Sue Duncan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 244682 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sue Duncan |
| NOMBRES | Sue |
| APELLIDO | Duncan |
| FIRMA | DUNCAN S |
| AFILIACIONES | Auckland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8402-2930 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 530 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1966 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Raising active children
This study investigated the combined impact of family dynamics and school environments on physical activity levels in children aged 3-9 years across distinct segments of the school day. Conducted as part of the FAMIPASS project in the Czech Republic, the study collected data in 2022 and 2023 from 502 families affiliated with 36 preschools and primary schools. The device-based monitoring of movement behaviors in children and their parents was cond…
Balancing the art and science of risk
Evaluating the performance of spatial indicators of destination accessibility for physical activity research
Preliminary development and validation of the positive school transition readiness survey (PSTRS)
The transition to secondary school can be a challenging period for adolescents. Although several questionnaires exist to measure transition‐related concerns, there is a need to develop a comprehensive survey for assessing the knowledge and skills that adolescents require to adapt effectively to a new school. Thus, the purpose of this study was to develop and investigate the psychometric properties of a preliminary self‐report tool (PSTRS) for ide…
Effectiveness of audience segmentation in instructional risk communication
Preschool Behavioural and Emotional Outcomes Associated with Participation in Early Childhood Education and Care
Early childhood education and care (ECE) type (e.g., center-based care, home-based care, informal care) and quantity (i.e., time spent in ECE) have been linked to observed behavioral challenges in children. However, there is a dearth of research on this association in New Zealand. Using data from 6,536 children from the Growing Up in New Zealand longitudinal birth cohort, the current study investigated whether the type of ECE and weekly hours of …
Differences in physical activity participation among young adults in Aotearoa New Zealand
Intersections between socio-demographic characteristics should be considered when promoting physical activity among young adults in Aotearoa New Zealand, particularly young adults not employed/studying, and young women who live in deprived areas or identify as Asian or Pasifika. Tailored approaches according to activity type for each of these groups are required
Inclusive and collective urban home spaces
Housing and urban development in Aotearoa New Zealand. • Response to Government Policy Statement on Housing and Urban Development (GPS-HUD). • Wellbeing benefits of collectively-oriented housing and transport models. • Co-housing and papakāinga as transformational housing typologies. • Multi-year and multi-scale community-based research programmes
Health-promoting and health-constraining environmental features and physical activity and sedentary behaviour in adolescence
Effects of a sensory garden on workplace wellbeing
A Cross-Sectional Description of Parental Perceptions and Practices Related to Risky Play and Independent Mobility in Children
The potential for risky play and independent mobility to increase children's physical activity, and enhance cognitive development and emotional wellbeing has been recognised for some time. The aim of this study was to describe the attitudes of New Zealand parents towards such risky play practices and independent mobility, the barriers preventing them from allowing their children to participate, and how often their children engaged in risky play a…
Wear-Time Compliance with a Dual-Accelerometer System for Capturing 24-h Behavioural Profiles in Children and Adults
To advance the field of time-use epidemiology, a tool capable of monitoring 24 h movement behaviours including sleep, physical activity, and sedentary behaviour is needed. This study explores compliance with a novel dual-accelerometer system for capturing 24 h movement patterns in two free-living samples of children and adults. A total of 103 children aged 8 years and 83 adults aged 20-60 years were recruited. Using a combination of medical dress…
Physical activity, cognition and academic performance
This cross-sectional study demonstrates a direct association between physical activity and academic performance. Furthermore, and importantly, this study shows the relationship between physical activity and academic performance is supported by an independent relationship between physical activity and cognition. Larger sample sizes are needed to investigate confounding factors of gender, age, socioeconomic status, and ethnicity. Future longitudina…
Real Play Families
This case study examined the experiences of three New Zealand families selected to participate in a four-week ‘Real Play Families’ project. The overall aim of the project was to explore the issues faced when embedding traditional, unstructured, and largely unsupervised play practices in the modern family environment. The project commenced with an initial workshop day, including a two-hour information seminar for parents, real play activities for …
Are children participating in a quasi-experimental education outside the classroom intervention more physically active
The Scientific Ethical Committee in the Capital Region of Denmark protocol number H-4-2014-FSP . 5 March, 2014
Measuring children's independent mobility
International audience
