Emma Bird
Biographic Data
| ID | 114403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Bird |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Bird |
| SIGNATURE | BIRD E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West of England |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9603-3434 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Opportunities to engage health system leaders in whole systems approaches to physical activity in England
Background Physical activity plays an important role in maintaining good health and wellbeing, non-communicable disease prevention and can improve healthcare outcomes. Some progress is being made on incorporating physical activity into routine care, but less on engaging health system leaders in the ‘whole systems’ approaches which are increasingly recognised as important for addressing complex public health challenges such as physical inactivity.…
Political and Planetary Panic: Penning Motherhood in Trump’s America
‘Why All the Books About Motherhood?’ asked Lauren Elkin in the Paris Review in the summer of 2018. In her article she notes the emergence of ‘a new crop’, a new canon of books about motherhood (pu
Action 3: 30R: Results of a Cluster Randomised Feasibility Study of a Revised Teaching Assistant-Led Extracurricular Physical Activity Intervention for 8 to 10 Year Olds
Many children are not sufficiently physically active. We conducted a cluster-randomised feasibility trial of a revised after-school physical activity (PA) programme delivered by trained teaching assistants (TAs) to assess the potential evidence of promise for increasing moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). Participants ( n = 335) aged 8−10 years were recruited from 12 primary schools in South West England. Six schools were randomised to…
General practice referral of ‘at risk’ populations to community leisure services: Applying the RE-AIM framework to evaluate the impact of a community-based physical activity programme for inactive adu…
Despite not reaching its recruitment target, CLICK into Activity was successfully adopted. Positive outcomes were associated with participation, although low 6- and 12-month follow-up response rates limit understanding of longer-term programme effects. Contextual and individual factors, which may facilitate successful implementation with the target population, were identified. Findings highlight strategies to be explored in future development and…
Action 3: 30R: process evaluation of a cluster randomised feasibility study of a revised teaching assistant-led extracurricular physical activity intervention for 8 to 10 year olds
ISRCTN34001941 . Prospectively registered 01/12/2016
"Now I'm a real Mumbai-Wallah!" An interview with Hemant Divate
In this interview – which was conducted in person on two leisurely afternoons in Bombay/Mumbai in March and September 2015, and which continued over email for many months afterwards – Emma Bird asks Marathi poet, publisher and translator Hemant Divate about his life and career, and about the multiple cultural and linguistic worlds he inhabits. In what follows, Divate considers how his own writing has developed, often in response to the demands of…
Extent, quality and impact of patient and public involvement in antimicrobial drug development research: A systematic review
Imagine: New and selected poems
Shanta Acharya is someone you might call quietly prolific; she has published five volumes of poetry since 1994 (along with a novel and books on asset management), and her poems appear in literary j
Relocating Bombay’s Poetry Scene: Taking a Walk through the City of Dreams
Bombay is an iconic metropolis, celebrated and denigrated in equal measure by commentators. For many, its sheer size, coupled with its demographic plurality, make it ‘the sine qua non of the postco
The Things Not in the Picture: Bombay's poets and the re-representation of the city
This article considers how Bombay’s English-language poets have negotiated and re-imagined this iconic and highly mediated city. It suggests that poetry in general, and the work of Bombay’s poets in particular, is especially able to articulate what Henri Lefebvre characterized as the “lived” dimension of space. Unlike Bombay’s novels, which have been read as an allegory of the city at large, its poems offer an alternative perspective, presenting …
New soundings in postcolonial writing: Critical and creative contours
New soundings in postcolonial writing: Critical and creative contours." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 53(6), pp. 745–746
A platform for poetry: The PEN All-India Centre and a Bombay poetry scene
This article introduces a brief history of the PEN All-India Centre in Bombay, before examining the role it has played in supporting Indian poets working in English. This organization has long constituted a vital meeting place for established and emerging poets, and must be recognized as an integral location in the history of Indian poetry in English. From the late 1960s in particular, poetry began to feature more prominently in the Centre’s cale…
Process evaluation of the Bristol girls dance project
ISRCTN52882523 Registered 25th April 2013
Indian writing in English and the global literary market; Tracing the new Indian diaspora
In his seminal study The Postcolonial Exotic, Graham Huggan (2001) exposed the “global commodification of cultural difference”, showing how cultural and economic value has accrued to postcolonial w
Beautiful Thing: Literary reportage and Bombay
