in…
Evaluating Health Interventions for Older People
In recent years there has been a growing emphasis on evidencebased medicine and measuring outcomes of health care. The evaluation of health interventions for older people has increasingly relied upon the use of standardized assessment instruments, which are seen as providing detailed, holistic and patient-centred information. This article argues that such an approach has several drawbacks which may have serious implications for the evaluation and…
Collaboration, facilities and communities in day care services for older people: Collaboration, facilities and communities in day care services
Collaborative working in care for older people is often seen as a desirable goal. However, there can be problems with this approach. This paper reports on a single blind randomized controlled trial which was carried out to compare outcomes of rehabilitation in two settings: a day hospital and social services day centres augmented by visiting therapists. The subjects were 105 older patients. Principal outcome measures were the Barthel Index, Phila…
Sustainable development paths: Investigating the roots of local policy responses to climate change
As the implications of a changing climate come into focus, attention must shift to effectively stimulating action in response to this dramatically pervasive phenomenon. Responses to climate change, however, are embedded in institutional procedures, technological pathways and cultural practices that are characterized by deep inertia. By paying express attention to linkages among disciplines, this paper takes steps towards contributing a richer def…
Making local futures tangible—Synthesizing, downscaling, and visualizing climate change scenarios for participatory capacity building
Transforming barriers into enablers of action on climate change: Insights from three municipal case studies in British Columbia, Canada
Ethical Considerations when Involving Older People in Public Service Participation Processes
In the United Kingdom, as in many other countries, New Labour governments have heavily promoted different forms of ‘service-user involvement’ in decision making about public services. The current orthodoxy would appear to be that involvement activities carry with them de facto benefits that are both affirmative and empowering. However, relatively little research has been carried out into considering the real impact (emotional or otherwise) of inv…
Envisioning sustainability: Recent progress in the use of participatory backcasting approaches for sustainability research
Future visioning of local climate change: A framework for community engagement and planning with scenarios and visualisation
Embedding climate change adaptation in biodiversity conservation: A case study of England
Triggering transformative change: A development path approach to climate change response in communities
While climate change action plans are becoming more common, it is still unclear whether communities have the capacity, tools, and targets in place to trigger the transformative levels of change required to build fundamentally low-carbon, resilient, healthy communities. Evidence increasingly supports the finding that this transformation is not triggered by climate policy alone, but rather is shaped by a broad array of decisions and practices that …
Accelerating the sustainability transition: Exploring synergies between adaptation and mitigation in British Columbian communities
Who are the young people who are not in education, employment or training? An application of the risk factors to a rural area in the UK
Young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) are a focus of government attention in the UK. For social service professionals the mechanisms underpinning the individual experience of NEET are critical to designing effective interventions. International comparisons point to similar experiences at the level of the individual family. This article examines the factors that may contribute to a young person becoming NEET and appl…
Cultural studies and anthropology
Learning through evaluation – A tentative evaluative scheme for sustainability transition experiments
Transition Experiments: Opening Up Low-Carbon Transition Pathways for Canada through Innovation and Learning
Canada is embarking on a low-carbon energy transition that will involve the diffusion of innovations and the reconfiguration of energy systems. This article examines the potential contribution that transition experiments can make to this process. Transition experiments can be understood as deliberate interventions that test novel configurations of social and technical elements that could lead to substantial low-carbon change. The analysis suggest…
I'm not just a number on a sheet, I’m a person’: Domiciliary care, self and getting older
Social care funding is reducing in spite of a growing older population. Within this context, domiciliary services are increasingly failing to deliver care that respects the individuality and heterogeneity of older people. To date, there has been limited research in the U.K. that explores, from the older person's perspective, how care practices interact with self. Using biographical-narrative methodology, this study takes a constructionist approac…
Acceptance, obedience and resistance: Children's perceptions of street trading in Nigeria
Street trading is an under‐researched form of child labour. This study explores experiences of children aged 10–15 in Nigeria, using interviews and focus groups. Children largely accepted the need to contribute economically to the family, as well as their own school expenses. Trading was demanding, and there were hidden costs, such as reduced school attendance, but an emphasis on obedience made challenge difficult. Children felt resistance, but k…
Building parliamentary capacities for advancing the disaster risk reduction agenda: Notes and reflections from a capacity-building field training for parliamentarians of the Americas and the Caribbean
Pluralizing Debates on the Anthropocene Requires Engaging with the Diversity of Existing Scholarship
A recent article in this journal (Jackson 2021 Jackson, M. 2021. On decolonizing the Anthropocene: Disobedience via plural constitutions. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 111 (3):698–708. doi: 10.1080/24694452.2020.1779645.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) validly emphasized that debates about the Anthropocene need to recognize a diverse range of perspectives, worldviews, and forms of knowledge. In…
Delivering trauma-informed outreach to women involved in street-based prostitution: Enablers and Barriers
The social work profession recognises the value of trauma-informed care for women with multiple disadvantage. For women involved in street-based prostitution this is mostly descriptive in nature with limited practice-based investigation. Guided by the principles of qualitative feminist research, this article explores the enablers and barriers in delivering trauma-informed outreach to women involved in street-based prostitution. Semi-structured in…
Building capacity for sustainability transformations through transdisciplinary experimentation: Empirical evidence from a novel methodology deployed in 7 countries
In 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) established that global greenhouse gas emissions trajectories are not on track to limiting warming to less than 2 ° C above pre-industrial averages (IPCC 2022a). Given that broader progress towards ambitious climate change and sustainability goals remains incremental, a whole-of-society approach, including transformative innovation in the private sector, is required to trigger the nece…
Toward a Canadian agenda for sustainability transition research
Sustainability transitions research has expanded well beyond its original empirical settings, yet questions remain about how transition perspectives can be meaningfully translated across political economies with distinctive configurations of institutional, geographic, environmental, and historical characteristics. In Canada, these questions are especially salient, as political-economic particularities both complicate the application of transition…
Political science (14 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (13 works) · Business (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Climate change (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Geography (7 works)