Rachel Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Affinity Water (United Kingdom) |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1231-5467 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Teachable Moments: Possibilities for Police Reform Through Arts-Led Police Community Engagement in England and Wales
In the context of historically low levels of public trust in policing in England and Wales, this paper considers the contribution of arts-led modes of police-community engagement as part of a broader project of change for the police. A processual perspective on policing suggests that it is how the police enact their role, more than substantive outcomes, which influences public perceptions of the police. In this context, Procedural Justice Theory,…
“It’s Business”: A Qualitative Study of Moral Injury in Business Settings; Experiences, Outcomes and Protecting and Exacerbating Factors
Moral injury has primarily been studied from a clinical perspective to assess, diagnose and treat the outcomes of morally injurious experiences in healthcare and military settings. Little is known about the lived experiences of those who have had their moral values transgressed in business settings. Public scandals such as Enron suggest that moral injury may also occur in for-profit business settings. In this qualitative study, we examine the liv…
Increasing workforce psychological flexibility through organization-wide training: Influence on stress resilience, job burnout, and performance
There is growing interest in the role of psychological flexibility as a potential resilience factor in workplace settings for protecting employees against the risk of job burnout. This field study contributes to the literature by investigating the utility of delivering brief ACT-informed training to the entire regional workforce of an innovation and manufacturing organization. A total of 504 employees attended the training, 281 of whom completed …
Developing Self-Compassion in Healthcare Professionals Utilising a Brief Online Intervention: A Randomised Waitlist Control Trial
(1) Background: The level of stress experienced by staff in the healthcare sector is highly prevalent and well documented. Self-compassion may support the health and wellbeing of individuals and enable them to stay well at work. This study aimed to understand whether a brief, online, self-guided, novel intervention improved the health and wellbeing of healthcare professionals. (2) Methods: In a parallel randomised controlled trial, a volunteer sa…
Manager–Team (Dis)agreement on Stress-Preventive Behaviours: Relationship with Psychosocial Work Environment and Employees’ Well-Being
The "Management Competencies to Prevent and Reduce Stress at Work" (MCPARS) approach focuses on identifying the stress-preventive managers' competencies able to optimise the employees' well-being through the management of the psychosocial work environment. Considering leadership as contextualised in complex social dynamics, the self-other agreement (SOA) investigation of the MCPARS may enhance previous findings, as it allows for exploring the man…
Feline Entanglements: Feminist Interspecies Care and Solidarity in a Post-Pandemic World
While the concept of interspecies solidarity has been central to ecofeminist work on animal rights since the 1980s, less attention has been devoted to the question of animal desire within the feminist animal care tradition, the majority of which has focused on women's and animals’ shared oppression under patriarchy. This article offers a reformulation of feminist animal care ethics, one that seeks to recenter animal desire as the ground for inter…
Decolonizing Interspecies Relationality: Disability, Animal Rescue, and the Ethics of Transnational Adoption
The article examines neoliberal and anthropocentric discourses of disability inclusion in the context of animal rescue. The first part offers a close reading of two US-based documentaries— Guardians of Recoleta (Kuhre) and God’s Little People (Berkley)—both of which perpetuate ableist and anthropocentric assumptions about transnational adoption as a “cure” or solution for animals with illnesses and disabilities. Drawing upon ethnographic particip…
Meta-synthesis of qualitative research on the barriers and facilitators to implementing workplace mental health interventions
There has been a rapid increase in the number of mental health interventions implemented in the workplace. The efficacy of these interventions has been mixed. The factors influencing implementation may offer insights to why some interventions fail to be effective. We conducted a meta-synthesis of qualitative research on the barriers and facilitators to implementing workplace mental health interventions. We evaluated the quality of evidence using …
Soil surface flux measurements are a reliable means for assessing fugitive gas migration across soils and seasons
As oil and gas wells age and the number of wells drilled increases to meet demand, we may see more instances of fugitive soil gas migration (GM) and associated methane (CH4) emissions. Due to the immense spatiotemporal variability of soils and uncertainty in measurement practice, the detection and quantification of GM emissions is a challenge. Two common measurement techniques include the shallow in-soil gas concentration approach and soil surfac…
Anxious Vigilance and the Production of (Il)legitimacy in the UK Citizenship Regime: “It’s How You Sift Them Out, Y’know?”
