Sara Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687761 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Louisville |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2213-749X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Recognizing and Addressing Health Care Barriers for Transgender and Nonbinary People Living With a Chronic Illness or Disability
This paper explores the health care experiences of individuals who are transgender and/or nonbinary (TGNB) and live with a chronic illness and/or disability (CI/D). Using an interpretivist epistemological worldview and an intersectional lens, the research team explored the compounded barriers faced by this patient population and propose solutions for improving their care. The study conducted in-depth interviews with TGNB individuals who self-iden…
Teaching Note—Beyond #Freebritney
Britney Spears’s 2020 testimony about her 13-year conservatorship highlighted ethical concerns surrounding surrogate decision making. Social workers engage with families and clients in conservatorship/guardianship arrangements. However, social work educational programs spend little time preparing students for surrogate decision making and advocacy. Guided by the pedagogical technique of scaffolding and the Spears family case, this teaching note p…
Moving Beyond Practice
Anthropology’s “ethical turn” opens space for dialogue with Christian ethicists engaged in the “ethnographic turn” using a common virtue-inflected language and set of concerns. While moral theologian Michael Banner has called for such a dialogue, there has been a lack of cross-pollination between Banner’s account and the broader ethnographic turn, which has turned to the practice theory of Pierre Bourdieu as its main social scientific interlocute…
Mental health among lesbian, gay, bisexual and other non-heterosexual adults in United States prisons
Cultural competency and mental health training for medical students
Objective: Studies suggest that healthcare professionals often feel unprepared to deal with mental health issues in refugees and asylum seekers. The aim of this qualitative study was to examine the experiences of refugees and asylum seekers in relation to mental health and healthcare, to inform cultural competency training for undergraduate medical students. Method: Focus groups were conducted with 16 refugees and asylum seekers and staff from re…
Journeys to and among the Margins
This article examines the intersection of racial and religious identity among progressive US Christians in the context of transnational travel. We approach our analysis through a comparative ethnographic study of two majority-Black and two majority-white Christian Palestinian solidarity tours, representing mainline, evangelical, and historically Black Protestant progressive theological traditions. We conceptualize majority-white tours as “journey…
Voices in a Pandemic
The Way of the Cross in the Ordinary
This essay develops the idea of ‘invitational ethics,’ engagement with ethnographic description as normative praxis. I argue that by attending to ways in which people exercise practical wisdom in ordinary moments, the ethnographer and reader alike are invited to engage their own processes of ethical self-making. I draw on ethnographic fieldwork with the Way of the Cross for Justice, an annual Good Friday public liturgy in Cincinnati, Ohio, as a s…
Learning for resilience’ as the climate changes
Climate change scenarios project higher flood risk, so knowing how households can increase socio-ecological resilience is essential. Children rarely feature in UK policy guidance about how households prepare for floods, and research is limited about children’s roles in local resilience building. Using a participatory action research, child-centred methodology we explored (7-9year old) children’s knowledge, skills and dispositions in discussions a…
Moral Commodities and the Practice of Freedom
This essay explores an increasingly popular genre of organized group travel in white mainline and emerging evangelical US Christianity I call “journeys to the margins”: trips centered on learning from marginalized persons for the traveler’s ethical formation. Drawing on ethnographic research with one case study, “Come and See Tours” to Israel/Palestine, I interrogate how the commodified form of these trips shape possibilities for ethical subjecti…
Exploring lived experience in gender and sexual minority suicide attempt survivors
Gender and sexual minorities (GSM) are at a higher risk for victimization, discrimination, and emotional distress. GSM also face unique stressors that contribute to negative mental health outcomes, such as family and interpersonal rejection, ostracism and isolation, and internalized gender and sexual stigma. Suicide attempt survivors often experience similar stigma and isolation after an attempt. However, little is known about the specific experi…
Examining a typology of fire service-related anti-social behaviour
From Brigade to Service
Over the last ten years, local government modernisation and the growth of community safety agendas have called for change in the public sector at a local level. This has been typified by partnership work, improvement and inspection and community governance. The fire and rescue services, despite some initial cultural difficulties, haveworked hard to adapt themselves to modern local government, for example through community fire safety work, which …
We are guinea pigs really’
The use of information and communications technology (ICT) to facilitate easy access to lifelong learning for all is one of the central tenets of the UK government's drive to establish a ‘learning society’. At the heart of initiatives such as the ‘University for Industry’ and ‘learndirect’ are the objectives of increasing access to educational opportunities, thereby widening adult participation in lifelong learning. In so doing the government has…
The role of the ‘technical fix’ in UK lifelong education policy
