J Claire Cameron
Biographic Data
| ID | 6159747 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Claire Cameron |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Cameron |
| SIGNATURE | CAMERON J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5263-3086 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘Nothing to do and nowhere to go’
Prospective acceptability, feasibility and outcomes of a primary school-led outdoor play intervention for young children
Outdoor play benefits children’s mental wellbeing, social and cognitive development and physical activity levels. However, children’s outdoor play and physical activity have declined in recent years and barriers exist within their physical and social environment. Forest Schools (FS) can encourage outdoor play through familiarisation with local green spaces, but suitable spaces are limited in dense urban areas. The Play in Urban Spaces for Health …
Covid-19 vaccination uptake and risk of severe Covid-19 disease among those in, and released from, prison care in Scotland
Our findings highlight the important role of prisons in facilitating rapid high coverage of vaccination, involving accelerated schedules where appropriate, to help mitigate the raised risk of severe disease outcomes among both those incarcerated and released into the community
Transport practices of Māori Kaumātua (Indigenous elders) in Aotearoa New Zealand
Kaumātua rely heavily on private cars for transport, yet when they can no longer drive, this dependence may present barriers to daily living and to maintaining cultural practices, health, and wellbeing. Increased transport infrastructure including public and community transport is needed to allow transport options beyond driving. Transport stakeholders must incorporate wider perspectives, including Indigenous peoples' voices. This study provides …
Movers, returners and stayers
This article focuses on the role of place in shaping the (im)mobility aspirations of young people in coastal towns. In the Global North, youth mobility has become a normalised part of the journey to higher education and ‘cosmopolitan’ adulthood. However, we argue that this is only part of the story for young people in coastal towns in England. Many of these coastal towns now face persistent socio-economic and infrastructural challenges. Against t…
Residence in coastal communities in adolescence and health in young adulthood
We used the UK Household Longitudinal Study to examine whether community type (inland or coastal) in adolescence (10-15 years) was associated with five adult health outcomes assessed over 11 waves of follow-up (2009-22). When the analyses were stratified on area deprivation, four of the five health outcomes - self-rated, long-standing illness, psychological distress and mental functioning - showed worse health in increasingly more deprived commun…
Trauma
A recent special issue of this journal focussed on the emergence of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) movement as a key driver of Scottish social policy. In this article, we extend the critiques advanced therein by locating ACEs within a wider cultural turn towards psychological trauma which, over the past decade, has become reified as a master theory across social welfare. Yet, the concept is insubstantial and ill-defined, and the claims …
Is the tobacco ‘footfall’ argument justified for tobacco purchases in New Zealand convenience stores
Our results do not support claims that tobacco drives one-quarter of footfall into stores or that customers who purchase tobacco spend almost twice as much as non-tobacco customers. Combined purchases of tobacco and non-tobacco items constituted 5.5% of transactions; the impact on a store's profitability of removing tobacco sales is unknown and could be the focus of future research
Prevalence and characteristics of tobacco purchases in convenience stores
Tobacco products constitute a small proportion of items purchased from Dunedin convenience stores and are typically not purchased with non-tobacco items. Our findings are inconsistent with arguments that most small retailers rely on tobacco sales
Found in (survey) translation
We liaised with a wharekura (Māori language immersion school) to translate and disseminate an online survey for a group of Māori youth in Southland, New Zealand (NZ). The focus of this article is not results, but the processes of respondent orientation and engagement to more genuinely include Māori in a youth survey. An online survey about transport and well‐being was conducted with older teenagers from 12 schools, including the wharekura. After …
The impact of an increase in excise tax on the retail price of tobacco in New Zealand
Tobacco companies do not appear to be increasing the RRPs of budget brands in line with tobacco excise tax increases. The increasing price differential between budget brands, and mainstream and premium brands may undermine cessation and impede realisation of New Zealand's Smokefree 2025 goal
Tobacco retail outlet density and risk of youth smoking in New Zealand
Restricting the permitted density of tobacco retail outlets around schools should be part of comprehensive tobacco control. In this regard, both smokers and non-smokers support the introduction of increased regulation of the tobacco retail environment to achieve our national smoke-free 2025 goal
Towards a theory of upbringing in foster care in Europe
Across Europe, foster care is the preferred intervention for children who cannot live with their birth families, yet just what states look for from foster care is rarely articulated. Its use and intended purpose can reflect not only historical peculiarities but also the nature of the welfare regime existing in a particular country. This article reports on a preliminary exploration of fostering across 11 European countries, reflecting different ca…
Our young people are worse’
Introducing continental European approaches to UK child welfare practice raises a problem of comparison: to what extent are the problems and issues similar to or different from one country compared to another. Social pedagogues trained in continental Europe and working in English residential care services often encountered the phrase ‘our young people are worse’ from their English colleagues, with the implication that the social pedagogic approac…
La atención a personas dependientes en Europa
Ante la constatacin de importantes cambios demogrficos, econmicos y sociales en Europa que afectan a la provisin de servicios de apoyo a las personas dependientes, la Comisin Europea financi la investigacin "La atencin a personas dependientes en Europa (conceptos actuales y perspectivas futuras)" que a continuacin se presenta. Entre los seis pases que conforman la muestra se encuentran importantes diferencias conceptuales y estructurales en la at…
