Sara Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4789-4948 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mnemonic Conviviality in “Post-Cold War” Britain: Entangled Memories in Urban Space
This article asks how sharing everyday memories in Britain’s superdiverse urban spaces can foster understanding across difference. Drawing on narratives and images produced in thirty-nine arts-based photography workshops in West Bromwich and Hyson Green, it develops the concept of mnemonic conviviality : a mode of “living with difference” grounded in the exchange of personal, familial and collective memories. Through a multi-sited, multi-group me…
Unpacking Assumptions: What Evaluation Capacity Building Looks Like When It’s Optional, Flexible, and Funded
Evaluation capacity building (ECB) in the philanthropic sector is often designed around a common set of assumptions: organizations need to be directed toward “correct” evaluation practices, compliance is the primary motivator for engagement, and funder-defined metrics are the most appropriate measure of success. This article challenges these assumptions by sharing insights from a multi-year ECB initiative funded by Houston Endowment called Harnes…
“I feel like people would look at me like I’m dirty or like I’m a thief: ” A Qualitative Exploration of Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Experiences That Influence Recovery Among Adults at Risk of Opio…
Objective: Due to the nature of early termination of treatment and the transient lifestyles of many people who use substances, many providers are unaware of the factors that may have contributed to their client's engagement in treatment. Treatment providers and researchers need a better understanding of intrapersonal and interpersonal factors that impact recovery from the clients' perspective. This study uses qualitative methods to explore these …
Impact of rurality on health care utilization among Australian residents from 2009 to 2021
PURPOSE: In Australia, there is limited research regarding the effect of rurality on health care utilization using longitudinal data. METHODS: We analyzed data from four annual waves (2009, 2013, 2017, and 2021) of the longitudinal Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey to examine changes in the health care utilization over time among urban and rural residents. Poisson regression models estimated adjusted incidence rate…
Protocol for a randomized and a non-randomized controlled trial testing Daily Growth: A personalised ‘ecological momentary intervention’ parenting app for parents and carers of children aged 2–5 years
This trial is registered with ANZCTR, registration number ACTRN12624000937516; ACTRN12624001023549, and includes all items from the WHO Trial Registration Data Set
Exploring the Experiences and Challenges of Breastfeeding Beyond 2 Years in the United Kingdom: A Qualitative Study
The World Health Organization recommend that babies are breastfed up to 2 years old and beyond. Breastfeeding beyond infancy continues to provide physical and mental health benefits for mothers and supports nutrition, immunity and development for children. However, there is a dearth of research exploring the experiences of women who breastfeed beyond 2 years, particularly in countries such as the United Kingdom, where only a small percentage of m…
The Painter of the Right
In early July, the Department of Homeland Security indulged in a little art appreciation on X, where it posted a thomas Kinkade painting, Morning Pledge, for its 2.6 million followers to admire. Morning Pledge is archetypal Kinkade: an American flag waves proudly next to a quaint schoolhouse across the road from a row of Victorian-style homes. "Protect the homeland," the DHS caption read. Days earlier the account had posted an AI-generated image …
Mismatched expectations: Eastern Europeanism, the slow memory of the Cold War and life in the United Kingdom for displaced Ukrainians
A significant number of displaced Ukrainians have relocated to Britain, most through the ‘Homes for Ukraine’ scheme that matched refugees with British hosts. Combining statistical data with narrative interviews, this article explores the challenges Ukrainians have experienced in their efforts to rebuild their lives in their new communities. The focus is on how ‘slow memory’ of colonial civilisational hierarchies, the construction of Europe’s east…
Pop Culture Media as Curricular Text: Designing an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Seminar Using Abbott Elementary
Abbott Elementary, the Emmy-award winning mockumentary-style comedy television show, chronicles the day-to-day efforts of a group of teachers in a Philadelphia public elementary school who, despite the odds stacked against them, are determined to help their students succeed. With humor and heart, the show also uncovers some of the larger policy issues at play in U.S. urban public education, such as teacher shortages, school funding, and school ch…
Situative Black Girlhood Reading Motivations: Why and How Black Girls Read and Comprehend Text
This study aims to illustrate the complex relationships between reading motivation and reading comprehension for Black girl readers. There is an urgent need for research that explicitly centers on the reading motivations of Black girls through a humanizing, asset-oriented lens. Through a Situative Black Girlhood Reading Motivations lens, which integrates a situative perspective on motivation and the tenets of Black Girlhood Studies, this multi-ye…
Developing students' resilience during the crisis: A moderated model linking college support, study demands, student resilience, and students' change‐oriented behaviours
