Sadie Parr
Biographic Data
| ID | 4238434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sadie Parr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sadie |
| FAMILY NAME | Parr |
| SIGNATURE | PARR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sheffield Hallam University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1538-4807 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Much to do about (almost) everything: The new Labour government and the unfolding housing crisis
People, Place and Policy is an online journal providing a forum for academic debate around issues of urban policy, social and economic regeneration, housing and the labour market. Articles deal with the situations and experiences of people and places struggling to negotiate the opportunities, constraints and risks within contemporary society
Hauntology: The Emotional Costs of Social Policy for Mothers Experiencing Homelessness
The article is concerned with the emotional effects of homelessness on women who are mothers.It develops a multi-disciplinary conceptualization of "haunting" to bring understanding to the ongoing grief and trauma associated with losing a home and children.It explores how women's embodied and affective experiences are not just responses to deeply distressing events, but inextricably intertwined with the unfurling of housing and child protection po…
Navigating' the Value of Lived Experience in Support Work with Multiply Disadvantaged Adults
This article furthers understanding of the value of experiential knowledge for social policy and practice. It draws on new empirical material to critically explore the opportunities and challenges inherent in lived experience support work with multiply disadvantaged adults. Reflecting on the experiences of those delivering a 'navigator' service, particular attention is paid to an ambiguity around the ways in which experiential knowledge might gen…
The changing shape of provision for rough sleepers: From conditionality to care
This article is situated within wider debates about the changing shape of policy and practice within the field of homelessness. It reports on a small scale case study of an intensive key worker support service operating in England designed to move multiply disadvantaged rough sleepers off the streets. The discussion of the empirical data draws attention to different modes of control inherent within the project's working practices that are designe…
Governing homeless mothers: The unmaking of home and family
The home is a central place where women's identity as 'mother' is socially constructed and negotiated. Social policy is inexorably implicated in (re)producing these dominant visions of mothers, mothering, home-making and home. Yet, we know very little about how these same social policies are also implicated in women's loss of home. The article begins to address this evidence-gap. It draws on biographical research with homeless women to explore th…
Is LGBT homelessness different? Reviewing the relationship between LGBT identity and homelessness
This article explores existing evidence concerning the causes and experience of homelessness among lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people. A total of 88 sources, published after 2000, were included in the review. This represents the most comprehensive evidence review to date on the issue, mapping out what is known about LGBT homelessness and identifying gaps in knowledge for future research. With a few notable exceptions, the experiences …
The ethical dilemmas of foodbanking: An analysis of the More Than Food programme
This article contributes to debates about the ethicality of foodbanks, a pervasive element of the UK welfare support infrastructure. Drawing on qualitative interview data, we use the concepts of ‘food poverty knowledge’ and ‘lay morality’ to analyse the narratives of those running a major Trussell Trust ‘foodbank-plus’ programme and explore inherent moral sentiments therein about how those who are in food poverty are understood. We identify a con…
People, Policy and Place relaunch: A note from the Editors
Published as an electronic journal free to all, People, Place and Policy has sought to speak to and promote dialogue between academics, policy-makers and practitioners.Reflecting this ambition, we are pleased to showcase our exciting new format in this issue in our efforts to disseminate ideas, comment and findings across a range of contemporary policy issues.The new format brings together a wider range of contributions, combining traditional pee…
The Troubled Families Programme: Learning about policy impact through realist case study research
This article aims to critically explore how qualitative case study research that is founded on realist principles can fundamentally enhance social policy evaluation methodologies and, in turn, provide improved learning for policy makers and practitioners. We suggest that these methodological advantages are accrued through the careful construction of theory‐based explanations of “how” policy programmes work thereby addressing the limitations of qu…
Explaining and Understanding State Intervention into the Lives of ‘Troubled’ Families
This article focuses attention on explaining and understanding state intervention into the lives of families deemed ‘troublesome’ with specific attention on the Troubled Families Programme. Launched in 2011, in part as a response to the London riots, the Troubled Families Programme represented an escalation and intensification of state intervention into the lives of families. Policy analyses have provided important perspectives on how we should e…
Integrating critical realist and feminist methodologies: Ethical and Analytical Dilemmas
This paper reflects on research carried out with a group of women receiving intensive family support aimed at addressing the cause of their family’s ‘anti-social behaviour’. The methodological approach to the research was underpinned by the philosophical principles of critical realism. It was also informed by the ethical and political concerns of feminist scholarship. The paper reports on the potential points of tension that arise between feminis…
