Rebecca Wallace
Biographic Data
| ID | 4373583 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Wallace |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallace |
| SIGNATURE | WALLACE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-6927-5152 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Child Care in Transition: A Case Study on For‐Profit Care Owners in Nova Scotia
In 2021, Nova Scotia was among the first Canadian provinces to sign onto the Canada‐Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement. Promising significant investments into reducing the costs of child care for Nova Scotian families, creating more child care spaces, and increasing wages for child care workers, the new agreement has been celebrated for its intent to improve the quality of and access to care. Yet, the policy faced pushback from for‐prof…
We Are the Woman and We Are the Man: Insights from Focus Group Analysis on How Scholars Should Measure Sex and Gender
Traditional ways of measuring sex and gender – often by conflating the two – have been criticized on empirical and normative grounds. This article presents the results of 15 focus groups conducted in Canada in 2016 that were motivated by two questions: How do people think about gender and how can this inform or refine current approaches to the measurement of gender? Several patterns emerged. First, participants seem to understand gender most ofte…
Who Cares? Women entrepreneurs and the transition to the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement in Nova Scotia
The Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreements signed in 2021/2022 represent an unprecedented investment into child care across Canada, supporting the expansion of care spaces, reductions in parent fees, and increased wages for care workers. In the province of Nova Scotia, however, the new funding model faced considerable pushback from women entrepreneurs in the care field, who felt overlooked and bullied by the provincial government am…
Prosocial rule breaking, ingroups and social norms: Parental decision‐making about Covid ‐19 rule breaking in the UK
The British public generally adhered to COVID-19-related restrictions, but as the pandemic drew on, it became challenging for some populations. Parents with young children were identified as a vulnerable group. We collected rich, mixed-methods survey data from 99 UK-based parents (91 mothers) of children under 12, who described their lockdown transgressions. Household mixing was the most prevalent broken rule. Template analysis found that rule br…
Shared Membership Beyond National Identity: Deservingness and Solidarity in Diverse Societies
Liberal nationalists argue that identification with the nation promotes feelings of mutual obligation, including support for redistribution. Existing attempts to test this hypothesis have focused on whether the higher sense of national identity among the majority increases support redistribution. We argue for a twofold shift in focus. First, beyond the majority’s own national identity, we need to explore their perceptions of whether minorities sh…
Beyond the “Add and Stir” Approach: Indigenizing Comprehensive Exam Reading Lists in Canadian Political Science
Have universities heeded the call from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and taken concrete action to integrate and promote Indigenous scholarship in their classrooms? In the field of Canadian political science, this question is vital but underanalyzed. Indigenous knowledges, histories, languages, customs, legal traditions, systems of governance and research methodologies are integral to Canadian politics, but calls for indigeniza…
Harnessing Technologies in Focus Group Research
Focus group research is a useful methodology within and beyond the field of political science, as a source of core or supplementary data. The focus group literature is rich and full of guidance, but advice on using digital tools in certain stages of focus group research is relatively scarce. Aiming to fill those gaps, this article draws on experience with two projects in order to outline how researchers can harness technologies for focus group re…
Out of an Abundance of Caution: Covid-19 and Health Risk Frames in Canadian News Media
Although Canada's first documented case of COVID-19 appeared in mid-January 2020, it was not until March that messaging about the need to contain the virus heightened. In this research note, we document the use of the media's construction of risk through framing in the early stages of the pandemic. We analyze three dimensions of the health risk narratives related to COVID-19 that dominated Canadians’ concerns about the virus. To capture these nar…
President Trump Impeached and Acquitted of Charges Relating to His Conduct of Foreign Affairs
On December 18, 2019, by a majority vote, the House of Representatives impeached President Trump for abusing power by soliciting Ukrainian interference in the 2020 presidential election and then obstructing the House's impeachment investigation. The allegations against Trump rested substantially on a phone conversation between Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25, 2019. During this conversation, Trump asked Zelensky to inve…
Department of Justice Declines to Defend the Constitutionality of a Statute Criminalizing Female Genital Mutilation
the Sixth Circuit dismissed the appeal of United States v. Nagarwala, a federal district court decision that had held unconstitutional the federal statute criminalizing the female genital mutilation (FGM) of minors. Jumana Nagarwala, an emergency room doctor, was one of eight defendants charged by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for performing or assisting in performing FGM on nine girls, at least some of whom were around age seven. 1 The federal…
Writing Gender Out or Working It Back In? Media Coverage of Child Benefits in Canada
