Alison Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5518-5442 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 163 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Resilience among Pregnant Women in a Low-Income, Immigrant Urban Neighborhood
Call to action
The frequency and severity of heat waves are expected to worsen with climate change. Exposure to extreme heat, or prolonged unusually high temperatures, are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. The fetus, infant, and young child are more sensitive to higher temperatures than older children and most adults given that they are rapidly developing. During pregnancy, exposure to extreme heat may result in dehydration, inflammation, and r…
A cluster randomised trial of cookstove interventions to improve infant health in Ghana
Introduction Household air pollution from solid fuel combustion for cooking and heating is a leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality worldwide. We hypothesised that clean cooking interventions delivered during pregnancy would improve child health. Methods We conducted a cluster randomised trial in rural Ghana to test whether providing pregnant women liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cookstoves or improved biomass cookstoves would reduce pe…
Can typical game features have unintended consequences? A study of players’ learning and reactions to challenge and failure in an educational programming game
It is difficult to motivate learners to seek out and persist at challenging learning tasks where failure is likely. However, in game environments, people seem highly motivated to engage with challenges and respond productively to failure. Many typical game features purportedly enhance intrinsic motivation and self‐efficacy, which should improve students’ reactions to challenge and failure, which should in turn enhance learning. An experimental st…
Infant Nasopharyngeal Microbiota Subphenotypes and Early Childhood Lung Function
Early life respiratory microbiota may increase risk for future pulmonary disease. Associations between respiratory microbiota and lung health in children from low- and middle-income countries are not well-described. Leveraging the Ghana Randomized Air Pollution and Health Study (GRAPHS) prospective pregnancy cohort in Kintampo, Ghana, we collected nasopharyngeal swabs in 112 asymptomatic children aged median 4.3 months (interquartile range (IQR) …
Prenatal Household Air Pollution Alters Cord Blood Mononuclear Cell Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number
Increased prenatal HAP exposure reduces CBMC mtDNAcn, suggesting cumulative prenatal oxidative stress injury. An LPG stove intervention may reverse this effect. Boys appear most susceptible
Impact of Maternal Lifetime Interpersonal Trauma on Children's Asthma
OBJECTIVE: Traumatic stressors, including child abuse and/or interpersonal violence over a woman's lifecourse, can affect the health of her children. This study examines the associations between maternal lifetime interpersonal trauma (IPT) and children's asthma by age 6 years (n = 857). METHODS: Pregnant women completed the Revised Conflict Tactics Scale; IPT exposure was categorized as unexposed (55%), early (childhood and/or teen years only, 25…
Prevalence and risk factors of low parenting confidence in mothers of infants 0–12 months of age
This study aimed to explore prevalence and risk factors of low parenting confidence in mothers of infants 0–12 months of age. This retrospective chart review examined variables of interest from a sample of 144 randomly selected records. Low parenting confidence was reported by 110 mothers (76.4%), and it was higher at 0–6 months compared with 7–12 months after childbirth (p = .001). Low level of parenting confidence was statistically significantl…
Applying the Behavioural Family Therapy Model in Complex Family Situations
Behavioural Family Therapy (BFT) is a skills based intervention that aims to support families where a member is experiencing a mental health problem. The Meriden Family Programme has extensive experience in supporting families who have complex needs. The programme delivers training in the approach and works with families with the aim of providing information, education and reducing stress within the family environment. Training has recently taken…
Conceptualizing Autoethnography as Assemblage
Drawing on theoretical work within ethnography and poststructuralism, this article discusses a conceptualization of autoethnography as assemblage. The concept of assemblage includes but goes beyond the literal bringing together of a range of heterogeneous elements in different modalities to offer different perspectives on a phenomenon. It challenges and displaces boundaries between the individual and the social through a focus on practice, which …
Dispensable, Tweakable, and Tangible Components
Our article examines a flexible approach to designing general game components inspired by traditional game components. Our goal is to design digital game systems that offer the players greater choice in dictating the rules, pacing, and sociability of a game session-we describe this as supporting socially negotiated gameplay. We introduce five design principles of flexibility: dispensability, live tweakability, tangibility, mobility, and value. Ou…
Affect-ing discourse
The contemporary retheorisation of affect is impacting on an increasingly wide range of disciplines/inter-disciplines in the human sciences. Of particular relevance for this paper are, on the one hand, the emphasis on embodiment and, on the other, the ideas of “flow”, “intensity” and “contagion”. Together, these challenge traditional views of affect as equivalent to emotion, emanating from the self and ending at the boundary of the self. Discours…
