Gail Wilson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3603631 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gail Wilson |
| PRENOMES | Gail |
| SOBRENOME | Wilson |
| ASSINATURA | WILSON G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2874-3861 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1967 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Quality assessment tool for theory-based and literature review studies (QATTL)
Just when I needed you most
This article discusses the experiences and challenges of introducing a third-party learning support provider into the teaching and learning culture at Southern Cross University (SCU), a regional university with campus locations in New South Wales and Queensland. The provider was engaged to extend online study support after-hours to first year students to complement the on-campus and online academic skills consultations available during business h…
Promoting staff learning about assessment through digital representations of practice
The Assessment Snapshots digital resource is a current project to support academic learning about assessment by diffusing knowledge and understanding of locally contextualised good practice in assessment at the University of Western Sydney. An initial collection of Snapshots was made available to academic staff on the university web site in early 2006. This paper describes how the resource has been utilised by teachers and explains the uses that …
Assembling their own care packages
A study of 93 households containing only people over 75 indicated that 74% chose to buy some form of care from the private or voluntary sector. The study included households in a middle class and a working class ward of an outer-London borough where few elderly people had children or other relatives living within walking distance. More private services were available in the middle class area but frail elderly people who needed services, such as c…
Local Culture, Globalization and Policy Outcomes
It is argued that the impact of globalization and global ideologies on social policy can depend on the ways that local cultures reinforce or combat global ideologies and pressures. The article discusses the importance of local policy factors in shaping responses to globalization, taking as an example the way in which global forces have affected outcomes for older people needing long-term care in one marginalized province of a rich country. Local …
Families in Aging Societies
Health Inequalities
Online interaction impacts on learning
This paper explores the importance of interaction in the online teaching environment and the important role of staff development in developing teacher presence online. Professionally developing staff to use information and communication technologies is viewed from the standpoint of diffusion of innovation, moving from early adopters to mainstream majority, and targeting staff development at this latter group. Approaches to staff development using…
Globalisation and older people
This paper discusses the material aspects of globalisation and the effects of the movements of trade, capital and people around the world on older men and women. While some older people have benefited, most notably where pensions and health care are well developed, the majority of older men and women are among the poor who have not. Free trade, economic restructuring, the globalisation of finance, and the surge in migration, have in most parts of…
Power and translation in social policy research
Globalisation has increased the demand for policy transfer but also raises problems. There are international organisations that advocate common approaches to policy and better communication means that policy makers are more aware of what is going on in other countries. At the same time attempts to transfer policy highlight real differences in history and culture and what they mean for power relations. Within this context the development of large …
Translation of words and concepts in social policy
Translation of words and concepts in social policy." International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 4(4), pp. 259–260
Conceptual frameworks and emancipatory research in social gerontology
It is argued that conflicts arise in social gerontology because conceptual frameworks are not sufficiently developed. Taking a broad definition of conceptual frameworks that includes political awareness, I argue that the theoretical works of Anne Phillips and Nancy Fraser have much to offer when applied to social gerontology. It is, however, essential first to theorise later life in terms of difference and diversity and the potential for conflict…
A Postmodern Approach to Structured Dependency Theory
Structured dependency theory has been useful in shifting thinking about status in old age from a negative concentration on individual characteristics to an emphasis on the structural factors which work against elderly people. However, structural dependency theory is itself capable of reinforcing ageist policy and practice. Postmodernism, as an approach to knowledge, moves us on from the premodern when the church was the ultimate authority, throug…
Co‐Production and Self‐Care
A lack of management theory which is relevant to human service agencies, combined with a failure to recognize the very large contribution which older people make to their own care, makes it difficult to deliver supportive services effectively. Self care by elders is divided, in this preliminary classification, into new strategies for everyday living, the reallocation of time and the avoidance of risk. Managers who understand that service users ar…