Family Policy and the Governance of Anti-Social Behaviour in the UK: Women's Experiences of Intensive Family Support
In seeking to make sense of the role of intensive family support in the governance of anti-social behaviour, this paper focuses analytical attention on one case study project, the Family Support Service. It draws on interview material from five women whose experiences were tracked in repeat interviews over an 18-month period. The Family Support Service entailed intense surveillance and supervision of marginalised populations in domestic private s…
Mother Abuse: A Matter of Youth Justice, Child Welfare or Domestic Violence
International evidence suggests that in advanced welfare states the abuse of parents, most particularly mothers, by their (most frequently male) adolescent children is increasingly prevalent. In the United Kingdom, however, child‐to‐mother abuse remains one of the most under‐acknowledged and under‐researched forms of family violence. Although it is an issue shrouded in silence, stigma, and shame, the authors' work in the youth justice sphere, foc…
The Role of Social Housing in the ‘Care’ and ‘Control’ of Tenants with Mental Health Problems
Social housing is at the intersection of two policy agendas, namely anti-social behaviour and community care. This means that tenants with mental ill-health might at once be defined as vulnerable and in need of support to enable them to live independently, but simultaneously their behaviour may be viewed as a threat to the safety of others serving to legitimatise disciplinary and punitive forms of intervention on the grounds of ‘difference’. This…
Confronting the reality of anti-social behaviour
A significant body of thinking around the UK Government’s anti-social behaviour (ASB) policy agenda draws its inspiration from post-Foucauldian governmentality theory. This is an indispensable body of work that has been particularly productive when grounded in empirical research studies which have critically analysed the way governmental rationalities are translated into policy ‘on the ground’. This article argues, however, that there is a need t…
Family Intervention Projects: A Site of Social Work Practice
Family Intervention Projects (FIPs) provide intensive support to ‘problem families’ and are a core element of the Government's Respect Action Plan (2006). Drawing on recent research findings from an independent evaluation of the FIP ‘Signpost’, this paper aims to offer a new insight into our understanding of FIPs. The paper draws attention to two key points. First, the organizational context within which Signpost has emerged is one dominated by a…
Integrating critical realist and feminist methodologies: Ethical and Analytical Dilemmas
This paper reflects on research carried out with a group of women receiving intensive family support aimed at addressing the cause of their family’s ‘anti-social behaviour’. The methodological approach to the research was underpinned by the philosophical principles of critical realism. It was also informed by the ethical and political concerns of feminist scholarship. The paper reports on the potential points of tension that arise between feminis…
Is LGBT homelessness different? Reviewing the relationship between LGBT identity and homelessness
This article explores existing evidence concerning the causes and experience of homelessness among lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people. A total of 88 sources, published after 2000, were included in the review. This represents the most comprehensive evidence review to date on the issue, mapping out what is known about LGBT homelessness and identifying gaps in knowledge for future research. With a few notable exceptions, the experiences …
Family Intervention Projects: A Site of Social Work Practice
Family Intervention Projects (FIPs) provide intensive support to ‘problem families’ and are a core element of the Government's Respect Action Plan (2006). Drawing on recent research findings from an independent evaluation of the FIP ‘Signpost’, this paper aims to offer a new insight into our understanding of FIPs. The paper draws attention to two key points. First, the organizational context within which Signpost has emerged is one dominated by a…
Confronting the reality of anti-social behaviour
A significant body of thinking around the UK Government’s anti-social behaviour (ASB) policy agenda draws its inspiration from post-Foucauldian governmentality theory. This is an indispensable body of work that has been particularly productive when grounded in empirical research studies which have critically analysed the way governmental rationalities are translated into policy ‘on the ground’. This article argues, however, that there is a need t…
The changing shape of provision for rough sleepers: From conditionality to care
This article is situated within wider debates about the changing shape of policy and practice within the field of homelessness. It reports on a small scale case study of an intensive key worker support service operating in England designed to move multiply disadvantaged rough sleepers off the streets. The discussion of the empirical data draws attention to different modes of control inherent within the project's working practices that are designe…
Governing homeless mothers: The unmaking of home and family
The home is a central place where women's identity as 'mother' is socially constructed and negotiated. Social policy is inexorably implicated in (re)producing these dominant visions of mothers, mothering, home-making and home. Yet, we know very little about how these same social policies are also implicated in women's loss of home. The article begins to address this evidence-gap. It draws on biographical research with homeless women to explore th…
Family Policy and the Governance of Anti-Social Behaviour in the UK: Women's Experiences of Intensive Family Support
