Martina Mcknight
Biographic Data
| ID | 3975955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martina Mcknight |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martina |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcknight |
| SIGNATURE | MCKNIGHT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Mental Health Pandemic? Assessing the Impact of Covid-19 on Young People’s Mental Health
Background: Research indicates that young people have been a particularly vulnerable group when it comes to negative mental health outcomes following COVID-19, with some authors warning of a ‘mental health pandemic’. Materials and Method: Using a survey approach, this study explored the effects of lockdowns on the mental health of 1995 16-year-olds in Northern Ireland. Respondents completed the 12-item version of the General Health Questionnaire …
Exploring young people’s understanding of culture: A study from Northern Ireland
This article highlights the need for greater understanding of the role that historical, socio-cultural and political context play in shaping perceptions of culture and cultural value. Findings draw on the annual attitudinal survey of 16-year-olds in Northern Ireland, Young Life and Times (2016), and four follow-up focus group discussions. Results complement existing cultural participation research, which relates forms of engagement with intersect…
Lost in translation? The challenges of measuring informal care among children and young people
This article uses data from the 2015 Young Life and Times and Kids’ Life and Times surveys to discuss the methodological challenges of identifying young carers in surveys. The article considers how children’s interpretation of ‘caring’ might not correspond with the definition of ‘young carer’ that adults wish to capture. This article discusses how prior consultation with young carers to improve understanding did not have the outcome anticipated. …
Shared future – shared values? Taking stock of the peace process in Northern Ireland: Teenagers’ perspectives
Although preceded by years of political and policy developments, the signing of the Good Friday Agreement (or Belfast Agreement) in 1998 is generally regarded as marking the end of conflict and the beginning of the transition to peace. However, this transition has been neither linear nor straightforward. Divisions, both physical and symbolic, reflecting collective identities and ‘otherness’, remain resistant to change and continue to foster secta…
Look and tell: Using photo-elicitation methods with teenagers
This article reflects on the usefulness of photo elicitation in research with young people. As part of an Economic and Social Research Council-funded project exploring conflict and divisions in contested cities, teenagers living or attending schools in segregated areas of Belfast were presented with 11 photographs depicting the city's traditional ethno religious divisions, the new ‘post conflict’ consumerist city and youth subcultures. In respons…
Religion, Violence and Cities: An Introduction
The catalyst for this special issue was a symposium entitled Religion, Violence and Cities, held under the auspices of a five year inter-disciplinary research project on ethno-nationally divided cities.Footnote1 While this project expressly addressed cities divided by ethno-national conflict, it was clear from the beginning that there was an important religious dimension to such conflicts in most, if not all, the cities being studied.Footnote2 Th…
Urban Intersections: Religion and Violence in Belfast
Addressing the intersections of religion and violence in ‘post conflict’ Belfast, this paper focuses on the nexus between religion, violence and memory. It distinguishes between the churches (institutionalised religion) embedded in the physical and social environment of the city, and popular religion that recurs in the contexts of parades, protests and sectarian conflict. Wider debates on the relationships between religion, violence and politics …
Traditions and transitions: Teenagers' perceptions of parading in Belfast
The purpose of this article is to explore and illuminate teenagers' experiences of, and attitudes to, parades in Belfast. The research draws on responses from 125 teenagers located in interface areas (areas where Catholics and Protestants live side by side but apart) to government supported attempts to rebrand Orangefest (traditional parade associated with Protestant/Unionist/Loyalist community) and St Patrick's Day (traditional parade associated…
Maternal Situations: Sectarianism and Civility in a Divided City
This paper explores the tensions between civility and sectarianism in contemporary Belfast. Drawing on interviews with mothers engaged in raising young children in the largely working-class and divided inner city, the paper offers a situated account of the dynamics of social reproduction and change. This is pursued through an analysis of the interplay between expectations of civility and sectarianism in three situations: walking, shopping and pla…
We are Watching you Too: Reflections on Doing Visual Research in a Contested City
This article focuses on our observations of two contentious Orange Order parades and nationalist protests that took place in an interface area in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in June 2011 and 2012. We apply a perspective of visual ethnography as place-making ( Pink 2009 ) to our research experience in order to add to understandings of how a place of conflict is experienced, (re)produced or challenged through the use of photography and video by marc…
Growing up in divided societies: Confronting continuity and change
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the six main articles which represent the special issue on “Growing up in divided societies” and to locate the articles within a framework of children's experiences of divided societies. Design/methodology/approach The article reviews the main methodologies employed by authors of the six articles and evaluates how these methodologies contribute to debates on researching children and y…
