Rodney M Thomson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1046390 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rodney M Thomson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rodney M |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMSON R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3060-939X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dividends and Disconnects
Incidence of physical non-communicable disease in people who have experienced imprisonment compared with the general population in high-income countries
Several NCDs, including multiple cancers, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and liver disease, are substantially more common in people who have experienced imprisonment compared with the general population, highlighting a need for primary prevention and NCD management
Association between individual level characteristics and take-up of a Minimum Income Guarantee for Pensioners
A Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) ensures people have a minimum amount of income for essentials such as healthy food, housing, health care, social and digital networks to support health and well-being. MIGs could be a useful tool to reduce inequalities. A MIG will only be effective if those who are eligible take it up. The aim of this paper is to explore how individual characteristics were associated with take-up of a MIG for pensioners (aged 60+ …
Implications of child poverty reduction targets for public health and health inequalities in England
Background We investigated the potential impacts of child poverty (CP) reduction scenarios on population health and health inequalities in England between 2024 and 2033. Methods We combined aggregate local authority-level data with published and newly created estimates on the association between CP and the rate per 100 000 of infant mortality, children (aged <16) looked after, child (aged <16) hospitalisations for nutritional anaemia and child (a…
Evaluating the influence of taxation and social security policies on psychological distress
Systems science methods in public health
BACKGROUND: Many complex public health evidence gaps cannot be fully resolved using only conventional public health methods. We aim to familiarise public health researchers with selected systems science methods that may contribute to a better understanding of complex phenomena and lead to more impactful interventions. As a case study, we choose the current cost-of-living crisis, which affects disposable income as a key structural determinant of h…
Does persistent precarious employment affect health outcomes among working age adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis
Comparing population-level mental health of UK workers before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
OBJECTIVES: The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially affected workers' mental health. We investigated changes in UK workers' mental health by industry, socioeconomic class and occupation and differential effects by UK country of residence, gender and age. METHODS: We used representative Understanding Society data from 6474 adults (41 207 observations) in paid employment who participated in pre-pandemic (2017-2020) and at least one COVID-19 survey.…
Which is most important for mental health
Moving into unemployment was most strongly associated with CMD, with poverty also important but income effects generally much smaller. Men appear most sensitive to employment transitions, but poverty may have larger impacts on women and those with least education. As the COVID-19 pandemic recedes, minimising unemployment as well as poverty is crucial for population mental health
Health of people experiencing co-occurring homelessness, imprisonment, substance use, sex work and/or severe mental illness in high-income countries
Mental health and health behaviours before and during the initial phase of the Covid-19 lockdown
Background There are concerns that COVID-19 mitigation measures, including the ‘lockdown’, may have unintended health consequences. We examined trends in mental health and health behaviours in the UK before and during the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdown and differences across population subgroups. Methods Repeated cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis of the UK Household Longitudinal Study, including representative samples of over 27,0…
Mental health and the jilted generation
Mind Matters
Festschriften are something of a nuisance. Most of them consist of essays on highlydisparate topics and of variable appeal and importance; most readers will be interestedin only one or two essays in any one collection, and conversely few of the essays in anyone collection are likely to interest more than a handful of readers. This particularcollection, of thirteen pieces, is characteristic. To be fair, its editors were forced to cometo terms with…
Geoffrey of Monmouth
This is Volume LXIX in the Arthurian Studies series published by Boydell; it is perhaps surprising that it is not rather Volume VI of the series titled TheHistoria Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth, inaugurated by Neil Wright in 1985 and published by the other half of the same press (D.S. Brewer), without the previous volumes of which this one would scarcely have been conceivable. The first volume in that series was Wright's single-manuscri…
The Anglo-Saxon Library
