Deborah Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 98086 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Foster |
| SIGNATURE | FOSTER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8566-2967 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Multimodal strategies for engaging young Arrernte and Warlpiri children in storytelling and play
From an early age children learn to recognize and make use of the semiotic resources present in their immediate communicative environments. For children in Aboriginal families in Central Australia, these resources encompass everyday speech, sign language, gesture, and the symbolic conventions found in narrative practices such as sand drawing. Successful face-to-face interaction rarely involves only one of these ways of communicating with others–m…
An acoustic study on monophthongs in Central Australian Aboriginal English
We present an acoustic analysis of monophthongal vowel production in Central Australian Aboriginal English (CAAE), providing one of the first systematic examinations of this variety spoken by English-as-a-first-language (L1) speakers in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, Australia. Using conversational data from six adult female participants, we investigated the acoustic properties of CAAE's vowel system, focusing on phonemic contrasts, phonetic realisation…
Production and perception of stop voicing in Central Australian Aboriginal English: A cross-generational study
This paper reports on a series of studies investigating the production and perception of stop voicing contrasts in speakers of Central Australian Aboriginal English (CAAE; Alice Springs, Australia). Study 1 investigated Voice Onset Time (VOT) and Constriction Duration (CD) in stop consonants in naturalistic adult speech, and the speakers produced a VOT-based voicing distinction in word-initial stops, while medial voiceless stops differ from voice…
Developing the Little Kids’ Word List app, a fair assessment tool of communicative development for young Aboriginal children in multilingual families in Central Australia
Assessment of the language development of Aboriginal children in Central Australia is a major challenge, because little is known about the children’s language repertoires and paths of development. The Central Australian language context presents a specific challenge for describing what young children are learning and for developing an appropriate vocabulary assessment tool. National Indigenous policies now have a focus on young children’s develop…
Contextualising measures of everyday discrimination experienced by Aboriginal peoples: A place-based analysis from central Australia
Doing diversity in the legal profession in England and Wales: Why do disabled people continue to be unexpected
A call for socio‐legal scholars to interrogate the relationship between law, disablement, ableism, and justice was recently made in this journal. Using research co‐produced with disabled people in the legal profession in England and Wales, this article responds by asking why, in a profession that has made a significant investment in widening access and diversity, do disabled people continue to be unexpected ? The apparent absence of disabled peop…
Sexual intimacy and marital relationships in a low-income urban community in India
Data from a six-year study of married women's sexual health in a low-income community in Mumbai indicated that almost half the sample of 1125 women reported that they had a negative view of sex with their husbands. Qualitative interviews and quantitative survey data identified several factors that contributed to this diminished interest including: a lack of foreplay, forced sex, the difficulty of achieving privacy in crowded dwellings, poor marit…
The Health and Well-Being at Work Agenda: Good News for (Disabled) Workers or Just a Capital Idea
Health and well-being (H&WB) initiatives have increasingly appeared in workplaces, but are the subject of surprisingly little critical analysis. The terms H&WB have also become positively embedded in Human Resource Management (HRM) and academic vocabularies, often displacing disability, which, it is argued, is (wrongly) regarded as a negative descriptor. This article challenges the sometimes taken-for-granted assumption that employer-led H&WB ini…
Disability in the Labour Market: An Exploration of Concepts of the Ideal Worker and Organisational Fit that Disadvantage Employees with Impairments
The adverse employment effects that attach to disability are empirically well established. They are large and persistent. This is a conceptual article that investigates the source of this deep and enduring employment disadvantage. Debate begins by examining the origins of ideas that have shaped approaches to work study and have influenced concepts of what constitutes an ideal worker. Drawing on feminist critiques of organisational analysis that h…
Legal obligation or personal lottery: Employee experiences of disability and the negotiation of adjustments in the public sector workplace
This article 'gives voice' to disabled employees by documenting their experiences of negotiating workplace adjustments under the terms of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act, 1995.This ad hoc process of 'negotiation' is explored through in-depth interviews that reveal persistent problems with the character of legislation and its implementation in public sector organizations. Negotiations on adjustments were characteristically highly individual…