Bringing down the walls: Young people's perspectives on peace‐walls in Belfast
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present young people's attitudes to peace‐walls in Belfast and whether they feel that these peace‐walls should be temporary or permanent structures. Design/methodology/approach The methodology is based on questionnaire responses from 125 young people between the ages of 14 and 15 from six schools located in areas in Belfast where Catholics and Protestants live side by side yet apart. The paper is also based…
Look and tell: Using photo-elicitation methods with teenagers
This article reflects on the usefulness of photo elicitation in research with young people. As part of an Economic and Social Research Council-funded project exploring conflict and divisions in contested cities, teenagers living or attending schools in segregated areas of Belfast were presented with 11 photographs depicting the city's traditional ethno religious divisions, the new ‘post conflict’ consumerist city and youth subcultures. In respons…
Bringing down the walls: Young people's perspectives on peace‐walls in Belfast
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present young people's attitudes to peace‐walls in Belfast and whether they feel that these peace‐walls should be temporary or permanent structures. Design/methodology/approach The methodology is based on questionnaire responses from 125 young people between the ages of 14 and 15 from six schools located in areas in Belfast where Catholics and Protestants live side by side yet apart. The paper is also based…
Maternal Situations: Sectarianism and Civility in a Divided City
This paper explores the tensions between civility and sectarianism in contemporary Belfast. Drawing on interviews with mothers engaged in raising young children in the largely working-class and divided inner city, the paper offers a situated account of the dynamics of social reproduction and change. This is pursued through an analysis of the interplay between expectations of civility and sectarianism in three situations: walking, shopping and pla…
Urban Intersections: Religion and Violence in Belfast
Addressing the intersections of religion and violence in ‘post conflict’ Belfast, this paper focuses on the nexus between religion, violence and memory. It distinguishes between the churches (institutionalised religion) embedded in the physical and social environment of the city, and popular religion that recurs in the contexts of parades, protests and sectarian conflict. Wider debates on the relationships between religion, violence and politics …
Traditions and transitions: Teenagers' perceptions of parading in Belfast
The purpose of this article is to explore and illuminate teenagers' experiences of, and attitudes to, parades in Belfast. The research draws on responses from 125 teenagers located in interface areas (areas where Catholics and Protestants live side by side but apart) to government supported attempts to rebrand Orangefest (traditional parade associated with Protestant/Unionist/Loyalist community) and St Patrick's Day (traditional parade associated…
Religion, Violence and Cities: An Introduction
The catalyst for this special issue was a symposium entitled Religion, Violence and Cities, held under the auspices of a five year inter-disciplinary research project on ethno-nationally divided cities.Footnote1 While this project expressly addressed cities divided by ethno-national conflict, it was clear from the beginning that there was an important religious dimension to such conflicts in most, if not all, the cities being studied.Footnote2 Th…
Growing up in divided societies: Confronting continuity and change
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the six main articles which represent the special issue on “Growing up in divided societies” and to locate the articles within a framework of children's experiences of divided societies. Design/methodology/approach The article reviews the main methodologies employed by authors of the six articles and evaluates how these methodologies contribute to debates on researching children and y…
Exploring young people’s understanding of culture: A study from Northern Ireland
This article highlights the need for greater understanding of the role that historical, socio-cultural and political context play in shaping perceptions of culture and cultural value. Findings draw on the annual attitudinal survey of 16-year-olds in Northern Ireland, Young Life and Times (2016), and four follow-up focus group discussions. Results complement existing cultural participation research, which relates forms of engagement with intersect…
Lost in translation? The challenges of measuring informal care among children and young people
This article uses data from the 2015 Young Life and Times and Kids’ Life and Times surveys to discuss the methodological challenges of identifying young carers in surveys. The article considers how children’s interpretation of ‘caring’ might not correspond with the definition of ‘young carer’ that adults wish to capture. This article discusses how prior consultation with young carers to improve understanding did not have the outcome anticipated. …
We are Watching you Too: Reflections on Doing Visual Research in a Contested City
This article focuses on our observations of two contentious Orange Order parades and nationalist protests that took place in an interface area in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in June 2011 and 2012. We apply a perspective of visual ethnography as place-making ( Pink 2009 ) to our research experience in order to add to understandings of how a place of conflict is experienced, (re)produced or challenged through the use of photography and video by marc…
Growing up in divided societies: Confronting continuity and change
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the six main articles which represent the special issue on “Growing up in divided societies” and to locate the articles within a framework of children's experiences of divided societies. Design/methodology/approach The article reviews the main methodologies employed by authors of the six articles and evaluates how these methodologies contribute to debates on researching children and y…