Adolescents who engage in active school transport are also more active in other contexts
The impact of children's exposure to greenspace on physical activity, cognitive development, emotional wellbeing, and ability to appraise risk
Measuring flourishing
The epidemiology of flourishing is an important research topic prompting international interest in its psychometric assessment. But the need to measure human feelings and functioning at the population level has resulted in the creation of a multitude of different conceptual frameworks of flourishing: a term now commonly used to describe high levels of subjective wellbeing. Not only do different researchers theorise and conceptualise flourishing i…
Place/Culture/Representation
GPS tracking in neighborhood and health studies
How many steps/day are enough? for children and adolescents
Worldwide, public health physical activity guidelines include special emphasis on populations of children (typically 6-11 years) and adolescents (typically 12-19 years). Existing guidelines are commonly expressed in terms of frequency, time, and intensity of behaviour. However, the simple step output from both accelerometers and pedometers is gaining increased credibility in research and practice as a reasonable approximation of daily ambulatory …
Modifiable risk factors for overweight and obesity in children and adolescents from São Paulo, Brazil
Our results show that obesity in São Paulo children and adolescents has reached a level equivalent to that seen in many developed countries. We have also identified three key modifiable factors related to obesity that may be appropriate targets for future intervention in Brazilian youth: transport mode to school, computer usage, and breakfast consumption
Associations between weight perceptions, weight control and body fatness in a multiethnic sample of adolescent girls
Objective The purpose of the present study was to examine the interactions between weight perceptions, weight control behaviours and body fatness in a multiethnic sample of adolescent girls. Design A cross-sectional study. Setting Girls from European (37·7 %), Pacific Island (21·6 %), East Asian (15·8 %), Maori (10·2 %) and South Asian (9·6 %) populations and from other ethnicities (5·0 %). Subjects A sample of 954 girls aged 11–15 years particip…
Theory in the Field
Place/Culture/Representation
The Superorganic in American Cultural Geography∗
The superorganic mode of explanation in cultural geography reifies the nation of culture assigning it ontological status and causative power. This theory of culture was outlined by anthropologists Alfred Kroeber and Robert Lowie during the first quarter of the twentieth century, later elaborated by Leslie White, and passed on to Carl Sauer and a number of his students at Berkeley. In this theory culture is viewed as an entity above man, not reduc…
GPS tracking in neighborhood and health studies
Structural Marxism and Human Geography
This paper assesses critically both the strong theoretical claims and the empirical work of a number of structural marxists in analyzing the geography of advanced societies. Such work offers a holistic mode of explanation that has important philosophical affinities with Hegelian idealism. In explanation, reified entities such as capital are treated as the formal cause while people are regarded as the efficient cause, the mere carriers of a struct…
Embodying colonialism? Domination and resistence in nineteenth-century Ceylonese coffee plantations
The impact of children's exposure to greenspace on physical activity, cognitive development, emotional wellbeing, and ability to appraise risk
The transfer of ideas into Anglo-American human geography
Debate
Landscape geography, 1993-94
Culture Unbound
The key concept of culture has recently been undergoing critical reassessment, and in some cases replacement, by cultural theorists in a number of fields. Some commentators have argued that the concept of culture is too elusive and all encompassing to be of use and that it can be politically dangerous. We will argue instead that the problem is not inherent in all concepts of culture, but in the specific political uses to which particular concepts…
Progress Report
(1987). PROGRESS REPORT: REVIEW OF URBAN IMAGERY: URBAN SEMIOTICS. Urban Geography: Vol. 8, Socialist City II, pp. 473-483
Landscapes of the self/landscapes of the other(s)
A User Perspective on Research Quality
If we are to encourage the use of research evidence in policy and practice, our notion of research quality must go wider than the robustness of the research itself. We need to address both internal and external validity. Therefore, ‘evidence‐based policy and practice’ has a simple logic which belies the complexity of the relationship. It is both a difficult and challenging one, which demands change in culture and practice on both sides in order t…
Democracy and Accountability in Public Bodies
The establishment of various commissions concerned with local governance as well as the Nolan Committee’s examination of standards in public life all point to growing public concern with the effectiveness of traditional mechanisms for holding politicians and policy makers to account. This article introduces the special issue on the democratisation of public bodies in the UK through three strands. First, it discusses theoretical conceptions of dem…
Adolescents who engage in active school transport are also more active in other contexts
The politics of landscape and nature, 1992-93
The City as Text
Health-promoting and health-constraining environmental features and physical activity and sedentary behaviour in adolescence
Landscapes of the Self/Landscapes of the Other(s)
The City as Text
The Power of Place
