Stephen Bigg
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 78481 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Stephen Bigg |
| PRENOMES | Stephen |
| SOBRENOME | Bigg |
| ASSINATURA | BIGG S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Keele University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4388-1886 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 122 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
From the margins to the centre
For decades, Australia’s education system has failed Indigenous students. This paper contends that nearly 40 years of policy initiatives have targeted the wrong problem. The core issue is not the absence of Indigenous content or cultural awareness, but an inherited educational architecture structurally incapable of serving diverse learners. We propose leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) explicitly aligned with the cultural interface—the dynam…
All Watched Over by Our Data Double
The term data double denotes information generated by and collected from users of networked communications to construct relational databases in marketing and other domains. Each subject (user) of this surveillance-panoptical system inevitably informs and objectifies all other subjects. Social media experiences are based on our continuously “tracked” engagement. Surveillance functions across written and spoken language, biometrics, geolocation, an…
The Dancer in the Machine
The Dancer in the Machine
Introduction
Spectra 2018, presented by the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) in collaboration with the University of South Australia and Experimenta Media Arts, surveyed the current array of art-science practice and research across Australasia and interrogated the impact of inter- and transdisciplinary research and practice upon the arts, sciences and individual practices involved.The Adelaide event consisted of a peer-reviewed symposium, a cu…
Exiting the Comfort Zone
The 1970s and early 1980s saw the emergence of the microcomputer and the domain of personal computing. Within that context, some artists were working with such digital systems, contributing to these developments in various ways. This article reflects upon one such artist’s involvement in these developments and how his initial interest in computational processes allowed him to explore a series of formal concerns, and how this then evolved into an …
Work, health and the commodification of life's time
How to respond to an ageing society has become an increasingly important question, for employers, workers and policy makers. Here we critically engage with that debate, arguing that future approaches to the relationship between work and age should take into account multiple influences on older worker behaviour, including the combination of economic, lifecourse and personal priorities. We consider the international consensus that has emerged about…
Spiritual perspectives of Black Caribbean and White British older adults
Spirituality is positively linked to health and well-being in later life, particularly among older adults of black ethnic groups. However, definitions of spirituality in the literature have largely been theoretically informed, rather than based on the views of older people themselves. We examined the spiritual perspectives of Black Caribbean and White British older adults based on in-depth interviews with 34 individuals aged between 60 and 95 yea…
The Politics of International Assessments
This paper explores the career of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge Science and Technology and Development (IAASTD) from its inception, the publishing of its reports, and its place in ongoing debates on global agriculture, food security, poverty reduction, social equity and sustainable development. We highlight the disputes and disruptions that characterize the IAASTD process and attempts to marginalize its findings. Followin…
Rethinking theoretical and methodological issues in intergenerational family relations research
This paper introduces some key theoretical and methodological developments in the study of intergenerational family relations. It draws on observations that a number of social issues are emerging that have an intergenerational dimension, that there is growing recognition that to study adult ageing one has also to study intergenerational relationships, and that a new architecture for social relations is beginning to take shape in the wake of demog…
Exploring generational intelligence as a model for examining the process of intergenerational relationships
The purpose of this article is to examine an emerging model of intergenerational relationships that takes as its starting point the degree to which it is possible to place oneself in the position of a person of another age, the ‘age-other’. The paper explores an experiential approach that draws on both sociological thinking on ‘generational consciousness’ and a debate in family gerontology on the relationships between conflict, solidarity and amb…
Defining elder mistreatment
This paper critically reflects upon policy and research definitions of elder mistreatment in light of the findings of the United Kingdom Study of Abuse and Neglect of Older People that was commissioned by Comic Relief with co-funding from the Department of Health. The study uniquely comprised a national survey and follow-up qualitative research with survey respondents. This paper focuses on the findings of the qualitative component. One focus is …
Institutional change
This article argues that the managerial approaches to development need to be reconstituted through a more comprehensive understanding of how institutional and behavioural change processes occur. Drawing from a case study in Nepal, and by exploring the largely unintended consequences of project actions, this article argues for viewing change as a complex social phenomenon based on people's interests, motivations, relationships, and actions that ar…
Participatory technology development in agricultural mechanisation in Nepal