The Challenge of an Ageing Electorate
Population ageing in Europe is likely to lead to changes in the provision of pensions and health services. Retirement ages, work practices and housing needs will be affected but changes are likely to be mediated via new technology and hence cannot be exactly predicted. While the ageing population is usually projected in terms of dependency or support ratios, in this article projections are for older people as a proportion of eligible voters. Amer…
Conflicts in Case Management
Life after Work
The State and Caring (Book)
Users and Providers
Elderly clients usually express satisfaction with their services when they are asked. Surveys of clients and carers therefore have to take this tendency into account. It is important not to ask direct questions and to allow for positive, neutral and negative responses, otherwise positive responses will be overestimated. A survey of clients and carers served by a community psychogeriatric service indicated that the way a service is delivered can b…
Elder abuse-a hidden horror
Old age and change in home and neighbourhood
This paper considers various theories about old people and housing and concludes that old people must be differentiated by age, class and income level. In addition any theory must consider the way past economic and social policies affect present attitudes to home and neighbourhood. Interviews with a small group of mentally frail old people and their carers show that older people can hold both positive and negative views about their homes and neig…
Thoughts on the Cooperative Conflict Model of the Household in Relation to Economic Method
Mainstream economic theory has traditionally been content to treat the family or household as a single unit. Theory has often spilled over into practice so that researchers and planners also regard the household as a unit. The paper follows Amartya Sen in saying that this is not good enough, A ‘cooperative conflict’ model is needed to replace the undifferentiated unit. Some of the practical problems of researching intra-household distribution of …
Models of Ageing and their Relation to Policy Formation and Service Provision
This paper relates commonly held models of ageing to the assumptive worlds of policy makers and service providers. Different models of old age are related to culture (class and ethnicity), gender and the age of the beholder. The common western European view that old age is a time of inevitable and increasing dependence is mirrored by a system of service provision that emphasises dependency rather than rehabilitation. A ‘terminal drop’ model is cl…
An Aging World - Dilemmas and Challenges for Law and Social Policy
Short reviews
Milton J. Esman and Itamar Rabinovich (eds), ETHNICITY, PLURALISM, AND THE STATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1988, 304 pp., $35.00 cloth, $12.95 paper. Akbar S. Ahmed, DISCOVERING ISLAM, MAKING SENSE OF MUSLIM HISTORY AND SOCIETY, London: Routledge, 1988, 251 pp., £9.99 (paper). Edmund Burke, III and Ira M. Lapidus (eds), ISLAM, POLITICS, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, London: I. B. Tauris, 1988, 332 pp., £29.50. Asaf …
Models of Ageing and their Relation to Policy Formation and Service Provision
This paper relates commonly held models of ageing to the assumptive worlds of policy makers and service providers. Different models of old age are related to culture (class and ethnicity), gender and the age of the beholder. The common western European view that old age is a time of inevitable and increasing dependence is mirrored by a system of service provision that emphasises dependency rather than rehabilitation. A ‘terminal drop’ model is cl…
Life after Work
Family Food Systems, Preventive Health and Dietary Change
Any preventive policy depends on a set of beliefs which will determine the point and method of intervention in a causative chain of events. In the case of heart disease, diet is seen as a causative factor. Prevention therefore demands a change in national diet. However, policy makers can view diet primarily as a matter of individual responsibility and preferences, or as a reflection of social structures. The individual approach emphasises health …
Globalisation and older people
This paper discusses the material aspects of globalisation and the effects of the movements of trade, capital and people around the world on older men and women. While some older people have benefited, most notably where pensions and health care are well developed, the majority of older men and women are among the poor who have not. Free trade, economic restructuring, the globalisation of finance, and the surge in migration, have in most parts of…
Translation of words and concepts in social policy
Translation of words and concepts in social policy." International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 4(4), pp. 259–260
A Postmodern Approach to Structured Dependency Theory
Structured dependency theory has been useful in shifting thinking about status in old age from a negative concentration on individual characteristics to an emphasis on the structural factors which work against elderly people. However, structural dependency theory is itself capable of reinforcing ageist policy and practice. Postmodernism, as an approach to knowledge, moves us on from the premodern when the church was the ultimate authority, throug…
Thoughts on the Cooperative Conflict Model of the Household in Relation to Economic Method
