David Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8130-656X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 264 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 551 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 260 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1941 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Warrior Bot, Relational Bot, Blameworthy Bot
How do robot designers anthropomorphize their own creations? Because robot designers have the ability to alter the robot, identify as its creator, and understand their robot’s internal makeup, their process of anthropomorphism and its outcomes may be different from that of the typical robot user. We investigate this research question in the domain of combat robots, where anthropomorphism is critical to decision-making, communication, and trust in…
Designing transparent, equitable, and efficient decision support systems for drug courts using machine learning
Cultural Competency in Research
BACKGROUND: As researchers strive to conduct culturally competent and equitable research, there remains a lack of actionable guidance across the research lifecycle. Increasingly, funding bodies require evidence of such approaches, yet a clear, practical direction for effective research practice is often lacking. AIM: To develop a practical framework, grounded in Meleis' cultural competence criteria, to guide all stages of the research lifecycle. …
Corpus perspectives on legal discourse
This editorial introduces a special issue of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics on corpus perspectives on legal discourse. It first situates corpus-based research within the broader empirical tradition of language and law studies, tracing the emergence of a ‘corpus turn’ from the mid-1990s onwards and its contribution to the analysis of legal texts. It then identifies established and emerging trends exemplified by the five studies in…
Stereotyped accent judgements in forensic contexts
This paper reports the findings from a multidisciplinary and cross-institutional Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project called ‘Improving Voice Identification Procedures’ (IVIP). People harbour stereotypes about particular accents, and those judgements may be brought with them into the legal domain. Considering the potential consequences of accent judgements by witnesses and jurors, this study examines the relationship between…
Barriers and Facilitators to Physical Activity Among Black Older Adult Parishioners
Communities against cancer
The community-based grant model adopted by CAC enabled community members to self-define effective strategies to deliver cancer messages to their communities. As a result, the CAC initiative met its aims of promoting cancer awareness, encouraging healthy lifestyles and help-seeking behaviours by ensuring activites were fully tailored and co-created with marginalised communities
A Translanguaging Approach to Doctoral Supervision
Translanguaging theory and practices have enabled multilingual spaces where students’ full linguistic repertoires are valued, explored, and utilized by educators as resources across educational settings. However, research reporting supervision pedagogies incorporating international doctoral students’ multilingualism as intellectual resources in doctoral research education in Australia remains scant. This paper reports a case study that explored a…
Can the Iron Dome Be Transmuted into a Golden Dome
The Lalonde Report in historical perspective
Queer Eye and grief
‘Wanting’ the Home-Grown Composer
This chapter indicates some of the changes in the condition of the British composer between the pre–First World War situation that Vaughan Williams had outlined in ‘Who Wants the English Composer?’ and the developments that began to come into place in the 1920s and 1930s. It focusses on aspects of fresh leadership, opportunities, and practical encouragement as evidenced through Hugh Allen and the Royal College of Music, Adrian Boult and the Briti…
The Effect of Different Point Systems on European League Positions
The introduction of three points for a win in European football during the 1980s and 90s was intended to promote a more attacking style of play and thus more goal scoring and entertainment for viewers. However, subsequent studies showed that the change did not have the desired effect and led to unexpected outcomes such as a rise in foul play, as measured by the number of red cards. In this paper, we investigate the outcome of assigning points in …
Semiotic Perspectives on Forensic and Legal Linguistics
Spatio-Temporal Variation in the Exceedance of Enterococci in Lake Burley Griffin
Recreational waterbodies with high levels of faecal indicator bacteria (FIB) pose health risks and are an ongoing challenge for urban-lake managers. Lake Burley Griffin (LBG) in the Australian Capital city of Canberra is a popular site for water-based recreation, but analyses of seasonal and long-term patterns in enterococci that exceed alert levels (>200 CFU per 100 mL, leading to site closures) are lacking. This study analysed enterococci conce…
Bias toward the Accents of Virtual Assistants
Language bias, both positive and negative, is a well-documented phenomenon exhibited among human interlocutors. We examine whether this bias is exhibited toward virtual assistants, specifically, Apple's Siri and Google Assistant, with various accents. We conducted three studies with different stimuli and designs to investigate U.S. English speakers’ attitudes toward Google's British, Indian, and American voices and Apple's Irish, Indian, South Af…
Music in Twentieth-Century Oxford
