Fiona Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fiona Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fiona |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7381-4350 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 384 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 37 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Exploring calling to farming careers in the United Kingdom
Through a UK lens, this scoping review explores whether farming careers can be considered as a calling, and thus better understood through Work as Calling Theory [Duffy, R. D., Dik, B. J., Douglass, R. P., England, J. W., & Velez, B. L. (2018). Work as a calling: A theoretical model. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 65(4), 423–439. https://do.org/10.1037/cou0000276]. A methodological approach aligned to Arksey and O’Malley’s [(2005). Scoping stu…
What are the priority research questions for digital agriculture
There is a need to identify key existing and emerging issues relevant to digitalisation in agricultural production that would benefit from a stronger evidence base and help steer policy formulation. To address this, a prioritisation exercise was undertaken to identify priority research questions concerning digital agriculture in the UK, but with a view to also informing international contexts. The prioritisation exercise uses an established and e…
Sleepwalking into the ‘Post-Racial’
Research-led teaching is the sine qua non of the 21 st century university. To understand its possibilities for teaching and learning about race in Social Policy requires, as a first step, interrogating the epistemological and theoretical core of the discipline, as well as its organisational dynamics. Using parts of Emirbayer and Desmond’s (2012) framework of disciplinary reflexivity, this article traces the discipline’s habits of thought but also…
Advancing rural as ‘something more than a human estate’
Combining Social Policy and Development Studies
Intersectionality, gender and social policy
This chapter is about intersectionality as a way of thinking about the dynamics of multiple social relations of power of which gender is a part, and its relevance to social policy. Intersectionality is a method of analysis which recognizes that our experiences of power and inequality are constituted not simply by gender, or gender and class, but by the places we occupy on the many salient and changing axes of power that exist in any given time an…
Remote rural home based businesses and digital inequalities
The digital economy offers home based micro-businesses in rural areas many advantages but stubborn social, economic and territorial digital divides continue to create challenges for this sector of the rural economy. Complex digital inequalities are illustrated in our case studies of the digital behaviour and Internet experiences of those running micro, home based businesses in a remote, digitally underserved rural community before, during and aft…
Care
This article develops an understanding of how and why care is a central issue for personal relationships and for global sustainability and justice. Three approaches inform the synthetic analytical framework: intersectionality; the transnational political economy of care within the context of global crises of care, finance, environment and migration; and the ethics of care. The article applies these to an analysis that can account for the multidir…
The digital divide
The Internet can bestow significant benefits upon those who use it. The prima facie case for an urban-rural digital divide is widely acknowledged, but detailed accounts of the spatial patterns of digital communications infrastructure are rarely reported. In this paper we present original analysis of data published by the UK telecommunications regulator, Ofcom, and identify and reflect on the entrenched nature of the urban-rural digital divide in …
Critical Thinking in Social Policy
This article reviews the development of critical thinking in social policy over four decades. First, it draws out the key insights of the early foundational critiques of the 1970s and 1980s especially around gender and race in their articulation with class. Second, it synthesizes two attempts in the 1990s to provide integrated critical analyses of the destabilization of the Keynesian welfare state and situates them in relation to the movement of …
Revisioning Gender, an Introduction
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 22, Number 4, Winter 2015
Making Connections Across the Transnational Political Economy of Care
In her book on Virginia Woolf, Mrs Woolf and the Servants, Alison Light documents beautifully the end of the earlier bourgeois period of the servant. Virginia Woolf, a feminist icon, wrote both brutally and with affection about Nellie, the woman who dutifully administered unto her for sixteen years. The question of Nellie was never far from her mind: she anguished continuously about this asymmetrical relationship of emotional, physical and econom…
Care relations and public policy
Care has become an urgent personal and political issue. This article focuses on the different interpretations of care needs; it examines the dynamic between, on the one side, the claims around care to emerge from different constituencies ‘from below’, that is, from movements and organisations of those with unpaid and paid caring responsibilities and with needs for support, and, on the other side, the framing and implementation of care policies ‘f…
