Ian Hesketh
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1027507 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ian Hesketh |
| PRENOMES | Ian |
| SOBRENOME | Hesketh |
| ASSINATURA | HESKETH I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1737-9032 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1969 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Development and evaluation of a diet and exercise intervention for promoting sleep, health, and wellbeing within the UK home office police forces
This study tested the impact of a diet and exercise intervention on its impact on self-rated sleep, health, and wellbeing among a sample ( n = 64) of UK police officers and staff. Using a pre- and post-intervention testing design, UK police officers and staff were exposed to a month-long diet and exercise intervention. Measurement before and after the intervention included self-rated sleep quantity, sleep quality, and sleep latency (how long it t…
Darwin’s scientific gardener
This essay examines the working relationship between Charles Darwin and the Edinburgh gardener John Scott that developed in the wake of the publishing of the Origin of Species (1859). As the essay shows, Darwin sought to utilize Scott’s horticultural knowledge and experimental expertise in order to provide some of the specialized botanical evidence that the Origin was not intended to provide. Scott, meanwhile, sought to use Darwin’s patronage and…
Positive action paradox in UK police recruitment
Police recruitment across the UK is under intense political and social pressure to increase representation and legitimacy. This layered in to a quest to raise the number of police officers in England and Wales by 20,000. However, despite decades of reform initiatives, police recruitment continues to be a challenging and potentially exclusionary process for candidates from ethnic minority backgrounds. Research in this area mainly comprises macro-l…
Down under Darwin
Scientific History
Law Enforcement, Leadership and Wellbeing
This book provides a guide to establishing wellbeing services and interventions within policing with practical advice for police and HR professionals
Law Enforcement, Leadership and Wellbeing
Imagining the Darwinian Revolution
The impact of workplace stressors on exhaustion and work engagement in policing
This paper uses the challenge-hindrance stressor framework to examine the impact of challenge and hindrance stressors on police officer and staff well-being. Results of two studies conducted in English police forces demonstrate that challenge stressors relate positively to the effort and enthusiasm individuals invest into their work. Findings also indicate that while challenge stressors are positively associated with exhaustion cross-sectionally …
Proof of concept and feasibility of the app-based ‘#SWPMoveMore Challenge’
An app-based physical activity intervention (#SWPMoveMore Challenge) was completed by 239 workers from one UK police force using a quasi-experimental design. Impacts were assessed against minutes of movement, individual difference and work-related stress variables using quantitative and qualitative approaches. The concept was feasible and translatable to a UK police population and the intervention significantly benefited direct measures of physic…
J oshua B ennett . God and Progress
Ever since Duncan Forbes’s influential The Liberal Anglican Idea of History appeared in 1952, a central theme of Victorian historiography has been how that era’s national histories were imagined within the framework of a larger developmental providentialism. It therefore followed that providing evidence for the moral and spiritual unfolding of the English nation was the primary goal of this tradition that connected the national histories of Thoma…
Imagining the Darwinian Revolution from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Disciplining the Anthropocene
In this review essay, I examine Julia Adeney Thomas, Mark Williams, and Jan Zalasiewicz's The Anthropocene: A Multidisciplinary Approach. As indicated by the book's subtitle, the authors stress the necessity of approaching the Anthropocene from a multidisciplinary perspective as opposed to an interdisciplinary one. I consider how the authors do this by analyzing the different disciplinary approaches they adopt from fields ranging from geology and…
The Psychic Force Serialized
This article considers the way chemist William Crookes utilized the editorship of the Quarterly Journal of Science to promote the scientific importance of spirit phenomena. It explores the publishing of Crookes’s series of sensational articles that investigated the ‘Psychic Force’, a purported force of nature that Crookes discovered during experiments with the medium Daniel Dunglas Home. Crookes thus used the platform afforded to him in the journ…
Games for health & mHealth apps for police & blue light personnel
Previous research has reported adverse health outcomes for emergency services personnel (ESP), outcomes that research more broadly has shown can be improved using a gamification and mobile health (mhealth) apps approach. We conducted a review of research on gamification and mhealth apps for ESP that had been published in the last 19 years using 6 major research databases. The results demonstrated that virtually no relevant research has been publi…
Narratives of Charles Darwin Down Under
Despite the fact that Charles Darwin spent several months in Australia in the final year of his Beagle voyage that circumnavigated the globe, most studies that deal with Darwin's life or his discovery of evolution spend little time discussing his Australian period, if it is mentioned at all. His time there is largely deemed to have produced little of significance in comparison to his visits to other places such as the Galápagos Islands, which has…
The First Darwinian
This essay is an initial study of a larger project that seeks to produce a history of the term ‘Darwinism’. While it is generally well-known that Darwinism could refer to a variety of different things in the Victorian period, from a general evolutionary naturalism to the particular theory of natural selection, very little has been written about the history of the term or how it was contested at given times and places. Building on James Moore’s 19…
Technologies of the Scientific Self
This essay examines the physicist John Tyndall's journal writing in the mid-nineteenth century and focuses on how Tyndall used his journal during a series of transitions that occurred when he was a young man: when he went from being a surveyor to a public school instructor and then from a Ph.D. student and budding experimenter in Germany to Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution in London. As well as providing insight into these…
Victorian Jesus
Of Apes and Ancestors
John Robert Seeley, Natural Religion, and the Victorian Conflict between Science and Religion
This essay examines the publishing and reception of J. R. Seeley's Natural Religion (1882), a book that sought to bring about a reconciliation between science and religion. While Natural Religion has long been overlooked, it is argued that its reception gives us insight into changing views about the relationship between science and religion in the late Victorian period. The essay also explores how the reception of the book was conditioned by its …
Victorian Jesus
Victorian Jesus explores the relationship between historian J. R. Seeley and his publisher Alexander Macmillan as they sought to keep Seeley’s authorship a secret while also trying to exploit the public interest.
