Sarah Pearson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3719657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Pearson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Pearson |
| SIGNATURE | PEARSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sheffield Hallam University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5049-5396 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Relational approaches to employability
As policymakers consider how best to respond to increased labour market volatility in post-Covid-19 economies, there is concern that vulnerable groups such as lone parents may be left behind, and consensus that we need to develop more responsive and person-centred approaches to employability. Drawing on Cottam’s (2011, 2018) work on ‘relational welfare’, and the principles of the capabilities approach that underly it, this article discusses the e…
Evaluating local system change using a comparative maturity matrix
This article focuses on the evaluation of the Children’s Community programme, addressing the question: how can evaluators effectively address complex place-based system change initiatives, particularly those working across differing contexts? After considering alternatives, including what we describe as ‘first-generation’ linear, logic model-based approaches and second-generation Theory of Change approaches, we discuss the development of ‘third-g…
Empowering Lone Parents to Progress towards Employability
Policymakers in liberal welfare states like the UK have prioritised extending the reach of compulsory activation to target vulnerable jobseeker groups, such as lone parents. However, such interventions - especially when combined with intensified welfare conditionality - appear to have had limited positive effects on lone parents' employability, while often negatively impacting wellbeing. This article argues that the problem is a disconnect betwee…
Collaborative innovation and activation in urban labour markets
Policymakers in the UK, having long supported centralised and marketised models of governance and delivery in the field of labour market activation, have recently begun to acknowledge the benefits of more localised, collaborative approaches to organising public services. Evidence from other European welfare states suggests that the case in favour of localised innovation may be particularly compelling in urban labour markets, where there can be po…
Collaborative Innovation in Labor Market Inclusion
This article deploys the concept of “collaborative innovation” to discuss key stakeholders’ and service users' experiences of innovative labor market inclusion services. We draw on work by Sørensen and Torfing (2011, 2016, 2017) to frame collaborative innovation as a distinctive approach to the coproduction of services that respond to user needs, and highlight the importance of governance and leadership practices that foster mutual learning and b…
Co‐production and social innovation in street‐level employability services
The United Kingdom, as an exemplar liberal welfare state, has been characterized as in the vanguard of “work‐first” activation – deploying high levels of compulsion and standardized employability services that seek to move people from welfare to work as quickly as possible. However, despite the extension of welfare conditionality to excluded groups such as lone parents, government‐led, work‐first employability programmes have often proved ineffec…
Street-level practice and the co-production of third sector-led employability services
Policymakers have promised a personalised approach to improving the employability of disadvantaged groups. The evidence suggests that contracted-out activation programmes in the UK and some other welfare states have instead sometimes delivered a standardised ‘work-first’ model. An alternative approach is exemplified in local employability services targeting lone parents in Scotland, led by third sector–public sector partnerships. Our research on …
Rethinking the impact of regeneration on poverty
For decades regeneration programmes in England targeted areas where spatial concentrations of poverty exist. These 'area-based initiatives' (ABIs) came under sustained attack, however, from the previous coalition government for being expensive and ineffective. This paper assesses this claim by re-evaluating past evidence on the impact of regeneration on poverty. It finds regeneration did relatively little to transform households' material circums…
Discovering community music therapy in practice
Music therapy holds a particularly valuable place in providing holistic health care, and medical settings are well suited to a community music therapy (CoMT) model of practice. As medicine continues to shift its focus to become preventative, health-promoting and patient-centred, the presence of live music in hospital environments can contribute to valuable collaborative relationships between members of the community who might not otherwise meet, …
The Provision of Services in Medieval Houses in Kent
The arrangement of service rooms in medieval houses in south-east England is often taken for granted, namely that two rooms beyond the cross-passage at the lower end of the hall were a standard feature and are usually termed buttery and pantry. Some houses may have had detached kitchens, in others cooking may have taken place within the building. This article looks at surviving houses in both rural and urban Kent and compares them with fifteenth-…