This study focuses on student resilience during the COVID‐19 crisis, a key factor for students' progress, and future careers. It does so by introducing the job demands and resources (JDR) model, and the social exchange theory (SET), widely adopted in the management literature in the education field to better understand student experience management in the higher education context. In past research, limited attention has been given to student resi…
Grief and Sexual Intimacy: Exploring Therapists’ Views of Bereaved Clients
The interaction between sexual intimacy and grief remains unexplored despite its potential to offer valuable insights into how individuals, couples, and society perspectives shape bereaved individuals' sexual intimacy. Through semi-structured interviews with ten clinical psychologists and psychotherapists specialized in grief therapy, this study explores the impact of grief on sexual intimacy, the challenges faced by bereaved individuals, and the…
Disparities in being able to donate human milk impacts upon maternal wellbeing: Lessons for scaling up milk bank service provision
Receiving donor human milk for a baby can have a protective effect upon parental wellbeing. A growing body of research also finds that being able to donate milk to a milk bank, particularly after infant loss, can also boost maternal wellbeing through feelings of altruism and purpose. However, most studies are qualitative, with small sample sizes outside the United Kingdom, and often do not include the experiences of those who have been unable to …
Weaving Wayapa and cognitive behaviour therapy: Applying research topic yarning to explore a cultural interface between Western and Indigenous psychology practice in Australia
Background: Indigenous Psychology within Australia reflects the traditional knowledges of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and their understanding of the cultivation of relational social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB). However, these perspectives are poorly incorporated into dominant “Western” psychological theories and practice, such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT). This represents a barrier to the cultural safety of current me…
Black Girls’ Reading Motivations: Centering Their Perspectives and Experiences to Redefine a Hegemonic Construct
This article addresses tensions between how researchers have conceptualized and operationalized adolescent reading motivation and how a group of Black girl readers perceive and enact reading motivation. Through a grounded theory approach, this qualitative study offers an initial exploration into mapping a race-reimaged reading motivation construct by centering the views, through artifact-elicited interviews, and experiences, through classroom obs…
Analysing Data With Members of a Stigmatised Community: Experiences, Reflections and Recommendations for Best Practice From the Finding the Formula Community Analysis Group
Participatory research approaches hold potential to better understand society through valuing lived experience. Formula feeding babies is routinely stigmatised in the UK, despite inadequate support to facilitate breastfeeding. Our community science project investigated the safety of powdered infant formula preparation in the home through the completion of an at-home experiment and a research diary with closed and open questions ( n = 151). To add…
The Palgrave Handbook of Testimony and Culture
This Palgrave Handbook examines the ways in which researchers and practitioners theorise, analyse, produce and make use of testimony.
The safety of at home powdered infant formula preparation: A community science project
Formula fed infants experience gastrointestinal infections at higher rates than breastfed infants, due in part to bacteria in powdered infant formula (PIF) and bacterial contamination of infant feeding equipment. The United Kingdom National Health Service (UK NHS) has adopted the World Health Organization recommendation that water used to reconstitute PIF is ≥70°C to eliminate bacteria. We used community science methods to co-design an at home ex…
Manipulating image luminance to improve eye gaze and verbal behavior in autistic children
Autism has been characterized by a tendency to attend to the local visual details over surveying an image to understand the gist–a phenomenon called local interference. This sensory processing trait has been found to negatively impact social communication. Although much work has been conducted to understand these traits, little to no work has been conducted to intervene to provide support for local interference. Additionally, recent understanding…
Turning Away from Anti‐Blackness: A Critical Review of Adolescent Reading Motivation Research
Responding to calls for centering Black lives in our collective consciousness, this review uses Critical Race Theory to analyze researchers’ inclusion of race in conceptualizing and operationalizing adolescent reading motivation. Two questions guide this review: (1) How do researchers include race in theories of adolescent reading motivation? and (2) What assumptions do researchers make about race in studying adolescent reading motivation? What c…
Palgrave Handbook of Testimony and Culture
Spoonfeeding is associated with increased infant weight but only amongst formula‐fed infants
