Michelle Thomas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3604067 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michelle Thomas |
| NOMBRES | Michelle |
| APELLIDO | Thomas |
| FIRMA | THOMAS M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5699-4508 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 113 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Beyond Surviving
Black women thrive and experience psychological well-being despite facing gendered racism and microaggressions. Although research highlights the negative impact of microaggressions on mental health, the connection to flourishing remains underexplored. This study utilized the intersectional biopsychosocial model of gendered racism, focusing on associations between gendered racial microaggressions, womanist attitudes, engagement coping strategies (…
Machine learning on national shopping data reliably estimates childhood obesity prevalence and socio-economic deprivation
Embodying Emergence
W̱SÁNEĆ territory, located on what is known today as the southern part of Vancouver Island, is a storied landscape, holding within its geographical features many sacred places with their own SENĆOŦEN names and stories. For the Grade 3 students of the ȽÁU, WELṈEW̱ Tribal School, a visit to ȽÁU, WELṈEW̱, the mountain that bears the same name as the school, unearthed an unfamiliar layer of the stories connected to this place, which has long been hel…
Black megachurches and the provision of social services
In many African American communities, the church and the clergy are often the preferred providers of many social services. The growth of the Black megachurch fueled this trend and expanded the range of services offered by professionals hired by the church, including social workers. The purpose of the current study is to examine regional differences among social service offerings in Black megachurches (defined as a Protestant congregation sustaini…
Defying Displacement
This article is a reflection on practice from anthropologists and community organizers working together to affect policy change related to health. In particular, we describe a successful organizing effort to oppose the displacement of low-income residents of a mobile home park. We argue that this victory was in part because of the approach of key members of the organizing coalition, who viewed the work of policy change as a process of leadership …
Out of Time
Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with seafarers and their partners, this article examines the impact of routine absence on couple and family relations. Using the lens of time, we identify how work patterns and extended absence lead to temporal desynchrony and fragmentation of the life course. We examine how seafarers' lives are both continuous and fractured and often out of step with lives at home.Temporal desynchrony was exemplified in r…
Lay and Professional Constructions of Time
Time permeates all aspects of our everyday lives but its very centrality often renders it invisible. This article examines how temporal understandings and priorities shape and inform lay and professional constructions of illness, understandings of symptoms and help-seeking behaviour, based on semi-structured interviews with 20 GPs and 16 parents of children with asthma. This identifies the significance of a temporal perspective for beliefs about …
The process of sample recruitment
This article draws on the authors' fieldwork experiences in four different research studies to address the gap in the methodological literature on the practical activities of sample recruitment. Boundaries between ineligibility and refusal are considered along with the 'emotional labour' required during the recruitment process. In particular, the article aims to draw attention to the necessary indeterminacies in the recruitment process to show ho…
Square pegs in round holes? leave periods and role displacement in UK-based seafaring families
This article reports findings of an exploratory study examining the impact of intermittent partner absence on couple relationships and family life. Drawing on data collected through in-depth interviews with seafarers and their partners, it considers the period when the seafarer is home on leave to examine the salience of the 'breadwinner' role to contemporary masculine identity and explore and contrast the experiences of seafarers at home on leav…
What happens in Tenerife stays in Tenerife
Recent research has drawn attention to the epidemiological importance of international travel in the spread of HIV. Drawing on data generated in focus groups and in depth interviews with women holiday travellers, this paper explores the context of sexual risk behaviour of women on holiday. These data suggest that freedom from the constraints and realities of domestic life is a crucial aspect of the holiday experience. It is argued that holidays a…
Risk and Responsibility
This article draws on the authors' experiences conducting research on-board cargo vessels as part of a project on Transnational Seafarer Communities. It considers dangerous fieldwork in a hazardous occupational setting. Specific attention is given to the ways in which the ambient risks of particular research sites combine with the situational risks associated with being a female researcher in a male-dominated, rigidly hierarchical setting with a …