In seeking to make sense of the role of intensive family support in the governance of anti-social behaviour, this paper focuses analytical attention on one case study project, the Family Support Service. It draws on interview material from five women whose experiences were tracked in repeat interviews over an 18-month period. The Family Support Service entailed intense surveillance and supervision of marginalised populations in domestic private s…
The ethical dilemmas of foodbanking: An analysis of the More Than Food programme
This article contributes to debates about the ethicality of foodbanks, a pervasive element of the UK welfare support infrastructure. Drawing on qualitative interview data, we use the concepts of ‘food poverty knowledge’ and ‘lay morality’ to analyse the narratives of those running a major Trussell Trust ‘foodbank-plus’ programme and explore inherent moral sentiments therein about how those who are in food poverty are understood. We identify a con…
Mother Abuse: A Matter of Youth Justice, Child Welfare or Domestic Violence
International evidence suggests that in advanced welfare states the abuse of parents, most particularly mothers, by their (most frequently male) adolescent children is increasingly prevalent. In the United Kingdom, however, child‐to‐mother abuse remains one of the most under‐acknowledged and under‐researched forms of family violence. Although it is an issue shrouded in silence, stigma, and shame, the authors' work in the youth justice sphere, foc…
Hauntology: The Emotional Costs of Social Policy for Mothers Experiencing Homelessness
The article is concerned with the emotional effects of homelessness on women who are mothers.It develops a multi-disciplinary conceptualization of "haunting" to bring understanding to the ongoing grief and trauma associated with losing a home and children.It explores how women's embodied and affective experiences are not just responses to deeply distressing events, but inextricably intertwined with the unfurling of housing and child protection po…
The Troubled Families Programme: Learning about policy impact through realist case study research
This article aims to critically explore how qualitative case study research that is founded on realist principles can fundamentally enhance social policy evaluation methodologies and, in turn, provide improved learning for policy makers and practitioners. We suggest that these methodological advantages are accrued through the careful construction of theory‐based explanations of “how” policy programmes work thereby addressing the limitations of qu…
The Role of Social Housing in the ‘Care’ and ‘Control’ of Tenants with Mental Health Problems
Social housing is at the intersection of two policy agendas, namely anti-social behaviour and community care. This means that tenants with mental ill-health might at once be defined as vulnerable and in need of support to enable them to live independently, but simultaneously their behaviour may be viewed as a threat to the safety of others serving to legitimatise disciplinary and punitive forms of intervention on the grounds of ‘difference’. This…
Navigating' the Value of Lived Experience in Support Work with Multiply Disadvantaged Adults
This article furthers understanding of the value of experiential knowledge for social policy and practice. It draws on new empirical material to critically explore the opportunities and challenges inherent in lived experience support work with multiply disadvantaged adults. Reflecting on the experiences of those delivering a 'navigator' service, particular attention is paid to an ambiguity around the ways in which experiential knowledge might gen…
The Role of Social Housing in the ‘Care’ and ‘Control’ of Tenants with Mental Health Problems
Social housing is at the intersection of two policy agendas, namely anti-social behaviour and community care. This means that tenants with mental ill-health might at once be defined as vulnerable and in need of support to enable them to live independently, but simultaneously their behaviour may be viewed as a threat to the safety of others serving to legitimatise disciplinary and punitive forms of intervention on the grounds of ‘difference’. This…
Confronting the reality of anti-social behaviour
A significant body of thinking around the UK Government’s anti-social behaviour (ASB) policy agenda draws its inspiration from post-Foucauldian governmentality theory. This is an indispensable body of work that has been particularly productive when grounded in empirical research studies which have critically analysed the way governmental rationalities are translated into policy ‘on the ground’. This article argues, however, that there is a need t…
Family Intervention Projects: A Site of Social Work Practice
Family Intervention Projects (FIPs) provide intensive support to ‘problem families’ and are a core element of the Government's Respect Action Plan (2006). Drawing on recent research findings from an independent evaluation of the FIP ‘Signpost’, this paper aims to offer a new insight into our understanding of FIPs. The paper draws attention to two key points. First, the organizational context within which Signpost has emerged is one dominated by a…
Mother Abuse: A Matter of Youth Justice, Child Welfare or Domestic Violence
International evidence suggests that in advanced welfare states the abuse of parents, most particularly mothers, by their (most frequently male) adolescent children is increasingly prevalent. In the United Kingdom, however, child‐to‐mother abuse remains one of the most under‐acknowledged and under‐researched forms of family violence. Although it is an issue shrouded in silence, stigma, and shame, the authors' work in the youth justice sphere, foc…
Family Policy and the Governance of Anti-Social Behaviour in the UK: Women's Experiences of Intensive Family Support
In seeking to make sense of the role of intensive family support in the governance of anti-social behaviour, this paper focuses analytical attention on one case study project, the Family Support Service. It draws on interview material from five women whose experiences were tracked in repeat interviews over an 18-month period. The Family Support Service entailed intense surveillance and supervision of marginalised populations in domestic private s…
