Fiona Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fiona Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fiona |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brunel University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8375-3870 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 463 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Navigating workforce challenges and strategies for sustainable mental health inpatient services—perspectives from Victoria’s public mental health sector
BACKGROUND: This article explores the critical challenges faced by the mental health workforce in Victoria, Australia’s inpatient services, and outlines strategies for workforce planning and development essential to sustaining inpatient mental health care. By analysing submissions to the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System (RCVMHS), the article highlights the barriers and enablers identified by publicly funded mental health serv…
Transformative Mental Health Social Work Practice: What, When and With Whom Do We Learn
Purpose: Transformative mental health social work fosters participatory processes towards emancipatory changes in services and systems, addressing societal barriers to inclusion, equity, and full citizenship. This study examined how transformative practices aligned with United Nations’ calls for change/reform toward person-centered, rights-based mental health recovery across both Canada and Australia, are learned. Method: Using co-operative inqui…
Transformative Mental Health Social Work Practice: What, When, and with Whom Do We Learn
Transformative mental health social work fosters participatory processes that drive emancipatory changes in services and systems, addressing societal barriers to inclusion, equity, and full citizenship. This study explored how transformative practices, aligned with United Nations' calls for reform toward person-centred, rights-based mental health recovery across Canada and Australia, are learned. Using co-operative inquiry, the research captures …
Destabilising the home: Place Making, Dark Tourism and the Spectral
Mental Health Social Work Practice: Navigating Tensions
The United Nations Special Rapporteur has called for ‘a revolution in mental health care to end decades of neglect, abuse and violence...enabl[ing] a long overdue shift to a rights-based approach’ (United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, 2017). Principles underpinning social work practice with people living with mental distress who receive diagnoses such as schizophrenia, personality disorders and bipolar disorder, align with…
Teaching Mental Health Social Work: What Are We Preparing Students for
The Australian social work course accreditation standards aim to ensure graduates have an understanding of the social, cultural, and political structures that influence psychosocial wellbeing. Unlike the previous standards, the current standards do not require the curricula to address specific knowledge and skills for working with people who live with severe mental distress or mental health conditions that might result in diagnoses such as schizo…
Factors Influencing Social Work Identity in Mental Health Placements
This article shares findings from a study that explored factors contributing to the development of a social work professional identity, with a particular focus on social work students undertaking field education placements in mental health settings. Social work identity is not well recognised or articulated by experienced practitioners, nor does it appear to be adequately emphasised in social work education and training programmes. There is limit…
Building community resilience in a context of climate change: The role of social capital
Social capital is considered important for resilience across social levels, including communities, yet insights are scattered across disciplines. This meta-synthesis of 187 studies examines conceptual and empirical understandings of how social capital relates to resilience, identifying implications for community resilience and climate change practice. Different conceptualisations are highlighted, yet also limited focus on underlying dimensions of…
Engaging with Transformative Paradigms in Mental Health
When graduates of Australian social work courses embark on a career in mental health, the systems they enter are complex, fragmented and evolving. Emerging practitioners will commonly be confronted by the loneliness, social exclusion, poverty and prejudice experienced by people living with mental distress; however, social work practice may not be focused on these factors. Instead, in accordance with the dominant biomedical perspective, symptom an…
Social dynamics of community resilience building in the face of climate change: The case of three Scottish communities
The humanistic burden of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in Europe: A real-world survey linking patient clinical factors to patient and caregiver burden
As patients' functionality deteriorates as measured by the ECOG-PS, so do their outcomes related to health utility, work productivity, activity impairment and HRQoL. This deterioration is also reflected in increased caregiver burden and activity impairment. There is a need for interventions to maintain patients' physical function to relieve the humanistic burden of both patients and caregivers
Improving the Cancer Journey: A Collaborative Model of Integrated Care in a Community Setting
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Charting a New Course for the United Kingdom Agri‐Food Sector— Health and Harmony: The Future for Food, Farming and the Environment in a Green Brexit
