Margaret O’brien
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3650577 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Margaret O’brien |
| NOMBRES | Margaret |
| APELLIDO | O’brien |
| FIRMA | O’BRIEN M |
| AFILIACIONES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9306-6871 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 456 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Special Educators’ Experiences Navigating Tensions When Serving Students Labeled With Emotional/Behavioral Disorders
Special educators often work in school contexts that are not oriented toward their students’ strengths and needs, resulting in tension–misalignment between their responsibility to students and their schools’ resources and expectations. Using grounded theory, we explored five U.S. teachers’ experiences of tension when serving students labeled with emotional/behavioral disorders in self-contained classes. We found teachers experienced tensions rega…
Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children
Fuelled by the tobacco industry, commercial tobacco use is a major cause of preventable morbidity and mortality among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Preventing adolescent smoking initiation is critical to reducing uptake. Understanding individual, social, and environmental factors that are protective against smoking can inform prevention strategies. We analysed data from adolescents 12–15 years and their caregivers from Wave 11 (2…
Footprints in time
Electronic cigarette (e-cigarettes or vapes) use is becoming increasingly common, including among adolescents aged 12–15 years, who are often targeted through marketing and flavoured products. We aimed to investigate associations between individual, social, and environmental factors and e-cigarette never-use (hereafter referred to as never-use) among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents in 2018. This was a cross-sectional analysis of…
Young children's lives in East London through the pandemic
Children's lives in the Covid‐19 pandemic were subject to unparalleled restrictions on and disruption to their daily lives. This paper explores the day‐to‐day relational, social participation and activities of young children in one East London borough in early 2021, as told through qualitative interviews with their parents. We adopt a social‐ecological model of children's development, a child rights focused understanding of well‐being, underpinne…
What about the dads?’ Linking fathers and children in administrative data
Research has shown that paternal involvement positively impacts on child health and development. We aimed to develop a conceptual model of dimensions of fatherhood, identify and categorise methods used for linking fathers with their children in administrative data, and map these methods onto the dimensions of fatherhood. We carried out a systematic scoping review to create a conceptual framework of paternal involvement and identify studies explor…
What Family Circumstances, During Covid-19, Impact on Parental Mental Health in an Inner City Community in London
The introduction of lockdown due to a public health emergency in March 2020 marked the beginning of substantial changes to daily life for all families with young children. Here we report the experience of families from London Borough of Tower Hamlets with high rates of poverty and ethnic and linguistic diversity. This inner city community, like communities worldwide, has experienced a reduction or closure in access to education, support services,…
When Does Expanded Eligibility Translate into Increased Take-Up? An Examination of Parental Leave Policy in Luxembourg
This article aims to explore the role of eligibility for parental leave as a determinant of access and as an enabler of leave take-up. To analyse the link between eligibility and take-up, we study a unique policy change in Luxembourg’s parental leave scheme. The country’s 2016 parental leave reform relaxed the eligibility criteria to enable marginal part-time working parents to access the parental leave scheme for the first time. We focus on this…
Legal pluralism and stigma
This paper explores the complex iteration of ethnic identity and legal culture amongst the Chakma peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh and the hill territories of Tripura, India. Its hypothesis is that the stigma of tribal identity is more likely to be sustained in situations of ‘weak’ pluralism – that is, where the customary system is formally annexed to the state. However, such stigma is more likely to be dispelled where numerous…
The everyman cinema, hampstead
This article examines the role of one of the first arthouse cinemas in London, the Everyman in Hampstead. A detailed local study, it also explores the wider context of cinema in Britain in the 1930s when an art film culture was being formed and developed. It argues that the Everyman, albeit one small cinema, was a significant agent in the creation of this new culture. It argues that the particularities of place contributed to the distinctive iden…
Fathers' Perceptions of the Availability of Flexible Working Arrangements
A conditional right to request flexible working arrangements (FWAs) has existed for most UK employee parents since 2003. However, there are growing concerns about access, particularly among fathers. Using nationally representative data from the 2015 UK Household Longitudinal Survey, this article examines fathers' perceptions of the availability of hours reduction, schedule flexibility and working from home. Results show that almost one-third of f…
The impact of focused attention on emotional evaluation
