Sarah Parsons
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Parsons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Parsons |
| SIGNATURE | PARSONS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1238-1360 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sudden cardiac death
Forensic and clinical pathologists are confronted daily with cases of sudden death (SD) due to natural causes, mainly cardiac disease. SD is often the first clinical manifestation of underlying cardiovascular disease in previously asymptomatic and assumed “healthy” individuals. International and national guidelines established in the fields of forensic and clinical medicine recommend that an autopsy should be performed in all cases of SD, particu…
Using body mapping within a participatory methodology to enable autistic girls to share their experiences of education
Body mapping is an arts-based method designed to foreground how people feel rather than what they think. Body mapping can support the surfacing of often unheard or otherwise inaccessible or suppressed experiences because meaning making is non-spoken as well as spoken. For marginalised groups, where power imbalances between the researchers and the researched may be considerable, body mapping is argued to be one way in which participants can contri…
Voices Through Art
Educational transitions between schools can be very challenging for autistic children and young people. Research tends to focus on the views of families and teachers which means that children's voices are often marginalised despite them having valuable knowledge that could improve transition practices and experiences. 'Voices through Art' was an innovative project involving researchers, educators, a graphic artist, and neurodivergent lived experi…
I am Lil
Autistic children's voices are frequently overlooked, underestimated, and undermined in research and practice such that children are denied agency and their rights as capable knowers. Our digital storytelling work aims to challenge this status quo by co-creating 'I am' Digital Stories with and for autistic children and their families. 'I am' Digital Stories are short videos (c.3-5 minutes) that provide a strengths-based representation of a child …
Domesticating Jefferson Davis
Days after his release from prison in 1867, Jefferson Davis arrived in Montreal with his wife, Varina, to join their children and extended family. Soon after, the Davis clan presented themselves to William Notman, Canada’s foremost photographer. The resulting portraits deftly reframed the failed leader as a dedicated family man and sought sympathy and kinship through his children. This article examines the production and circulation of Notman’s i…
Co-creation of Research and Design During a Coding Club With Autistic Students Using Multimodal Participatory Methods and Analysis
Participatory design aims to work with those who are often excluded from design processes so that their interests are better represented in design solutions. Autistic children are often marginalised and excluded from design processes due to concerns about how their social and communication differences may act as barriers to participation, leading to calls for design processes to be more inclusive and examined more closely to understand the value …
Victorian Facebooks
The history of issues of privacy in relation to photography is generally dated to the introduction of handheld cameras and halftone printing at the end of the nineteenth century.Citing a remarkable series of notations in the records of famed Montreal photographer William Notman, this article argues that privacy concerns were at issue in the everyday operations of the photography studios that preceded amateur photography.These notations represent …
Our Actions, Our Stories
This article presents the script of Our Actions, Our Stories: A Readers Theater that was researched, written, and presented by students in a women’s and gender studies (WGS) class called “Action: Intersections and Coalitions.” Based on qualitative interviews, the script illustrates six respondents’ perspectives on their activism and explores their backgrounds and intersectional identities in relation to these. The readers theater explores how act…
The importance of collaboration for knowledge co‐construction in ‘close‐to‐practice’ research
This commentary is offered in response to the British Educational Research Association (BERA)’s commissioned report on close‐to‐practice research. In conducting a rapid evidence assessment coupled with a small number of qualitative interviews, the report represents an overly dichotomised and partial approach to understanding the relationships between research and practice, and the nature of knowledge generated within such relationships. Specifica…
Whose agenda? Who knows best? Whose voice?’ Co-creating a technology research roadmap with autism stakeholders
Technologies play vital roles in the learning and participation of autistic people and yet have mostly been conceptualised according to a medical model of disability. In this stakeholder review, the comments of 240 participants from a two-year seminar series focusing on autism and technology were analysed to co-construct an understanding of how research could develop more inclusively. Our socio-cultural analysis shows that stakeholders were very …
Awareness within local authorities in England of autism spectrum diagnoses of looked‐after children
Educational outcomes for looked‐after children on the autism spectrum are significantly poorer than for autistic children not being looked‐after by their local authority (those ‘in care’), and poorer than for most other groups of children with special educational needs who are looked‐after in England. Such poor outcomes have led to calls for specific attention to be paid to the needs of autistic looked‐after children within the care of local auth…