The integral place of information and communications technology (ICT) in UK lifelong education has been established by a series of technology-based initiatives introduced by the New Labour government since 1997. Initiatives such as the University for Industry, learndirect, People's Network and National Grid for Learning are being implemented as part of a coherent lifelong education policy-agenda fundamentally based upon the use of ICT. Yet, benea…
The role of the 'technical fix' in UK lifelong education policy
Must Try Harder! Problems Facing Technological Solutions to Non‐participation in Adult Learning
The current Government has placed lifelong learning high on its agenda, both for reasons of economic benefit and to increase social inclusion. At ‘half‐term’, what are the prospects for a ‘pass' in this course? Using data from a new National Institute of Adult Continuing Education survey of adult participation in learning, and early results from participant observation of the setting up of a ‘virtual college’, as well as published findings from p…
Adopted Children Admitted to Residential Psychiatric Care
In an investigation of adopted children admitted to residential, psychiatric care over a five year period it was found that the percentage of adoptees far outnumbered their proportion in the general population. Clinical variables related to adoption were analyzed and early deprivation in the child and family pathology were found to be major factors in many cases. It was suggested that these findings should not discredit adoption as such, but rath…
Poe and women
Poe and women: recognition and revision." Journal of Gender Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsSara WilliamsSara Williams is an independent scholar focusing on the maternal gaze and mothers in the Gothic. Her monograph The Maternal Gaze in the Gothic is forthcoming from Palgrave in June 2024. Other areas of …
Learning for resilience’ as the climate changes
Climate change scenarios project higher flood risk, so knowing how households can increase socio-ecological resilience is essential. Children rarely feature in UK policy guidance about how households prepare for floods, and research is limited about children’s roles in local resilience building. Using a participatory action research, child-centred methodology we explored (7-9year old) children’s knowledge, skills and dispositions in discussions a…
Adopted Children Admitted to Residential Psychiatric Care
In an investigation of adopted children admitted to residential, psychiatric care over a five year period it was found that the percentage of adoptees far outnumbered their proportion in the general population. Clinical variables related to adoption were analyzed and early deprivation in the child and family pathology were found to be major factors in many cases. It was suggested that these findings should not discredit adoption as such, but rath…
Journeys to and among the Margins
This article examines the intersection of racial and religious identity among progressive US Christians in the context of transnational travel. We approach our analysis through a comparative ethnographic study of two majority-Black and two majority-white Christian Palestinian solidarity tours, representing mainline, evangelical, and historically Black Protestant progressive theological traditions. We conceptualize majority-white tours as “journey…
From Brigade to Service
Over the last ten years, local government modernisation and the growth of community safety agendas have called for change in the public sector at a local level. This has been typified by partnership work, improvement and inspection and community governance. The fire and rescue services, despite some initial cultural difficulties, haveworked hard to adapt themselves to modern local government, for example through community fire safety work, which …
We are guinea pigs really’
The use of information and communications technology (ICT) to facilitate easy access to lifelong learning for all is one of the central tenets of the UK government's drive to establish a ‘learning society’. At the heart of initiatives such as the ‘University for Industry’ and ‘learndirect’ are the objectives of increasing access to educational opportunities, thereby widening adult participation in lifelong learning. In so doing the government has…
The role of the ‘technical fix’ in UK lifelong education policy
The integral place of information and communications technology (ICT) in UK lifelong education has been established by a series of technology-based initiatives introduced by the New Labour government since 1997. Initiatives such as the University for Industry, learndirect, People's Network and National Grid for Learning are being implemented as part of a coherent lifelong education policy-agenda fundamentally based upon the use of ICT. Yet, benea…
The role of the 'technical fix' in UK lifelong education policy
Adopted Children Admitted to Residential Psychiatric Care
In an investigation of adopted children admitted to residential, psychiatric care over a five year period it was found that the percentage of adoptees far outnumbered their proportion in the general population. Clinical variables related to adoption were analyzed and early deprivation in the child and family pathology were found to be major factors in many cases. It was suggested that these findings should not discredit adoption as such, but rath…
Must Try Harder! Problems Facing Technological Solutions to Non‐participation in Adult Learning
The current Government has placed lifelong learning high on its agenda, both for reasons of economic benefit and to increase social inclusion. At ‘half‐term’, what are the prospects for a ‘pass' in this course? Using data from a new National Institute of Adult Continuing Education survey of adult participation in learning, and early results from participant observation of the setting up of a ‘virtual college’, as well as published findings from p…
The role of the ‘technical fix’ in UK lifelong education policy
The integral place of information and communications technology (ICT) in UK lifelong education has been established by a series of technology-based initiatives introduced by the New Labour government since 1997. Initiatives such as the University for Industry, learndirect, People's Network and National Grid for Learning are being implemented as part of a coherent lifelong education policy-agenda fundamentally based upon the use of ICT. Yet, benea…
