Professor Sarah Atkinson's Outputs (64)

Cultural contexts of adolescent anxiety: Paradox, ambivalence, and disjuncture (2024)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S. (2024). Cultural contexts of adolescent anxiety: Paradox, ambivalence, and disjuncture. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 10, Article 101081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2024.101081

The paper offers a critical reading of the dominant ways we frame and understand anxiety in adolescence. These centre on the individual and for the most part limit attention to external and social influences operating at a close scale to the individu... Read More about Cultural contexts of adolescent anxiety: Paradox, ambivalence, and disjuncture.

Adolescent anxiety through the wrong end of the telescope (2021)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S. (2021). Adolescent anxiety through the wrong end of the telescope. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 5(11), 777-778. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642%2821%2900313-8

Art Spaces (2021)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, S. (in press). Art Spaces. In G. Andrews, V. Crooks, J. Pearce, & J. Messina. (Eds.), COVID-19 and Similar Futures: Pandemic Geographies. Springer Verlag

Reanimating the radical possibilities of wellbeing: commentary on Part 1 approaching wellbeing (2021)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, S. (in press). Reanimating the radical possibilities of wellbeing: commentary on Part 1 approaching wellbeing. In B. Searle, J. Pykett, & M. Alfaro-Simmonds (Eds.), The Modern Guide to Wellbeing Research (23-28). Edward Elgar Publishing

Seeing the value of experiential knowledge through COVID-19 (2021)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., Bradby, H., Gadebusch Bondio, M., Macnaughton, J., Hallberg, A., & Söderfeldt, Y. (online). Seeing the value of experiential knowledge through COVID-19. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences,

Resilience (2021)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, S. (2021). Resilience. In M. Botha, & P. Waugh (Eds.), Future theory : a Bloomsbury handbook to critical concepts. Bloomsbury

Trajectories in mental health and socio-spatial conditions in a time of economic recovery and austerity: a longitudinal study in England, 2011-2017 (2020)
Journal Article
Curtis, S., Cunningham, N., Pearce, J., Congdon, P., Cherrie, M., & Atkinson, S. (2021). Trajectories in mental health and socio-spatial conditions in a time of economic recovery and austerity: a longitudinal study in England, 2011-2017. Social Science & Medicine, 270, Article 113654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113654

This paper examines trends in mental health among adults in England during the period of economic recovery and austerity following the 2008 ‘great recession’. We report analysis of data on 17,212 individuals living in England, from the longitudinal U... Read More about Trajectories in mental health and socio-spatial conditions in a time of economic recovery and austerity: a longitudinal study in England, 2011-2017.

Commentary: Wellbeing, Space and Society (2020)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S. (2020). Commentary: Wellbeing, Space and Society. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 1, Article 100015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2020.100015

Adverse conditions for wellbeing at the neighbourhood scale in England: potential and challenges for operationalising indicators relevant to wellbeing in and of places (2020)
Journal Article
Curtis, S., Congdon, P., Atkinson, S., Corcoran, R., Peasgood, T., & MaGuire, R. (2020). Adverse conditions for wellbeing at the neighbourhood scale in England: potential and challenges for operationalising indicators relevant to wellbeing in and of places. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 1, Article 100009. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2020.100009

The Toxic Effects of Subjective Wellbeing and Potential Tonics (2020)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S. (2021). The Toxic Effects of Subjective Wellbeing and Potential Tonics. Social Science & Medicine, 288, Article 113098. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113098

The paper offers a provocation to the geographies of health in relation to one of our governing concepts, that of wellbeing. The paper brings together government survey data from the United Kingdom with other published research into a critical argume... Read More about The Toxic Effects of Subjective Wellbeing and Potential Tonics.

Doing more with movement: constituting healthy publics in a movement volunteering programme (2020)
Journal Article
Tupper, E., Atkinson, S., & Pollard, T. (2020). Doing more with movement: constituting healthy publics in a movement volunteering programme. Palgrave communications, 6, Article 94. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0473-9

The recent phenomenon of movement volunteering programmes is a form of ‘fitness philanthropy’ that combines exercise with volunteering in order for physical activity to generate a more widely shared set of benefits. These newest practices of fitness... Read More about Doing more with movement: constituting healthy publics in a movement volunteering programme.