Journal Article Music in Twentieth-Century Oxford: New Directions. Robin Darwall-Smith and Susan Wollenberg Get access Music in Twentieth-Century Oxford: New Directions. Ed. by Robin Darwall-Smith and Susan Wollenberg. Pp. 278. ( Boydell Press, Woodbridge and Rochester, NY, 2023. ISBN 978-1-78327-724-7, £70.) David C H Wright David C H Wright Royal College of Music, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar M…
Ambiguity, responsibility and political action in the UK daily Covid-19 briefings
This paper investigates how pronouns were used by UK government speakers to allocate responsibility to themselves and others in all 92 daily televised COVID-19 briefings that were held between March and June 2020. We identified the referent for every use of the first-person plural pronoun (1PL) as ‘inclusive’, ‘exclusive’, or 'ambiguous' and analysed the transitivity patterns in which these pronouns act as Participants. We argue that the UK gover…
Evaluating earwitness identification procedures
Voice identification parades can be unreliable, as earwitness responses are error-prone. In this paper we tested performance across serial and sequential procedures, and varied pre-parade instructions, with the aim of reducing errors. The participants heard a target voice and later attempted to identify it from a parade. In Experiment 1 they were either warned that the target may or may not be present (standard warning) or encouraged to consider …
Exploring ethics and human rights in artificial intelligence – A Delphi study
Ethical and human rights issues of artificial intelligence (AI) are a prominent topic of research and innovation policy as well as societal and scientific debate. It is broadly recognised that AI-related technologies have properties that can give rise to ethical and human rights concerns, such as privacy, bias and discrimination, safety and security, economic distribution, political participation or the changing nature of warfare. Numerous ways o…
Why the trial researcher matters
Researchers working in the field, the places where research-relevant activity happens, are essential to recruitment and data collection in randomised controlled trials (RCTs). This study aimed to understand the nature of this often invisible work. Data were generated through an RCT of a pharmacist-led medication management service for older people in care homes. The study was conducted over three years and employed seven Research Associates (RA) …
The Evolution of Child Marriage as a Human Rights Concern
Downs
Prologue: case study 1. The philosopher's idiot 2. Mongols in our midst 3. The Simian Crease 4. Trisomie vingt-et-un 5. Into the mainstream Epilogue Glossary Notes Further reading
Translating Science
How did the Chinese in the 19th century deal with the enormous influx of Western science? What were the patterns behind this watershed in Chinese intellectual history? This work deals with those responsible for the translation of science, the major issues they were confronted with, and their struggles; the Chinese translators' views of its overpowering influence on, and interaction with their own great tradition, those of the missionary-translato…
Engaging China
Understanding Cultural Omnivorousness
The concept of omnivorousness has become influential in the sociologies of culture and consumption, cited variously as evidence of altered hierarchies in cultural participation and as indicative of broader socio-cultural changes. The 'omnivore thesis' contends that there is a sector of the population of western countries who do and like a greater variety of forms of culture than previously, and that this broad engagement reflects emerging values …
In Search of an Ancient Maya Market
Market economies are notoriously difficult to identify in the archeological record. This is particularly true in the subtropical Maya lowlands of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize because most utilitarian items and consumables were made of highly perishable materials. We explore the hypothesis that ancient marketplaces can be identified through analysis of chemical residues in soils from open and easily accessible spaces in and about ancient Maya cit…
The omnivorous orientation in the UK
Mediating production and consumption
This paper examines recent debates about the role of what Bourdieu termed cultural intermediaries in the formation and reproduction of the relations of cultural capital. Workers in the cultural or creative industries were given a central place in Bourdieu's schema in the creation of hierarchies of value in the production and consumption of symbolic goods. Subsequent writers about the apparent emergence of a creative economy (Lash and Urry 1994; F…
Cosmopolitan nationalism and the cultural reach of the white British
In recent years, strong claims have been made for the breakdown of national boundaries and the reformation of national identities in an increasingly interconnected global world – driven in large part by the possibilities and limitations that emerge from an increasingly global media world. It has been argued that new postnational, cosmopolitan subjectivities accompany, enable and feed off globally oriented forms of cultural consumption. This artic…
Social Capital and Adolescent Violent Behavior
This study explores the relationship between social capital and adolescent violent behaviors for a national sample of secondary school students (N = 4,834). Cross-sectional data from The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health were used to evaluate multivariate models examining the family school and neighborhood correlates of violent behaviors. Results demonstrate the importance of social capital factors across domains as significant res…
Suffering and medicalization at the end of life
Suffering' is a central discursive trope for the right-to-die movement. In this article, we ask how proponents of physician-assisted dying (PAD) articulate suffering with the role of medicine at the end of life within the context of a decriminalization and legalization debate. We draw upon empirical data from our study of Carter v. Canada, the landmark court case that decriminalized PAD in Canada in 2015. We conducted in-depth interviews with 42 …
