Sarah Singletary Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 4083272 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Singletary Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah Singletary |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Creighton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8419-1585 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“A terrifying, unknown new world” or “like finding the right pace on a run”: Examining the student experience of transition to university
Research in the area of student transitions to university has often focused on outcomes and on specific sub-populations, rather than understanding of the student lived-experience of orienting themselves at university. The current research qualitatively analyses a set of short student-generated narratives on their experience of transition to university (N = 330). This approach allows us insight into what is important and significant to the student…
Rethinking participation: A framework for creative engagement in urban greenspace
Urban greenspaces are crucial for sustainable urban development, yet engaging communities effectively with decision-making in these spaces remains a challenge. This paper introduces a Creative Engagement Framework (CEF), developed to enhance participation in urban greenspace governance through a co-production approach. Community engagement, therefore, serves both as an instrumental approach to achieving deeper collaborative governance outcomes an…
"A permit to stay, but no place to stay": Former unaccompanied minors experiences of rental racism as ‘adults' in Bologna
This paper places focus on the little explored space of the transition to adulthood and beyond for young African men who sought asylum in Italy as ‘unaccompanied minors'. Empirical data is drawn from over five years' ethnographic research (2017 – 2023) with the young men, housed originally in a reception centre for minors in Bologna. The paper traces the young men's experiences both within and beyond the reception system that housed them as minor…
‘Why can't people see or understand or make that effort to see who I am?’: Documenting the experiences of low socioeconomic students at an elite tertiary institution through a social identity lens
For the first time, this study uses a social identity lens, to explore how one group of students reflect on their experience at an elite Australian higher educational institution (HEI). This qualitative research project invited undergraduate, domestic students who self-identified as being from a low-socioeconomic (low-SES) background to participate in a semi-structured interview exploring their experience of transition into university and the sup…
The Italian Quarantine Ship (Dystopia): Externalization Practices during Covid-19
This paper examines the use of quarantine ships in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic as a mechanism of border externalization and racialized containment. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted aboard two quarantine ships, it explores how these vessels, ostensibly established for health surveillance, functioned as securitized spaces that perpetuated inequalities and restricted access to asylum. The study situates quarantine ships within broad…
Waves of destruction: The climate-change burden falling on Senegal’s fishing communities
Speculative Sites and Slippery Temporalities: The expansive possibilities of binaural sound for navigating and inhabiting disaster
Sound produces a unique possibility for layering: of both content and possibilities. I use binaural audio walks as a way of engaging with the deep past and speculative histories of place, through highly immersive site-specific works that mix narration with diegetic and produced sound. The outcomes operate on multiple timescales simultaneously: the past of the binaural recording, which becomes highly situated for the listener; the present of the l…
Healthy by Nature: Policy Practices Aimed at Maximizing the Human Behavioral Health Benefits of Nature Contact
Research suggests that spending time in nature is associated with numerous human behavioral health benefits, including improved executive functioning abilities, enhanced recovery from stressful situations, better mental health, and better educational outcomes. Greener neighborhoods also tend to have positive population-level health outcomes. Although promising, much of this research has focused primarily on selective populations and fails to acco…
Overlapping land rights and deforestation in Uganda: 20 Years of Evidence
The majority of the world’s land is held in customary tenure systems, often with overlapping claims. Designing effective policy to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation requires understanding land management choices within these systems. Using a nation-wide random sample of over 300,000 hectares of forested land in Uganda from 2000 to 2019, we examine how deforestation trends across a system of overlapping rights, known as mailo lan…
Challenging Eurocentric perceptions of mobility justice through climate diaries
“What is climate change for you?” This was the question we posed to our research participants in the city of Saint Louis, Senegal to answer visually. Given alarmist racialized portrayals of so-called ‘climate migrants’ as an invasive threat from the Global South to Global North we examined how visual methods can challenge western production of knowledge around the climate crisis. Via our methodology of ‘climate diaries’, we asked participants to …
Across the pregnancy lifespan: Examining workplace outcomes of concealing across stages of pregnancy
Purpose The authors aims to use stigma theory to predict and test a model wherein a person’s stage of pregnancy influences their workplace outcomes associated with pregnancy concealment behaviors. Design/methodology/approach The authors tested the model using two separate survey studies, examining these relationships from the perspectives of both the pregnant employees and their supervisors. Findings The authors find support for the model across …
The News Ecosystem During the Birth of the Confederacy: South Carolina Secession in Southern Newspapers
During the secession crisis in 1860–61, the American South was far from unified. Contrary to the idea that the South constituted a single distinct region, this analysis of secession news in Southern newspapers demonstrates the slave states consisted of a constellation of Souths rather than one unified South. Through their decisions about what to print, Southern editors serving unique localities contributed to the social construction of sectionall…
