Sophie Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3648925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sophie Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sophie |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5122-9492 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Understanding supported self‐management for people living with a lower‐grade glioma
BACKGROUND: Supported self-management can improve clinical and psychosocial outcomes in people with cancer; the considerations required to implement self-management support (SMS) for people living with a lower-grade glioma (LGG)-who often have complex support needs-are not known. We aimed to identify and understand these implementation considerations through the lens of normalisation process theory (NPT), from the perspectives of healthcare profe…
Voices in a pandemic
Children's sense of place is important for wellbeing, development and belonging in a community or place. The VIP-CLEAR (Voices in a Pandemic – Children's Lockdown Experiences Applied to Recovery) project used creative methods and repeat engagement to capture children's experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in socially disadvantaged, urban settings, in Bristol, UK. This paper focuses on findings from the two-phased 'deep mapping' activity conducted…
A Constant Black Cloud
Those closest to people with lower-grade gliomas (LGGs) often assume the role of informal caregiver (IC). The additional responsibilities mean ICs of people with cancer can experience adverse impacts on their own lives. We explored the emotional impact of informal caregiving for people with LGGs. This was a descriptive qualitative study within the multi-method Ways Ahead project. We conducted semi-structured interviews with individuals from the U…
An interview with Dr Michael Larkin
Michael Larkin is a Reader in the School of Psychology at Aston University and is perhaps best known for his contribution to the development of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Michael, along with co-authors Jonathan Smith and Paul Flowers, recently published the second edition of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: Theory, Method and Research (2022). In the interview, Michael was asked about his personal journey within qualitative…
Development of a Training Set of Contemporary Salt-Marsh Foraminifera for Late Holocene Sea- Level Reconstructions in southeastern Australia
We collected contemporary foraminiferal training sets from two salt marshes to enable more precise and accurate proxy historical sea-level reconstructions from southeastern Australia. Combined with an existing training set from Tasmania, this new regional set consists of 112 samples and 16 species of foraminifera, of which 13 are agglutinated. Cluster analyses group the regional training set into a high–elevation cluster, dominated by Trochammini…
Dispositive analysis – Overview and proposed approach
Traditionally, discourse analysis methodologies such as the Foucauldian discourse analysis have had a linguistic focus. However, apart from the discursive form, knowledge is also built into and transmitted through non-discursive means, such as actions and object materialisations. The dispositive is a heterogenous ensemble of speech, action and object materialisations, linked by a common thread of knowledge, acting as a single unit to fulfil a str…
Seeking Evidence for a Welsh Progressive Consensus
This article provides a detailed analysis of the policy positions advocated by the five political parties that won seats in the 2016 elections to the National Assembly for Wales (Welsh Labour; Plaid Cymru; the Welsh Conservatives; United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and the Welsh Liberal Democrats). It takes advantage of a unique dataset of party positions and justifications created for a Voter Advice Application website that ran during the …
Purebloods and mudbloods
The contentious nature of national identity has been welldocumented, and the difficulties and challenges associated with self-understanding, particularly in a ‘stateless nation’ context, have undergone profound scholarly exploration. As part of this exploration, the idea of ‘multiple identities’ is prominent; one nation member can simultaneously hold a number of ideas, for example, Welsh and British. This had also led scholars to suggest that the…
Devolution and identity
In an era of Brexit and on-going constitutional debates in the UK, questions around devolution and national identifications currently attract scholarly attention as never before. This article focusses on national identification in two devolved regions, Wales and Northern Ireland, never before compared in this way, to explore how devolution can act in a fluid and multidirectional way to produce differing framings of national identification. Using …
The Politics of Welshness
The advent of Welsh devolution has thrown questions around national identity and its politicisation into sharp relief, the causal links between the development of autonomous government and levels of self-identification as Welsh explored as never before. This article examines this phenomenon through analysis of the arguments of Bradbury and Andrews (2010, Parliamentary Affairs, 63, 229–249). It agrees with their argument that the politicisation of…