Refiguring the Geopolitical Landscape: Nation, ‘Transition’ and Gendered Subjects in Post-Cold War Germany
Diversely gendered experiences of post-unification Germany are examined in relation to dominant neo-liberal scripts of post-Cold War restructuring and the tropes of ‘East’ and ‘West’ underpinning reunification. This provides a possible framework for feminist geopolitics where geopolitics are ‘refigured’ in three ways: assessing the relation of gender to the discursive practices of geopolitics; addressing the use and contestation of geopolitical d…
Emotional States: Sites and spaces of affective governance
What is the political allure, value and currency of emotions within contemporary cultures of governance? What does it mean to govern more humanely? Since the emergence of an emotional turn in human geography over the last decade, the notion that our emotions matter in understanding an array of social practices, spatial formations and aspects of everyday life is no longer seen as controversial. This book brings recent developments in emotional geo…
It's good but it's not enough: The Relational Geographies of Social Policy and Youth Mentoring Interventions
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Social and Cultural Geography on 18 Feb 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2016.1147059
Natural resources and global value chains: What role for the WTO
Natural resources are critical to global value chains as minerals, good climate and fertile soil are commonly required for the beginning of the chain, with the consequence that any interruption in their supply threatens the chain's continued integrity. Trade in such resources provides a valuable source of income for resource-rich states. Yet exploitation of natural resources can result in their exhaustion and biodiversity loss, while their extrac…
Ethics of care across professional and everyday positionalities: The (un)expected impacts of participatory video with young female carers in Slovakia
The paper offers a critical intervention into the debates on research impact, theorising the potential of underpinning research agendas by ethics of care. We explore how a range of vectors of care, both intimate and distant, emerged in collaborative activities between researchers based in the UK and community youth workers and teenage female carers in Slovakia, leading to a series of (un)expected outcomes. We argue that while all research impacts…
Evaluation of a cooking skills programme in parents of young children – a longitudinal study
Objective To evaluate longitudinally the effectiveness of a cooking programme on self-reported confidence about cooking skills and food consumption patterns in parents of young children. Design An evaluation of cooking programmes delivered by National Health Service (NHS) community food workers using a single group pre-test/post-test repeated measures design. A shortened version of a validated questionnaire at baseline, post intervention and 1-ye…
Food Security and Agri‐Foreign Direct Investment in Weak States: Finding the Governance Gap to Avoid ‘Land Grab’
Food security is important. A rising world population coupled with climate change creates growing pressure on global world food supplies. States alleviate this pressure domestically by attracting agri‐foreign direct investment (agri‐ FDI ). This is a high‐risk strategy for weak states: the state may gain valuable foreign currency, technology and debt‐free growth; but equally, investors may fail to deliver on their commitments and exploit weak dom…
Geographers out of place: Institutions, (inter)disciplinarity and identity
Ten years ago, the decision was taken to close B runel U niversity's D epartment of G eography and E arth S ciences and its undergraduate programmes. Since this time, most of the human geographers have remained at B runel, but now work from beyond the boundaries of conventional academic G eography. In this paper we argue that this situation, which is not uncommon for geographers in the UK and elsewhere, has significant implications for both indiv…
Parents and policy under New Labour: A case study of the United Kingdom's new deal for lone parents
Within the context of neo-liberal economic policy, and triggered by the looming demographic crisis of an ageing society, a cornerstone of the policies aimed at parents of the previous New Labour administrations in the UK ‘encouraged’ parents to take up paid work or to make themselves ‘work-ready’ to provide the skills to compete in a globalised labour market. Underpinned by a belief that most citizens should be in a position to participate in the…
The Child-Body-Politic: Afterword on ‘Children and Young People's Politics in Everyday Life’
The phrase ‘body-politic’ is often deployed to mean all of the people comprising a given ‘political’ unit, perhaps a country, nation or state, and sometimes conceived as the multitudes ruled over b
Renegotiation of the Wto Agreement on Agriculture: Accommodating the New Big Issues
The WTO Agreement on Agriculture was designed to maximize trade flows at a time of surplus agricultural production. It required Members to open markets and to reduce domestic and export subsidies. Proposals for reform in the Doha Round negotiations largely adopt the same pattern. Yet, as surplus is replaced by shortage, Members are increasingly concerned about food security and the impact of agriculture on climate change. And contemporary agricul…
What’s in focus? A critical discussion of photography, children and young people
Photography is an increasingly popular research method, used to explore a number of topics with a wide range of social groups, including children and young people. Drawing upon two UK research projects, focused on firstly childcare and secondly children’s mobility, this paper critically considers photography as a research method with children and young people. Firstly, we consider the production of photographs and the need to look behind the lens…
