Stephen Hicks
Biographic Data
| ID | 3857085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Hicks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Hicks |
| SIGNATURE | HICKS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3177-2957 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Barriers Experienced During Fatherhood and the Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Mixed-Methods Approach
Given the critical role of fatherhood in child development and the significant challenges faced by fathers in underserved communities, there is a pressing need to better understand the specific barriers they encounter. This exploratory mixed-methods study examines the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among fathers, including English, Spanish, and Creole speakers, and explores how social determinants of health exacerbate these ba…
“The feel of the place”: Investigating atmosphere with the residents of a modernist housing estate
Atmosphere is a neglected topic in social work, and so this article considers the production of atmospheres amongst the residents of an extant 1960s housing scheme in Edinburgh (UK). This is in order to address not only the complexity of feelings about living on such an estate but also to consider what consequences the paying of attention to atmosphere’s production and effects might have for a social work concern with welfare and wellbeing. The a…
Nobody becomes stigmatised 'all at once: An interactionist account of stigma on a modernist council estate
This article examines how residents experience and account for stigma at Claremont Court, a modernist social housing scheme built in Edinburgh in the early 1960s. Although listed as having special architectural interest, the building has been subject to disinvestment and has a mix of residents, including council and private renters as well as owner-occupiers. This article explores micro-distinctions between residents, showing how the categories '…
Liberal Education and Its Postmodern Critics
Investigating Everyday Life in a Modernist Public Housing Scheme: The Implications of Residents’ Understandings of Well-Being and Welfare for Social Work
This article examines the concerns of residents living in a modernist social-housing scheme in Edinburgh, Scotland, chosen as a focus because the architects’ designs were originally intended to foster better community, well-being and welfare. After reviewing literature on community and social work, the article outlines the ethnographic approach used in this research, the purpose of which was to pay close attention to the ways in which residents’ …
Role Over’ or Roll Over? Dirty Work, Shift and Mental Health Act Assessments
The rise in numbers of applications for people being formally detained in hospital is one of the reasons given for the independent review of the Mental Health Act in England and Wales. These figures have led to concerns that the legislation might be flawed, including in relation to the process of Mental Health Act Assessments. Discussed in this article are two of the roles involved: the doctor who is responsible for conducting a medical assessmen…
Researching the home using architectural and social science methods
This article explores the possibilities of using innovative, interdisciplinary methods for understanding home-making. Drawing on a study of Claremont Court (1959-1962), a post-war social housing scheme designed by Sir Basil Spence in Edinburgh, we discuss the methodological potentials of combining architectural and social science methods to study the home. Claremont Court was built in the post-war era as part of Scotland's social housing drive. I…
Theory and social work: A conceptual review of the literature
This article presents a conceptual review of the literature concerning social work and theory. Based on analysis of 93 research studies, drawn from literature in English published between 1968 and 2016, the review considers the many ways that theory is conceptualised in the literature, and asks meta‐theoretical questions about how and why different conceptualisations arise. The article examines definitional questions and ambiguities concerning th…
Social Work, Queer Theory and After: A Genealogy of Sexuality Theory in Neo-Liberal Times
This article presents a genealogy of social work approaches to sexuality via critical examination of the relevance of queer and post-queer theory. The key tenets of queer theory are outlined before the authors go on to assess how social work has responded to this body of work. The authors offer some critical comments on social work’s engagement with queer theory before moving on to discuss a range of post-queer developments, focused on race, empi…
Against all odds: The birth of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1955–1958
When the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955–1958 advance party sailed from the Millwall Docks in November 1955, bound for the Weddell Sea, their departure was the product of five years of intensive effort on the part of Vivian Fuchs to achieve the first overland crossing of the Antarctic continent. This paper investigates the many obstacles that had to be overcome leading up to Theron sailing and explains the manner in which they were o…
Measuring Subjective Well-Being and its Potential Role in Policy: Perspectives from the UK Office for National Statistics
Adoption, Family and the Paradox of Origins: A Foucauldian History
Sally Sales's book is a very welcome addition to the ‘Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life’ series and makes a significant and important contribution to the literature on adoption. Essentially an inquiry into open adoption processes, Sales asks some vital questions about the ways in which versions of kinship and family are produced and used during different historical periods. Taking an approach inspired by the work of Michel Fo…
Philip Jon Stephenson
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Maternal Men–Perverts and Deviants? Making Sense of Gay Men as Foster Carers and Adopters
This article examines discourses of gender and sexuality that feature in the social work assessment of gay men who apply to foster or adopt in the United Kingdom (UK). Using data from interviews with social workers and managers, the author argues that three versions of the category gay were dominant. In the first of these, gay men were imagined to be maternal and/or feminine. In the second, they were seen as a source of perversion and sexual risk…
Genealogy's Desire: Practices of Kinship Amongst Lesbian and Gay Foster-Carers and Adopters
Background: Cognitive Muscular TherapyTM (CMT) is an integrated behavioural intervention developed for knee osteoarthritis. CMT teaches patients to reconceptualise the condition, integrates muscle biofeedback and aims to reduce muscle overactivity, both in response to pain and during daily activities. This nested qualitative study explored patient and physiotherapist perspectives and experiences of CMT.
