Karen Clarke
Biographic Data
| ID | 4016919 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Clarke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Clarke |
| SIGNATURE | CLARKE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-9828-1049 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The impact of remote work on mobilities in the UK
The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially increased remote and hybrid working rates, creating a large group of workers whose experiences differ from those in traditional workplace settings. While previous studies have compared remote and non-remote workers in relation to productivity, performance and well-being, less attention has been given to how their mobility patterns differ. Although researchers have suggested that the ability to work remotely…
Health-related Quality of Life following Mild (Covid)-19 Illness
Objectives: A cluster analysis was undertaken to help explain reported differences in health-related quality of life among acute respiratory illness (ARI) outpatients. Methods: Symptomatic enrollees (18-87 years) completed the Short Form Health Survey at enrollment and 6-8 weeks later from March 30, 2020 through April 30, 2021. We compared changes in physical health composite score (PCS) and mental health composite score (MCS) across high, medium…
Willingness to Co-receive Covid-19 and Influenza Vaccines among Outpatients
Objectives: This study was designed to examine future willingness to co-receive COVID-19 and influenza vaccines and factors associated with that willingness among outpatients with acute respiratory illness (ARI). Methods: Outpatients ≥15 years with respiratory symptoms for ≤10 days were surveyed about vaccination behaviors and intentions. We used multinomial logistic regression to assess associations between demographic, behavioral and health-rel…
A Chance to Stand Back’
Parenting interventions were an important feature of New Labour’s policies to combat social exclusion. This paper critically examines parenting programmes for families with adolescents, assessing national and local policy aims against the perspectives of women who took part in a parenting course, which was the subject of a local evaluation. The paper argues that, while there were important positive outcomes for the participants, the high levels o…
Children's Centres and Parental Engagement
The UK Government is in the process of introducing a universal system of Children's Centres offering multi-agency services for parents and their pre-school children in England. The Government has placed considerable emphasis on the importance of engaging all parents in the Centres. This paper considers the different meanings of ‘parental engagement’ and the evidence about the benefits to parents, children and communities of different forms of eng…
Investing in Parenting Education
Parenting education has been given an increasingly important role in government policies to address social exclusion. This paper examines the basis for investing in parenting programmes and reviews the various different types of parenting education provision. It discusses the evidence on the effectiveness of multi-component and group parenting programmes in modifying parent–child relationships and the outcomes for children and young people. The p…
Social Policy Review 19
Social Policy Review 19Analysis and debate in social policy, 2007
Social Policy Review provides students, academics, and all those interested in welfare issues with critical analyses of progress and change in areas of major interest during the past year. Contributions reflect key themes in the UK and internationally. The first part of the collection focuses on developments and change in core UK social policy areas. Part two provides in-depth analyses of topical issues from both UK and international perspectives…
Social Policy Review 18
Social Policy Review 18Analysis and debate in social policy, 2006
This book provides all those interested in welfare issues with detailed analyses of progress and change in areas of major interest during the past year. Bringing together a selection of commissioned pieces, the Review is organised in three parts. First, it concentrates on the main policy developments during 2005 in relation to five key areas of welfare provision, both in the UK and internationally. The second part, this year concentrating on the …
Trust in Technology
This book encapsulates some work done in the DIRC project concerned with trust and responsibility in socio-technical systems. It brings together a range of disciplinary approaches - computer science, sociology and software engineering - to produce a socio-technical systems perspective on the issues surrounding trust in technology in complex settings. Computer systems can only bring about their purported benefits if functionality, users and usabil…
Childhood, parenting and early intervention
The Sure Start programme is central to New Labour’s long-term strategy for preventing social exclusion. Its focus on young children and early intervention epitomizes a social investment approach to social policy and reflects a social integrationist understanding of social inclusion that identifies individual opportunity in the labour market as the means for achieving inclusion, and educational achievement as its basis. Evidence on which Sure Star…
Social Policy Review 17
Social Policy Review 17
Social Policy Review 17 (Social Policy Review S.)