World class? An investigation of globalisation, difference and international student mobility
This paper explores the motivations and meanings of international student mobility. Central to the discussion are the results of a large questionnaire survey and associated in‐depth interviews with UK students enrolled in universities in six countries from around the world. The results suggest, first, that several different dimensions of social and cultural capital are accrued through study abroad. It is argued that the search for ‘world class’ e…
Power, Positionality and Practicality: Carrying out Fieldwork with Children
In this paper we provide a reflexive account of fieldwork in out of school clubs in a range of localities across England and Wales. By reflecting upon our personal experiences of researching with children aged between 5 and 12 years, we examine the impact of the positionality of the researcher on the research encounter, and highlight the ways in which relationships between adult researchers and child subjects are gendered. Finally, we identify a …
What’s in focus? A critical discussion of photography, children and young people
Photography is an increasingly popular research method, used to explore a number of topics with a wide range of social groups, including children and young people. Drawing upon two UK research projects, focused on firstly childcare and secondly children’s mobility, this paper critically considers photography as a research method with children and young people. Firstly, we consider the production of photographs and the need to look behind the lens…
Contested Spaces: Children's Experiences of Out of School Care in England and Wales
Based on research carried out with over 400 children in England and Wales, this article explores the complexity of the social space of the out of school club, an increasingly important environment in the social landscape of British childhood. By exploring the ways in which children construct and contest the meanings they attach to the material and social environments they inhabit after school and during the school holidays, we aim to show how the…
Ethics of care across professional and everyday positionalities: The (un)expected impacts of participatory video with young female carers in Slovakia
The paper offers a critical intervention into the debates on research impact, theorising the potential of underpinning research agendas by ethics of care. We explore how a range of vectors of care, both intimate and distant, emerged in collaborative activities between researchers based in the UK and community youth workers and teenage female carers in Slovakia, leading to a series of (un)expected outcomes. We argue that while all research impacts…
The training-to-work trajectory: Pressures for and subversions to participation in the neoliberal learning market in the UK
The UK government has emphasised the role of lifelong learning in eradicating social exclusion and improving productivity and the skills base. With a neoliberal rationale that normalises economic participation, the unemployed are being offered (re)training to enable a swift transition to paid employment and encourage ‘personal responsibility’. Taking a critical feminist approach framed by the social control model of lifelong learning and Foucault…
Building community resilience in a context of climate change: The role of social capital
Social capital is considered important for resilience across social levels, including communities, yet insights are scattered across disciplines. This meta-synthesis of 187 studies examines conceptual and empirical understandings of how social capital relates to resilience, identifying implications for community resilience and climate change practice. Different conceptualisations are highlighted, yet also limited focus on underlying dimensions of…
Refiguring the Geopolitical Landscape: Nation, 'Transition' and Gendered Subjects in Post-Cold War Germany
Diversely gendered experiences of post-unification Germany are examined in relation to dominant neo-liberal scripts of post-Cold War restructuring and the tropes of 'East' and 'West' underpinning reunification. This provides a possible framework for feminist geopolitics where geopolitics are 'refigured' in three ways: assessing the relation of gender to the discursive practices of geopolitics; addressing the use and contestation of geopolitical d…
The Child-Body-Politic: Afterword on ‘Children and Young People's Politics in Everyday Life’
The phrase ‘body-politic’ is often deployed to mean all of the people comprising a given ‘political’ unit, perhaps a country, nation or state, and sometimes conceived as the multitudes ruled over b
Women, work–life balance and quality of life: Case studies from the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland
In this editorial we introduce the key themes explored by the articles that make up this themed section on 'Women, work–life balance and quality of life'. As a collection, the articles emphasise the complexity of trying to define what work–life balance means to different groups of men and women in three locales (Bristol, West London and Dublin), highlighting that trying to attribute meaning to this concept is at the very least problematic. They d…
Is there a place for children's geographers in the policy arena