Is Gay Parenting Bad for Kids? Responding to the ‘Very Idea of Difference’ in Research on Lesbian and Gay Parents
This article examines the claim that children of lesbians and gay men are different to those of heterosexuals, particularly in their gender and sexual identity. The author considers two examples, a UK Christian discourse opposed to all forms of lesbian and gay parenting and a US liberal equality approach, represented by the work of Stacey and Biblarz (2001). Both, the author argues, treat difference as a thing acquired by children. This article e…
Lesbian and Gay Foster Care and Adoption: A Brief UK History
Stephen Hicks presents a history of foster care and adoption by lesbians and gay men in the UK since 1988. He reviews key research, policy, law and debates about lesbian and gay carers and discusses key changes and developments in this field of practice. The article discusses a number of common arguments that surface in debates about this topic, including the idea that the children of lesbians and gay men will suffer psychosocial damage or develo…
Time To Discuss Core Values of the Information Society
The Christian Right and Homophobic Discourse: A Response to ‘Evidence’ that Lesbian and Gay Parenting Damages Children’
This ‘rapid response’ piece, submitted under the ‘Sexuality and the Church’ theme, examines claims by Christian writers that lesbian and gay parenting is bad for children. The author analyses aspects of what he terms a ‘Christian homophobic discourse’ in order to demonstrate the problematic claim to neutrality made by these writers. In addition, the author shows how the Christian writers’ view of research rests upon a series of positivist assumpt…
Desire Lines: Queering' Health and Social Welfare
This article considers how knowledge about lesbians and gay men is produced in health and social welfare texts. It looks at the consequences of a reliance upon the liberal 'ethnic model' of sexuality. The authors provide a critique of 'anti-discriminatory practice' versions of sexuality categories which, in their view, assert the liberal model at the expense of ideas found in the sociological traditions of gay liberation, lesbian feminist, intera…
‘Good lesbian, bad lesbian…’: Regulating heterosexuality in fostering and adoption assessments
The paper examines the assessment of lesbians who apply to foster or adopt, using data generated from 30 interviews with local authority social workers. Using feminist and queer theories, the author suggests that lesbian applicants pose a challenge to the discourse of ‘compulsory gender and heterosexuality’ which structures fostering and adoption work. It is argued that this discourse relies upon a series of assumptions about the automatic fitnes…
The ‘last resort’: Lesbian and gay experiences of the social work assessment process in fostering and adoption
Social cues, such as eye gaze and pointing fingers, can increase the prioritisation of specific locations for cognitive processing. A previous study using a manual reaching task showed that, although both gaze and pointing cues altered target prioritisation (reaction times [RTs]), only pointing cues affected action execution (trajectory deviations). These differential effects of gaze and pointing cues on action execution could be because the gaze…
Legal Theory and Common Law
Journal Article Legal Theory and Common Law Get access Legal Theory and Common Law. Ed. by WilliamTwining.New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986. Pp. 267. Stephen Hicks Stephen Hicks *Member, Board of Editors. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 36, Issue 1, Winter 1988, Pages 186–190, https://doi.org/10.2307/840195 Published: 01 January 1988
Measuring Subjective Well-Being and its Potential Role in Policy: Perspectives from the UK Office for National Statistics
Lesbian and Gay Foster Care and Adoption: A Brief UK History
