Dr Jane Fielding
Senior Lecturer
Qualifications: BSc (Sussex), DPhil (Sussex)
Email: j.fielding@surrey.ac.uk
Phone: Work: 01483 68 9451
Room no: 11 AD 03
Further information
Biography
Jane Fielding gained her DPhil in Biochemistry in 1976 to be followed by postdoctoral fellowships at Queen Elizabeth College and Imperial College, University of London. She joined Surrey University in 1981 as a researcher on several part-time contracts in the departments of Sociology, Psychology and Human Biology. In 1984 she was appointed as the Departmental Research Fellow and has been involved with the teaching of computing and quantitative methods since that time. In 1994 she took up her current lectureship in quantitative methods and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2001.
Research Interests
Past research has included a study of women in science with Professor Judith Glover of Roehampton University and a study of stress among the police with Professor Jennifer Brown of Surrey University. More recently, she has been involved with several Defra/ Environment Agency projects (with Dr Kate Burningham) including ‘Flood warning for vulnerable groups’(Defra / Environment Agency, Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management R&D Programme, R&D Report W5C-018 (2005)) and another entitled, ‘Public Response to flood Warning’, (Defra / Environment Agency, Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management R&D Programme, ID number W5E, Final Report pending).
In addition, during December 2004-March 2005, she was involved with a consortium of researchers led by Professor Gordon Walker of Lancaster University on another Agency project, “Addressing Environmental Inequalities”. Jane was also co-holder on an ESRC Methods Programme project (2002-2005) exploring the integration of quantitative and qualitative methods in an investigation of the concept of vulnerability.
During 2007-8 Jane acted as a consultant on an DEFRA/EA contract awarded to Collingwood Environmental Planning (CEP) entitled “Supporting the Development of a Social Science Strategy for the Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCERM) R&D Programme (DEFRA/EA)”.
Jane is co-Director of the ESRC-funded QUIC (Qualitative Innovations in CAQDAS) Node of the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM). This programme of research commenced in September 2008 and will run for three years. The QUIC Node will explore qualitative software support for integrating qualitative and quantitative data in mixed methods research, for the analysis of Access Grid multi-stream visual data and for the integration of geo-referenced data within qualitative analysis.
Her research primarily uses secondary analysis of large government data sets including the 1991 and 2001 Census area statistics, the British Social Attitude Survey (BSA), the Labour Force Survey (LFS), the Universities Statistical Records (USR), and the National Child Development Study (NCDS). Her particular interest is in the use of GIS software in mapping environmental risk and the social distribution of environmental inequality.
Publications
Journal articles
- . (2011) 'Inequalities in exposure and awareness of flood risk in England and Wales.'. Wiley Disasters, 36 (3), pp. 477-494.
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(2011) 'User satisfaction and user experiences with Access Grid as a
medium for social science research: a research note'. Taylor & Francis International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 14 (TBC), pp. 1-13.Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/7330/
Abstract
Access Grid (AG) is a state-of-the-art video conferencing system that operates over computer networks such as the Internet. In the research sphere it has principally been used to conduct meetings of natural scientists in large international collaborations, such as physicists collaborating over the Large Hadron Collider. Social scientists have recently begun exploring the use of AG to conduct ‘virtual fieldwork’ where researchers carry out interviews or moderate group discussions involving participants at remote sites. There have also been experiments in using AG to deliver social research methods training and to facilitate meetings between social researchers and government researchers who are collaborating on research projects. This article provides a quantitative analysis of the experiences of a sample of participants in such AG sessions. It finds a high degree of satisfaction with the technical affordances of the medium, and identifies differences in perspective according to whether a session is research-oriented or has a ‘real world’ purpose.
- . (2008) '‘“It’ll never happen to me”: Understanding Public Awareness of Local Flood Risk’'. Wiley Disasters: The Journal of Disaster Studies, Policy and Management, 32 (2), pp. 216-238.
- . (2008) 'Resistance and Adaptation to Criminal Identity: Using Secondary Analysis to Evaluate Classic Studies of Crime and Deviance'. CENTER HISTORICAL SOCIAL RESEARCH-ZENTRUM HISTORISCHE SOZIALFORSCHUNG HIST SOC RES, 33 (3), pp. 75-93.
- . (2000) 'Resistance and adaptation to criminal identity: using secondary analysis to evaluate classic studies of crime and deviance'. Sociology, 34 (4), pp. 1-19.
- . (1992) 'A comparative minority: female recruits to a British constabulary force'. Policing and Society, 2 (4), pp. 205-218.
- . (1992) 'Black and blue: an analysis of the influence of race on being stopped by the police'. British Journal of Sociology, 43 (2), pp. 207-224.
- . (1991) 'Police attitudes to crime and punishment: certainties and dilemmas'. British Journal of Criminology, 31 (1), pp. 39-53.
- . (1987) 'A study of resignation during British police training'. Journal of Police Science and, 15 (1), pp. 24-36.
- . (1983) 'Teaching the sociology of law: an empirical study'. Journal of Law and Society,, 10 (2), pp. 181-200.
Books
- . (2006) Understanding social statistics. Sage Publications Ltd
- . (2000) Understanding Social Statistics. London : Sage
Book chapters
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(2008) 'Double whammy? Are the most at risk the least aware? A study of environmental justice and awareness of flood risk in England and Wales'. in Samuels P, Huntington S, Allsop W, Harrop J (eds.) Flood Risk Management: Research and Practice
London : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group Article number 111 Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/216671/
Abstract
This paper explores the environmental inequalities of living in the flood plains of England and Wales and the differences in flood awareness of those ‘at risk’. Large area differences are seen in both flood risk likelihood and also in flood awareness. Furthermore these differences are often class dependent. In all areas except the Midlands, the working classes are more likely to be resident in the flood plains and the greatest inequality is seen in the NE and in the Anglian region. It was found that flood awareness in some areas, especially the NE, was much lower than average and furthermore, these low perceptions of risk were disproportionately displayed by the most deprived. Wales was another region which shows low awareness but is high flood risk. But in Wales, it is the middle classes who exhibit the least awareness.
- . (2008) 'Mixed Methods'. in Gilbert N (ed.) Researching social life 3rd edition. Sage Publications Ltd , pp. 125-144.
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(2008) 'Synergy and synthesis: integrating qualitative and quantitative data'. in Alasuutari P, Brannen J, Bickman L (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Social Research Methods
London : Sage Article number 33 , pp. 555-571.Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/231711/
- . (2008) 'Coding and managing data'. in Gilbert GN (ed.) Researching social life 3rd Edition. , pp. 323-352.
- . (2008) 'The Analytic Integration of Qualitative Data Sources'. in Alasuutari P, Bickman L, Brannen J (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Social Research Methods Sage Publications Ltd , pp. 572-584.
Reports
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(2010) Addressing the collection and management of data on the social aspects of flooding: final report. in (ed.) R&D Technical Report FDXXXX/TR
London : DEFRA
[ Status: Accepted ] - . (2008) Supporting the development of a social sciences strategy for Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management R&D. in (ed.) R&D Technical Report FD2604/TR2 London : DEFRA
Teaching
Jane teaches modules in computing and quantitative methods on both the undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes and holds an advanced methods workshop in GIS techniques.
