Sean Archer
Biographic Data
| ID | 96599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Archer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | Archer |
| SIGNATURE | ARCHER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1349-7178 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Collaboration and co-creation in autism research
Drawing upon ongoing research exploring lived experiences of sensory overload, meltdown, and shutdown in autism as a framework, this article reflects on the challenges and benefits of employing participatory methods in doctoral research. In particular, the process of establishing and working with a Research Advisory Group to co-create a multi-stage research project is evaluated and reflected upon. Applying participatory approaches such as this to…
Views of advance care planning in caregivers of older hospitalised patients following an emergency admission
This study explores the views of advance care planning in caregivers of older hospitalised patients following an emergency admission. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight carers, mostly with a personal relationship to the older patient. Thematic analysis generated three themes: (1) working with uncertainty - it all sounds very fine. . . what is the reality?, (2) supporting the older person - you have to look at it on an individual…
Exploring elderly patients’ experiences of recovery following complex proximal humerus fracture
This study explores the experiences and perceptions of recovery in elderly patients who had sustained a proximal humerus fracture. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 patients over the age of 65. Thematic analysis identified aspects of care that impacted upon patient experience and quality of life. Seven main patient-reported themes were identified, including pain, sleep, shoulder function, emotional state, social support, …
Public acceptability of nudging and taxing to reduce consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and food
There is growing evidence for the effectiveness of choice architecture or 'nudge' interventions to change a range of behaviours including the consumption of alcohol, tobacco and food. Public acceptability is key to implementing these and other interventions. However, few studies have assessed public acceptability of these interventions, including the extent to which acceptability varies with the type of intervention, the target behaviour and with…
Do you mean I'm not whole
This study explores the role of others in supporting younger women who opt not to reconstruct their breast post-mastectomy. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six women diagnosed with breast cancer in their 30s/40s. The women lived in England, had been diagnosed a minimum of 5 years previously and had undergone unilateral mastectomy. An interpretative phenomenological analysis revealed three themes: Assuring the self: 'I'll love you w…
Worlds within worlds
There is increasing interest in applying interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to focus group data and in developing appropriate strategies for doing so. These strategies should exploit the unique features of focus groups, which provide a rich canvas of experiences not seen in individual interviews, while remaining true to the personal, phenomenological perspective of IPA. We present a four-stage approach with specific group focused anal…
Younger women's experiences of deciding against delayed breast reconstruction post-mastectomy following breast cancer
Most women do not reconstruct their breast(s) post-mastectomy. The experiences of younger women who maintain this decision, although important to understand, are largely absent in the research literature. This interview-based study uses interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore the experiences of six women, diagnosed with primary breast cancer in their 30s/40s, who decided against delayed reconstruction. Findings reported here focus on …
Technology and Ecology in the Karoo
Windmills and wire fencing entered the farming practices of the north-eastern Karoo in the final decades of the nineteenth century. A new grazing system came into being comprising artificial water sources and camps in which sheep and other livestock ranged freely. By the late 1920s this had displaced the old shepherding-plus-kraaling arrangements. At the time, the coming of the new methods was predicted to raise stocking rates, improve veld cover…
Poverty and production in a rural microcosm
Opening ParagraphIn the popular consciousness, South African poverty is a phenomenon of the homeland or urban township and ghetto, more rarely of rural areas in the core economy. Such a perspective is determined largely by the higher visibility of the poor in the former localities in the recent past, for reasons of geography and political sensitivity. This study aimed to redress the balance, starting from two broad premises: first, that the techn…
South Africa's industrial experience in perspective
Manufacturing industry is large absolutely as well as by comparison with other sectors and other countries. Sixty years of import‐replacement policies has produced a diversified structure, but in recent years disappointments have outweighed achievements in dimensions like job creation, capital intensity and the increasing resource cost of futher import substitution. That these difficulties are paralleled in Latin America is no solace, and it may …
The Insurgent Pedagogues
Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life, by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976, 340 pp. R7,20 (paperback)
Reaction, reform and revision in the dark south
John Barratt, Simon Brand, David Collier, Kurt Glaser (eds.), Accelerated Development in Southern Africa (London: Macmian, 1974. pp. xiv + 706. £7). Adrian Leftwich (ed.), South Africa: economic growth and political change, with comparative studies of Chile, Sri Lanka and Malaysia (London: Allison and Busby, 1974. pp. viii + 360. £8)
Public acceptability of nudging and taxing to reduce consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and food
There is growing evidence for the effectiveness of choice architecture or 'nudge' interventions to change a range of behaviours including the consumption of alcohol, tobacco and food. Public acceptability is key to implementing these and other interventions. However, few studies have assessed public acceptability of these interventions, including the extent to which acceptability varies with the type of intervention, the target behaviour and with…
Younger women's experiences of deciding against delayed breast reconstruction post-mastectomy following breast cancer
Most women do not reconstruct their breast(s) post-mastectomy. The experiences of younger women who maintain this decision, although important to understand, are largely absent in the research literature. This interview-based study uses interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore the experiences of six women, diagnosed with primary breast cancer in their 30s/40s, who decided against delayed reconstruction. Findings reported here focus on …
Worlds within worlds
There is increasing interest in applying interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to focus group data and in developing appropriate strategies for doing so. These strategies should exploit the unique features of focus groups, which provide a rich canvas of experiences not seen in individual interviews, while remaining true to the personal, phenomenological perspective of IPA. We present a four-stage approach with specific group focused anal…
Do you mean I'm not whole