Stephen Hicks presents a history of foster care and adoption by lesbians and gay men in the UK since 1988. He reviews key research, policy, law and debates about lesbian and gay carers and discusses key changes and developments in this field of practice. The article discusses a number of common arguments that surface in debates about this topic, including the idea that the children of lesbians and gay men will suffer psychosocial damage or develo…
Researching the home using architectural and social science methods
This article explores the possibilities of using innovative, interdisciplinary methods for understanding home-making. Drawing on a study of Claremont Court (1959-1962), a post-war social housing scheme designed by Sir Basil Spence in Edinburgh, we discuss the methodological potentials of combining architectural and social science methods to study the home. Claremont Court was built in the post-war era as part of Scotland's social housing drive. I…
The ‘last resort’: Lesbian and gay experiences of the social work assessment process in fostering and adoption
Social cues, such as eye gaze and pointing fingers, can increase the prioritisation of specific locations for cognitive processing. A previous study using a manual reaching task showed that, although both gaze and pointing cues altered target prioritisation (reaction times [RTs]), only pointing cues affected action execution (trajectory deviations). These differential effects of gaze and pointing cues on action execution could be because the gaze…
Role Over’ or Roll Over? Dirty Work, Shift and Mental Health Act Assessments
The rise in numbers of applications for people being formally detained in hospital is one of the reasons given for the independent review of the Mental Health Act in England and Wales. These figures have led to concerns that the legislation might be flawed, including in relation to the process of Mental Health Act Assessments. Discussed in this article are two of the roles involved: the doctor who is responsible for conducting a medical assessmen…
Nobody becomes stigmatised 'all at once: An interactionist account of stigma on a modernist council estate
This article examines how residents experience and account for stigma at Claremont Court, a modernist social housing scheme built in Edinburgh in the early 1960s. Although listed as having special architectural interest, the building has been subject to disinvestment and has a mix of residents, including council and private renters as well as owner-occupiers. This article explores micro-distinctions between residents, showing how the categories '…
Investigating Everyday Life in a Modernist Public Housing Scheme: The Implications of Residents’ Understandings of Well-Being and Welfare for Social Work
This article examines the concerns of residents living in a modernist social-housing scheme in Edinburgh, Scotland, chosen as a focus because the architects’ designs were originally intended to foster better community, well-being and welfare. After reviewing literature on community and social work, the article outlines the ethnographic approach used in this research, the purpose of which was to pay close attention to the ways in which residents’ …
Social Work, Queer Theory and After: A Genealogy of Sexuality Theory in Neo-Liberal Times
This article presents a genealogy of social work approaches to sexuality via critical examination of the relevance of queer and post-queer theory. The key tenets of queer theory are outlined before the authors go on to assess how social work has responded to this body of work. The authors offer some critical comments on social work’s engagement with queer theory before moving on to discuss a range of post-queer developments, focused on race, empi…
Genealogy's Desire: Practices of Kinship Amongst Lesbian and Gay Foster-Carers and Adopters
Background: Cognitive Muscular TherapyTM (CMT) is an integrated behavioural intervention developed for knee osteoarthritis. CMT teaches patients to reconceptualise the condition, integrates muscle biofeedback and aims to reduce muscle overactivity, both in response to pain and during daily activities. This nested qualitative study explored patient and physiotherapist perspectives and experiences of CMT.
