Claire Wagner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3840751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Wagner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Wagner |
| SIGNATURE | WAGNER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6758-2891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Students’ Experiences of Learning Research Methods in an Interdisciplinary Project-Based Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration
Teaching research methods is a challenging endeavor in any discipline. Approaches that offer beneficial and rewarding learning opportunities to students could improve their experiences of methods courses. This article describes research psychology students’ and urban planning students’ experiences of an approach that combines experiential and interdisciplinary scholarship in a university–science council research collaboration. Qualitative data fr…
Advancing global health access through market shaping: Cases and learnings
New health products have contributed to major improvements in public health, but many clinically effective interventions still face delays in reaching low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Market shaping approaches have emerged as a set of tools designed to address such access gaps by influencing prices, supply, and demand. Drawing on practitioner experience and illustrative cases, this paper examines how market shaping mechanisms have been u…
Examining the role of knowledge and trust on vaccine confidence in North Dakota among university students, faculty, and staff
Multiple stakeholders are necessary to ensure verified, accessible, and accurate information in order to advance vaccine confidence in rural, conservative areas
Planning Students’ Experiences of Interdisciplinary Near-Peer Research Mentoring
This article describes planning students’ experiences of an interdisciplinary near-peer research-mentoring program in the context of experiential learning. A group of final-year undergraduate planning students, who were required to conduct research and write a report, were mentored by master’s degree students in research psychology. Data obtained from independent focus group discussions with two cohorts of students yielded three themes. The merit…
Reducing students’ ecological footprints through self-developed interventions
An increasing emphasis on taking personal responsibility for making changes to address climate change and support sustainable development is hindered by the limited tools and guidance available that enable the relationship between living patterns and environmental impacts to be readily and accurately discerned. An exception is the ecological footprint calculator that measures the global environmental impact of everyday activities. This study desc…
Student voices in studies on curriculum decolonisation: A scoping review
With the decolonisation and #feesmustfall movements in higher education going mainstream it is essential that the voices of students continue to be heard and that they occupy a prominent role in the decolonial project. Additionally, it is crucial to understand how their voices have been portrayed, analysed, and framed within scholarly work. This paper presents a scoping review of literature on the voices of students about the decolonisation of th…
A Mixed Research Synthesis of Literature on Teaching Qualitative Research Methods
This article surveys the literature from 1999 to 2013 on teaching qualitative research methods. One hundred thirteen articles fitted the inclusion criteria; 79 of these were by academics in the United States and Canada. Only 39 of the 113 were based on empirical research: from these, seven descriptive themes were distilled, of which the dominant ones are experiential learning and practice-based materials and workshops. The literature portrayed te…
On the Relation Between Social Dominance Orientation and Environmentalism: A 25-Nation Study
Approval of hierarchy and inequality in society indexed by social dominance orientation (SDO) extends to support for human dominance over the natural world. We tested this negative association between SDO and environmentalism and the validity of the new Short Social Dominance Orientation Scale in two cross-cultural samples of students ( N = 4,163, k = 25) and the general population ( N = 1,237, k = 10). As expected, the higher people were on SDO,…
A dance of ambiguous constructions: White South African transracial adoptive and foster mothers’ discourses on race
‘Transracial’ adoption and fostering offer fertile ground for exploring how constructions of race can operate. This qualitative study engaged in a discourse analysis of interviews with 17 South African mothers identifying as White who have adopted and who foster transracially. Focus was placed on how they talk about race through their discussions of mothering. Findings highlight how race is constructed largely in an ambivalent manner and how aver…
Musical Elicitation Methods: Insights From a Study With Becoming-Adolescents Referred to Group Music Therapy for Aggression
Music is an underutilized resource for research in the social sciences. This article presents examples of musical elicitation methods that were used within a study that explored how adolescents who were referred to group music therapy for aggression produced meanings of aggression through the therapeutic process. The study was conducted within a poststructuralist paradigm, particularly using the theoretical thinking tools of Deleuze and Gergen. T…
Reflections on the State of Social Science Research on the African Continent
The International Sociological Association’s Research Committee “Logic and Methodology” (RC33), under the direction of President Nina Baur, is widening its focus on social research and methodology to include perspectives from outside Europe and North America. This is the second “Regional Report” to be jointly published by the BMS and this issue’s RC33 Newsletter. Although Africa is a heterogeneous region, this paper aims to provide a broad overvi…
Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the world
Design, testing, and scale-up of medical devices for global health: Negative pressure wound therapy and non-surgical male circumcision in Rwanda
Products with high efficacy and low cost are desirable in all market sectors and environments, particularly in settings where resources are limited. The health sectors of developing nations are an example of this basic economic principle as constrained financial and human resources must be budgeted toward large (and often, growing) populations’ health needs. However, the cost and quality characteristics that are absolutely necessary in resource-l…
Impact of implementing performance-based financing on childhood malnutrition in Rwanda
PBF may have a protective association with particular forms of malnutrition among children under-5 years in Rwanda. These findings warrant further investigation in relation to the impact of implementing innovative financing schemes on health outcomes
Shared learning in an interconnected world: Innovations to advance global health equity
The notion of "reverse innovation"--that some insights from low-income countries might offer transferable lessons for wealthier contexts--is increasingly common in the global health and business strategy literature. Yet the perspectives of researchers and policymakers in settings where these innovations are developed have been largely absent from the discussion to date. In this Commentary, we present examples of programmatic, technological, and r…
‘She’s a slut … and it’s wrong’: Youth constructions of taxi queens in the Western Cape
Recent research on young women’s sexuality highlights the transactional nature of relationships among young people, as well as the increase in intergenerational sexual relationships. These unequal and often coercive sexual practices may increase young women’s vulnerability to unsafe sexual practices. Within this context, while there have been some media reports on the relationship between girls and taxi drivers, there has been little documented r…
Adolescents and the right to health: Eliminating age-related barriers to HIV/Aids services in Rwanda
Under international, regional, and domestic law, adolescents are entitled to measures ensuring the highest attainable standard of health. For HIV/AIDS, this is essential as adolescents lack many social and economic protections and are disproportionately vulnerable to the effects of the disease. In many countries, legal protections do not always ensure access to health care for adolescents, including for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care. U…
Taxi 'sugar daddies' and taxi queens: Male taxi driver attitudes regarding transactional relationships in the Western Cape, South Africa
Media reports are emerging on the phenomenon of young girls who travel with older mini-bus taxi drivers, and who are thought to have sex with the drivers in exchange for gifts and money. The extent to which such relationships might facilitate unsafe sexual practices and increased risks for both the men and the young women, often referred to as taxi queens, remains an important question in the light of the current challenges of HIV/AIDS in sub-Sah…
A question of maturity: The participation, decision-making and rights of children in the context of HIV/Aids
This article examines international, regional and national sources of law with respect to the rights of children and considers how a strict age of majority affects adolescents' access to health care. Using Rwanda as a case study, this article outlines how a high age of majority, combined with mandatory parental consent, creates barriers for Rwandan adolescents to prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission, learn their status and rece…
The state of the art of teaching research methods in the social sciences: Towards a Pedagogical Culture
No formal pedagogical culture for research methods in the social sciences seems to exist and, as part of the authors' endeavour to establish such a culture, this article reviews current literature about teaching research methods and identifies the gaps in the research. Articles in academic journals spanning a 10‐year period were collected by searching academic catalogues and compiling a database of 195 articles published in 61 journals. These art…
Students’ Conceptions—and Misconceptions—of Social Research
How knowledge of students’ conceptions of social research can influence the pedagogy of research methods is the focus of this article. This study explains how students’ conceptions of social research changed over the course of a two-semester research programme. Twenty-nine graduate students participated in focus groups, interviews, and open-ended surveys to inform the instructor’s pedagogical decisions in developing the course. Data were analyzed…
Discourse Analysis of the Perceptions of Bereavement and Bereavement rituals of Tshivenda Speaking Women
This article examined the discourses of bereavement and bereavement rituals that inform Tshivenda speaking women's positions within their social structure. The Tshivenda speaking community that participated in this study is located in the Vhembe District of the Limpopo province in South Africa. The study specifically explored the social constructions of bereavement and bereavement rituals with the focus on how discourses shape bereaved women's pe…
Teaching Research Methodology: Implications for Psychology on the Road Ahead