Anti-racist actions and accountability: Not More Empty Promises
Purpose The current piece summarizes five critical points about racism from the point of view of Black scholars and allies: (1) Black people are experiencing exhaustion from and physiological effects of racism, (2) racism extends far beyond police brutality and into most societal structures, (3) despite being the targets of racism, Black people are often blamed for their oppression and retaliated against for their response to it, (4) everyone mus…
Diverse perspectives on inclusion: Exploring the experiences of individuals in heterogeneous groups
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which racioethnicity influences perceptions of inclusion (i.e. information sharing, collective efficacy, satisfaction and relationship conflict) when working in racially heterogeneous groups. Design/methodology/approach Individuals were placed in groups in order to participate in ethical-decision making tasks. Findings Results reveal that individuals representing varied racioethnic gro…
Gender and free movement: EU migrant women's access to residence and social rights in the U.K
This article examines the gendered effects of restricting EU migrants’ access to rights to residence and to social benefits in relation to work, self-sufficiency and family. It draws on the findings of qualitative research on EU migrant women’s access to social benefits in the U.K. on the basis of residence rights as an EU citizen-worker or family member of an EU citizen-worker. The research included qualitative interviews with providers of advic…
Consuming desires: Family crisis and the state in the Middle East - By Frances S. Hasso
Changes in the lives of the ultra poor: An Exploratory Study
This Research Roundup reports on the pilot phase of BRAC's aeChallenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction/Targeting the Ultra Poor Programme' (CFPR/TUP), which was initiated in three of the poorest districts of northern Bangladesh (Nilphamari, Rangpur, and Kurigram) in January 2002. The authors find a close link between the initial conditions of the programme participants and the degree of change they have experienced in their lives since its i…
Looking Beyond Viagra for a New View of Women's Sexual Problems
Gender and free movement: EU migrant women's access to residence and social rights in the U.K
This article examines the gendered effects of restricting EU migrants’ access to rights to residence and to social benefits in relation to work, self-sufficiency and family. It draws on the findings of qualitative research on EU migrant women’s access to social benefits in the U.K. on the basis of residence rights as an EU citizen-worker or family member of an EU citizen-worker. The research included qualitative interviews with providers of advic…
Anti-racist actions and accountability: Not More Empty Promises
Purpose The current piece summarizes five critical points about racism from the point of view of Black scholars and allies: (1) Black people are experiencing exhaustion from and physiological effects of racism, (2) racism extends far beyond police brutality and into most societal structures, (3) despite being the targets of racism, Black people are often blamed for their oppression and retaliated against for their response to it, (4) everyone mus…
Diverse perspectives on inclusion: Exploring the experiences of individuals in heterogeneous groups
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which racioethnicity influences perceptions of inclusion (i.e. information sharing, collective efficacy, satisfaction and relationship conflict) when working in racially heterogeneous groups. Design/methodology/approach Individuals were placed in groups in order to participate in ethical-decision making tasks. Findings Results reveal that individuals representing varied racioethnic gro…
Across the pregnancy lifespan: Examining workplace outcomes of concealing across stages of pregnancy
Purpose The authors aims to use stigma theory to predict and test a model wherein a person’s stage of pregnancy influences their workplace outcomes associated with pregnancy concealment behaviors. Design/methodology/approach The authors tested the model using two separate survey studies, examining these relationships from the perspectives of both the pregnant employees and their supervisors. Findings The authors find support for the model across …
Looking Beyond Viagra for a New View of Women's Sexual Problems
Changes in the lives of the ultra poor: An Exploratory Study
This Research Roundup reports on the pilot phase of BRAC's aeChallenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction/Targeting the Ultra Poor Programme' (CFPR/TUP), which was initiated in three of the poorest districts of northern Bangladesh (Nilphamari, Rangpur, and Kurigram) in January 2002. The authors find a close link between the initial conditions of the programme participants and the degree of change they have experienced in their lives since its i…
Consuming desires: Family crisis and the state in the Middle East - By Frances S. Hasso
Gender and free movement: EU migrant women's access to residence and social rights in the U.K
This article examines the gendered effects of restricting EU migrants’ access to rights to residence and to social benefits in relation to work, self-sufficiency and family. It draws on the findings of qualitative research on EU migrant women’s access to social benefits in the U.K. on the basis of residence rights as an EU citizen-worker or family member of an EU citizen-worker. The research included qualitative interviews with providers of advic…
Diverse perspectives on inclusion: Exploring the experiences of individuals in heterogeneous groups
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which racioethnicity influences perceptions of inclusion (i.e. information sharing, collective efficacy, satisfaction and relationship conflict) when working in racially heterogeneous groups. Design/methodology/approach Individuals were placed in groups in order to participate in ethical-decision making tasks. Findings Results reveal that individuals representing varied racioethnic gro…
The News Ecosystem During the Birth of the Confederacy: South Carolina Secession in Southern Newspapers
