N Watson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 37110 |
|---|---|
| NOME | N Watson |
| PRENOMES | N |
| SOBRENOME | Watson |
| ASSINATURA | WATSON N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0364-427X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 73 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 476 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Escaping (Chrono)normative Youth Futures
The transitions to adulthood for disabled young people in the UK have long been marked by multiple barriers that have implications for their adult futures. While these dynamics have been considered in disability studies, they have been given less emphasis in critical youth studies. This article brings together critical disability studies and critical youth studies to explore the affective costs embedded in the normative underpinnings which frame …
Policy Failure in the Lives of Young Disabled People
For many young disabled people, social policies have failed in their role to support transitions from childhood into the next stage of life. Across OECD countries, policy development has been fragmented, haphazard and limited in its scope. It is only relatively recently that governments have begun to engage with the specific needs and develop initiatives which reflect them. Yet there is little known about the experiences of transition to adulthoo…
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Afterword
Not the usual suspects
Co-production is now an established part of public service delivery. Despite its popularity, there is only a limited understanding about how co-production works in practice, particularly with marginalised groups. This paper identifies and explores insights from three case studies of a successful co-productive approach in Glasgow, Scotland. Operation Modulus is a criminal justice initiative involving public and third sector partners in the co-prod…
Women and Devotional Literature in the Middle Ages
Rethinking children’s right to leisure during school holidays
Leisure and health are human rights that apply to both children and adults. Leisure can enhance health and enable people to participate fully in leisure activities. One of children's main opportunities for leisure is during school holidays. Little previous research has focused on this time in children's lives. This paper presents a review of the literature surrounding school holidays, providing a critique of educational and public health approach…
Do they ever think about people like us
People with learning disabilities in England and Scotland have experienced an increased risk of illness and death during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on data of a longitudinal qualitative study with 71 disabled people and 31 disability organisations, this article examines the experiences of 24 people with learning disabilities in England and Scotland during the pandemic, reflecting on what rendered them vulnerable and placed them at risk. Quali…
Epistemic sabotage
Disability benefits function by demarcating categories of need (the administrative category of disability) and determine eligibility using assessments of functioning. In the UK, these assessments are the Work Capability Assessment and PIP assessment. Inherently technical and abstruse processes, these assessments have been opportune sites for welfare reform in recent years. Disability benefits have also been a central point of contention between d…
Covid-19 and the Crisis in Social Care
Governments across the world have been slow in reacting to meeting the needs of disabled people during the pandemic. This has exposed existing inequalities in social policies, as well as new support barriers. Debates over social care have focused on Covid-19's impact on those living in residential care. Little is known about the experiences of disabled people who rely on daily support in their homes. This article reports on a year-long study exam…
Evaluating youth empowerment in neighbourhood settings
This paper examines how collective capabilities at a neighbourhood level can support youth voice and empowerment. By applying Ibrahim’s 3C collective capabilities model in a new context with young people, we propose that it offers a useful framework to demonstrate the existing value and extend the social justice potential of youth work practice.Our findings aim to address the concern that youth work in Scotland supports individual but not collect…
Adapting Disability Research Methods and Practices During the Covid-19 Pandemic
People with disabilities are often excluded from research, which may be exacerbated during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. This article provides an overview of key challenges, opportunities, and strategies for conducting disability-inclusive research during the pandemic, drawing on the experience of research teams working across ten countries on disability-focused studies. It covers adaptations that are relevant across the project lifecycle, inclu…
Disabled people in Britain and the impact of the Covid ‐19 pandemic