This article examines the navigation and enactment of vigilance in the UK citizenship regime. Drawing on data from a four-year research project in a UK city, including observations of citizenship ceremonies and interviews with institutional actors and citizen-candidates, it sees vigilance as a central feature of the naturalization process, with watchfulness oriented toward three key areas: the bureaucratic precision, the linguistic proficiency, a…
Queering deportability: The racial and gendered politics of lesbian anti-deportation activism
This article explores how deportability structures the experiences of lesbian refugees and asylum seekers in the United Kingdom. The first part of the article considers the racial and gendered processes through which the UK asylum system transforms lesbian migrants into detainable and deportable subjects. Part two then examines lesbian migrant protests that are emerging to contest the United Kingdom’s participation in the global deportation regim…
Vulnerability, Pleasure, and Animal Rights
The fact that one’s body is never fully one’s own ... is the condition of passionate encounter, of desire, of longing, and of those modes of address and addressability ... on which the feeling of alive
Punitiveness Beyond Criminal Justice: Punishable and Punitive Subjects in an Era of Prevention, Anti-Migration and Austerity
This article advances a holistic conceptualization of punitiveness that acknowledges its complexity and contemporary social and political pervasiveness. We argue that punitiveness is best understood as a phenomenological complex operating at a personal, symbolic, political and structural level, which borrows from, but extrapolates the confines of criminal justice institutions. The article examines limitations in articulations of punitiveness in c…
Queer Migration in Homonationalist Times
Research Article| October 01 2019 Queer Migration in Homonationalist Times A Queer Way Out: The Politics of Queer Emigration from IsraelAmit, HilaAlbany: State University of New York Press, 2018. 227 pp.Pathways of Desire: The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay MenCarrillo, HéctorChicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 369 pp.Real Queer? Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee ApparatusMurray, David A. B.London: R…
Precarious Rhetorics
OUR COLLEC TION has come together in the midst of the rise of the global Right.It will likely be received and circulate in a global context wherein this ascendency has been consolidated through an entrenched hard-right populism, marked by xenophobia and racialized social orderings, and characterized by nativist, heteronormative, hypermasculine, and heteropatriarchal leadership styles and structures.Such structures are apparent in the authoritaria…
“Gay? Prove it”: The politics of queer anti-deportation activism
This article examines how gender, sexuality, race and class intersect in queer asylum claims to influence the perceived credibility of gay and lesbian asylum applicants. Building on recent scholarship in queer migration studies that considers the role of gender and sexuality in the social construction of migrant illegality, this article explores how practices of credibility assessment in the political asylum process produce women and sexual minor…
Introduction: Queer migration, asylum, and displacement
This special issue of Sexualities emerges in response to the growing visibility of LGBTQI immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers within global gay rights advocacy. Despite the increasing prominence of LGBTQI issues on the international human rights agenda, there has been relatively little discussion of the relationship between queer migration and LGBTQI human rights activism in the field of sexuality studies. This special issue seeks to bring qu…
Models for Access to Maternal Smoking cessation Support (MAMSS): A study protocol of a quasi-experiment to increase the engagement of pregnant women who smoke in NHS Stop Smoking Services
Supporting pregnant women to stop smoking is a challenging area of public health. The proposed study will address several areas where there are key evidence gaps relating to smoking cessation interventions for pregnant women. Specifically, how best to encourage pregnant women to attend a specialist stop smoking support service, how to deliver the service and who should provide it
Comparing levels of mediatization in television journalism: An analysis of political reporting on US and UK evening news bulletins
This comparative content analysis study ( N = 946) examines how far political news is mediatized in the US and UK by systematically exploring the conventions used in television news bulletins. According to many of our mediatization of politics indicators – which included sound and imagebites, lip flaps, journalistic visibility, ‘wrapping up’, live and interpretive news – broadcasters with the most public service responsibilities supplied the high…
