Penny Curtis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3799393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Penny Curtis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Penny |
| FAMILY NAME | Curtis |
| SIGNATURE | CURTIS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Young people’s explanations for the decline in youth drinking in England
Young people's explanations for the decline in youth drinking in England aligned well with those generated by researchers and commentators in prior literature. Our findings suggest that changing practices of socialisation, decreased alcohol affordability and changed attitudes toward risk and self-governance may be key explanations
Trends in the psychosocial characteristics of 11–15‐year‐olds who still drink, smoke, take drugs and engage in poly‐substance use in England
Children's perspectives and experiences of the Covid‐19 pandemic and UK public health measures
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound impacts on how we live our lives; yet, the implications for children and the effects on children's everyday lives have been relatively underacknowledged. Understanding children's views on COVID-19 and related restrictions on their lives provides an important opportunity to understand how children have responded to the pandemic, including the impacts on their social and emotional well-being. OBJEC…
Children’s learning from a Smokefree Sports programme: Implications for health education
Objective: This article reports on a qualitative evaluation of the Love Life, Smokefree Sports primary school pilot intervention. This 8-week programme used sports and physical activity sessions to convey Smokefree messages to 120 children aged 10 and 11 in two primary schools in Sheffield in 2018. The study aimed to understand children’s experiences of participating in the programme. Its objectives were to explore children’s recall of the health…
Care(ful) relationships: Supporting children in secure care
Secure children's homes are used to accommodate children aged 10–16 under two main categories; while half are sentenced after committing a serious offence, the other half are placed because there are serious concerns around their safety in the community. Secure children's homes are prized within the secure estate, and they administer complex therapeutic support to ‘the most vulnerable’ young people, however little is known about the experiences o…
Young people's perspectives of e-cigarette use in the home
Displaying good fathering through the construction of physical activity as intimate practice
A close father–child relationship is a potent cultural ideal in Western, post-industrial societies. This article poses physical activity as a practice through which fathers display intimacy in their relationships with their children. Utilising the premise of family display, it reveals the conduct of contemporary fathers to be suffused with meaning from the social convention that intimate fathers are ‘good fathers’. It argues that intimate fatherh…
Making health information meaningful: Children's health literacy practices
Children's health and wellbeing is high on the research and policy agenda of many nations. There is a wealth of epidemiological research linking childhood circumstances and health practices with adult health. However, echoing a broader picture within child health research where children have typically been viewed as objects rather than subjects of enquiry, we know very little of how, in their everyday lives, children make sense of health-relevant…
Where are the schools? Children, families and food practices
Children’s understanding of family financial resources and their impact on eating healthily: Family finances & food: children’s views
Socioeconomic inequalities in childhood are linked to childhood and adult health inequalities. They are particularly closely associated with inequalities in nutritional and consequently health status. Recent research links this to the high cost of nutrient-rich and low cost of nutrient-poor foods and explores how parents negotiate food purchase on a limited budget. However, we know little of children's perspectives on the material and social real…
Constructing the Sick Child: The Cultural Politics of Children's Hospitals
Drawing on an ESRC funded study of children's experiences of hospital space this article explores the cultural politics of contemporary English childhood. Using the words and commentaries provided by both children and young people, the article argues that although, as patients, children and young people share the same hospital spaces, their experiences of them are quite different. Through mundane material and symbolic practices, a number of exper…
Intergenerational relations and the family food environment in families with a child with obesity
Findings may pose challenges for contemporary health promotion and policy agendas which presume that parents have the ability and resources to control and direct children's eating in a unidirectional and authoritative manner
Children's snacking, children's food: Food moralities and family life
This work considers the construction of children's food and children's eating practices, in the narratives of children, aged 11–12, and their parents, and explores what these constructions reveal about child–adult relations and the nature of family life. It argues that, implicit to the differentiation of children's and adult's food and eating practices within families are generationally nuanced food moralities. We suggest that the day-to-day, ong…
Family Displays and Personal Lives