This paper reports on in‐depth qualitative interviews conducted with 69 disabled people in England and Scotland, and with 28 key informants from infrastructure organisations in the voluntary and statutory sectors, about the impact of COVID‐19, and measures taken to control it. Participants were recruited through voluntary organisations. As with everyone, the Pandemic has had a huge impact: we discuss the dislocations it has caused in everyday lif…
Supplemental Material for The Causal Effect of Testosterone on Men’s Competitive Behavior Is Moderated by Basal Cortisol and Cues to an Opponent’s Status
Evidence, objectivity and welfare reform
Background: Anti-welfare narratives depict welfare systems as overly-permissive, open to fraud, and fundamentally unfair. Countering these supposed ills have been political appeals to evidence and reforms made to disability benefit assessments under the banner of objectivity. But objectivity is a complex construct, which entails philosophical and political choices that tend to oppress, exclude and symbolically disqualify alternative perspectives.…
Discapacidad, actividad física y salud
base terica para ser efectiva. Entre otras cosas, los profesionales deben tomar decisiones informadas sobre qu modelos conceptuales de la discapacidad y la salud adoptar, ya que estos tendrn una gran influencia sobre cmo se disean, implementan y evalan los programas de promocin. El presente trabajo expone tres modelos conceptuales de la discapacidad: el mdico, el social y el social-relacional. Se describen sus caractersticas bsicas y la concepcin…
Transition to where and to what? Exploring the experiences of transitions to adulthood for young disabled people
Transition to adulthood for young disabled people remains a major policy failure across OECD countries. The support available is often inappropriate, fails to meet young peoples’ needs and they fall through the cracks, becoming lost in the system. Much of the work on transition takes a narrow approach, focussing on the shift from paediatric to adult services in health and social care. Drawing on interviews with young disabled people, collected as…
A Sociotechnical History of the Ultralightweight Wheelchair
The emergence of the ultralightweight wheelchair has transformed the lives of millions of disabled people. It has radically changed the principles and practices of wheelchair design, manufacture, and prescription and redefined wheelchair users and wheelchair use. Designed and built largely by wheelchair users themselves, it was driven initially by a desire to improve sport performance and later by a wish for improved access to the community and b…
Evaluability assessment
Evaluation is essential to understand whether and how policies and other interventions work, why they sometimes fail, and whether they represent a good use of resources. Evaluability assessment (EA) is a means of collaboratively planning and designing evaluations, seeking to ensure they generate relevant and robust evidence that supports decision-making and contributes to the wider evidence base. This article reports on the context, the process u…
Gathering in a cyber world
This article examines how Chinese disabled people use the Internet to create active constituencies and the potential for this to afford the opportunity for a new form of activism. Based on a content analysis of China’s two largest disability online forums, the article documents disabled people’s online activities. These include the description of everyday activities, the build-up of social relations, and organisation and mobilisation for changes.…
Partnership approaches to the evaluation of complex policy initiatives
We argue that major health and social care policy initiatives are not too complex for randomised controlled trial (RCT) methodology and illustrate this using the example of the Best Services Trial (BeST ? ): a RCT of an infant mental health intervention for maltreated children. We suggest that qualitative research, as a core part of the trial process from conception and development through to implementation and evaluation, is crucial in building,…
Implementing health and social care integration in Scotland
Health and social care integration has been a long-term goal for successive governments in Scotland, culminating in the implementation of the recent Public Bodies (Joint Working) Scotland Act 2014. This laid down the foundations for the delegation of health and social care functions and resources to newly formed Integrated Joint Boards. It put in place demands for new ways of working and partnership planning. In this article, we explore the early…
Changing the culture of social care in Scotland
In April 2014, the Social Care (Self‐directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013 (SDS Act) was implemented in Scotland. This marked a major shift in how social care is delivered and organized for both users and professionals across the country. Whilst it emerged through the personalization agenda—which has dominated international social care systems over recent years—self‐directed support (SDS) represented a significant shift in thinking for service pr…
Unfinished Business
Produced by The Center on Disability Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i, The Frank Sawyer School of Management, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts and The School of Social Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas for The Society for Disability Studies.
