Mark Pearson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3603535 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mark Pearson |
| NOMBRES | Mark |
| APELLIDO | Pearson |
| FIRMA | PEARSON M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Hull |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0541-3301 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
“Sometimes all you can do is say thank you for sharing” – exploring the complexities facilitating creative writing groups for well-being
AIMS: Facilitated poetry and creative writing groups are regularly commissioned in the UK and funded by a range of organisations, including national arts funders. Some groups are explicitly organised with the purpose of supporting well-being. This research explores the experiences of people who facilitate creative writing groups intended to support well-being. METHODS: A focus group was conducted with six expert facilitators who between them had …
The Poetic Wavelength—Tuning into the Meaningful Poetics of Psychosis
Despite the emerging evidence base to support the therapeutic potential of creative writing and poetry for a variety of mental health problems, the therapeutic potential of poetry for people who have experienced psychosis remains poorly understood. The paper argues that by considering psychosis as meaningful poetics, this epistemological shift has the potential to foster curious inquiry and increase opportunities for meaningful dialogue. The pape…
Views and experiences of opioid access amongst palliative care providers and public representatives in a low-resource setting
Opioids (e.g. morphine) are affordable, effective interventions for cancer-related pain. However, equity of access to this key medication remains a global challenge, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. We aimed to explore views of palliative care providers and public-representatives about opioid analgesia access in two States in India. We conducted a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews. Transcribed audio-recordings we…
Creative Long Covid
BACKGROUND: Healthcare is witnessing a new disease with the emergence of Long Covid; a condition which can result in myriad symptoms, varying in frequency and severity. As new data are emerging to help inform treatment guidelines, the perspectives of those living with Long Covid are essential in informing healthcare practice. The research aimed to collect the narratives of people living with Long Covid to better understand the lived experience of…
Clarifying realist analytic and interdisciplinary consensus processes in a complex health intervention
Judgemental rationality is infrequently referenced within discussions of Realist Evaluations. Judgemental rationality refers to researchers’ capacity to assess which, potential, meanings provide the most credible explanations. In evaluation work, rationale for analysis is provided, though rarely do we see how an evaluator made judgements between competing theories, and which theories were discarded and why. We provide a worked example of the appl…
Housing as a Social Determinant of Health
Data, Social Determinants, and Better Decision-making for Health
Making sense of evidence
Many have argued that the development of evidence-based policing (EBP) depends on those in law enforcement agencies receiving appropriate training in research methodologies and data analysis. Despite this, there are few detailed accounts of such training and its delivery. This paper describes and evaluates the contribution of training workshops for police officers and staff in driving forward EBP. The workshops, developed based on a model used in…
Managing complexity, emotions and politics in evidence use and implementation studies
Collaborative knowledge creation and use
This study explores how involving education leaders in the process of research can enhance the practical value of research for them. This paper describes: 1) a design process used for engaging US state science leaders in participatory research; and 2) shifts in understanding that state leaders reported based on their participation. The authors explicate the steps of how they engaged practitioners in the process of data collection and analysis. Th…
What does it mean to ‘use evidence’? Applying a broader understanding to inform the design of strategies to enable the use of evidence
Building and diversifying our interdisciplinary giants
Building journalists’ resilience through mindfulness strategies
Mindfulness-based meditation has earned its place in a variety of settings after studies reporting the benefits of mindfulness-based interventions for the treatment of a range of psychological and health disorders and for building resilience and well-being in a variety of occupational groups. In the field of journalism, the realities of journalists’ exposure to trauma while reporting have been well documented. This article is the first to link th…
Knowledge commons for evidence use as a democratic and practice good
Evidence & Policy
Taking forward the study of evidence use
Information technology in multispecialty community providers
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Patient Experiences of Care from Multi-Speciality Community Providers
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Building programme theory to develop more adaptable and scalable complex interventions
Medical Research Council guidelines recognise the need to optimise complex interventions prior to full trial through greater understanding of underlying theory and formative process evaluation, yet there are few examples. A realist approach to formative process evaluation makes a unique contribution through a focus on theory formalisation and abstraction. The success of an intervention is dependent on the extent to which it gels or jars with exis…