Comparing 'Cosmopolitanism
This paper adds a comparative perspective to the study of taste, cosmopolitanism and social organisation. Drawing on material provided by two similar projects in the UK and Finland it explores the relationships between national and cosmopolitan taste cultures. Whilst there have been some recent attempts to study taste in a comparative perspective, the weight of sociological inquiry into taste is focussed on specific national spaces, including the…
Cultural capital and the literary field
The literary field has been conceptualized in social scientific work as patterned in particular ways. Historically, popular reading has been linked with contested processes of social change. Tastes for reading have, following Bourdieu, been seen as embedded in continuing processes of distinction and the making of hierarchies. Research has demonstrated the ways in which these hierarchies might be reflective of gender as well as of class relationsh…
The Translation of Modern Western Science in Nineteenth-Century China, 1840-1895
The translation of Western science texts into Chinese began with the Jesuits in the sixteenth century, but by 1800 their impact had waned. The First Opium War (1839-1842) and the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) stimulated renewed interest in Western military technologies and in the sciences that underpinned them, leading to the beginning of systematic translations at government institutions in the late 1860s. At the same time, Western missionaries …
Using Mixed Methods for Analysing Culture
This article discusses the use of material generated in a mixed method investigation into cultural tastes and practices, conducted in Britain from 2003 to 2006, which employed a survey, focus groups and household interviews. The study analysed the patterning of cultural life across a number of fields, enhancing the empirical and methodological template provided by Bourdieu's Distinction. Here we discuss criticisms of Bourdieu emerging from subseq…
Commodifying Respectability
This article argues for a focus on the relationships between retail managers, workers and the objects that they sell in understanding the production of retail spaces and service interactions as meaningful. Sociological and critical management literatures on the service encounter have emphasized the extent to which retail workers are encouraged to display enthusiasm for the things that they sell as part of the process of selling. Indeed, competiti…
Coney Island
Methodological Issues in National-Comparative Research on Cultural Tastes
Drawing on two projects which develop the methodological model of Bourdieu's Distinction in the UK and Finland, this paper explores the issues raised by the use of multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) and mixed methods in comparative work on cultural tastes. By identifying the problems in the construction of two comparable yet nationally relevant research instruments, the paper considers the importance of the similarities and differences in the…
Displaying Desire and Distinction in Housing
The article discusses the significance of cultural capital for the understanding of the field of housing in contemporary Britain. It explores the relationship between housing and the position of individuals in social space mapped out by means of a multiple correspondence analysis. It considers the material aspects of housing and the changing contexts that are linked to the creation and display of desire for social position and distinction express…
Examination of Tattoos on Mummified Tissue using Infra-red Reflectography
Constructing physician-assisted dying
Since the 1990s, there has been a growing global movement to legalise the controversial practice of physician-assisted dying (PAD). In the last twenty years, 13 jurisdictions have decriminalised or legalised PAD which, in turn, have produced new knowledge on the practice. The recent case of Carter v. Canada, which decriminalised PAD in Canada in 2015, provides us with an empirical opportunity to investigate how actors deployed and interpreted thi…
Culture as Information and Culture as Affective Process
This paper describes an application of the Cross‐Cultural Adaptability Inventory or CCAI (Kelley and Meyers 1995a) to measure the effects of two ways to teach about German culture in beginning language courses. A first language (L1) process‐oriented approach and a second language (L2) knowledge‐based approach were implemented in separate classes. Students filled out the CCAI in pretreatment and post‐treatment conditions. Quantitative analyses of …
Making Privacy Impact Assessment More Effective
Europe's proposed Data Protection Regulation is expected to make data protection impact assessment (DPIA) mandatory, a development that could impact hundreds of thousands of organizations (both governmental and private sector) in Europe, as well as non-European entities offering their wares and services there. This article reviews the DPIA provisions outlined in the new regulation. For the nuts and bolts of a privacy impact assessment (PIA) metho…
Creative Nonfiction and the Academy
Since their inception, institutional review boards (IRBs), which use a biomedical model with which to evaluate cases, have continued to extend their reach, increasingly of late into the humanities. Although most humanists in the academy are probably not even aware of its existence, their local IRB could step in and demand that a writer's project, it if involves the broadly defined human-subject research, be vetted through the board before approva…
This is England, speak English!’