Infant feeding experiences are important for the development of healthy weight gain trajectories. Evidence surrounding milk feeding and timing of introduction to solids is extensive; however, the impact of the method of introducing solids on infant growth has been relatively underexplored. Baby-led weaning (where infants self-feed family foods) is proposed to improve appetite regulation, leading to healthier weight gain and a reduced risk of obes…
Collaborative working in health and social care: Lessons learned from post‐hoc preliminary findings of a young families’ pregnancy to age 2 project in South Wales, United Kingdom
Children of young and socially disadvantaged parents are more likely to experience adverse outcomes. In response to this, a unique young families' project in Swansea, UK, was created, which drew together a team of multi-agency professionals, to support people aged 16-24 from 17 weeks of pregnancy throughout 1,001 days of the child's life. The aim of the JIGSO (the Welsh word for Jigsaw) project is for young people to reach their potential as pare…
Memory relations: Cross-border collaboration between mnemonic actors in Germany, Central Eastern Europe, and the Mena region
Cet article explore les collaborations transfrontalières de deux institutions allemandes dédiées à la mémoire des répressions communistes en combinant une analyse quantitative de réseaux et une analyse de discours. Il montre comment les réseaux créés par les deux institutions sont divisés en “régions de mémoire” et illustre la position structurellement influente des acteurs (ouest-)allemands. Dans leur engagement en Europe, ces institutions const…
Memory relations: Cross-border collaboration between mnemonic actors in Germany, Central Eastern Europe, and the Mena region
Histories, Fictions, and Xena: Warrior Princess
Testimony through culture: Towards a theoretical framework
This article brings together approaches from a range of disciplines to explore how we might approach testimony as it is produced through culture. It examines how we can define and understand the diverse forms of witnessing that are produced in artistic works and everyday practices such as education and law. With a focus on the witness to atrocity, the article develops a theoretical framework for the study of testimony through culture. It highligh…
Starring Lucy Lawless
Mediated immediacy: Constructing authentic testimony in audio-visual media
The article argues that the power of witnessing is intimately linked to concepts of authenticity – it is the eyewitness who, it is believed, can truly give an account of ‘what it was really like’. However, in order to ensure an impact on memory cultures, witness testimony must be recorded and fixed in a way that allows wider distribution. Such mediation can result in a perceived reduction in the authenticity of the narrative, as the person-to-per…
Catching fleeting memories: Victim forums as mediated remembering communities
This article examines the potential of the new media to provide space for the voicing of traumatic pasts. Using the example of www.stasiopfer.de , a site dedicated to the victims of persecution in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), I consider the development of remembering communities on the internet. Close textual analysis of a selection of posts reveals the ways in which group belonging is constructed linguistically. The observation o…
Memory on film: Testimony and constructions of authenticity in documentaries about the German Democratic Republic
This article considers the construction of authenticity in documentary films dealing with repression in the former East Germany, focusing on Stefan Weinert’s Gesicht zur Wand (2009) and Christian Klemke and Jan N. Lorenzen’s Das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit: Alltag einer Behörde (2002). Taking as its starting point the observation of two modes of authenticity in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Oscar-winning feature film, Das Leben der Ande…
Mismatched expectations: Eastern Europeanism, the slow memory of the Cold War and life in the United Kingdom for displaced Ukrainians
A significant number of displaced Ukrainians have relocated to Britain, most through the ‘Homes for Ukraine’ scheme that matched refugees with British hosts. Combining statistical data with narrative interviews, this article explores the challenges Ukrainians have experienced in their efforts to rebuild their lives in their new communities. The focus is on how ‘slow memory’ of colonial civilisational hierarchies, the construction of Europe’s east…
Weaving Wayapa and cognitive behaviour therapy: Applying research topic yarning to explore a cultural interface between Western and Indigenous psychology practice in Australia
Background: Indigenous Psychology within Australia reflects the traditional knowledges of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and their understanding of the cultivation of relational social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB). However, these perspectives are poorly incorporated into dominant “Western” psychological theories and practice, such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT). This represents a barrier to the cultural safety of current me…
Black Girls’ Reading Motivations: Centering Their Perspectives and Experiences to Redefine a Hegemonic Construct
This article addresses tensions between how researchers have conceptualized and operationalized adolescent reading motivation and how a group of Black girl readers perceive and enact reading motivation. Through a grounded theory approach, this qualitative study offers an initial exploration into mapping a race-reimaged reading motivation construct by centering the views, through artifact-elicited interviews, and experiences, through classroom obs…