Improving the Reporting of Health and Psychological Research
A growing body of empirical evidence has consistently demonstrated that much publically and privately funded research is reported in a way that makes it difficult for the findings to be included in evidence syntheses or used by researchers, clinicians, policy makers, and the public. Poorly reported studies thus represent a significant waste of scarce resources. Reporting guidelines are one strategy that has been increasingly used as a method to i…
Journalists’ and Educators’ Perspectives on News Media Reporting of Islam and Muslim Communities in Australia and New Zealand
We know much about how the news media report on the topic of Muslims and Islam, but we know very little about the journalistic practices and processes that contribute to the way these issues are framed and reported. Whereas research has until now largely focused on the ways in which Islam and Muslims are represented in various news media, there is relatively little research that explores the issue from the perspective of key people working in the…
Providing effective and preferred care closer to home
Intermediate care is one of the number of service delivery models intended to integrate care and provide enhanced health and social care services closer to home, especially to reduce reliance on acute care hospital beds. In order for health and social care practitioners, service managers and commissioners to make informed decisions, it is vital to understand how to implement the admission avoidance and early supported discharge components of inte…
Enlightening communication analysis in Asia–Pacific
A Western paradigm has dominated approaches to communication and journalism studies – particularly in the areas of theory, analysis and law and ethics. This article backgrounds important critiques of that paradigm, and considers how globalized communication and media studies has become, before exemplifying how a secular Buddhist perspective might offer 2,500 year-old analytical tools that can assist with media analysis, law and ethics. The articl…
Africans investing in Africa
Foreword Tony Elumelu and Jonathan Oppenheimer Introduction Paul Collier PART I: CROSS-CUTTTING ISSUES 1. The Wangara Trading Network in Precolonial West Africa: An Early Example of Africans Investing in Africa Moses Ochonu 2. Why Governance Matters for Investment John Endres 3. Regional Economic Communities Jacqueline Chimhanzi 4. Transport Infrastructure Mark Pearson 5. The Growth of Continental African Brands Nicholas Kuhne 6. Is it Time for O…
A Conceptual Matrix of Journalism as Research Two Decades after 'Media Wars
It is 20 years since John Hartley (1995) positioned journalism as the subject of academic research rather than as a research method in its own right. In 1999, Media International Australia devoted a themed edition to the debate over journalism in the academy ('Media Wars'), which prompted further scholarly discourse over the role and location of journalism as a field of study. The article surveys the relationship between journalism and research o…
Unemployment and Early School Leaving
First published: 01 April 1990
Building programme theory to develop more adaptable and scalable complex interventions
Medical Research Council guidelines recognise the need to optimise complex interventions prior to full trial through greater understanding of underlying theory and formative process evaluation, yet there are few examples. A realist approach to formative process evaluation makes a unique contribution through a focus on theory formalisation and abstraction. The success of an intervention is dependent on the extent to which it gels or jars with exis…
Journalists’ and Educators’ Perspectives on News Media Reporting of Islam and Muslim Communities in Australia and New Zealand
We know much about how the news media report on the topic of Muslims and Islam, but we know very little about the journalistic practices and processes that contribute to the way these issues are framed and reported. Whereas research has until now largely focused on the ways in which Islam and Muslims are represented in various news media, there is relatively little research that explores the issue from the perspective of key people working in the…
Building and diversifying our interdisciplinary giants
Building bridges
This paper aims to contribute to the discussion on increasing retention rates in higher degree students. It presents evidence from the literature on the value of increasing counselling and mentoring care for higher degree research students. The creation of, and rationale for, a designated higher degree student counsellor–mentor role is described. The role of a counselling-trained mentor is one that combines elements of counselling, mentoring, org…
Science', representation and resistance
Transgenic cotton is promoted in India on the basis that it will improve rural livelihoods, but such claims are contested on the basis that they are 'unscientific'. In this study, discourse analysis is utilized to deconstruct the environmental and scientific narratives employed by two key actors (Monsanto-Mahyco and the Deccan Development Society) in the debate in India. Whilst strong differences in the ideology of the two actors are found to acc…
Building journalists’ resilience through mindfulness strategies
