Michael Donnelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 100219 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Donnelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Donnelly |
| SIGNATURE | DONNELLY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3357-8178 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 126 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 316 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 125 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
‘Sawa Aqwa’ (Stronger Together)
BACKGROUND: There are no evaluated family-based mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) interventions for adolescents in Southwest Asia (known as the Middle East), and few whole-family interventions in low- and middle-income countries, despite consistent evidence for the impact of family support on mental health and well-being. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a brief family systemic mental health intervention, deliverable …
Estudiantes indígenas en la educación superior
The management of Covid-19 in prisons – the case of Northern Ireland
Viejas y nuevas formas de discriminación hacia los estudiantes indígenas en universidades convencionales
En este trabajo analizamos las prácticas de discriminación que afrontan un grupo de estudiantes indígenas de dos universidades de la Ciudad de México. La indagación consistió en una etnografía colaborativa, para lo cual realizamos entrevistas a profundidad a una selección de 16 alumnos de diferentes carreras. Encontramos que los jóvenes viven diversas formas de discriminación, tanto de tipo institucional como cultural; los principales detonantes …
Connected Belonging
With levels of mental health difficulties among young people rising and policymakers focusing on the state's role in promoting young people's wellbeing, educational institutions have become positioned on the front line as key sites to identify and implement wellbeing interventions. This paper draws on a series of policy analyses and qualitative studies with young people and educators, leading to recognition for the importance of a relational appr…
Pre-school-based behaviour change intervention to increase physical activity levels amongst young children
Background A significant rise in childhood obesity worldwide over the past three decades highlights the urgent need for early interventions, especially in preschools as key settings for child development. This study aimed to assess the feasibility and fidelity of a randomised controlled trial of “I’m an Active Hero” (IAAH), a theory- and evidence-based multi-component behaviour change intervention targeting physical activity and sedentary behavio…
Education and the spatial division of labour
The educational solutions put forward in the 2019 Conservative Government's Levelling Up programme privileged higher-level skills training delivered through further education, sidelining traditional university degrees, reflective of broader critiques levelled at the higher education sector in terms of the value for money of some degrees. It goes without saying that further education provides crucial opportunities for many people and our analyses …
Social capital and alcohol risks among older adults (50 years and over)
Although there has been significant research on the relationship between alcohol consumption and demographic and psychological influences, this does not consider the effect of social influence among older drinkers and if these effects differ between men and women. One aspect of social influence is social capital. The aim of this paper is to examine whether relational and cognitive social capital are associated with higher or lower risk of alcohol…
A Transactional Or A Relational Contract? The Student Consumer, Social Participation And Alumni Donations In Higher Education
The relationship between students and higher education is seen to have become increasingly transactional. We approach the study of the student–HE relationship in a novel way, by focusing on students’ behaviour post-university, rather than on student narratives. Conceptually, the article builds on multidimensional views of student engagement and the differentiation between psychological transactional contracts – where students who achieve better a…
Divergence in smoking and drinking trends
The absence of similar policy efforts for alcohol as given to smoking may explain the divergence in secular trends of smoking and drinking. Targeting interventions towards adolescents and young adults may offer the best chance of reducing smoking and drinking prevalence. Cohort effects suggest the need for further research about the relationship between drinking and Northern Ireland's political history
Spatial division of opportunity
The importance of geography in debates around education and labour market inequality is an enduring public policy concern. This paper argues that local economic contexts have a role in shaping the kind of university and career trajectories working-class young people are exposed to. Drawing on multi-sited data on working-class young people in different local contexts across England, it underlines the importance of regional economic development, th…
Racial capitalism and the ordinary extractivism of British elite schools overseas