Towards a Transnational Lesbian Cinema
This article explores the relationship between lesbian independent cinema and transnational cinema in Europe. The first part of the article outlines two main directions--one thematic and the other aesthetic--in which independent lesbian films in Europe utilize aspects of transnational cinema. The next section considers how these films articulate lesbian desire in relation to new discourses of sexual citizenship and immigration in Europe. The thir…
The Cultural Politics of Lesbian Asylum: Angelina Maccarone's Unveiled (2005) and the Case of the Lesbian Asylum-Seeker
Although asylum for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals has been on the international human rights agenda since the early to mid 1990s, lesbian asylum cases do not tend to figure centrally in analyses of the relationship between refugee law and international human rights law. While a number of regional and comparative studies of lesbian asylum exist by legal activists and scholars, a discussion of the politics of lesbian asylum claims has …
Student-Created Curricular and Co-Curricular Pathways Toward Participation in a Diverse Democracy
This study explored the ways in which undergraduate students intentionally navigate complex curricular and co-curricular choices in preparation for engaging in a diverse democracy. Our study examined these choices among students at a university that lacks formal structures to facilitate these choices. Four curricular and co-curricular pathways that exemplify particular forms of the student experience across disciplines emerged and are discussed
What's Queer about Musicology Now
THE THREE ARTICLES FEATURED IN THIS Vibrations special section of Women & initially emerged as a result of an interdisciplinary graduate student conference on music and queer performance held at Cornell University in March 2007. (1) Jointly funded by the Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Studies Program and the Department of Music, the conference brought together graduate students and faculty working within the fields of musicology, women's and gender s…
Love as Persuasion in Monteverdi’s ‘L’incoronazione di Poppea’: New Thoughts on the Authorship Question
Focusing primarily upon Poppea’s transgressive rhetoric, which manoeuvres both inside and outside ideologies of the feminine in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, this article has two main objectives: first, to situate the gender confusion at the heart of the Poppea–Nerone relationship within the context of the sexually double nature of Renaissance rhetoric and, secondly, to locate these findings within the much broader issue of ‘Who wrote t…
Ladettes,” Social Representations, and Aggression
Ladettes,” Social Representations, and Aggression
The Cultural Politics of Lesbian Asylum: Angelina Maccarone's Unveiled (2005) and the Case of the Lesbian Asylum-Seeker
Although asylum for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals has been on the international human rights agenda since the early to mid 1990s, lesbian asylum cases do not tend to figure centrally in analyses of the relationship between refugee law and international human rights law. While a number of regional and comparative studies of lesbian asylum exist by legal activists and scholars, a discussion of the politics of lesbian asylum claims has …
Queer Migration in Homonationalist Times
Research Article| October 01 2019 Queer Migration in Homonationalist Times A Queer Way Out: The Politics of Queer Emigration from IsraelAmit, HilaAlbany: State University of New York Press, 2018. 227 pp.Pathways of Desire: The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay MenCarrillo, HéctorChicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 369 pp.Real Queer? Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee ApparatusMurray, David A. B.London: R…
Punitiveness Beyond Criminal Justice: Punishable and Punitive Subjects in an Era of Prevention, Anti-Migration and Austerity
This article advances a holistic conceptualization of punitiveness that acknowledges its complexity and contemporary social and political pervasiveness. We argue that punitiveness is best understood as a phenomenological complex operating at a personal, symbolic, political and structural level, which borrows from, but extrapolates the confines of criminal justice institutions. The article examines limitations in articulations of punitiveness in c…
Comparing levels of mediatization in television journalism: An analysis of political reporting on US and UK evening news bulletins
This comparative content analysis study ( N = 946) examines how far political news is mediatized in the US and UK by systematically exploring the conventions used in television news bulletins. According to many of our mediatization of politics indicators – which included sound and imagebites, lip flaps, journalistic visibility, ‘wrapping up’, live and interpretive news – broadcasters with the most public service responsibilities supplied the high…