Working in the Spaces Between
Co‐Production and Health System Reform – From Re‐Imagining To Re‐Making
There is growing interest in the application of citizen participation within all areas of public sector service development, where it is increasingly promoted as a significant strand of post‐neoliberal policy concerned with re‐imagining citizenship and more participatory forms of citizen/consumer engagement. The application of such a perspective within health services, via co‐production, has both beneficial, but also problematic implications for …
Supervision as metaphor
This article takes up the question of the language within which discussion of research degree supervision is couched and framed, and the consequences of such framings for supervision as a field of pedagogical practice. It examines the proliferation and intensity of metaphor, allegory and allusion in the language of candidature and supervision, which appears to run counter to attempts to bring a contemporary rationality into the intensifying publi…
Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist
Peer learning' as pedagogic discourse for research education1
Research education has been dominated in recent years by policy‐driven preoccupations with doctoral completions, funding and contributions to the economy. This has led universities to focus on enhanced institutional support for research degrees, with an emphasis on supervision, in particular the training of supervisors, and provision of a richer environment for students. This article uses examples from interviews with research students to show ho…
Writing Groups, Change and Academic Identity
The development of the research potential of university staff has been given less attention than many other aspects of professional development, particularly teaching development. Yet there is an important need for the development of staff in the research role in the light of growth of higher education and changes to the organisation of the sector in many countries. This article examines one strategy for research development: the use of writing g…
The PhD and the Autonomous Self
Interventions in the quality of research training provided in universities today focus largely on educating supervisors and monitoring their performance as well as student progress. More private than any other scene of teaching and learning, postgraduate supervision-and more generally the pedagogic practices of the PhD-has largely remained unscrutinised and unquestioned. This article explores the problematic character of ideas of autonomy and the…
Textual Collusions
The dilemma of obedience
(1996). The dilemma of obedience: A feminist perspective on the making of engineers. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 57-75
A Handbook of Creative Dance and Drama
Whose Geography? A feminist‐poststructuralist critique of systemic ‘genre’‐based accounts of literacy and curriculum
(1993). Whose Geography? A feminist‐poststructuralist critique of systemic ‘genre’‐based accounts of literacy and curriculum. Social Semiotics: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 131-156
The Politics of Postmodernism
Capitation Payment for Pharmacy Services
This article evaluates changes in the rate of generic substitution as well as the appropriateness of such changes in dispensing behavior when the conventional fee-for-service system for reimbursement of pharmacists is replaced by a capitation system. The fee-for-service system under Medicaid usually covers ingredient costs plus a fixed professional dispensing fee. The capitation system provides a cash payment per Medicaid eligible at the first of…
The PhD and the Autonomous Self
Interventions in the quality of research training provided in universities today focus largely on educating supervisors and monitoring their performance as well as student progress. More private than any other scene of teaching and learning, postgraduate supervision-and more generally the pedagogic practices of the PhD-has largely remained unscrutinised and unquestioned. This article explores the problematic character of ideas of autonomy and the…
Co‐Production and Health System Reform – From Re‐Imagining To Re‐Making
There is growing interest in the application of citizen participation within all areas of public sector service development, where it is increasingly promoted as a significant strand of post‐neoliberal policy concerned with re‐imagining citizenship and more participatory forms of citizen/consumer engagement. The application of such a perspective within health services, via co‐production, has both beneficial, but also problematic implications for …
Peer learning' as pedagogic discourse for research education1
Research education has been dominated in recent years by policy‐driven preoccupations with doctoral completions, funding and contributions to the economy. This has led universities to focus on enhanced institutional support for research degrees, with an emphasis on supervision, in particular the training of supervisors, and provision of a richer environment for students. This article uses examples from interviews with research students to show ho…
Conceptualizing Autoethnography as Assemblage
Drawing on theoretical work within ethnography and poststructuralism, this article discusses a conceptualization of autoethnography as assemblage. The concept of assemblage includes but goes beyond the literal bringing together of a range of heterogeneous elements in different modalities to offer different perspectives on a phenomenon. It challenges and displaces boundaries between the individual and the social through a focus on practice, which …
Writing Groups, Change and Academic Identity