Emotional well-being depends on the ability to successfully engage a variety of coping strategies to regulate affective responses. Most studies have investigated the effectiveness of emotion regulation (ER) strategies that are deployed relatively later in the timing of processing that leads to full emotional experiences (i.e. reappraisal and suppression). Strategies engaged in earlier stages of emotion processing, such as those involved in attent…
Comparación del impacto de los valores de género en el trabajo no remunerado en dos tipos de Estado del Bienestar
Este trabajo tiene como objetivo comparar la brecha entre los valores de género y la práctica doméstica en el Reino Unido y España. Los datos se obtuvieron de una muestra de encuestados británicos y españoles, hombres y mujeres, en el módulo “Familia y cambio de roles de género” del Programa Internacional de Encuestas Sociales (ISSP 2002; 2012) y se utilizaron para crear modelos multivariantes utilizando técnicas de regresión de mínimos cuadra…
Fathers' Leave Take-Up in Finland
Despite being the first country in the world to introduce paternity leave in 1978, Finland's current national leave scheme is complex with regard to incentivizing fathers' take-up. Taking the unique Finnish leave scheme as a case example, this article examines fathers' motivations and barriers to leave. Although research on fathers' take-up of leave in divergent leave policy contexts has increased dramatically, fathers' motivations and barriers t…
Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging; Family; Gender Studies
Are interventions supporting separated parents father inclusive? Insights and challenges from a review of programme implementation and impact
This paper reviews divorce‐related parenting programmes, assessing the extent to which fathers are included and whether father inclusion influences outcomes. The paper also discusses limitations of the research evidence and implications for future intervention and evaluation design. Thirteen programmes met the criteria in the review period 2005–2012 but only four had been evaluated using randomized control trials or with independent measures from…
Britain's slow movement to a gender egalitarian equilibrium
This article examines the working lives of British couple families across the first decade of the millennium using EU Labour Force Survey data (2001-13) taking a multiple equilibria approach. Some growth in dual full-time earners, increased working hours of mothers in part-time employment and a growing proportion of households with 'non-standard' working patterns are all identified, suggesting both a convergence and greater diversity in economic …
Who are Non-Resident Fathers
Despite international growth of, and policy interest in, divorce and separation since the 1970s, there is still surprisingly little known about non-residential fatherhood. This paper presents a 'father-centric' analysis and provides one of the first profiles of non-residential fatherhood in early millennium UK. Using data from Understanding Society Wave 1, a nationally representative survey of over 30,000 households in the UK, we found 1,070 men …
Being modern and modest
With the rise of multiculturalism in Britain the visibility of religion, in particularly Islam, has increased. A growing religious diversity has created new contexts and affected young people’s identity and transitions to adulthood. This article applies and extends Bourdieu’s theory of habitus and social fields to a new area: the study of how South Asian young Muslims living in England negotiate between the Muslim and British aspects of their ide…
Dynamics of parental leave in Anglophone countries
This paper evaluates parental leave policies across six Anglophone countries (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK and the USA) to assess system fit with a liberal welfare regime classification. The focus is on comparison within welfare regime classification (rather than between regimes), enabling complexity and variation to be explored. The comparative policy analysis uses national government and international Organization for Economi…
Fathers and teenage daughters in Shanghai
Explicit display of emotion has not been a central part of fatherhood cultural norms in China. Historically a strict, emotionally remote and authoritarian father figure has been favored. Through a study of fathers and teenage daughters aged 13–17 conducted in Shanghai during 2008–2009, this paper explores the extent to which new norms and practices of emotionally involved or intimate fatherhood, emergent in Western societies, are present in Chine…
Islamic Capital' and Family Life
Much sociological research using Bourdieu's theory to analyse intergenerational reproduction tends to focus on the educational rather than the familial aspect of this process. Instead, this article explores habitus and the family field within South Asian Muslim communities in the UK as the site of intergenerational transmission and seeks to understand how these parents pass on values to their children. Based on 52 semi-structured interviews with …
Fitting fathers into work‐family policies
Purpose This paper aims to examine the international challenges of fitting fathers into work‐family policies at a time of global economic turbulence. Design/methodology/approach The paper's design is a comparative policy analysis approach using international working time, paternity, maternity and parental leave data from selected rich, middle and poorer income nations. Leave policies are examined in relation to the place of fathers in the work‐fa…
Uterine contractility of plants used to facilitate childbirth in Nigerian ethnomedicine
The folkloric use of several plant species during childbirth in Nigeria has been validated. Seven plants were for the first time characterized to have contractile properties on uterine myometrial cells. The results serve as ideal starting points in the search for safe, longer lasting, effective and tolerable uterotonic drug leads
Fathers, Work and Family Policies in Europe
Transformations on the ground