During the secession crisis in 1860–61, the American South was far from unified. Contrary to the idea that the South constituted a single distinct region, this analysis of secession news in Southern newspapers demonstrates the slave states consisted of a constellation of Souths rather than one unified South. Through their decisions about what to print, Southern editors serving unique localities contributed to the social construction of sectionall…
Anti-racist actions and accountability: Not More Empty Promises
Purpose The current piece summarizes five critical points about racism from the point of view of Black scholars and allies: (1) Black people are experiencing exhaustion from and physiological effects of racism, (2) racism extends far beyond police brutality and into most societal structures, (3) despite being the targets of racism, Black people are often blamed for their oppression and retaliated against for their response to it, (4) everyone mus…
Challenging Eurocentric perceptions of mobility justice through climate diaries
“What is climate change for you?” This was the question we posed to our research participants in the city of Saint Louis, Senegal to answer visually. Given alarmist racialized portrayals of so-called ‘climate migrants’ as an invasive threat from the Global South to Global North we examined how visual methods can challenge western production of knowledge around the climate crisis. Via our methodology of ‘climate diaries’, we asked participants to …
Across the pregnancy lifespan: Examining workplace outcomes of concealing across stages of pregnancy
Purpose The authors aims to use stigma theory to predict and test a model wherein a person’s stage of pregnancy influences their workplace outcomes associated with pregnancy concealment behaviors. Design/methodology/approach The authors tested the model using two separate survey studies, examining these relationships from the perspectives of both the pregnant employees and their supervisors. Findings The authors find support for the model across …
Healthy by Nature: Policy Practices Aimed at Maximizing the Human Behavioral Health Benefits of Nature Contact
Research suggests that spending time in nature is associated with numerous human behavioral health benefits, including improved executive functioning abilities, enhanced recovery from stressful situations, better mental health, and better educational outcomes. Greener neighborhoods also tend to have positive population-level health outcomes. Although promising, much of this research has focused primarily on selective populations and fails to acco…
Overlapping land rights and deforestation in Uganda: 20 Years of Evidence
The majority of the world’s land is held in customary tenure systems, often with overlapping claims. Designing effective policy to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation requires understanding land management choices within these systems. Using a nation-wide random sample of over 300,000 hectares of forested land in Uganda from 2000 to 2019, we examine how deforestation trends across a system of overlapping rights, known as mailo lan…
Waves of destruction: The climate-change burden falling on Senegal’s fishing communities
Speculative Sites and Slippery Temporalities: The expansive possibilities of binaural sound for navigating and inhabiting disaster
Sound produces a unique possibility for layering: of both content and possibilities. I use binaural audio walks as a way of engaging with the deep past and speculative histories of place, through highly immersive site-specific works that mix narration with diegetic and produced sound. The outcomes operate on multiple timescales simultaneously: the past of the binaural recording, which becomes highly situated for the listener; the present of the l…
"A permit to stay, but no place to stay": Former unaccompanied minors experiences of rental racism as ‘adults' in Bologna
This paper places focus on the little explored space of the transition to adulthood and beyond for young African men who sought asylum in Italy as ‘unaccompanied minors'. Empirical data is drawn from over five years' ethnographic research (2017 – 2023) with the young men, housed originally in a reception centre for minors in Bologna. The paper traces the young men's experiences both within and beyond the reception system that housed them as minor…
‘Why can't people see or understand or make that effort to see who I am?’: Documenting the experiences of low socioeconomic students at an elite tertiary institution through a social identity lens
For the first time, this study uses a social identity lens, to explore how one group of students reflect on their experience at an elite Australian higher educational institution (HEI). This qualitative research project invited undergraduate, domestic students who self-identified as being from a low-socioeconomic (low-SES) background to participate in a semi-structured interview exploring their experience of transition into university and the sup…
The Italian Quarantine Ship (Dystopia): Externalization Practices during Covid-19
This paper examines the use of quarantine ships in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic as a mechanism of border externalization and racialized containment. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted aboard two quarantine ships, it explores how these vessels, ostensibly established for health surveillance, functioned as securitized spaces that perpetuated inequalities and restricted access to asylum. The study situates quarantine ships within broad…
“A terrifying, unknown new world” or “like finding the right pace on a run”: Examining the student experience of transition to university
Research in the area of student transitions to university has often focused on outcomes and on specific sub-populations, rather than understanding of the student lived-experience of orienting themselves at university. The current research qualitatively analyses a set of short student-generated narratives on their experience of transition to university (N = 330). This approach allows us insight into what is important and significant to the student…
Rethinking participation: A framework for creative engagement in urban greenspace
Urban greenspaces are crucial for sustainable urban development, yet engaging communities effectively with decision-making in these spaces remains a challenge. This paper introduces a Creative Engagement Framework (CEF), developed to enhance participation in urban greenspace governance through a co-production approach. Community engagement, therefore, serves both as an instrumental approach to achieving deeper collaborative governance outcomes an…
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