Mindfulness-based meditation has earned its place in a variety of settings after studies reporting the benefits of mindfulness-based interventions for the treatment of a range of psychological and health disorders and for building resilience and well-being in a variety of occupational groups. In the field of journalism, the realities of journalists’ exposure to trauma while reporting have been well documented. This article is the first to link th…
The OECD Family Database
Housing as a Social Determinant of Health
Data, Social Determinants, and Better Decision-making for Health
Outcome reporting bias in evaluations of public health interventions
BACKGROUND: Systematic reviews of the effectiveness of interventions are increasingly used to inform recommendations for public health policy and practice, but outcome reporting bias is rarely assessed. METHODS: Studies excluded at full-text stage screening for a systematic review of a public health intervention were assessed for evidence of study exclusion resulting from non-reporting of relevant outcomes. Studies included in the review were ass…
What do we know? What should we do?’ Melding research validity and rhetoric in the analysis of policy making
‘Evidence-based policy and practice’ was proposed to usher in an era where explicit use was made of evidence (‘what we know’) to inform decisions made about policy and practice (‘what we should do’). Critics have focused on its allegedly technocratic nature, motivating some to develop analyses of policy making that take account of inherent social processes. One example is rhetorical analysis, which focuses on the use of discourse and argumentatio…
Growth, Inequality and Social Protection
Roman Arjona, Maxime Ladaique, Mark Pearson, Growth, Inequality and Social Protection, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 29, Supplement: The Linkages between Economic Growth and Inequality (Jan., 2003), pp. S119-S139
Generalizing Applied Qualitative Research on Harm Reduction
The small sample sizes and context-bound findings of qualitative research are commonly viewed as significant factors that limit its use (or “transferability”) in settings other than those in which the research was originally conducted. This perceived limitation is of particular importance in a field such as harm reduction where small sample sizes may be the only realistic option for studying the behavior of hard to reach groups. In this article w…
Systematic reviews in social policy
English This article argues that the development of systematic review methods for social policy and practice in the UK has been inhibited in two ways. First, there has been insufficient engagement with the breadth of Donald Campbell’s thought on research methods and knowledge cumulation. To this end, the article outlines the contribution that a fuller understanding of Donald Campbell’s work could make to the development of such methods. Second, d…
Handling Qualitative Data
Stress
1Director, Division of Behavioral Medicine Department of Preventive Medicine Associate Director, Center for Aging 2Research Associate Division of Behavioral Medicine Department of Preventive Medicine Center for Aging 3Associate Professor Department of Sociology University of Alabama in Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama
Unemployment and Early School Leaving
First published: 01 April 1990
Growth, Inequality and Social Protection
Roman Arjona, Maxime Ladaique, Mark Pearson, Growth, Inequality and Social Protection, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 29, Supplement: The Linkages between Economic Growth and Inequality (Jan., 2003), pp. S119-S139
Handling Qualitative Data
Italy from a Backpack (From a Backpack Series)
Deconstruction – illumination or confusion
This section of Evidence & Policy has two main objectives: to inform readers about the development of evidence-informed policy and practice, as reflected in the literature; and to provide practical advice on the sources that policy makers, practitioners and researchers can exploit in their search for evidence
Science', representation and resistance
Transgenic cotton is promoted in India on the basis that it will improve rural livelihoods, but such claims are contested on the basis that they are 'unscientific'. In this study, discourse analysis is utilized to deconstruct the environmental and scientific narratives employed by two key actors (Monsanto-Mahyco and the Deccan Development Society) in the debate in India. Whilst strong differences in the ideology of the two actors are found to acc…
Systematic reviews in social policy
English This article argues that the development of systematic review methods for social policy and practice in the UK has been inhibited in two ways. First, there has been insufficient engagement with the breadth of Donald Campbell’s thought on research methods and knowledge cumulation. To this end, the article outlines the contribution that a fuller understanding of Donald Campbell’s work could make to the development of such methods. Second, d…
Synthesizing Qualitative and Quantitative Health Evidence
Pope, C., Mays, N., and Popay, J. Synthesizing Qualitative and Quantitative Health Evidence: A Guide to Methods. Maidenhead : Open University Press , 2007 , £19.99 , ix+210pp . ISBN 978 0 335 21956 8 (pb), 978 0 335 21957 5 (hb) In this concise and informed book, Pope et al. make the case for synthesizing knowledge from diverse sources in order to provide 'decision support' for policy makers, primarily in health but also in other areas of public …
The OECD Family Database
What do we know? What should we do?’ Melding research validity and rhetoric in the analysis of policy making
