Jacqueline Davidson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4238612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacqueline Davidson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacqueline |
| FAMILY NAME | Davidson |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIDSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1408-3324 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Intersecting practices in arts and health research
“The Arts and Health Research: Inspiring Creative Dialogue” special issue published in Cogent Arts & Humanities brings together a collection of scholarly, arts-based (or creative practice-based) re
Painting as mending structure
Illness and memoir come together in the handwritings of people struggling to overcome illnesses such as cancer, where the writer collides with established narratives such as “winning the battle”. Faced with an illness with no tidy or clear diagnosis from 2001 to 2005, Canadian artist Landon Mackenzie turned to painting as the logical language to help unravel and depict her hunches, nervous system research and experiences in a series of works call…
My Art, My Health
This paper offers a personal discussion of the use of art, sculpture specifically, to bridge personal experiences with chronic illness: juvenile arthritis. Drawing on the experiences of making work and sharing this work in different contexts, it focuses on what it is like to live with arthritis and how creative practice can be used to benefit both artist and viewers. The works discussed in the piece have been created to explore and develop unders…
Single parents and the welfare-to-work agenda
The UK has, until relatively recently, been one of the few OECD countries which did not impose work-related requirements on single parents (Finn and Gloster, 2010).Currently, however, the relatively low employment rate and high poverty risk for the UK's 2 million single parents (ONS, 2012) are on the political agenda.Recent policy changes have increased work-seeking requirements for single parents in attempts to encourage and facilitate their lab…
Introduction to Child Maintenance Schemes across Five Countries
A Comparative Analysis of Child Maintenance Schemes in Five Countries
The aims of this special issue were twofold: to provide international research evidence of child maintenance schemes in five countries and to produce a comparative analysis of that research, to show how child maintenance outcomes differ across countries. The research data were collected using a vignette technique. This set up two fictional families, specifying sets of characteristics in order to explore how child maintenance schemes deal with key…
Complex families and equality in child support obligations
Employability trajectories among new claimants of Incapacity Benefit
The Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), which replaced incapacity-related benefits in the UK in October 2008, is predicated on the assumption that it will be a temporary benefit for the majority of people who claim it. Following an initial medical assessment, new ESA claimants are allocated to one of two groups. Those judged to have less severe or temporary conditions are allocated to the Work-related Activity Group and are required to take a…
Recent Trends in Child Maintenance Schemes in 14 Countries
Changes in family formations in western industrialized countries since the 1960s have not been reflected in cross-national research in the area of child maintenance. This article outlines child support regimes in 14 countries, considering the locus of formal decision making, the determination of child maintenance obligations – highlighted by way of national informant responses to two fictitious vignette scenarios – and the enforcement and penalty…
Gender Differences Among New Claimants of Incapacity Benefit
The academic literature on incapacity benefits in Britain is dominated by debates about 'hidden unemployment', particularly in relation to working-age men in the industrial and former coalmining areas. Although women account for two-fifths of all claimants, they have been given relatively little attention in the literature on incapacity benefits. This article draws on a representative survey of recent claimants of Incapacity Benefit (IB) in Brita…
Sickness benefits in a polarised labour market
People in insecure jobs are less likely than those in secure employment to be entitled to sick pay and are consequently more likely to claim incapacity-related benefits when they become sick. Drawing on a qualitative study, this article shows that this inequality is mirrored in the ways that insecure and permanent workers manage their ill health while in work, the consequences that result from them going off sick, and their ability to return to w…
From work to incapacity benefits
There has been much policy interest in incapacity-related benefits in the UK in recent years. This article employs data from a qualitative exploration of routes onto incapacity-related benefits and illustrates some of the processes associated with exiting different sectors of the labour market and making a claim for incapacity benefits. It illustrates that people can have complex conditions that potentially require a holistic and integrated polic…
Routes to Employment for Administrators of Discretionary Payments within Social Assistance Schemes in Britain and the Netherlands
This paper presents a comparative analysis of the routes to employment taken by administrators of discretionary exceptional needs payments within social assistance in Britain and the Netherlands and questions assertions that administrators seek out their ‘occupations because of their potential as socially useful roles’ (Lipsky 1980). Empirical data illustrates that whilst Dutch administrators had often purposely embarked on a previous course of s…
Non-employment and the welfare state
Unemployment rates are insufficient indicators of the level of economic activity because they say little about the scale of non-employment in a given working-age population. Empirical research has started to recognize this and policy debates increasingly concentrate on working-age inactivity as a relevant gauge of the state of labour markets (OECD, 2003). However, the causes for transitions between employment and different states of non-employmen…
Recent Trends in Child Maintenance Schemes in 14 Countries
Changes in family formations in western industrialized countries since the 1960s have not been reflected in cross-national research in the area of child maintenance. This article outlines child support regimes in 14 countries, considering the locus of formal decision making, the determination of child maintenance obligations – highlighted by way of national informant responses to two fictitious vignette scenarios – and the enforcement and penalty…
Employability trajectories among new claimants of Incapacity Benefit
The Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), which replaced incapacity-related benefits in the UK in October 2008, is predicated on the assumption that it will be a temporary benefit for the majority of people who claim it. Following an initial medical assessment, new ESA claimants are allocated to one of two groups. Those judged to have less severe or temporary conditions are allocated to the Work-related Activity Group and are required to take a…
Complex families and equality in child support obligations
Non-employment and the welfare state
