Mark Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7987-6069 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 135 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 792 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 128 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1944 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Exploring Parent Carer Empowerment in Childhood Onset Disability
BACKGROUND: Supporting parent carers to have greater agency and control over the decisions and actions regarding the care of their child is a central tenet of contemporary health and social care policy. This study explored contextual factors influencing the empowerment of parent carers of disabled children from the perspective of a range of stakeholders. METHODS: We used focus groups and semi-structured interviews to collect data from 28 particip…
The Anthropocene as a conceptual tool for education
In a world where facts are contested, the conceptual tool of the Anthropocene epoch – that is, the dramatic and clearly demonstrable ways humans have changed the Earth system trajectory since the mid-20th century – provides real value for society in general and for education in particular. As a unifying concept, it helps us (a) understand the transformed bioclimatic conditions in which we live, (b) appreciate how fragile they are, how rapidly the…
Foregrounding town histories beyond the Soto event in Ichisi (9BI2, Lamar) and the Ocmulgee River Basin, Georgia
We report on our excavation and radiocarbon dating program at the Lamar Mound and Village in the Ocmulgee River Basin of central Georgia. Based on its ceramic assemblage, Lamar has long thought to have been occupied intensively during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and it is one of the regions that the De Soto entrada came through in 1540 as it made its way through what is now Georgia. Excavations in the 1930s revealed several houses and …
Evidence of long-term woodland persistence despite prolonged anthropogenic stress
A multimillennial analysis of woodland ecosystems in the Leicestershire landscape (UK) shows significant anthropogenic stress over the last six millennia. We track these stresses using a combination of palynology and place-name evidence. We show a protracted period of deforestation from the Bronze Age (beginning ~4500 yr BP in Leicestershire), but the continuity of some woodland ecologies through to the present, with the managed re-establishment …
A mid-20th century stratigraphical Anthropocene is recognisable in the birth-area of the industrial revolution
The formalisation of the Anthropocene as a subdivision of the Geological Time Scale has been under debate. Its stratigraphic boundary has been proposed as a precise Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) in the mid-20th century, but it is part of an episode of human-induced changes to the Earth System that have unfolded over millennia. Here we attempt to identify stratigraphical patterns of the Anthropocene from a previously well stu…
The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland, by Lindy Brady
Reorganizing public value for city life in the Anthropocene
Public value and city governance are fundamental notions in contemporary settings, but, currently conceived, they are not fit for the challenges presented by the proposed new epoch of geological time—the Anthropocene. Walking through the locked-down streets or calle of Venice, we face the sudden emptiness that starkly reveals the impact of human activity on the city and its waterways. Reflecting on the walk, our starting point is to problematize …
Politics, personalisation and me
Courting India
Journal Article Courting India: England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire, by Nandini Das Get access Courting India: England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire, by Nandini Das (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023; pp. xxii + 480. £30). Mark Williams Mark Williams Cardiff University, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, ceae076, https://doi.o…
Is there a mid-career crisis? An investigation of the relationship between age and job satisfaction across occupations based on four large UK datasets
Previous research has yielded mixed evidence on the relationship between age and job satisfaction. While there is broad consensus that job satisfaction tends to increase from midlife into older age, considerable debate persists regarding whether it rises or falls during the early stages of a career. This study examines this relationship in depth by analysing four nationally representative datasets, which include both cross-sectional and longitudi…
Downward occupational mobility and job satisfaction
Downward occupational mobility is a generally under-explored subject in career research. This study examines how job satisfaction evolves before, during, and after a downward career transition and how the pattern is moderated by individual and contextual factors. Drawing on the UK Household Longitudinal Study which followed respondents from 40,000 households over the last decade, our fixed-effects analysis shows that downward occupational mobilit…
The EU, Irish Defence Forces and Contemporary Security
Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Experiences of Discrimination Among Black Adults
Feeling Tone
The San Francisco Estuary, USA as a reference section for the Anthropocene series
A San Francisco Estuary core was analysed at high resolution to assess its component stratigraphic signatures of the Anthropocene in the form of non-native species, Hg, spheroidal carbonaceous particles, δ13Corg, δ15N, radiogenic materials, and heavy metals. Time series analysis of the core using Ti data provides a chronology to depth 167 cm into the 1960s. Below this, to depth 230 cm, the lowermost part of the core may extend to the 1950s or pot…
The Association Between Homophily on Illicit Drug Use and PrEP Conversations Among Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men Friends