(Extra)ordinary Life: The Rhetoric of Representing the Socialist Everyday After Unification
This article investigates the politics of representing everyday life (Alltag) in the German Democratic Republic in state-mandated museums and memorials in the contemporary Federal Republic. Through an analysis of advertising material, exhibits, and visitor surveys, it considers how managers of "auratic" sites have responded to the challenge posed by interpretations of the East German state that resist the focus on repression, as well as the impac…
Staging battlefields: Media, authenticity and politics in the Museum of Communism (Prague), The House of Terror (Budapest) and Gedenkstätte Hohenschönhausen (Berlin)
This article analyses the construction of authenticity in three sites commemorating oppression under state socialism.I demonstrate that each of the sites aims to incorporate the physical involvement of the visitor as part of its educational programme.This observation is linked to the political potential of 'prosthetic memory', that is, bodily memory of events one has not experienced.The methods used to achieve this immersive visitor experience ar…
The darker side of travel: The theory and practice of dark tourism
The Untrained Eye: How Languages for Software Specification Support Understanding in Untrained Users
It is generally recognised that choice of languages can have a significant effect on the system development process, particularly in the early stages. In the development of interactive systems, it is essential that all stakeholders can participate in a meaningful way. In order to do this, they must be able to understand representations of key concepts produced by the developers, especially those relating to problems and requirements for the syste…
Starring Lucy Lawless
Histories, Fictions, and Xena: Warrior Princess
Conflicting Evidence: Hermann Kant and the Opening of the Stasi Files
This article analyses the crisis of memory resulting from the historical rupture of 1989 and the opening of the Stasi files in 1992. Focusing on the GDR writer, Hermann Kant, I compare Kant's own account of his involvement with the Stasi in post‐1989 autobiography and journalism with the portrayal of these events in the files themselves. The Stasi files have been described as both an aid to memory and a form of hostile biography, and a tension ca…
The darker side of travel: The theory and practice of dark tourism
Complicity, Censorship and Criticism: Negotiating Space in the GDR Literary Sphere
This study develops an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the cultural history of the German Democratic Republic, examining the interaction between intellectuals and Party functionaries from a literary and historical perspective. Divided into three case studies, the work focuses on writers positioned along a spectrum of conformity and dissent and who had quite different relationships to political power: Hermann Kant, Stefan Heym and El…
Staging battlefields: Media, authenticity and politics in the Museum of Communism (Prague), The House of Terror (Budapest) and Gedenkstätte Hohenschönhausen (Berlin)
This article analyses the construction of authenticity in three sites commemorating oppression under state socialism.I demonstrate that each of the sites aims to incorporate the physical involvement of the visitor as part of its educational programme.This observation is linked to the political potential of 'prosthetic memory', that is, bodily memory of events one has not experienced.The methods used to achieve this immersive visitor experience ar…
Touching on Taboos: Elfriede Brüning and the Reception of Partnerinnen in the GDR
This article analyses the reception and publication of Elfriede Brüning's collection of fictional portraits, Partnerinnen (1978), in the context of official and critical discourse regarding female emancipation in the GDR. I examine the extent to which this writer, loyal to the SED, contributes to criticism of GDR gender politics and how publishers, reviewers and readers react to her portrayal. Through analysis of unpublished correspondence, I con…
Catching fleeting memories: Victim forums as mediated remembering communities
This article examines the potential of the new media to provide space for the voicing of traumatic pasts. Using the example of www.stasiopfer.de , a site dedicated to the victims of persecution in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), I consider the development of remembering communities on the internet. Close textual analysis of a selection of posts reveals the ways in which group belonging is constructed linguistically. The observation o…
Memory on film: Testimony and constructions of authenticity in documentaries about the German Democratic Republic
This article considers the construction of authenticity in documentary films dealing with repression in the former East Germany, focusing on Stefan Weinert’s Gesicht zur Wand (2009) and Christian Klemke and Jan N. Lorenzen’s Das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit: Alltag einer Behörde (2002). Taking as its starting point the observation of two modes of authenticity in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Oscar-winning feature film, Das Leben der Ande…
The Media of Testimony: Remembering the East German Stasi in the Berlin Republic
The Media of Testimony explores testimony relating to the Stasi in different cultural forms: autobiographical writing, memorial museums and documentary film. Combining theoretical models from diverse