What's Queer about Musicology Now
THE THREE ARTICLES FEATURED IN THIS Vibrations special section of Women & initially emerged as a result of an interdisciplinary graduate student conference on music and queer performance held at Cornell University in March 2007. (1) Jointly funded by the Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Studies Program and the Department of Music, the conference brought together graduate students and faculty working within the fields of musicology, women's and gender s…
Love as Persuasion in Monteverdi’s ‘L’incoronazione di Poppea’: New Thoughts on the Authorship Question
Focusing primarily upon Poppea’s transgressive rhetoric, which manoeuvres both inside and outside ideologies of the feminine in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, this article has two main objectives: first, to situate the gender confusion at the heart of the Poppea–Nerone relationship within the context of the sexually double nature of Renaissance rhetoric and, secondly, to locate these findings within the much broader issue of ‘Who wrote t…
Ladettes,” Social Representations, and Aggression
Love as Persuasion in Monteverdi’s ‘L’incoronazione di Poppea’: New Thoughts on the Authorship Question
Focusing primarily upon Poppea’s transgressive rhetoric, which manoeuvres both inside and outside ideologies of the feminine in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, this article has two main objectives: first, to situate the gender confusion at the heart of the Poppea–Nerone relationship within the context of the sexually double nature of Renaissance rhetoric and, secondly, to locate these findings within the much broader issue of ‘Who wrote t…
Student-Created Curricular and Co-Curricular Pathways Toward Participation in a Diverse Democracy
This study explored the ways in which undergraduate students intentionally navigate complex curricular and co-curricular choices in preparation for engaging in a diverse democracy. Our study examined these choices among students at a university that lacks formal structures to facilitate these choices. Four curricular and co-curricular pathways that exemplify particular forms of the student experience across disciplines emerged and are discussed
What's Queer about Musicology Now
THE THREE ARTICLES FEATURED IN THIS Vibrations special section of Women & initially emerged as a result of an interdisciplinary graduate student conference on music and queer performance held at Cornell University in March 2007. (1) Jointly funded by the Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Studies Program and the Department of Music, the conference brought together graduate students and faculty working within the fields of musicology, women's and gender s…
The Cultural Politics of Lesbian Asylum: Angelina Maccarone's Unveiled (2005) and the Case of the Lesbian Asylum-Seeker
Although asylum for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals has been on the international human rights agenda since the early to mid 1990s, lesbian asylum cases do not tend to figure centrally in analyses of the relationship between refugee law and international human rights law. While a number of regional and comparative studies of lesbian asylum exist by legal activists and scholars, a discussion of the politics of lesbian asylum claims has …
Towards a Transnational Lesbian Cinema
This article explores the relationship between lesbian independent cinema and transnational cinema in Europe. The first part of the article outlines two main directions--one thematic and the other aesthetic--in which independent lesbian films in Europe utilize aspects of transnational cinema. The next section considers how these films articulate lesbian desire in relation to new discourses of sexual citizenship and immigration in Europe. The thir…
“Gay? Prove it”: The politics of queer anti-deportation activism
This article examines how gender, sexuality, race and class intersect in queer asylum claims to influence the perceived credibility of gay and lesbian asylum applicants. Building on recent scholarship in queer migration studies that considers the role of gender and sexuality in the social construction of migrant illegality, this article explores how practices of credibility assessment in the political asylum process produce women and sexual minor…
Introduction: Queer migration, asylum, and displacement
This special issue of Sexualities emerges in response to the growing visibility of LGBTQI immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers within global gay rights advocacy. Despite the increasing prominence of LGBTQI issues on the international human rights agenda, there has been relatively little discussion of the relationship between queer migration and LGBTQI human rights activism in the field of sexuality studies. This special issue seeks to bring qu…