International Wheat and Maize Improvement Center (CIMMYT) projects on new resource-conservation technologies (RCTs) in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of Nepal aimed to strengthen equity of access, poverty reduction, and gender orientation in current rural mechanisation processes – more specifically, to promote machine-based resource conservation and drudgery-reduction technologies among smallholder farmers. These projects, together with other projects …
The lost 1990s? Personal reflections on a history of participatory technology development
This article traces a history of agricultural participatory research, largely from the author's personal experience. Participatory research in the 1970s was mostly led by disciplinary scientists, and characterised by innovative activities and open academic debate, with some recognition that policy and development practice was a political process. The 1980s saw a shift to learning from past experience, and a participatory mainstream developed, see…
Housing and care for older people
Retirement communities are a relatively new long-term accommodation and care option in the United Kingdom. Policy makers and providers endorse the proposition that they are suited for the accommodation of both ‘fit’ and ‘frail’ older people, although comparatively little is known about what it is actually like to live in such communities, about whether they cater adequately for older people with a wide spectrum of needs and abilities, or if they …
Memory maps in interactive dance environments
This essay explores current research by the authors into dance in interactive mediated spaces. This text seeks to articulate the thematics underlying the creative thinking in the work and the technical and methodological aspects of how it is being developed and realiszed. This research develops out of previous collaborations between Sue Hawksley and Simon Biggs involving dance performance and interactive visual art, as well as other collaboration…
Making Material Culture
The authors present their collaborative investigation into the creative applications of liquid crystal elastomers. They explore the process of making these new materials as well as the question of how artists and scientists can work together to develop new materials and to use them in artistic or architectural applications
Ageing, technologies of self and bio‐medicine
This paper unravels the conceptual and theoretical insights of Foucault’s later work on technologies of self in order to understand Bio‐medicine which impinges on the social construction of ageing. The article attempts to show how Foucault’s theoretical insights allows scholars of sociology and social policy to provide a critical appraisal of ageing. The paper also examines the relationship between ageing and self‐care in three contextual domains…
Dangerous Intersections. Feminism, Population and the Environment
Lifestyles of belief
This paper examines the culture and narratives occurring in a purpose-built retirement community. It is argued that in order to understand the effects that such a community can have on wellbeing, it is necessary to analyse the interaction of a variety of interweaving narratives used to sustain a secure micro-cultural base. These narratives include formal representations, daily life as experienced by tenants and imaginative associations within com…
Mature imaginations
This paper critically assesses the portrayal of late life development in psychoanalysis and the wider psychodynamic tradition. Attention is drawn to the importance of this tradition both as a vehicle for personal change and as a cultural phenomenon in its own right. An analysis of historical trends indicates successive phases of accommodation to the practice of psychotherapy with mature adults, moving from a view that older people made unsuitable…
Choosing Not To Be Old? Masks, Bodies and Identity Management in Later Life
This paper critically assesses an increasing use of mask motifs to examine questions of identity in later life. Two approaches are subjected to detailed analysis, both of which propose distinctive answers to the challenge to identity management emerging from high or post modernity. First, consideration is given to a postmodern ‘mask of ageing’ (Featherstone and Hepworth 1989), key elements of which include consumer culture and the ageing body. Se…
A family concern
The recognition of elder abuse is a relatively new phenomenon in British contexts. This paper charts the development of a social policy response by placing it within its historical context. Previous policy toward older age has focused on dependency and self-neglect. Government concern about the erosion of family values and implementation of the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act have led to elder abuse being seen as a problem of informal care within…
Social Theory, Social Policy and Ageing
Residential Mobility in London
The Tiebout model, which theorizes that residential choice can regulate the supply of local collective goods, has generated much criticism, but few empirical tests of its behavioural assumptions. The article presents the findings of the first British micro-level test of the effect of local taxes and services on geographical mobility, a postal survey of households' moving decisions in four London boroughs during the years of the poll tax. Taxes an…
Choosing Not To Be Old? Masks, Bodies and Identity Management in Later Life
This paper critically assesses an increasing use of mask motifs to examine questions of identity in later life. Two approaches are subjected to detailed analysis, both of which propose distinctive answers to the challenge to identity management emerging from high or post modernity. First, consideration is given to a postmodern ‘mask of ageing’ (Featherstone and Hepworth 1989), key elements of which include consumer culture and the ageing body. Se…
Lifestyles of belief
This paper examines the culture and narratives occurring in a purpose-built retirement community. It is argued that in order to understand the effects that such a community can have on wellbeing, it is necessary to analyse the interaction of a variety of interweaving narratives used to sustain a secure micro-cultural base. These narratives include formal representations, daily life as experienced by tenants and imaginative associations within com…