Seeing Family
Challenging the knowledge‐transfer orthodoxy
Experimental intervention studies constitute the current dominant research designs in the autism education field. Such designs are based on a ‘knowledge‐transfer’ model of evidence‐based practice in which research is conducted by researchers, and is then ‘transferred’ to practitioners to enable them to implement evidence‐based interventions. While these research designs contribute important knowledge, they lead to a gap between what the research …
Informed Consent with Children and Young People in Social Research
Over 20 years of research has enhanced our understanding about the methodological and ethical benefits and challenges of involving children and young people in research. Concurrently, the increasing bureaucratisation of research ethics governance within UK universities has reified expectations about the methods used to gain informed consent for research participation. This paper explores how social researchers in the UK are navigating this tensio…
Photography & Culture 9.3
TimeBanking
This paper explores the potential of an online TimeBank for inclusive research to address some of the challenges related to the unequal distribution of power and money for researchers within and outside the academy working in collaboration. The problem, the concept of TimeBanking, and the relationship of TimeBanking to inclusive research principles are explained. The case is made for developing an online TimeBank for inclusive research, and an ac…
Vulnerability in custody
Information provision and communication within the Criminal Justice System can be highly problematic for young people and adults with learning disabilities and difficulties. Paper-based communication is common, and is mandated for the provision of rights and entitlements in custody, but such communication can be poorly understood, potentially leading to miscarriages of justice. This article uses the piloting of a more accessible version of the ri…
High risk yet invisible
Universities have a special status in society because of the position they hold within their communities and their responsibilities for civic leadership. Consequently, there are increasing calls on universities to make their processes, teaching and finances more transparent to the general public in order to promote greater accountability. Guidance from the Association for Research Ethics Committees includes openness as one of the key principles f…
Why are we an ignored group?’ Mainstream educational experiences and current life satisfaction of adults on the autism spectrum from an online survey
Adults on the autism spectrum are significantly under-represented in research on educational interventions and support, such that little is known about their views and experiences of schooling and how this prepared them for adult life. In addition, ‘good outcomes’ in adult life are often judged according to normative assumptions and tend not to include the views of adults on the autism spectrum directly. This study reports the findings from an on…
Relationship Between Control Beliefs, Strategy Use, and Memory Performance in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Healthy Aging
Despite the weak relationship between control beliefs and strategy use, and control beliefs and memory performance for the aMCI group, the strong relationship between strategy use and memory performance provides impetus for further research into factors that can be used as a means of enhancing strategy use in interventions for aMCI
Overcoming exclusion
This is a collection of Peter Mittler’s writings for Routledge’s World Library of Educationalists series, which collates seminal texts from prominent authors in one volume. The book comprises 19 se
The ‘Wonders in the Deep’ and the ‘Mighty Tempest of the Sea’
The religious beliefs of seafarers have not received a great deal of attention over the years. Contemporaries of early modern English seafarers stereotyped them as superstitious and irreligious, prone to turning to God only in times of danger. The Puritan William Perkins preached about ‘the Mariner , who is onely good in a storme’. The association of seafarers, irreligion and superstition was also reflected in popular literature. Edmund Spenser, …
Sontag's Lament
Rare is the discussion of ethics and photography that does not reference Susan Sontag's groundbreaking collection of essays On Photography (1977). It was this accessible, sweeping book, quietly infused with the ideas of Barthes and Benjamin, which presented one of the first comprehensive explorations of the ethical challenges posed by the ubiquity of photography in a consumerist society. Sontag's arguments about the power and danger of photograph…
The home‐education of children with special needs or disabilities in the UK
The home‐education of children is one ‘choice’ of provision that is often overlooked or unreported in the debate on inclusive education for children with disabilities or special educational needs. This study aimed to access the views of these hard‐to‐reach home‐educating families through an online survey. Twenty‐seven parents, with at least one child with special educational needs or disabilities/being educated at home, responded, and over two‐th…
Public/Private Tensions in the Photography of Sally Mann
This article examines the circulation of Sally Mann's pictures of her children, which were exhibited and published in 1992 under the title Immediate Family. Most of the Immediate Family photographs were made at the Manns' rustic summer house in a wild, isolated area, not far from their home in Lexington, Virginia. The children are often naked or nearly naked, and they are variously dirty, injured, confrontational and flirtatious. Strong and diver…