The 1989 Children Act
The Children Act 1989 was introduced into a context of early years provision which was characterized by a structural and conceptual divide between ‘day care’ services, provided by Social Services Departments, and pre-school educational services, provided by Education Departments. The Children Act 1989 includes day care within the range of ‘family support services’ to be provided for children ‘in need’ and, although it requires collaboration betwe…
HPV vaccine
The introduction of universal adolescent HPV vaccination in schools has a positive outlook
Variations in duty arrangements to respond to concerns about children's welfare
Reception and initial contact arrangements and practices in social services play a key role in safeguarding children and providing an avenue for the public and professionals to report concerns about a child's welfare. This paper reports on findings from a small-scale study, commissioned in the wake of the Laming Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Victoria Climbié. The aim of the study was an exploration of the arrangements lo…
Promise or Problem? A Review of the Literature on Men Working in Early Childhood Services
Few men care for, or teach, young children. The 1991 UK census found that less than 1% of nursery nurses were male, while 14% of nursery/primary teachers were male. A similarly gendered picture can be found across European, North American and Australian studies of early childhood services, such as childcare centres and early education. The practice and prospect of men early childhood workers are both encouraged and resisted. The aim of this artic…
The children Act 1989 and early childhood services
This paper considers the implications of including general and non-welfare day care services for children under 8 years in the Children Act, a mainly welfare measure. Day care services do not benefit from becoming subject to any broad principles contained within the Act. With respect to these particular services, the Act is essentially conservative in its approach and modest in its scope. It perpetuates the status quo, in particular the division …
Movers, returners and stayers
This article focuses on the role of place in shaping the (im)mobility aspirations of young people in coastal towns. In the Global North, youth mobility has become a normalised part of the journey to higher education and ‘cosmopolitan’ adulthood. However, we argue that this is only part of the story for young people in coastal towns in England. Many of these coastal towns now face persistent socio-economic and infrastructural challenges. Against t…
Towards a theory of upbringing in foster care in Europe
Across Europe, foster care is the preferred intervention for children who cannot live with their birth families, yet just what states look for from foster care is rarely articulated. Its use and intended purpose can reflect not only historical peculiarities but also the nature of the welfare regime existing in a particular country. This article reports on a preliminary exploration of fostering across 11 European countries, reflecting different ca…
Residence in coastal communities in adolescence and health in young adulthood
We used the UK Household Longitudinal Study to examine whether community type (inland or coastal) in adolescence (10-15 years) was associated with five adult health outcomes assessed over 11 waves of follow-up (2009-22). When the analyses were stratified on area deprivation, four of the five health outcomes - self-rated, long-standing illness, psychological distress and mental functioning - showed worse health in increasingly more deprived commun…
Trauma
A recent special issue of this journal focussed on the emergence of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) movement as a key driver of Scottish social policy. In this article, we extend the critiques advanced therein by locating ACEs within a wider cultural turn towards psychological trauma which, over the past decade, has become reified as a master theory across social welfare. Yet, the concept is insubstantial and ill-defined, and the claims …
Found in (survey) translation
We liaised with a wharekura (Māori language immersion school) to translate and disseminate an online survey for a group of Māori youth in Southland, New Zealand (NZ). The focus of this article is not results, but the processes of respondent orientation and engagement to more genuinely include Māori in a youth survey. An online survey about transport and well‐being was conducted with older teenagers from 12 schools, including the wharekura. After …
HPV vaccine
The introduction of universal adolescent HPV vaccination in schools has a positive outlook
The children Act 1989 and early childhood services
This paper considers the implications of including general and non-welfare day care services for children under 8 years in the Children Act, a mainly welfare measure. Day care services do not benefit from becoming subject to any broad principles contained within the Act. With respect to these particular services, the Act is essentially conservative in its approach and modest in its scope. It perpetuates the status quo, in particular the division …
Promise or Problem? A Review of the Literature on Men Working in Early Childhood Services
Few men care for, or teach, young children. The 1991 UK census found that less than 1% of nursery nurses were male, while 14% of nursery/primary teachers were male. A similarly gendered picture can be found across European, North American and Australian studies of early childhood services, such as childcare centres and early education. The practice and prospect of men early childhood workers are both encouraged and resisted. The aim of this artic…
Variations in duty arrangements to respond to concerns about children's welfare
Reception and initial contact arrangements and practices in social services play a key role in safeguarding children and providing an avenue for the public and professionals to report concerns about a child's welfare. This paper reports on findings from a small-scale study, commissioned in the wake of the Laming Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Victoria Climbié. The aim of the study was an exploration of the arrangements lo…
La atención a personas dependientes en Europa
Ante la constatacin de importantes cambios demogrficos, econmicos y sociales en Europa que afectan a la provisin de servicios de apoyo a las personas dependientes, la Comisin Europea financi la investigacin "La atencin a personas dependientes en Europa (conceptos actuales y perspectivas futuras)" que a continuacin se presenta. Entre los seis pases que conforman la muestra se encuentran importantes diferencias conceptuales y estructurales en la at…