This article examines the ways in which academics who teach undergraduate research methodology courses conceptualise research and scholarship and the role these aspects play in the way they construct their courses. In-depth interviews were conducted with nine academics who have been intimately involved in constructing social science research courses at South African universities. Carspecken's (1996) critical hermeneutic method was adapted and app…
The psychological bases of ideology and prejudice: Testing a dual process model
The issue of personality and prejudice has been largely investigated in terms of authoritarianism and social dominance orientation. However, these seem more appropriately conceptualized as ideological attitudes than as personality dimensions. The authors describe a causal model linking dual dimensions of personality, social world view, ideological attitudes, and intergroup attitudes. Structural equation modeling with data from American and White …
The Potted Biography Industry: Who Has the Unionists
The psychological bases of ideology and prejudice: Testing a dual process model
The issue of personality and prejudice has been largely investigated in terms of authoritarianism and social dominance orientation. However, these seem more appropriately conceptualized as ideological attitudes than as personality dimensions. The authors describe a causal model linking dual dimensions of personality, social world view, ideological attitudes, and intergroup attitudes. Structural equation modeling with data from American and White …
The state of the art of teaching research methods in the social sciences: Towards a Pedagogical Culture
No formal pedagogical culture for research methods in the social sciences seems to exist and, as part of the authors' endeavour to establish such a culture, this article reviews current literature about teaching research methods and identifies the gaps in the research. Articles in academic journals spanning a 10‐year period were collected by searching academic catalogues and compiling a database of 195 articles published in 61 journals. These art…
Reflections on the State of Social Science Research on the African Continent
The International Sociological Association’s Research Committee “Logic and Methodology” (RC33), under the direction of President Nina Baur, is widening its focus on social research and methodology to include perspectives from outside Europe and North America. This is the second “Regional Report” to be jointly published by the BMS and this issue’s RC33 Newsletter. Although Africa is a heterogeneous region, this paper aims to provide a broad overvi…
Musical Elicitation Methods: Insights From a Study With Becoming-Adolescents Referred to Group Music Therapy for Aggression
Music is an underutilized resource for research in the social sciences. This article presents examples of musical elicitation methods that were used within a study that explored how adolescents who were referred to group music therapy for aggression produced meanings of aggression through the therapeutic process. The study was conducted within a poststructuralist paradigm, particularly using the theoretical thinking tools of Deleuze and Gergen. T…
Taxi 'sugar daddies' and taxi queens: Male taxi driver attitudes regarding transactional relationships in the Western Cape, South Africa
Media reports are emerging on the phenomenon of young girls who travel with older mini-bus taxi drivers, and who are thought to have sex with the drivers in exchange for gifts and money. The extent to which such relationships might facilitate unsafe sexual practices and increased risks for both the men and the young women, often referred to as taxi queens, remains an important question in the light of the current challenges of HIV/AIDS in sub-Sah…
Students’ Conceptions—and Misconceptions—of Social Research
How knowledge of students’ conceptions of social research can influence the pedagogy of research methods is the focus of this article. This study explains how students’ conceptions of social research changed over the course of a two-semester research programme. Twenty-nine graduate students participated in focus groups, interviews, and open-ended surveys to inform the instructor’s pedagogical decisions in developing the course. Data were analyzed…
Planning Students’ Experiences of Interdisciplinary Near-Peer Research Mentoring
This article describes planning students’ experiences of an interdisciplinary near-peer research-mentoring program in the context of experiential learning. A group of final-year undergraduate planning students, who were required to conduct research and write a report, were mentored by master’s degree students in research psychology. Data obtained from independent focus group discussions with two cohorts of students yielded three themes. The merit…
A Mixed Research Synthesis of Literature on Teaching Qualitative Research Methods
This article surveys the literature from 1999 to 2013 on teaching qualitative research methods. One hundred thirteen articles fitted the inclusion criteria; 79 of these were by academics in the United States and Canada. Only 39 of the 113 were based on empirical research: from these, seven descriptive themes were distilled, of which the dominant ones are experiential learning and practice-based materials and workshops. The literature portrayed te…
The Potted Biography Industry: Who Has the Unionists
The psychological bases of ideology and prejudice: Testing a dual process model
The issue of personality and prejudice has been largely investigated in terms of authoritarianism and social dominance orientation. However, these seem more appropriately conceptualized as ideological attitudes than as personality dimensions. The authors describe a causal model linking dual dimensions of personality, social world view, ideological attitudes, and intergroup attitudes. Structural equation modeling with data from American and White …
