Olivia Stevenson's research while affiliated with University College London and other places
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Publications (21)
With an increased appetite for evidence-based policing within an Anglo-American context, advances in policing interventions, principles and strategies to reduce crime have gathered considerable pace. In contrast, while responding to missing persons reports is a large part of everyday policing, the associated research-base is in its infancy. Contrib...
This paper considers the neglected mobilities associated with a sample of UK women reported as missing. Refracted through literatures on gendered mobility and abandonment, the paper argues that the journeys of these women in crisis are not well understood by police services, and that normative gender relations may infuse their management. By select...
Research on large shared medical datasets and data-driven research are gaining fast momentum and provide major opportunities for improving health systems as well as individual care. Such Open Data can shed light on the causes of disease and effects of treatment including adverse reactions side-effects of treatments, while also facilitating analyses...
A new body of scholarship on death and loss has emerged as a sub-field within social and cultural geography. This work has done much to draw geographers’ attention to questions of death, dying and remembrance and likewise to bring a spatial perspective to interdisciplinary death studies. Whilst deathscapes have been framed within geographical work...
In geography, a conversation around suicide survivors and their suicidal journeys has yet to happen. The current prioritisation of suicide as end points marked on maps and patterns of death in space and regions has obscured the lived experience of adults who attempt suicide and do not die. In an effort to reduce this invisibility, evidence derived...
Police investigations of major crimes are typically conducted in contexts where there is contested or ambiguous knowledge about what occurred and such challenges are also routinely faced in the investigation of missing persons. This article examines ways in which attempts to ‘manufacture certainty’ in missing persons cases are strongly informed by...
Families of missing people are often understood as inhabiting a particular space of ambiguity, captured in the phrase ‘living in limbo’ (Holmes, 2008). To explore this uncertain ground, we interviewed 25 family members to consider how human absence is acted upon and not just felt within this space ‘in between’ grief and loss (Wayland, 2007). In the...
Based on novel research with families of missing persons, this article outlines important insights into the needs of families and the search related opportunities they present for targeted police investigative and search activities. The importance of empathetic and clear communication and liaison pathways between police and families are discussed a...
Responding to reports of missing persons represents one of the biggest demands on the resources of police organisations. In the UK, for example, it is estimated that over 300,000 missing persons incidents are recorded by the police each year which means that a person in the UK is recorded missing by the police approximately every two minutes. Howev...
The paper contributes new ways of thinking about and responding to interview talk in the context of recent scholarship on interviewing, orality and witnessing. We proceed by paying attention to specific examples of interview talk on the experience of absence via the collecting of narratives from families of missing people. We highlight how ambiguou...
The challenges of conducting research in the home, especially with preschool children, mean that the role of the home as a site for research is often overlooked by educationalists. Our repeat visits to fourteen families that included a three- or four-year-old child over more than a
year as part of our study "Young Children Learning with Toys and Te...
Sophie's story' is a creative rendition of an interview narrative gathered in a research project on missing people. The paper explains why Sophie's story was written and details the wider intention to provide new narrative resources for police officer training, families of missing people and returned missing people. We contextualize this cultural i...
This article discusses how children, toys, and play are accommodated in the spaces of the contemporary home in order to highlight the often overlooked connections between home as an imaginative space and housing as a physical location in which people reside. We do this by exploring
how families in private, new-build homes in contemporary Scotland r...
This article is about the ways in which young children engage with technological toys and resources at home and, in particular, the ways in which the family context makes a difference to young children’s engagement with these technologies. The data reviewed come from family interviews and parent-recorded video of four case study children as they us...
This article describes a novel approach to experience sampling as a response to the challenges of researching the everyday lives of young children at home. Parents from 11 families used mobile phones to send the research team combined picture and text messages to provide ‘experience snapshots’ of their child’s activities six times on each of three...
We produced case studies of fourteen families based on nine rounds of data collection during the period from June 2008 to October 2009. We focused on fourteen children who were three years old when our visits started and used an ecocultural approach to examine their experiences of learning and playing with technologies at home. The study describes...
Informed by ‘critical’ approaches to ‘educational technology’, this paper aims to move away from presenting a ‘could’ and ‘should’ explanation of children learning with technology to a more nuanced, context‐rich analyses of how information and communication technologies (ICTs) are being used by technologically privileged families at home. Here, a c...
Schemes that seek to ensure that children have access to technology at home have, so far, been aimed at children over the age of 8. However, there is likely to be an increasing policy interest in extending similar schemes to pre-school children given widespread commitment to the value of early intervention in children's education and family life. W...
Citations
... Nous avons ainsi construit le recueil des données autour d'« une visite guidée » -filmée pour faciliter le travail d'analyse -en demandant à l'enfant de nous présenter ses objets -plus largement que ces jouets -en commençant par ceux de sa chambre et en poursuivant par les autres pièces du domicile où ses objets sont disséminés. En s'inscrivant dans les mobil methods ou encore walking méthodologies (Moles, 2008), dans une forme proche des « parcours commentés » utilisés en psychologie environnementale (Depeau, 2010) ou encore plus précisément des toy tours inaugurés par Stevenson et Adey (2010) au cours desquels il s'agit de solliciter et de favoriser les interactions entre l'enquêteur et l'enfant au travers d'un walking-whilsttalking. Cette immersion dans le contexte et surtout les déplacements créent des opportunités, des rencontres avec les objets. ...