There are few contemporary cities as recognizable as Bombay/Mumbai. It is especially familiar to global and local audiences via the circulation of popular cinema, and has been the subject of much recent critical discussion in postcolonial studies. This article considers the portrayal of the city in Sonia Faleiro’s acclaimed non-fictional work Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay’s Dance Bars (2010). This book, which documents the li…
Arun Kolatkar and literary modernism in India: Moving Lines
This is the first study of a remarkable poet, who has redefined the parameters of English and Marathi poetry. Despite a career spanning five decades, Arun Kolatkar has as yet received little critic
Understanding the social context of fatal road traffic collisions among young people: A qualitative analysis of narrative text in coroners’ records
Analysis of the wider social context in which road traffic collisions occur in young people can provide important information for understanding why collisions happen and developing targeted interventions to prevent them. It can complement routinely collected data, which often focuses on events immediately preceding a collision. Qualitative analysis of narrative text in coroner's records may provide a way of providing this type of information. The…
Bristol girls dance project (BGDP): Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial of an after-school dance programme to increase physical activity among 11–12 year old girls
ISRCTN52882523
The stillbirth of capital: Enlightenment writing and colonial India
Re-reading postcolonial poetry: Arun Kolatkar’s Jejuri
This paper considers how Arun Kolatkar’s 1976 Commonwealth Prize winning sequence Jejuri constitutes a challenge to the interpretation of postcolonial poetry. In particular, it is concerned with examining the interpretive demands Jejuri makes of its readers, arguing that its microcosmic spatial and temporal composition requires the reader to dispense with his or her own sense of exteriority to, or distance from, the text. At the same time, Kolatk…
Tracking modernity: India's railways and the culture of mobility
The Things Not in the Picture: Bombay's poets and the re-representation of the city
This article considers how Bombay’s English-language poets have negotiated and re-imagined this iconic and highly mediated city. It suggests that poetry in general, and the work of Bombay’s poets in particular, is especially able to articulate what Henri Lefebvre characterized as the “lived” dimension of space. Unlike Bombay’s novels, which have been read as an allegory of the city at large, its poems offer an alternative perspective, presenting …
Arun Kolatkar and literary modernism in India: Moving Lines
This is the first study of a remarkable poet, who has redefined the parameters of English and Marathi poetry. Despite a career spanning five decades, Arun Kolatkar has as yet received little critic
Re-reading postcolonial poetry: Arun Kolatkar’s Jejuri
This paper considers how Arun Kolatkar’s 1976 Commonwealth Prize winning sequence Jejuri constitutes a challenge to the interpretation of postcolonial poetry. In particular, it is concerned with examining the interpretive demands Jejuri makes of its readers, arguing that its microcosmic spatial and temporal composition requires the reader to dispense with his or her own sense of exteriority to, or distance from, the text. At the same time, Kolatk…
Beautiful Thing: Literary reportage and Bombay
There are few contemporary cities as recognizable as Bombay/Mumbai. It is especially familiar to global and local audiences via the circulation of popular cinema, and has been the subject of much recent critical discussion in postcolonial studies. This article considers the portrayal of the city in Sonia Faleiro’s acclaimed non-fictional work Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay’s Dance Bars (2010). This book, which documents the li…
Re-reading postcolonial poetry: Arun Kolatkar’s Jejuri
This paper considers how Arun Kolatkar’s 1976 Commonwealth Prize winning sequence Jejuri constitutes a challenge to the interpretation of postcolonial poetry. In particular, it is concerned with examining the interpretive demands Jejuri makes of its readers, arguing that its microcosmic spatial and temporal composition requires the reader to dispense with his or her own sense of exteriority to, or distance from, the text. At the same time, Kolatk…
Tracking modernity: India's railways and the culture of mobility
Bristol girls dance project (BGDP): Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial of an after-school dance programme to increase physical activity among 11–12 year old girls
ISRCTN52882523
The stillbirth of capital: Enlightenment writing and colonial India
Understanding the social context of fatal road traffic collisions among young people: A qualitative analysis of narrative text in coroners’ records
Analysis of the wider social context in which road traffic collisions occur in young people can provide important information for understanding why collisions happen and developing targeted interventions to prevent them. It can complement routinely collected data, which often focuses on events immediately preceding a collision. Qualitative analysis of narrative text in coroner's records may provide a way of providing this type of information. The…
Indian writing in English and the global literary market; Tracing the new Indian diaspora
In his seminal study The Postcolonial Exotic, Graham Huggan (2001) exposed the “global commodification of cultural difference”, showing how cultural and economic value has accrued to postcolonial w
Beautiful Thing: Literary reportage and Bombay
