Robert Walker

Biographic Data

ID3617837
NAMERobert Walker
GIVEN NAMESRobert
FAMILY NAMEWalker
SIGNATUREWALKER R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Kentucky
ORCID0000-0002-7763-3784
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS200
TOTAL CITATIONS1355
AUTHOR COUNT197
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1940
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX21

  • Primary school physical activity culture in the UK

    Open AccessRobert Walker, Lydia Emm-Collison et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2026

    Introduction: Physical activity is fundamental for children's health and well-being, yet most children are not active enough. School-based interventions aiming to increase children's physical activity have largely been ineffective, perhaps due to a lack of consideration of the unique culture within each school. The aim of this paper is to understand the key aspects of physical activity culture in English primary schools using the organizational c…

  • We just have to work with what we’ve got”

    Open AccessDanielle House, Robert Walker et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    The presence of facilities or resources alone does not determine pupil physical activity at primary school. Factors such as the social context of the school, logistical and timetabling challenges, seasonality, and how fit for purpose facilities are for that school, are important factors in school staff and pupils' use and management of these facilities, and whether their potential is maximised or undermined. Future research and policy must broade…

  • The complexity of promoting physical activity in English state primary schools

    Open AccessRobert Walker, Danielle House et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Revisions to school regulatory systems and policies are needed to enable schools to prioritise physical activity so it is not dependent on "passionate" individuals. Senior leadership plays a key role in prioritising physical activity in the high pressure state primary school environment. It is important that practitioners and researchers consider these diverse and challenging social contextual factors within English state primary schools in inter…

  • Designing context-specific physical activity interventions for English primary schools

    Open AccessRobert Walker, Danielle House et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    This study underscores the importance of context-specific approaches to promoting physical activity in primary schools. Context-specific intervention design should closely consider school context to ensure strategies are appropriate. Intervention designs should also include steps to understand different stakeholder goals, PTA funding disparities, and the appropriate areas of physical activity to target

  • Poverty Perceptions Among Migrant Children in Urban China

    Open AccessBingyi Zhang, Robert Walker et al.ARTICLEChinese Education & Society2025References: 18

  • The Value in Rapid, Multi-Site Team Ethnography for Understanding Context to Design Public Health Interventions

    Open AccessDanielle House, Robert Walker et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025References: 66

    Low levels of physical activity is a global public health challenge, and children are not taking part in recommended amounts of physical activity. To date, the majority of school-based physical activity interventions have not yielded increases in pupils’ physical activity levels, and it is suggested that this is partly due to traditional intervention approaches ignoring the role of individual school context. By context we mean the school setting,…

  • Migrant children's digital divide in online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Guanli Zhang, Muzhi Zhou et al.ARTICLEChinese Sociological Review2025Cited by: 1References: 46

    In this study, we examined the impact of online learning on children’s educational progress during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly focusing on migrant children attending a primary school in Hangzhou, China. Through a combination of student and parent questionnaires (n = 537) and in-depth interviews with teachers and parents, we found that migrant children faced challenges such as poor connectivity, inadequate equipment, and lack of parental s…

  • Physical activity interventions in European primary schools

    Open AccessAlice Porter, Robert Walker et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Introduction: Schools provide a unique environment to facilitate physical activity for children. However, many school-based physical activity interventions have not been effective. We propose a new approach, which allows schools to tailor interventions to their specific context. This scoping review aimed to identify intervention components from previous school-based physical activity interventions to form the basis of a tailored approach in a Eur…

  • China and Climate Change

    Open AccessLichao Yang, Robert WalkerARTICLESocial Inclusion2024References: 5

    China aims to transition from a carbon‐intensive economy to carbon neutrality before 2060. Although climate change policies commenced in 2007, this goal remains extremely challenging. Reporting on China’s progress, the articles in this issue refer to three concepts. Ecological civilization is a political construct framing China’s policy response to climate change and environmental degradation; its “thin” version refers to sustainable development …

  • An Exploratory Study of Safety Scenario Planning Among Ex-Partner Stalking Victims

    Open AccessT K Logan, Robert WalkerARTICLEJournal of Family Violence2024References: 9

  • Understanding Poverty Alleviation in Rural China

    Open AccessMianguan Li, Zaiping Yang et al.ARTICLESocial Policy and Administration2024Cited by: 1

    China eradicated rural extreme poverty in 2020 after an 8‐year campaign that combined endogenous economic development involving local people with social assistance. Ethnographic research in a village in southwest China reports township officials, under‐resourced and pressed by higher tiers of government to meet the poverty‐eradication target, commissioning an entrepreneur as a policy‐broker. The latter established enterprises nominally to provide…

  • The new normal for children’s physical activity and screen viewing

    Open AccessRobert Walker, Danielle House et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    There is a new normal for children's physical activity that is characterised by increased dependence on structured and organised physical activities, such as active clubs, and less on unstructured and spontaneous physical activities, such as physical play. While this may suit many children, girls and children from lower socio-economic households face barriers to participating in the new normal. It is important that affordable and equitable opport…