Bringing down the walls: Young people's perspectives on peace‐walls in Belfast
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present young people's attitudes to peace‐walls in Belfast and whether they feel that these peace‐walls should be temporary or permanent structures. Design/methodology/approach The methodology is based on questionnaire responses from 125 young people between the ages of 14 and 15 from six schools located in areas in Belfast where Catholics and Protestants live side by side yet apart. The paper is also based…
Religion, Violence and Cities: An Introduction
The catalyst for this special issue was a symposium entitled Religion, Violence and Cities, held under the auspices of a five year inter-disciplinary research project on ethno-nationally divided cities.Footnote1 While this project expressly addressed cities divided by ethno-national conflict, it was clear from the beginning that there was an important religious dimension to such conflicts in most, if not all, the cities being studied.Footnote2 Th…
Urban Intersections: Religion and Violence in Belfast
Addressing the intersections of religion and violence in ‘post conflict’ Belfast, this paper focuses on the nexus between religion, violence and memory. It distinguishes between the churches (institutionalised religion) embedded in the physical and social environment of the city, and popular religion that recurs in the contexts of parades, protests and sectarian conflict. Wider debates on the relationships between religion, violence and politics …
Traditions and transitions: Teenagers' perceptions of parading in Belfast
The purpose of this article is to explore and illuminate teenagers' experiences of, and attitudes to, parades in Belfast. The research draws on responses from 125 teenagers located in interface areas (areas where Catholics and Protestants live side by side but apart) to government supported attempts to rebrand Orangefest (traditional parade associated with Protestant/Unionist/Loyalist community) and St Patrick's Day (traditional parade associated…
Maternal Situations: Sectarianism and Civility in a Divided City
This paper explores the tensions between civility and sectarianism in contemporary Belfast. Drawing on interviews with mothers engaged in raising young children in the largely working-class and divided inner city, the paper offers a situated account of the dynamics of social reproduction and change. This is pursued through an analysis of the interplay between expectations of civility and sectarianism in three situations: walking, shopping and pla…
We are Watching you Too: Reflections on Doing Visual Research in a Contested City
This article focuses on our observations of two contentious Orange Order parades and nationalist protests that took place in an interface area in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in June 2011 and 2012. We apply a perspective of visual ethnography as place-making ( Pink 2009 ) to our research experience in order to add to understandings of how a place of conflict is experienced, (re)produced or challenged through the use of photography and video by marc…
Look and tell: Using photo-elicitation methods with teenagers
This article reflects on the usefulness of photo elicitation in research with young people. As part of an Economic and Social Research Council-funded project exploring conflict and divisions in contested cities, teenagers living or attending schools in segregated areas of Belfast were presented with 11 photographs depicting the city's traditional ethno religious divisions, the new ‘post conflict’ consumerist city and youth subcultures. In respons…
Lost in translation? The challenges of measuring informal care among children and young people
This article uses data from the 2015 Young Life and Times and Kids’ Life and Times surveys to discuss the methodological challenges of identifying young carers in surveys. The article considers how children’s interpretation of ‘caring’ might not correspond with the definition of ‘young carer’ that adults wish to capture. This article discusses how prior consultation with young carers to improve understanding did not have the outcome anticipated. …
Shared future – shared values? Taking stock of the peace process in Northern Ireland: Teenagers’ perspectives
Although preceded by years of political and policy developments, the signing of the Good Friday Agreement (or Belfast Agreement) in 1998 is generally regarded as marking the end of conflict and the beginning of the transition to peace. However, this transition has been neither linear nor straightforward. Divisions, both physical and symbolic, reflecting collective identities and ‘otherness’, remain resistant to change and continue to foster secta…
Exploring young people’s understanding of culture: A study from Northern Ireland
This article highlights the need for greater understanding of the role that historical, socio-cultural and political context play in shaping perceptions of culture and cultural value. Findings draw on the annual attitudinal survey of 16-year-olds in Northern Ireland, Young Life and Times (2016), and four follow-up focus group discussions. Results complement existing cultural participation research, which relates forms of engagement with intersect…
A Mental Health Pandemic? Assessing the Impact of Covid-19 on Young People’s Mental Health
Background: Research indicates that young people have been a particularly vulnerable group when it comes to negative mental health outcomes following COVID-19, with some authors warning of a ‘mental health pandemic’. Materials and Method: Using a survey approach, this study explored the effects of lockdowns on the mental health of 1995 16-year-olds in Northern Ireland. Respondents completed the 12-item version of the General Health Questionnaire …
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Irish and British Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (4 works)