Irene Hardill
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3757320 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Irene Hardill |
| PRENOMES | Irene |
| SOBRENOME | Hardill |
| ASSINATURA | HARDILL I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Nottingham Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1287-0647 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 361 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 11 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Suffering, Silence, and the State
Assisted dying has returned to UK policy debate amid legislative scrutiny and growing hospice sector instability. This paper brings 1994 Mass Observation data into dialog with contemporary debates to examine how members of the public understood suffering, autonomy, and care at the end of life. We show that assisted dying was framed as a pragmatic response to anticipated suffering and feared dependency, while palliative care was largely absent fro…
Civil society in crisis times
Why Britain needs a new Beveridge and why politicians need to defer to the evidence
Breaking the Overton Window
Co-production has emerged as one of the key concepts in understanding knowledge-policy interactions and is associated with involvement, for example, of users of public services in their design and delivery. At a time of permacrisis, the need for transformative evidence-based policymaking is urgent and great. This is particularly important in highly distressed 'left-behind' communities targeted by the UK Government for Levelling Up, which constitu…
Co‐curation
There is a growing trend across the social sciences to engage with archives. Within human geography, this has stimulated a debate about the nature of archives, including moving from considering ‘archive as source’ to ‘archive as subject.’ We build on and extend this thinking, suggesting that an even more active appreciation of the dynamic nature of relationships between researchers, owners of records, and archival material is needed. This paper d…
Mobilising Voluntary Action in the UK
Mobilising Voluntary Action in the UK
Mobilising Voluntary Action in the UK
This book provides an overview of the constraints and opportunities of mobilising voluntary action across the four UK nations during the pandemic. Sector experts and academics examine the divergent voluntary action policy frameworks adopted, the state and non-state supported volunteer responses, the changes in the profile of volunteers and the plans to sustain their involvement. This book addresses the urgent policy and practice need for evidence…
Handbook of Research on Remote Work and Worker Well-Being in the Post-Covid-19 Era
This chapter examines the industrial relations and workplace challenges associated with increasing remote work in Australia. First, the chapter reports on responses obtained from 11 in-depth interviews with human resource and industrial relations practitioners to assess the support and barriers for continuing and or increasing the uptake of remote work post COVID-19. It then examines the Australian industrial relations framework to determine its …
Life Course Approach
Quantitative and qualitative human geographers employ the concept of the life course to study chronological age along with nondeterministic conceptualizations of age. The approach has been especially used to understand the lives of children, young people, and older people. Greater attention has been paid to examining women's lives than men's, though life course approaches have also been used to understand “coupledom” (primarily of heterosexual co…
Retirement migration, the ‘other’ story
Recent years have seen a growth in research on retirement/lifestyle migration to Spain, however this has tended to focus on the reasons for moving, as well as the lifestyles adopted as part of a healthy and active retirement. However, ageing in Spain can bring challenges as a person's resources for independent living diminish. This paper draws on narrative interviews with vulnerable older British people in Spain, focusing on those who have encoun…
Researching the Lifecourse
Researching the Lifecourse features methods linking time, space and mobilities, and provides practitioners with practical detail in each chapter. It covers the full lifecourse and includes innovative methods and case study examples from different European and North American contexts.
Researching the Lifecourse
Researching the Lifecourse
Researching the lifecourse
Researching the lifecourse
Researching the Lifecourse
Researching the Lifecourse
Divergent geographies of policy and practice? Voluntarism and devolution in England, Scotland and Wales
Across Great Britain, engagement with civil society is an increasingly central component of public policy and governance rhetoric. However, attention has tended to focus on policy developments emanating from Westminster that relate to England, rather than the policy and governance 'spaces' emerging in the devolved administrations, such as Scotland and Wales. It has also tended to focus on the organisations through which voluntary participation ta…
Faith-Based Organizations and Exclusion in European Cities
Journal Article Faith-Based Organizations and Exclusion in European Cities Get access Faith-Based Organizations and Exclusion in European Cities. Edited by Justin Beaumont and Paul Cloke . Bristol: Policy Press, 2012. 287pp. £70.00. Irene Hardill Irene Hardill Centre forCivil Society and CitizenshipNorthumbria UniversityNewcastle, United Kingdom [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Knowledge mobilisation and the social sciences
The social sciences hold the potential to help interpret and address the complex challenges confronting society. The impact agenda actively encourages the social sciences to make and demonstrate a difference; to justify and protect social science funding. Knowledge mobilisation (KM) can be thought of systematically as a process, encompassing the co-production and channelling of knowledge that can enable the social sciences to gain purchase and vo…
Enlivening evidence-based policy through embodiment and emotions
Evidence-based policy and practice tends to operate on a belief that knowledge is obtained through objective observation and reasoning, leading to ‘rational decision-making’. But the work of producing such knowledge is typically more ‘messy’, more iterative and more non-linear; features of the knowledge production process only made more pronounced by imperatives such as co-production. Just over a decade ago Smith and Anderson traced out a positio…