The anti‐social model of disability
Social theories are usually developed to enable a clearer understanding of a situation or problem. The 'Social Model' in various forms is currently the dominant model for researching disability, addressing disability from within a socio‐political framework that draws substantially on a 'social constructionist' perspective. This article critiques some of the core sociological assumptions of the Social Model, questioning what 'work' this kind of th…
Depending on digital design
This paper documents work from the EPSRC ‘EQUATOR’ and Dependability Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration on Computer Based Systems (DIRC) concerned with the appropriate design of dependable assistive technology to enable older and disabled people to maintain a quality of life within their own homes. Technology, especially so‐called ‘smart home’ technology, can only be used to assist people if it is effectively designed. Designers are therefo…
Home technology systems
This paper considers the design of technology in domestic, or home, settings. The systems themselves have become increasingly complex and the need for dependable systems correspondingly important. The design problem is concerned less with the creation of new technical artefacts than with their effective configuration and integration. Inadequate understanding of the lived reality of use and user needs is often responsible for lack of dependability…
Researching Children
The appropriateness and desirability of researching children have been issues of some debate. Children may be perceived as non‐competent or vulnerable, and proxies have been used as children's representatives. Increasingly researchers are speaking to children directly. Why is this so and what are the methodological and ethical implications of researching children's views? In this paper the authors draw on their own experiences of researching chil…
Implementing the Child Support Act
The 1991 Child Support Act is one of the most controversial pieces of recent legislation. This paper traces the origins and objectives of the legislation and describes the first three years of its implementation by the Child Support Agency. As well as documenting official monitoring of the Agency‘s performance, the paper draws on a longitudinal study of lone mothers undertaken between March 1993 and March 1995. It will be argued that, in implemen…
Money Isn't Everything. Fiscal Policy and Family Policy in the Child Support Act
One of the explicit aims of the 1991 Child Support Act is to ensure that parents honour their financial obligations towards their natural children to a greater extent than they have hitherto. An equally important underlying objective is that of reducing the costs to the state of supporting lone parents. This paper examines the extent to which these two objectives are compatible within the framework of the Child Support Act through an examination …
More on Beowawe, a Nevada Place Name
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Lost Mines of Old Arizona
Childhood, parenting and early intervention
The Sure Start programme is central to New Labour’s long-term strategy for preventing social exclusion. Its focus on young children and early intervention epitomizes a social investment approach to social policy and reflects a social integrationist understanding of social inclusion that identifies individual opportunity in the labour market as the means for achieving inclusion, and educational achievement as its basis. Evidence on which Sure Star…
The anti‐social model of disability
Social theories are usually developed to enable a clearer understanding of a situation or problem. The 'Social Model' in various forms is currently the dominant model for researching disability, addressing disability from within a socio‐political framework that draws substantially on a 'social constructionist' perspective. This article critiques some of the core sociological assumptions of the Social Model, questioning what 'work' this kind of th…
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Depending on digital design
This paper documents work from the EPSRC ‘EQUATOR’ and Dependability Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration on Computer Based Systems (DIRC) concerned with the appropriate design of dependable assistive technology to enable older and disabled people to maintain a quality of life within their own homes. Technology, especially so‐called ‘smart home’ technology, can only be used to assist people if it is effectively designed. Designers are therefo…
The impact of remote work on mobilities in the UK
The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially increased remote and hybrid working rates, creating a large group of workers whose experiences differ from those in traditional workplace settings. While previous studies have compared remote and non-remote workers in relation to productivity, performance and well-being, less attention has been given to how their mobility patterns differ. Although researchers have suggested that the ability to work remotely…
Lost Mines of Old Arizona
More on Beowawe, a Nevada Place Name
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Money Isn't Everything. Fiscal Policy and Family Policy in the Child Support Act
One of the explicit aims of the 1991 Child Support Act is to ensure that parents honour their financial obligations towards their natural children to a greater extent than they have hitherto. An equally important underlying objective is that of reducing the costs to the state of supporting lone parents. This paper examines the extent to which these two objectives are compatible within the framework of the Child Support Act through an examination …
Researching Children
The appropriateness and desirability of researching children have been issues of some debate. Children may be perceived as non‐competent or vulnerable, and proxies have been used as children's representatives. Increasingly researchers are speaking to children directly. Why is this so and what are the methodological and ethical implications of researching children's views? In this paper the authors draw on their own experiences of researching chil…
Implementing the Child Support Act
The 1991 Child Support Act is one of the most controversial pieces of recent legislation. This paper traces the origins and objectives of the legislation and describes the first three years of its implementation by the Child Support Agency. As well as documenting official monitoring of the Agency‘s performance, the paper draws on a longitudinal study of lone mothers undertaken between March 1993 and March 1995. It will be argued that, in implemen…
Home technology systems
This paper considers the design of technology in domestic, or home, settings. The systems themselves have become increasingly complex and the need for dependable systems correspondingly important. The design problem is concerned less with the creation of new technical artefacts than with their effective configuration and integration. Inadequate understanding of the lived reality of use and user needs is often responsible for lack of dependability…
The anti‐social model of disability
Social theories are usually developed to enable a clearer understanding of a situation or problem. The 'Social Model' in various forms is currently the dominant model for researching disability, addressing disability from within a socio‐political framework that draws substantially on a 'social constructionist' perspective. This article critiques some of the core sociological assumptions of the Social Model, questioning what 'work' this kind of th…
Depending on digital design
This paper documents work from the EPSRC ‘EQUATOR’ and Dependability Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration on Computer Based Systems (DIRC) concerned with the appropriate design of dependable assistive technology to enable older and disabled people to maintain a quality of life within their own homes. Technology, especially so‐called ‘smart home’ technology, can only be used to assist people if it is effectively designed. Designers are therefo…
Social Policy Review 17
Social Policy Review 17
Social Policy Review 17 (Social Policy Review S.)