This article analyzes the (de)gendering of child benefits in Canadian print media, using an automated analysis of coverage of two governments' child benefits policies. The analysis finds that gender and women's equality are deprioritized in the framing of the policies' beneficiaries and goals, even when the party in power shifts from the right wing of the spectrum to center-left. There is some variation in coverage across newspapers and across jo…
News Coverage of Child Care during Covid-19: Where Are Women and Gender
Research has long observed the absence of gender in child care policy, media, and elections. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has invoked critical questions about child care and its importance to states’ economic recoveries around the world. In this research note, we analyze news coverage of child care in major Canadian daily newspapers to explore whether and how news narratives regarding child care are shifting in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. I…
Young people and their understanding of loss and bereavement
A significant proportion of secondary school pupils in the UK have experienced the death of someone close. Bereavement in childhood can have a significant and long lasting impact. The aim of this study was to explore how pupils aged between 12 and 18 understand major loss, death and dying, whom they talk to and the support they access at these times, and their awareness of the range of support available to them. A total of 31 pupils, 108 parents …
Warriors don’t sleep til noon”: Colonial rhetoric and the framing of Indigenous recipients of welfare in Canadian print news, 1990–2015
This article explores the media framing of Indigenous peoples as recipients of welfare in eight English-language Canadian major dailies from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 2015. Using automated coding and cluster analyses to uncover core topics in the coverage, this research asks: (1) What are the central themes or frames in articles pertaining to Indigenous recipients of social assistance? (2) Does the use or frequency of these frames change ov…
Contextualizing the Crisis: The Framing of Syrian Refugees in Canadian Print Media
This project examines the framing of the Syrian refugee crisis in Canadian print media from January 1, 2012, to December 31, 2016, in eight English-language major dailies. Using automated coding to uncover central themes in the coverage, this analysis explores the changes in news frames over the course of the conflict and the concomitant federal election in Canada, as well as across regional and national news sources. The results indicate that th…
Realising international human rights: Scotland on the global stage
Enfants des montagnes du monde
This is a pictorial journey capturing the lives of children who live in the world’s mountain regions. These pictures endorse the idea that the term ‘‘children of the mountains’’ evokes and encapsulates a multitude of images ranging from a young Buddha to a tea gatherer in the Himalayas, a goatherd in the Atlas mountains, a shepherd in the high grounds of Ethiopia, a budding champion skier in the Alps, a young cowboy of the American West, and a sm…
War and Peace in Refugee Law Jurisprudence
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Contextualizing the Crisis: The Framing of Syrian Refugees in Canadian Print Media
This project examines the framing of the Syrian refugee crisis in Canadian print media from January 1, 2012, to December 31, 2016, in eight English-language major dailies. Using automated coding to uncover central themes in the coverage, this analysis explores the changes in news frames over the course of the conflict and the concomitant federal election in Canada, as well as across regional and national news sources. The results indicate that th…
Shared Membership Beyond National Identity: Deservingness and Solidarity in Diverse Societies
Liberal nationalists argue that identification with the nation promotes feelings of mutual obligation, including support for redistribution. Existing attempts to test this hypothesis have focused on whether the higher sense of national identity among the majority increases support redistribution. We argue for a twofold shift in focus. First, beyond the majority’s own national identity, we need to explore their perceptions of whether minorities sh…
Beyond the “Add and Stir” Approach: Indigenizing Comprehensive Exam Reading Lists in Canadian Political Science
Have universities heeded the call from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and taken concrete action to integrate and promote Indigenous scholarship in their classrooms? In the field of Canadian political science, this question is vital but underanalyzed. Indigenous knowledges, histories, languages, customs, legal traditions, systems of governance and research methodologies are integral to Canadian politics, but calls for indigeniza…
Out of an Abundance of Caution: Covid-19 and Health Risk Frames in Canadian News Media
Although Canada's first documented case of COVID-19 appeared in mid-January 2020, it was not until March that messaging about the need to contain the virus heightened. In this research note, we document the use of the media's construction of risk through framing in the early stages of the pandemic. We analyze three dimensions of the health risk narratives related to COVID-19 that dominated Canadians’ concerns about the virus. To capture these nar…
Writing Gender Out or Working It Back In? Media Coverage of Child Benefits in Canada
This article analyzes the (de)gendering of child benefits in Canadian print media, using an automated analysis of coverage of two governments' child benefits policies. The analysis finds that gender and women's equality are deprioritized in the framing of the policies' beneficiaries and goals, even when the party in power shifts from the right wing of the spectrum to center-left. There is some variation in coverage across newspapers and across jo…
Harnessing Technologies in Focus Group Research