Teaching Research Methodology: Implications for Psychology on the Road Ahead
This article examines the ways in which academics who teach undergraduate research methodology courses conceptualise research and scholarship and the role these aspects play in the way they construct their courses. In-depth interviews were conducted with nine academics who have been intimately involved in constructing social science research courses at South African universities. Carspecken's (1996) critical hermeneutic method was adapted and app…
Discourse Analysis of the Perceptions of Bereavement and Bereavement rituals of Tshivenda Speaking Women
This article examined the discourses of bereavement and bereavement rituals that inform Tshivenda speaking women's positions within their social structure. The Tshivenda speaking community that participated in this study is located in the Vhembe District of the Limpopo province in South Africa. The study specifically explored the social constructions of bereavement and bereavement rituals with the focus on how discourses shape bereaved women's pe…
Students’ Conceptions—and Misconceptions—of Social Research
How knowledge of students’ conceptions of social research can influence the pedagogy of research methods is the focus of this article. This study explains how students’ conceptions of social research changed over the course of a two-semester research programme. Twenty-nine graduate students participated in focus groups, interviews, and open-ended surveys to inform the instructor’s pedagogical decisions in developing the course. Data were analyzed…
A question of maturity: The participation, decision-making and rights of children in the context of HIV/Aids
This article examines international, regional and national sources of law with respect to the rights of children and considers how a strict age of majority affects adolescents' access to health care. Using Rwanda as a case study, this article outlines how a high age of majority, combined with mandatory parental consent, creates barriers for Rwandan adolescents to prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission, learn their status and rece…
The state of the art of teaching research methods in the social sciences: Towards a Pedagogical Culture
No formal pedagogical culture for research methods in the social sciences seems to exist and, as part of the authors' endeavour to establish such a culture, this article reviews current literature about teaching research methods and identifies the gaps in the research. Articles in academic journals spanning a 10‐year period were collected by searching academic catalogues and compiling a database of 195 articles published in 61 journals. These art…
Adolescents and the right to health: Eliminating age-related barriers to HIV/Aids services in Rwanda
Under international, regional, and domestic law, adolescents are entitled to measures ensuring the highest attainable standard of health. For HIV/AIDS, this is essential as adolescents lack many social and economic protections and are disproportionately vulnerable to the effects of the disease. In many countries, legal protections do not always ensure access to health care for adolescents, including for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care. U…
Taxi 'sugar daddies' and taxi queens: Male taxi driver attitudes regarding transactional relationships in the Western Cape, South Africa
Media reports are emerging on the phenomenon of young girls who travel with older mini-bus taxi drivers, and who are thought to have sex with the drivers in exchange for gifts and money. The extent to which such relationships might facilitate unsafe sexual practices and increased risks for both the men and the young women, often referred to as taxi queens, remains an important question in the light of the current challenges of HIV/AIDS in sub-Sah…
Shared learning in an interconnected world: Innovations to advance global health equity
The notion of "reverse innovation"--that some insights from low-income countries might offer transferable lessons for wealthier contexts--is increasingly common in the global health and business strategy literature. Yet the perspectives of researchers and policymakers in settings where these innovations are developed have been largely absent from the discussion to date. In this Commentary, we present examples of programmatic, technological, and r…
‘She’s a slut … and it’s wrong’: Youth constructions of taxi queens in the Western Cape
Recent research on young women’s sexuality highlights the transactional nature of relationships among young people, as well as the increase in intergenerational sexual relationships. These unequal and often coercive sexual practices may increase young women’s vulnerability to unsafe sexual practices. Within this context, while there have been some media reports on the relationship between girls and taxi drivers, there has been little documented r…
Impact of implementing performance-based financing on childhood malnutrition in Rwanda
PBF may have a protective association with particular forms of malnutrition among children under-5 years in Rwanda. These findings warrant further investigation in relation to the impact of implementing innovative financing schemes on health outcomes
Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the world
Design, testing, and scale-up of medical devices for global health: Negative pressure wound therapy and non-surgical male circumcision in Rwanda
Products with high efficacy and low cost are desirable in all market sectors and environments, particularly in settings where resources are limited. The health sectors of developing nations are an example of this basic economic principle as constrained financial and human resources must be budgeted toward large (and often, growing) populations’ health needs. However, the cost and quality characteristics that are absolutely necessary in resource-l…