Despite a limited number of notable exceptions, children's geographers are not generally engaged with the policy process. Drawing on research carried out for the UK's Department for Education and Skills, this paper will argue that children's geographers are ideally placed to explore a number of important research questions appertaining to the impact of policy reform on children's lives. It suggests that by actively engaging with the policy proces…
It's not all about grades”: Accounting for gendered degree results in geography at Brunel University
This paper explores the results of an 18‐month study at Brunel University that aimed to explain the significant gendered differences in academic performance amongst geography students. Male students are doing considerably less well than their female peers, being awarded far fewer first class and upper second class degrees, a phenomenon that cannot be accounted for by A‐level entry grades. This paper draws on interviews with students which suggest…
The liminality of training spaces: Places of private/public transitions
Geographers out of place: Institutions, (inter)disciplinarity and identity
Ten years ago, the decision was taken to close B runel U niversity's D epartment of G eography and E arth S ciences and its undergraduate programmes. Since this time, most of the human geographers have remained at B runel, but now work from beyond the boundaries of conventional academic G eography. In this paper we argue that this situation, which is not uncommon for geographers in the UK and elsewhere, has significant implications for both indiv…
Parents and policy under New Labour: A case study of the United Kingdom's new deal for lone parents
Within the context of neo-liberal economic policy, and triggered by the looming demographic crisis of an ageing society, a cornerstone of the policies aimed at parents of the previous New Labour administrations in the UK ‘encouraged’ parents to take up paid work or to make themselves ‘work-ready’ to provide the skills to compete in a globalised labour market. Underpinned by a belief that most citizens should be in a position to participate in the…
Work and wonder at the weekend: On emotions in feminist geographical praxis
This article explores intersections between academic work and emotional work at a feminist geography reading weekend held by the Women and Geography Study Group of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers in the UK in 2006. It points to the importance of the fleeting, often unreported, spaces of feminist geographical praxis and of inserting these in our disciplinary histories. Using a performative textual strategy it offers…
The third sector in a devolved Scotland: From policy to evidence
Scotland's post-devolution government has implemented a number of policies engaging with the third sector. These sit within the UK context of New Labour's welfare reform with its twin emphases on neoliberalism and neo-communitarianism. Moves by the Scottish Executive to translate these themes into the Scottish context are illustrated by policies on the relation between the state and third sector organizations, on the social economy, and on volunt…
Commodifying the countryside: The impact of out‐of‐school care on rural landscapes of children's play
The growing interest in rural geography has highlighted that symbolic representations of the ‘rural idyll’ are often contradictory to the lived experiences of many rural children. Increasingly, children's spatial mobility is restricted due to adult concerns over children's use of public space, and the continuing privatization of rural space. Whilst children are prevented from using the countryside as a resource, there is also a lack of provision …
Destabilising the home: Place Making, Dark Tourism and the Spectral
Factors Influencing Social Work Identity in Mental Health Placements
This article shares findings from a study that explored factors contributing to the development of a social work professional identity, with a particular focus on social work students undertaking field education placements in mental health settings. Social work identity is not well recognised or articulated by experienced practitioners, nor does it appear to be adequately emphasised in social work education and training programmes. There is limit…
Social dynamics of community resilience building in the face of climate change: The case of three Scottish communities
Body training’: Investigating the embodied training choices of/for mothers in West London
A new deal for lone parents? Training lone parents for work in West London
In this paper we explore the impacts of the training programmes offered to lone mothers with young children on the Government's ‘New Deal for Lone Parents’ in one local labour market: West London. Our research suggests that regulatory workfare policies are (re)producing and reinforcing gendered inequalities in the labour market by encouraging lone mothers to undertake training in feminised occupational areas such as childcare. We will argue that …
Discourses of Citizenship in Transition: Scale, Politics and Urban Renewal
Geographical understandings of citizenship and insights from studies of post-communist transitions inform an examination of discourses and processes of urban change in the city of Leipzig, eastern Germany. Dominant public discourses shaped by citizens and elites include demands for `careful urban renewal' and 'citizen participation', rejections of party-politics in local action and collective aims of working 'for the good of the city'. All come u…
Teaching Mental Health Social Work: What Are We Preparing Students for
The Australian social work course accreditation standards aim to ensure graduates have an understanding of the social, cultural, and political structures that influence psychosocial wellbeing. Unlike the previous standards, the current standards do not require the curricula to address specific knowledge and skills for working with people who live with severe mental distress or mental health conditions that might result in diagnoses such as schizo…