This book is the work of a master who has single-handedly created the field of Anglo-Latin studies and who brings to everything he writes vast erudition and (like his friend the late Bernhard Bischoff) the uncanny ability to make connections between seemingly disparate objects that result in brilliant and (usually) convincing discoveries. Nor does it disappoint. Erudition there is aplenty, and if the views presented are in the main not new—for mu…
Medieval Maps at Merton College, Oxford
One thing of which we can be sure about maps from the western European Middle Ages is that many more have perished than have survived, and that many of those now lost have left no trace.1 Written r
Rhetoric and renewal in the Latin West 1100-1540
viii, 270 pages : 25 cm
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Medieval Manuscripts of St John's College, Oxford
1University of Tasmania A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Medieval Manuscripts of St John's College, Oxford RalphHanna OxfordOxford U.P. 2002371£80
Richard Southern and the Twelfth–Century Intellectual World
Richard Southern’s most recent book proposes an interpretation of the intellectual life of twelfth–century Europe that deserves both close attention and critical scrutiny. Particular issues questioned in this review are the dominant centrality of the “scholastic enterprise,” Southern’s idiosyncratic definition of “humanism,” and his prolongation of the twelfth–century renaissance through most of the thirteenth. It is argued that Southern’s interp…
The Music for the Office of St. Edmund King and Martyr
England and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance
ENGLAND AND THE TWELFTH-CENTURY RENAISSANCE Get access Rodney M. Thomson Rodney M. Thomson University of Tasmania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 101, Issue 1, November 1983, Pages 3–21, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/101.1.3 Published: 01 November 1983
William of Malmesbury's Carolingian sources
In his great history of England, the Gesta regum Anglorum, completed in 1125, William of Malmesbury included digressions on continental affairs. One of these, on the Merovingian and Carolingian monarchs, provides an interesting study of William's historical method. His Frankish sources are difficult to identify, but we are helped by the survival of the late twelfth-century English MS. Oxford, Bodleian Library Lat. class d.39. This book contains, …
Identifiable books from the pre-Conquest library of Malmesbury Abbey
The Benedictine abbey at Malmesbury in Wiltshire was one of that select group of English houses which could trace its history back to the golden age epitomized and chronicled by Bede. To Bede's older contemporary Aldhelm ( ob. c. 709) belongs most of the credit for setting the recently founded community on its feet and for making it a by-word throughout the British Isles for the pursuit of divine and secular learning. 2 During his abbacy Malmesbu…
Docere verbo et exemplo
William of Malmesbury as Historian and Man of Letters
As a historian and man of learning, William of Malmesbury has over the last century drawn the most diverse reactions from those scholars whose work has brought them into contact with him. On the one hand, praise has been lavished on his wide reading, critical acumen and historical judgement; on the odier, his credulity, carelessness, wilful mishandling of evidence and meandering irrelevance have been stigmatised. One group of scholars sees him as…
Mental health and health behaviours before and during the initial phase of the Covid-19 lockdown
Background There are concerns that COVID-19 mitigation measures, including the ‘lockdown’, may have unintended health consequences. We examined trends in mental health and health behaviours in the UK before and during the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdown and differences across population subgroups. Methods Repeated cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis of the UK Household Longitudinal Study, including representative samples of over 27,0…
Mental health and the jilted generation
Geoffrey of Monmouth
This is Volume LXIX in the Arthurian Studies series published by Boydell; it is perhaps surprising that it is not rather Volume VI of the series titled TheHistoria Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth, inaugurated by Neil Wright in 1985 and published by the other half of the same press (D.S. Brewer), without the previous volumes of which this one would scarcely have been conceivable. The first volume in that series was Wright's single-manuscri…
Systems science methods in public health
BACKGROUND: Many complex public health evidence gaps cannot be fully resolved using only conventional public health methods. We aim to familiarise public health researchers with selected systems science methods that may contribute to a better understanding of complex phenomena and lead to more impactful interventions. As a case study, we choose the current cost-of-living crisis, which affects disposable income as a key structural determinant of h…
Evaluating the influence of taxation and social security policies on psychological distress
Comparing population-level mental health of UK workers before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
OBJECTIVES: The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially affected workers' mental health. We investigated changes in UK workers' mental health by industry, socioeconomic class and occupation and differential effects by UK country of residence, gender and age. METHODS: We used representative Understanding Society data from 6474 adults (41 207 observations) in paid employment who participated in pre-pandemic (2017-2020) and at least one COVID-19 survey.…
