H Blair Simpson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1912403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Blair Simpson |
| GIVEN NAMES | H Blair |
| FAMILY NAME | Simpson |
| SIGNATURE | SIMPSON H B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0731-614X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
To Raise or Not to Raise: An Experimental Test of Community Support for Increasing the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility in New South Wales, Australia
While research has identified a disconnect between the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) and public perceptions of criminal culpability among young people, no study has examined how offender characteristics influence support for reform using an experimental design. To address this, this study presents the first experimental test of public attitudes toward raising the MACR, offering a novel contribution to debates on youth justice refo…
Activating Indigenous ways’ – perceptions of how Australian Indigenous health and wellbeing program evaluations are commissioned and future recommendations
To improve the quality of evaluations further attention needs to be paid to the commissioner's cultural capability. Additionally, Commissioners need to develop their understanding of the relationship between Commissioner and Indigenous people's power and the utility of evaluations
Factors contributing to Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in Veterans later in the pandemic
Vaccine hesitancy remains a significant public health concern despite the widespread availability of vaccines. Little is known about factors influencing hesitancy among U.S. military Veterans later in the pandemic. The goal of this study was to identify factors contributing to COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy among U.S. military Veterans more than one year after vaccine availability. This study was part of the COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance…
Authority reframed? Examining the potential of video-recorded evidence-in-chief as a mechanism for improving police accountability in domestic violence complainant interview-statements
Victim-Survivor Orientated Technology-Based Interventions to Address e-DFV: A Scoping Review
From Liberators to Lutys: Homemade firearms, right-wing extremism, and the challenge to policing
Homemade firearms have posed a notable challenge for police in recent years. Around the world, policing bodies are uncovering larger and more sophisticated caches of homemade firearms, some of which are possessed by violent extremists. In Australia, this possession has been associated with alleged right wing extremists. Extreme right-wing documents sometimes provide instructions about the manufacture and use of such firearms in technical detail. …
Identifying and addressing service barriers for children and young people who displayed harmful sexual behaviour
Purpose Services for children and young people who displayed harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) and their families have remained insufficient and siloed in Australia despite growing recognition of this problem. While some research explores service providers’ perspectives on the barriers and gaps preventing young people and families from accessing and engaging with support services, there is poor understanding of service users’ perspectives. This stud…
Assessing harmonized intelligence measures in a multinational study
Studies examining the neurocognitive and circuit-based etiology of psychiatric illness are moving toward inclusive, global designs. A potential confounding effect of these associations is general intelligence; however, an internationally validated, harmonized intelligence quotient (IQ) measure is not available. We describe the procedures used to measure IQ across a five-site, multinational study and demonstrate the harmonized measure's cross-site…
The devil is in the detail: An evaluation of domestic violence evidence-in-chief in policing practice
Domestic and family violence (DFV) is a major contributor to the daily core work of law enforcement officers, and recent decades have not only seen enormous changes in the way they respond to DFV but increasing public and government scrutiny of that response. One contemporary policing practice, aimed at improving evidence collection and complainants' experience of the criminal justice system is the use of DFV complainants' video-recorded statemen…
Strengthening Schools’ Responses to Students’ Harmful Sexual Behaviors: A Scoping Review
Research into harmful sexual behavior (HSB) by children and young people under the age of 18 has grown in recent years. A key concern emerging is the high prevalence of HSB in school settings. Although teachers are increasingly aware of HSB, their provision of effective responses has remained a major challenge. While progress has been made by providing teachers with best practice models and tools, little is known about what facilitates and hinder…
What can the development of video visitation in Australian correctional centres tell us about organisational transformation
Correctional services are closed, complex bureaucratic organisations which are historically slow to embrace change. Yet, the COVID-19 pandemic catalysed a dramatic shift to widespread video visitation across correctional services in Australia. Drawing on qualitative data with corrective services staff (n = 19) from six jurisdictions (Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and West Australia), this art…
A scoping review of commissioning practices used in the evaluation of Indigenous health and wellbeing programs: Protocol article