“Simply a Little Piece of GDR History”: The Role of Memorialization in Post-Socialist Transitional Justice in Germany
Focusing on the Berlin Stasi prison memorial, Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, this article considers the role that memorialization might play in transitional justice as a form of symbolic reparation situated between vengeance and forgiveness. Through narrative analysis of interviews with former political prisoners, it traces the importance of memorialization for victims of human rights abuses in terms of a personal and collective coming to …
Mass Dictatorship and Memory as Ever Present Past
Mass Dictatorship and Memory brings together a diverse collection of essays, each addressing the shifting processes of writing the history of dictatorial regimes in the twentieth century. The focus
(Extra)ordinary Life: The Rhetoric of Representing the Socialist Everyday After Unification
This article investigates the politics of representing everyday life (Alltag) in the German Democratic Republic in state-mandated museums and memorials in the contemporary Federal Republic. Through an analysis of advertising material, exhibits, and visitor surveys, it considers how managers of "auratic" sites have responded to the challenge posed by interpretations of the East German state that resist the focus on repression, as well as the impac…
Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe
Mediated immediacy: Constructing authentic testimony in audio-visual media
The article argues that the power of witnessing is intimately linked to concepts of authenticity – it is the eyewitness who, it is believed, can truly give an account of ‘what it was really like’. However, in order to ensure an impact on memory cultures, witness testimony must be recorded and fixed in a way that allows wider distribution. Such mediation can result in a perceived reduction in the authenticity of the narrative, as the person-to-per…
Testimony through culture: Towards a theoretical framework
This article brings together approaches from a range of disciplines to explore how we might approach testimony as it is produced through culture. It examines how we can define and understand the diverse forms of witnessing that are produced in artistic works and everyday practices such as education and law. With a focus on the witness to atrocity, the article develops a theoretical framework for the study of testimony through culture. It highligh…
Spoonfeeding is associated with increased infant weight but only amongst formula‐fed infants
Infant feeding experiences are important for the development of healthy weight gain trajectories. Evidence surrounding milk feeding and timing of introduction to solids is extensive; however, the impact of the method of introducing solids on infant growth has been relatively underexplored. Baby-led weaning (where infants self-feed family foods) is proposed to improve appetite regulation, leading to healthier weight gain and a reduced risk of obes…
Collaborative working in health and social care: Lessons learned from post‐hoc preliminary findings of a young families’ pregnancy to age 2 project in South Wales, United Kingdom
Children of young and socially disadvantaged parents are more likely to experience adverse outcomes. In response to this, a unique young families' project in Swansea, UK, was created, which drew together a team of multi-agency professionals, to support people aged 16-24 from 17 weeks of pregnancy throughout 1,001 days of the child's life. The aim of the JIGSO (the Welsh word for Jigsaw) project is for young people to reach their potential as pare…
Memory relations: Cross-border collaboration between mnemonic actors in Germany, Central Eastern Europe, and the Mena region
Cet article explore les collaborations transfrontalières de deux institutions allemandes dédiées à la mémoire des répressions communistes en combinant une analyse quantitative de réseaux et une analyse de discours. Il montre comment les réseaux créés par les deux institutions sont divisés en “régions de mémoire” et illustre la position structurellement influente des acteurs (ouest-)allemands. Dans leur engagement en Europe, ces institutions const…
Memory relations: Cross-border collaboration between mnemonic actors in Germany, Central Eastern Europe, and the Mena region
Young parents’ experiences of a multi-agency young families project: Findings from a co-produced study
T homas W. G oldstein . Writing in Red: The East German Writers Union and the Role of Literary Intellectuals
Manipulating image luminance to improve eye gaze and verbal behavior in autistic children
Autism has been characterized by a tendency to attend to the local visual details over surveying an image to understand the gist–a phenomenon called local interference. This sensory processing trait has been found to negatively impact social communication. Although much work has been conducted to understand these traits, little to no work has been conducted to intervene to provide support for local interference. Additionally, recent understanding…
Turning Away from Anti‐Blackness: A Critical Review of Adolescent Reading Motivation Research
Responding to calls for centering Black lives in our collective consciousness, this review uses Critical Race Theory to analyze researchers’ inclusion of race in conceptualizing and operationalizing adolescent reading motivation. Two questions guide this review: (1) How do researchers include race in theories of adolescent reading motivation? and (2) What assumptions do researchers make about race in studying adolescent reading motivation? What c…
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