Lauded by the World Bank for its “strong and stable growth” Botswana has, ostensibly, beaten an enviable path from Africa’s poorest nation at independence in 1966 to a poster-child for neo-liberal
What matters? What does not? Five perspectives on the association between marital transitions and children's adjustment
Fathers, Parental Leave Policies, and Infant Quality of Life
Infant care is no longer purely a private family matter. As more mothers return to paid employment in their child's first year, governments develop provisions to support working parents with very young children. Statutory parental leave and flexible working provisions for fathers are expanding rapidly, particularly in Europe. The author compares fathers' patterns of leave-taking across twenty-four countries from 2003 to 2007 to present new types …
Fathers, Work and Family Life
This paper presents a policy analysis of fathers' use of paternity leave, parental leave and flexible work practices across several industrialised countries. From the late 1990s there has been a rapid expansion of leave and flexible working provision targeted at fathers, especially in the Nordic countries. New evidence on predictors and patterns of fathers' leave taking are reviewed. Findings suggest that paternal leave taking has the potential t…
Children's Independent Spatial Mobility in the Urban Public Realm
This article examines children's spatial mobility in urban settings. Through data from a study of children living in contrasting urban environments, London and a lower-density new town, the article focuses on how children move around in the public realm. The data show that there are significant variations in how contemporary children use their public spaces. Children's freedom to move around their neighbourhood was greatest in the new town. Girls…
Dynamics of parental leave in Anglophone countries
This paper evaluates parental leave policies across six Anglophone countries (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK and the USA) to assess system fit with a liberal welfare regime classification. The focus is on comparison within welfare regime classification (rather than between regimes), enabling complexity and variation to be explored. The comparative policy analysis uses national government and international Organization for Economi…
Britain's slow movement to a gender egalitarian equilibrium
This article examines the working lives of British couple families across the first decade of the millennium using EU Labour Force Survey data (2001-13) taking a multiple equilibria approach. Some growth in dual full-time earners, increased working hours of mothers in part-time employment and a growing proportion of households with 'non-standard' working patterns are all identified, suggesting both a convergence and greater diversity in economic …
Childhood and the Sociological Gaze
Islamic Capital' and Family Life
Much sociological research using Bourdieu's theory to analyse intergenerational reproduction tends to focus on the educational rather than the familial aspect of this process. Instead, this article explores habitus and the family field within South Asian Muslim communities in the UK as the site of intergenerational transmission and seeks to understand how these parents pass on values to their children. Based on 52 semi-structured interviews with …
Fathers' Leave Take-Up in Finland
Despite being the first country in the world to introduce paternity leave in 1978, Finland's current national leave scheme is complex with regard to incentivizing fathers' take-up. Taking the unique Finnish leave scheme as a case example, this article examines fathers' motivations and barriers to leave. Although research on fathers' take-up of leave in divergent leave policy contexts has increased dramatically, fathers' motivations and barriers t…
Fitting fathers into work‐family policies
Purpose This paper aims to examine the international challenges of fitting fathers into work‐family policies at a time of global economic turbulence. Design/methodology/approach The paper's design is a comparative policy analysis approach using international working time, paternity, maternity and parental leave data from selected rich, middle and poorer income nations. Leave policies are examined in relation to the place of fathers in the work‐fa…
Gender and survival vs. death in slasher films
Fathers' Perceptions of the Availability of Flexible Working Arrangements
A conditional right to request flexible working arrangements (FWAs) has existed for most UK employee parents since 2003. However, there are growing concerns about access, particularly among fathers. Using nationally representative data from the 2015 UK Household Longitudinal Survey, this article examines fathers' perceptions of the availability of hours reduction, schedule flexibility and working from home. Results show that almost one-third of f…
Being modern and modest
With the rise of multiculturalism in Britain the visibility of religion, in particularly Islam, has increased. A growing religious diversity has created new contexts and affected young people’s identity and transitions to adulthood. This article applies and extends Bourdieu’s theory of habitus and social fields to a new area: the study of how South Asian young Muslims living in England negotiate between the Muslim and British aspects of their ide…
Who are Non-Resident Fathers
Despite international growth of, and policy interest in, divorce and separation since the 1970s, there is still surprisingly little known about non-residential fatherhood. This paper presents a 'father-centric' analysis and provides one of the first profiles of non-residential fatherhood in early millennium UK. Using data from Understanding Society Wave 1, a nationally representative survey of over 30,000 households in the UK, we found 1,070 men …