Staying connected
Spatialities of ageing
Introduction
Social and caring services are provided in developed economies by statutory bodies, the market, the household and the voluntary sector in combinations that vary across time and place. This themed section is about the enrolment of the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) to achieve government agenda, including improved public services, community empowerment and building social capital. Mainstreaming of the VCS has profound implications for individ…
Spatialities of ageing
Who Decides What? Decision Making in Dual-Career Households
Retirement migration, the ‘other’ story
Recent years have seen a growth in research on retirement/lifestyle migration to Spain, however this has tended to focus on the reasons for moving, as well as the lifestyles adopted as part of a healthy and active retirement. However, ageing in Spain can bring challenges as a person's resources for independent living diminish. This paper draws on narrative interviews with vulnerable older British people in Spain, focusing on those who have encoun…
Skilled International Migration
HARDILL I. and MACDONALD S. (2000) Skilled international migration: the experience of nurses in the UK, Reg. Studies 34, 681-692. This paper reports on a study of the most feminized of professions, nursing. Current shortages of nurses within the UK National Health Service (NHS) have resulted in the recruitment of increasing numbers of overseas-qualified nurses. The study is based on the biographies of overseas-qualified nurses, obtained through i…
Gender perspectives on British expatriate work
Remote working—altering the spatial contours of work and home in the new economy
The temporal pattern of work has changed in its daily, weekly and monthly rhythms, but so has the ‘spatiality’ of work: for some paid work is undertaken at home, or in cyberspace. Telecommuting can be used to ‘improve’ the lifestyles of long distance weekly commuters and their families
Severe health and social care issues among British migrants who retire to Spain
In recent years, there has been a growth in academic interest in international retirement migration in Europe, particularly north-south retirement migration to destinations like Spain. In this paper we focus on those members of the British community who have lived in Spain for a considerable time and for whom familial, social and institutional ties with Britain are weak or disrupted. Age Concern España was established by members of the British co…
Staying connected
Choosing to relocate
At Least I Can Do Something’
The voluntary sector has been mainstreamed into public policy with consequences that include more reliance upon the time, commitment and skills of volunteers. In many policy initiatives to combat social exclusion, volunteering is cast as a form of self-improvement and re-training for the workforce. Qualitative research in a disadvantaged community, however, uncovered the persistence of more traditional forms of volunteering associated with mutual…
Volunteering for all? Explaining patterns of volunteering and identifying strategies to promote it
In policy terms in the UK, as elsewhere, volunteering has become increasingly associated with training for the workplace; a view which offers little to individuals ‘beyond’ the labour market because of age, disability or care commitments. Applying a neo-Durkheimian framework to a study of volunteers we examine how far the patterns of volunteering can be explained by the underlying institutional factors of strong and weak social regulation and soc…
Transnational living and moving experiences
In this paper I use household biographies to extend the discussion of transnational living and working by linking transnationalism with writings on the new economy. I specifically focus on some of the ways in which transnational spatial mobility impacts on the production and reproduction of daily life for a subset of transnational élites, heterosexual dual‐career households who are currently living in Canada, the US and the UK. Combining career d…
Divergent geographies of policy and practice? Voluntarism and devolution in England, Scotland and Wales
Across Great Britain, engagement with civil society is an increasingly central component of public policy and governance rhetoric. However, attention has tended to focus on policy developments emanating from Westminster that relate to England, rather than the policy and governance 'spaces' emerging in the devolved administrations, such as Scotland and Wales. It has also tended to focus on the organisations through which voluntary participation ta…
Promoting social inclusion? The impact of village services on the lives of older people living in rural England
Drawing on data from a qualitative study, this paper explores the impact of ‘village services’ on the lives of people aged 70 or more years living in rural England. Throughout the paper, the phrase ‘village services’ refers to six community-based services and activities provided to help meet the needs of older rural residents, namely lunch clubs, welfare rights information and advice services, befriending schemes and community warden support, in …
Enlivening evidence-based policy through embodiment and emotions
Evidence-based policy and practice tends to operate on a belief that knowledge is obtained through objective observation and reasoning, leading to ‘rational decision-making’. But the work of producing such knowledge is typically more ‘messy’, more iterative and more non-linear; features of the knowledge production process only made more pronounced by imperatives such as co-production. Just over a decade ago Smith and Anderson traced out a positio…
Delivering Public Services in the Mixed Economy of Welfare
The voluntary and community sector in England is playing an increasingly important role in the delivery of public services to older adults and in doing so they rely on unpaid volunteers. In this article, we draw on the findings of a recent qualitative study of the impact on the voluntary and community sector of delivering 'low-level' public services that promote independent living and wellbeing in old age. The fieldwork focused on services that h…
