Giles A Barrett
Biographic Data
| ID | 1248997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giles A Barrett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giles A |
| FAMILY NAME | Barrett |
| SIGNATURE | BARRETT G A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Liverpool John Moores University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4937-8699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Soft at the Centre”
Study abroad experiences have a clear learning gain for students exemplified through reflection on soft and hard transferable skills that boost graduate readiness. These aptitudes include problem solving, teamwork, and global citizenry. Two time-phased semi-structured questionnaires were administered to a cohort of UK-based university students participating in a recent Criminology program course unit which incorporates a study visit abroad to Slo…
Mind Force Retreat
This study focuses on the subjective well-being (SWB) of a sample of military veterans before and after their engagement with a nonclinical, alternative mental health therapies residential retreat in the United Kingdom. The study findings have relevance for trauma-exposed individuals globally. Military veterans will actively avoid seeking traditional mental health treatments due to factors such as stigma and life-long labels, as well as a relucta…
Study Abroad and Developing Reflective Research Practice Through Blogs
Blogs are seen as an important strand of social networking and a significant way of disseminating research ideas and sharing knowledge and perceptions with new audiences via digital platforms. The use of blogs within off-campus activities, such as study abroad field visits, have the potential to enhance students’ social media skills and confidence about becoming active researchers in public through communicating field research experiences and ref…
Cannabis Use in an English Community
Cannabis occupies an ambiguous social, cultural, economic, and legal position, meaning that the way communities construct, interact with, and interpret drug markets is a complicated and uncertain process. This article seeks to explain these ambiguities by investigating the place of cannabis use in a UK borough, drawing on qualitative empirical data collated from a sample ( N = 68) of practitioners, local residents, cannabis users, and their famil…
Propagating the Haze? Community and professional perceptions of cannabis cultivation and the impacts of prohibition
Befriending and Re-ablement Service
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to share the findings of a research evaluation into a Befriending and Re-ablement Service (BARS) which offers a host of positive outcomes such as reduced loneliness and keeping as well as possible for a growing segment of the world’s population. The recent increase in longevity is one of humanity’s great success stories. But ageing comes at a price, and decision takers worry about the stresses and strains of a…
Black minority ethnic communities and levels of satisfaction with policing
Using data from an original qualitative study carried out during 2009–10 with a sample located in the north of England (NES), this article considers the satisfaction levels of black minority ethnic (BME) groups with a north of England police force (NEPF). The study sought to examine existing levels (as well as improve) satisfaction with police responses among BME populations. This was done by asking local BME communities about their encounters wi…
Narratives of (in)active ageing in poor deprived areas of Liverpool, UK
Purpose – Ageing populations are national and global phenomena. These older residents are likely to be among the most disadvantaged nationally and in comparison with younger neighbours. The benefits of active ageing are attracting attention from policy makers globally, as it is increasingly recognised that age‐friendly cities encourage active ageing. Resources to sustain active ageing are becoming scarce. Older people's health, social activity, n…
Promoting and Assessing ‘Deep Learning’ in Geography Fieldwork
Fieldwork is central to teaching and learning in geography. The assessment of student learning from fieldwork can, however, be problematic. This paper evaluates the use of reflective diaries for assessing level three undergraduate geography fieldwork. It is concluded that reflective fieldwork diaries offer an innovative and flexible approach to teaching, learning and assessment that encourages deep learning. The method enhances students' critical…
United Kingdom
Introduction In certain fundamental respects the nature and development of immigrant-origin enterprise in Britain differs markedly from that in most other Western European nation states, with entrepreneurial self-employment generally playing a larger role than is usually the case for immigrant-ori
Socio-economic and policy dimensions of the mixed embeddedness of ethnic minority business in Britain
Ethnic minority businesses in Britain are examined in relation to the concept of mixed embeddedness. Earlier intellectual approaches emphasising cultural factors, urban and economic contexts, and public policy are identified. Ethnic minority businesses are shown to be typically small, to compete in saturated spatial markets and to be concentrated in economically vulnerable sectors. Moreover their fragile position has been further destabilised by …
Overcoming the obstacles? Access to bank finance for African-Caribbean enterprise
Small enterprises under the ownership of persons of African‐Caribbean origin are a relatively under‐researched phenomenon (Barrett et al. 1996). This article seeks to partially fill this research void by drawing on evidence collected from in‐depth interviews. The article highlights strategies utilised by African‐Caribbeans in financing their businesses, particularly in respect of their take‐up of bank finance. Contrasts are drawn with a control s…
Ethnic Minority Business
One of the most novel features of recent labour market change in Europe and North America has been the increasing prominence of ethnic minority self-employment. Two decades of radical economic restructuring have brought about a marked shift away from employment in large ® rms to selfemployment in small ones; and, somewhat paradoxically, this trend has been most marked among members of certain migrant groups, often originating in the post-colonial…
Ethnic Minority Business
One of the most novel features of recent labour market change in Europe and North America has been the increasing prominence of ethnic minority self-employment. Two decades of radical economic restructuring have brought about a marked shift away from employment in large ® rms to selfemployment in small ones; and, somewhat paradoxically, this trend has been most marked among members of certain migrant groups, often originating in the post-colonial…
Promoting and Assessing ‘Deep Learning’ in Geography Fieldwork
Fieldwork is central to teaching and learning in geography. The assessment of student learning from fieldwork can, however, be problematic. This paper evaluates the use of reflective diaries for assessing level three undergraduate geography fieldwork. It is concluded that reflective fieldwork diaries offer an innovative and flexible approach to teaching, learning and assessment that encourages deep learning. The method enhances students' critical…
Black minority ethnic communities and levels of satisfaction with policing