Allocation of Resources in Households
This paper incorporates children's perspectives on the issue of resource distribution in households. It is part of a relatively new trend of sociological explorations into childhood. The paper aims to review earlier studies and literature on children's access to money, food, space and time. The data illuminates norms governing distributive justice between adults and children in families
Muslim Communities in Europe
This article introduces issues relevant to the presence of Muslims in Europe. While European nations are still in the process of acknowledging the diversity and rich cultural heritages of Muslim communities, Muslims are adjusting to living as minorities within a non-Muslim society. The predominant `us'/`other' dichotomy embedded in historical and political encounters has raised significant issues affecting mutual integration and acceptance. On th…
Transformations on the ground
Lauded by the World Bank for its “strong and stable growth” Botswana has, ostensibly, beaten an enviable path from Africa’s poorest nation at independence in 1966 to a poster-child for neo-liberal
Fathers and teenage daughters in Shanghai
Explicit display of emotion has not been a central part of fatherhood cultural norms in China. Historically a strict, emotionally remote and authoritarian father figure has been favored. Through a study of fathers and teenage daughters aged 13–17 conducted in Shanghai during 2008–2009, this paper explores the extent to which new norms and practices of emotionally involved or intimate fatherhood, emergent in Western societies, are present in Chine…
Lone Fathers
In Britain the number of male headed single parent families has increased from 70,000 in 1971 to 90,000 in 1976. Fifty-one lone fathers, who had fulltime care of their five to eleven yearold children after marital separation, were interviewed using a structured schedule. The men's transitions from both the married to separated state and from nuclear to lone fatherhood were examined. The marital rather than the familial transition appeared to be m…
Comparación del impacto de los valores de género en el trabajo no remunerado en dos tipos de Estado del Bienestar
Este trabajo tiene como objetivo comparar la brecha entre los valores de género y la práctica doméstica en el Reino Unido y España. Los datos se obtuvieron de una muestra de encuestados británicos y españoles, hombres y mujeres, en el módulo “Familia y cambio de roles de género” del Programa Internacional de Encuestas Sociales (ISSP 2002; 2012) y se utilizaron para crear modelos multivariantes utilizando técnicas de regresión de mínimos cuadra…
Pediatric nurse associates in a large official health agency
During 1974, 29 pediatric nurse associates and 15 pediatric nurse associate trainees worked in the child health care system of the New York City Department of Health. All of these nurse associates, formerly public health nurses from the Department of Health, were trained in a one-year, intensive, closely supervised didactic and clinical course. Within the child health units the nurse associates assumed clinical roles in the care of well and sick …
Lone Fathers
In Britain the number of male headed single parent families has increased from 70,000 in 1971 to 90,000 in 1976. Fifty-one lone fathers, who had fulltime care of their five to eleven yearold children after marital separation, were interviewed using a structured schedule. The men's transitions from both the married to separated state and from nuclear to lone fatherhood were examined. The marital rather than the familial transition appeared to be m…
The Father Figure
The Father Figure
Evading the War
Gender and survival vs. death in slasher films
Allocation of Resources in Households
This paper incorporates children's perspectives on the issue of resource distribution in households. It is part of a relatively new trend of sociological explorations into childhood. The paper aims to review earlier studies and literature on children's access to money, food, space and time. The data illuminates norms governing distributive justice between adults and children in families
Childhood and the Sociological Gaze
What matters? What does not? Five perspectives on the association between marital transitions and children's adjustment
Muslim Communities in Europe
This article introduces issues relevant to the presence of Muslims in Europe. While European nations are still in the process of acknowledging the diversity and rich cultural heritages of Muslim communities, Muslims are adjusting to living as minorities within a non-Muslim society. The predominant `us'/`other' dichotomy embedded in historical and political encounters has raised significant issues affecting mutual integration and acceptance. On th…
Children's Independent Spatial Mobility in the Urban Public Realm
This article examines children's spatial mobility in urban settings. Through data from a study of children living in contrasting urban environments, London and a lower-density new town, the article focuses on how children move around in the public realm. The data show that there are significant variations in how contemporary children use their public spaces. Children's freedom to move around their neighbourhood was greatest in the new town. Girls…
School breakfast clubs, children and family support
School breakfast clubs are a form of before school provision serving breakfast to children who arrive early. This paper explores their potential to provide support for families at risk of social exclusion. A national evaluation of a Department of Health pilot initiative suggests that their provision can afford valued support to families coping with varying degrees of difficulty in their material, environmental, relational and social circumstances…
Making Fathers Count
