Abigail Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 115082 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abigail Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abigail |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9615-5581 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
I Have to Work So Hard to Make Sure I'm Likeable While Getting the Job Done”: Examining the Politically Astute Negotiation of a Gendered Career by High‐Profile Female Sport Broadcasters
Despite a rise in established, high‐profile female sport broadcasters, enduring and significant challenges remain for women pursuing sport broadcasting careers. Climbing the career ladder to high‐status positions requires more than just confidence and technical expertise; it necessitates strategic social skills that help female broadcasters navigate male‐dominated networks, deal with discrimination, generate good impressions, and position themsel…
Co-designing assessment tasks with students in tertiary education: A scoping review of the literature
Traditional assessment methods in tertiary education may not suit students’ diverse learning needs, values, and preferences. Co-designing assessment with students may engage them more effectively. This scoping review determined assessment co-design processes employed in tertiary education, evaluated the impacts on student learning outcomes and key factors contributing to effective assessment co-design. Seven databases were searched, limited to hu…
Caribbean exceptionalism and the rise of Sino-Caricom relations in the post-bureaucratic era
This article explores the evolving relationship between China and CARICOM countries. It discusses how China has been using regional soft power to influence educational mobility. It speaks to the tensions inherent in debt diplomacy and educational mobility as economic and political regional integration (Caribbean exceptionalism) is engendered. As China pursues bilateral relations under South-South Cooperation rather than multilateral relations thr…
Different Chambers, Divergent Rhetoric: Institutional Differences and Policy Representation on Social Media
For the past decade, members of both the House and Senate have increasingly used Twitter to curate a political agenda, but some are better equipped to drive digital policy conversations—even on a public platform with few constraints, low costs, and outsized user discretion. This research note explores the variable digital representation between congressional chambers, using tweets from the 115th Congress to illustrate asymmetric patterns in lawma…
Characterizing Treatment-Resistant Anorexia Nervosa
Background: The issue of treatment resistance in eating disorder care is controversial. Prior research has identified multiple failed treatment attempts as a common criterion for severe and enduring anorexia nervosa, but little is known about patients who have multiple failed treatment attempts. This study was designed to compare the clinical and demographic characteristics of eating disorder patients with multiple, incomplete inpatient admission…
Nonimmigrant Others: Belonging, Precarity and Imperial Citizenship for Chuukese Migrants in Guam
Micronesians from nations in the Compacts of Free Association (COFA) with the United States can enter the country visa-free as 'nonimmigrants.' This status creates a perpetual state of precarity; they are never considered legal 'immigrants' nor are they on any path to permanent US resident status. Rather than illegalization and bordering practices, precarious status is the result of territorial arrangements, ongoing imperial interactions, and sec…
The collective power of women’s organisations in Chuuk, FSM
Achieving gender equality is a key component for improving global health, but how to do so remains a complex undertaking. Each community's experiences with gender inequality and vision for equality are historically and culturally specific, while also fitting larger global patterns. This is the case in Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, a group of islands suffering from the impacts of a long history integrating coloniser and locally formed pat…
Embracing the Obstetric Imaginary: Chuukese Women, Migration, and Stratified Reproduction
When a new biomedical hospital was built in Chuuk, women were encouraged to forgo home births and seek obstetric care. Chuuk's infrastructure deteriorated over time, however, and the hospital became known as the place of death. Women maintained faith in obstetric technology despite these conditions; they simply sought better technology in Guam or a US state. Yet, even upon migrating, women continued to suffer disproportionately poor birth outcome…
Designing equitable workplace dietary interventions: Perceptions of intervention deliverers
Intervention deliverers perceived that workplace dietary interventions should be equally and easily accessible (in terms of cost and timing of sessions) for all staff, regardless of their job role. Additional effort should be taken to ensure those staff working outside normal working hours, and those working off-site, can easily engage with any intervention, to avoid the risk of intervention-generated inequalities (IGIs)
Exploring the dynamics of a free fruit at work intervention
Exploring the perceptions of participants offered valued insights into the dynamics of a free fruit workplace intervention. Findings suggest that access and availability are both barriers and facilitators to encouraging healthy eating in the workplace
Migrant encounters in the clinic: Bureaucratic, biomedical, and community influences on patient interactions with front-line workers
A systematic review of diet and physical activity interventions to prevent or treat obesity in South Asian populations
Is a community pharmacy led weight management service effective? A mixed methods service evaluation
Exploring service providers' and commissioners' views on a community pharmacy led weight management service. A qualitative study
Transdisciplinary Women's Health: A Call to Action