Alien invasions and livelihoods
Cillian McGrattan
It is a brave scholar who attempts to change an all-pervasive narrative, to challenge accepted paradigms found not only in politics, but deeply embedded throughout academic, media, and popular disc
Legal Issues Associated with the Study of Sexual Content on the Internet in Australia
Scholarly recognition of the research potentials of the Internet has resulted in a growing interest in using computer-mediated communication to study different aspects of human sexuality. Although there is a growing literature on the ethical issues associated with Internet-based research1, little attention has been given to the legal issues associated with conducting scholarly research on Internet sexual content. This lacuna stands in contrast to…
It's about Bang for Your Buck, Bro
Studies of sexuality and the Internet have focused on how the web provides individuals with opportunities to perform new sexual acts and establish new sexual communities, thus challenging heteronormative models of sexuality. But Internet bulletin boards and chat rooms can also provide a medium for the recuperation and performance of forms of hetereosexual masculinity that have become marginalised and rendered unacceptable in the offline world. Fa…
It's about Bang for Your Buck, Bro
Studies of sexuality and the Internet have focused on how the web provides individuals with opportunities to perform new sexual acts and establish new sexual communities, thus challenging heteronormative models of sexuality. But Internet bulletin boards and chat rooms can also provide a medium for the recuperation and performance of forms of hetereosexual masculinity that have become marginalised and rendered unacceptable in the offline world. Fa…
Voices in a pandemic
Children's sense of place is important for wellbeing, development and belonging in a community or place. The VIP-CLEAR (Voices in a Pandemic – Children's Lockdown Experiences Applied to Recovery) project used creative methods and repeat engagement to capture children's experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in socially disadvantaged, urban settings, in Bristol, UK. This paper focuses on findings from the two-phased 'deep mapping' activity conducted…
Development of a Training Set of Contemporary Salt-Marsh Foraminifera for Late Holocene Sea- Level Reconstructions in southeastern Australia
We collected contemporary foraminiferal training sets from two salt marshes to enable more precise and accurate proxy historical sea-level reconstructions from southeastern Australia. Combined with an existing training set from Tasmania, this new regional set consists of 112 samples and 16 species of foraminifera, of which 13 are agglutinated. Cluster analyses group the regional training set into a high–elevation cluster, dominated by Trochammini…
Devolution and identity
In an era of Brexit and on-going constitutional debates in the UK, questions around devolution and national identifications currently attract scholarly attention as never before. This article focusses on national identification in two devolved regions, Wales and Northern Ireland, never before compared in this way, to explore how devolution can act in a fluid and multidirectional way to produce differing framings of national identification. Using …
The Politics of Welshness
The advent of Welsh devolution has thrown questions around national identity and its politicisation into sharp relief, the causal links between the development of autonomous government and levels of self-identification as Welsh explored as never before. This article examines this phenomenon through analysis of the arguments of Bradbury and Andrews (2010, Parliamentary Affairs, 63, 229–249). It agrees with their argument that the politicisation of…
Legal Issues Associated with the Study of Sexual Content on the Internet in Australia
Scholarly recognition of the research potentials of the Internet has resulted in a growing interest in using computer-mediated communication to study different aspects of human sexuality. Although there is a growing literature on the ethical issues associated with Internet-based research1, little attention has been given to the legal issues associated with conducting scholarly research on Internet sexual content. This lacuna stands in contrast to…
It's about Bang for Your Buck, Bro
Studies of sexuality and the Internet have focused on how the web provides individuals with opportunities to perform new sexual acts and establish new sexual communities, thus challenging heteronormative models of sexuality. But Internet bulletin boards and chat rooms can also provide a medium for the recuperation and performance of forms of hetereosexual masculinity that have become marginalised and rendered unacceptable in the offline world. Fa…
Legal Issues Associated with the Study of Sexual Content on the Internet in Australia
Scholarly recognition of the research potentials of the Internet has resulted in a growing interest in using computer-mediated communication to study different aspects of human sexuality. Although there is a growing literature on the ethical issues associated with Internet-based research1, little attention has been given to the legal issues associated with conducting scholarly research on Internet sexual content. This lacuna stands in contrast to…