Focus Groups in Social Research
There is an increasing divergence of focus group practice between social researchers and commercial market researchers. This book addresses the key issues and practical requirements of the social researcher, namely: the kinds of social research issues for which focus groups are most and least suitable; optimum group size and composition; and the designing of focusing exercises, facilitation and appropriate analysis. The authors use examples, draw…
Health risks in the global shipping industry
The shipping industry has always been one in which workers' relative risks of ill health, injury and death have been considerable. However, the industry has been utterly transformed since the mid 1970s by the shift to flags of convenience, the sub-contracting of operations by owners to international ship management companies and crewing companies, the explosive growth of mixed nationality crews, and technological and economic changes which have r…
Health and the International Tourist (Book)
Risk and Responsibility
This article draws on the authors' experiences conducting research on-board cargo vessels as part of a project on Transnational Seafarer Communities. It considers dangerous fieldwork in a hazardous occupational setting. Specific attention is given to the ways in which the ambient risks of particular research sites combine with the situational risks associated with being a female researcher in a male-dominated, rigidly hierarchical setting with a …
What happens in Tenerife stays in Tenerife
Recent research has drawn attention to the epidemiological importance of international travel in the spread of HIV. Drawing on data generated in focus groups and in depth interviews with women holiday travellers, this paper explores the context of sexual risk behaviour of women on holiday. These data suggest that freedom from the constraints and realities of domestic life is a crucial aspect of the holiday experience. It is argued that holidays a…
Out of Time
Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with seafarers and their partners, this article examines the impact of routine absence on couple and family relations. Using the lens of time, we identify how work patterns and extended absence lead to temporal desynchrony and fragmentation of the life course. We examine how seafarers' lives are both continuous and fractured and often out of step with lives at home.Temporal desynchrony was exemplified in r…
Square pegs in round holes? leave periods and role displacement in UK-based seafaring families
This article reports findings of an exploratory study examining the impact of intermittent partner absence on couple relationships and family life. Drawing on data collected through in-depth interviews with seafarers and their partners, it considers the period when the seafarer is home on leave to examine the salience of the 'breadwinner' role to contemporary masculine identity and explore and contrast the experiences of seafarers at home on leav…
The process of sample recruitment
This article draws on the authors' fieldwork experiences in four different research studies to address the gap in the methodological literature on the practical activities of sample recruitment. Boundaries between ineligibility and refusal are considered along with the 'emotional labour' required during the recruitment process. In particular, the article aims to draw attention to the necessary indeterminacies in the recruitment process to show ho…
Lay and Professional Constructions of Time
Time permeates all aspects of our everyday lives but its very centrality often renders it invisible. This article examines how temporal understandings and priorities shape and inform lay and professional constructions of illness, understandings of symptoms and help-seeking behaviour, based on semi-structured interviews with 20 GPs and 16 parents of children with asthma. This identifies the significance of a temporal perspective for beliefs about …
Beyond Surviving
Black women thrive and experience psychological well-being despite facing gendered racism and microaggressions. Although research highlights the negative impact of microaggressions on mental health, the connection to flourishing remains underexplored. This study utilized the intersectional biopsychosocial model of gendered racism, focusing on associations between gendered racial microaggressions, womanist attitudes, engagement coping strategies (…
Machine learning on national shopping data reliably estimates childhood obesity prevalence and socio-economic deprivation
Health and the International Tourist (Book)
Health risks in the global shipping industry
The shipping industry has always been one in which workers' relative risks of ill health, injury and death have been considerable. However, the industry has been utterly transformed since the mid 1970s by the shift to flags of convenience, the sub-contracting of operations by owners to international ship management companies and crewing companies, the explosive growth of mixed nationality crews, and technological and economic changes which have r…
Focus Groups in Social Research