The development of the research potential of university staff has been given less attention than many other aspects of professional development, particularly teaching development. Yet there is an important need for the development of staff in the research role in the light of growth of higher education and changes to the organisation of the sector in many countries. This article examines one strategy for research development: the use of writing g…
Affect-ing discourse
The contemporary retheorisation of affect is impacting on an increasingly wide range of disciplines/inter-disciplines in the human sciences. Of particular relevance for this paper are, on the one hand, the emphasis on embodiment and, on the other, the ideas of “flow”, “intensity” and “contagion”. Together, these challenge traditional views of affect as equivalent to emotion, emanating from the self and ending at the boundary of the self. Discours…
Supervision as metaphor
This article takes up the question of the language within which discussion of research degree supervision is couched and framed, and the consequences of such framings for supervision as a field of pedagogical practice. It examines the proliferation and intensity of metaphor, allegory and allusion in the language of candidature and supervision, which appears to run counter to attempts to bring a contemporary rationality into the intensifying publi…
Textual Collusions
Whose Geography? A feminist‐poststructuralist critique of systemic ‘genre’‐based accounts of literacy and curriculum
(1993). Whose Geography? A feminist‐poststructuralist critique of systemic ‘genre’‐based accounts of literacy and curriculum. Social Semiotics: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 131-156
Prevalence and risk factors of low parenting confidence in mothers of infants 0–12 months of age
This study aimed to explore prevalence and risk factors of low parenting confidence in mothers of infants 0–12 months of age. This retrospective chart review examined variables of interest from a sample of 144 randomly selected records. Low parenting confidence was reported by 110 mothers (76.4%), and it was higher at 0–6 months compared with 7–12 months after childbirth (p = .001). Low level of parenting confidence was statistically significantl…
Capitation Payment for Pharmacy Services
This article evaluates changes in the rate of generic substitution as well as the appropriateness of such changes in dispensing behavior when the conventional fee-for-service system for reimbursement of pharmacists is replaced by a capitation system. The fee-for-service system under Medicaid usually covers ingredient costs plus a fixed professional dispensing fee. The capitation system provides a cash payment per Medicaid eligible at the first of…
The Politics of Postmodernism
Whose Geography? A feminist‐poststructuralist critique of systemic ‘genre’‐based accounts of literacy and curriculum
(1993). Whose Geography? A feminist‐poststructuralist critique of systemic ‘genre’‐based accounts of literacy and curriculum. Social Semiotics: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 131-156
A Handbook of Creative Dance and Drama
The dilemma of obedience
(1996). The dilemma of obedience: A feminist perspective on the making of engineers. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 57-75
Textual Collusions
The PhD and the Autonomous Self
Interventions in the quality of research training provided in universities today focus largely on educating supervisors and monitoring their performance as well as student progress. More private than any other scene of teaching and learning, postgraduate supervision-and more generally the pedagogic practices of the PhD-has largely remained unscrutinised and unquestioned. This article explores the problematic character of ideas of autonomy and the…
Writing Groups, Change and Academic Identity
The development of the research potential of university staff has been given less attention than many other aspects of professional development, particularly teaching development. Yet there is an important need for the development of staff in the research role in the light of growth of higher education and changes to the organisation of the sector in many countries. This article examines one strategy for research development: the use of writing g…
Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist
Peer learning' as pedagogic discourse for research education1
Research education has been dominated in recent years by policy‐driven preoccupations with doctoral completions, funding and contributions to the economy. This has led universities to focus on enhanced institutional support for research degrees, with an emphasis on supervision, in particular the training of supervisors, and provision of a richer environment for students. This article uses examples from interviews with research students to show ho…
Co‐Production and Health System Reform – From Re‐Imagining To Re‐Making
There is growing interest in the application of citizen participation within all areas of public sector service development, where it is increasingly promoted as a significant strand of post‐neoliberal policy concerned with re‐imagining citizenship and more participatory forms of citizen/consumer engagement. The application of such a perspective within health services, via co‐production, has both beneficial, but also problematic implications for …
Supervision as metaphor
This article takes up the question of the language within which discussion of research degree supervision is couched and framed, and the consequences of such framings for supervision as a field of pedagogical practice. It examines the proliferation and intensity of metaphor, allegory and allusion in the language of candidature and supervision, which appears to run counter to attempts to bring a contemporary rationality into the intensifying publi…