The role of the 'technical fix' in UK lifelong education policy
We are guinea pigs really’
The use of information and communications technology (ICT) to facilitate easy access to lifelong learning for all is one of the central tenets of the UK government's drive to establish a ‘learning society’. At the heart of initiatives such as the ‘University for Industry’ and ‘learndirect’ are the objectives of increasing access to educational opportunities, thereby widening adult participation in lifelong learning. In so doing the government has…
From Brigade to Service
Over the last ten years, local government modernisation and the growth of community safety agendas have called for change in the public sector at a local level. This has been typified by partnership work, improvement and inspection and community governance. The fire and rescue services, despite some initial cultural difficulties, haveworked hard to adapt themselves to modern local government, for example through community fire safety work, which …
Examining a typology of fire service-related anti-social behaviour
Exploring lived experience in gender and sexual minority suicide attempt survivors
Gender and sexual minorities (GSM) are at a higher risk for victimization, discrimination, and emotional distress. GSM also face unique stressors that contribute to negative mental health outcomes, such as family and interpersonal rejection, ostracism and isolation, and internalized gender and sexual stigma. Suicide attempt survivors often experience similar stigma and isolation after an attempt. However, little is known about the specific experi…
Moral Commodities and the Practice of Freedom
This essay explores an increasingly popular genre of organized group travel in white mainline and emerging evangelical US Christianity I call “journeys to the margins”: trips centered on learning from marginalized persons for the traveler’s ethical formation. Drawing on ethnographic research with one case study, “Come and See Tours” to Israel/Palestine, I interrogate how the commodified form of these trips shape possibilities for ethical subjecti…
The Way of the Cross in the Ordinary
This essay develops the idea of ‘invitational ethics,’ engagement with ethnographic description as normative praxis. I argue that by attending to ways in which people exercise practical wisdom in ordinary moments, the ethnographer and reader alike are invited to engage their own processes of ethical self-making. I draw on ethnographic fieldwork with the Way of the Cross for Justice, an annual Good Friday public liturgy in Cincinnati, Ohio, as a s…
Learning for resilience’ as the climate changes
Climate change scenarios project higher flood risk, so knowing how households can increase socio-ecological resilience is essential. Children rarely feature in UK policy guidance about how households prepare for floods, and research is limited about children’s roles in local resilience building. Using a participatory action research, child-centred methodology we explored (7-9year old) children’s knowledge, skills and dispositions in discussions a…
Voices in a Pandemic
Mental health among lesbian, gay, bisexual and other non-heterosexual adults in United States prisons
Cultural competency and mental health training for medical students
Objective: Studies suggest that healthcare professionals often feel unprepared to deal with mental health issues in refugees and asylum seekers. The aim of this qualitative study was to examine the experiences of refugees and asylum seekers in relation to mental health and healthcare, to inform cultural competency training for undergraduate medical students. Method: Focus groups were conducted with 16 refugees and asylum seekers and staff from re…
Journeys to and among the Margins
This article examines the intersection of racial and religious identity among progressive US Christians in the context of transnational travel. We approach our analysis through a comparative ethnographic study of two majority-Black and two majority-white Christian Palestinian solidarity tours, representing mainline, evangelical, and historically Black Protestant progressive theological traditions. We conceptualize majority-white tours as “journey…
Teaching Note—Beyond #Freebritney
Britney Spears’s 2020 testimony about her 13-year conservatorship highlighted ethical concerns surrounding surrogate decision making. Social workers engage with families and clients in conservatorship/guardianship arrangements. However, social work educational programs spend little time preparing students for surrogate decision making and advocacy. Guided by the pedagogical technique of scaffolding and the Spears family case, this teaching note p…
Moving Beyond Practice
Anthropology’s “ethical turn” opens space for dialogue with Christian ethicists engaged in the “ethnographic turn” using a common virtue-inflected language and set of concerns. While moral theologian Michael Banner has called for such a dialogue, there has been a lack of cross-pollination between Banner’s account and the broader ethnographic turn, which has turned to the practice theory of Pierre Bourdieu as its main social scientific interlocute…
Poe and women
Poe and women: recognition and revision." Journal of Gender Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsSara WilliamsSara Williams is an independent scholar focusing on the maternal gaze and mothers in the Gothic. Her monograph The Maternal Gaze in the Gothic is forthcoming from Palgrave in June 2024. Other areas of …
Recognizing and Addressing Health Care Barriers for Transgender and Nonbinary People Living With a Chronic Illness or Disability
This paper explores the health care experiences of individuals who are transgender and/or nonbinary (TGNB) and live with a chronic illness and/or disability (CI/D). Using an interpretivist epistemological worldview and an intersectional lens, the research team explored the compounded barriers faced by this patient population and propose solutions for improving their care. The study conducted in-depth interviews with TGNB individuals who self-iden…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Lifelong learning (4 works)