There is an increasing divergence of focus group practice between social researchers and commercial market researchers. This book addresses the key issues and practical requirements of the social researcher, namely: the kinds of social research issues for which focus groups are most and least suitable; optimum group size and composition; and the designing of focusing exercises, facilitation and appropriate analysis. The authors use examples, draw…
Risk and Responsibility
This article draws on the authors' experiences conducting research on-board cargo vessels as part of a project on Transnational Seafarer Communities. It considers dangerous fieldwork in a hazardous occupational setting. Specific attention is given to the ways in which the ambient risks of particular research sites combine with the situational risks associated with being a female researcher in a male-dominated, rigidly hierarchical setting with a …
What happens in Tenerife stays in Tenerife
Recent research has drawn attention to the epidemiological importance of international travel in the spread of HIV. Drawing on data generated in focus groups and in depth interviews with women holiday travellers, this paper explores the context of sexual risk behaviour of women on holiday. These data suggest that freedom from the constraints and realities of domestic life is a crucial aspect of the holiday experience. It is argued that holidays a…
Square pegs in round holes? leave periods and role displacement in UK-based seafaring families
This article reports findings of an exploratory study examining the impact of intermittent partner absence on couple relationships and family life. Drawing on data collected through in-depth interviews with seafarers and their partners, it considers the period when the seafarer is home on leave to examine the salience of the 'breadwinner' role to contemporary masculine identity and explore and contrast the experiences of seafarers at home on leav…
The process of sample recruitment
This article draws on the authors' fieldwork experiences in four different research studies to address the gap in the methodological literature on the practical activities of sample recruitment. Boundaries between ineligibility and refusal are considered along with the 'emotional labour' required during the recruitment process. In particular, the article aims to draw attention to the necessary indeterminacies in the recruitment process to show ho…
Out of Time
Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with seafarers and their partners, this article examines the impact of routine absence on couple and family relations. Using the lens of time, we identify how work patterns and extended absence lead to temporal desynchrony and fragmentation of the life course. We examine how seafarers' lives are both continuous and fractured and often out of step with lives at home.Temporal desynchrony was exemplified in r…
Lay and Professional Constructions of Time
Time permeates all aspects of our everyday lives but its very centrality often renders it invisible. This article examines how temporal understandings and priorities shape and inform lay and professional constructions of illness, understandings of symptoms and help-seeking behaviour, based on semi-structured interviews with 20 GPs and 16 parents of children with asthma. This identifies the significance of a temporal perspective for beliefs about …
Defying Displacement
This article is a reflection on practice from anthropologists and community organizers working together to affect policy change related to health. In particular, we describe a successful organizing effort to oppose the displacement of low-income residents of a mobile home park. We argue that this victory was in part because of the approach of key members of the organizing coalition, who viewed the work of policy change as a process of leadership …
Black megachurches and the provision of social services
In many African American communities, the church and the clergy are often the preferred providers of many social services. The growth of the Black megachurch fueled this trend and expanded the range of services offered by professionals hired by the church, including social workers. The purpose of the current study is to examine regional differences among social service offerings in Black megachurches (defined as a Protestant congregation sustaini…
Embodying Emergence
W̱SÁNEĆ territory, located on what is known today as the southern part of Vancouver Island, is a storied landscape, holding within its geographical features many sacred places with their own SENĆOŦEN names and stories. For the Grade 3 students of the ȽÁU, WELṈEW̱ Tribal School, a visit to ȽÁU, WELṈEW̱, the mountain that bears the same name as the school, unearthed an unfamiliar layer of the stories connected to this place, which has long been hel…
Beyond Surviving
Black women thrive and experience psychological well-being despite facing gendered racism and microaggressions. Although research highlights the negative impact of microaggressions on mental health, the connection to flourishing remains underexplored. This study utilized the intersectional biopsychosocial model of gendered racism, focusing on associations between gendered racial microaggressions, womanist attitudes, engagement coping strategies (…
Machine learning on national shopping data reliably estimates childhood obesity prevalence and socio-economic deprivation
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