Participatory research
Participatory research and the involvement of disabled people in the research process is a central tenet of disability studies and, along with the social model of disability, was one of the two key
Well, I Know this is Going to Sound Very Strange to You, but I Don't See Myself as a Disabled Person
This paper focuses on issues of disabled people's notions of self-identity & is grounded in their accounts around their own self & identity. It starts with a brief description of what Hall (1996) describes as the two main schools of thought on identity. It then moves on to explore & discuss the self, & the embodied nature of self, & then explores the place of identity in disability studies. Disabled people's accounts around self-identification ar…
Defending the Social Model
In British disability politics, the disability movement has sponsored the social model approach to disability studies, which challenges the psychological model that individualizes disability & the medical model that pathologizes it. However, the social model has been internally critiqued to the detriment of the movement. It is recommended that energy be directed instead toward theoretically uniting those in disability studies in the social scienc…
Moral wrongs, disadvantages, and disability
Critical disability studies (CDS) has emerged as an approach to the study of disability over the last decade or so and has sought to present a challenge to the predominantly materialist line found in the more conventional disability studies approaches. In much the same way that the original development of the social model resulted in a necessary correction to the overly individualized accounts of disability that prevailed in much of the interpret…
Reporting disability in the age of austerity
Following its election in 2010 the UK’s Coalition Government has sought to implement radical restructuring of disability-related benefits justified by reference to the financial crises of 2007/08. In this article we examine how these changes have impacted on coverage of disability in the UK media comparing and contrasting coverage of disability in newspapers in 2010/11 with a similar period in 2004/05. Our analysis suggests that disabled people h…
Where Are the Children's Experiences? Analysing Social and Cultural Exclusion in 'Special' and 'Mainstream' Schools
In this paper, we employ ethnographic data to illustrate that disabled children encounter discriminatory notions of 'normality' & 'difference' in both 'special' & 'mainstream' schools, & that these experiences relate to both the structural forces in schools & the everyday individual & cultural practices of adults & children. In contrast to much of the literature in the field, this paper examines the everyday life experiences of adults & disabled …
Implementing health and social care integration in Scotland
Health and social care integration has been a long-term goal for successive governments in Scotland, culminating in the implementation of the recent Public Bodies (Joint Working) Scotland Act 2014. This laid down the foundations for the delegation of health and social care functions and resources to newly formed Integrated Joint Boards. It put in place demands for new ways of working and partnership planning. In this article, we explore the early…
An inclusive outdoors? Disabled people’s experiences of countryside leisure services
In recent years, disabled people’s access to the outdoors has been the subject of renewed interest. This has in part been driven by legislative developments coupled with an increasing recognition that disabled people are under‐represented as users of the countryside. However, very little is actually known about disabled people’s views and experiences of the outdoors. Drawing on the concept of affordances and combining this with a social barrier’s…
Participatory research
Participatory research and the involvement of disabled people in the research process is a central tenet of disability studies and, along with the social model of disability, was one of the two key
Risky bodies in risky spaces
Risk is used to deny disabled people access to many parts of mainstream life. Using qualitative data we explore disabled people’s views and experiences of outdoor recreation, bringing together ideas from two areas of sociology – disability studies and risk using the concepts of edgework and psycho-emotional disablism. Many people felt that the outdoors represented a risky environment. For some, risk was one of the main drivers for going out into …
Disabled people in Britain and the impact of the Covid ‐19 pandemic
This paper reports on in‐depth qualitative interviews conducted with 69 disabled people in England and Scotland, and with 28 key informants from infrastructure organisations in the voluntary and statutory sectors, about the impact of COVID‐19, and measures taken to control it. Participants were recruited through voluntary organisations. As with everyone, the Pandemic has had a huge impact: we discuss the dislocations it has caused in everyday lif…
Exploring normativity in disability studies
Normativity is a concept that is often misapplied in disability studies, especially in ‘postconventional’ accounts, where the concept is conflated with ‘normal’, ‘normate’, or ‘standard’. This article addresses this confusion, explores the meaning and use of ‘normativity’, and presents some analytic tools to discuss normative issues of right and wrong. The article finishes by discussing examples where conceptual confusions result in confused norm…
Blaming the victim, all over again
The biopsychosocial model (BPS) of mental distress, originally conceived by American psychiatrist George Engel in the 1970s and commonly used in psychiatry and psychology, has been adapted by Gordon Waddell and Mansel Aylward to form the theoretical basis for current UK government thinking on disability. Most importantly, the Waddell and Aylward version of the BPS has played a key role as the government has sought to reform spending on out-of-wor…
Disabled children's rights in every day life
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The cost of school holidays for children from low income families
School holidays can be stressful periods for children from low-income families. Poor provision of appropriate childcare, limited access to enrichment activities, and food insecurity mean that children's health and well-being can suffer and their learning stagnate or decline. This article examines and documents the evidence that has emerged on this topic and aims to raise its profile and the impact on children's lives. It makes the case for furthe…