Models for Access to Maternal Smoking cessation Support (MAMSS): A study protocol of a quasi-experiment to increase the engagement of pregnant women who smoke in NHS Stop Smoking Services
Supporting pregnant women to stop smoking is a challenging area of public health. The proposed study will address several areas where there are key evidence gaps relating to smoking cessation interventions for pregnant women. Specifically, how best to encourage pregnant women to attend a specialist stop smoking support service, how to deliver the service and who should provide it
Comparing levels of mediatization in television journalism: An analysis of political reporting on US and UK evening news bulletins
This comparative content analysis study ( N = 946) examines how far political news is mediatized in the US and UK by systematically exploring the conventions used in television news bulletins. According to many of our mediatization of politics indicators – which included sound and imagebites, lip flaps, journalistic visibility, ‘wrapping up’, live and interpretive news – broadcasters with the most public service responsibilities supplied the high…
Precarious Rhetorics
OUR COLLEC TION has come together in the midst of the rise of the global Right.It will likely be received and circulate in a global context wherein this ascendency has been consolidated through an entrenched hard-right populism, marked by xenophobia and racialized social orderings, and characterized by nativist, heteronormative, hypermasculine, and heteropatriarchal leadership styles and structures.Such structures are apparent in the authoritaria…
Punitiveness Beyond Criminal Justice: Punishable and Punitive Subjects in an Era of Prevention, Anti-Migration and Austerity
This article advances a holistic conceptualization of punitiveness that acknowledges its complexity and contemporary social and political pervasiveness. We argue that punitiveness is best understood as a phenomenological complex operating at a personal, symbolic, political and structural level, which borrows from, but extrapolates the confines of criminal justice institutions. The article examines limitations in articulations of punitiveness in c…
Queer Migration in Homonationalist Times
Research Article| October 01 2019 Queer Migration in Homonationalist Times A Queer Way Out: The Politics of Queer Emigration from IsraelAmit, HilaAlbany: State University of New York Press, 2018. 227 pp.Pathways of Desire: The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay MenCarrillo, HéctorChicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 369 pp.Real Queer? Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee ApparatusMurray, David A. B.London: R…
Queering deportability: The racial and gendered politics of lesbian anti-deportation activism
This article explores how deportability structures the experiences of lesbian refugees and asylum seekers in the United Kingdom. The first part of the article considers the racial and gendered processes through which the UK asylum system transforms lesbian migrants into detainable and deportable subjects. Part two then examines lesbian migrant protests that are emerging to contest the United Kingdom’s participation in the global deportation regim…
Vulnerability, Pleasure, and Animal Rights
The fact that one’s body is never fully one’s own ... is the condition of passionate encounter, of desire, of longing, and of those modes of address and addressability ... on which the feeling of alive
Meta-synthesis of qualitative research on the barriers and facilitators to implementing workplace mental health interventions
There has been a rapid increase in the number of mental health interventions implemented in the workplace. The efficacy of these interventions has been mixed. The factors influencing implementation may offer insights to why some interventions fail to be effective. We conducted a meta-synthesis of qualitative research on the barriers and facilitators to implementing workplace mental health interventions. We evaluated the quality of evidence using …
Soil surface flux measurements are a reliable means for assessing fugitive gas migration across soils and seasons
As oil and gas wells age and the number of wells drilled increases to meet demand, we may see more instances of fugitive soil gas migration (GM) and associated methane (CH4) emissions. Due to the immense spatiotemporal variability of soils and uncertainty in measurement practice, the detection and quantification of GM emissions is a challenge. Two common measurement techniques include the shallow in-soil gas concentration approach and soil surfac…
Anxious Vigilance and the Production of (Il)legitimacy in the UK Citizenship Regime: “It’s How You Sift Them Out, Y’know?”