Population Mobility in Regeneration Areas
The nature, extent, and impact of residential mobility have attracted considerable interest. Little of this work has explored relationships between mobility and outcomes for area-based regeneration schemes. England's New Deal for Communities (NDC) Programme marks a departure from previous regeneration programmes in terms of levels of funding and time span. Evidence suggests that between 2002 and 2006 the thirty-nine NDC areas were subject to comp…
Medieval Houses in English Towns
This paper reviews the material evidence for surviving medieval town houses across England. It questions W. A. Pantin's seminal categorisation as a means of understanding medieval town houses in any but a purely formal sense. The paper explores a number of key issues such as overall house types and sizes, the location of buildings and the status of the occupiers. It considers the relationship between the size and prosperity of towns and the chara…
The Chronological Distribution of Tree-Ring Dates, 1980-2001
In 1997, three charts were published, illustrating the chronological distribution of 410 tree-ring dated buildings falling between the late twelfth century and 1600 and published in VA between 1980 and 1996. It is now possible to add the results of five more years, and the accompanying charts of 712 buildings, or major phases of building, illustrate the revised figures
La ville de Cluny et ses maisons, XIe-XVe siècles. Pierre Garrigou Grandchamp , Michael Jones , Gwyn Meirion-Jones , Jean-Denis Salvèque
Raising the Poverty Plateau
The role of means-testing within social policy has become more important and more central in the 1990s. However, extensive reliance on means-testing brings with it the accompanying problems of the unemployment and poverty traps. In the 1990s these take on more of the form of a poverty plateau, accentuated by a new savings trap. This article uses hypothetical calculations of benefit entitlement in order to explore the extent of the poverty plateau…
Tree-Ring Dating
The use of tree-ring dating has increased rapidly over the last two decades, and enough results have now been published to undertake an assessment of what has been learnt, to review the present position, and to consider future directions. This paper seeks to identify a number of issues currently concerning both dendrochronologists and those who use the data. The benefits of accurate dating are considerable. Precise dates are not only important fo…
An exploration of the effect of right homonymous hemianopia on engagement in occupation
The aim of this study was to explore the effect of right visual field loss on individual's engagement in occupation. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with three people who had sustained a right homonymous hemianopia as a result of a stroke. The information gained was analysed using a phenomenological approach. Through data analysis four occupational categories were identified as relevant: driving, literacy, locating objects and personal …
Short Reviews
Domestic and Vernacular
English Brickwork
English Brickwork
English Brickwork
English Brickwork
Street-level practice and the co-production of third sector-led employability services
Policymakers have promised a personalised approach to improving the employability of disadvantaged groups. The evidence suggests that contracted-out activation programmes in the UK and some other welfare states have instead sometimes delivered a standardised ‘work-first’ model. An alternative approach is exemplified in local employability services targeting lone parents in Scotland, led by third sector–public sector partnerships. Our research on …
Co‐production and social innovation in street‐level employability services
The United Kingdom, as an exemplar liberal welfare state, has been characterized as in the vanguard of “work‐first” activation – deploying high levels of compulsion and standardized employability services that seek to move people from welfare to work as quickly as possible. However, despite the extension of welfare conditionality to excluded groups such as lone parents, government‐led, work‐first employability programmes have often proved ineffec…
Medieval Houses in English Towns
This paper reviews the material evidence for surviving medieval town houses across England. It questions W. A. Pantin's seminal categorisation as a means of understanding medieval town houses in any but a purely formal sense. The paper explores a number of key issues such as overall house types and sizes, the location of buildings and the status of the occupiers. It considers the relationship between the size and prosperity of towns and the chara…
Empowering Lone Parents to Progress towards Employability
Policymakers in liberal welfare states like the UK have prioritised extending the reach of compulsory activation to target vulnerable jobseeker groups, such as lone parents. However, such interventions - especially when combined with intensified welfare conditionality - appear to have had limited positive effects on lone parents' employability, while often negatively impacting wellbeing. This article argues that the problem is a disconnect betwee…
Raising the Poverty Plateau
The role of means-testing within social policy has become more important and more central in the 1990s. However, extensive reliance on means-testing brings with it the accompanying problems of the unemployment and poverty traps. In the 1990s these take on more of the form of a poverty plateau, accentuated by a new savings trap. This article uses hypothetical calculations of benefit entitlement in order to explore the extent of the poverty plateau…