This article focuses on the relationship between elite British boarding schools and the overseas branches ('satellites') that they have established around the world.While British schools are categorised as charities, the satellites are operated as commercial ventures through subsidiaries.The UK-based schools can thus profit from the export of their 'brands', extracting capital from their satellites overseas and channelling it back to the UK.Drawi…
The case for individualised public health interventions
Breast cancer and breast cancer screening use—beliefs and behaviours in a nationwide study in Malaysia
Public health strategies or behaviour interventions targeting negative beliefs about BC screening among Malaysian women may increase uptake and reduce late presentation and advanced-stage cancer. Insights from the study suggest that women under 50 years, in the lower income group without a car or motorcycle ownership, and of Malay or Indian ethnicity (compared to Chinese-Malay) are more likely to hold beliefs inhibiting BC screening
Understanding the theoretical underpinnings of preventative early parenting interventions
Early parenting programmes which promote nurturing care for children aged 0–3 years are popular in community-based primary health care settings. However, little research has explored the causal and theoretical assumptions underpinning these programmes. This paper outlines a programme theory evaluation which was conducted to explore the change principles inherent in a complex early parenting intervention, the parent and infant programme, which aim…
Interventions Aimed at Alleviating Loneliness and Social Isolation among the Older Population
Background. Older people are one of the groups particularly vulnerable to loneliness due to factors such as deteriorating health, widowhood and death of friends/family, fewer confiding relationships, and being more likely to live alone. In the United Kingdom, services to alleviate and/or prevent loneliness can be classified as foundation services, direct interventions, gateway services, and structural enablers. Service managers and personnel invo…
Acceptability of a standalone written leaflet for the National Health Service for England Targeted Lung Health Check Programme
BACKGROUND: Many countries are introducing low-dose computed tomography screening programmes for people at high risk of lung cancer. Effective communication strategies that convey risks and benefits, including unfamiliar concepts and outcome probabilities based on population risk, are critical to achieving informed choice and mitigating inequalities in uptake. METHODS: This study investigated the acceptability of an aspect of NHS England's commun…
Patient Acceptability of Home Monitoring for Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration Reactivation
Neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) is a chronic, progressive condition and the commonest cause of visual disability in older adults. This study formed part of a diagnostic test accuracy study to quantify the ability of three index home monitoring (HM) tests (one paper-based and two digital tests) to identify reactivation in nAMD. The aim of this qualitative research was to investigate patients’ or participants’ views about accept…
The Covid-19 Pandemic and Ophthalmic Care
Concerns have been expressed about the relationship between reduced levels of health care utilisation and the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to elicit and explore the views of patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and their ophthalmic care. Semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with thirty-five patients with nAMD taking part in a larger diagnostic accuracy study of hom…
Changing Health Beliefs about Breast Cancer Screening among Women in Multi-Ethnic Malaysia
This study evaluated the impact of the 'Be Cancer Alert' mass media campaign for breast cancer (BCAC-BC) in terms of changes to women's health beliefs regarding BC susceptibility and the benefits and barriers of breast cancer screening in Malaysia. Pre- and post-campaign surveys evaluated changes in health beliefs among women aged 40 years and above ( n = 676). The perceived susceptibility to breast cancer was significantly higher at follow-up (m…
Costs of breast cancer treatment incurred by women in Vietnam
BC patients in Vietnam incur significant OOP costs. The cost of BC treatment was driven by the use of therapies and presentation stage at diagnosis. It is likely that OOP costs of BC patients would be reduced by earlier detection through raised awareness and screening programmes and by providing a higher insurance reimbursement rate for targeted therapy
Policy traction' on social and emotional wellbeing
This paper provides a ‘home international’ comparative analysis of education policy on social and emotional wellbeing, drawing on the case of the UK and its four distinct education systems of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have developed more holistic policy in this area, which stands in stark contrast to the disparate policies of England. These divergences in policy are likely to account for d…
Theorising social and emotional wellbeing in schools
Young people are increasingly lamented as unable to cope with ‘everyday realities of life’ with educational institutions and parenting styles accelerating what some refer to as the ‘snowflake generation’. This paper addresses confusion that exists in the framing of social and emotional wellbeing, delineating three competing perspectives: (1) ‘skills and competencies’, (2) ‘morals and ethics’ and (3) ‘capital and identity’. Embedded within each pe…
Accent and the manifestation of spatialised class structure