Introduction
Counterfactuals and history
The Oxford history of historical writing vol 3 1400 - 1800
How was history written in Europe and Asia between 400-1400? How was the past understood in religious, social and political terms? And in what ways does the diversity of historical writing in this period mask underlying commonalities in narrating the past? The volume, which assembles 28 contributions from leading historians, tackles these and other questions. Part I provides comprehensive overviews of the development of historical writing in soci…
Counterfactuals and history
Narratives of Charles Darwin Down Under
Despite the fact that Charles Darwin spent several months in Australia in the final year of his Beagle voyage that circumnavigated the globe, most studies that deal with Darwin's life or his discovery of evolution spend little time discussing his Australian period, if it is mentioned at all. His time there is largely deemed to have produced little of significance in comparison to his visits to other places such as the Galápagos Islands, which has…
Technologies of the Scientific Self
This essay examines the physicist John Tyndall's journal writing in the mid-nineteenth century and focuses on how Tyndall used his journal during a series of transitions that occurred when he was a young man: when he went from being a surveyor to a public school instructor and then from a Ph.D. student and budding experimenter in Germany to Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution in London. As well as providing insight into these…
Darwinian We Are Not
This article considers Peter Bowler's recent contribution to the genre of counterfactual history as exemplifying a "restrained" counterfactual framework, one that must downplay the role of contingency in the historical process in order to present what Bowler calls a more "natural course" of historical development. This restrained counterfactual methodology is discussed with reference to analogous debates within evolutionary science about the comp…
The First Darwinian
This essay is an initial study of a larger project that seeks to produce a history of the term ‘Darwinism’. While it is generally well-known that Darwinism could refer to a variety of different things in the Victorian period, from a general evolutionary naturalism to the particular theory of natural selection, very little has been written about the history of the term or how it was contested at given times and places. Building on James Moore’s 19…
The Recurrence of the Evolutionary Epic
In his 1978 On Human Nature , Edward Wilson defined the evolutionary epic as the scientific story of all life, a linear narrative beginning with the big bang and ending with the story of human history. Since that time several popular science writers have attempted to write that story of life producing such titles as The Universe Story (1992)and The Epic of Evolution (2006). Historians have also gotten into the act under the guise of “Big History,…
A good Darwinian? Winwood Reade and the making of a late Victorian evolutionary epic
The Story of Big History
Consilience has long been the dream of many scientific thinkers, best expressed by the desire for a unified theory that could explain essentially everything. Such a desire is based on the assumption that there is a general unity that underlies the various branches of science, a unity that should be expressed by a simple and elegant law of nature. “Best of all would be if underpinning this scheme,” the astrophysicist Paul Davies explained in regar…
Weapons of Another Kind
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Frontiers of History
Diagnosing Froude's Disease
Historians looking to make history a professional discipline of study in Victorian Britain believed they had to establish firm boundaries demarcating history from other literary disciplines. James Anthony Froude ignored such boundaries. The popularity of his historical narratives was a constant reminder of the continued existence of a supposedly overturned phase of historiography in which the historian was also a man of letters, transcending the …
Cosmopolitan Islanders
"Cosmopolitan Islanders: British Historians and the European Continent, by Richard J. Evans.." Canadian Journal of History, 45(3), pp. 621–622
The Story of Big History
Consilience has long been the dream of many scientific thinkers, best expressed by the desire for a unified theory that could explain essentially everything. Such a desire is based on the assumption that there is a general unity that underlies the various branches of science, a unity that should be expressed by a simple and elegant law of nature. “Best of all would be if underpinning this scheme,” the astrophysicist Paul Davies explained in regar…
Darwinian We Are Not
This article considers Peter Bowler's recent contribution to the genre of counterfactual history as exemplifying a "restrained" counterfactual framework, one that must downplay the role of contingency in the historical process in order to present what Bowler calls a more "natural course" of historical development. This restrained counterfactual methodology is discussed with reference to analogous debates within evolutionary science about the comp…
The Recurrence of the Evolutionary Epic
