Louise Isham

Dados Biográficos

ID381464
NOMELouise Isham
PRENOMESLouise
SOBRENOMEIsham
ASSINATURAISHAM L
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Birmingham
ORCID0000-0002-3660-1073
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS15
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES5
TOTAL COMO AUTOR15
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2018
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • Social workers’ experiences of working with older adults affected by abuse and violence

    Open AccessLouise Isham, Amy Adams et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Work2026

    There is growing recognition that older adults may be affected by violence, abuse and harmful behavior within intimate and family relationships and that people who work with affected families play an important role fostering (or inhibiting) older adults’ processes of disclosure or help-seeking. This article reports a scoping review of empirical studies that investigated how social workers experience their work with older adults affected by abuse …

  • Spanning boundaries or plugging gaps

    Open AccessLouise Isham, Clare Gunby et al.ARTICLEJournal of Gender-Based Violence2026

    The specialist voluntary sector (SVS) provides distinctive and much-valued support to victim-survivors of sexual violence. Nevertheless, in England as in other countries, the funding and commissioning landscape in which SVS services are situated is complex and frequently characterised as fragmented and uncertain. In turn, this context unsettles, and sometimes threatens, SVS services’ unique ways of working and their long-term sustainability. Draw…

  • Teaching note

    Open AccessLouise Isham, Kelly Tighe et al.ARTICLESocial Work Education2025Referências: 19

    Social work skills such as the ability to reflect on self and to recognize and manage emotions are fostered in part through using and receiving feedback, however there is limited research about feedback methods that effectively enable social work students and post-qualifying workers to engage with the emotional aspects of learning and feedback. This teaching note reports on a pilot project in which video feedback on academic assignments was provi…

  • Carer harm

    Open AccessSimon Donnelly, Louise Isham et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Adult Protection2025Referências: 1

    Purpose The purpose of this study is to consider how carer harm is understood, surfaced and responded to in contemporary policy, practice and research. Design/methodology/approach This paper offers a reflective commentary on the current “state of play” relating to carer harm drawing on existing research and related literature. This study focuses on how we define carer harm and what we know about its impact; lessons from, and for, practice and ser…

  • The Scope, Range and Use of Voluntary Sector Specialist Sexual Violence Services in England

    Open AccessCaroline Bradbury-Jones, Sarah Damery et al.ARTICLEHealth & Social Care in the…2025Referências: 1

    Sexual violence is a global problem with significant individual and societal health and social costs. Services that support victim‐survivors of sexual violence across a range of sectors are crucial. This study investigated the scope, range, funding and commissioning of voluntary sector specialist (VSS) sexual violence services in England and victim‐survivors’ experiences of using such services. The specialist voluntary sector plays a pivotal role…

  • Working the Edge

    Open AccessClare Gunby, Louise Isham et al.ARTICLEViolence Against Women2024Referências: 5

    The specialist voluntary sector plays a crucial role in supporting survivors of sexual violence. However, in England, short-term funding underpins the sector's financial stability. This article examines sector leaders' ways of coping, resisting and being affected by funding practices. Using the concept of edgework, we show how funding and commissioning dynamics push individuals to the edge of service sustainability, job satisfaction, and emotiona…

  • The “Neglected” Relationship Between Child Maltreatment and Oral Health? An International Scoping Review of Research

    Open AccessCaroline Bradbury-Jones, Louise Isham et al.ARTICLETrauma Violence & Abuse2021

    Globally, the oral health needs of children who have, or are suspected of having, experienced abuse or neglect has become a focus of concern. It is thus valuable and timely to map the contemporary nature of the research landscape in this expanding field. This review reports the findings of a scoping review of the international empirical literature. The aim was to explore the relationship between child maltreatment and oral health and how this com…

  • Scoping reviews

    Caroline Bradbury-Jones, Helen Aveyard et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2021Citada por: 1Referências: 2

    Literature reviews generally analyse and synthesis the evidence (or lack thereof) in a particular topic area and they are an increasingly popular form of scholarly activity. The scoping review is a popular literature review approach that has been adopted across the social and health sciences over the last fifteen years. With this upsurge in use, differences of opinion about how to analyse and report scoping reviews has also grown. Drawing on work…

  • This is Still All about Love’

    Open AccessLouise Isham, Caroline Bradbury-Jones et al.ARTICLEThe British Journal of Social Work2021Citada por: 1Referências: 35

    This article explores a hidden and under-acknowledged dimension of caring in family life: when older people with care needs act in a harmful, abusive or violent way towards the family member(s) who cares for them. Thirty-eight health and social care professionals, working in the UK, took part in five focus groups to explore their experience of working with families in this situation. The group discussions were stimulated by vignettes developed fr…

  • The pandemic paradox

    Open AccessCaroline Bradbury-Jones, Caroline Bradbury‐Jones et al.ARTICLEJournal of Clinical Nursing2020

  • Female family carers’ experiences of violent, abusive or harmful behaviour by the older person for whom they care

    Open AccessLouise Isham, Caroline Bradbury-Jones et al.ARTICLESociology of Health & Illness2020

    Family carers affected by violent, abusive or harmful behaviour by the older person for whom they care face social and epistemic challenges in developing and sharing knowledge about their experiences. These difficulties have contributed to a situation in which there is a paucity of evidence and public discourse about how we understand violence and harm instigated by people who have care needs or are ‘vulnerable’. This paper reports the findings o…

  • Sexual violence and Covid-19

    Clare Gunby, Louise Isham et al.ARTICLEJournal of Gender-Based Violence2020

    In this article, we reflect on the framing of violence against women in mainstream media in the UK, and some policy documents and guidance, in the first four weeks of the COVID-19 induced lockdown. In so doing, we consider the implications associated with the frequent failure to acknowledge sexual violence as a unique, and discrete, element of violence against women. Amid a context of overshadowing and absence, we also raise for debate (and recog…

  • When Older People Are Violent or Abusive Toward Their Family Caregiver

    Open AccessLouise Isham, Alistair Hewison et al.ARTICLETrauma Violence & Abuse2019

    What happens when family caregivers experience violence and abuse from the older person for whom they care? Although this issue has received little global attention, it is relevant to researchers, practitioners, and policy makers working across the intersecting fields of older age care and medicine, adult protection and safeguarding, and domestic and intimate partner violence. To date, these fields have generated diverse explanations of violence …

  • The complexities and contradictions in participatory research with vulnerable children and young people

    Open AccessCaroline Bradbury-Jones, Louise Isham et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2018

  • Reflections on engaging with an advisory network in the context of a ‘sensitive’ research study

    Louise Isham, Caroline Bradbury-Jones et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2018Citada por: 3Referências: 14

    This article surfaces issues about the often-used but widely under-reported practice of working with advisory fora. We critically reflect on our experiences working with an advisory network when co-designing a research study about a ‘sensitive’ subject. We discuss the following: 1) How the network evolved as a matter of ethical and pragmatic choices; 2) Potential issues when discussing sensitive issues ‘outside’ of the participatory or participan…