Whose agenda? Who knows best? Whose voice?’ Co-creating a technology research roadmap with autism stakeholders
Technologies play vital roles in the learning and participation of autistic people and yet have mostly been conceptualised according to a medical model of disability. In this stakeholder review, the comments of 240 participants from a two-year seminar series focusing on autism and technology were analysed to co-construct an understanding of how research could develop more inclusively. Our socio-cultural analysis shows that stakeholders were very …
The home‐education of children with special needs or disabilities in the UK
The home‐education of children is one ‘choice’ of provision that is often overlooked or unreported in the debate on inclusive education for children with disabilities or special educational needs. This study aimed to access the views of these hard‐to‐reach home‐educating families through an online survey. Twenty‐seven parents, with at least one child with special educational needs or disabilities/being educated at home, responded, and over two‐th…
High risk yet invisible
Universities have a special status in society because of the position they hold within their communities and their responsibilities for civic leadership. Consequently, there are increasing calls on universities to make their processes, teaching and finances more transparent to the general public in order to promote greater accountability. Guidance from the Association for Research Ethics Committees includes openness as one of the key principles f…
The importance of collaboration for knowledge co‐construction in ‘close‐to‐practice’ research
This commentary is offered in response to the British Educational Research Association (BERA)’s commissioned report on close‐to‐practice research. In conducting a rapid evidence assessment coupled with a small number of qualitative interviews, the report represents an overly dichotomised and partial approach to understanding the relationships between research and practice, and the nature of knowledge generated within such relationships. Specifica…
Sontag's Lament
Rare is the discussion of ethics and photography that does not reference Susan Sontag's groundbreaking collection of essays On Photography (1977). It was this accessible, sweeping book, quietly infused with the ideas of Barthes and Benjamin, which presented one of the first comprehensive explorations of the ethical challenges posed by the ubiquity of photography in a consumerist society. Sontag's arguments about the power and danger of photograph…
Seeing Family
Challenging the knowledge‐transfer orthodoxy
Experimental intervention studies constitute the current dominant research designs in the autism education field. Such designs are based on a ‘knowledge‐transfer’ model of evidence‐based practice in which research is conducted by researchers, and is then ‘transferred’ to practitioners to enable them to implement evidence‐based interventions. While these research designs contribute important knowledge, they lead to a gap between what the research …
TimeBanking
This paper explores the potential of an online TimeBank for inclusive research to address some of the challenges related to the unequal distribution of power and money for researchers within and outside the academy working in collaboration. The problem, the concept of TimeBanking, and the relationship of TimeBanking to inclusive research principles are explained. The case is made for developing an online TimeBank for inclusive research, and an ac…
Vulnerability in custody
Information provision and communication within the Criminal Justice System can be highly problematic for young people and adults with learning disabilities and difficulties. Paper-based communication is common, and is mandated for the provision of rights and entitlements in custody, but such communication can be poorly understood, potentially leading to miscarriages of justice. This article uses the piloting of a more accessible version of the ri…
Relationship Between Control Beliefs, Strategy Use, and Memory Performance in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Healthy Aging
Despite the weak relationship between control beliefs and strategy use, and control beliefs and memory performance for the aMCI group, the strong relationship between strategy use and memory performance provides impetus for further research into factors that can be used as a means of enhancing strategy use in interventions for aMCI
I am Lil
Autistic children's voices are frequently overlooked, underestimated, and undermined in research and practice such that children are denied agency and their rights as capable knowers. Our digital storytelling work aims to challenge this status quo by co-creating 'I am' Digital Stories with and for autistic children and their families. 'I am' Digital Stories are short videos (c.3-5 minutes) that provide a strengths-based representation of a child …
Why are we an ignored group?’ Mainstream educational experiences and current life satisfaction of adults on the autism spectrum from an online survey
Adults on the autism spectrum are significantly under-represented in research on educational interventions and support, such that little is known about their views and experiences of schooling and how this prepared them for adult life. In addition, ‘good outcomes’ in adult life are often judged according to normative assumptions and tend not to include the views of adults on the autism spectrum directly. This study reports the findings from an on…
Establishing Children's Wishes and Feelings for Family Court Reports
Current UK government policy is to promote mediation as a way of avoiding family court proceedings and there is a risk, therefore, that welfare report-writing practice may receive less critical attention than it merits. A largely unstudied aspect of this practice is the significance given by practitioners to the child's age. More widely, across a broad academic and policy canvas, preoccupying concerns with children's rights, their ability to part…