Reflections on the State of Social Science Research on the African Continent
The International Sociological Association’s Research Committee “Logic and Methodology” (RC33), under the direction of President Nina Baur, is widening its focus on social research and methodology to include perspectives from outside Europe and North America. This is the second “Regional Report” to be jointly published by the BMS and this issue’s RC33 Newsletter. Although Africa is a heterogeneous region, this paper aims to provide a broad overvi…
On the Relation Between Social Dominance Orientation and Environmentalism: A 25-Nation Study
Approval of hierarchy and inequality in society indexed by social dominance orientation (SDO) extends to support for human dominance over the natural world. We tested this negative association between SDO and environmentalism and the validity of the new Short Social Dominance Orientation Scale in two cross-cultural samples of students ( N = 4,163, k = 25) and the general population ( N = 1,237, k = 10). As expected, the higher people were on SDO,…
A dance of ambiguous constructions: White South African transracial adoptive and foster mothers’ discourses on race
‘Transracial’ adoption and fostering offer fertile ground for exploring how constructions of race can operate. This qualitative study engaged in a discourse analysis of interviews with 17 South African mothers identifying as White who have adopted and who foster transracially. Focus was placed on how they talk about race through their discussions of mothering. Findings highlight how race is constructed largely in an ambivalent manner and how aver…
Musical Elicitation Methods: Insights From a Study With Becoming-Adolescents Referred to Group Music Therapy for Aggression
Music is an underutilized resource for research in the social sciences. This article presents examples of musical elicitation methods that were used within a study that explored how adolescents who were referred to group music therapy for aggression produced meanings of aggression through the therapeutic process. The study was conducted within a poststructuralist paradigm, particularly using the theoretical thinking tools of Deleuze and Gergen. T…
A Mixed Research Synthesis of Literature on Teaching Qualitative Research Methods
This article surveys the literature from 1999 to 2013 on teaching qualitative research methods. One hundred thirteen articles fitted the inclusion criteria; 79 of these were by academics in the United States and Canada. Only 39 of the 113 were based on empirical research: from these, seven descriptive themes were distilled, of which the dominant ones are experiential learning and practice-based materials and workshops. The literature portrayed te…
Student voices in studies on curriculum decolonisation: A scoping review
With the decolonisation and #feesmustfall movements in higher education going mainstream it is essential that the voices of students continue to be heard and that they occupy a prominent role in the decolonial project. Additionally, it is crucial to understand how their voices have been portrayed, analysed, and framed within scholarly work. This paper presents a scoping review of literature on the voices of students about the decolonisation of th…
Reducing students’ ecological footprints through self-developed interventions
An increasing emphasis on taking personal responsibility for making changes to address climate change and support sustainable development is hindered by the limited tools and guidance available that enable the relationship between living patterns and environmental impacts to be readily and accurately discerned. An exception is the ecological footprint calculator that measures the global environmental impact of everyday activities. This study desc…
Planning Students’ Experiences of Interdisciplinary Near-Peer Research Mentoring
This article describes planning students’ experiences of an interdisciplinary near-peer research-mentoring program in the context of experiential learning. A group of final-year undergraduate planning students, who were required to conduct research and write a report, were mentored by master’s degree students in research psychology. Data obtained from independent focus group discussions with two cohorts of students yielded three themes. The merit…
Examining the role of knowledge and trust on vaccine confidence in North Dakota among university students, faculty, and staff
Multiple stakeholders are necessary to ensure verified, accessible, and accurate information in order to advance vaccine confidence in rural, conservative areas
Students’ Experiences of Learning Research Methods in an Interdisciplinary Project-Based Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration
Teaching research methods is a challenging endeavor in any discipline. Approaches that offer beneficial and rewarding learning opportunities to students could improve their experiences of methods courses. This article describes research psychology students’ and urban planning students’ experiences of an approach that combines experiential and interdisciplinary scholarship in a university–science council research collaboration. Qualitative data fr…
Advancing global health access through market shaping: Cases and learnings
New health products have contributed to major improvements in public health, but many clinically effective interventions still face delays in reaching low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Market shaping approaches have emerged as a set of tools designed to address such access gaps by influencing prices, supply, and demand. Drawing on practitioner experience and illustrative cases, this paper examines how market shaping mechanisms have been u…
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