Housing and care for older people
Retirement communities are a relatively new long-term accommodation and care option in the United Kingdom. Policy makers and providers endorse the proposition that they are suited for the accommodation of both ‘fit’ and ‘frail’ older people, although comparatively little is known about what it is actually like to live in such communities, about whether they cater adequately for older people with a wide spectrum of needs and abilities, or if they …
Exploring generational intelligence as a model for examining the process of intergenerational relationships
The purpose of this article is to examine an emerging model of intergenerational relationships that takes as its starting point the degree to which it is possible to place oneself in the position of a person of another age, the ‘age-other’. The paper explores an experiential approach that draws on both sociological thinking on ‘generational consciousness’ and a debate in family gerontology on the relationships between conflict, solidarity and amb…
Professional Helpers and Resistances to Work with Older People
Resistances to empathy with older service users are outlined, drawn primarily from Jungian psychology. It is suggested that lack of a helper's personal experience of old age allows disproportionate influence to be played by archetypal intrapsychic processes. These are augmented by helpers perceptions of a negative personal future and a tendency either to ignore the age appropriate projects of older persons or replace them with those appropriate f…
Work, health and the commodification of life's time
How to respond to an ageing society has become an increasingly important question, for employers, workers and policy makers. Here we critically engage with that debate, arguing that future approaches to the relationship between work and age should take into account multiple influences on older worker behaviour, including the combination of economic, lifecourse and personal priorities. We consider the international consensus that has emerged about…
Defining elder mistreatment
This paper critically reflects upon policy and research definitions of elder mistreatment in light of the findings of the United Kingdom Study of Abuse and Neglect of Older People that was commissioned by Comic Relief with co-funding from the Department of Health. The study uniquely comprised a national survey and follow-up qualitative research with survey respondents. This paper focuses on the findings of the qualitative component. One focus is …
A family concern
The recognition of elder abuse is a relatively new phenomenon in British contexts. This paper charts the development of a social policy response by placing it within its historical context. Previous policy toward older age has focused on dependency and self-neglect. Government concern about the erosion of family values and implementation of the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act have led to elder abuse being seen as a problem of informal care within…
Rethinking theoretical and methodological issues in intergenerational family relations research
This paper introduces some key theoretical and methodological developments in the study of intergenerational family relations. It draws on observations that a number of social issues are emerging that have an intergenerational dimension, that there is growing recognition that to study adult ageing one has also to study intergenerational relationships, and that a new architecture for social relations is beginning to take shape in the wake of demog…
Ageing, technologies of self and bio‐medicine
This paper unravels the conceptual and theoretical insights of Foucault’s later work on technologies of self in order to understand Bio‐medicine which impinges on the social construction of ageing. The article attempts to show how Foucault’s theoretical insights allows scholars of sociology and social policy to provide a critical appraisal of ageing. The paper also examines the relationship between ageing and self‐care in three contextual domains…
The Politics of International Assessments
This paper explores the career of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge Science and Technology and Development (IAASTD) from its inception, the publishing of its reports, and its place in ongoing debates on global agriculture, food security, poverty reduction, social equity and sustainable development. We highlight the disputes and disruptions that characterize the IAASTD process and attempts to marginalize its findings. Followin…
Local Authority Registration Staff and the Boundary Between Public and Private Sector Care
This paper considers the role of local authority registration staff who hold a key boundary position between public and private welfare systems. It outlines a background of structural changes in British welfare, its influence on the roles and pressures created in local authority welfare bureaucracies and some results in terms of participation by service users. These developments are reflected in a change of focus from content to boundary negotiat…
Spiritual perspectives of Black Caribbean and White British older adults
Spirituality is positively linked to health and well-being in later life, particularly among older adults of black ethnic groups. However, definitions of spirituality in the literature have largely been theoretically informed, rather than based on the views of older people themselves. We examined the spiritual perspectives of Black Caribbean and White British older adults based on in-depth interviews with 34 individuals aged between 60 and 95 yea…
The lost 1990s? Personal reflections on a history of participatory technology development
This article traces a history of agricultural participatory research, largely from the author's personal experience. Participatory research in the 1970s was mostly led by disciplinary scientists, and characterised by innovative activities and open academic debate, with some recognition that policy and development practice was a political process. The 1980s saw a shift to learning from past experience, and a participatory mainstream developed, see…