Mainstream economic theory has traditionally been content to treat the family or household as a single unit. Theory has often spilled over into practice so that researchers and planners also regard the household as a unit. The paper follows Amartya Sen in saying that this is not good enough, A ‘cooperative conflict’ model is needed to replace the undifferentiated unit. Some of the practical problems of researching intra-household distribution of …
Assembling their own care packages
A study of 93 households containing only people over 75 indicated that 74% chose to buy some form of care from the private or voluntary sector. The study included households in a middle class and a working class ward of an outer-London borough where few elderly people had children or other relatives living within walking distance. More private services were available in the middle class area but frail elderly people who needed services, such as c…
Co‐Production and Self‐Care
A lack of management theory which is relevant to human service agencies, combined with a failure to recognize the very large contribution which older people make to their own care, makes it difficult to deliver supportive services effectively. Self care by elders is divided, in this preliminary classification, into new strategies for everyday living, the reallocation of time and the avoidance of risk. Managers who understand that service users ar…
Conflicts in Case Management
Users and Providers
Elderly clients usually express satisfaction with their services when they are asked. Surveys of clients and carers therefore have to take this tendency into account. It is important not to ask direct questions and to allow for positive, neutral and negative responses, otherwise positive responses will be overestimated. A survey of clients and carers served by a community psychogeriatric service indicated that the way a service is delivered can b…
Women's Work
This article surveys the role of grandparents in providing a continuing level of material support in 61 households with dependent children in an inner city area. It concludes that assistance is structured by gender, income level, household financial organisation, residential proximity, need and ideology. In terms of the provision of continuing support to households with young children, grandparents are important but grandmothers give more assista…
Power and translation in social policy research
Globalisation has increased the demand for policy transfer but also raises problems. There are international organisations that advocate common approaches to policy and better communication means that policy makers are more aware of what is going on in other countries. At the same time attempts to transfer policy highlight real differences in history and culture and what they mean for power relations. Within this context the development of large …
Health Inequalities
Conceptual frameworks and emancipatory research in social gerontology
It is argued that conflicts arise in social gerontology because conceptual frameworks are not sufficiently developed. Taking a broad definition of conceptual frameworks that includes political awareness, I argue that the theoretical works of Anne Phillips and Nancy Fraser have much to offer when applied to social gerontology. It is, however, essential first to theorise later life in terms of difference and diversity and the potential for conflict…
Old age and change in home and neighbourhood
This paper considers various theories about old people and housing and concludes that old people must be differentiated by age, class and income level. In addition any theory must consider the way past economic and social policies affect present attitudes to home and neighbourhood. Interviews with a small group of mentally frail old people and their carers show that older people can hold both positive and negative views about their homes and neig…
The impact of the Owen falls hydro‐electric project on the economy of Uganda 1
Paying for Private Schools
Paying for Private Schools
Give and take in families
Women's Work
This article surveys the role of grandparents in providing a continuing level of material support in 61 households with dependent children in an inner city area. It concludes that assistance is structured by gender, income level, household financial organisation, residential proximity, need and ideology. In terms of the provision of continuing support to households with young children, grandparents are important but grandmothers give more assista…
Money in the Family
Family Food Systems, Preventive Health and Dietary Change
Any preventive policy depends on a set of beliefs which will determine the point and method of intervention in a causative chain of events. In the case of heart disease, diet is seen as a causative factor. Prevention therefore demands a change in national diet. However, policy makers can view diet primarily as a matter of individual responsibility and preferences, or as a reflection of social structures. The individual approach emphasises health …
Short reviews
Milton J. Esman and Itamar Rabinovich (eds), ETHNICITY, PLURALISM, AND THE STATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1988, 304 pp., $35.00 cloth, $12.95 paper. Akbar S. Ahmed, DISCOVERING ISLAM, MAKING SENSE OF MUSLIM HISTORY AND SOCIETY, London: Routledge, 1988, 251 pp., £9.99 (paper). Edmund Burke, III and Ira M. Lapidus (eds), ISLAM, POLITICS, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, London: I. B. Tauris, 1988, 332 pp., £29.50. Asaf …
Elder abuse-a hidden horror
Old age and change in home and neighbourhood