Cillian McGrattan
It is a brave scholar who attempts to change an all-pervasive narrative, to challenge accepted paradigms found not only in politics, but deeply embedded throughout academic, media, and popular disc
Alien invasions and livelihoods
Purebloods and mudbloods
The contentious nature of national identity has been welldocumented, and the difficulties and challenges associated with self-understanding, particularly in a ‘stateless nation’ context, have undergone profound scholarly exploration. As part of this exploration, the idea of ‘multiple identities’ is prominent; one nation member can simultaneously hold a number of ideas, for example, Welsh and British. This had also led scholars to suggest that the…
Devolution and identity
In an era of Brexit and on-going constitutional debates in the UK, questions around devolution and national identifications currently attract scholarly attention as never before. This article focusses on national identification in two devolved regions, Wales and Northern Ireland, never before compared in this way, to explore how devolution can act in a fluid and multidirectional way to produce differing framings of national identification. Using …
The Politics of Welshness
The advent of Welsh devolution has thrown questions around national identity and its politicisation into sharp relief, the causal links between the development of autonomous government and levels of self-identification as Welsh explored as never before. This article examines this phenomenon through analysis of the arguments of Bradbury and Andrews (2010, Parliamentary Affairs, 63, 229–249). It agrees with their argument that the politicisation of…
Seeking Evidence for a Welsh Progressive Consensus
This article provides a detailed analysis of the policy positions advocated by the five political parties that won seats in the 2016 elections to the National Assembly for Wales (Welsh Labour; Plaid Cymru; the Welsh Conservatives; United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and the Welsh Liberal Democrats). It takes advantage of a unique dataset of party positions and justifications created for a Voter Advice Application website that ran during the …
Dispositive analysis – Overview and proposed approach
Traditionally, discourse analysis methodologies such as the Foucauldian discourse analysis have had a linguistic focus. However, apart from the discursive form, knowledge is also built into and transmitted through non-discursive means, such as actions and object materialisations. The dispositive is a heterogenous ensemble of speech, action and object materialisations, linked by a common thread of knowledge, acting as a single unit to fulfil a str…
Development of a Training Set of Contemporary Salt-Marsh Foraminifera for Late Holocene Sea- Level Reconstructions in southeastern Australia
We collected contemporary foraminiferal training sets from two salt marshes to enable more precise and accurate proxy historical sea-level reconstructions from southeastern Australia. Combined with an existing training set from Tasmania, this new regional set consists of 112 samples and 16 species of foraminifera, of which 13 are agglutinated. Cluster analyses group the regional training set into a high–elevation cluster, dominated by Trochammini…
An interview with Dr Michael Larkin
Michael Larkin is a Reader in the School of Psychology at Aston University and is perhaps best known for his contribution to the development of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Michael, along with co-authors Jonathan Smith and Paul Flowers, recently published the second edition of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: Theory, Method and Research (2022). In the interview, Michael was asked about his personal journey within qualitative…
Understanding supported self‐management for people living with a lower‐grade glioma
BACKGROUND: Supported self-management can improve clinical and psychosocial outcomes in people with cancer; the considerations required to implement self-management support (SMS) for people living with a lower-grade glioma (LGG)-who often have complex support needs-are not known. We aimed to identify and understand these implementation considerations through the lens of normalisation process theory (NPT), from the perspectives of healthcare profe…
Voices in a pandemic
Children's sense of place is important for wellbeing, development and belonging in a community or place. The VIP-CLEAR (Voices in a Pandemic – Children's Lockdown Experiences Applied to Recovery) project used creative methods and repeat engagement to capture children's experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in socially disadvantaged, urban settings, in Bristol, UK. This paper focuses on findings from the two-phased 'deep mapping' activity conducted…
A Constant Black Cloud
Those closest to people with lower-grade gliomas (LGGs) often assume the role of informal caregiver (IC). The additional responsibilities mean ICs of people with cancer can experience adverse impacts on their own lives. We explored the emotional impact of informal caregiving for people with LGGs. This was a descriptive qualitative study within the multi-method Ways Ahead project. We conducted semi-structured interviews with individuals from the U…
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