In his 1978 On Human Nature , Edward Wilson defined the evolutionary epic as the scientific story of all life, a linear narrative beginning with the big bang and ending with the story of human history. Since that time several popular science writers have attempted to write that story of life producing such titles as The Universe Story (1992)and The Epic of Evolution (2006). Historians have also gotten into the act under the guise of “Big History,…
The Aesthetics of Scale
A good Darwinian? Winwood Reade and the making of a late Victorian evolutionary epic
James Anthony Froude
James Anthony Froude is a remarkably difficult Victorian to pin down. Early on in his life he followed in the footsteps of his saintly brother Hurrell by embracing the Tractarianism of John Henry N
On Historical Distance by Mark Salber Phillips (review)
Introduction
Counterfactuals and history
Victorian Jesus
Victorian Jesus explores the relationship between historian J. R. Seeley and his publisher Alexander Macmillan as they sought to keep Seeley’s authorship a secret while also trying to exploit the public interest.
Victorian Jesus
Of Apes and Ancestors
John Robert Seeley, Natural Religion, and the Victorian Conflict between Science and Religion
This essay examines the publishing and reception of J. R. Seeley's Natural Religion (1882), a book that sought to bring about a reconciliation between science and religion. While Natural Religion has long been overlooked, it is argued that its reception gives us insight into changing views about the relationship between science and religion in the late Victorian period. The essay also explores how the reception of the book was conditioned by its …
The First Darwinian
This essay is an initial study of a larger project that seeks to produce a history of the term ‘Darwinism’. While it is generally well-known that Darwinism could refer to a variety of different things in the Victorian period, from a general evolutionary naturalism to the particular theory of natural selection, very little has been written about the history of the term or how it was contested at given times and places. Building on James Moore’s 19…
Technologies of the Scientific Self
This essay examines the physicist John Tyndall's journal writing in the mid-nineteenth century and focuses on how Tyndall used his journal during a series of transitions that occurred when he was a young man: when he went from being a surveyor to a public school instructor and then from a Ph.D. student and budding experimenter in Germany to Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution in London. As well as providing insight into these…
The Psychic Force Serialized
This article considers the way chemist William Crookes utilized the editorship of the Quarterly Journal of Science to promote the scientific importance of spirit phenomena. It explores the publishing of Crookes’s series of sensational articles that investigated the ‘Psychic Force’, a purported force of nature that Crookes discovered during experiments with the medium Daniel Dunglas Home. Crookes thus used the platform afforded to him in the journ…
Games for health & mHealth apps for police & blue light personnel
Previous research has reported adverse health outcomes for emergency services personnel (ESP), outcomes that research more broadly has shown can be improved using a gamification and mobile health (mhealth) apps approach. We conducted a review of research on gamification and mhealth apps for ESP that had been published in the last 19 years using 6 major research databases. The results demonstrated that virtually no relevant research has been publi…
Narratives of Charles Darwin Down Under
Despite the fact that Charles Darwin spent several months in Australia in the final year of his Beagle voyage that circumnavigated the globe, most studies that deal with Darwin's life or his discovery of evolution spend little time discussing his Australian period, if it is mentioned at all. His time there is largely deemed to have produced little of significance in comparison to his visits to other places such as the Galápagos Islands, which has…
Imagining the Darwinian Revolution
The impact of workplace stressors on exhaustion and work engagement in policing
This paper uses the challenge-hindrance stressor framework to examine the impact of challenge and hindrance stressors on police officer and staff well-being. Results of two studies conducted in English police forces demonstrate that challenge stressors relate positively to the effort and enthusiasm individuals invest into their work. Findings also indicate that while challenge stressors are positively associated with exhaustion cross-sectionally …
Proof of concept and feasibility of the app-based ‘#SWPMoveMore Challenge’
An app-based physical activity intervention (#SWPMoveMore Challenge) was completed by 239 workers from one UK police force using a quasi-experimental design. Impacts were assessed against minutes of movement, individual difference and work-related stress variables using quantitative and qualitative approaches. The concept was feasible and translatable to a UK police population and the intervention significantly benefited direct measures of physic…
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