Censorship and Cultural Change in Late-Medieval England
Changing the culture of social care in Scotland
In April 2014, the Social Care (Self‐directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013 (SDS Act) was implemented in Scotland. This marked a major shift in how social care is delivered and organized for both users and professionals across the country. Whilst it emerged through the personalization agenda—which has dominated international social care systems over recent years—self‐directed support (SDS) represented a significant shift in thinking for service pr…
Epistemic sabotage
Disability benefits function by demarcating categories of need (the administrative category of disability) and determine eligibility using assessments of functioning. In the UK, these assessments are the Work Capability Assessment and PIP assessment. Inherently technical and abstruse processes, these assessments have been opportune sites for welfare reform in recent years. Disability benefits have also been a central point of contention between d…
Evaluating youth empowerment in neighbourhood settings
This paper examines how collective capabilities at a neighbourhood level can support youth voice and empowerment. By applying Ibrahim’s 3C collective capabilities model in a new context with young people, we propose that it offers a useful framework to demonstrate the existing value and extend the social justice potential of youth work practice.Our findings aim to address the concern that youth work in Scotland supports individual but not collect…
Transition to where and to what? Exploring the experiences of transitions to adulthood for young disabled people
Transition to adulthood for young disabled people remains a major policy failure across OECD countries. The support available is often inappropriate, fails to meet young peoples’ needs and they fall through the cracks, becoming lost in the system. Much of the work on transition takes a narrow approach, focussing on the shift from paediatric to adult services in health and social care. Drawing on interviews with young disabled people, collected as…
Gathering in a cyber world
This article examines how Chinese disabled people use the Internet to create active constituencies and the potential for this to afford the opportunity for a new form of activism. Based on a content analysis of China’s two largest disability online forums, the article documents disabled people’s online activities. These include the description of everyday activities, the build-up of social relations, and organisation and mobilisation for changes.…
Behavioral problems among patients in skilled nursing facilities
This survey of a 33 per cent random sample (1,139) of 3,456 patients in 42 skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in upstate New York yielded 64.2 per cent with significant behavioral problems. Of these, 257 (22.6 per cent) of the total sample had what were defined as "serious" problems (i.e., excluding those with only impaired judgment and/or physical restraint orders). Details of the problem behaviors of this group, their previous history, current m…
Not the usual suspects
Co-production is now an established part of public service delivery. Despite its popularity, there is only a limited understanding about how co-production works in practice, particularly with marginalised groups. This paper identifies and explores insights from three case studies of a successful co-productive approach in Glasgow, Scotland. Operation Modulus is a criminal justice initiative involving public and third sector partners in the co-prod…
Evidence, objectivity and welfare reform
Background: Anti-welfare narratives depict welfare systems as overly-permissive, open to fraud, and fundamentally unfair. Countering these supposed ills have been political appeals to evidence and reforms made to disability benefit assessments under the banner of objectivity. But objectivity is a complex construct, which entails philosophical and political choices that tend to oppress, exclude and symbolically disqualify alternative perspectives.…
Evaluability assessment
Evaluation is essential to understand whether and how policies and other interventions work, why they sometimes fail, and whether they represent a good use of resources. Evaluability assessment (EA) is a means of collaboratively planning and designing evaluations, seeking to ensure they generate relevant and robust evidence that supports decision-making and contributes to the wider evidence base. This article reports on the context, the process u…
Randomisation before consent
Obtaining informed consent can be challenging in stressful and urgent circumstances. One example is when potential participants have recently had their child removed into care; intervention is urgent and mandatory whereas participation in associated research is voluntary. Using a nested qualitative study, we examined experiences of consent processes in a randomised controlled trial of a family assessment and intervention service for maltreated yo…
Behavioral problems among patients in skilled nursing facilities
This survey of a 33 per cent random sample (1,139) of 3,456 patients in 42 skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in upstate New York yielded 64.2 per cent with significant behavioral problems. Of these, 257 (22.6 per cent) of the total sample had what were defined as "serious" problems (i.e., excluding those with only impaired judgment and/or physical restraint orders). Details of the problem behaviors of this group, their previous history, current m…
The Composition of Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Love
Apostasy and Reform in the Revelations of St. Birgitta. Ingvar Fogelqvist Studies in St. Birgitta and the Brigittine Order. James Hogg
Health promotion and physically disabled people
Censorship and Cultural Change in Late-Medieval England
A qualitative evaluation of HIV and Aids education to senior school children in Lothian Region, Scotland
In response to the high incidence of HIV and AIDS in Lothian Region, Scotland, the Education Department has funded a development team to work in the schools. The main focus of this team is a conference day aimed at 15–16-year-old school pupils run by external facilitators. The day comprises an educational input, a question-and-answer session, role playing and a plenary session led by an HIV positive individual. This paper evaluates the programme …