Consumers, case management and inspection
New legisation on Community Care has been proposed by the Conserv ative Government because it supposedly increases consumer choice and a flexible response to social need. However, a critical analysis of the two mechanisms for change, cave-management and 'arms-length' invection reveal tendencies in both that distance and obscure pressure to respond to service users and social problems
Quality of care and the growth of private welfare for old people
The Me I See
Videofeedback is compared with daily experience in order to clarify the insight that this medium can give. The theoreticalframework which resulted is specifically related to the video experience rather than assimilating it into concepts designed to cope with other problems. Essentially, a viewer is seen as being similar to an actor in terms of access to memories and similar to an observer in terms of direct access to behavioral evidence, but shou…
Video‐feedback and personal attribution in anorexic, depressed and normal viewers
Video‐feedback has been shown to be particularly influential in changing bodily awareness and causal attribution by confronting participants with a concrete ‘public’ self‐image. Body‐image disturbance and denial are major aspects of patients suffering with anorexia nervosa. It was predicted that video‐feedback should alter these attitudes in this group and result in a more realistic self‐appraisal. Anorexics respond to video‐feedback with a reduc…
Quality of care and the growth of private welfare for old people
Local Authority Registration Staff and the Boundary Between Public and Private Sector Care
This paper considers the role of local authority registration staff who hold a key boundary position between public and private welfare systems. It outlines a background of structural changes in British welfare, its influence on the roles and pressures created in local authority welfare bureaucracies and some results in terms of participation by service users. These developments are reflected in a change of focus from content to boundary negotiat…
Professional Helpers and Resistances to Work with Older People
Resistances to empathy with older service users are outlined, drawn primarily from Jungian psychology. It is suggested that lack of a helper's personal experience of old age allows disproportionate influence to be played by archetypal intrapsychic processes. These are augmented by helpers perceptions of a negative personal future and a tendency either to ignore the age appropriate projects of older persons or replace them with those appropriate f…
Consumers, case management and inspection
New legisation on Community Care has been proposed by the Conserv ative Government because it supposedly increases consumer choice and a flexible response to social need. However, a critical analysis of the two mechanisms for change, cave-management and 'arms-length' invection reveal tendencies in both that distance and obscure pressure to respond to service users and social problems
Residential Mobility in London
The Tiebout model, which theorizes that residential choice can regulate the supply of local collective goods, has generated much criticism, but few empirical tests of its behavioural assumptions. The article presents the findings of the first British micro-level test of the effect of local taxes and services on geographical mobility, a postal survey of households' moving decisions in four London boroughs during the years of the poll tax. Taxes an…
A family concern
The recognition of elder abuse is a relatively new phenomenon in British contexts. This paper charts the development of a social policy response by placing it within its historical context. Previous policy toward older age has focused on dependency and self-neglect. Government concern about the erosion of family values and implementation of the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act have led to elder abuse being seen as a problem of informal care within…
Choosing Not To Be Old? Masks, Bodies and Identity Management in Later Life
This paper critically assesses an increasing use of mask motifs to examine questions of identity in later life. Two approaches are subjected to detailed analysis, both of which propose distinctive answers to the challenge to identity management emerging from high or post modernity. First, consideration is given to a postmodern ‘mask of ageing’ (Featherstone and Hepworth 1989), key elements of which include consumer culture and the ageing body. Se…
Mature imaginations
This paper critically assesses the portrayal of late life development in psychoanalysis and the wider psychodynamic tradition. Attention is drawn to the importance of this tradition both as a vehicle for personal change and as a cultural phenomenon in its own right. An analysis of historical trends indicates successive phases of accommodation to the practice of psychotherapy with mature adults, moving from a view that older people made unsuitable…
Lifestyles of belief
This paper examines the culture and narratives occurring in a purpose-built retirement community. It is argued that in order to understand the effects that such a community can have on wellbeing, it is necessary to analyse the interaction of a variety of interweaving narratives used to sustain a secure micro-cultural base. These narratives include formal representations, daily life as experienced by tenants and imaginative associations within com…
Dangerous Intersections. Feminism, Population and the Environment
Ageing, technologies of self and bio‐medicine
This paper unravels the conceptual and theoretical insights of Foucault’s later work on technologies of self in order to understand Bio‐medicine which impinges on the social construction of ageing. The article attempts to show how Foucault’s theoretical insights allows scholars of sociology and social policy to provide a critical appraisal of ageing. The paper also examines the relationship between ageing and self‐care in three contextual domains…