The association between egocentric sexual networks and sexual meeting venues with PrEP conversation and encouragement for use among Latinx men who have sex with men
Despite the increasing availability of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), Latinx men who have sex with men (LMSM) are not receiving PrEP-related information. To understand the influence of LMSM sexual networks on PrEP-related conversations and encouragement to use PrEP, this cross-sectional egocentric network study characterized the PrEP-related communication of 130 LMSM egos with 507 sexual partners (alters). Participants were recruited using resp…
EU, Irish Defence Forces and Contemporary Security
The Early Materialization of Democratic Institutions among the Ancestral Muskogean of the American Southeast
Democratic cooperation is a particularly complex type of arrangement that requires attendant institutions to ensure that the problems inherent in collective action do not subvert the public good. It is perhaps due to this complexity that historians, political scientists, and others generally associate the birth of democracy with the emergence of so-called states and center it geographically in the 'West,' where it then diffused to the rest of the…
British Catholic Merchants in the Commercial Age, 1670–1714, by Giada Pizzoni
Giada Pizzoni makes a fascinating and valuable contribution to a growing scholarship on the British Catholic community on the international stage. At the centre of her study is the Aylward family, whose extensive papers are in the Arundel Castle Archives in West Sussex. These have provided Pizzoni with a richly detailed record of not only the transactional basis of their trade but also a broad map of their trading networks and glimpses of their p…
The Media Ecology Project
This essay details the development and current NEH-funded research goals of The Media Ecology Project (MEP), directed by Prof. Mark Williams and designed by Dr. John Bell at Dartmouth. The virtuous cycle of access, research, and preservation that MEP realizes is built upon a foundation of technological advance (software development) plus large-scale partnership networks with scholars, students, and institutions of historical memory such as moving…
Reconstructing a Longitudinal Dataset for Tasmania
This article describes the formation of The Tasmanian Historical Dataset a longitudinal data resource spanning the 19th and early 20th century. This resource contains over 1.6 million records drawn from digitised prison and hospital admission registers, military enlistment papers, births, deaths and marriages, census and muster records, arrival and departure lists, bank accounts and property valuations, maps and plans and meteorological observati…
Why Re-Invent the Wheel? Social Network Approaches Can Be Used to Mitigate Sars-CoV-2 Related Disparities in Latinx Seasonal Farmworkers
Latinx seasonal farmworkers are essential workers and are at elevated risk for SARS-CoV-2 in the United States. Risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 are unique to this population and include crowded living conditions, isolated social networks, and exploitative working environments. The circumstances and cultural values of Latinx seasonal farmworkers pose a unique challenge to public health authorities working to contain the spread of SARS-CoV-2. This comm…
Muscular Strength Spurts in Adolescent Male Basketball Players
Although successful performance in basketball requires high levels of muscular strength during adolescence, its development is confounded by the effects of normal growth. We examine the timing, intensity and sequence of muscular strength according to biological age (years from peak height velocity (PHV)) and hypothesize that young basketball players attain their peak muscular strength spurts around PHV. A total of 160 adolescent male basketballer…
Tenkō
When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal
The Anthropocene
The Working Group on the Anthropocene
The geological cycle of plastics and their use as a stratigraphic indicator of the Anthropocene
The technofossil record of humans
As humans have colonised and modified the Earth's surface, they have developed progressively more sophisticated tools and technologies. These underpin a new kind of stratigraphy, that we term technostratigraphy, marked by the geologically accelerated evolution and diversification of technofossils - the preservable material remains of the technosphere (Haff, 2013), driven by human purpose and transmitted cultural memory, and with the dynamics of a…
Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere
We assess the scale and extent of the physical technosphere, defined here as the summed material output of the contemporary human enterprise. It includes active urban, agricultural and marine components, used to sustain energy and material flow for current human life, and a growing residue layer, currently only in small part recycled back into the active component. Preliminary estimates suggest a technosphere mass of approximately 30 trillion ton…
Human bioturbation, and the subterranean landscape of the Anthropocene
Colonization of the Americas, 'Little Ice Age' climate, and bomb-produced carbon
A recently published analysis by Lewis and Maslin (Lewis SL and Maslin MA (2015) Defining the Anthropocene. Nature 519: 171-180) has identified two new potential horizons for the Holocene−Anthropocene boundary: 1610 (associated with European colonization of the Americas), or 1964 (the peak of the excess radiocarbon signal arising from atom bomb tests). We discuss both of these novel suggestions, and consider that there is insufficient stratigraph…
The Anthropocene biosphere
The geological record preserves evidence for two fundamental stages in the evolution of Earth's biosphere, a microbial stage from ~3.5 to 0.65 Ga, and a metazoan stage evident by c. 650 Ma. We suggest that the modern biosphere differs significantly from these previous stages and shows early signs of a new, third stage of biosphere evolution characterised by: (1) global homogenisation of flora and fauna; (2) a single species ( Homo sapiens) comman…
An old model of social class? Job characteristics and the NS-SEC schema