  • Screen-viewing behaviours of children before and after the 2020–21 Covid-19 lockdowns in the UK

    Open AccessRuth Salway, Robert Walker et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Although screen-viewing was higher post-lockdown compared to pre-COVID-19, the high increases reported during lockdowns were not, on average, sustained post-lockdown. This may be attributed to a combination of short-term fluctuations during periods of strict restrictions, parental support in regulating post-lockdown behaviour and age-related, rather than COVID-19-specific, increases in screen-viewing. However, socio-economic differences in our sa…

  • Children's dimensions of poverty

    Open AccessLichao Yang, Robert Walker et al.ARTICLEChildren & Society2023

    The dimensionality of child poverty is not well understood because children are seldom asked systematically to describe their poverty experience. This hinders the prediction of poverty's long‐term consequences and constrains policy design. In this research, 55 children aged 8–12 from Hangzhou and Beijing China were each interviewed individually for 0.5–2 h and participated in 3–4 focus group sessions on poverty experience. Integrating their under…

  • Poverty and child agency in urban China

    Lichao Yang, Robert Walker et al.ARTICLEJournal of Poverty and Social…2023Cited by: 3References: 12

    Scholars of childhood typically view children as agentic; poverty researchers, aware that poverty reduces children’s life-chances, may be tempted to consider them as victims. Adults experiencing poverty report feelings of powerlessness, and, by analogy, poverty may reduce children’s agency. However, comparatively little is known about the impact of poverty on child agency or the extent to which children use their agency to mediate the effects of …

  • Additional Evidence of Semantic and Syntactic Sensitivity in the Septuagint

    Open AccessTyler Horton, Andrew Keenan et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Study of Judaism2023References: 1

    In this article, a tribute to James Aitken by his students and postdoctoral collaborator, several case studies are presented that demonstrate how situating the Septuagint within its Post-classical Greek context can add significantly to our understanding of the textual-linguistic character of the Septuagint translations. They include a new approach to understanding parataxis with καί in the Greek Pentateuch, morphology and word formation in relati…

  • How to influence the professional discretion of street-level bureaucrats

    Huan Zhang, Ling Yang et al.ARTICLEPublic Management Review2022

    Developing professional discretion of street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) is not only an important strategy for bridging the gap between public service rules at policy level and sophisticated individual service needs at practical level, but it also has recently become a hot topic in public management. This study advances the SLB theory by providing empirical evidence that organizational learning capability and organizational type buffered the impact …

  • Recollections of Sir George Williams University

    Robert WalkerARTICLETOPIA Canadian Journal of…2022

    This essay offers a narrative account of events at Sir George Williams University between the years 1966 and 1970. Recounted here are stories of student life as well as recollections of various faculty members who were on staff during the complex political moment of the late 1960s. These stories of university life are also framed within the happenings and cultural-political shifts in the city of Montreal. This essay uses first person recollection…

  • Exploring Control, Threats, Violence and Help-Seeking among Women Held at Gunpoint by Abusive Partners

    Open AccessTk Logan, T K Logan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Violence2022

  • Boris Johnson

    Open AccessRobert WalkerARTICLEBritish Politics2022Cited by: 2References: 5

    Although comparatively rare, political resignations are essential for the health of democracy and political institutions. Protagonists risk their political careers when resigning but can hold governments to account and make real the Nolan principles of public life. In July 2022, an unprecedented 62 resignations ended Boris Johnson's time as British prime minister to be replaced first by Liz Truss and then, 44 days later, by Rishi Sunak, the secon…

  • Globalized supply chains

    Open AccessYankuic Galván-Miyoshi, Cynthia S Simmons et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2022Cited by: 2References: 1

  • Land grabbing in the Brazilian Amazon

    Open AccessGabriel Cardoso Carrero, Robert Walker et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2022Cited by: 7References: 31

  • Social security and community care

    Sally Baldwin, Gillian Parker et al.

  • Welfare-to-Work

    Andreas Cebulla, Karl Ashworth et al.

    Introduction: Welfare, work and welfare-to-work in the UK, Andreas Cebulla and Robert Walker The road to Britain's new deal, Andreas Cebulla The use of evidence in designating the 'new deal', Andreas Cebulla Workfare evaluations and meta-analysis, David Greenberg and Karl Ashworth A description of US Welfare-to-work programmes, Karl Ashworth and David Greenberg Determining what works and for how long, Robert Walker and David Greenberg Looking ove…

  • Após Snowden

    D Bigo, Zygmunt Bauman et al.

    Revelações recentes sobre o PRISM, programa secreto da Agência de Segurança Nacional dos Estados\nUnidos (NSA), confirmaram a vigilância em larga escala de mensagens eletrônicas e telecomunicações\nde governos, empresas e cidadãos, inclusive de aliados próximos aos EUA na Europa\ne na América Latina. As ramificações transnacionais da vigilância pedem a reavaliação das práticas\npolíticas do mundo contemporâneo. O debate não pode se limitar à opos…