William of Malmesbury as Historian and Man of Letters
As a historian and man of learning, William of Malmesbury has over the last century drawn the most diverse reactions from those scholars whose work has brought them into contact with him. On the one hand, praise has been lavished on his wide reading, critical acumen and historical judgement; on the odier, his credulity, carelessness, wilful mishandling of evidence and meandering irrelevance have been stigmatised. One group of scholars sees him as…
The Library of Bury St. Edmunds Abbey in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Implications of child poverty reduction targets for public health and health inequalities in England
Background We investigated the potential impacts of child poverty (CP) reduction scenarios on population health and health inequalities in England between 2024 and 2033. Methods We combined aggregate local authority-level data with published and newly created estimates on the association between CP and the rate per 100 000 of infant mortality, children (aged <16) looked after, child (aged <16) hospitalisations for nutritional anaemia and child (a…
Richard Southern and the Twelfth–Century Intellectual World
Richard Southern’s most recent book proposes an interpretation of the intellectual life of twelfth–century Europe that deserves both close attention and critical scrutiny. Particular issues questioned in this review are the dominant centrality of the “scholastic enterprise,” Southern’s idiosyncratic definition of “humanism,” and his prolongation of the twelfth–century renaissance through most of the thirteenth. It is argued that Southern’s interp…
England and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance
ENGLAND AND THE TWELFTH-CENTURY RENAISSANCE Get access Rodney M. Thomson Rodney M. Thomson University of Tasmania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 101, Issue 1, November 1983, Pages 3–21, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/101.1.3 Published: 01 November 1983
William of Malmesbury's Carolingian sources
In his great history of England, the Gesta regum Anglorum, completed in 1125, William of Malmesbury included digressions on continental affairs. One of these, on the Merovingian and Carolingian monarchs, provides an interesting study of William's historical method. His Frankish sources are difficult to identify, but we are helped by the survival of the late twelfth-century English MS. Oxford, Bodleian Library Lat. class d.39. This book contains, …
The Library of Bury St. Edmunds Abbey in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
An English Eyewitness of the Peace of Venice, 1177
Twelfth–century documents from Bury St Edmunds Abbey
William of Malmesbury as Historian and Man of Letters
As a historian and man of learning, William of Malmesbury has over the last century drawn the most diverse reactions from those scholars whose work has brought them into contact with him. On the one hand, praise has been lavished on his wide reading, critical acumen and historical judgement; on the odier, his credulity, carelessness, wilful mishandling of evidence and meandering irrelevance have been stigmatised. One group of scholars sees him as…
William of Malmesbury's Carolingian sources
In his great history of England, the Gesta regum Anglorum, completed in 1125, William of Malmesbury included digressions on continental affairs. One of these, on the Merovingian and Carolingian monarchs, provides an interesting study of William's historical method. His Frankish sources are difficult to identify, but we are helped by the survival of the late twelfth-century English MS. Oxford, Bodleian Library Lat. class d.39. This book contains, …
Identifiable books from the pre-Conquest library of Malmesbury Abbey
The Benedictine abbey at Malmesbury in Wiltshire was one of that select group of English houses which could trace its history back to the golden age epitomized and chronicled by Bede. To Bede's older contemporary Aldhelm ( ob. c. 709) belongs most of the credit for setting the recently founded community on its feet and for making it a by-word throughout the British Isles for the pursuit of divine and secular learning. 2 During his abbacy Malmesbu…
Docere verbo et exemplo
England and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance
ENGLAND AND THE TWELFTH-CENTURY RENAISSANCE Get access Rodney M. Thomson Rodney M. Thomson University of Tasmania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 101, Issue 1, November 1983, Pages 3–21, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/101.1.3 Published: 01 November 1983
The Music for the Office of St. Edmund King and Martyr
Richard Southern and the Twelfth–Century Intellectual World
Richard Southern’s most recent book proposes an interpretation of the intellectual life of twelfth–century Europe that deserves both close attention and critical scrutiny. Particular issues questioned in this review are the dominant centrality of the “scholastic enterprise,” Southern’s idiosyncratic definition of “humanism,” and his prolongation of the twelfth–century renaissance through most of the thirteenth. It is argued that Southern’s interp…
Rhetoric and renewal in the Latin West 1100-1540
viii, 270 pages : 25 cm