Politics, place and German reunification: A Realignment Approach
Causation in Francovich: The Neglected Problem
When the European Court of Justice gave judgment in Francovich it was hailed as a triumph, not necessarily for its erudite reasoning, but because it allowed an individual to claim damages from a member State for its failure to comply with Community law obligations, thus providing a method of redress where previously none existed. Although the scope of the remedy was unclear and appeared superficially limited to the facts of the case, it represent…
Discourses of Citizenship in Transition: Scale, Politics and Urban Renewal
Geographical understandings of citizenship and insights from studies of post-communist transitions inform an examination of discourses and processes of urban change in the city of Leipzig, eastern Germany. Dominant public discourses shaped by citizens and elites include demands for `careful urban renewal' and 'citizen participation', rejections of party-politics in local action and collective aims of working 'for the good of the city'. All come u…
Contested Spaces: Children's Experiences of Out of School Care in England and Wales
Based on research carried out with over 400 children in England and Wales, this article explores the complexity of the social space of the out of school club, an increasingly important environment in the social landscape of British childhood. By exploring the ways in which children construct and contest the meanings they attach to the material and social environments they inhabit after school and during the school holidays, we aim to show how the…
Power, Positionality and Practicality: Carrying out Fieldwork with Children
In this paper we provide a reflexive account of fieldwork in out of school clubs in a range of localities across England and Wales. By reflecting upon our personal experiences of researching with children aged between 5 and 12 years, we examine the impact of the positionality of the researcher on the research encounter, and highlight the ways in which relationships between adult researchers and child subjects are gendered. Finally, we identify a …
Refiguring the Geopolitical Landscape: Nation, 'Transition' and Gendered Subjects in Post-Cold War Germany
Diversely gendered experiences of post-unification Germany are examined in relation to dominant neo-liberal scripts of post-Cold War restructuring and the tropes of 'East' and 'West' underpinning reunification. This provides a possible framework for feminist geopolitics where geopolitics are 'refigured' in three ways: assessing the relation of gender to the discursive practices of geopolitics; addressing the use and contestation of geopolitical d…
Commodifying the countryside: The impact of out‐of‐school care on rural landscapes of children's play
The growing interest in rural geography has highlighted that symbolic representations of the ‘rural idyll’ are often contradictory to the lived experiences of many rural children. Increasingly, children's spatial mobility is restricted due to adult concerns over children's use of public space, and the continuing privatization of rural space. Whilst children are prevented from using the countryside as a resource, there is also a lack of provision …
Is there a place for children's geographers in the policy arena
Despite a limited number of notable exceptions, children's geographers are not generally engaged with the policy process. Drawing on research carried out for the UK's Department for Education and Skills, this paper will argue that children's geographers are ideally placed to explore a number of important research questions appertaining to the impact of policy reform on children's lives. It suggests that by actively engaging with the policy proces…
It's not all about grades”: Accounting for gendered degree results in geography at Brunel University
This paper explores the results of an 18‐month study at Brunel University that aimed to explain the significant gendered differences in academic performance amongst geography students. Male students are doing considerably less well than their female peers, being awarded far fewer first class and upper second class degrees, a phenomenon that cannot be accounted for by A‐level entry grades. This paper draws on interviews with students which suggest…
Euro-commentary: Encountering Europe Through Fieldwork
Debates about geographical practice in Europe are explored through the spaces and practices of an undergraduate field-course in the Costa Blanca in Spain. Students encounter ‘Spain’ and ‘Europe’ through diversely embodied engagements and material encounters with familiarity and difference, inclusion and exclusion, which offer possibilities for de-centring dominant Anglo-American geographies and understanding the diverse practices which produce ge…
The third sector in a devolved Scotland: From policy to evidence
Scotland's post-devolution government has implemented a number of policies engaging with the third sector. These sit within the UK context of New Labour's welfare reform with its twin emphases on neoliberalism and neo-communitarianism. Moves by the Scottish Executive to translate these themes into the Scottish context are illustrated by policies on the relation between the state and third sector organizations, on the social economy, and on volunt…
The liminality of training spaces: Places of private/public transitions
Unicef ‘ Child Poverty in Perspective ’ Report: A View from the UK