Change in the Benefits Agency: Empowering the Exhausted Worker
Using case study evidence from an investigation of ‘quality’ initiatives and working practices in three offices within a District of the Benefits Agency (BA), this article examines the contradictory role of new public management on employees. Decentralised management, performance related pay, teamwork philosophies and the promotion of a ‘customer’ culture reflect a move away from a traditional civil service bureaucratic form of organisation. Howe…
Industrial Relations in Local Government: The Impact of Privatisation
The Heritage of African Poetry: An Anthropology of Oral and Written Poetry
Change in the Benefits Agency: Empowering the Exhausted Worker
Using case study evidence from an investigation of ‘quality’ initiatives and working practices in three offices within a District of the Benefits Agency (BA), this article examines the contradictory role of new public management on employees. Decentralised management, performance related pay, teamwork philosophies and the promotion of a ‘customer’ culture reflect a move away from a traditional civil service bureaucratic form of organisation. Howe…
Legal obligation or personal lottery: Employee experiences of disability and the negotiation of adjustments in the public sector workplace
This article 'gives voice' to disabled employees by documenting their experiences of negotiating workplace adjustments under the terms of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act, 1995.This ad hoc process of 'negotiation' is explored through in-depth interviews that reveal persistent problems with the character of legislation and its implementation in public sector organizations. Negotiations on adjustments were characteristically highly individual…
Disability in the Labour Market: An Exploration of Concepts of the Ideal Worker and Organisational Fit that Disadvantage Employees with Impairments
The adverse employment effects that attach to disability are empirically well established. They are large and persistent. This is a conceptual article that investigates the source of this deep and enduring employment disadvantage. Debate begins by examining the origins of ideas that have shaped approaches to work study and have influenced concepts of what constitutes an ideal worker. Drawing on feminist critiques of organisational analysis that h…
The Health and Well-Being at Work Agenda: Good News for (Disabled) Workers or Just a Capital Idea
Health and well-being (H&WB) initiatives have increasingly appeared in workplaces, but are the subject of surprisingly little critical analysis. The terms H&WB have also become positively embedded in Human Resource Management (HRM) and academic vocabularies, often displacing disability, which, it is argued, is (wrongly) regarded as a negative descriptor. This article challenges the sometimes taken-for-granted assumption that employer-led H&WB ini…
Industrial Relations in Local Government: The Impact of Privatisation
Production and perception of stop voicing in Central Australian Aboriginal English: A cross-generational study
This paper reports on a series of studies investigating the production and perception of stop voicing contrasts in speakers of Central Australian Aboriginal English (CAAE; Alice Springs, Australia). Study 1 investigated Voice Onset Time (VOT) and Constriction Duration (CD) in stop consonants in naturalistic adult speech, and the speakers produced a VOT-based voicing distinction in word-initial stops, while medial voiceless stops differ from voice…
Contextualising measures of everyday discrimination experienced by Aboriginal peoples: A place-based analysis from central Australia
Multimodal strategies for engaging young Arrernte and Warlpiri children in storytelling and play
From an early age children learn to recognize and make use of the semiotic resources present in their immediate communicative environments. For children in Aboriginal families in Central Australia, these resources encompass everyday speech, sign language, gesture, and the symbolic conventions found in narrative practices such as sand drawing. Successful face-to-face interaction rarely involves only one of these ways of communicating with others–m…
An acoustic study on monophthongs in Central Australian Aboriginal English
We present an acoustic analysis of monophthongal vowel production in Central Australian Aboriginal English (CAAE), providing one of the first systematic examinations of this variety spoken by English-as-a-first-language (L1) speakers in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, Australia. Using conversational data from six adult female participants, we investigated the acoustic properties of CAAE's vowel system, focusing on phonemic contrasts, phonetic realisation…
The Heritage of African Poetry: An Anthropology of Oral and Written Poetry
Industrial Relations in Local Government: The Impact of Privatisation
Change in the Benefits Agency: Empowering the Exhausted Worker
Using case study evidence from an investigation of ‘quality’ initiatives and working practices in three offices within a District of the Benefits Agency (BA), this article examines the contradictory role of new public management on employees. Decentralised management, performance related pay, teamwork philosophies and the promotion of a ‘customer’ culture reflect a move away from a traditional civil service bureaucratic form of organisation. Howe…