Focus group research is a useful methodology within and beyond the field of political science, as a source of core or supplementary data. The focus group literature is rich and full of guidance, but advice on using digital tools in certain stages of focus group research is relatively scarce. Aiming to fill those gaps, this article draws on experience with two projects in order to outline how researchers can harness technologies for focus group re…
News Coverage of Child Care during Covid-19: Where Are Women and Gender
Research has long observed the absence of gender in child care policy, media, and elections. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has invoked critical questions about child care and its importance to states’ economic recoveries around the world. In this research note, we analyze news coverage of child care in major Canadian daily newspapers to explore whether and how news narratives regarding child care are shifting in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. I…
Prosocial rule breaking, ingroups and social norms: Parental decision‐making about Covid ‐19 rule breaking in the UK
The British public generally adhered to COVID-19-related restrictions, but as the pandemic drew on, it became challenging for some populations. Parents with young children were identified as a vulnerable group. We collected rich, mixed-methods survey data from 99 UK-based parents (91 mothers) of children under 12, who described their lockdown transgressions. Household mixing was the most prevalent broken rule. Template analysis found that rule br…
Department of Justice Declines to Defend the Constitutionality of a Statute Criminalizing Female Genital Mutilation
the Sixth Circuit dismissed the appeal of United States v. Nagarwala, a federal district court decision that had held unconstitutional the federal statute criminalizing the female genital mutilation (FGM) of minors. Jumana Nagarwala, an emergency room doctor, was one of eight defendants charged by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for performing or assisting in performing FGM on nine girls, at least some of whom were around age seven. 1 The federal…
Warriors don’t sleep til noon”: Colonial rhetoric and the framing of Indigenous recipients of welfare in Canadian print news, 1990–2015
This article explores the media framing of Indigenous peoples as recipients of welfare in eight English-language Canadian major dailies from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 2015. Using automated coding and cluster analyses to uncover core topics in the coverage, this research asks: (1) What are the central themes or frames in articles pertaining to Indigenous recipients of social assistance? (2) Does the use or frequency of these frames change ov…
Realising international human rights: Scotland on the global stage
War and Peace in Refugee Law Jurisprudence
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
War and Peace in Refugee Law Jurisprudence
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Enfants des montagnes du monde
This is a pictorial journey capturing the lives of children who live in the world’s mountain regions. These pictures endorse the idea that the term ‘‘children of the mountains’’ evokes and encapsulates a multitude of images ranging from a young Buddha to a tea gatherer in the Himalayas, a goatherd in the Atlas mountains, a shepherd in the high grounds of Ethiopia, a budding champion skier in the Alps, a young cowboy of the American West, and a sm…
Realising international human rights: Scotland on the global stage
Contextualizing the Crisis: The Framing of Syrian Refugees in Canadian Print Media
This project examines the framing of the Syrian refugee crisis in Canadian print media from January 1, 2012, to December 31, 2016, in eight English-language major dailies. Using automated coding to uncover central themes in the coverage, this analysis explores the changes in news frames over the course of the conflict and the concomitant federal election in Canada, as well as across regional and national news sources. The results indicate that th…
Young people and their understanding of loss and bereavement
A significant proportion of secondary school pupils in the UK have experienced the death of someone close. Bereavement in childhood can have a significant and long lasting impact. The aim of this study was to explore how pupils aged between 12 and 18 understand major loss, death and dying, whom they talk to and the support they access at these times, and their awareness of the range of support available to them. A total of 31 pupils, 108 parents …
Warriors don’t sleep til noon”: Colonial rhetoric and the framing of Indigenous recipients of welfare in Canadian print news, 1990–2015
This article explores the media framing of Indigenous peoples as recipients of welfare in eight English-language Canadian major dailies from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 2015. Using automated coding and cluster analyses to uncover core topics in the coverage, this research asks: (1) What are the central themes or frames in articles pertaining to Indigenous recipients of social assistance? (2) Does the use or frequency of these frames change ov…
President Trump Impeached and Acquitted of Charges Relating to His Conduct of Foreign Affairs
On December 18, 2019, by a majority vote, the House of Representatives impeached President Trump for abusing power by soliciting Ukrainian interference in the 2020 presidential election and then obstructing the House's impeachment investigation. The allegations against Trump rested substantially on a phone conversation between Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25, 2019. During this conversation, Trump asked Zelensky to inve…
Department of Justice Declines to Defend the Constitutionality of a Statute Criminalizing Female Genital Mutilation