Various women's health concerns (e.g., hormonal changes, cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, osteoporosis, immune deficiencies, respiratory diseases, eating disorders, substance use/abuse, sexually transmitted infections, stress, poverty, poor nutrition, and early childhood caries) are associated with oral-systemic etiologies that can either cause or form as a result of poor oral health. Nonetheless, the intersections of biological, social…
Human Trafficking in Florida: The Role of Applied Anthropology in Addressing the Problem and Response
Human trafficking is a pervasive issue in the United States (Florida State 2003:16). While an estimated 18,000-20,000 persons are trafficked across the nation's borders each year, this may be a dramatic underestimation of actual occurrence due to the hidden nature of human trafficking crimes and the fact that this number does not include domestic trafficking incidents (Florida State 2003:16). Federal anti-trafficking legislation defines "traffick…
Exploring awareness, attitudes, and perceived role among oral health providers regarding HPV-related oral cancers: HPV-related oral cancers
As public awareness of the link between HPV and OC increases, OHP play an important role in addressing this issue with their patients. The current study clearly identified areas that must be addressed among OHP in order for effective and comfortable communication regarding the HPV-OC link and the potential uses of the HPV vaccines to take place, including: (a) increasing knowledge of the HPV-OC link and HPV vaccine; and (b) clarifying screening p…
An ignoble history
Theatre censorship is almost as old as the dramas it prohibits. Even today, particularly in the UK, archaic attitudes continue to influence what we may and may not see on the stage
Disappearing Turks
Bulgaria is something of an unknown quantity in the West: still a land of red wine and poisoned umbrella tips. Yet the Bulgarian government has high hopes that tourism will boost the country's economy. Whether or not their expectations are realistic, and save for a few gaps in the narrative, there is historical splendour and natural beauty in abundance
Inuit Sex-Ratio Variation: Population Control, Ethnographic Error, or Parental Manipulation? [and Comments and Reply]
Dissensions et Consensus: Une Theorie Generale des Decisions Collectives
Inuit Sex-Ratio Variation: Population Control, Ethnographic Error, or Parental Manipulation? [and Comments and Reply]
Migrant encounters in the clinic: Bureaucratic, biomedical, and community influences on patient interactions with front-line workers
Nonimmigrant Others: Belonging, Precarity and Imperial Citizenship for Chuukese Migrants in Guam
Micronesians from nations in the Compacts of Free Association (COFA) with the United States can enter the country visa-free as 'nonimmigrants.' This status creates a perpetual state of precarity; they are never considered legal 'immigrants' nor are they on any path to permanent US resident status. Rather than illegalization and bordering practices, precarious status is the result of territorial arrangements, ongoing imperial interactions, and sec…
Different Chambers, Divergent Rhetoric: Institutional Differences and Policy Representation on Social Media
For the past decade, members of both the House and Senate have increasingly used Twitter to curate a political agenda, but some are better equipped to drive digital policy conversations—even on a public platform with few constraints, low costs, and outsized user discretion. This research note explores the variable digital representation between congressional chambers, using tweets from the 115th Congress to illustrate asymmetric patterns in lawma…
Embracing the Obstetric Imaginary: Chuukese Women, Migration, and Stratified Reproduction
When a new biomedical hospital was built in Chuuk, women were encouraged to forgo home births and seek obstetric care. Chuuk's infrastructure deteriorated over time, however, and the hospital became known as the place of death. Women maintained faith in obstetric technology despite these conditions; they simply sought better technology in Guam or a US state. Yet, even upon migrating, women continued to suffer disproportionately poor birth outcome…
Dissensions et Consensus: Une Theorie Generale des Decisions Collectives
Inuit Sex-Ratio Variation: Population Control, Ethnographic Error, or Parental Manipulation? [and Comments and Reply]
An ignoble history
Theatre censorship is almost as old as the dramas it prohibits. Even today, particularly in the UK, archaic attitudes continue to influence what we may and may not see on the stage
Disappearing Turks
Bulgaria is something of an unknown quantity in the West: still a land of red wine and poisoned umbrella tips. Yet the Bulgarian government has high hopes that tourism will boost the country's economy. Whether or not their expectations are realistic, and save for a few gaps in the narrative, there is historical splendour and natural beauty in abundance
Exploring awareness, attitudes, and perceived role among oral health providers regarding HPV-related oral cancers: HPV-related oral cancers
As public awareness of the link between HPV and OC increases, OHP play an important role in addressing this issue with their patients. The current study clearly identified areas that must be addressed among OHP in order for effective and comfortable communication regarding the HPV-OC link and the potential uses of the HPV vaccines to take place, including: (a) increasing knowledge of the HPV-OC link and HPV vaccine; and (b) clarifying screening p…
Human Trafficking in Florida: The Role of Applied Anthropology in Addressing the Problem and Response
Human trafficking is a pervasive issue in the United States (Florida State 2003:16). While an estimated 18,000-20,000 persons are trafficked across the nation's borders each year, this may be a dramatic underestimation of actual occurrence due to the hidden nature of human trafficking crimes and the fact that this number does not include domestic trafficking incidents (Florida State 2003:16). Federal anti-trafficking legislation defines "traffick…
Transdisciplinary Women's Health: A Call to Action