There is long-standing interest within sociological debate to understand social class inequality spatially. We contribute to this debate by using a spatially differentiated understanding of accent, used here as a 'window' to observe the formation of socio-economic difference across space. From a spatial perspective, using the work of Doreen Massey, we draw on a unique multi-sited qualitative dataset, which contains the narratives of over 200 youn…
Non-university higher education
Embedding Journalists in Military Combat Units
This investigation probed whether embedded journalist coverage of the first days of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq produced print news coverage that was either more decontextualized inform or more favorable in tone. Embedded news coverage of the first days of Operation “Iraqi Freedom” was compared to nonembedded, so-called “unilateral” coverage; and print coverage of “Iraqi Freedom” was compared with the first days of U.S. ground operations in Op…
Economic Performance, Individual Evaluations, and the Vote
While there are many studies on the impact of the economy on elections, there is little evidence on the full mechanism of economic voting implied by performance-based theories of elections. Addressing the scarcity of evidence on the mechanism, this study provides the first estimates of the linkage between macroeconomic performance, individual economic evaluations, and vote choice. Building on recent advances in the statistical analysis of causal …
Framing the geographies of higher education participation
This paper considers the role of schools, place and national identity in shaping the ways in which young people make sense of the geography of higher education choice in the Welsh context. Drawing on two qualitative studies, it illustrates how attachment to nationhood and localities, as well as the internal processes of schools, bear upon the geographical mobility of young people living in Wales. The analyses suggest that this choice‐making proce…
Regional structures of feeling? A spatially and socially differentiated analysis of UK student im/mobility
This article explores the patterning of student im/mobility internally within the United Kingdom, using exceptionally detailed student records data on full-time undergraduate entrants from 2014. For this cohort of students, geographic mobility was clearly the preserve of the most socio-economically advantaged, and was less common for Pakistani and Bangladeshi ethnic groups. Significantly, the student’s ‘home’ region emerges as the most important …
Mapping the relational construction of people and places
A new method is proposed here aimed at eliciting the mechanisms which maintain the relational positioning of people and places within social space. This ‘mapping tool’ is inherently relational by design and involves participants creating visual representations of their geographic imaginaries, encompassing their perceptions and preferences of different localities. This is followed by an interviewing approach wherein participants ‘speak to’ their m…
British Elite Private Schools and Their Overseas Branches
Our paper examines the opening of branches overseas (‘satellite colleges’) by elite private schools mainly located in England (‘founding colleges’), largely in emerging economies of the Middle East and South East Asia. We trace the development of these ‘satellite colleges’ over three successive waves of growth, from opportunistic venturing in Thailand in the late-1990s to their recent rapid growth in numbers in a phase characterized by the market…
The Road to Oxbridge
This paper explores hidden messages sent out by schools about Oxbridge, using Basil Bernstein’s concepts of classification and framing. Research in three case-study schools captured these messages from their everyday practices and processes, including their events and activities, sorting mechanisms, interactions and resources. Whilst all of the schools sent out strong classificatory messages, marking out Oxbridge as special, they differed in thei…
The field of graduate recruitment
The symbolic value of being recruited by a high status multinational company likely represents an important marker of distinction. For the first time, a unique Destinations of Leavers in Higher Education (DLHE) data-set is used here to model entry to elite multinational company in finance, accountancy and consultancy sectors among graduates of different social origins, universities, degree subjects and with different degree classifications. From …
Progressing to university
This paper considers some of the ways that schools play a role in shaping higher education (HE) decision‐making. Through their everyday practices and processes, schools can carry hidden messages about progression to HE, including choice of university. The sorts of routine aspects of school life dealt with here include events and activities, interactions with teachers, as well as resources. The work of Basil Bernstein is particularly useful at elu…
International mindedness as a platform for class solidarity
There has been reference in literature to the concepts of a Transnational Capitalist Class and a Global Middle Class, but there has been little discussion of how education may form any sense of class solidarity for these groups. In national contexts, ruling class socialisation has been achieved through elite private schooling. But the notion of global classes presents a fundamentally different problem for class socialisation and solidarity since …