Yf wommen be double naturally”
Mais quelle prison? Où suis-je recluse? Je ne vois rien qui m'enferme. C'est dedans que je suis maintenue, en moi que je suis prisonnière. Comment aller dehors?Il n'est,dans un premier temps, peut-êlre qu'un seul “chemin,” celui qui est historiquement assigné au feminin: le mimetismé. Il s'agit d'assumer, délibérément, ce rôle. Ce qui est déjà retourner en affirmation une subordination, et, de ce fait, commencer à la déjouer. Alors que récuser ce…
Yf wommen be double naturally”
Mais quelle prison? Où suis-je recluse? Je ne vois rien qui m'enferme. C'est dedans que je suis maintenue, en moi que je suis prisonnière. Comment aller dehors?Il n'est,dans un premier temps, peut-êlre qu'un seul "chemin," celui qui est historiquement assigné au feminin: le mimetismé. Il s'agit d'assumer, délibérément, ce rôle. Ce qui est déjà retourner en affirmation une subordination, et, de ce fait, commencer à la déjouer. Alors que récuser ce…
Defending the Social Model
In British disability politics, the disability movement has sponsored the social model approach to disability studies, which challenges the psychological model that individualizes disability & the medical model that pathologizes it. However, the social model has been internally critiqued to the detriment of the movement. It is recommended that energy be directed instead toward theoretically uniting those in disability studies in the social scienc…
Male Authors, Female Readers
Discharged from hospital
This paper reports some of the findings from a recently completed study that aimed to build up a patient-centred account of their pre- and postdischarge information needs and their perceptions of how these were met in a typically busy hospital context and later at home. This was an ethnographic study, with data collected through observation, by serial interviewing of patients (n = 50), in interviews with carers and through focus groups with hospi…
Disabled children's rights in every day life
No Abstract
Where Are the Children's Experiences? Analysing Social and Cultural Exclusion in 'Special' and 'Mainstream' Schools
In this paper, we employ ethnographic data to illustrate that disabled children encounter discriminatory notions of 'normality' & 'difference' in both 'special' & 'mainstream' schools, & that these experiences relate to both the structural forces in schools & the everyday individual & cultural practices of adults & children. In contrast to much of the literature in the field, this paper examines the everyday life experiences of adults & disabled …
Christian Ideologies
Well, I Know this is Going to Sound Very Strange to You, but I Don't See Myself as a Disabled Person
This paper focuses on issues of disabled people's notions of self-identity & is grounded in their accounts around their own self & identity. It starts with a brief description of what Hall (1996) describes as the two main schools of thought on identity. It then moves on to explore & discuss the self, & the embodied nature of self, & then explores the place of identity in disability studies. Disabled people's accounts around self-identification ar…
The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist 12
The Scale of Perfection . Walter Hilton , Thomas H. Bestul
Motivations for entering and pathways of progression of disabled students in further education
Issues concerning the relevance of the human and social capital theories in further education and particularly in the inclusion of disabled people are highlighted. Data are drawn from an ongoing ethnographic study into the experiences of disabled students in two further education colleges. Extracts from 12 focus group discussions with 70 students as well as fieldnotes from observation of courses and other college activities are used to map out th…
The social model of disability
The papers explore the background to British academic and political debates over the social model, and argue that the time has come to move beyond this position. Three central criticisms of the British social model are presented, focusing on: the issue of impairment; the impairment/disability dualism; and the issue of identity. It is suggested that an embodied ontology offers the best starting point for disability studies, and some signposts on t…
Homeless Movement Gains Ground
Showing of Love
The French of England
This article considers the place of Anglo-Norman in nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship as caught between two academic solitudes: that of a France mainly interested in a few works that could be assigned high cultural prestige as part of the canon of medieval French literature; and that of an England for the most part concerned to ignore or denigrate Anglo-Norman writing in favour of the (for much of the high Middle Ages more exiguous) t…
No Wheelchairs Beyond this Point
On the surface, the wheelchair appears a simple machine: its function seemingly apparent and its workings relatively uncomplicated. Yet, despite this apparent simplicity, the wheelchair is a complex artefact imbued with a myriad of social as well as technical relations that act simultaneously to exclude and include, confine and liberate, shape and be shaped. The wheelchair's inextricable links to injury and illness have certainly shaped its defin…
The Origins and Early Developments of Special/Adaptive Wheelchair Seating
The design and use of wheelchairs significantly changed during the last half of the twentieth century, enabling greater mobility, independence, and social inclusion for the user. Among many innovations was the development of special or adaptive seating. Emerging in the last quarter of the century from a multifaceted and multidirectional movement, special or adaptive seating transformed wheelchairs from simple mobility tools into postural aids. Th…
Cultural Changes
Research Article| March 01 2006 Cultural Changes Nicholas Watson Nicholas Watson Harvard University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 127–137. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-44.1.127 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Nicholas Watson; Cultural Changes. English Language Notes 1 March 2006; 44 (1): …
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