This paper considers various theories about old people and housing and concludes that old people must be differentiated by age, class and income level. In addition any theory must consider the way past economic and social policies affect present attitudes to home and neighbourhood. Interviews with a small group of mentally frail old people and their carers show that older people can hold both positive and negative views about their homes and neig…
Thoughts on the Cooperative Conflict Model of the Household in Relation to Economic Method
Mainstream economic theory has traditionally been content to treat the family or household as a single unit. Theory has often spilled over into practice so that researchers and planners also regard the household as a unit. The paper follows Amartya Sen in saying that this is not good enough, A ‘cooperative conflict’ model is needed to replace the undifferentiated unit. Some of the practical problems of researching intra-household distribution of …
Models of Ageing and their Relation to Policy Formation and Service Provision
This paper relates commonly held models of ageing to the assumptive worlds of policy makers and service providers. Different models of old age are related to culture (class and ethnicity), gender and the age of the beholder. The common western European view that old age is a time of inevitable and increasing dependence is mirrored by a system of service provision that emphasises dependency rather than rehabilitation. A ‘terminal drop’ model is cl…
An Aging World - Dilemmas and Challenges for Law and Social Policy
The Challenge of an Ageing Electorate
Population ageing in Europe is likely to lead to changes in the provision of pensions and health services. Retirement ages, work practices and housing needs will be affected but changes are likely to be mediated via new technology and hence cannot be exactly predicted. While the ageing population is usually projected in terms of dependency or support ratios, in this article projections are for older people as a proportion of eligible voters. Amer…
Conflicts in Case Management
Life after Work
The State and Caring (Book)
Users and Providers
Elderly clients usually express satisfaction with their services when they are asked. Surveys of clients and carers therefore have to take this tendency into account. It is important not to ask direct questions and to allow for positive, neutral and negative responses, otherwise positive responses will be overestimated. A survey of clients and carers served by a community psychogeriatric service indicated that the way a service is delivered can b…
Co‐Production and Self‐Care
A lack of management theory which is relevant to human service agencies, combined with a failure to recognize the very large contribution which older people make to their own care, makes it difficult to deliver supportive services effectively. Self care by elders is divided, in this preliminary classification, into new strategies for everyday living, the reallocation of time and the avoidance of risk. Managers who understand that service users ar…
A Postmodern Approach to Structured Dependency Theory
Structured dependency theory has been useful in shifting thinking about status in old age from a negative concentration on individual characteristics to an emphasis on the structural factors which work against elderly people. However, structural dependency theory is itself capable of reinforcing ageist policy and practice. Postmodernism, as an approach to knowledge, moves us on from the premodern when the church was the ultimate authority, throug…
Power and translation in social policy research
Globalisation has increased the demand for policy transfer but also raises problems. There are international organisations that advocate common approaches to policy and better communication means that policy makers are more aware of what is going on in other countries. At the same time attempts to transfer policy highlight real differences in history and culture and what they mean for power relations. Within this context the development of large …
Translation of words and concepts in social policy
Translation of words and concepts in social policy." International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 4(4), pp. 259–260
Conceptual frameworks and emancipatory research in social gerontology
It is argued that conflicts arise in social gerontology because conceptual frameworks are not sufficiently developed. Taking a broad definition of conceptual frameworks that includes political awareness, I argue that the theoretical works of Anne Phillips and Nancy Fraser have much to offer when applied to social gerontology. It is, however, essential first to theorise later life in terms of difference and diversity and the potential for conflict…
Globalisation and older people
This paper discusses the material aspects of globalisation and the effects of the movements of trade, capital and people around the world on older men and women. While some older people have benefited, most notably where pensions and health care are well developed, the majority of older men and women are among the poor who have not. Free trade, economic restructuring, the globalisation of finance, and the surge in migration, have in most parts of…
Online interaction impacts on learning
This paper explores the importance of interaction in the online teaching environment and the important role of staff development in developing teacher presence online. Professionally developing staff to use information and communication technologies is viewed from the standpoint of diffusion of innovation, moving from early adopters to mainstream majority, and targeting staff development at this latter group. Approaches to staff development using…
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