Michael Jeffries
Biographic Data
| ID | 101025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Jeffries |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Jeffries |
| SIGNATURE | JEFFRIES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3454-1107 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Factors influencing student non-attendance at formal teaching sessions
Motivated by falling levels of attendance at classes, this paper explores student reasons for non-attendance within Undergraduate Programmes at a post 1992 UK university. Questionnaires collected demographic profiling information and factors students thought influenced attendance. Closed questions established how important attendance was in influencing grades and how motivated students considered themselves to be. Findings reveal variables includ…
Is it okay to go out on the pull without it being nasty?’: Lads’ performance of lad culture
Lad culture is pervasive in UK higher education, fuelling misogyny and violence towards women. Lad culture is commonly described as mix of boorish socialising, drinking, sport and pack behaviour. This study reports on the attitudes and experiences of laddish students from a UK university. Laddish behaviours were ubiquitous in their university lives. They were well aware of the harm lad culture causes but struggled to manage their behaviour. Being…
O bama, B arack (1961–)
Barack Hussein Obama is the 44th president of the United States of America. He was first elected as the Democratic nominee in 2008, defeating Republican nominee John McCain with 365 electoral college votes and 52.9 percent of the popular vote. In 2012 Obama was reelected with 332 electoral college votes and 51.1 percent of the popular vote, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Obama is the first African American and person of color to be …
Tracing postrepresentational visions of the city: Representing the unrepresentable Skateworlds of Tyneside
In any visualisation of the city more is left unseen than made visible. Contemporary visualisations of the city are increasingly influenced by quantification, and thus anything which cannot be quantified is hidden. In contrast, we explore the use of 'lo-fi', doodled, participatory maps made by skateboarders in Tyneside, England, as a means to represent their cityscape. Drawing on established work an skateboarding and recent developments in cartog…
Right to Be Hostile: "A Critique of Erica Chito Childs's "Looking Behind the Stereotypes of the 'Angry Black Woman
Erica Chito Childs's article "Looking Behind the Stereotypes of the 'Angry Black Woman'," published in Gender and Society in 2005, represents an important empirical contribution to studies of interracial intimacy. Black women's voices are routinely marginalized during analyses of interracial dating, and, worse, their real-life experiences and first-person interpretations are replaced by demeaning, racist stereotypes of angry Black womanhood. Chil…
BBC Natural History Versus Science Paradigms
In 1979 the finale of David Attenborough’s Life on Earth featured Attenborough’s iconic forest floor romp with mountain gorillas. Two decades later and Sir David was still being asked to re-enact this memorable piece of television on the Parkinson chat show. Life on Earth had become the BBC’s first David Attenborough blockbuster to be followed by The Trials of Life, The Living Planet, The Life of Plants, up to the most recent, The Life of Mammals…
Biodiversity and Conservation
Practical conservation: Water and wetlands
Is it okay to go out on the pull without it being nasty?’: Lads’ performance of lad culture
Lad culture is pervasive in UK higher education, fuelling misogyny and violence towards women. Lad culture is commonly described as mix of boorish socialising, drinking, sport and pack behaviour. This study reports on the attitudes and experiences of laddish students from a UK university. Laddish behaviours were ubiquitous in their university lives. They were well aware of the harm lad culture causes but struggled to manage their behaviour. Being…
Tracing postrepresentational visions of the city: Representing the unrepresentable Skateworlds of Tyneside
In any visualisation of the city more is left unseen than made visible. Contemporary visualisations of the city are increasingly influenced by quantification, and thus anything which cannot be quantified is hidden. In contrast, we explore the use of 'lo-fi', doodled, participatory maps made by skateboarders in Tyneside, England, as a means to represent their cityscape. Drawing on established work an skateboarding and recent developments in cartog…
Right to Be Hostile: "A Critique of Erica Chito Childs's "Looking Behind the Stereotypes of the 'Angry Black Woman