The Christian Right and Homophobic Discourse: A Response to ‘Evidence’ that Lesbian and Gay Parenting Damages Children’
This ‘rapid response’ piece, submitted under the ‘Sexuality and the Church’ theme, examines claims by Christian writers that lesbian and gay parenting is bad for children. The author analyses aspects of what he terms a ‘Christian homophobic discourse’ in order to demonstrate the problematic claim to neutrality made by these writers. In addition, the author shows how the Christian writers’ view of research rests upon a series of positivist assumpt…
Desire Lines: Queering' Health and Social Welfare
This article considers how knowledge about lesbians and gay men is produced in health and social welfare texts. It looks at the consequences of a reliance upon the liberal 'ethnic model' of sexuality. The authors provide a critique of 'anti-discriminatory practice' versions of sexuality categories which, in their view, assert the liberal model at the expense of ideas found in the sociological traditions of gay liberation, lesbian feminist, intera…
Legal Theory and Common Law
Journal Article Legal Theory and Common Law Get access Legal Theory and Common Law. Ed. by WilliamTwining.New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986. Pp. 267. Stephen Hicks Stephen Hicks *Member, Board of Editors. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 36, Issue 1, Winter 1988, Pages 186–190, https://doi.org/10.2307/840195 Published: 01 January 1988
The ‘last resort’: Lesbian and gay experiences of the social work assessment process in fostering and adoption
Social cues, such as eye gaze and pointing fingers, can increase the prioritisation of specific locations for cognitive processing. A previous study using a manual reaching task showed that, although both gaze and pointing cues altered target prioritisation (reaction times [RTs]), only pointing cues affected action execution (trajectory deviations). These differential effects of gaze and pointing cues on action execution could be because the gaze…
‘Good lesbian, bad lesbian…’: Regulating heterosexuality in fostering and adoption assessments
The paper examines the assessment of lesbians who apply to foster or adopt, using data generated from 30 interviews with local authority social workers. Using feminist and queer theories, the author suggests that lesbian applicants pose a challenge to the discourse of ‘compulsory gender and heterosexuality’ which structures fostering and adoption work. It is argued that this discourse relies upon a series of assumptions about the automatic fitnes…
The Christian Right and Homophobic Discourse: A Response to ‘Evidence’ that Lesbian and Gay Parenting Damages Children’
This ‘rapid response’ piece, submitted under the ‘Sexuality and the Church’ theme, examines claims by Christian writers that lesbian and gay parenting is bad for children. The author analyses aspects of what he terms a ‘Christian homophobic discourse’ in order to demonstrate the problematic claim to neutrality made by these writers. In addition, the author shows how the Christian writers’ view of research rests upon a series of positivist assumpt…
Desire Lines: Queering' Health and Social Welfare
This article considers how knowledge about lesbians and gay men is produced in health and social welfare texts. It looks at the consequences of a reliance upon the liberal 'ethnic model' of sexuality. The authors provide a critique of 'anti-discriminatory practice' versions of sexuality categories which, in their view, assert the liberal model at the expense of ideas found in the sociological traditions of gay liberation, lesbian feminist, intera…
Time To Discuss Core Values of the Information Society
Is Gay Parenting Bad for Kids? Responding to the ‘Very Idea of Difference’ in Research on Lesbian and Gay Parents
This article examines the claim that children of lesbians and gay men are different to those of heterosexuals, particularly in their gender and sexual identity. The author considers two examples, a UK Christian discourse opposed to all forms of lesbian and gay parenting and a US liberal equality approach, represented by the work of Stacey and Biblarz (2001). Both, the author argues, treat difference as a thing acquired by children. This article e…
Lesbian and Gay Foster Care and Adoption: A Brief UK History
Stephen Hicks presents a history of foster care and adoption by lesbians and gay men in the UK since 1988. He reviews key research, policy, law and debates about lesbian and gay carers and discusses key changes and developments in this field of practice. The article discusses a number of common arguments that surface in debates about this topic, including the idea that the children of lesbians and gay men will suffer psychosocial damage or develo…
Maternal Men–Perverts and Deviants? Making Sense of Gay Men as Foster Carers and Adopters
This article examines discourses of gender and sexuality that feature in the social work assessment of gay men who apply to foster or adopt in the United Kingdom (UK). Using data from interviews with social workers and managers, the author argues that three versions of the category gay were dominant. In the first of these, gay men were imagined to be maternal and/or feminine. In the second, they were seen as a source of perversion and sexual risk…
Genealogy's Desire: Practices of Kinship Amongst Lesbian and Gay Foster-Carers and Adopters
Background: Cognitive Muscular TherapyTM (CMT) is an integrated behavioural intervention developed for knee osteoarthritis. CMT teaches patients to reconceptualise the condition, integrates muscle biofeedback and aims to reduce muscle overactivity, both in response to pain and during daily activities. This nested qualitative study explored patient and physiotherapist perspectives and experiences of CMT.
