Duika Burges Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1448378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Duika Burges Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Duika Burges |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5791-9670 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The chimera of choice in UK food policy 1976–2018
Purpose This paper presents a critical discourse analysis of “choice” as it appears in UK policy documents relating to food and public health. A dominant policy approach to improving public health has been health promotion and health education with the intention to change behaviour and encourage healthier eating. Given the emphasis on evidence-based policy making within the UK, the continued abstraction of choice without definition or explanation…
Food play
Visceral geographic insight through a ‘source to senses’ approach to food flavour
This article examines the experience of eating and changes to the vital materiality of food through the lens of flavour. A trans-disciplinary approach is used to gain insight from gastronomy and the neurobiology of flavour perception. Technological shifts in processing food and beverages are highlighted which show complex influences on flavour. We demonstrate the value of broadening visceral geographic understanding of the biosocial nature of fla…
Promoting physical activity with a school-based dance mat exergaming intervention
Our linked quantitative study (previously published) suggested that the dance mats were not particularly effective in increasing physical activity, but the qualitative results (reported here) show that the dance mats were not used routinely enough to show a significant effect on physical activity of the intervention. This research demonstrates the benefit of using mixed methods to evaluate complex physical activity interventions. Those planning a…
The effect of dance mat exergaming systems on physical activity and health – related outcomes in secondary schools
The implementation of a dance mat exergaming scheme was associated with improvement in anthropometric measurements and parameters of health-related quality of life. However, the mechanisms of these benefits are unclear as there was insufficient data from physical activity to draw robust conclusions. Qualitative findings suggest that there was declining support for the initiative over time, meaning that potential benefits may not have been achieve…
Little bottles and the promise of probiotics
In this article we explore `regimes of hope' in contemporary bioscience as articulated in spaces of health consumption. We use the case study of probiotic little bottles, highlighting their promissory branding as consumer products, to consider how hope and truth play out across different spaces of health care - the supermarket, media and laboratory. Drawing on work within both sociological and geographic literatures to think about hope, truth and…
Feminizing risk at a distance
Distance is a key idea in contemporary literatures on geography and the government of risk,and it is central to the work presented in this paper, which focuses on Western mediarepresentations of an innovative first-generation non-contraceptive microbicide, Carraguard.A preventive technology that has been developed under the auspices of the USPopulationCouncil andtheBill andMelindaGates Foundation,Carraguardis represented inthe media in ways that …
Flexible therapeutic landscapes of labour and the place of pain relief
Little bottles and the promise of probiotics
In this article we explore `regimes of hope' in contemporary bioscience as articulated in spaces of health consumption. We use the case study of probiotic little bottles, highlighting their promissory branding as consumer products, to consider how hope and truth play out across different spaces of health care - the supermarket, media and laboratory. Drawing on work within both sociological and geographic literatures to think about hope, truth and…
Flexible therapeutic landscapes of labour and the place of pain relief
Visceral geographic insight through a ‘source to senses’ approach to food flavour
This article examines the experience of eating and changes to the vital materiality of food through the lens of flavour. A trans-disciplinary approach is used to gain insight from gastronomy and the neurobiology of flavour perception. Technological shifts in processing food and beverages are highlighted which show complex influences on flavour. We demonstrate the value of broadening visceral geographic understanding of the biosocial nature of fla…
Feminizing risk at a distance
Distance is a key idea in contemporary literatures on geography and the government of risk,and it is central to the work presented in this paper, which focuses on Western mediarepresentations of an innovative first-generation non-contraceptive microbicide, Carraguard.A preventive technology that has been developed under the auspices of the USPopulationCouncil andtheBill andMelindaGates Foundation,Carraguardis represented inthe media in ways that …
Food play
Flexible therapeutic landscapes of labour and the place of pain relief
Feminizing risk at a distance
Distance is a key idea in contemporary literatures on geography and the government of risk,and it is central to the work presented in this paper, which focuses on Western mediarepresentations of an innovative first-generation non-contraceptive microbicide, Carraguard.A preventive technology that has been developed under the auspices of the USPopulationCouncil andtheBill andMelindaGates Foundation,Carraguardis represented inthe media in ways that …
Little bottles and the promise of probiotics
In this article we explore `regimes of hope' in contemporary bioscience as articulated in spaces of health consumption. We use the case study of probiotic little bottles, highlighting their promissory branding as consumer products, to consider how hope and truth play out across different spaces of health care - the supermarket, media and laboratory. Drawing on work within both sociological and geographic literatures to think about hope, truth and…
The effect of dance mat exergaming systems on physical activity and health – related outcomes in secondary schools
The implementation of a dance mat exergaming scheme was associated with improvement in anthropometric measurements and parameters of health-related quality of life. However, the mechanisms of these benefits are unclear as there was insufficient data from physical activity to draw robust conclusions. Qualitative findings suggest that there was declining support for the initiative over time, meaning that potential benefits may not have been achieve…
Promoting physical activity with a school-based dance mat exergaming intervention
Our linked quantitative study (previously published) suggested that the dance mats were not particularly effective in increasing physical activity, but the qualitative results (reported here) show that the dance mats were not used routinely enough to show a significant effect on physical activity of the intervention. This research demonstrates the benefit of using mixed methods to evaluate complex physical activity interventions. Those planning a…
Food play
Visceral geographic insight through a ‘source to senses’ approach to food flavour
This article examines the experience of eating and changes to the vital materiality of food through the lens of flavour. A trans-disciplinary approach is used to gain insight from gastronomy and the neurobiology of flavour perception. Technological shifts in processing food and beverages are highlighted which show complex influences on flavour. We demonstrate the value of broadening visceral geographic understanding of the biosocial nature of fla…
The chimera of choice in UK food policy 1976–2018
Purpose This paper presents a critical discourse analysis of “choice” as it appears in UK policy documents relating to food and public health. A dominant policy approach to improving public health has been health promotion and health education with the intention to change behaviour and encourage healthier eating. Given the emphasis on evidence-based policy making within the UK, the continued abstraction of choice without definition or explanation…
Sociology (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)