the Sixth Circuit dismissed the appeal of United States v. Nagarwala, a federal district court decision that had held unconstitutional the federal statute criminalizing the female genital mutilation (FGM) of minors. Jumana Nagarwala, an emergency room doctor, was one of eight defendants charged by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for performing or assisting in performing FGM on nine girls, at least some of whom were around age seven. 1 The federal…
Writing Gender Out or Working It Back In? Media Coverage of Child Benefits in Canada
This article analyzes the (de)gendering of child benefits in Canadian print media, using an automated analysis of coverage of two governments' child benefits policies. The analysis finds that gender and women's equality are deprioritized in the framing of the policies' beneficiaries and goals, even when the party in power shifts from the right wing of the spectrum to center-left. There is some variation in coverage across newspapers and across jo…
News Coverage of Child Care during Covid-19: Where Are Women and Gender
Research has long observed the absence of gender in child care policy, media, and elections. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has invoked critical questions about child care and its importance to states’ economic recoveries around the world. In this research note, we analyze news coverage of child care in major Canadian daily newspapers to explore whether and how news narratives regarding child care are shifting in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. I…
Harnessing Technologies in Focus Group Research
Focus group research is a useful methodology within and beyond the field of political science, as a source of core or supplementary data. The focus group literature is rich and full of guidance, but advice on using digital tools in certain stages of focus group research is relatively scarce. Aiming to fill those gaps, this article draws on experience with two projects in order to outline how researchers can harness technologies for focus group re…
Out of an Abundance of Caution: Covid-19 and Health Risk Frames in Canadian News Media
Although Canada's first documented case of COVID-19 appeared in mid-January 2020, it was not until March that messaging about the need to contain the virus heightened. In this research note, we document the use of the media's construction of risk through framing in the early stages of the pandemic. We analyze three dimensions of the health risk narratives related to COVID-19 that dominated Canadians’ concerns about the virus. To capture these nar…
Prosocial rule breaking, ingroups and social norms: Parental decision‐making about Covid ‐19 rule breaking in the UK
The British public generally adhered to COVID-19-related restrictions, but as the pandemic drew on, it became challenging for some populations. Parents with young children were identified as a vulnerable group. We collected rich, mixed-methods survey data from 99 UK-based parents (91 mothers) of children under 12, who described their lockdown transgressions. Household mixing was the most prevalent broken rule. Template analysis found that rule br…
Shared Membership Beyond National Identity: Deservingness and Solidarity in Diverse Societies
Liberal nationalists argue that identification with the nation promotes feelings of mutual obligation, including support for redistribution. Existing attempts to test this hypothesis have focused on whether the higher sense of national identity among the majority increases support redistribution. We argue for a twofold shift in focus. First, beyond the majority’s own national identity, we need to explore their perceptions of whether minorities sh…
Beyond the “Add and Stir” Approach: Indigenizing Comprehensive Exam Reading Lists in Canadian Political Science
Have universities heeded the call from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and taken concrete action to integrate and promote Indigenous scholarship in their classrooms? In the field of Canadian political science, this question is vital but underanalyzed. Indigenous knowledges, histories, languages, customs, legal traditions, systems of governance and research methodologies are integral to Canadian politics, but calls for indigeniza…
Who Cares? Women entrepreneurs and the transition to the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement in Nova Scotia
The Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreements signed in 2021/2022 represent an unprecedented investment into child care across Canada, supporting the expansion of care spaces, reductions in parent fees, and increased wages for care workers. In the province of Nova Scotia, however, the new funding model faced considerable pushback from women entrepreneurs in the care field, who felt overlooked and bullied by the provincial government am…
Child Care in Transition: A Case Study on For‐Profit Care Owners in Nova Scotia
In 2021, Nova Scotia was among the first Canadian provinces to sign onto the Canada‐Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement. Promising significant investments into reducing the costs of child care for Nova Scotian families, creating more child care spaces, and increasing wages for child care workers, the new agreement has been celebrated for its intent to improve the quality of and access to care. Yet, the policy faced pushback from for‐prof…
We Are the Woman and We Are the Man: Insights from Focus Group Analysis on How Scholars Should Measure Sex and Gender
Traditional ways of measuring sex and gender – often by conflating the two – have been criticized on empirical and normative grounds. This article presents the results of 15 focus groups conducted in Canada in 2016 that were motivated by two questions: How do people think about gender and how can this inform or refine current approaches to the measurement of gender? Several patterns emerged. First, participants seem to understand gender most ofte…
Political science (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Framing (construction (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Media studies (4 works)