Converging variations in migrant care work in Europe
While the employment of migrant women as care workers in European welfare states is increasing, the rate, extent and nature of this increase vary. The article draws on empirical research on migrant care work to develop links between three levels of analysis – micro, meso and macro. The main aim is to progress analysis of the meso level by developing indicators attached to three sets of regimes – care regimes, migration regimes and employment regi…
Care, markets and migration in a globalising world
Over the past two decades three phenomena have grown in social, political and economic significance for welfare states in Europe and beyond: the development of care provision for young children and older and disabled adults; the promotion of markets and the widespread use of market mechanisms to deliver welfare services; and the migration of workers, an increasing number of whom are women, from poorer to richer regions of the world. In this Speci…
Towards a Transnational Analysis of the Political Economy of Care
The resurgence of the employment of domestic and care workers in private homes in many industrialised countries over the last two decades has been shaped by important social changes, most notable among this are the increased responsibilities and rights of women across the globe to be both earners and carers. This reflects graduated shifts from the ‘male breadwinner’ to ‘adult worker’ model taking place in many industrialised societies and unemplo…
Social Investment Frames and Social Justice Claims in Competing Interpretations of Care Needs
Social relations, welfare and the post-Fordism debate
Migration and Care
The phenomenon of migrant workers finding domestic and care work in the homes and institutions of countries wealthier than their own uncovers much about social change in the twenty-first century. First, it reveals the consequences of women taking on more responsibilities to earn income but without a significant rebalancing of their care responsibilities either with male partners or through state support. In the poorer regions of the world, unempl…
Migration et garde des enfants à domicile en Europe
Cet article porte sur la redistribution transnationale des soins — en d’autres termes, la façon dont les politiques de la petite enfance et les politiques migratoires interfèrent sur l’emploi des migrantes, en tant que travailleuses domestiques et assistantes maternelles au sein des foyers européens. Il est centré sur la demande de services concernant la prise en charge des jeunes enfants, en liant cette question à la dimension sexuée de la citoy…
Introduction
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2008
Gendering citizenship in Western Europe
Gendering citizenship in Western EuropeNew challenges for citizenship research in a cross-national context
This is a collectively written, inter-disciplinary, thematic cross-national study that combines conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and policy material so as to explore a key concept in contemporary European political, policy, and academic debates. The first part of the book clarifies the various ways in which the concept of citizenship has developed historically and is understood today in a range of Western European welfare states. It elaborates…
Care, Values and Support in Local Self-help Groups
This article examines ‘care’ and ‘values’ in local self-help groups and voluntary organisations which mobilise around partnering and parenting. It finds that a shared identity based upon common experiences of misrecognition and stigma is the most significant element of involvement. This provides the basis for new knowledge, for challenging professional practice, and for alternative practices of care and support based on trust, reciprocity and mut…
Introduction
The papers in the themed section emerge from the work of the ESRC Research Group on Care, Values and the Future of Welfare (CAVA), based at the University of Leeds. CAVA was funded from 1999 to undertake a five-year programme of research into changes in parenting and partnering in Britain and their implications for future social policies. At the heart of CAVA's research is an investigation into the values that people attach to their parenting and…
Converging variations in migrant care work in Europe
While the employment of migrant women as care workers in European welfare states is increasing, the rate, extent and nature of this increase vary. The article draws on empirical research on migrant care work to develop links between three levels of analysis – micro, meso and macro. The main aim is to progress analysis of the meso level by developing indicators attached to three sets of regimes – care regimes, migration regimes and employment regi…
Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in Welfare States
Journal Article Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in Welfare States: A Framework for Comparative Analysis Get access FIONA WILLIAMS FIONA WILLIAMS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 1995, Pages 127–159, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/2.2.127 Published: 01 July 1995
Migration and Care