Rethinking the impact of regeneration on poverty
For decades regeneration programmes in England targeted areas where spatial concentrations of poverty exist. These 'area-based initiatives' (ABIs) came under sustained attack, however, from the previous coalition government for being expensive and ineffective. This paper assesses this claim by re-evaluating past evidence on the impact of regeneration on poverty. It finds regeneration did relatively little to transform households' material circums…
The Provision of Services in Medieval Houses in Kent
The arrangement of service rooms in medieval houses in south-east England is often taken for granted, namely that two rooms beyond the cross-passage at the lower end of the hall were a standard feature and are usually termed buttery and pantry. Some houses may have had detached kitchens, in others cooking may have taken place within the building. This article looks at surviving houses in both rural and urban Kent and compares them with fifteenth-…
Population Mobility in Regeneration Areas
The nature, extent, and impact of residential mobility have attracted considerable interest. Little of this work has explored relationships between mobility and outcomes for area-based regeneration schemes. England's New Deal for Communities (NDC) Programme marks a departure from previous regeneration programmes in terms of levels of funding and time span. Evidence suggests that between 2002 and 2006 the thirty-nine NDC areas were subject to comp…
The Chronological Distribution of Tree-Ring Dates, 1980-2001
In 1997, three charts were published, illustrating the chronological distribution of 410 tree-ring dated buildings falling between the late twelfth century and 1600 and published in VA between 1980 and 1996. It is now possible to add the results of five more years, and the accompanying charts of 712 buildings, or major phases of building, illustrate the revised figures
An exploration of the effect of right homonymous hemianopia on engagement in occupation
The aim of this study was to explore the effect of right visual field loss on individual's engagement in occupation. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with three people who had sustained a right homonymous hemianopia as a result of a stroke. The information gained was analysed using a phenomenological approach. Through data analysis four occupational categories were identified as relevant: driving, literacy, locating objects and personal …
English Brickwork
English Brickwork
English Brickwork
English Brickwork
Domestic and Vernacular
Short Reviews
An exploration of the effect of right homonymous hemianopia on engagement in occupation
The aim of this study was to explore the effect of right visual field loss on individual's engagement in occupation. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with three people who had sustained a right homonymous hemianopia as a result of a stroke. The information gained was analysed using a phenomenological approach. Through data analysis four occupational categories were identified as relevant: driving, literacy, locating objects and personal …
Tree-Ring Dating
The use of tree-ring dating has increased rapidly over the last two decades, and enough results have now been published to undertake an assessment of what has been learnt, to review the present position, and to consider future directions. This paper seeks to identify a number of issues currently concerning both dendrochronologists and those who use the data. The benefits of accurate dating are considerable. Precise dates are not only important fo…
La ville de Cluny et ses maisons, XIe-XVe siècles. Pierre Garrigou Grandchamp , Michael Jones , Gwyn Meirion-Jones , Jean-Denis Salvèque
Raising the Poverty Plateau
The role of means-testing within social policy has become more important and more central in the 1990s. However, extensive reliance on means-testing brings with it the accompanying problems of the unemployment and poverty traps. In the 1990s these take on more of the form of a poverty plateau, accentuated by a new savings trap. This article uses hypothetical calculations of benefit entitlement in order to explore the extent of the poverty plateau…
The Chronological Distribution of Tree-Ring Dates, 1980-2001
In 1997, three charts were published, illustrating the chronological distribution of 410 tree-ring dated buildings falling between the late twelfth century and 1600 and published in VA between 1980 and 1996. It is now possible to add the results of five more years, and the accompanying charts of 712 buildings, or major phases of building, illustrate the revised figures
Medieval Houses in English Towns
This paper reviews the material evidence for surviving medieval town houses across England. It questions W. A. Pantin's seminal categorisation as a means of understanding medieval town houses in any but a purely formal sense. The paper explores a number of key issues such as overall house types and sizes, the location of buildings and the status of the occupiers. It considers the relationship between the size and prosperity of towns and the chara…
The Provision of Services in Medieval Houses in Kent