Memory maps in interactive dance environments
This essay explores current research by the authors into dance in interactive mediated spaces. This text seeks to articulate the thematics underlying the creative thinking in the work and the technical and methodological aspects of how it is being developed and realiszed. This research develops out of previous collaborations between Sue Hawksley and Simon Biggs involving dance performance and interactive visual art, as well as other collaboration…
Making Material Culture
The authors present their collaborative investigation into the creative applications of liquid crystal elastomers. They explore the process of making these new materials as well as the question of how artists and scientists can work together to develop new materials and to use them in artistic or architectural applications
Housing and care for older people
Retirement communities are a relatively new long-term accommodation and care option in the United Kingdom. Policy makers and providers endorse the proposition that they are suited for the accommodation of both ‘fit’ and ‘frail’ older people, although comparatively little is known about what it is actually like to live in such communities, about whether they cater adequately for older people with a wide spectrum of needs and abilities, or if they …
Participatory technology development in agricultural mechanisation in Nepal
International Wheat and Maize Improvement Center (CIMMYT) projects on new resource-conservation technologies (RCTs) in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of Nepal aimed to strengthen equity of access, poverty reduction, and gender orientation in current rural mechanisation processes – more specifically, to promote machine-based resource conservation and drudgery-reduction technologies among smallholder farmers. These projects, together with other projects …
The lost 1990s? Personal reflections on a history of participatory technology development
This article traces a history of agricultural participatory research, largely from the author's personal experience. Participatory research in the 1970s was mostly led by disciplinary scientists, and characterised by innovative activities and open academic debate, with some recognition that policy and development practice was a political process. The 1980s saw a shift to learning from past experience, and a participatory mainstream developed, see…
Defining elder mistreatment
This paper critically reflects upon policy and research definitions of elder mistreatment in light of the findings of the United Kingdom Study of Abuse and Neglect of Older People that was commissioned by Comic Relief with co-funding from the Department of Health. The study uniquely comprised a national survey and follow-up qualitative research with survey respondents. This paper focuses on the findings of the qualitative component. One focus is …
Institutional change
This article argues that the managerial approaches to development need to be reconstituted through a more comprehensive understanding of how institutional and behavioural change processes occur. Drawing from a case study in Nepal, and by exploring the largely unintended consequences of project actions, this article argues for viewing change as a complex social phenomenon based on people's interests, motivations, relationships, and actions that ar…
Rethinking theoretical and methodological issues in intergenerational family relations research
This paper introduces some key theoretical and methodological developments in the study of intergenerational family relations. It draws on observations that a number of social issues are emerging that have an intergenerational dimension, that there is growing recognition that to study adult ageing one has also to study intergenerational relationships, and that a new architecture for social relations is beginning to take shape in the wake of demog…
Exploring generational intelligence as a model for examining the process of intergenerational relationships
The purpose of this article is to examine an emerging model of intergenerational relationships that takes as its starting point the degree to which it is possible to place oneself in the position of a person of another age, the ‘age-other’. The paper explores an experiential approach that draws on both sociological thinking on ‘generational consciousness’ and a debate in family gerontology on the relationships between conflict, solidarity and amb…
The Politics of International Assessments
This paper explores the career of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge Science and Technology and Development (IAASTD) from its inception, the publishing of its reports, and its place in ongoing debates on global agriculture, food security, poverty reduction, social equity and sustainable development. We highlight the disputes and disruptions that characterize the IAASTD process and attempts to marginalize its findings. Followin…
Spiritual perspectives of Black Caribbean and White British older adults
Spirituality is positively linked to health and well-being in later life, particularly among older adults of black ethnic groups. However, definitions of spirituality in the literature have largely been theoretically informed, rather than based on the views of older people themselves. We examined the spiritual perspectives of Black Caribbean and White British older adults based on in-depth interviews with 34 individuals aged between 60 and 95 yea…
Work, health and the commodification of life's time
How to respond to an ageing society has become an increasingly important question, for employers, workers and policy makers. Here we critically engage with that debate, arguing that future approaches to the relationship between work and age should take into account multiple influences on older worker behaviour, including the combination of economic, lifecourse and personal priorities. We consider the international consensus that has emerged about…
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