This study explores the role of others in supporting younger women who opt not to reconstruct their breast post-mastectomy. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six women diagnosed with breast cancer in their 30s/40s. The women lived in England, had been diagnosed a minimum of 5 years previously and had undergone unilateral mastectomy. An interpretative phenomenological analysis revealed three themes: Assuring the self: 'I'll love you w…
Poverty and production in a rural microcosm
Opening ParagraphIn the popular consciousness, South African poverty is a phenomenon of the homeland or urban township and ghetto, more rarely of rural areas in the core economy. Such a perspective is determined largely by the higher visibility of the poor in the former localities in the recent past, for reasons of geography and political sensitivity. This study aimed to redress the balance, starting from two broad premises: first, that the techn…
Technology and Ecology in the Karoo
Windmills and wire fencing entered the farming practices of the north-eastern Karoo in the final decades of the nineteenth century. A new grazing system came into being comprising artificial water sources and camps in which sheep and other livestock ranged freely. By the late 1920s this had displaced the old shepherding-plus-kraaling arrangements. At the time, the coming of the new methods was predicted to raise stocking rates, improve veld cover…
Reaction, reform and revision in the dark south
John Barratt, Simon Brand, David Collier, Kurt Glaser (eds.), Accelerated Development in Southern Africa (London: Macmian, 1974. pp. xiv + 706. £7). Adrian Leftwich (ed.), South Africa: economic growth and political change, with comparative studies of Chile, Sri Lanka and Malaysia (London: Allison and Busby, 1974. pp. viii + 360. £8)
Reaction, reform and revision in the dark south
John Barratt, Simon Brand, David Collier, Kurt Glaser (eds.), Accelerated Development in Southern Africa (London: Macmian, 1974. pp. xiv + 706. £7). Adrian Leftwich (ed.), South Africa: economic growth and political change, with comparative studies of Chile, Sri Lanka and Malaysia (London: Allison and Busby, 1974. pp. viii + 360. £8)
The Insurgent Pedagogues
Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life, by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976, 340 pp. R7,20 (paperback)
South Africa's industrial experience in perspective
Manufacturing industry is large absolutely as well as by comparison with other sectors and other countries. Sixty years of import‐replacement policies has produced a diversified structure, but in recent years disappointments have outweighed achievements in dimensions like job creation, capital intensity and the increasing resource cost of futher import substitution. That these difficulties are paralleled in Latin America is no solace, and it may …
Poverty and production in a rural microcosm
Opening ParagraphIn the popular consciousness, South African poverty is a phenomenon of the homeland or urban township and ghetto, more rarely of rural areas in the core economy. Such a perspective is determined largely by the higher visibility of the poor in the former localities in the recent past, for reasons of geography and political sensitivity. This study aimed to redress the balance, starting from two broad premises: first, that the techn…
Technology and Ecology in the Karoo
Windmills and wire fencing entered the farming practices of the north-eastern Karoo in the final decades of the nineteenth century. A new grazing system came into being comprising artificial water sources and camps in which sheep and other livestock ranged freely. By the late 1920s this had displaced the old shepherding-plus-kraaling arrangements. At the time, the coming of the new methods was predicted to raise stocking rates, improve veld cover…
Worlds within worlds
There is increasing interest in applying interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to focus group data and in developing appropriate strategies for doing so. These strategies should exploit the unique features of focus groups, which provide a rich canvas of experiences not seen in individual interviews, while remaining true to the personal, phenomenological perspective of IPA. We present a four-stage approach with specific group focused anal…
Younger women's experiences of deciding against delayed breast reconstruction post-mastectomy following breast cancer
Most women do not reconstruct their breast(s) post-mastectomy. The experiences of younger women who maintain this decision, although important to understand, are largely absent in the research literature. This interview-based study uses interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore the experiences of six women, diagnosed with primary breast cancer in their 30s/40s, who decided against delayed reconstruction. Findings reported here focus on …
Do you mean I'm not whole
This study explores the role of others in supporting younger women who opt not to reconstruct their breast post-mastectomy. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six women diagnosed with breast cancer in their 30s/40s. The women lived in England, had been diagnosed a minimum of 5 years previously and had undergone unilateral mastectomy. An interpretative phenomenological analysis revealed three themes: Assuring the self: 'I'll love you w…
Public acceptability of nudging and taxing to reduce consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and food
There is growing evidence for the effectiveness of choice architecture or 'nudge' interventions to change a range of behaviours including the consumption of alcohol, tobacco and food. Public acceptability is key to implementing these and other interventions. However, few studies have assessed public acceptability of these interventions, including the extent to which acceptability varies with the type of intervention, the target behaviour and with…
Exploring elderly patients’ experiences of recovery following complex proximal humerus fracture
This study explores the experiences and perceptions of recovery in elderly patients who had sustained a proximal humerus fracture. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 patients over the age of 65. Thematic analysis identified aspects of care that impacted upon patient experience and quality of life. Seven main patient-reported themes were identified, including pain, sleep, shoulder function, emotional state, social support, …
Views of advance care planning in caregivers of older hospitalised patients following an emergency admission
This study explores the views of advance care planning in caregivers of older hospitalised patients following an emergency admission. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight carers, mostly with a personal relationship to the older patient. Thematic analysis generated three themes: (1) working with uncertainty - it all sounds very fine. . . what is the reality?, (2) supporting the older person - you have to look at it on an individual…
Collaboration and co-creation in autism research
Drawing upon ongoing research exploring lived experiences of sensory overload, meltdown, and shutdown in autism as a framework, this article reflects on the challenges and benefits of employing participatory methods in doctoral research. In particular, the process of establishing and working with a Research Advisory Group to co-create a multi-stage research project is evaluated and reflected upon. Applying participatory approaches such as this to…
Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Interpretative phenomenological analysis (3 works) · Breast cancer (2 works) · Breast Implant and Reconstruction (2 works)