Using data from an original qualitative study carried out during 2009–10 with a sample located in the north of England (NES), this article considers the satisfaction levels of black minority ethnic (BME) groups with a north of England police force (NEPF). The study sought to examine existing levels (as well as improve) satisfaction with police responses among BME populations. This was done by asking local BME communities about their encounters wi…
Overcoming the obstacles? Access to bank finance for African-Caribbean enterprise
Small enterprises under the ownership of persons of African‐Caribbean origin are a relatively under‐researched phenomenon (Barrett et al. 1996). This article seeks to partially fill this research void by drawing on evidence collected from in‐depth interviews. The article highlights strategies utilised by African‐Caribbeans in financing their businesses, particularly in respect of their take‐up of bank finance. Contrasts are drawn with a control s…
Narratives of (in)active ageing in poor deprived areas of Liverpool, UK
Purpose – Ageing populations are national and global phenomena. These older residents are likely to be among the most disadvantaged nationally and in comparison with younger neighbours. The benefits of active ageing are attracting attention from policy makers globally, as it is increasingly recognised that age‐friendly cities encourage active ageing. Resources to sustain active ageing are becoming scarce. Older people's health, social activity, n…
Ethnic Minority Business
One of the most novel features of recent labour market change in Europe and North America has been the increasing prominence of ethnic minority self-employment. Two decades of radical economic restructuring have brought about a marked shift away from employment in large ® rms to selfemployment in small ones; and, somewhat paradoxically, this trend has been most marked among members of certain migrant groups, often originating in the post-colonial…
Overcoming the obstacles? Access to bank finance for African-Caribbean enterprise
Small enterprises under the ownership of persons of African‐Caribbean origin are a relatively under‐researched phenomenon (Barrett et al. 1996). This article seeks to partially fill this research void by drawing on evidence collected from in‐depth interviews. The article highlights strategies utilised by African‐Caribbeans in financing their businesses, particularly in respect of their take‐up of bank finance. Contrasts are drawn with a control s…
Socio-economic and policy dimensions of the mixed embeddedness of ethnic minority business in Britain
Ethnic minority businesses in Britain are examined in relation to the concept of mixed embeddedness. Earlier intellectual approaches emphasising cultural factors, urban and economic contexts, and public policy are identified. Ethnic minority businesses are shown to be typically small, to compete in saturated spatial markets and to be concentrated in economically vulnerable sectors. Moreover their fragile position has been further destabilised by …
United Kingdom
Introduction In certain fundamental respects the nature and development of immigrant-origin enterprise in Britain differs markedly from that in most other Western European nation states, with entrepreneurial self-employment generally playing a larger role than is usually the case for immigrant-ori
Promoting and Assessing ‘Deep Learning’ in Geography Fieldwork
Fieldwork is central to teaching and learning in geography. The assessment of student learning from fieldwork can, however, be problematic. This paper evaluates the use of reflective diaries for assessing level three undergraduate geography fieldwork. It is concluded that reflective fieldwork diaries offer an innovative and flexible approach to teaching, learning and assessment that encourages deep learning. The method enhances students' critical…
Black minority ethnic communities and levels of satisfaction with policing
Using data from an original qualitative study carried out during 2009–10 with a sample located in the north of England (NES), this article considers the satisfaction levels of black minority ethnic (BME) groups with a north of England police force (NEPF). The study sought to examine existing levels (as well as improve) satisfaction with police responses among BME populations. This was done by asking local BME communities about their encounters wi…
Narratives of (in)active ageing in poor deprived areas of Liverpool, UK
Purpose – Ageing populations are national and global phenomena. These older residents are likely to be among the most disadvantaged nationally and in comparison with younger neighbours. The benefits of active ageing are attracting attention from policy makers globally, as it is increasingly recognised that age‐friendly cities encourage active ageing. Resources to sustain active ageing are becoming scarce. Older people's health, social activity, n…
Propagating the Haze? Community and professional perceptions of cannabis cultivation and the impacts of prohibition
Befriending and Re-ablement Service
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to share the findings of a research evaluation into a Befriending and Re-ablement Service (BARS) which offers a host of positive outcomes such as reduced loneliness and keeping as well as possible for a growing segment of the world’s population. The recent increase in longevity is one of humanity’s great success stories. But ageing comes at a price, and decision takers worry about the stresses and strains of a…
Cannabis Use in an English Community
Cannabis occupies an ambiguous social, cultural, economic, and legal position, meaning that the way communities construct, interact with, and interpret drug markets is a complicated and uncertain process. This article seeks to explain these ambiguities by investigating the place of cannabis use in a UK borough, drawing on qualitative empirical data collated from a sample ( N = 68) of practitioners, local residents, cannabis users, and their famil…
Study Abroad and Developing Reflective Research Practice Through Blogs
Blogs are seen as an important strand of social networking and a significant way of disseminating research ideas and sharing knowledge and perceptions with new audiences via digital platforms. The use of blogs within off-campus activities, such as study abroad field visits, have the potential to enhance students’ social media skills and confidence about becoming active researchers in public through communicating field research experiences and ref…
Mind Force Retreat
This study focuses on the subjective well-being (SWB) of a sample of military veterans before and after their engagement with a nonclinical, alternative mental health therapies residential retreat in the United Kingdom. The study findings have relevance for trauma-exposed individuals globally. Military veterans will actively avoid seeking traditional mental health treatments due to factors such as stigma and life-long labels, as well as a relucta…
Soft at the Centre”
Study abroad experiences have a clear learning gain for students exemplified through reflection on soft and hard transferable skills that boost graduate readiness. These aptitudes include problem solving, teamwork, and global citizenry. Two time-phased semi-structured questionnaires were administered to a cohort of UK-based university students participating in a recent Criminology program course unit which incorporates a study visit abroad to Slo…
Political science (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Criminology (3 works)