Erica Chito Childs's article "Looking Behind the Stereotypes of the 'Angry Black Woman'," published in Gender and Society in 2005, represents an important empirical contribution to studies of interracial intimacy. Black women's voices are routinely marginalized during analyses of interracial dating, and, worse, their real-life experiences and first-person interpretations are replaced by demeaning, racist stereotypes of angry Black womanhood. Chil…
BBC Natural History Versus Science Paradigms
In 1979 the finale of David Attenborough’s Life on Earth featured Attenborough’s iconic forest floor romp with mountain gorillas. Two decades later and Sir David was still being asked to re-enact this memorable piece of television on the Parkinson chat show. Life on Earth had become the BBC’s first David Attenborough blockbuster to be followed by The Trials of Life, The Living Planet, The Life of Plants, up to the most recent, The Life of Mammals…
Biodiversity and Conservation
Factors influencing student non-attendance at formal teaching sessions
Motivated by falling levels of attendance at classes, this paper explores student reasons for non-attendance within Undergraduate Programmes at a post 1992 UK university. Questionnaires collected demographic profiling information and factors students thought influenced attendance. Closed questions established how important attendance was in influencing grades and how motivated students considered themselves to be. Findings reveal variables includ…
Practical conservation: Water and wetlands
Biodiversity and Conservation
BBC Natural History Versus Science Paradigms
In 1979 the finale of David Attenborough’s Life on Earth featured Attenborough’s iconic forest floor romp with mountain gorillas. Two decades later and Sir David was still being asked to re-enact this memorable piece of television on the Parkinson chat show. Life on Earth had become the BBC’s first David Attenborough blockbuster to be followed by The Trials of Life, The Living Planet, The Life of Plants, up to the most recent, The Life of Mammals…
Right to Be Hostile: "A Critique of Erica Chito Childs's "Looking Behind the Stereotypes of the 'Angry Black Woman
Erica Chito Childs's article "Looking Behind the Stereotypes of the 'Angry Black Woman'," published in Gender and Society in 2005, represents an important empirical contribution to studies of interracial intimacy. Black women's voices are routinely marginalized during analyses of interracial dating, and, worse, their real-life experiences and first-person interpretations are replaced by demeaning, racist stereotypes of angry Black womanhood. Chil…
O bama, B arack (1961–)
Barack Hussein Obama is the 44th president of the United States of America. He was first elected as the Democratic nominee in 2008, defeating Republican nominee John McCain with 365 electoral college votes and 52.9 percent of the popular vote. In 2012 Obama was reelected with 332 electoral college votes and 51.1 percent of the popular vote, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Obama is the first African American and person of color to be …
Tracing postrepresentational visions of the city: Representing the unrepresentable Skateworlds of Tyneside
In any visualisation of the city more is left unseen than made visible. Contemporary visualisations of the city are increasingly influenced by quantification, and thus anything which cannot be quantified is hidden. In contrast, we explore the use of 'lo-fi', doodled, participatory maps made by skateboarders in Tyneside, England, as a means to represent their cityscape. Drawing on established work an skateboarding and recent developments in cartog…
Is it okay to go out on the pull without it being nasty?’: Lads’ performance of lad culture
Lad culture is pervasive in UK higher education, fuelling misogyny and violence towards women. Lad culture is commonly described as mix of boorish socialising, drinking, sport and pack behaviour. This study reports on the attitudes and experiences of laddish students from a UK university. Laddish behaviours were ubiquitous in their university lives. They were well aware of the harm lad culture causes but struggled to manage their behaviour. Being…
Factors influencing student non-attendance at formal teaching sessions
Motivated by falling levels of attendance at classes, this paper explores student reasons for non-attendance within Undergraduate Programmes at a post 1992 UK university. Questionnaires collected demographic profiling information and factors students thought influenced attendance. Closed questions established how important attendance was in influencing grades and how motivated students considered themselves to be. Findings reveal variables includ…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)