In February 2007, UNICEF launched the latest in a series of reports comparing the conditions of young people's lives across the world's more industrialised countries. The report ranked the UK as the lowest of the countries investigated. We give a critical overview of the report, identifying its limitations as well as some of the trends it reveals. We also discuss the poor placing of the UK in relation to current broader political and public debat…
Work and wonder at the weekend: On emotions in feminist geographical praxis
This article explores intersections between academic work and emotional work at a feminist geography reading weekend held by the Women and Geography Study Group of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers in the UK in 2006. It points to the importance of the fleeting, often unreported, spaces of feminist geographical praxis and of inserting these in our disciplinary histories. Using a performative textual strategy it offers…
A new deal for lone parents? Training lone parents for work in West London
In this paper we explore the impacts of the training programmes offered to lone mothers with young children on the Government's ‘New Deal for Lone Parents’ in one local labour market: West London. Our research suggests that regulatory workfare policies are (re)producing and reinforcing gendered inequalities in the labour market by encouraging lone mothers to undertake training in feminised occupational areas such as childcare. We will argue that …
Body training’: Investigating the embodied training choices of/for mothers in West London
Do Religious Restrictions Influence Ectopic Pregnancy Management? A National Qualitative Study
Indigenous farmers' rights, international agricultural trade and the WTO
Peasant and family farmers' activist groups argue that only indigenous farming practices can guarantee adequate food supplies without loss of biodiversity. Such activists argue that the international agricultural trade rules in the WTO should therefore recognise indigenous farmers' rights to farm in this way because it has such a positive impact. This article considers whether the WTO's rules on international agricultural trade contained in the W…
Regulating agriculture in the WTO
This article argues there is value in exploring the resonance between the regulation of international agricultural trade as a specific topic and the general notion of international trade regulation in the World Trade Organisation (WTO). It explores particular problems to illuminate more general concerns. In this ascendant way of looking at things, certain aspects of agricultural trade regulation have direct resonance for other areas covered by th…
Women, work–life balance and quality of life: Case studies from the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland
In this editorial we introduce the key themes explored by the articles that make up this themed section on 'Women, work–life balance and quality of life'. As a collection, the articles emphasise the complexity of trying to define what work–life balance means to different groups of men and women in three locales (Bristol, West London and Dublin), highlighting that trying to attribute meaning to this concept is at the very least problematic. They d…
The training-to-work trajectory: Pressures for and subversions to participation in the neoliberal learning market in the UK
The UK government has emphasised the role of lifelong learning in eradicating social exclusion and improving productivity and the skills base. With a neoliberal rationale that normalises economic participation, the unemployed are being offered (re)training to enable a swift transition to paid employment and encourage ‘personal responsibility’. Taking a critical feminist approach framed by the social control model of lifelong learning and Foucault…
World class? An investigation of globalisation, difference and international student mobility
This paper explores the motivations and meanings of international student mobility. Central to the discussion are the results of a large questionnaire survey and associated in‐depth interviews with UK students enrolled in universities in six countries from around the world. The results suggest, first, that several different dimensions of social and cultural capital are accrued through study abroad. It is argued that the search for ‘world class’ e…
What’s in focus? A critical discussion of photography, children and young people
Photography is an increasingly popular research method, used to explore a number of topics with a wide range of social groups, including children and young people. Drawing upon two UK research projects, focused on firstly childcare and secondly children’s mobility, this paper critically considers photography as a research method with children and young people. Firstly, we consider the production of photographs and the need to look behind the lens…
Parents and policy under New Labour: A case study of the United Kingdom's new deal for lone parents
Within the context of neo-liberal economic policy, and triggered by the looming demographic crisis of an ageing society, a cornerstone of the policies aimed at parents of the previous New Labour administrations in the UK ‘encouraged’ parents to take up paid work or to make themselves ‘work-ready’ to provide the skills to compete in a globalised labour market. Underpinned by a belief that most citizens should be in a position to participate in the…
The Child-Body-Politic: Afterword on ‘Children and Young People's Politics in Everyday Life’
The phrase ‘body-politic’ is often deployed to mean all of the people comprising a given ‘political’ unit, perhaps a country, nation or state, and sometimes conceived as the multitudes ruled over b
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