In this article we explore how Finch's (2007) concept of display might illuminate the new sociology of personal life as set out by Smart (2007). Drawing on narratives of family life and eating practices, from both parents and children, the article considers how these work as tools of family display. For some families, displays are used to affirm an idiosyncratic sense of their family through drawing on particular cultural motifs of 'family'. For …
The experiences of young people with obesity in secondary school: Some implications for the healthy school agenda
In 1995, the World Health Organisation launched a Global School Health Initiative to reduce health risks among young people. In the UK, the National Healthy School Programme (HSP) developed as part of a wider government commitment to promoting social inclusion. One of the key issues to be tackled by the programme is childhood obesity, for obesity is widely argued to be a public health problem for which a solution needs to be found. However, the a…
Family Displays and Personal Lives
In this article we explore how Finch's (2007) concept of display might illuminate the new sociology of personal life as set out by Smart (2007). Drawing on narratives of family life and eating practices, from both parents and children, the article considers how these work as tools of family display. For some families, displays are used to affirm an idiosyncratic sense of their family through drawing on particular cultural motifs of 'family'. For …
Children's snacking, children's food: Food moralities and family life
This work considers the construction of children's food and children's eating practices, in the narratives of children, aged 11–12, and their parents, and explores what these constructions reveal about child–adult relations and the nature of family life. It argues that, implicit to the differentiation of children's and adult's food and eating practices within families are generationally nuanced food moralities. We suggest that the day-to-day, ong…
Where are the schools? Children, families and food practices
The experiences of young people with obesity in secondary school: Some implications for the healthy school agenda
In 1995, the World Health Organisation launched a Global School Health Initiative to reduce health risks among young people. In the UK, the National Healthy School Programme (HSP) developed as part of a wider government commitment to promoting social inclusion. One of the key issues to be tackled by the programme is childhood obesity, for obesity is widely argued to be a public health problem for which a solution needs to be found. However, the a…
Displaying good fathering through the construction of physical activity as intimate practice
A close father–child relationship is a potent cultural ideal in Western, post-industrial societies. This article poses physical activity as a practice through which fathers display intimacy in their relationships with their children. Utilising the premise of family display, it reveals the conduct of contemporary fathers to be suffused with meaning from the social convention that intimate fathers are ‘good fathers’. It argues that intimate fatherh…
Care(ful) relationships: Supporting children in secure care
Secure children's homes are used to accommodate children aged 10–16 under two main categories; while half are sentenced after committing a serious offence, the other half are placed because there are serious concerns around their safety in the community. Secure children's homes are prized within the secure estate, and they administer complex therapeutic support to ‘the most vulnerable’ young people, however little is known about the experiences o…
Children’s understanding of family financial resources and their impact on eating healthily: Family finances & food: children’s views
Socioeconomic inequalities in childhood are linked to childhood and adult health inequalities. They are particularly closely associated with inequalities in nutritional and consequently health status. Recent research links this to the high cost of nutrient-rich and low cost of nutrient-poor foods and explores how parents negotiate food purchase on a limited budget. However, we know little of children's perspectives on the material and social real…
Constructing the Sick Child: The Cultural Politics of Children's Hospitals
Drawing on an ESRC funded study of children's experiences of hospital space this article explores the cultural politics of contemporary English childhood. Using the words and commentaries provided by both children and young people, the article argues that although, as patients, children and young people share the same hospital spaces, their experiences of them are quite different. Through mundane material and symbolic practices, a number of exper…
The experiences of young people with obesity in secondary school: Some implications for the healthy school agenda
In 1995, the World Health Organisation launched a Global School Health Initiative to reduce health risks among young people. In the UK, the National Healthy School Programme (HSP) developed as part of a wider government commitment to promoting social inclusion. One of the key issues to be tackled by the programme is childhood obesity, for obesity is widely argued to be a public health problem for which a solution needs to be found. However, the a…
Children's snacking, children's food: Food moralities and family life