Despite the billions of dollars invested in improving Indigenous health and wellbeing outcomes in Australia, there is little evidence of program effectiveness to inform policy and practice. The deficiency of evaluations is problematic. Critical to this process is the effective engagement of commissioners with Indigenous peoples, which is not well documented. Currently, there is scant evidence on modes of commissioning practices used. This scoping…
Protocol for a Pragmatic Trial of Pharmacotherapy Options Following Unsatisfactory Initial Treatment in OCD (PROCEED)
The trail was registered on 27 August 2020 in ClinicalTrials.gov (https://register.clinicaltrials.gov/) (NCT04539951)
Marginal material or key data? Understanding community attitudes to a survey about domestic and family violence
Objectives This article examined “marginalia”—participants’ unsolicited additions to a survey conducted in regional Australia examining community attitudes to domestic and family violence. Methods Using mixed methods analysis, we examined whether there were any specific demographic or attitudinal characteristics associated with leaving marginalia on our survey. We used NVivo to thematically organize the types and content of marginalia provided by…
Explicit knowledge of task structure is a primary determinant of human model-based action
Human Laboratory Models of Cannabis Use: Applications for Clinical and Translational Psychiatry Research
Cannabis is increasingly used by individuals with mental health diagnoses and often purported to treat anxiety and various other psychiatric symptoms. Yet support for using cannabis as a psychiatric treatment is currently limited by a lack of evidence from rigorous placebo-controlled studies. While regulatory hurdles and other barriers make clinical trials of cannabis challenging to conduct, addiction researchers have decades of experience studyi…
Agglomeration economies, taxable rents and government capture: Evidence from a place-based policy
We study how industry-level agglomeration economies affect government policy. Using administrative data on firm subsidies in economically lagging regions of Great Britain, we contrast two alternative hypotheses. Economic geography models imply that firms at an industry’s core can sustain higher tax burdens or require lower subsidies than firms in more remote locations. Conversely, political economy models predict firms at the industry’s core to b…
Pre-meal anxiety and food intake in anorexia nervosa
Four bare legs in a bed
When you draw the curtains in the morning you stand in front of the window like a black dog. I am brought down to earth with a bump. It isn't fair
Pre-meal anxiety and food intake in anorexia nervosa
Marginal material or key data? Understanding community attitudes to a survey about domestic and family violence
Objectives This article examined “marginalia”—participants’ unsolicited additions to a survey conducted in regional Australia examining community attitudes to domestic and family violence. Methods Using mixed methods analysis, we examined whether there were any specific demographic or attitudinal characteristics associated with leaving marginalia on our survey. We used NVivo to thematically organize the types and content of marginalia provided by…
Four bare legs in a bed
When you draw the curtains in the morning you stand in front of the window like a black dog. I am brought down to earth with a bump. It isn't fair
Pre-meal anxiety and food intake in anorexia nervosa
Agglomeration economies, taxable rents and government capture: Evidence from a place-based policy
We study how industry-level agglomeration economies affect government policy. Using administrative data on firm subsidies in economically lagging regions of Great Britain, we contrast two alternative hypotheses. Economic geography models imply that firms at an industry’s core can sustain higher tax burdens or require lower subsidies than firms in more remote locations. Conversely, political economy models predict firms at the industry’s core to b…
Human Laboratory Models of Cannabis Use: Applications for Clinical and Translational Psychiatry Research
Cannabis is increasingly used by individuals with mental health diagnoses and often purported to treat anxiety and various other psychiatric symptoms. Yet support for using cannabis as a psychiatric treatment is currently limited by a lack of evidence from rigorous placebo-controlled studies. While regulatory hurdles and other barriers make clinical trials of cannabis challenging to conduct, addiction researchers have decades of experience studyi…
Protocol for a Pragmatic Trial of Pharmacotherapy Options Following Unsatisfactory Initial Treatment in OCD (PROCEED)
The trail was registered on 27 August 2020 in ClinicalTrials.gov (https://register.clinicaltrials.gov/) (NCT04539951)
Marginal material or key data? Understanding community attitudes to a survey about domestic and family violence
Objectives This article examined “marginalia”—participants’ unsolicited additions to a survey conducted in regional Australia examining community attitudes to domestic and family violence. Methods Using mixed methods analysis, we examined whether there were any specific demographic or attitudinal characteristics associated with leaving marginalia on our survey. We used NVivo to thematically organize the types and content of marginalia provided by…
Explicit knowledge of task structure is a primary determinant of human model-based action
Strengthening Schools’ Responses to Students’ Harmful Sexual Behaviors: A Scoping Review
