Suzanne Butler
Biographic Data
| ID | 8831433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Butler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Butler |
| SIGNATURE | BUTLER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6925-002X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
From line to life course
This article reconceptualises poverty as biography in motion , advancing a temporal-affective typology of trajectories – turbulent, stalled, and climbing – to show how structure, emotion, and agency interact over time. Drawing on life story and journalling research with 24 women in the UK, it develops a sociological grammar of motion that travels across welfare contexts. Where conventional poverty studies chart transitions or durations, the traje…
Poverty as Biography in Motion
Despite extensive research, poverty remains theoretically under-explained. Dominant approaches oscillate between structural, resource-based models that conceptualise poverty as a measurable condition, and behavioural or responsibilisation accounts that locate persistence in individual conduct. Whilst often treated as opposing theses, this article argues that both rest on a shared theoretical error: the mis-specification of agency as either absent…
Analysis of a university-NGO research partnership with and for children and young people in Covid-19
To gain a deeper understanding of the ways institutions work in partnership in research in times of adversity, this paper analyses what happened when people from two very different organizations, a university and a children’s charity, worked together on the VOICES research project during Covid-19. VOICES looked at how nearly 2000 children and young people in North East England were experiencing the pandemic. It was ambitious in its range of resea…
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Analysis of a university-NGO research partnership with and for children and young people in Covid-19
To gain a deeper understanding of the ways institutions work in partnership in research in times of adversity, this paper analyses what happened when people from two very different organizations, a university and a children’s charity, worked together on the VOICES research project during Covid-19. VOICES looked at how nearly 2000 children and young people in North East England were experiencing the pandemic. It was ambitious in its range of resea…
From line to life course
This article reconceptualises poverty as biography in motion , advancing a temporal-affective typology of trajectories – turbulent, stalled, and climbing – to show how structure, emotion, and agency interact over time. Drawing on life story and journalling research with 24 women in the UK, it develops a sociological grammar of motion that travels across welfare contexts. Where conventional poverty studies chart transitions or durations, the traje…
Poverty as Biography in Motion
Despite extensive research, poverty remains theoretically under-explained. Dominant approaches oscillate between structural, resource-based models that conceptualise poverty as a measurable condition, and behavioural or responsibilisation accounts that locate persistence in individual conduct. Whilst often treated as opposing theses, this article argues that both rest on a shared theoretical error: the mis-specification of agency as either absent…
Agency (philosophy) (2 works) · Biography (2 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (2 works) · Foregrounding (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Poverty (2 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (2 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (1 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (1 works) · Cognitive reframing (1 works)