‘Evidence-based policy and practice’ was proposed to usher in an era where explicit use was made of evidence (‘what we know’) to inform decisions made about policy and practice (‘what we should do’). Critics have focused on its allegedly technocratic nature, motivating some to develop analyses of policy making that take account of inherent social processes. One example is rhetorical analysis, which focuses on the use of discourse and argumentatio…
Generalizing Applied Qualitative Research on Harm Reduction
The small sample sizes and context-bound findings of qualitative research are commonly viewed as significant factors that limit its use (or “transferability”) in settings other than those in which the research was originally conducted. This perceived limitation is of particular importance in a field such as harm reduction where small sample sizes may be the only realistic option for studying the behavior of hard to reach groups. In this article w…
Outcome reporting bias in evaluations of public health interventions
BACKGROUND: Systematic reviews of the effectiveness of interventions are increasingly used to inform recommendations for public health policy and practice, but outcome reporting bias is rarely assessed. METHODS: Studies excluded at full-text stage screening for a systematic review of a public health intervention were assessed for evidence of study exclusion resulting from non-reporting of relevant outcomes. Studies included in the review were ass…
Building bridges
This paper aims to contribute to the discussion on increasing retention rates in higher degree students. It presents evidence from the literature on the value of increasing counselling and mentoring care for higher degree research students. The creation of, and rationale for, a designated higher degree student counsellor–mentor role is described. The role of a counselling-trained mentor is one that combines elements of counselling, mentoring, org…
Impact of the Transparent Reporting of Evaluations With Nonrandomized Designs Reporting Guideline
Objectives. We assessed how the Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Nonrandomized Designs (TREND) reporting guideline was used by authors and journal editors in journals’ instructions to authors. We also evaluated its impact on reporting completeness and study quality. Methods. We extracted data from publications that cited TREND on how TREND was used in those reports; we also extracted information on journals’ instructions to authors. We t…
Providing effective and preferred care closer to home
Intermediate care is one of the number of service delivery models intended to integrate care and provide enhanced health and social care services closer to home, especially to reduce reliance on acute care hospital beds. In order for health and social care practitioners, service managers and commissioners to make informed decisions, it is vital to understand how to implement the admission avoidance and early supported discharge components of inte…
Enlightening communication analysis in Asia–Pacific
A Western paradigm has dominated approaches to communication and journalism studies – particularly in the areas of theory, analysis and law and ethics. This article backgrounds important critiques of that paradigm, and considers how globalized communication and media studies has become, before exemplifying how a secular Buddhist perspective might offer 2,500 year-old analytical tools that can assist with media analysis, law and ethics. The articl…
Africans investing in Africa
Foreword Tony Elumelu and Jonathan Oppenheimer Introduction Paul Collier PART I: CROSS-CUTTTING ISSUES 1. The Wangara Trading Network in Precolonial West Africa: An Early Example of Africans Investing in Africa Moses Ochonu 2. Why Governance Matters for Investment John Endres 3. Regional Economic Communities Jacqueline Chimhanzi 4. Transport Infrastructure Mark Pearson 5. The Growth of Continental African Brands Nicholas Kuhne 6. Is it Time for O…
A Conceptual Matrix of Journalism as Research Two Decades after 'Media Wars
It is 20 years since John Hartley (1995) positioned journalism as the subject of academic research rather than as a research method in its own right. In 1999, Media International Australia devoted a themed edition to the debate over journalism in the academy ('Media Wars'), which prompted further scholarly discourse over the role and location of journalism as a field of study. The article surveys the relationship between journalism and research o…
Improving the Reporting of Health and Psychological Research
A growing body of empirical evidence has consistently demonstrated that much publically and privately funded research is reported in a way that makes it difficult for the findings to be included in evidence syntheses or used by researchers, clinicians, policy makers, and the public. Poorly reported studies thus represent a significant waste of scarce resources. Reporting guidelines are one strategy that has been increasingly used as a method to i…
Journalists’ and Educators’ Perspectives on News Media Reporting of Islam and Muslim Communities in Australia and New Zealand
We know much about how the news media report on the topic of Muslims and Islam, but we know very little about the journalistic practices and processes that contribute to the way these issues are framed and reported. Whereas research has until now largely focused on the ways in which Islam and Muslims are represented in various news media, there is relatively little research that explores the issue from the perspective of key people working in the…
Knowledge commons for evidence use as a democratic and practice good
Evidence & Policy
Taking forward the study of evidence use
Information technology in multispecialty community providers
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
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