The arrangement of service rooms in medieval houses in south-east England is often taken for granted, namely that two rooms beyond the cross-passage at the lower end of the hall were a standard feature and are usually termed buttery and pantry. Some houses may have had detached kitchens, in others cooking may have taken place within the building. This article looks at surviving houses in both rural and urban Kent and compares them with fifteenth-…
Population Mobility in Regeneration Areas
The nature, extent, and impact of residential mobility have attracted considerable interest. Little of this work has explored relationships between mobility and outcomes for area-based regeneration schemes. England's New Deal for Communities (NDC) Programme marks a departure from previous regeneration programmes in terms of levels of funding and time span. Evidence suggests that between 2002 and 2006 the thirty-nine NDC areas were subject to comp…
Discovering community music therapy in practice
Music therapy holds a particularly valuable place in providing holistic health care, and medical settings are well suited to a community music therapy (CoMT) model of practice. As medicine continues to shift its focus to become preventative, health-promoting and patient-centred, the presence of live music in hospital environments can contribute to valuable collaborative relationships between members of the community who might not otherwise meet, …
Rethinking the impact of regeneration on poverty
For decades regeneration programmes in England targeted areas where spatial concentrations of poverty exist. These 'area-based initiatives' (ABIs) came under sustained attack, however, from the previous coalition government for being expensive and ineffective. This paper assesses this claim by re-evaluating past evidence on the impact of regeneration on poverty. It finds regeneration did relatively little to transform households' material circums…
Co‐production and social innovation in street‐level employability services
The United Kingdom, as an exemplar liberal welfare state, has been characterized as in the vanguard of “work‐first” activation – deploying high levels of compulsion and standardized employability services that seek to move people from welfare to work as quickly as possible. However, despite the extension of welfare conditionality to excluded groups such as lone parents, government‐led, work‐first employability programmes have often proved ineffec…
Street-level practice and the co-production of third sector-led employability services
Policymakers have promised a personalised approach to improving the employability of disadvantaged groups. The evidence suggests that contracted-out activation programmes in the UK and some other welfare states have instead sometimes delivered a standardised ‘work-first’ model. An alternative approach is exemplified in local employability services targeting lone parents in Scotland, led by third sector–public sector partnerships. Our research on …
Collaborative Innovation in Labor Market Inclusion
This article deploys the concept of “collaborative innovation” to discuss key stakeholders’ and service users' experiences of innovative labor market inclusion services. We draw on work by Sørensen and Torfing (2011, 2016, 2017) to frame collaborative innovation as a distinctive approach to the coproduction of services that respond to user needs, and highlight the importance of governance and leadership practices that foster mutual learning and b…
Collaborative innovation and activation in urban labour markets
Policymakers in the UK, having long supported centralised and marketised models of governance and delivery in the field of labour market activation, have recently begun to acknowledge the benefits of more localised, collaborative approaches to organising public services. Evidence from other European welfare states suggests that the case in favour of localised innovation may be particularly compelling in urban labour markets, where there can be po…
Evaluating local system change using a comparative maturity matrix
This article focuses on the evaluation of the Children’s Community programme, addressing the question: how can evaluators effectively address complex place-based system change initiatives, particularly those working across differing contexts? After considering alternatives, including what we describe as ‘first-generation’ linear, logic model-based approaches and second-generation Theory of Change approaches, we discuss the development of ‘third-g…
Empowering Lone Parents to Progress towards Employability
Policymakers in liberal welfare states like the UK have prioritised extending the reach of compulsory activation to target vulnerable jobseeker groups, such as lone parents. However, such interventions - especially when combined with intensified welfare conditionality - appear to have had limited positive effects on lone parents' employability, while often negatively impacting wellbeing. This article argues that the problem is a disconnect betwee…
Relational approaches to employability
As policymakers consider how best to respond to increased labour market volatility in post-Covid-19 economies, there is concern that vulnerable groups such as lone parents may be left behind, and consensus that we need to develop more responsive and person-centred approaches to employability. Drawing on Cottam’s (2011, 2018) work on ‘relational welfare’, and the principles of the capabilities approach that underly it, this article discusses the e…
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