The 1989 Children Act
The Children Act 1989 was introduced into a context of early years provision which was characterized by a structural and conceptual divide between ‘day care’ services, provided by Social Services Departments, and pre-school educational services, provided by Education Departments. The Children Act 1989 includes day care within the range of ‘family support services’ to be provided for children ‘in need’ and, although it requires collaboration betwe…
HPV vaccine
The introduction of universal adolescent HPV vaccination in schools has a positive outlook
Our young people are worse’
Introducing continental European approaches to UK child welfare practice raises a problem of comparison: to what extent are the problems and issues similar to or different from one country compared to another. Social pedagogues trained in continental Europe and working in English residential care services often encountered the phrase ‘our young people are worse’ from their English colleagues, with the implication that the social pedagogic approac…
The impact of an increase in excise tax on the retail price of tobacco in New Zealand
Tobacco companies do not appear to be increasing the RRPs of budget brands in line with tobacco excise tax increases. The increasing price differential between budget brands, and mainstream and premium brands may undermine cessation and impede realisation of New Zealand's Smokefree 2025 goal
Tobacco retail outlet density and risk of youth smoking in New Zealand
Restricting the permitted density of tobacco retail outlets around schools should be part of comprehensive tobacco control. In this regard, both smokers and non-smokers support the introduction of increased regulation of the tobacco retail environment to achieve our national smoke-free 2025 goal
Towards a theory of upbringing in foster care in Europe
Across Europe, foster care is the preferred intervention for children who cannot live with their birth families, yet just what states look for from foster care is rarely articulated. Its use and intended purpose can reflect not only historical peculiarities but also the nature of the welfare regime existing in a particular country. This article reports on a preliminary exploration of fostering across 11 European countries, reflecting different ca…
Prevalence and characteristics of tobacco purchases in convenience stores
Tobacco products constitute a small proportion of items purchased from Dunedin convenience stores and are typically not purchased with non-tobacco items. Our findings are inconsistent with arguments that most small retailers rely on tobacco sales
Found in (survey) translation
We liaised with a wharekura (Māori language immersion school) to translate and disseminate an online survey for a group of Māori youth in Southland, New Zealand (NZ). The focus of this article is not results, but the processes of respondent orientation and engagement to more genuinely include Māori in a youth survey. An online survey about transport and well‐being was conducted with older teenagers from 12 schools, including the wharekura. After …
Is the tobacco ‘footfall’ argument justified for tobacco purchases in New Zealand convenience stores
Our results do not support claims that tobacco drives one-quarter of footfall into stores or that customers who purchase tobacco spend almost twice as much as non-tobacco customers. Combined purchases of tobacco and non-tobacco items constituted 5.5% of transactions; the impact on a store's profitability of removing tobacco sales is unknown and could be the focus of future research
Trauma
A recent special issue of this journal focussed on the emergence of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) movement as a key driver of Scottish social policy. In this article, we extend the critiques advanced therein by locating ACEs within a wider cultural turn towards psychological trauma which, over the past decade, has become reified as a master theory across social welfare. Yet, the concept is insubstantial and ill-defined, and the claims …
Movers, returners and stayers
This article focuses on the role of place in shaping the (im)mobility aspirations of young people in coastal towns. In the Global North, youth mobility has become a normalised part of the journey to higher education and ‘cosmopolitan’ adulthood. However, we argue that this is only part of the story for young people in coastal towns in England. Many of these coastal towns now face persistent socio-economic and infrastructural challenges. Against t…
Residence in coastal communities in adolescence and health in young adulthood
We used the UK Household Longitudinal Study to examine whether community type (inland or coastal) in adolescence (10-15 years) was associated with five adult health outcomes assessed over 11 waves of follow-up (2009-22). When the analyses were stratified on area deprivation, four of the five health outcomes - self-rated, long-standing illness, psychological distress and mental functioning - showed worse health in increasingly more deprived commun…
Transport practices of Māori Kaumātua (Indigenous elders) in Aotearoa New Zealand
Kaumātua rely heavily on private cars for transport, yet when they can no longer drive, this dependence may present barriers to daily living and to maintaining cultural practices, health, and wellbeing. Increased transport infrastructure including public and community transport is needed to allow transport options beyond driving. Transport stakeholders must incorporate wider perspectives, including Indigenous peoples' voices. This study provides …
‘Nothing to do and nowhere to go’
Prospective acceptability, feasibility and outcomes of a primary school-led outdoor play intervention for young children
Outdoor play benefits children’s mental wellbeing, social and cognitive development and physical activity levels. However, children’s outdoor play and physical activity have declined in recent years and barriers exist within their physical and social environment. Forest Schools (FS) can encourage outdoor play through familiarisation with local green spaces, but suitable spaces are limited in dense urban areas. The Play in Urban Spaces for Health …
Covid-19 vaccination uptake and risk of severe Covid-19 disease among those in, and released from, prison care in Scotland
Our findings highlight the important role of prisons in facilitating rapid high coverage of vaccination, involving accelerated schedules where appropriate, to help mitigate the raised risk of severe disease outcomes among both those incarcerated and released into the community
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