The phenomenon of migrant workers finding domestic and care work in the homes and institutions of countries wealthier than their own uncovers much about social change in the twenty-first century. First, it reveals the consequences of women taking on more responsibilities to earn income but without a significant rebalancing of their care responsibilities either with male partners or through state support. In the poorer regions of the world, unempl…
Good-enough Principles for Welfare
The aim of this article is to widen the grounds of the debate on the relationship between values, social change and welfare reform. The article argues that these politics and campaigns have, along with both the New Right and New Labour, attempted to construct a new vision of an 'active welfare subject'. In the process they have also expanded the moral repertoire for understanding people's engagement with welfare beyond the self-interest/altruism …
The digital divide
The Internet can bestow significant benefits upon those who use it. The prima facie case for an urban-rural digital divide is widely acknowledged, but detailed accounts of the spatial patterns of digital communications infrastructure are rarely reported. In this paper we present original analysis of data published by the UK telecommunications regulator, Ofcom, and identify and reflect on the entrenched nature of the urban-rural digital divide in …
Care, markets and migration in a globalising world
Over the past two decades three phenomena have grown in social, political and economic significance for welfare states in Europe and beyond: the development of care provision for young children and older and disabled adults; the promotion of markets and the widespread use of market mechanisms to deliver welfare services; and the migration of workers, an increasing number of whom are women, from poorer to richer regions of the world. In this Speci…
Remote rural home based businesses and digital inequalities
The digital economy offers home based micro-businesses in rural areas many advantages but stubborn social, economic and territorial digital divides continue to create challenges for this sector of the rural economy. Complex digital inequalities are illustrated in our case studies of the digital behaviour and Internet experiences of those running micro, home based businesses in a remote, digitally underserved rural community before, during and aft…
Care
This article develops an understanding of how and why care is a central issue for personal relationships and for global sustainability and justice. Three approaches inform the synthetic analytical framework: intersectionality; the transnational political economy of care within the context of global crises of care, finance, environment and migration; and the ethics of care. The article applies these to an analysis that can account for the multidir…
The presence of feminism in the future of welfare
This article argues that the contribution of second wave feminism to new welfare practice and provision is greater than recent discussions of welfare reforms have acknowledged. Along with other new social movements and grass-roots welfare campaigns, feminist activism and its critiques provide an important moral and political case for a new welfare society. This paper proposes four principles which underpin such a case – autonomy, mutualism, inclu…
Racism and the discipline of social policy
Most social policy texts make only marginal, if any, reference to racism in the welfare state, or the experiences and struggles of Black people. Welf are theory likewise has failed to take account of major theoretical work on 'race' and class. These challenges are explored here and a tentative framework of analysis is offered for understanding the historical and contemporary relationship between "race', racism and the welfare state
Critical Thinking in Social Policy
This article reviews the development of critical thinking in social policy over four decades. First, it draws out the key insights of the early foundational critiques of the 1970s and 1980s especially around gender and race in their articulation with class. Second, it synthesizes two attempts in the 1990s to provide integrated critical analyses of the destabilization of the Keynesian welfare state and situates them in relation to the movement of …
Care relations and public policy
Care has become an urgent personal and political issue. This article focuses on the different interpretations of care needs; it examines the dynamic between, on the one side, the claims around care to emerge from different constituencies ‘from below’, that is, from movements and organisations of those with unpaid and paid caring responsibilities and with needs for support, and, on the other side, the framing and implementation of care policies ‘f…
Sleepwalking into the ‘Post-Racial’
Research-led teaching is the sine qua non of the 21 st century university. To understand its possibilities for teaching and learning about race in Social Policy requires, as a first step, interrogating the epistemological and theoretical core of the discipline, as well as its organisational dynamics. Using parts of Emirbayer and Desmond’s (2012) framework of disciplinary reflexivity, this article traces the discipline’s habits of thought but also…
Advancing rural as ‘something more than a human estate’
Care, Values and Support in Local Self-help Groups
