17 research outputs found
New Perspectives From Unstructured Interviews: Young Women, Gender, and Sexuality on the Isle of Sheppey in 1980
In the early 1980s, Ray Pahl, a sociologist at the University of Kent, and PhD student Claire Wallace conducted interviews examining young peopleâs experiences of growing up, work, and unemployment on the Isle of Sheppey; these interviews are now deposited at the University of Essex, and this article examines how historians and others might reuse them to interrogate other subjects. The article examines one working-class young womanâs ideas about gender and sexuality in the early 1980s, using the Listening Guide method developed by psychologist Carol Gilligan to probe the individual subjectivity and emotion, as well as the cultural discourses at play in this interview. The interviewee was a young woman who was involved in a culture of casual sex with men âon the ships,â and the article focuses on how she saw the exchanges of money, drink, and gifts between them and herself, and how she avoided seeing her actions as âprostitution.â The analysis shows how in a particular locality in the early 1980s, a particular subculture could allow some young women to sidestep the dominant codes governing young, working-class womenâs sexuality and go âon the shipsâ without seeing this as marking them as âprostitutesââ or any related category. Thus, the article troubles the ontology of âprostitutionâ as a category. It also suggests how we can use a single individualâs narrative to offer a broader account of cultures or subcultures, by starting with the individual and examining how one subjectivity navigated and interacted with broader cultural discourses. Finally, this article also offers suggestions about some of the methodological and ethical issues with reusing archived sociological data but argues that it holds rich possibilities
The decline of deference and the left: An egalitarian moment for localism
The decline of deference in the UK may have given rise to greater individualism and class-dealignment at the ballot box. But for the left, argues Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, it also holds the promise of a new politics of localism and democratised policymaking - provided that the Labour party is able to grasp the opportunity
Sacriston: towards a deeper understanding of place
In this report, we summarise the results of a small research project undertaken by researchers at UCL in conjunction with the Durham Minersâ Association, to explore social and economic change in the former mining village of Sacriston, supported by UCL Grand Challenges
A four-year, systems-wide intervention promoting interprofessional collaboration
Background: A four-year action research study was conducted across the Australian Capital Territory health system to strengthen interprofessional collaboration (IPC) through multiple intervention activities.
Methods: We developed 272 substantial IPC intervention activities involving 2,407 face-to-face encounters with health system personnel. Staff attitudes toward IPC were
surveyed yearly using Heinemann et alâs Attitudes toward Health Care Teams and Parsell and Blighâs Readiness for Interprofessional Learning scales (RIPLS). At studyâs
end staff assessed whether project goals were achieved.
Results: Of the improvement projects, 76 exhibited progress, and 57 made considerable gains in IPC. Educational workshops and feedback sessions were well received and stimulated interprofessional activities. Over time staff scores on Heinemannâs Quality of Interprofessional Care subscale did not change significantly and scores on the Doctor Centrality subscale increased, contrary to predictions. Scores on the RIPLS subscales of Teamwork & Collaboration and Professional Identity did not alter. On average for the assessment items 33% of staff agreed that goals had been achieved, 10% disagreed, and 57% checked âneutralâ. There was most agreement that the study had resulted in increased sharing of knowledge between professions and improved quality of patient care, and least agreement that between-professional rivalries had lessened and communication and trust between professions improved.
Conclusions: Our longitudinal interventional study of IPC involving multiple activities supporting increased IPC achieved many project-specific goals, but improvements in
attitudes over time were not demonstrated and neutral assessments predominated, highlighting the difficulties faced by studies targeting change at the systems level and
over extended periods
Brexit and the everyday politics of emotion: methodological lessons from history
The 2016 European Union referendum campaign has been depicted as a battle between âheadsâ and âheartsâ, reason and emotion. Votersâ propensity to trust their feelings over expert knowledge has sparked debate about the future of democratic politics in what is increasingly believed to be an âage of emotionâ. In this article, we argue that we can learn from the ways that historians have approached the study of emotions and everyday politics to help us make sense of this present moment. Drawing on William Reddyâs concept of âemotional regimesâ, we analyse the position of emotion in qualitative, âeveryday narrativesâ about the 2016 European Union referendum. Using new evidence from the Mass Observation Archive, we argue that while reason and emotion are inextricable facets of political decision-making, citizens themselves understand the two processes as distinct and competing