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Medieval Manuscripts of St John's College, Oxford
1University of Tasmania A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Medieval Manuscripts of St John's College, Oxford RalphHanna OxfordOxford U.P. 2002371£80
Medieval Maps at Merton College, Oxford
One thing of which we can be sure about maps from the western European Middle Ages is that many more have perished than have survived, and that many of those now lost have left no trace.1 Written r
Geoffrey of Monmouth
This is Volume LXIX in the Arthurian Studies series published by Boydell; it is perhaps surprising that it is not rather Volume VI of the series titled TheHistoria Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth, inaugurated by Neil Wright in 1985 and published by the other half of the same press (D.S. Brewer), without the previous volumes of which this one would scarcely have been conceivable. The first volume in that series was Wright's single-manuscri…
The Anglo-Saxon Library
This book is the work of a master who has single-handedly created the field of Anglo-Latin studies and who brings to everything he writes vast erudition and (like his friend the late Bernhard Bischoff) the uncanny ability to make connections between seemingly disparate objects that result in brilliant and (usually) convincing discoveries. Nor does it disappoint. Erudition there is aplenty, and if the views presented are in the main not new—for mu…
Mind Matters
Festschriften are something of a nuisance. Most of them consist of essays on highlydisparate topics and of variable appeal and importance; most readers will be interestedin only one or two essays in any one collection, and conversely few of the essays in anyone collection are likely to interest more than a handful of readers. This particularcollection, of thirteen pieces, is characteristic. To be fair, its editors were forced to cometo terms with…
Mental health and the jilted generation
Which is most important for mental health
Moving into unemployment was most strongly associated with CMD, with poverty also important but income effects generally much smaller. Men appear most sensitive to employment transitions, but poverty may have larger impacts on women and those with least education. As the COVID-19 pandemic recedes, minimising unemployment as well as poverty is crucial for population mental health
Health of people experiencing co-occurring homelessness, imprisonment, substance use, sex work and/or severe mental illness in high-income countries
Mental health and health behaviours before and during the initial phase of the Covid-19 lockdown
Background There are concerns that COVID-19 mitigation measures, including the ‘lockdown’, may have unintended health consequences. We examined trends in mental health and health behaviours in the UK before and during the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdown and differences across population subgroups. Methods Repeated cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis of the UK Household Longitudinal Study, including representative samples of over 27,0…
Does persistent precarious employment affect health outcomes among working age adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis
Comparing population-level mental health of UK workers before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
OBJECTIVES: The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially affected workers' mental health. We investigated changes in UK workers' mental health by industry, socioeconomic class and occupation and differential effects by UK country of residence, gender and age. METHODS: We used representative Understanding Society data from 6474 adults (41 207 observations) in paid employment who participated in pre-pandemic (2017-2020) and at least one COVID-19 survey.…
Systems science methods in public health
BACKGROUND: Many complex public health evidence gaps cannot be fully resolved using only conventional public health methods. We aim to familiarise public health researchers with selected systems science methods that may contribute to a better understanding of complex phenomena and lead to more impactful interventions. As a case study, we choose the current cost-of-living crisis, which affects disposable income as a key structural determinant of h…
Association between individual level characteristics and take-up of a Minimum Income Guarantee for Pensioners
A Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) ensures people have a minimum amount of income for essentials such as healthy food, housing, health care, social and digital networks to support health and well-being. MIGs could be a useful tool to reduce inequalities. A MIG will only be effective if those who are eligible take it up. The aim of this paper is to explore how individual characteristics were associated with take-up of a MIG for pensioners (aged 60+ …
Implications of child poverty reduction targets for public health and health inequalities in England
Background We investigated the potential impacts of child poverty (CP) reduction scenarios on population health and health inequalities in England between 2024 and 2033. Methods We combined aggregate local authority-level data with published and newly created estimates on the association between CP and the rate per 100 000 of infant mortality, children (aged <16) looked after, child (aged <16) hospitalisations for nutritional anaemia and child (a…
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