This article examines right-leaning press representations of people living in the UK who can’t speak English, or at least speak English well, following the 2011 Census, which was the first to ask respondents about their main language and proficiency in English. The analysis takes a corpus-assisted approach to critical discourse analysis, based on a 1.8 million-word corpus of right-leaning newspaper articles about ‘speak(ing) English’ in the years…
Using word n-grams to identify authors and idiolects
Forensic authorship attribution is concerned with identifying the writers of anonymous criminal documents. Over the last twenty years, computer scientists have developed a wide range of statistical procedures using a number of different linguistic features to measure similarity between texts. However, much of this work is not of practical use to forensic linguists who need to explain in reports or in court why a particular method of identifying p…
A Strategy for Operationalizing Privacy by Design
Recent controversies surrounding privacy have sparked a move by regulators toward the idea of privacy by design (PbD), a concept pioneered by Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian. Industry has also started to recognize the importance of taking privacy seriously, with various PbD corporate initiatives currently underway. However, some commentators have criticized PbD for being too vague. Using three case studies and a range o…
Soil properties and stable carbon isotope analysis of landscape features in the Petexbatún region of Guatemala
Soil properties and stable carbon isotope ratios contained in the soil organic matter (SOM) were used to investigate the change in vegetative history of land cleared anciently for maize ( Zea mays L.) agriculture in the Petexbatún region of Guatemala. Maize and other C 4 plants associated with land clearance leave a carbon isotopic signature in the SOM different from the C 3 plants of native forest vegetation. Soil profiles were collected from va…
The European Challenges Post-1992
This economic and socio-political/cultural work seeks to find the answers to two questions. What major long-term factors will shape the European Community post-1992? And, who are the central actors, how will they exert influence on Europe's future, and what are their expectations and intentions
Internal Inconsistency in D. H. Robertson's "Saving and Hoarding" Concepts
The Interpretation of the Kuznets-Fabricant Figures for "Net" Capital Consumption
The Creation of Purchasing Power
Hopes and Fears
ECONOMISTS, Napoleon is represented as saying, blockheads who make to stop the running sores of the body politic. They do not even know that a nation may have a sick soul. 1 writer quotes this opinion not because he agrees with it for he does not -nor to imply anything invidious regarding the authors under review in the present paper,2 nor yet, as will be seen later, to question the value of the financial plasters themselves, but because the stat…
"The Great Guessing Game"
Rebuilding the World Economy--America's Role in Foreign Trade and Investment
Economic Policy for a Free Society
The Economics of Disturbance
How Much Can Planning Do
Mr. Harrod and Growth Economics
Freedom and the Administrative State . Joseph Rosenfarb
The Economics of Disturbance
Journal Article The Economics of Disturbance Get access The Economics of Disturbance. By DAVID MCCORD WRIGHT. (New York and London : Macmillan Company, 1947. Pp. viii + 115 12s. 6d.) F. A. Burchardt F. A. Burchardt Institute of Statistics, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 59, Issue 234, 1 June 1949, Pages 223–225, https://doi.org/10.2307/2226688 Published: 01 June 1949
Economic Security and Individual Freedom--Can We Have Both
Capitalism
Schumpeter's Political Philosophy
Conditions of Freedom
A Reconstruction of Economics . Kenneth E. Boulding
Freedom, Power, and Democratic Planning . Karl Mannheim
Captitalism
Making Capitalism Work--A Program for Preserving Freedom and Stabilizing Prosperity
Professor Metzler and the Rate of Interest
The Impact of the Union
Journal Article The Impact of the Union: Eight Economic Theorists Evaluate the Labor Union Movement Get access The Impact of the Union : Eight Economic Theorists evaluate the Labor Union Movement. Edited by DAVID MCCORD WRIGHT. JOHN MAURICE CLARK, GOTTFRIED HABERLER, FRANK H. KNIGHT, K. E. BOTJLDING, EDWARD H. CHAMBERLTN, MILTON FRIEDMAN, DAVID McC. WRIGHT and PAUL A. SAMUELSON. (New York : Harcourt, Brace, 1951. Pp. ix + 405. $4.00.) E. H. Phelp…
The Impact of the Union
The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo
The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo
David Ricardo was born in London in 1772. His father, a successful stockbroker, introduced him to the Stock Exchange at the formative age of fourteen. During his career in finance, he amassed a personal fortune, which allowed him to retire at the age of forty-two. Thereafter, he pursued a political career and further developed his economic ideas and policy proposals. A man of very little formal education, Ricardo arguably became, with the excepti…
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