This article explores the relationship between the job characteristics underlying the Goldthorpe model of social class (work monitoring difficulty and human asset specificity) and those underlying theories of technological change (routine and analytical tasks) highlighted as key drivers for growing inequality. Analysis of the 2012 British Skills and Employment Survey demonstrates monitoring difficulty and asset specificity predict National Statis…
Petrifying Earth Process
The Anthropocene concept arose within the Earth System science (ESS) community, albeit explicitly as a geological (stratigraphical) time term. Its current analysis by the stratigraphical community, as a potential formal addition to the Geological Time Scale, necessitates comparison of the methodologies and patterns of enquiry of these two communities. One means of comparison is to consider some of the most widely used results of the ESS, the 'pla…
Subjective well-being in the new China
We present the first nationally representative evidence on the relationship between religion and subjective well-being for the case of China. Research on Western societies tends to find a positive association between being religious and level of well-being. China provides an interesting critical case as the religious population is growing rapidly and the religious and socioeconomic environments are profoundly different from Western societies, imp…
Subjective Social Status in Transitioning China
Objective This study provides the first representative portrait of temporal trends in subjective social status (SSS) in China. SSS has been shown to be important for health and well‐being outcomes, yet little is known how its determinants change over time. Methods Using data from 10 nationally representative survey waves, 2003 to 2012 ( N = 80,141), we examine descriptive and multivariate trends. Oaxaca‐Blinder decomposition is used to decompose …
Covid-19 and the digital revolution
Since the 1980s, the digital revolution has been both a negative and positive force. Within a few weeks of the Covid-19 outbreak, lockdown accelerated the adoption of digital solutions at an unprecedented pace, creating unforeseen opportunities for scaling up alternative approaches to social and economic life. But it also brought digital risks and threats that placed new demands on policymakers. This article assembles evidence from different area…
Enduring Traditions and the (Im)materiality of Early Colonial Encounters in the Southeastern United States
Hernando de Soto's expedition through the southeastern United States between 1539 and 1543 is often regarded as a watershed moment for the collapse of Indigenous societies across the region. Historical narratives have proposed that extreme depopulation as a result of early contact destabilized Indigenous economies, politics, networks, and traditions. Although processes of depopulation and transformation were certainly set in motion by this and ea…
Better autonomic conditioning and faster electrodermal half-recovery time at age 15 years as possible protective factors against crime at age 29 years
This prospective study tests the hypothesis that antisocial adolescents who desist from adult crime show better classical conditioning and faster skin conductance half-recovery times at age 15 compared with antisocial adolescents who go on to become adult criminals at age 29. Measures were assessed in 101 unselected 15-year-old male school children. Of these, 17 antisocial adolescents who desisted from adult crime (desistors) were matched with 17…
The Early Materialization of Democratic Institutions among the Ancestral Muskogean of the American Southeast
Democratic cooperation is a particularly complex type of arrangement that requires attendant institutions to ensure that the problems inherent in collective action do not subvert the public good. It is perhaps due to this complexity that historians, political scientists, and others generally associate the birth of democracy with the emergence of so-called states and center it geographically in the 'West,' where it then diffused to the rest of the…
Ireland's Immortals
Occupational Stratification in Contemporary Britain
Occupations traditionally played a central role in stratification accounts. In the wake of the Great Recession, debates regarding the extent and nature of occupational stratification have been reinvigorated. An exploration of occupational wage stratification patterns defined by both detailed occupational unit groups and the broader occupational class categories of the National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification (NS-SEC) reveals the proporti…
The application of microfossils in assessing the provenance of chalk used in the manufacture of Roman mosaics at Silchester
Geological evolution of the Mississippi River into the Anthropocene
The Mississippi River maintains commercial and societal networks of the USA along its >3700 km length. It has accumulated a fluvial sedimentary succession over 80 million years. Through the last 11,700 years of the Holocene Epoch, the wild river shaped the landscape, models of which have become classic in geological studies of ancient river strata. Studies of the river were led by the need to develop infrastructure and to search for hydrocarbons,…
A Fresh Look at a Little-Known Southeastern Copper Plate
Chauga (38OC47) is a mound site now under Lake Hartwell at the head of the Savannah River in Oconee County, South Carolina. Excavations in 1958–1959 by the University of Georgia recovered a Mississippian copper plate. Upon comparison to others of its kind, it is clear that this lesser-known plate encompasses some interesting design features, most notably the presence of the only known depiction of a chunkey stone on copper. We have recently creat…
Offensive communications
The digital revolution has transformed the potential reach and impact of criminal behaviour. Not only has it changed how people commit crimes but it has also created opportunities for new types of crimes to occur. Policymakers and criminal justice institutions have struggled to keep pace with technological innovation and its impact on criminality. Criminal law and justice, as well as investigative and prosecution procedures, are often outdated an…