This article examines ‘care’ and ‘values’ in local self-help groups and voluntary organisations which mobilise around partnering and parenting. It finds that a shared identity based upon common experiences of misrecognition and stigma is the most significant element of involvement. This provides the basis for new knowledge, for challenging professional practice, and for alternative practices of care and support based on trust, reciprocity and mut…
What are the priority research questions for digital agriculture
There is a need to identify key existing and emerging issues relevant to digitalisation in agricultural production that would benefit from a stronger evidence base and help steer policy formulation. To address this, a prioritisation exercise was undertaken to identify priority research questions concerning digital agriculture in the UK, but with a view to also informing international contexts. The prioritisation exercise uses an established and e…
Revisioning Gender, an Introduction
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 22, Number 4, Winter 2015
Introduction
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2008
Introduction
The papers in the themed section emerge from the work of the ESRC Research Group on Care, Values and the Future of Welfare (CAVA), based at the University of Leeds. CAVA was funded from 1999 to undertake a five-year programme of research into changes in parenting and partnering in Britain and their implications for future social policies. At the heart of CAVA's research is an investigation into the values that people attach to their parenting and…
Migration et garde des enfants à domicile en Europe
Cet article porte sur la redistribution transnationale des soins — en d’autres termes, la façon dont les politiques de la petite enfance et les politiques migratoires interfèrent sur l’emploi des migrantes, en tant que travailleuses domestiques et assistantes maternelles au sein des foyers européens. Il est centré sur la demande de services concernant la prise en charge des jeunes enfants, en liant cette question à la dimension sexuée de la citoy…
The Manpower Services Commission and the Youth Training Scheme
of the service as a mere agent of policy loyally carried through by the Commission. No single authority can hope to act alone, but those in a prominent position, such as Sheffield, have a responsibility to take a lead in ensuring that the ground rules drawn give clear direction for a coherent stand
Racism and the discipline of social policy
Most social policy texts make only marginal, if any, reference to racism in the welfare state, or the experiences and struggles of Black people. Welf are theory likewise has failed to take account of major theoretical work on 'race' and class. These challenges are explored here and a tentative framework of analysis is offered for understanding the historical and contemporary relationship between "race', racism and the welfare state
Cutural Relativism and the Evaluation of ‘Progress’
Cutural Relativism and the Evaluation of 'Progress
A report of the fifth annual conference of the European Forum of Socialist-feminists, Gothenburg, Sweden, November 24-26, 1989
Research Methods in Occupational Epidemiology
Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in Welfare States
Journal Article Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in Welfare States: A Framework for Comparative Analysis Get access FIONA WILLIAMS FIONA WILLIAMS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 1995, Pages 127–159, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/2.2.127 Published: 01 July 1995
Community Care
Introduction - COMMUNITY - Introduction - Anthology: The Breadth of Community C.Pereira - Representations of Community J.Bornat - Women and Community F.Williams - A Women's Health Group in Mansfield J.Finch - Neighbourhood Care and Social Policy: Extracts R.Snaith - Neighbours S.Croft & P.Beresford - Two Views of Community Service: Reflections of a Voluntary Worker M.Simey - Community as Service E.& S.Yeo - CARE - Introduction - An Anthology: Car…
Reflections on the Intersections of Social Relations in the New Political Economy
Issue 51 of SPE was devoted to analyses of the ways race, ethnicity, gender, class and sexuality operate as intersecting and mutually constitutive social relations. Each contribution in the collection demonstrates the possibility for juggling with these complexities in order to provide a new narrative of the contemporary and historical relationship of these intersections with state policies and the international political economy
Critical Social Policy special issue
UK study of intrapartum care for low risk primigravidas
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine the extent of intrapartum intervention received by primigravidas. DESIGN: Cross sectional survey of NHS hospitals in the UK. SETTING: One hundred and one randomly selected hospital maternity units. PARTICIPANTS: Forty consecutive primigravid women, judged to be at low risk at the start of labour, in each hospital. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Seven groups of interventions or monitoring procedures were identified from the f…
Good-enough Principles for Welfare