Various women's health concerns (e.g., hormonal changes, cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, osteoporosis, immune deficiencies, respiratory diseases, eating disorders, substance use/abuse, sexually transmitted infections, stress, poverty, poor nutrition, and early childhood caries) are associated with oral-systemic etiologies that can either cause or form as a result of poor oral health. Nonetheless, the intersections of biological, social…
A systematic review of diet and physical activity interventions to prevent or treat obesity in South Asian populations
Is a community pharmacy led weight management service effective? A mixed methods service evaluation
Exploring service providers' and commissioners' views on a community pharmacy led weight management service. A qualitative study
Exploring the dynamics of a free fruit at work intervention
Exploring the perceptions of participants offered valued insights into the dynamics of a free fruit workplace intervention. Findings suggest that access and availability are both barriers and facilitators to encouraging healthy eating in the workplace
Migrant encounters in the clinic: Bureaucratic, biomedical, and community influences on patient interactions with front-line workers
Designing equitable workplace dietary interventions: Perceptions of intervention deliverers
Intervention deliverers perceived that workplace dietary interventions should be equally and easily accessible (in terms of cost and timing of sessions) for all staff, regardless of their job role. Additional effort should be taken to ensure those staff working outside normal working hours, and those working off-site, can easily engage with any intervention, to avoid the risk of intervention-generated inequalities (IGIs)
Embracing the Obstetric Imaginary: Chuukese Women, Migration, and Stratified Reproduction
When a new biomedical hospital was built in Chuuk, women were encouraged to forgo home births and seek obstetric care. Chuuk's infrastructure deteriorated over time, however, and the hospital became known as the place of death. Women maintained faith in obstetric technology despite these conditions; they simply sought better technology in Guam or a US state. Yet, even upon migrating, women continued to suffer disproportionately poor birth outcome…
The collective power of women’s organisations in Chuuk, FSM
Achieving gender equality is a key component for improving global health, but how to do so remains a complex undertaking. Each community's experiences with gender inequality and vision for equality are historically and culturally specific, while also fitting larger global patterns. This is the case in Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, a group of islands suffering from the impacts of a long history integrating coloniser and locally formed pat…
Characterizing Treatment-Resistant Anorexia Nervosa
Background: The issue of treatment resistance in eating disorder care is controversial. Prior research has identified multiple failed treatment attempts as a common criterion for severe and enduring anorexia nervosa, but little is known about patients who have multiple failed treatment attempts. This study was designed to compare the clinical and demographic characteristics of eating disorder patients with multiple, incomplete inpatient admission…
Nonimmigrant Others: Belonging, Precarity and Imperial Citizenship for Chuukese Migrants in Guam
Micronesians from nations in the Compacts of Free Association (COFA) with the United States can enter the country visa-free as 'nonimmigrants.' This status creates a perpetual state of precarity; they are never considered legal 'immigrants' nor are they on any path to permanent US resident status. Rather than illegalization and bordering practices, precarious status is the result of territorial arrangements, ongoing imperial interactions, and sec…
Different Chambers, Divergent Rhetoric: Institutional Differences and Policy Representation on Social Media
For the past decade, members of both the House and Senate have increasingly used Twitter to curate a political agenda, but some are better equipped to drive digital policy conversations—even on a public platform with few constraints, low costs, and outsized user discretion. This research note explores the variable digital representation between congressional chambers, using tweets from the 115th Congress to illustrate asymmetric patterns in lawma…
Caribbean exceptionalism and the rise of Sino-Caricom relations in the post-bureaucratic era
This article explores the evolving relationship between China and CARICOM countries. It discusses how China has been using regional soft power to influence educational mobility. It speaks to the tensions inherent in debt diplomacy and educational mobility as economic and political regional integration (Caribbean exceptionalism) is engendered. As China pursues bilateral relations under South-South Cooperation rather than multilateral relations thr…
Co-designing assessment tasks with students in tertiary education: A scoping review of the literature
Traditional assessment methods in tertiary education may not suit students’ diverse learning needs, values, and preferences. Co-designing assessment with students may engage them more effectively. This scoping review determined assessment co-design processes employed in tertiary education, evaluated the impacts on student learning outcomes and key factors contributing to effective assessment co-design. Seven databases were searched, limited to hu…
I Have to Work So Hard to Make Sure I'm Likeable While Getting the Job Done”: Examining the Politically Astute Negotiation of a Gendered Career by High‐Profile Female Sport Broadcasters
Despite a rise in established, high‐profile female sport broadcasters, enduring and significant challenges remain for women pursuing sport broadcasting careers. Climbing the career ladder to high‐status positions requires more than just confidence and technical expertise; it necessitates strategic social skills that help female broadcasters navigate male‐dominated networks, deal with discrimination, generate good impressions, and position themsel…
Medicine (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Internal Medicine (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Obesity and Health Practices (4 works)