Geohumanities and Health (2019)
Book
Atkinson, S., & Hunt, R. (Eds.). (2019). Geohumanities and Health. Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21406-7

Multiplicity and Encounters of Cultures of Care in Advanced Ageing (2019)
Book Chapter
Tan, M., & Atkinson, S. (2019). Multiplicity and Encounters of Cultures of Care in Advanced Ageing. In S. Atkinson, & R. Hunt (Eds.), Geohumanities and health (241-259). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21406-7_14

The demographic of an ageing population in many countries is increasing the numbers of elderly who are resident in care homes especially in parts of South East Asia. The investments made into care-related activities in residential homes for the elder... Read More about Multiplicity and Encounters of Cultures of Care in Advanced Ageing.

GeoHumanities and Health (2019)
Book Chapter
Hunt, R., & Atkinson, S. (2020). GeoHumanities and Health. In S. Atkinson, & R. Hunt (Eds.), GeoHumanities and Health (1-19). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21406-7_1

This is an introduction to the themes and contributions in the book. The essay discusses the potential and characteristics of the hybrid space of the GeoHumanities and the placing of health with this space. We consider the ways in which openings and... Read More about GeoHumanities and Health.

Being well together: individual subjective and community wellbeing (2019)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., Bagnall, A.-M., Corcoran, R., South, J., & Curtis, S. (2020). Being well together: individual subjective and community wellbeing. Journal of Happiness Studies, 21(5), 1903-1921. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-019-00146-2

This paper explores the ways in which community wellbeing is, and could be, related to individual subjective wellbeing by mapping current practice, teasing out the assumptions underlying a dominant approach and flagging neglected issues. The notion o... Read More about Being well together: individual subjective and community wellbeing.

Wellbeing and the wild, blue 21st-century ctizen (2019)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, S. (2019). Wellbeing and the wild, blue 21st-century ctizen. In R. Foley, R. Kearns, T. Kistemann, & B. Wheeler (Eds.), Blue space, health and wellbeing : hydrophilia unbounded (190-204). Taylor and Francis

Individual and local area factors associated with self-reported wellbeing, perceived social cohesion and sense of attachment to one’s community: analysis of the Understanding Society Survey (2019)
Report
Curtis, S., Congdon, P., Atkinson, S., Corcoran, R., MaGuire, R., & Peasgood, T. (2019). Individual and local area factors associated with self-reported wellbeing, perceived social cohesion and sense of attachment to one’s community: analysis of the Understanding Society Survey. Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

The findings reported here are from an analysis of data from the Understanding Society Survey (USS) which follows a large sample of people from across Britain over time. This study was undertaken to examine questions likely to be especially relevant... Read More about Individual and local area factors associated with self-reported wellbeing, perceived social cohesion and sense of attachment to one’s community: analysis of the Understanding Society Survey.

Geographies of Medical and Health Humanities: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation (2018)
Journal Article
de Leeuw, S., Donovan, C., Schafenacker, N., Kearns, R., Neuwelt, P., Squier, S. M., McGeachan, C., Parr, H., Frank, A. W., Coyle, L.-A., Atkinson, S., El-Hadi, N., Shklanka, K., Shooner, C., Beljaars, D., & Anderson, J. (2018). Geographies of Medical and Health Humanities: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation. Geohumanities, 4(2), 285-334. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2018.1518081

In recent years, both within and beyond academic and clinical spheres, medical and health humanities have become increasingly influential. Drawing from interdisciplinary fields in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts, medical and health huma... Read More about Geographies of Medical and Health Humanities: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation.

Vulnerability as practice in diagnosing multiple conditions (2018)
Journal Article
Coyle, L., & Atkinson, S. (2019). Vulnerability as practice in diagnosing multiple conditions. Medical Humanities, 45(3), 278-287. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2017-011433

The paper contributes to contemporary understandings of vulnerability by expanding their scope with an understanding of vulnerability as generated through institutionalised practices. The argument draws on experiential accounts of navigating the prac... Read More about Vulnerability as practice in diagnosing multiple conditions.

Health and Wellbeing (2017)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, S. (2017). Health and Wellbeing. In D. Richardson, N. Castree, M. Goodchild, L. Weidong, A. Kobayashi, & R. Marston (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Wiley-Blackwell/AAG. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0770