Breaking the Overton Window
Co-production has emerged as one of the key concepts in understanding knowledge-policy interactions and is associated with involvement, for example, of users of public services in their design and delivery. At a time of permacrisis, the need for transformative evidence-based policymaking is urgent and great. This is particularly important in highly distressed 'left-behind' communities targeted by the UK Government for Levelling Up, which constitu…
Knowledge mobilisation and the social sciences
The social sciences hold the potential to help interpret and address the complex challenges confronting society. The impact agenda actively encourages the social sciences to make and demonstrate a difference; to justify and protect social science funding. Knowledge mobilisation (KM) can be thought of systematically as a process, encompassing the co-production and channelling of knowledge that can enable the social sciences to gain purchase and vo…
Introduction
Social and caring services are provided in developed economies by statutory bodies, the market, the household and the voluntary sector in combinations that vary across time and place. This themed section is about the enrolment of the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) to achieve government agenda, including improved public services, community empowerment and building social capital. Mainstreaming of the VCS has profound implications for individ…
Managing’ Reductions in Working Hours
This paper, which is predicated on the view that reductions in work-time are generally desirable, explores the working hours of managers and professionals in UK industry. Managers and professionals are often grouped together in empirical and theoretical work, e.g. in the literature on the professional-managerial class, and Goldthorpe's ‘Service Class’. Nevertheless, there are differences: professionals, historically, are autonomous workers; the r…
Diasporic connections
In this paper, we use a case‐study approach in order to explore the ways in which diasporic connections are being used by four Asian 1 businesswomen who serve an emerging niche market for clothing, which is defined by class and gender
The ‘blurring of boundaries’ between ‘work’ and ‘home’
This article seeks to contribute to the debate surrounding the temporal and spatial ‘blurring of boundaries’ between ‘home’ and ‘work’ by presenting selected results from an empirical study of dual career households in the East Midlands relating to the ‘temporal’ and ‘spatial’ strategies adopted by individuals and households for managing the demands of ‘paid work careers’ and ‘household careers’
Co‐curation
There is a growing trend across the social sciences to engage with archives. Within human geography, this has stimulated a debate about the nature of archives, including moving from considering ‘archive as source’ to ‘archive as subject.’ We build on and extend this thinking, suggesting that an even more active appreciation of the dynamic nature of relationships between researchers, owners of records, and archival material is needed. This paper d…
Spatial peripheries, social peripheries
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to seek to conribute to debates on disadvantage and social exclusion by examining the evolution of the concept of “periphery”, with specific reference to Paris. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on research undertaken on the “suburbs” of Paris in order to highlight some of the socio‐spatial dimensions of social exclusion. Findings The notion of periphery has evolved from being a purely spatial concep…
Faith-Based Voluntary Action
Following legal changes in the 1980s, the Voluntary and Community sector/économie sociale in France has become culturally diverse as faith-based organisations serving minority ethnic communities have developed, including charities inspired by religious and cultural principles of charitable giving. In this article, we use a case study of a social welfare charity established in a Parisian suburb with a culturally diverse population. Worldwide socia…
A research note
Here the authors examine the role of computer networks on organisations engaged in textile and clothing manufacture. The results reveal that companies with a computer network performed significantly better than those without, both in terms of growth in employment and return on sales over the period 1985–87
Technology, entrepreneurship and company performance in textile and clothing SMEs
This article examines the relationship between technology, entrepreneurial human capital and company performance in a sample of textile and clothing SMEs in Great Britain. General conclusions suggest that firms with a computer network are more likely to have a formal management team. Networked firms appear to be larger: smaller companies are making increasing use of computer networks
The ‘blurring of boundaries’ between ‘work’ and ‘home’
This article seeks to contribute to the debate surrounding the temporal and spatial ‘blurring of boundaries’ between ‘home’ and ‘work’ by presenting selected results from an empirical study of dual career households in the East Midlands relating to the ‘temporal’ and ‘spatial’ strategies adopted by individuals and households for managing the demands of ‘paid work careers’ and ‘household careers’
Who Decides What? Decision Making in Dual-Career Households
Choosing to relocate
Negotiating a market
Gender perspectives on British expatriate work
Diasporic connections
In this paper, we use a case‐study approach in order to explore the ways in which diasporic connections are being used by four Asian 1 businesswomen who serve an emerging niche market for clothing, which is defined by class and gender
Targeted small firms policies
Skilled International Migration
HARDILL I. and MACDONALD S. (2000) Skilled international migration: the experience of nurses in the UK, Reg. Studies 34, 681-692. This paper reports on a study of the most feminized of professions, nursing. Current shortages of nurses within the UK National Health Service (NHS) have resulted in the recruitment of increasing numbers of overseas-qualified nurses. The study is based on the biographies of overseas-qualified nurses, obtained through i…
Gender, Migration and the Dual Career Household