Legal obligation or personal lottery: Employee experiences of disability and the negotiation of adjustments in the public sector workplace
This article 'gives voice' to disabled employees by documenting their experiences of negotiating workplace adjustments under the terms of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act, 1995.This ad hoc process of 'negotiation' is explored through in-depth interviews that reveal persistent problems with the character of legislation and its implementation in public sector organizations. Negotiations on adjustments were characteristically highly individual…
Disability in the Labour Market: An Exploration of Concepts of the Ideal Worker and Organisational Fit that Disadvantage Employees with Impairments
The adverse employment effects that attach to disability are empirically well established. They are large and persistent. This is a conceptual article that investigates the source of this deep and enduring employment disadvantage. Debate begins by examining the origins of ideas that have shaped approaches to work study and have influenced concepts of what constitutes an ideal worker. Drawing on feminist critiques of organisational analysis that h…
Sexual intimacy and marital relationships in a low-income urban community in India
Data from a six-year study of married women's sexual health in a low-income community in Mumbai indicated that almost half the sample of 1125 women reported that they had a negative view of sex with their husbands. Qualitative interviews and quantitative survey data identified several factors that contributed to this diminished interest including: a lack of foreplay, forced sex, the difficulty of achieving privacy in crowded dwellings, poor marit…
The Health and Well-Being at Work Agenda: Good News for (Disabled) Workers or Just a Capital Idea
Health and well-being (H&WB) initiatives have increasingly appeared in workplaces, but are the subject of surprisingly little critical analysis. The terms H&WB have also become positively embedded in Human Resource Management (HRM) and academic vocabularies, often displacing disability, which, it is argued, is (wrongly) regarded as a negative descriptor. This article challenges the sometimes taken-for-granted assumption that employer-led H&WB ini…
Contextualising measures of everyday discrimination experienced by Aboriginal peoples: A place-based analysis from central Australia
Doing diversity in the legal profession in England and Wales: Why do disabled people continue to be unexpected
A call for socio‐legal scholars to interrogate the relationship between law, disablement, ableism, and justice was recently made in this journal. Using research co‐produced with disabled people in the legal profession in England and Wales, this article responds by asking why, in a profession that has made a significant investment in widening access and diversity, do disabled people continue to be unexpected ? The apparent absence of disabled peop…
Developing the Little Kids’ Word List app, a fair assessment tool of communicative development for young Aboriginal children in multilingual families in Central Australia
Assessment of the language development of Aboriginal children in Central Australia is a major challenge, because little is known about the children’s language repertoires and paths of development. The Central Australian language context presents a specific challenge for describing what young children are learning and for developing an appropriate vocabulary assessment tool. National Indigenous policies now have a focus on young children’s develop…
Production and perception of stop voicing in Central Australian Aboriginal English: A cross-generational study
This paper reports on a series of studies investigating the production and perception of stop voicing contrasts in speakers of Central Australian Aboriginal English (CAAE; Alice Springs, Australia). Study 1 investigated Voice Onset Time (VOT) and Constriction Duration (CD) in stop consonants in naturalistic adult speech, and the speakers produced a VOT-based voicing distinction in word-initial stops, while medial voiceless stops differ from voice…
Multimodal strategies for engaging young Arrernte and Warlpiri children in storytelling and play
From an early age children learn to recognize and make use of the semiotic resources present in their immediate communicative environments. For children in Aboriginal families in Central Australia, these resources encompass everyday speech, sign language, gesture, and the symbolic conventions found in narrative practices such as sand drawing. Successful face-to-face interaction rarely involves only one of these ways of communicating with others–m…
An acoustic study on monophthongs in Central Australian Aboriginal English
We present an acoustic analysis of monophthongal vowel production in Central Australian Aboriginal English (CAAE), providing one of the first systematic examinations of this variety spoken by English-as-a-first-language (L1) speakers in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, Australia. Using conversational data from six adult female participants, we investigated the acoustic properties of CAAE's vowel system, focusing on phonemic contrasts, phonetic realisation…
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