Raids on the Articulate
The San Francisco Estuary, USA as a reference section for the Anthropocene series
A San Francisco Estuary core was analysed at high resolution to assess its component stratigraphic signatures of the Anthropocene in the form of non-native species, Hg, spheroidal carbonaceous particles, δ13Corg, δ15N, radiogenic materials, and heavy metals. Time series analysis of the core using Ti data provides a chronology to depth 167 cm into the 1960s. Below this, to depth 230 cm, the lowermost part of the core may extend to the 1950s or pot…
Geological investigations along the Alaska Hwy from Fort Nelson, British Columbia, to Watson Lake, Yukon
Language Taught for Meetings and Language Used in Meetings
This article examines the language used by native speakers of English in business meetings. This is compared with the language taught by business English textbooks for use in meetings. The many exponents for functions that are taught by textbooks of business English are compared with those actually used in the meetings analysed. It is found that there is almost no correspondence at all between the two. This raises questions of whether textbooks a…
Muscular Aesthete
New Zealand (with the South Pacific Islands
The Psychology of Religious Knowing
New Zealand (With the South Pacific Islands
Life after death? The literature of an undeployedKamikazesquadron leader
The myth of infinite demand
Validity of self-reported drug use among injection drug users and crack cocaine users recruited through street outreach
Reliability of Drug Users' Self-Reported HIV Risk Behaviors and Validity of Self-Reported Recent Drug Use
This study examined the reliability and validity of the Risk Behavior Assessment, a structured interview questionnaire designed to evaluate drug use and sexual HIV risk behaviors. Participants were 218 drug users currently not in treatment who completed the RBA two times over a 48-hour period and gave urine samples on both occasions. We examined internal consistency and test-retest reliability and found that, overall, drug users reliably report d…
Prevalence of total hip replacement
OBJECTIVE--To determine the prevalence of completed elective total hip replacements in a defined elderly population. DESIGN--Cross sectional postal questionnaire survey with additional data and validation from general practice and hospital records. SETTING--Six general practices in the English counties of Avon, Somerset, and Oxfordshire. SUBJECTS--A total of 7806 patients aged 65 years and over (94.7% response). RESULTS--The overall prevalence (9…
The Story of Spain
In search of the chaotic unconscious
Japan and Christianity
Much has been written of the 'success' of the early missions to Japan during the decades immediately following the arrival of the first Jesuits in 1549. The subsequent 'failure' of the faith to put do
Better autonomic conditioning and faster electrodermal half-recovery time at age 15 years as possible protective factors against crime at age 29 years
This prospective study tests the hypothesis that antisocial adolescents who desist from adult crime show better classical conditioning and faster skin conductance half-recovery times at age 15 compared with antisocial adolescents who go on to become adult criminals at age 29. Measures were assessed in 101 unselected 15-year-old male school children. Of these, 17 antisocial adolescents who desisted from adult crime (desistors) were matched with 17…
Japan and Christianity
List of Illustrations - Chronology - Editors' Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Translations of Christian Terminology into Japanese 16-19th Centuries: Problems and Solutions S.Kaiser - Early Western-Style Paintings in Japan M.Cooper - New Perspectives on the Christian Prohibition O.Sachiyasu - Acculturation among the Kakure Cirishitan: Some Conclusions from the Tenchi Hajimari no Koto S.Turnbull - Beyond the Prohibition: Ch…
Japan and Christianity
The Limits of Settlement Growth
Theoretical Models Used to Guide Nida's Cooperative Agreement Research and Intervention Efforts
NIDA's Cooperative Agreement program to reach out-of-treatment drug users and provide HIV prevention to reduce HIV drug and sexual risks was initiated in September of 1990. By August, 1994 the program included 23 sites which used various theoretical models to guide prevention strategies, add conceptual coherence to many aspects of behavior change, and allow for clearer interpretation of why behavior change occurs. This article reviews the theoret…
Raids on the Articulate
The draft Unesco/Doalos Convention on the protection of underwater cultural heritage and conflict with the European Convention on Human Rights
The newly adopted United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization's Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage provides the first universal protection regime for this value archaeological resource. A central difficulty in concluding this Convention was defining underwater cultural heritage. This article considers the development of the definition agreed upon and analyses its utility in providing for a pragmati…
Reliability and Validity of Not-in-Treatment Drug Users' Follow-Up Self-Reports
The changing fortunes of the Austrian greens
An Evaluation of a Brief HIV Risk Reduction Intervention Using Empirically Derived Drug Use and Sexual Risk Indices
Protection of Headwater Catchments From Future Degradation
A study of high-elevation catchments in the San Miguel River Basin of southwest Colorado was conducted during the summer of 1997 to develop a scientifically based tool for water resources management. The authors mapped landscape types and associated water quality parameters with those types, enabling sensitivity assessment at the landscape unit scale, thus addressing catchment heterogeneity. Landscape-type maps and derived sensitivity maps were e…
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