This work considers the construction of children's food and children's eating practices, in the narratives of children, aged 11–12, and their parents, and explores what these constructions reveal about child–adult relations and the nature of family life. It argues that, implicit to the differentiation of children's and adult's food and eating practices within families are generationally nuanced food moralities. We suggest that the day-to-day, ong…
Family Displays and Personal Lives
In this article we explore how Finch's (2007) concept of display might illuminate the new sociology of personal life as set out by Smart (2007). Drawing on narratives of family life and eating practices, from both parents and children, the article considers how these work as tools of family display. For some families, displays are used to affirm an idiosyncratic sense of their family through drawing on particular cultural motifs of 'family'. For …
Intergenerational relations and the family food environment in families with a child with obesity
Findings may pose challenges for contemporary health promotion and policy agendas which presume that parents have the ability and resources to control and direct children's eating in a unidirectional and authoritative manner
Children’s understanding of family financial resources and their impact on eating healthily: Family finances & food: children’s views
Socioeconomic inequalities in childhood are linked to childhood and adult health inequalities. They are particularly closely associated with inequalities in nutritional and consequently health status. Recent research links this to the high cost of nutrient-rich and low cost of nutrient-poor foods and explores how parents negotiate food purchase on a limited budget. However, we know little of children's perspectives on the material and social real…
Constructing the Sick Child: The Cultural Politics of Children's Hospitals
Drawing on an ESRC funded study of children's experiences of hospital space this article explores the cultural politics of contemporary English childhood. Using the words and commentaries provided by both children and young people, the article argues that although, as patients, children and young people share the same hospital spaces, their experiences of them are quite different. Through mundane material and symbolic practices, a number of exper…
Making health information meaningful: Children's health literacy practices
Children's health and wellbeing is high on the research and policy agenda of many nations. There is a wealth of epidemiological research linking childhood circumstances and health practices with adult health. However, echoing a broader picture within child health research where children have typically been viewed as objects rather than subjects of enquiry, we know very little of how, in their everyday lives, children make sense of health-relevant…
Where are the schools? Children, families and food practices
Displaying good fathering through the construction of physical activity as intimate practice
A close father–child relationship is a potent cultural ideal in Western, post-industrial societies. This article poses physical activity as a practice through which fathers display intimacy in their relationships with their children. Utilising the premise of family display, it reveals the conduct of contemporary fathers to be suffused with meaning from the social convention that intimate fathers are ‘good fathers’. It argues that intimate fatherh…
Young people's perspectives of e-cigarette use in the home
Children’s learning from a Smokefree Sports programme: Implications for health education
Objective: This article reports on a qualitative evaluation of the Love Life, Smokefree Sports primary school pilot intervention. This 8-week programme used sports and physical activity sessions to convey Smokefree messages to 120 children aged 10 and 11 in two primary schools in Sheffield in 2018. The study aimed to understand children’s experiences of participating in the programme. Its objectives were to explore children’s recall of the health…
Care(ful) relationships: Supporting children in secure care
Secure children's homes are used to accommodate children aged 10–16 under two main categories; while half are sentenced after committing a serious offence, the other half are placed because there are serious concerns around their safety in the community. Secure children's homes are prized within the secure estate, and they administer complex therapeutic support to ‘the most vulnerable’ young people, however little is known about the experiences o…
Trends in the psychosocial characteristics of 11–15‐year‐olds who still drink, smoke, take drugs and engage in poly‐substance use in England
Children's perspectives and experiences of the Covid‐19 pandemic and UK public health measures
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound impacts on how we live our lives; yet, the implications for children and the effects on children's everyday lives have been relatively underacknowledged. Understanding children's views on COVID-19 and related restrictions on their lives provides an important opportunity to understand how children have responded to the pandemic, including the impacts on their social and emotional well-being. OBJEC…
Young people’s explanations for the decline in youth drinking in England
Young people's explanations for the decline in youth drinking in England aligned well with those generated by researchers and commentators in prior literature. Our findings suggest that changing practices of socialisation, decreased alcohol affordability and changed attitudes toward risk and self-governance may be key explanations
Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Qualitative research (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (7 works) · Nursing (6 works)