This book explores the gender issues associated with international migration in dual career households. Adopting a feminist approach, the author links research in economics, sociology, management and business and human geography to explore post-industrial managerial and professional careers. Particular emphasis is placed on the way in which social mobility and spatial mobility are entwined. The author explores the location and mobility decisions …
Remote working—altering the spatial contours of work and home in the new economy
The temporal pattern of work has changed in its daily, weekly and monthly rhythms, but so has the ‘spatiality’ of work: for some paid work is undertaken at home, or in cyberspace. Telecommuting can be used to ‘improve’ the lifestyles of long distance weekly commuters and their families
Transnational living and moving experiences
In this paper I use household biographies to extend the discussion of transnational living and working by linking transnationalism with writings on the new economy. I specifically focus on some of the ways in which transnational spatial mobility impacts on the production and reproduction of daily life for a subset of transnational élites, heterosexual dual‐career households who are currently living in Canada, the US and the UK. Combining career d…
Severe health and social care issues among British migrants who retire to Spain
In recent years, there has been a growth in academic interest in international retirement migration in Europe, particularly north-south retirement migration to destinations like Spain. In this paper we focus on those members of the British community who have lived in Spain for a considerable time and for whom familial, social and institutional ties with Britain are weak or disrupted. Age Concern España was established by members of the British co…
Introduction
Spatial peripheries, social peripheries
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to seek to conribute to debates on disadvantage and social exclusion by examining the evolution of the concept of “periphery”, with specific reference to Paris. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on research undertaken on the “suburbs” of Paris in order to highlight some of the socio‐spatial dimensions of social exclusion. Findings The notion of periphery has evolved from being a purely spatial concep…
Volunteering for all? Explaining patterns of volunteering and identifying strategies to promote it
In policy terms in the UK, as elsewhere, volunteering has become increasingly associated with training for the workplace; a view which offers little to individuals ‘beyond’ the labour market because of age, disability or care commitments. Applying a neo-Durkheimian framework to a study of volunteers we examine how far the patterns of volunteering can be explained by the underlying institutional factors of strong and weak social regulation and soc…
At Least I Can Do Something’
The voluntary sector has been mainstreamed into public policy with consequences that include more reliance upon the time, commitment and skills of volunteers. In many policy initiatives to combat social exclusion, volunteering is cast as a form of self-improvement and re-training for the workforce. Qualitative research in a disadvantaged community, however, uncovered the persistence of more traditional forms of volunteering associated with mutual…
Paris and fashion
Purpose Towards the end of the nineteenth century Paris was the global capital of art and fashion. Today it remains a key hub in the global cultural economy. Male and female artists/designers develop new products and production techniques and marketing techniques are used to gain an international reputation. The top designers are embedded in a supportive milieu of cooperative competition, where ideas are exchanged and resources accessed. The purp…
Introduction
Social and caring services are provided in developed economies by statutory bodies, the market, the household and the voluntary sector in combinations that vary across time and place. This themed section is about the enrolment of the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) to achieve government agenda, including improved public services, community empowerment and building social capital. Mainstreaming of the VCS has profound implications for individ…
Faith-Based Voluntary Action
Following legal changes in the 1980s, the Voluntary and Community sector/économie sociale in France has become culturally diverse as faith-based organisations serving minority ethnic communities have developed, including charities inspired by religious and cultural principles of charitable giving. In this article, we use a case study of a social welfare charity established in a Parisian suburb with a culturally diverse population. Worldwide socia…
Managing’ Reductions in Working Hours
This paper, which is predicated on the view that reductions in work-time are generally desirable, explores the working hours of managers and professionals in UK industry. Managers and professionals are often grouped together in empirical and theoretical work, e.g. in the literature on the professional-managerial class, and Goldthorpe's ‘Service Class’. Nevertheless, there are differences: professionals, historically, are autonomous workers; the r…
Promoting social inclusion? The impact of village services on the lives of older people living in rural England
Drawing on data from a qualitative study, this paper explores the impact of ‘village services’ on the lives of people aged 70 or more years living in rural England. Throughout the paper, the phrase ‘village services’ refers to six community-based services and activities provided to help meet the needs of older rural residents, namely lunch clubs, welfare rights information and advice services, befriending schemes and community warden support, in …
Delivering Public Services in the Mixed Economy of Welfare
The voluntary and community sector in England is playing an increasingly important role in the delivery of public services to older adults and in doing so they rely on unpaid volunteers. In this article, we draw on the findings of a recent qualitative study of the impact on the voluntary and community sector of delivering 'low-level' public services that promote independent living and wellbeing in old age. The fieldwork focused on services that h…
Staying connected
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