Interpreting Projections, Projecting Interpretations
L'A. propose une analyse critique des interpretations academiques classiques de la deite Yoruba Esu, qui voient dans sa coiffure, telle qu'elle est representee dans l'iconographie et dans les sculptures, une representation phallique de son pouvoir extraordinaire. Ne contestant pas la realite de l'image phallique, l'A. suggere cependant que cette explication est insuffisante et genere des questions complexes restees sans reponses jusqu'a present :…
Time to listen
Gaining authentic voices in the production of research includes reflection on the process of research itself. The following paper reports on the work of an advisory group and raises issues about the extent to which it should be anticipated that such groups represent the feelings and interests of the wider community without the infrastructure and support to enable them to access these. Should we therefore conclude that advisory group members only …
Establishing Children's Wishes and Feelings for Family Court Reports
Current UK government policy is to promote mediation as a way of avoiding family court proceedings and there is a risk, therefore, that welfare report-writing practice may receive less critical attention than it merits. A largely unstudied aspect of this practice is the significance given by practitioners to the child's age. More widely, across a broad academic and policy canvas, preoccupying concerns with children's rights, their ability to part…
Public/Private Tensions in the Photography of Sally Mann
This article examines the circulation of Sally Mann's pictures of her children, which were exhibited and published in 1992 under the title Immediate Family. Most of the Immediate Family photographs were made at the Manns' rustic summer house in a wild, isolated area, not far from their home in Lexington, Virginia. The children are often naked or nearly naked, and they are variously dirty, injured, confrontational and flirtatious. Strong and diver…
Sontag's Lament
Rare is the discussion of ethics and photography that does not reference Susan Sontag's groundbreaking collection of essays On Photography (1977). It was this accessible, sweeping book, quietly infused with the ideas of Barthes and Benjamin, which presented one of the first comprehensive explorations of the ethical challenges posed by the ubiquity of photography in a consumerist society. Sontag's arguments about the power and danger of photograph…
The home‐education of children with special needs or disabilities in the UK
The home‐education of children is one ‘choice’ of provision that is often overlooked or unreported in the debate on inclusive education for children with disabilities or special educational needs. This study aimed to access the views of these hard‐to‐reach home‐educating families through an online survey. Twenty‐seven parents, with at least one child with special educational needs or disabilities/being educated at home, responded, and over two‐th…
The ‘Wonders in the Deep’ and the ‘Mighty Tempest of the Sea’
The religious beliefs of seafarers have not received a great deal of attention over the years. Contemporaries of early modern English seafarers stereotyped them as superstitious and irreligious, prone to turning to God only in times of danger. The Puritan William Perkins preached about ‘the Mariner , who is onely good in a storme’. The association of seafarers, irreligion and superstition was also reflected in popular literature. Edmund Spenser, …
Relationship Between Control Beliefs, Strategy Use, and Memory Performance in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Healthy Aging
Despite the weak relationship between control beliefs and strategy use, and control beliefs and memory performance for the aMCI group, the strong relationship between strategy use and memory performance provides impetus for further research into factors that can be used as a means of enhancing strategy use in interventions for aMCI
Overcoming exclusion
This is a collection of Peter Mittler’s writings for Routledge’s World Library of Educationalists series, which collates seminal texts from prominent authors in one volume. The book comprises 19 se
Why are we an ignored group?’ Mainstream educational experiences and current life satisfaction of adults on the autism spectrum from an online survey
Adults on the autism spectrum are significantly under-represented in research on educational interventions and support, such that little is known about their views and experiences of schooling and how this prepared them for adult life. In addition, ‘good outcomes’ in adult life are often judged according to normative assumptions and tend not to include the views of adults on the autism spectrum directly. This study reports the findings from an on…
High risk yet invisible
Universities have a special status in society because of the position they hold within their communities and their responsibilities for civic leadership. Consequently, there are increasing calls on universities to make their processes, teaching and finances more transparent to the general public in order to promote greater accountability. Guidance from the Association for Research Ethics Committees includes openness as one of the key principles f…
Informed Consent with Children and Young People in Social Research
Over 20 years of research has enhanced our understanding about the methodological and ethical benefits and challenges of involving children and young people in research. Concurrently, the increasing bureaucratisation of research ethics governance within UK universities has reified expectations about the methods used to gain informed consent for research participation. This paper explores how social researchers in the UK are navigating this tensio…