Integrating critical realist and feminist methodologies: Ethical and Analytical Dilemmas
This paper reflects on research carried out with a group of women receiving intensive family support aimed at addressing the cause of their family’s ‘anti-social behaviour’. The methodological approach to the research was underpinned by the philosophical principles of critical realism. It was also informed by the ethical and political concerns of feminist scholarship. The paper reports on the potential points of tension that arise between feminis…
Explaining and Understanding State Intervention into the Lives of ‘Troubled’ Families
This article focuses attention on explaining and understanding state intervention into the lives of families deemed ‘troublesome’ with specific attention on the Troubled Families Programme. Launched in 2011, in part as a response to the London riots, the Troubled Families Programme represented an escalation and intensification of state intervention into the lives of families. Policy analyses have provided important perspectives on how we should e…
People, Policy and Place relaunch: A note from the Editors
Published as an electronic journal free to all, People, Place and Policy has sought to speak to and promote dialogue between academics, policy-makers and practitioners.Reflecting this ambition, we are pleased to showcase our exciting new format in this issue in our efforts to disseminate ideas, comment and findings across a range of contemporary policy issues.The new format brings together a wider range of contributions, combining traditional pee…
The Troubled Families Programme: Learning about policy impact through realist case study research
This article aims to critically explore how qualitative case study research that is founded on realist principles can fundamentally enhance social policy evaluation methodologies and, in turn, provide improved learning for policy makers and practitioners. We suggest that these methodological advantages are accrued through the careful construction of theory‐based explanations of “how” policy programmes work thereby addressing the limitations of qu…
The ethical dilemmas of foodbanking: An analysis of the More Than Food programme
This article contributes to debates about the ethicality of foodbanks, a pervasive element of the UK welfare support infrastructure. Drawing on qualitative interview data, we use the concepts of ‘food poverty knowledge’ and ‘lay morality’ to analyse the narratives of those running a major Trussell Trust ‘foodbank-plus’ programme and explore inherent moral sentiments therein about how those who are in food poverty are understood. We identify a con…
The changing shape of provision for rough sleepers: From conditionality to care
This article is situated within wider debates about the changing shape of policy and practice within the field of homelessness. It reports on a small scale case study of an intensive key worker support service operating in England designed to move multiply disadvantaged rough sleepers off the streets. The discussion of the empirical data draws attention to different modes of control inherent within the project's working practices that are designe…
Governing homeless mothers: The unmaking of home and family
The home is a central place where women's identity as 'mother' is socially constructed and negotiated. Social policy is inexorably implicated in (re)producing these dominant visions of mothers, mothering, home-making and home. Yet, we know very little about how these same social policies are also implicated in women's loss of home. The article begins to address this evidence-gap. It draws on biographical research with homeless women to explore th…
Is LGBT homelessness different? Reviewing the relationship between LGBT identity and homelessness
This article explores existing evidence concerning the causes and experience of homelessness among lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people. A total of 88 sources, published after 2000, were included in the review. This represents the most comprehensive evidence review to date on the issue, mapping out what is known about LGBT homelessness and identifying gaps in knowledge for future research. With a few notable exceptions, the experiences …
Navigating' the Value of Lived Experience in Support Work with Multiply Disadvantaged Adults
This article furthers understanding of the value of experiential knowledge for social policy and practice. It draws on new empirical material to critically explore the opportunities and challenges inherent in lived experience support work with multiply disadvantaged adults. Reflecting on the experiences of those delivering a 'navigator' service, particular attention is paid to an ambiguity around the ways in which experiential knowledge might gen…
Much to do about (almost) everything: The new Labour government and the unfolding housing crisis
People, Place and Policy is an online journal providing a forum for academic debate around issues of urban policy, social and economic regeneration, housing and the labour market. Articles deal with the situations and experiences of people and places struggling to negotiate the opportunities, constraints and risks within contemporary society
Hauntology: The Emotional Costs of Social Policy for Mothers Experiencing Homelessness
The article is concerned with the emotional effects of homelessness on women who are mothers.It develops a multi-disciplinary conceptualization of "haunting" to bring understanding to the ongoing grief and trauma associated with losing a home and children.It explores how women's embodied and affective experiences are not just responses to deeply distressing events, but inextricably intertwined with the unfurling of housing and child protection po…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 works)