Spatial structures of student mobility
There now exists a growing literature on educational mobilities, and this paper contributes to understanding the way contemporary youth imagine the geography of the United Kingdom and how this translates to their mobility intentions. Using Giddens and Massey and drawing on a unique multi‐sited qualitative dataset, we examine how these flows can be understood as embedded within narratives of the self that are situated within a particular spatial s…
A new approach to researching school effects on higher education participation
A new approach to researching school effects on higher education participation is proposed here, which combines insights from the school effectiveness field of research with sociological theories and concepts of schooling. In doing so, it draws attention to some of the problems with the dominant approach often taken in this area and attempts to offer a more analytically precise way of measuring and explaining school effects on higher education ch…
Theorising social and emotional wellbeing in schools
Young people are increasingly lamented as unable to cope with ‘everyday realities of life’ with educational institutions and parenting styles accelerating what some refer to as the ‘snowflake generation’. This paper addresses confusion that exists in the framing of social and emotional wellbeing, delineating three competing perspectives: (1) ‘skills and competencies’, (2) ‘morals and ethics’ and (3) ‘capital and identity’. Embedded within each pe…
Social Network Analysis Methods and the Geography of Education
This paper uses social network analysis methods to explore how the spatial mobility of students to attend university creates regional divisions and socio‐spatial hierarchies of schools and universities. Using community detection methods as our methodological lens we stitch together regional economic geography, the student mobilities literature and the sociological and geographical analysis of elite education. Combining these statistical technique…
The impact of childhood residential mobility on mental health outcomes in adolescence and early adulthood
BACKGROUND: Understanding the causes of poor mental health in early childhood and adolescence is important as this can be a significant determinant of mental well-being in later years. One potential and relatively unexplored factor is residential mobility in formative years. Previous studies have been relatively small and potentially limited due to methodological issues. The main aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between early…
Do Changes in Illness Perceptions Predict Changes in Psychological Distress among Oesophageal Cancer Survivors
This study aimed to examine whether changes in the illness perceptions of oesophageal cancer survivors explain changes in their levels of psychological distress relative to demographic and biomedical variables and coping strategies. Oesophageal cancer survivors completed the Illness Perception Questionnaire - Revised, the Cancer Coping Questionnaire and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale at two points in time, 12 months apart. Cluster anal…
Systematically Retrieving Research
Objective: Developing the scientific underpinnings of social welfare requires effective and efficient methods of retrieving relevant items from the increasing volume of research. Method: We compared seven databases by running the nearest equivalent search on each. The search topic was chosen for relevance to social work practice with older people. Results: Highest sensitivity was achieved by Medline (52%), Social Sciences Citation Index (46%) and…
Accent and the manifestation of spatialised class structure
There is long-standing interest within sociological debate to understand social class inequality spatially. We contribute to this debate by using a spatially differentiated understanding of accent, used here as a 'window' to observe the formation of socio-economic difference across space. From a spatial perspective, using the work of Doreen Massey, we draw on a unique multi-sited qualitative dataset, which contains the narratives of over 200 youn…
A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Accent and Social Mobility in the UK Teaching Profession
A new interdisciplinary approach to understanding the role of accent in relation to intergenerational social mobility is introduced here. Sociological analyses that attend to accent often focus on broader regional distinctions or construct limiting dichotomies of accents, rather than capturing the full variety and range of accents, often found at smaller geographic levels. Drawing on the case of the teaching profession and using qualitative data …
Education and the spatial division of labour
The educational solutions put forward in the 2019 Conservative Government's Levelling Up programme privileged higher-level skills training delivered through further education, sidelining traditional university degrees, reflective of broader critiques levelled at the higher education sector in terms of the value for money of some degrees. It goes without saying that further education provides crucial opportunities for many people and our analyses …
Spatial division of opportunity
The importance of geography in debates around education and labour market inequality is an enduring public policy concern. This paper argues that local economic contexts have a role in shaping the kind of university and career trajectories working-class young people are exposed to. Drawing on multi-sited data on working-class young people in different local contexts across England, it underlines the importance of regional economic development, th…