This commentary reviews recent methodological approaches to empirical investigations of hard-to-reach fathers. It suggests that the growing heterogeneity of fatherhood needs to be matched by a more flexible methodological tool-kit
Fathers, Work and Family Life
This paper presents a policy analysis of fathers' use of paternity leave, parental leave and flexible work practices across several industrialised countries. From the late 1990s there has been a rapid expansion of leave and flexible working provision targeted at fathers, especially in the Nordic countries. New evidence on predictors and patterns of fathers' leave taking are reviewed. Findings suggest that paternal leave taking has the potential t…
Do Integrated Children’s Services Improve Children’s Outcomes
Thirty‐five children’s trust pathfinders, local cross‐sector partnerships, were introduced across England in 2003 to promote greater integration in children’s services. Using administrative performance data, this paper tracks yearly trends in child service outputs and child well‐being outcomes from 1997 to 2004 in these local areas, including the period before their introduction. Professional perceptions of change in child outcomes are also prese…
Fathers, Parental Leave Policies, and Infant Quality of Life
Infant care is no longer purely a private family matter. As more mothers return to paid employment in their child's first year, governments develop provisions to support working parents with very young children. Statutory parental leave and flexible working provisions for fathers are expanding rapidly, particularly in Europe. The author compares fathers' patterns of leave-taking across twenty-four countries from 2003 to 2007 to present new types …
Uterine contractility of plants used to facilitate childbirth in Nigerian ethnomedicine
The folkloric use of several plant species during childbirth in Nigeria has been validated. Seven plants were for the first time characterized to have contractile properties on uterine myometrial cells. The results serve as ideal starting points in the search for safe, longer lasting, effective and tolerable uterotonic drug leads
Fitting fathers into work‐family policies
Purpose This paper aims to examine the international challenges of fitting fathers into work‐family policies at a time of global economic turbulence. Design/methodology/approach The paper's design is a comparative policy analysis approach using international working time, paternity, maternity and parental leave data from selected rich, middle and poorer income nations. Leave policies are examined in relation to the place of fathers in the work‐fa…
Fathers and teenage daughters in Shanghai
Explicit display of emotion has not been a central part of fatherhood cultural norms in China. Historically a strict, emotionally remote and authoritarian father figure has been favored. Through a study of fathers and teenage daughters aged 13–17 conducted in Shanghai during 2008–2009, this paper explores the extent to which new norms and practices of emotionally involved or intimate fatherhood, emergent in Western societies, are present in Chine…
Islamic Capital' and Family Life
Much sociological research using Bourdieu's theory to analyse intergenerational reproduction tends to focus on the educational rather than the familial aspect of this process. Instead, this article explores habitus and the family field within South Asian Muslim communities in the UK as the site of intergenerational transmission and seeks to understand how these parents pass on values to their children. Based on 52 semi-structured interviews with …
Being modern and modest
With the rise of multiculturalism in Britain the visibility of religion, in particularly Islam, has increased. A growing religious diversity has created new contexts and affected young people’s identity and transitions to adulthood. This article applies and extends Bourdieu’s theory of habitus and social fields to a new area: the study of how South Asian young Muslims living in England negotiate between the Muslim and British aspects of their ide…
Dynamics of parental leave in Anglophone countries
This paper evaluates parental leave policies across six Anglophone countries (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK and the USA) to assess system fit with a liberal welfare regime classification. The focus is on comparison within welfare regime classification (rather than between regimes), enabling complexity and variation to be explored. The comparative policy analysis uses national government and international Organization for Economi…
Britain's slow movement to a gender egalitarian equilibrium
This article examines the working lives of British couple families across the first decade of the millennium using EU Labour Force Survey data (2001-13) taking a multiple equilibria approach. Some growth in dual full-time earners, increased working hours of mothers in part-time employment and a growing proportion of households with 'non-standard' working patterns are all identified, suggesting both a convergence and greater diversity in economic …
Who are Non-Resident Fathers
Despite international growth of, and policy interest in, divorce and separation since the 1970s, there is still surprisingly little known about non-residential fatherhood. This paper presents a 'father-centric' analysis and provides one of the first profiles of non-residential fatherhood in early millennium UK. Using data from Understanding Society Wave 1, a nationally representative survey of over 30,000 households in the UK, we found 1,070 men …
Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging; Family; Gender Studies
Psychology (28 obras) · Sociology (24 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (13 obras) · Developmental psychology (11 obras) · Medicine (11 obras) · Economics (10 obras) · Demographic economics (9 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras) · Law (9 obras)