Unemployment rates are insufficient indicators of the level of economic activity because they say little about the scale of non-employment in a given working-age population. Empirical research has started to recognize this and policy debates increasingly concentrate on working-age inactivity as a relevant gauge of the state of labour markets (OECD, 2003). However, the causes for transitions between employment and different states of non-employmen…
Gender Differences Among New Claimants of Incapacity Benefit
The academic literature on incapacity benefits in Britain is dominated by debates about 'hidden unemployment', particularly in relation to working-age men in the industrial and former coalmining areas. Although women account for two-fifths of all claimants, they have been given relatively little attention in the literature on incapacity benefits. This article draws on a representative survey of recent claimants of Incapacity Benefit (IB) in Brita…
A Comparative Analysis of Child Maintenance Schemes in Five Countries
The aims of this special issue were twofold: to provide international research evidence of child maintenance schemes in five countries and to produce a comparative analysis of that research, to show how child maintenance outcomes differ across countries. The research data were collected using a vignette technique. This set up two fictional families, specifying sets of characteristics in order to explore how child maintenance schemes deal with key…
Introduction to Child Maintenance Schemes across Five Countries
From work to incapacity benefits
There has been much policy interest in incapacity-related benefits in the UK in recent years. This article employs data from a qualitative exploration of routes onto incapacity-related benefits and illustrates some of the processes associated with exiting different sectors of the labour market and making a claim for incapacity benefits. It illustrates that people can have complex conditions that potentially require a holistic and integrated polic…
Routes to Employment for Administrators of Discretionary Payments within Social Assistance Schemes in Britain and the Netherlands
This paper presents a comparative analysis of the routes to employment taken by administrators of discretionary exceptional needs payments within social assistance in Britain and the Netherlands and questions assertions that administrators seek out their ‘occupations because of their potential as socially useful roles’ (Lipsky 1980). Empirical data illustrates that whilst Dutch administrators had often purposely embarked on a previous course of s…
Non-employment and the welfare state
Unemployment rates are insufficient indicators of the level of economic activity because they say little about the scale of non-employment in a given working-age population. Empirical research has started to recognize this and policy debates increasingly concentrate on working-age inactivity as a relevant gauge of the state of labour markets (OECD, 2003). However, the causes for transitions between employment and different states of non-employmen…
Sickness benefits in a polarised labour market
People in insecure jobs are less likely than those in secure employment to be entitled to sick pay and are consequently more likely to claim incapacity-related benefits when they become sick. Drawing on a qualitative study, this article shows that this inequality is mirrored in the ways that insecure and permanent workers manage their ill health while in work, the consequences that result from them going off sick, and their ability to return to w…
Recent Trends in Child Maintenance Schemes in 14 Countries
Changes in family formations in western industrialized countries since the 1960s have not been reflected in cross-national research in the area of child maintenance. This article outlines child support regimes in 14 countries, considering the locus of formal decision making, the determination of child maintenance obligations – highlighted by way of national informant responses to two fictitious vignette scenarios – and the enforcement and penalty…
Gender Differences Among New Claimants of Incapacity Benefit
The academic literature on incapacity benefits in Britain is dominated by debates about 'hidden unemployment', particularly in relation to working-age men in the industrial and former coalmining areas. Although women account for two-fifths of all claimants, they have been given relatively little attention in the literature on incapacity benefits. This article draws on a representative survey of recent claimants of Incapacity Benefit (IB) in Brita…
Employability trajectories among new claimants of Incapacity Benefit
The Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), which replaced incapacity-related benefits in the UK in October 2008, is predicated on the assumption that it will be a temporary benefit for the majority of people who claim it. Following an initial medical assessment, new ESA claimants are allocated to one of two groups. Those judged to have less severe or temporary conditions are allocated to the Work-related Activity Group and are required to take a…
Complex families and equality in child support obligations
Single parents and the welfare-to-work agenda
The UK has, until relatively recently, been one of the few OECD countries which did not impose work-related requirements on single parents (Finn and Gloster, 2010).Currently, however, the relatively low employment rate and high poverty risk for the UK's 2 million single parents (ONS, 2012) are on the political agenda.Recent policy changes have increased work-seeking requirements for single parents in attempts to encourage and facilitate their lab…
Introduction to Child Maintenance Schemes across Five Countries
A Comparative Analysis of Child Maintenance Schemes in Five Countries
The aims of this special issue were twofold: to provide international research evidence of child maintenance schemes in five countries and to produce a comparative analysis of that research, to show how child maintenance outcomes differ across countries. The research data were collected using a vignette technique. This set up two fictional families, specifying sets of characteristics in order to explore how child maintenance schemes deal with key…
Painting as mending structure
Illness and memoir come together in the handwritings of people struggling to overcome illnesses such as cancer, where the writer collides with established narratives such as “winning the battle”. Faced with an illness with no tidy or clear diagnosis from 2001 to 2005, Canadian artist Landon Mackenzie turned to painting as the logical language to help unravel and depict her hunches, nervous system research and experiences in a series of works call…
My Art, My Health
This paper offers a personal discussion of the use of art, sculpture specifically, to bridge personal experiences with chronic illness: juvenile arthritis. Drawing on the experiences of making work and sharing this work in different contexts, it focuses on what it is like to live with arthritis and how creative practice can be used to benefit both artist and viewers. The works discussed in the piece have been created to explore and develop unders…
Intersecting practices in arts and health research
“The Arts and Health Research: Inspiring Creative Dialogue” special issue published in Cogent Arts & Humanities brings together a collection of scholarly, arts-based (or creative practice-based) re
Economics (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Retirement, Disability, and Employment (5 works)