Geographies of elite higher education participation
Based on analysis of an administrative dataset, which includes granular detail on 800,000 English students over a 10‐year period, this article identifies an urban ‘escalator’ effect in entry to elite universities, with disadvantaged youth in the urban centres of England having higher rates of entry than similarly disadvantaged youth located rurally. Using multilevel modelling, as well as Geographic Information System (GIS) methods, the analyses s…
The spatial dynamics of race in the transition to university
Using exceptionally detailed administrative data on all 412,000 students attending university in the United Kingdom in 2014–2015 combined with spatial census data from 2011, we explore for the first time how the ethnic composition of where students grow up is linked to where they attend university. We calculate a “diversity score” for every U.K. university, which is then compared with the ethnic diversity of the surrounding area, allowing us to e…
Deterred by debt? Young people, schools and the escalating cost of UK higher education
Popular commentaries lament that reforms to the financing of Higher Education (HE) in the UK will operate as a significant deterrent to HE participation amongst students from less advantaged backgrounds. This view of debt as a deterrent is powerful and exists not only at a societal level, but also, as we show, is present in schools. Our data reveal, however, that these ‘debt commentaries’ play out very differently across schools according to the …
Exploring the effects of a universal classroom management training programme on teacher and child behaviour
Teachers frequently struggle to cope with conduct problems in the classroom. The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of the Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management Training Programme for improving teacher competencies and child adjustment. The study involved a group randomised controlled trial which included 22 teachers and 217 children (102 boys and 115 girls). The average age of children included in the study was 5.3 years (…
Japan
Japan’s Search for Food Security
Essay| November 01 1978 Japan’s Search for Food Security Michael W. Donnelly Michael W. Donnelly Assistant Professor of Political Economy, University of Toronto Michael W. Donnelly is completing a monograph on politics and rice in Japan. He has authored a number of articles on politics and Japanese agriculture. He was a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies in Tokyo and is a former staff member of the Social Science Re…
Political Change in Japan. Response to Postindustrial Challenge
The Future of Japanese Agriculture
Growing Disharmony in Canadian-Japanese Trade
No observer of Canadian foreign policy has ever proclaimed that some kind of 'special relationship* links Canada and Japan or that the two countries regard each other as less than 'foreign* or 'external/ The Japanese are basically an homogeneous and inwardoriented people who are sometimes rather ill at ease in dealing with foreigners. They are deeply convinced that their country remains vulnerable and are consequently unimpressed by the realities…
Tokyo and Washington
The Japanese Diet and the U. S. Congress
The Right to Welfare and Other Essays. T. H. Marshall
Michel Foucault
Social Control and the State.Stanley Cohen , Andrew Scull
Studies in the Theory of Ideology. John B. Thompson
Marxism and Morality.Steven Lukes
The Global Political Economy
LDP bashing
No Great Reversal in Japan
A SIGNIFICANT FEATURE of public life in Japan during recent decades of extraordinary economic growth and associated social change has been continuity in politics. Government power has been in the hands of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since 1955. While other democratic countries in the industrial world have experienced long periods of one-party domination, in none has the possibility of change in government seemed more unlikely.' Or at least…
Japanese Agricultural Policies
Japanese-American Relations
The politics of mental health in Italy
Provides, for the first time, a scholarly and balanced account of events and phenomena that led to the radical law passed in 1978 that closed all Italy's mental hospitals, and shows how the Italia psychiatric profession has coped with the results
Putting History Back Into Criminology
US-Japan Alliance Diplomacy 1945-1990
On Political Negotiation
PERSISTENT BILATERAL TRADE DISPUTES have clouded Japanese-American relations for the past twenty-five years. Despite repeated affirmations about the virtues of a global partnership, legions of commentators suggest that the two governments are on a political collision course, unable to devise adequate mechanisms for joint consultations and stymied over how best to coordinate policies or settle long-standing economic disputes. At a time when the co…
The Rise of the Penitentiary
The Most Solitary of Afflictions
Quality of life bibliography and indexes
Quality of life bibliography and indexes
Political science (59 works) · Sociology (59 works) · Medicine (46 works) · Psychology (41 works) · Law (28 works) · Geography (27 works) · Computer Science (21 works) · Economics (19 works) · Environmental health (19 works) · Politics (19 works)