Working in the Spaces Between
Affect-ing discourse
The contemporary retheorisation of affect is impacting on an increasingly wide range of disciplines/inter-disciplines in the human sciences. Of particular relevance for this paper are, on the one hand, the emphasis on embodiment and, on the other, the ideas of “flow”, “intensity” and “contagion”. Together, these challenge traditional views of affect as equivalent to emotion, emanating from the self and ending at the boundary of the self. Discours…
Conceptualizing Autoethnography as Assemblage
Drawing on theoretical work within ethnography and poststructuralism, this article discusses a conceptualization of autoethnography as assemblage. The concept of assemblage includes but goes beyond the literal bringing together of a range of heterogeneous elements in different modalities to offer different perspectives on a phenomenon. It challenges and displaces boundaries between the individual and the social through a focus on practice, which …
Dispensable, Tweakable, and Tangible Components
Our article examines a flexible approach to designing general game components inspired by traditional game components. Our goal is to design digital game systems that offer the players greater choice in dictating the rules, pacing, and sociability of a game session-we describe this as supporting socially negotiated gameplay. We introduce five design principles of flexibility: dispensability, live tweakability, tangibility, mobility, and value. Ou…
Applying the Behavioural Family Therapy Model in Complex Family Situations
Behavioural Family Therapy (BFT) is a skills based intervention that aims to support families where a member is experiencing a mental health problem. The Meriden Family Programme has extensive experience in supporting families who have complex needs. The programme delivers training in the approach and works with families with the aim of providing information, education and reducing stress within the family environment. Training has recently taken…
Impact of Maternal Lifetime Interpersonal Trauma on Children's Asthma
OBJECTIVE: Traumatic stressors, including child abuse and/or interpersonal violence over a woman's lifecourse, can affect the health of her children. This study examines the associations between maternal lifetime interpersonal trauma (IPT) and children's asthma by age 6 years (n = 857). METHODS: Pregnant women completed the Revised Conflict Tactics Scale; IPT exposure was categorized as unexposed (55%), early (childhood and/or teen years only, 25…
Prevalence and risk factors of low parenting confidence in mothers of infants 0–12 months of age
This study aimed to explore prevalence and risk factors of low parenting confidence in mothers of infants 0–12 months of age. This retrospective chart review examined variables of interest from a sample of 144 randomly selected records. Low parenting confidence was reported by 110 mothers (76.4%), and it was higher at 0–6 months compared with 7–12 months after childbirth (p = .001). Low level of parenting confidence was statistically significantl…
Prenatal Household Air Pollution Alters Cord Blood Mononuclear Cell Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number
Increased prenatal HAP exposure reduces CBMC mtDNAcn, suggesting cumulative prenatal oxidative stress injury. An LPG stove intervention may reverse this effect. Boys appear most susceptible
A cluster randomised trial of cookstove interventions to improve infant health in Ghana
Introduction Household air pollution from solid fuel combustion for cooking and heating is a leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality worldwide. We hypothesised that clean cooking interventions delivered during pregnancy would improve child health. Methods We conducted a cluster randomised trial in rural Ghana to test whether providing pregnant women liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cookstoves or improved biomass cookstoves would reduce pe…
Can typical game features have unintended consequences? A study of players’ learning and reactions to challenge and failure in an educational programming game
It is difficult to motivate learners to seek out and persist at challenging learning tasks where failure is likely. However, in game environments, people seem highly motivated to engage with challenges and respond productively to failure. Many typical game features purportedly enhance intrinsic motivation and self‐efficacy, which should improve students’ reactions to challenge and failure, which should in turn enhance learning. An experimental st…
Infant Nasopharyngeal Microbiota Subphenotypes and Early Childhood Lung Function
Early life respiratory microbiota may increase risk for future pulmonary disease. Associations between respiratory microbiota and lung health in children from low- and middle-income countries are not well-described. Leveraging the Ghana Randomized Air Pollution and Health Study (GRAPHS) prospective pregnancy cohort in Kintampo, Ghana, we collected nasopharyngeal swabs in 112 asymptomatic children aged median 4.3 months (interquartile range (IQR) …
Call to action
The frequency and severity of heat waves are expected to worsen with climate change. Exposure to extreme heat, or prolonged unusually high temperatures, are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. The fetus, infant, and young child are more sensitive to higher temperatures than older children and most adults given that they are rapidly developing. During pregnancy, exposure to extreme heat may result in dehydration, inflammation, and r…
Resilience among Pregnant Women in a Low-Income, Immigrant Urban Neighborhood
Sociology (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Air Quality and Health Impacts (3 works)