This article examines the navigation and enactment of vigilance in the UK citizenship regime. Drawing on data from a four-year research project in a UK city, including observations of citizenship ceremonies and interviews with institutional actors and citizen-candidates, it sees vigilance as a central feature of the naturalization process, with watchfulness oriented toward three key areas: the bureaucratic precision, the linguistic proficiency, a…
Decolonizing Interspecies Relationality: Disability, Animal Rescue, and the Ethics of Transnational Adoption
The article examines neoliberal and anthropocentric discourses of disability inclusion in the context of animal rescue. The first part offers a close reading of two US-based documentaries— Guardians of Recoleta (Kuhre) and God’s Little People (Berkley)—both of which perpetuate ableist and anthropocentric assumptions about transnational adoption as a “cure” or solution for animals with illnesses and disabilities. Drawing upon ethnographic particip…
“It’s Business”: A Qualitative Study of Moral Injury in Business Settings; Experiences, Outcomes and Protecting and Exacerbating Factors
Moral injury has primarily been studied from a clinical perspective to assess, diagnose and treat the outcomes of morally injurious experiences in healthcare and military settings. Little is known about the lived experiences of those who have had their moral values transgressed in business settings. Public scandals such as Enron suggest that moral injury may also occur in for-profit business settings. In this qualitative study, we examine the liv…
Increasing workforce psychological flexibility through organization-wide training: Influence on stress resilience, job burnout, and performance
There is growing interest in the role of psychological flexibility as a potential resilience factor in workplace settings for protecting employees against the risk of job burnout. This field study contributes to the literature by investigating the utility of delivering brief ACT-informed training to the entire regional workforce of an innovation and manufacturing organization. A total of 504 employees attended the training, 281 of whom completed …
Developing Self-Compassion in Healthcare Professionals Utilising a Brief Online Intervention: A Randomised Waitlist Control Trial
(1) Background: The level of stress experienced by staff in the healthcare sector is highly prevalent and well documented. Self-compassion may support the health and wellbeing of individuals and enable them to stay well at work. This study aimed to understand whether a brief, online, self-guided, novel intervention improved the health and wellbeing of healthcare professionals. (2) Methods: In a parallel randomised controlled trial, a volunteer sa…
Manager–Team (Dis)agreement on Stress-Preventive Behaviours: Relationship with Psychosocial Work Environment and Employees’ Well-Being
The "Management Competencies to Prevent and Reduce Stress at Work" (MCPARS) approach focuses on identifying the stress-preventive managers' competencies able to optimise the employees' well-being through the management of the psychosocial work environment. Considering leadership as contextualised in complex social dynamics, the self-other agreement (SOA) investigation of the MCPARS may enhance previous findings, as it allows for exploring the man…
Feline Entanglements: Feminist Interspecies Care and Solidarity in a Post-Pandemic World
While the concept of interspecies solidarity has been central to ecofeminist work on animal rights since the 1980s, less attention has been devoted to the question of animal desire within the feminist animal care tradition, the majority of which has focused on women's and animals’ shared oppression under patriarchy. This article offers a reformulation of feminist animal care ethics, one that seeks to recenter animal desire as the ground for inter…
Teachable Moments: Possibilities for Police Reform Through Arts-Led Police Community Engagement in England and Wales
In the context of historically low levels of public trust in policing in England and Wales, this paper considers the contribution of arts-led modes of police-community engagement as part of a broader project of change for the police. A processual perspective on policing suggests that it is how the police enact their role, more than substantive outcomes, which influences public perceptions of the police. In this context, Procedural Justice Theory,…
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Law (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Lesbian (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (4 works)