Research into harmful sexual behavior (HSB) by children and young people under the age of 18 has grown in recent years. A key concern emerging is the high prevalence of HSB in school settings. Although teachers are increasingly aware of HSB, their provision of effective responses has remained a major challenge. While progress has been made by providing teachers with best practice models and tools, little is known about what facilitates and hinder…
What can the development of video visitation in Australian correctional centres tell us about organisational transformation
Correctional services are closed, complex bureaucratic organisations which are historically slow to embrace change. Yet, the COVID-19 pandemic catalysed a dramatic shift to widespread video visitation across correctional services in Australia. Drawing on qualitative data with corrective services staff (n = 19) from six jurisdictions (Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and West Australia), this art…
A scoping review of commissioning practices used in the evaluation of Indigenous health and wellbeing programs: Protocol article
Despite the billions of dollars invested in improving Indigenous health and wellbeing outcomes in Australia, there is little evidence of program effectiveness to inform policy and practice. The deficiency of evaluations is problematic. Critical to this process is the effective engagement of commissioners with Indigenous peoples, which is not well documented. Currently, there is scant evidence on modes of commissioning practices used. This scoping…
Assessing harmonized intelligence measures in a multinational study
Studies examining the neurocognitive and circuit-based etiology of psychiatric illness are moving toward inclusive, global designs. A potential confounding effect of these associations is general intelligence; however, an internationally validated, harmonized intelligence quotient (IQ) measure is not available. We describe the procedures used to measure IQ across a five-site, multinational study and demonstrate the harmonized measure's cross-site…
The devil is in the detail: An evaluation of domestic violence evidence-in-chief in policing practice
Domestic and family violence (DFV) is a major contributor to the daily core work of law enforcement officers, and recent decades have not only seen enormous changes in the way they respond to DFV but increasing public and government scrutiny of that response. One contemporary policing practice, aimed at improving evidence collection and complainants' experience of the criminal justice system is the use of DFV complainants' video-recorded statemen…
Activating Indigenous ways’ – perceptions of how Australian Indigenous health and wellbeing program evaluations are commissioned and future recommendations
To improve the quality of evaluations further attention needs to be paid to the commissioner's cultural capability. Additionally, Commissioners need to develop their understanding of the relationship between Commissioner and Indigenous people's power and the utility of evaluations
Factors contributing to Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in Veterans later in the pandemic
Vaccine hesitancy remains a significant public health concern despite the widespread availability of vaccines. Little is known about factors influencing hesitancy among U.S. military Veterans later in the pandemic. The goal of this study was to identify factors contributing to COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy among U.S. military Veterans more than one year after vaccine availability. This study was part of the COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance…
Authority reframed? Examining the potential of video-recorded evidence-in-chief as a mechanism for improving police accountability in domestic violence complainant interview-statements
Victim-Survivor Orientated Technology-Based Interventions to Address e-DFV: A Scoping Review
From Liberators to Lutys: Homemade firearms, right-wing extremism, and the challenge to policing
Homemade firearms have posed a notable challenge for police in recent years. Around the world, policing bodies are uncovering larger and more sophisticated caches of homemade firearms, some of which are possessed by violent extremists. In Australia, this possession has been associated with alleged right wing extremists. Extreme right-wing documents sometimes provide instructions about the manufacture and use of such firearms in technical detail. …
Identifying and addressing service barriers for children and young people who displayed harmful sexual behaviour
Purpose Services for children and young people who displayed harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) and their families have remained insufficient and siloed in Australia despite growing recognition of this problem. While some research explores service providers’ perspectives on the barriers and gaps preventing young people and families from accessing and engaging with support services, there is poor understanding of service users’ perspectives. This stud…
To Raise or Not to Raise: An Experimental Test of Community Support for Increasing the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility in New South Wales, Australia
While research has identified a disconnect between the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) and public perceptions of criminal culpability among young people, no study has examined how offender characteristics influence support for reform using an experimental design. To address this, this study presents the first experimental test of public attitudes toward raising the MACR, offering a novel contribution to debates on youth justice refo…
Psychology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Project commissioning (5 works) · Publishing (5 works) · Anxiety (4 works)