The aim of this article is to widen the grounds of the debate on the relationship between values, social change and welfare reform. The article argues that these politics and campaigns have, along with both the New Right and New Labour, attempted to construct a new vision of an 'active welfare subject'. In the process they have also expanded the moral repertoire for understanding people's engagement with welfare beyond the self-interest/altruism …
The presence of feminism in the future of welfare
This article argues that the contribution of second wave feminism to new welfare practice and provision is greater than recent discussions of welfare reforms have acknowledged. Along with other new social movements and grass-roots welfare campaigns, feminist activism and its critiques provide an important moral and political case for a new welfare society. This paper proposes four principles which underpin such a case – autonomy, mutualism, inclu…
Care, Values and Support in Local Self-help Groups
This article examines ‘care’ and ‘values’ in local self-help groups and voluntary organisations which mobilise around partnering and parenting. It finds that a shared identity based upon common experiences of misrecognition and stigma is the most significant element of involvement. This provides the basis for new knowledge, for challenging professional practice, and for alternative practices of care and support based on trust, reciprocity and mut…
Introduction
The papers in the themed section emerge from the work of the ESRC Research Group on Care, Values and the Future of Welfare (CAVA), based at the University of Leeds. CAVA was funded from 1999 to undertake a five-year programme of research into changes in parenting and partnering in Britain and their implications for future social policies. At the heart of CAVA's research is an investigation into the values that people attach to their parenting and…
Gendering citizenship in Western Europe
Gendering citizenship in Western EuropeNew challenges for citizenship research in a cross-national context
This is a collectively written, inter-disciplinary, thematic cross-national study that combines conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and policy material so as to explore a key concept in contemporary European political, policy, and academic debates. The first part of the book clarifies the various ways in which the concept of citizenship has developed historically and is understood today in a range of Western European welfare states. It elaborates…
Introduction
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2008
Migration et garde des enfants à domicile en Europe
Cet article porte sur la redistribution transnationale des soins — en d’autres termes, la façon dont les politiques de la petite enfance et les politiques migratoires interfèrent sur l’emploi des migrantes, en tant que travailleuses domestiques et assistantes maternelles au sein des foyers européens. Il est centré sur la demande de services concernant la prise en charge des jeunes enfants, en liant cette question à la dimension sexuée de la citoy…
Social relations, welfare and the post-Fordism debate
Migration and Care
The phenomenon of migrant workers finding domestic and care work in the homes and institutions of countries wealthier than their own uncovers much about social change in the twenty-first century. First, it reveals the consequences of women taking on more responsibilities to earn income but without a significant rebalancing of their care responsibilities either with male partners or through state support. In the poorer regions of the world, unempl…
Towards a Transnational Analysis of the Political Economy of Care
The resurgence of the employment of domestic and care workers in private homes in many industrialised countries over the last two decades has been shaped by important social changes, most notable among this are the increased responsibilities and rights of women across the globe to be both earners and carers. This reflects graduated shifts from the ‘male breadwinner’ to ‘adult worker’ model taking place in many industrialised societies and unemplo…
Social Investment Frames and Social Justice Claims in Competing Interpretations of Care Needs
Care relations and public policy
Care has become an urgent personal and political issue. This article focuses on the different interpretations of care needs; it examines the dynamic between, on the one side, the claims around care to emerge from different constituencies ‘from below’, that is, from movements and organisations of those with unpaid and paid caring responsibilities and with needs for support, and, on the other side, the framing and implementation of care policies ‘f…
Converging variations in migrant care work in Europe
While the employment of migrant women as care workers in European welfare states is increasing, the rate, extent and nature of this increase vary. The article draws on empirical research on migrant care work to develop links between three levels of analysis – micro, meso and macro. The main aim is to progress analysis of the meso level by developing indicators attached to three sets of regimes – care regimes, migration regimes and employment regi…
Political science (33 works) · Sociology (27 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (23 works) · Law (21 works) · Politics (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Economics (14 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Welfare (9 works)