... The majority of the academic research undertaken into the nature of missing persons cases and missing persons investigations has been undertaken by psychologists or sociologists who typically perform qualitative and quantitative studies of past missing persons cases (Lampinen et al., 2012;Woolnough et al., 2015;Alys et al., 2013, Bantry White andMontgomery, 2015), and geographers who undertake geographic profiling (Parr and Fyfe, 2012;Parr et al., 2015;Yarwood, 2010) in conjunction with researchers in policing studies. Overall, there appears to have been little if any formal modelling work on active missing persons investigations processes. ...
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... A wealth of literature exists across England and Wales to support the understanding of various aspects of missing persons, including the prevalence and demographics of missing persons (Bonny et al., 2016;Hayden & Shalev-Greene, 2018;Malloch & Burgess, 2011;Newiss, 2006), the "geographies" of missing persons (Fyfe et al., 2015;Gibb & Woolnough, 2007;Shalev et al., 2009;Shalev Greene & Hayden, 2014), the impact on families (Boss, 2002(Boss, , 2006Parr & Stevenson, 2013a, 2013bParr et al., 2016;Jones et al., 2007;Wyland et al., 2016), and the outcomes for individuals going missing (Biehal et al., 2003;Newiss, 2006;Tarling & Burrows, 2004). In Canada, there has been an uptick in studies exploring missing persons (e.g., Ferguson & Koziarski, 2021;Ferguson & Picknell, 2021;Giwa & Jackman, 2020;;Kowalski, 2020;Neubauer et al., 2021) with some replicating much the same subjects as the UK to build a base of understanding. ...
... In addition to the lack of understanding around the connection between missing and public health, there is a lack of academic investment in directly hearing from those who return from missing. The dearth of literature on returned experiences (as noted by Stevenson et al., 2013) emphasises the lack of connection between policing and health services, despite such collaboration being identified as a potential way to reduce the burden of risk assessment on police. What is known from the scant literature on that topic, as noted by Sowerby and Thomas (2016), is that "anecdotally, police acknowledge a degree of complacency when dealing with repeat missing person cases, especially those involving young people, perhaps due to the burden repeat episodes have on policing service" (p. ...
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... Societal stigmatisation is attached to the label of 'missing persons' meaning that the term 'missing' may be seen as attention-seeking or costly to emergency services. Missing persons can thus be seen to represent societal perceptions, such as inconsiderateness to their family, and a trait attached to mental health behaviours; creating a culture of shame due to the implied labels impacting others perceptions of them (Kiepal et al., 2012;Parr and Stevenson, 2013;Stevenson and Woolnough, 2016). ...
... Forced disappearance especially feeds the imaginary dimension as it is characterized by uncertainty and is usually associated with other types of crimes. Disappearance implies movement, a transition from being a localized presence in a place to a disturbing lack of presence derived from a violent event, especially when this movement is involuntary and does not derive from a sense of agency [92]. In Mexico, the forced disappearance of women is linked to feminicide, and in public spaces, it is linked to a macho culture that makes women vulnerable to sexual aggressions as well as organized criminal violence. ...
... Deathscapes are emotionally charged, characterised by prescriptive and hegemonic meanings and practices, and produced through the intersection of different interpretations and interests, producing contradictions and contestation (Maddrell & Sidaway, 2010;Stevenson, Kenten & Maddrell, 2016). In that sense, the idea of what is proper, to whom and by what definition are constantly negotiated, and these struggles are often visible in sites associated with death and the dead. ...
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... The same question was asked in a similar study but carried out in another country (Rees, 2014). The research that has been conducted has been carried out on various subjects like communication, health, intellectual property rights, law, data security, and data privacy (Desouza & Jacob, 2017;Fadler & Legner, 2020;Hilbert, 2013;Kostkova et al., 2016;Saxby, 2014). Eventually, this study tries to answer who has the power to own big data in Indonesia and how rural government politics uses big data to make policies in rural government. ...
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... The application of VET to explain suicides cannot be tested directly because the victims are no longer alive. But those who intended to commit suicide or those who have survived suicide attempts can be interviewed (see, e.g., Stevenson 2016). If such data is used an empirical assumption must be made that the same incentives that lead to suicides also lead to intended and unsuccessful suicides. ...
... A wealth of literature exists across England and Wales to support the understanding of various aspects of missing persons, including the prevalence and demographics of missing persons (Bonny et al., 2016;Hayden & Shalev-Greene, 2018;Malloch & Burgess, 2011;Newiss, 2006), the "geographies" of missing persons (Fyfe et al., 2015;Gibb & Woolnough, 2007;Shalev et al., 2009;Shalev Greene & Hayden, 2014), the impact on families (Boss, 2002(Boss, , 2006Parr & Stevenson, 2013a, 2013bParr et al., 2016;Jones et al., 2007;Wyland et al., 2016), and the outcomes for individuals going missing (Biehal et al., 2003;Newiss, 2006;Tarling & Burrows, 2004). In Canada, there has been an uptick in studies exploring missing persons (e.g., Ferguson & Koziarski, 2021;Ferguson & Picknell, 2021;Giwa & Jackman, 2020;;Kowalski, 2020;Neubauer et al., 2021) with some replicating much the same subjects as the UK to build a base of understanding. ...