Adoption, Family and the Paradox of Origins: A Foucauldian History
Sally Sales's book is a very welcome addition to the ‘Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life’ series and makes a significant and important contribution to the literature on adoption. Essentially an inquiry into open adoption processes, Sales asks some vital questions about the ways in which versions of kinship and family are produced and used during different historical periods. Taking an approach inspired by the work of Michel Fo…
Philip Jon Stephenson
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Against all odds: The birth of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1955–1958
When the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955–1958 advance party sailed from the Millwall Docks in November 1955, bound for the Weddell Sea, their departure was the product of five years of intensive effort on the part of Vivian Fuchs to achieve the first overland crossing of the Antarctic continent. This paper investigates the many obstacles that had to be overcome leading up to Theron sailing and explains the manner in which they were o…
Measuring Subjective Well-Being and its Potential Role in Policy: Perspectives from the UK Office for National Statistics
Theory and social work: A conceptual review of the literature
This article presents a conceptual review of the literature concerning social work and theory. Based on analysis of 93 research studies, drawn from literature in English published between 1968 and 2016, the review considers the many ways that theory is conceptualised in the literature, and asks meta‐theoretical questions about how and why different conceptualisations arise. The article examines definitional questions and ambiguities concerning th…
Social Work, Queer Theory and After: A Genealogy of Sexuality Theory in Neo-Liberal Times
This article presents a genealogy of social work approaches to sexuality via critical examination of the relevance of queer and post-queer theory. The key tenets of queer theory are outlined before the authors go on to assess how social work has responded to this body of work. The authors offer some critical comments on social work’s engagement with queer theory before moving on to discuss a range of post-queer developments, focused on race, empi…
Researching the home using architectural and social science methods
This article explores the possibilities of using innovative, interdisciplinary methods for understanding home-making. Drawing on a study of Claremont Court (1959-1962), a post-war social housing scheme designed by Sir Basil Spence in Edinburgh, we discuss the methodological potentials of combining architectural and social science methods to study the home. Claremont Court was built in the post-war era as part of Scotland's social housing drive. I…
Liberal Education and Its Postmodern Critics
Investigating Everyday Life in a Modernist Public Housing Scheme: The Implications of Residents’ Understandings of Well-Being and Welfare for Social Work
This article examines the concerns of residents living in a modernist social-housing scheme in Edinburgh, Scotland, chosen as a focus because the architects’ designs were originally intended to foster better community, well-being and welfare. After reviewing literature on community and social work, the article outlines the ethnographic approach used in this research, the purpose of which was to pay close attention to the ways in which residents’ …
Role Over’ or Roll Over? Dirty Work, Shift and Mental Health Act Assessments
The rise in numbers of applications for people being formally detained in hospital is one of the reasons given for the independent review of the Mental Health Act in England and Wales. These figures have led to concerns that the legislation might be flawed, including in relation to the process of Mental Health Act Assessments. Discussed in this article are two of the roles involved: the doctor who is responsible for conducting a medical assessmen…
“The feel of the place”: Investigating atmosphere with the residents of a modernist housing estate
Atmosphere is a neglected topic in social work, and so this article considers the production of atmospheres amongst the residents of an extant 1960s housing scheme in Edinburgh (UK). This is in order to address not only the complexity of feelings about living on such an estate but also to consider what consequences the paying of attention to atmosphere’s production and effects might have for a social work concern with welfare and wellbeing. The a…
Nobody becomes stigmatised 'all at once: An interactionist account of stigma on a modernist council estate
This article examines how residents experience and account for stigma at Claremont Court, a modernist social housing scheme built in Edinburgh in the early 1960s. Although listed as having special architectural interest, the building has been subject to disinvestment and has a mix of residents, including council and private renters as well as owner-occupiers. This article explores micro-distinctions between residents, showing how the categories '…
Barriers Experienced During Fatherhood and the Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Mixed-Methods Approach
Given the critical role of fatherhood in child development and the significant challenges faced by fathers in underserved communities, there is a pressing need to better understand the specific barriers they encounter. This exploratory mixed-methods study examines the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among fathers, including English, Spanish, and Creole speakers, and explores how social determinants of health exacerbate these ba…
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (14 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Human sexuality (7 works) · Lesbian (7 works) · Social science (7 works)