Photography & Culture 9.3
TimeBanking
This paper explores the potential of an online TimeBank for inclusive research to address some of the challenges related to the unequal distribution of power and money for researchers within and outside the academy working in collaboration. The problem, the concept of TimeBanking, and the relationship of TimeBanking to inclusive research principles are explained. The case is made for developing an online TimeBank for inclusive research, and an ac…
Vulnerability in custody
Information provision and communication within the Criminal Justice System can be highly problematic for young people and adults with learning disabilities and difficulties. Paper-based communication is common, and is mandated for the provision of rights and entitlements in custody, but such communication can be poorly understood, potentially leading to miscarriages of justice. This article uses the piloting of a more accessible version of the ri…
Seeing Family
Challenging the knowledge‐transfer orthodoxy
Experimental intervention studies constitute the current dominant research designs in the autism education field. Such designs are based on a ‘knowledge‐transfer’ model of evidence‐based practice in which research is conducted by researchers, and is then ‘transferred’ to practitioners to enable them to implement evidence‐based interventions. While these research designs contribute important knowledge, they lead to a gap between what the research …
Whose agenda? Who knows best? Whose voice?’ Co-creating a technology research roadmap with autism stakeholders
Technologies play vital roles in the learning and participation of autistic people and yet have mostly been conceptualised according to a medical model of disability. In this stakeholder review, the comments of 240 participants from a two-year seminar series focusing on autism and technology were analysed to co-construct an understanding of how research could develop more inclusively. Our socio-cultural analysis shows that stakeholders were very …
Awareness within local authorities in England of autism spectrum diagnoses of looked‐after children
Educational outcomes for looked‐after children on the autism spectrum are significantly poorer than for autistic children not being looked‐after by their local authority (those ‘in care’), and poorer than for most other groups of children with special educational needs who are looked‐after in England. Such poor outcomes have led to calls for specific attention to be paid to the needs of autistic looked‐after children within the care of local auth…
Our Actions, Our Stories
This article presents the script of Our Actions, Our Stories: A Readers Theater that was researched, written, and presented by students in a women’s and gender studies (WGS) class called “Action: Intersections and Coalitions.” Based on qualitative interviews, the script illustrates six respondents’ perspectives on their activism and explores their backgrounds and intersectional identities in relation to these. The readers theater explores how act…
The importance of collaboration for knowledge co‐construction in ‘close‐to‐practice’ research
This commentary is offered in response to the British Educational Research Association (BERA)’s commissioned report on close‐to‐practice research. In conducting a rapid evidence assessment coupled with a small number of qualitative interviews, the report represents an overly dichotomised and partial approach to understanding the relationships between research and practice, and the nature of knowledge generated within such relationships. Specifica…
Co-creation of Research and Design During a Coding Club With Autistic Students Using Multimodal Participatory Methods and Analysis
Participatory design aims to work with those who are often excluded from design processes so that their interests are better represented in design solutions. Autistic children are often marginalised and excluded from design processes due to concerns about how their social and communication differences may act as barriers to participation, leading to calls for design processes to be more inclusive and examined more closely to understand the value …
Victorian Facebooks
The history of issues of privacy in relation to photography is generally dated to the introduction of handheld cameras and halftone printing at the end of the nineteenth century.Citing a remarkable series of notations in the records of famed Montreal photographer William Notman, this article argues that privacy concerns were at issue in the everyday operations of the photography studios that preceded amateur photography.These notations represent …
Domesticating Jefferson Davis
Days after his release from prison in 1867, Jefferson Davis arrived in Montreal with his wife, Varina, to join their children and extended family. Soon after, the Davis clan presented themselves to William Notman, Canada’s foremost photographer. The resulting portraits deftly reframed the failed leader as a dedicated family man and sought sympathy and kinship through his children. This article examines the production and circulation of Notman’s i…
I am Lil
Autistic children's voices are frequently overlooked, underestimated, and undermined in research and practice such that children are denied agency and their rights as capable knowers. Our digital storytelling work aims to challenge this status quo by co-creating 'I am' Digital Stories with and for autistic children and their families. 'I am' Digital Stories are short videos (c.3-5 minutes) that provide a strengths-based representation of a child …
Sociology (17 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Art (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (8 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Law (7 works)