1. Introduction John A. Agnew and James S. Duncan 2. The Devaluation of Place in Social Science John A. Agnew 3. Place, Region and Modernity J. Nicholas Entrikin 4. Modernism, post-modernism and the struggle for place David Ley 5. Home and Class Among an American Landed Elite Peter J. Hugill 6. Social and Symbolic Places in Renaissance Venice and Florence Edward Muir & Ronald F. E . Weissman 7. Power and Place in the Venetian Territories Denis Co…
A Businessman Looks at Red China
The Superorganic in American Cultural Geography∗
The superorganic mode of explanation in cultural geography reifies the nation of culture assigning it ontological status and causative power. This theory of culture was outlined by anthropologists Alfred Kroeber and Robert Lowie during the first quarter of the twentieth century, later elaborated by Leslie White, and passed on to Carl Sauer and a number of his students at Berkeley. In this theory culture is viewed as an entity above man, not reduc…
The transfer of ideas into Anglo-American human geography
Relativism, Realism and the Possibility of Progress in Human Geography
Structural Marxism and Human Geography
This paper assesses critically both the strong theoretical claims and the empirical work of a number of structural marxists in analyzing the geography of advanced societies. Such work offers a holistic mode of explanation that has important philosophical affinities with Hegelian idealism. In explanation, reified entities such as capital are treated as the formal cause while people are regarded as the efficient cause, the mere carriers of a struct…
Housing and Identity
Progress Report
(1987). PROGRESS REPORT: REVIEW OF URBAN IMAGERY: URBAN SEMIOTICS. Urban Geography: Vol. 8, Socialist City II, pp. 473-483
"Commentary on Martin Cadwallader's "Urban Geography and Social Theory
The Power of Place
1. Introduction John A. Agnew and James S. Duncan 2. The Devaluation of Place in Social Science John A. Agnew 3. Place, Region and Modernity J. Nicholas Entrikin 4. Modernism, post-modernism and the struggle for place David Ley 5. Home and Class Among an American Landed Elite Peter J. Hugill 6. Social and Symbolic Places in Renaissance Venice and Florence Edward Muir & Ronald F. E . Weissman 7. Power and Place in the Venetian Territories Denis Co…
The City as Text
The City as Text
Landscapes of the Self/Landscapes of the Other(s)
Landscapes of the self/landscapes of the other(s)
Kindergarten Predictors of First-Grade Reading Achievement
Routinely collected measures for 38 children in the kindergarten program in a middle-class school in a small midwestern city were analyzed as predictors of first-grade reading achievement on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills and of first-grade performance on the Cognitive Abilities Test. Correlations among all variables are given. Stepwise multiple regression analyses predicting the first-grade variables showed that consonant-sound-identification wa…
The politics of landscape and nature, 1992-93
Landscape geography, 1993-94
Special Issue
Democracy and Accountability in Public Bodies
The establishment of various commissions concerned with local governance as well as the Nolan Committee’s examination of standards in public life all point to growing public concern with the effectiveness of traditional mechanisms for holding politicians and policy makers to account. This article introduces the special issue on the democratisation of public bodies in the UK through three strands. First, it discusses theoretical conceptions of dem…
The Struggle to be Temperate
This paper examines a particular type of imperial literature, the writing of the plantation in mid‐nineteenth century Ceylon. These writings, by and for the male planting community, were written to recruit, instruct and entertain, and drew upon discourses of tropicality and moral masculinity. But discourses are constrained by the material conditions under which they are put into practice. Consequently, writings about a place such as highland Ceyl…
Embodying colonialism? Domination and resistence in nineteenth-century Ceylonese coffee plantations
Representing Empire at the National Maritime Museum
Culture Unbound
The key concept of culture has recently been undergoing critical reassessment, and in some cases replacement, by cultural theorists in a number of fields. Some commentators have argued that the concept of culture is too elusive and all encompassing to be of use and that it can be politically dangerous. We will argue instead that the problem is not inherent in all concepts of culture, but in the specific political uses to which particular concepts…
Commentary 2
A User Perspective on Research Quality
If we are to encourage the use of research evidence in policy and practice, our notion of research quality must go wider than the robustness of the research itself. We need to address both internal and external validity. Therefore, ‘evidence‐based policy and practice’ has a simple logic which belies the complexity of the relationship. It is both a difficult and challenging one, which demands change in culture and practice on both sides in order t…
Reflections and observations
Sue Duncan's civil service career spans thirty years; she has held posts in Communities and Local Government, the Department for Work and Pensions, the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury. While at the Cabinet Office, she worked in the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit and was Director of Policy Studies in the Centre for Management and Policy Studies, where she was responsible for good practice in policy making, research and evaluation and for evidence-b…
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