Social Policy Review 18
Social Policy Review 18Analysis and debate in social policy, 2006
This book provides all those interested in welfare issues with detailed analyses of progress and change in areas of major interest during the past year. Bringing together a selection of commissioned pieces, the Review is organised in three parts. First, it concentrates on the main policy developments during 2005 in relation to five key areas of welfare provision, both in the UK and internationally. The second part, this year concentrating on the …
Trust in Technology
This book encapsulates some work done in the DIRC project concerned with trust and responsibility in socio-technical systems. It brings together a range of disciplinary approaches - computer science, sociology and software engineering - to produce a socio-technical systems perspective on the issues surrounding trust in technology in complex settings. Computer systems can only bring about their purported benefits if functionality, users and usabil…
Childhood, parenting and early intervention
The Sure Start programme is central to New Labour’s long-term strategy for preventing social exclusion. Its focus on young children and early intervention epitomizes a social investment approach to social policy and reflects a social integrationist understanding of social inclusion that identifies individual opportunity in the labour market as the means for achieving inclusion, and educational achievement as its basis. Evidence on which Sure Star…
Social Policy Review 19
Social Policy Review 19Analysis and debate in social policy, 2007
Social Policy Review provides students, academics, and all those interested in welfare issues with critical analyses of progress and change in areas of major interest during the past year. Contributions reflect key themes in the UK and internationally. The first part of the collection focuses on developments and change in core UK social policy areas. Part two provides in-depth analyses of topical issues from both UK and international perspectives…
Children's Centres and Parental Engagement
The UK Government is in the process of introducing a universal system of Children's Centres offering multi-agency services for parents and their pre-school children in England. The Government has placed considerable emphasis on the importance of engaging all parents in the Centres. This paper considers the different meanings of ‘parental engagement’ and the evidence about the benefits to parents, children and communities of different forms of eng…
Investing in Parenting Education
Parenting education has been given an increasingly important role in government policies to address social exclusion. This paper examines the basis for investing in parenting programmes and reviews the various different types of parenting education provision. It discusses the evidence on the effectiveness of multi-component and group parenting programmes in modifying parent–child relationships and the outcomes for children and young people. The p…
A Chance to Stand Back’
Parenting interventions were an important feature of New Labour’s policies to combat social exclusion. This paper critically examines parenting programmes for families with adolescents, assessing national and local policy aims against the perspectives of women who took part in a parenting course, which was the subject of a local evaluation. The paper argues that, while there were important positive outcomes for the participants, the high levels o…
Willingness to Co-receive Covid-19 and Influenza Vaccines among Outpatients
Objectives: This study was designed to examine future willingness to co-receive COVID-19 and influenza vaccines and factors associated with that willingness among outpatients with acute respiratory illness (ARI). Methods: Outpatients ≥15 years with respiratory symptoms for ≤10 days were surveyed about vaccination behaviors and intentions. We used multinomial logistic regression to assess associations between demographic, behavioral and health-rel…
Health-related Quality of Life following Mild (Covid)-19 Illness
Objectives: A cluster analysis was undertaken to help explain reported differences in health-related quality of life among acute respiratory illness (ARI) outpatients. Methods: Symptomatic enrollees (18-87 years) completed the Short Form Health Survey at enrollment and 6-8 weeks later from March 30, 2020 through April 30, 2021. We compared changes in physical health composite score (PCS) and mental health composite score (MCS) across high, medium…
The impact of remote work on mobilities in the UK
The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially increased remote and hybrid working rates, creating a large group of workers whose experiences differ from those in traditional workplace settings. While previous studies have compared remote and non-remote workers in relation to productivity, performance and well-being, less attention has been given to how their mobility patterns differ. Although researchers have suggested that the ability to work remotely…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Social policy (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Geography (4 works)