Dr Susan Oman

All publications

Books

• Oman S (2021) Understanding Well-being Data Improving Social and Cultural Policy, Practice and Research. Palgrave Macmillan. View this article in WRRO

Journal articles

• Bentley C, Muyoya C, Vannini S, Oman S & Jimenez A (2023) Intersectional approaches to data: the importance of an articulation mindset for intersectional data science. Big Data & Society, 10(2). View this article in WRRO
• Oman S & Bull A (2022) Joining up well-being and sexual misconduct data and policy in HE: ‘To stand in the gap’ as a feminist approach. The Sociological Review, 70(1), 21-38. View this article in WRRO
• Oman S (2021) Re-performance: a critical and reparative methodology for everyday expertise and data practice in policy knowledge. International Review of Public Policy, 3(3). View this article in WRRO
• Oman S (2020) Leisure pursuits: uncovering the ‘selective tradition’ in culture and well-being evidence for policy. Leisure Studies, 39(1: Leisure and Wellbeing), 11-25.
• Oman S & Taylor M (2018) Subjective well-being in cultural advocacy: a politics of research between the market and the academy. Journal of Cultural Economy, 11(3), 225-243. View this article in WRRO
• Ditchfield H, Oman S, Kennedy H, Fratczak M, Bates J, Taylor M & Medina Perea I () What ifs: the role of imagining in people's reflections on data uses. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. View this article in WRRO
• Kennedy H, Ditchfield H, Oman S, Bates J, Medina Perea I, Fratczak M & Taylor M () How people connect fairness and equity when they talk about data uses. Big Data and Society. View this article in WRRO
• Taylor M, Kennedy H & Oman S () Challenging assumptions about the relationship between awareness of and attitudes to data uses amongst the UK public. The Information Society.
• Bates J () Socially meaningful transparency in data-based systems: reflections and proposals from practice. Journal of Documentation.

Chapters

• Oman S (2022) Questioning hierarchies in knowledge and advocacy for well-being policy: Re-using overlooked free text data reveals the importance of leisure to people’s understanding of well-being In daykin N & mansfield L (Ed.), Leisure and Wellbeing
• Oman S (2022) Open Access: Questioning hierarchies in knowledge and advocacy for well-being policy re-using overlooked free text data reveals the importance of leisure to people's understanding of well-being, Leisure and Wellbeing (pp. 11-25). Routledge
• Oman S (2019) Re-ordering and re-performing In Eriksson B, Stage C & Valtysson B (Ed.), Cultures of Participation Routledge
• Oman S (2019) Re-ordering and re-performing, Cultures of Participation (pp. 201-219). Routledge
• Oman S (2016) Measuring National Wellbeing: What Matters to You? What Matters to Whom?, Cultures of Wellbeing (pp. 66-94). Palgrave Macmillan UK

Book reviews

• Oman S (2016) Making Culture Count: The Politics of Cultural Measurement, (eds) MacDowall et al., Cultural Trends, Volume 25, Issue 2, 2016 Special Issue: Methodologies.. Cultural Trends, 25(2).

Reports

• Ditchfield H, Oman S, Kennedy H, Bates J, Taylor M, Medina Perea I, Pinney E & Fratczak M (2023) Public perceptions of BBC data uses in experiments which give people more control of data
• Bates J, Medina Perea I, Kennedy H, Oman S, Taylor M, Ditchfield H, Pinney E & Fratczak M (2022) Public perceptions of DWP’s uses of data for identity verification
• Medina Perea I, Kennedy H, Oman S, Bates J, Taylor M, Ditchfield H, Pinney E & Fratczak M (2022) Public perceptions of sharing and aggregating health data
• Ditchfield H, Kennedy H, Oman S, Pinney E, Bates J, Fratczak M, Medina Perea I & Taylor M (2022) Report on Living With Data Interviews & Focus Groups
• Kennedy H, Taylor M, Oman S, Bates J, Medina Perea I, Ditchfield H & Pinney E (2021) Living with Data survey report
• Oman S (2020) Public understanding and perceptions of data practices: a review of existing research
• Kennedy H, Oman S, Taylor M, Bates J & Steedman R (2020) Public understanding and perceptions of data practices: a review of existing research
• Oman S (2019) Measuring Social Mobility in The Creative and Cultural Industries – The importance of working in partnership to improve data practices and address inequality. View this article in WRRO
• Oman S (2019) Improving data practices to monitor inequality and introduce social mobility measures View this article in WRRO

Website content

• Oman S, Ditchfield H & Kennedy H To understand uses of personal data in the present, people draw on the past and imagine the future.

Scholarly editions

• Oman S Doing understanding differently: Rethinking our relationship with metrics – and the people behind the data. Sociological Review Foundation.

Other

• Oman S (2018) A Question of Class: how do social inequality metrics work in cultural organisations?.
• Oman S (2018) The inequality challenge in the arts.
• Oman S (2017) ‘Student Experience Survey 2017: investigating well-being at university’,.
• Oman S (2015) Access in Higher Education: A triumph of hope over experience?.
• Oman S (2015) Why government issued well-being may not make us happier.