There are few contemporary cities as recognizable as Bombay/Mumbai. It is especially familiar to global and local audiences via the circulation of popular cinema, and has been the subject of much recent critical discussion in postcolonial studies. This article considers the portrayal of the city in Sonia Faleiro’s acclaimed non-fictional work Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay’s Dance Bars (2010). This book, which documents the li…
Arun Kolatkar and literary modernism in India: Moving Lines
This is the first study of a remarkable poet, who has redefined the parameters of English and Marathi poetry. Despite a career spanning five decades, Arun Kolatkar has as yet received little critic
Process evaluation of the Bristol girls dance project
ISRCTN52882523 Registered 25th April 2013
Relocating Bombay’s Poetry Scene: Taking a Walk through the City of Dreams
Bombay is an iconic metropolis, celebrated and denigrated in equal measure by commentators. For many, its sheer size, coupled with its demographic plurality, make it ‘the sine qua non of the postco
The Things Not in the Picture: Bombay's poets and the re-representation of the city
This article considers how Bombay’s English-language poets have negotiated and re-imagined this iconic and highly mediated city. It suggests that poetry in general, and the work of Bombay’s poets in particular, is especially able to articulate what Henri Lefebvre characterized as the “lived” dimension of space. Unlike Bombay’s novels, which have been read as an allegory of the city at large, its poems offer an alternative perspective, presenting …
New soundings in postcolonial writing: Critical and creative contours
New soundings in postcolonial writing: Critical and creative contours." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 53(6), pp. 745–746
A platform for poetry: The PEN All-India Centre and a Bombay poetry scene
This article introduces a brief history of the PEN All-India Centre in Bombay, before examining the role it has played in supporting Indian poets working in English. This organization has long constituted a vital meeting place for established and emerging poets, and must be recognized as an integral location in the history of Indian poetry in English. From the late 1960s in particular, poetry began to feature more prominently in the Centre’s cale…
Extent, quality and impact of patient and public involvement in antimicrobial drug development research: A systematic review
Imagine: New and selected poems
Shanta Acharya is someone you might call quietly prolific; she has published five volumes of poetry since 1994 (along with a novel and books on asset management), and her poems appear in literary j
Action 3: 30R: Results of a Cluster Randomised Feasibility Study of a Revised Teaching Assistant-Led Extracurricular Physical Activity Intervention for 8 to 10 Year Olds
Many children are not sufficiently physically active. We conducted a cluster-randomised feasibility trial of a revised after-school physical activity (PA) programme delivered by trained teaching assistants (TAs) to assess the potential evidence of promise for increasing moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). Participants ( n = 335) aged 8−10 years were recruited from 12 primary schools in South West England. Six schools were randomised to…
General practice referral of ‘at risk’ populations to community leisure services: Applying the RE-AIM framework to evaluate the impact of a community-based physical activity programme for inactive adu…
Despite not reaching its recruitment target, CLICK into Activity was successfully adopted. Positive outcomes were associated with participation, although low 6- and 12-month follow-up response rates limit understanding of longer-term programme effects. Contextual and individual factors, which may facilitate successful implementation with the target population, were identified. Findings highlight strategies to be explored in future development and…
Action 3: 30R: process evaluation of a cluster randomised feasibility study of a revised teaching assistant-led extracurricular physical activity intervention for 8 to 10 year olds
ISRCTN34001941 . Prospectively registered 01/12/2016
"Now I'm a real Mumbai-Wallah!" An interview with Hemant Divate
In this interview – which was conducted in person on two leisurely afternoons in Bombay/Mumbai in March and September 2015, and which continued over email for many months afterwards – Emma Bird asks Marathi poet, publisher and translator Hemant Divate about his life and career, and about the multiple cultural and linguistic worlds he inhabits. In what follows, Divate considers how his own writing has developed, often in response to the demands of…
Political and Planetary Panic: Penning Motherhood in Trump’s America
‘Why All the Books About Motherhood?’ asked Lauren Elkin in the Paris Review in the summer of 2018. In her article she notes the emergence of ‘a new crop’, a new canon of books about motherhood (pu
Opportunities to engage health system leaders in whole systems approaches to physical activity in England
Background Physical activity plays an important role in maintaining good health and wellbeing, non-communicable disease prevention and can improve healthcare outcomes. Some progress is being made on incorporating physical activity into routine care, but less on engaging health system leaders in the ‘whole systems’ approaches which are increasingly recognised as important for addressing complex public health challenges such as physical inactivity.…
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