Michael Barrett
Biographic Data
| ID | 199958 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Barrett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Barrett |
| SIGNATURE | BARRETT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1775-8347 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 588 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Parental Attitudes to Risky Play and Children’s Independent Mobility
This study presents a descriptive analysis of findings from the Ireland State of Play Survey. Findings indicate that although parents recognise the benefits of risky play, there is some contradiction between parental attitudes and actual practices, with a lack of willingness or confidence in permitting their children to participate in all such activities
Digital innovation, platforms, and global strategy
Platform governance as institutional custodianship
Orchestral Conductors as Transformational Leaders
This article explores the preferences of professional South African instrumentalists concerning the transformational leadership behaviours displayed by orchestral conductors. Quantitative and qualitative data (explanatory sequential mixed method design) were collected by means of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ-5X) and semi-structured interviews. Forty-seven professional South African orchestral players completed the questionnaire, …
The International Education Index
Before the COVID‐19 pandemic, the world struggled to address growing educational inequalities and fulfil the commitment to Sustainable Development Goal 4, which seeks to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. The pandemic has exacerbated these inequalities and changed how education functions, moving to online and hybrid methods. The challenges in global education highlighted and worse…
Inpatient Telemedicine and New Models of Care during Covid-19
The challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic have led to the development of new hospital design strategies and models of care. To enhance staff safety while preserving patient safety and quality of care, hospitals have created a new model of remote inpatient care using telemedicine technologies. The design of the COVID-19 units divided the space into contaminated and clean zones and integrated a control room with audio-visual technologies to remotely …
Policy of free GP care for children under 6 years
Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to improve child health. Ireland, the only country in the European Union without universal access to primary care, introduced general practitioner (GP) care at no charge for children aged under six in 2015. This paper aims to evaluate the impact of this policy on attendance at the emergency department (ED). A difference-in-difference (DiD) analysis was applied to visit records of 367,000 paediatric patients at…
Assessing the Impact of Covid-19 Public Health Stages on Paediatric Emergency Attendance
This study outlines the impact of COVID-19 on paediatric emergency department (ED) utilisation and assesses the extent of healthcare avoidance during each stage of the public health response strategy. Records from five EDs and one urgent care centre in Ireland, representing approximately 48% of national annual public paediatric ED attendances, are analysed to determine changes in characteristics of attendance during the three month period followi…
Parental Hesitancy and Concerns around Accessing Paediatric Unscheduled Healthcare during Covid-19
A decrease in attendance at emergency departments among paediatric populations has been reported during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The present study sought to understand parents' hesitancy and concerns around accessing healthcare during the pandemic using a cross-sectional survey of parents of children under the age of 16 ( N = 1044) in Ireland. Multinomial and logistic regression analyses were used to determine the factors…
Drop Everything and Sing the Music
This case study explored the perceptions of choristers singing in a multicultural university choir in South Africa and the personal value they associate with their choir participation. Data were collected through semi-structured individual interviews, focus groups, and a four-month period of observations of choir rehearsals and performances. This research highlights the multidimensional experiences of choral singing which can be fulfilling, abund…
Knowledge and expertise in care practices
Our research examines how different forms of knowledge and expertise are increasingly important in caring for people experiencing mental illness. We build on theoretical developments regarding multiple ontologies of knowing about illness. We examine how experiential knowledge of mental health problems, learned by being subject to illness rather than through objective study, is enacted in mental healthcare teams. We focus on Peer Workers (PW), ind…
Reflection/Commentary on a Past Article
New Opportunities for Cancer Health Services Research
BACKGROUND: The Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)-Medicare data combine clinical information from population-based cancer registries with Medicare claims. These data have been used in many studies to understand cancer screening, treatment, outcomes, and costs. However, until recently, these data included limited information related to the characteristics and outcomes of cancer patients residing in or admitted to nursing homes. OBJ…
Creating a National Provider Identifier (NPI) to Unique Physician Identification Number (Upin) Crosswalk for Medicare Data
INTRODUCTION: Many health services researchers are interested in assessing long term, individual physician treatment patterns, particularly for cancer care. In 2007, Medicare changed the physician identifier used on billed services from the Unique Physician Identification Number (UPIN) to the National Provider Identifier (NPI), precluding the ability to use Medicare claims data to evaluate individual physician treatment patterns across this trans…
Policy translation through localisation
This paper builds on policy implementation studies, which seek to explain how policies undergo some form of ‘translation’ from general policy guidelines to implementation in practice at the local level. The paper makes two contributions to the policy implementation literature. First, it draws on the concept of ‘local universality’ to suggest that the translation of policy by central actors is not simply transmitted but is iteratively transformed …
Service Innovation in the Digital Age
Over the last decade, there has been an increasing focus on service across socioeconomic sectors coupled with transformational developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs). Together these developments are engendering dramatic new opportunities for service innovation, the study of which is both timely and important. Fully understanding these opportunities challenges us to question conventional approaches that construe service …
‘Walking Home Majestically’
In the 1950s, Isha-Kashweka heeded the call of the recruitment agencies and left for chipalo , labour migration, in the gold mines of Johannesburg. This chapter engages with the material aspects of labour migration and examines how new consumer goods were part of the transformation of local expectations of life, work, family relations and material standards and how they were instrumental in the creation of new tastes and beliefs in rural Central …
Significance of Increasing Poverty Levels for Determining Late-Stage Breast Cancer Diagnosis in 1990 and 2000
Policy Entrepreneurship in the Development of Public Sector Strategy
The development of health policy is recognized as complex; however, there has been little development of the role of agency in this process. Kingdon developed the concept of policy entrepreneur (PE) within his ‘windows’ model. He argued inter‐related ‘policy streams' must coincide for important issues to become addressed. The conjoining of these streams may be aided by a policy entrepreneur. We contribute by clarifying the role of the policy entr…
Boundary object use in cross-cultural software development teams
This article examines the evolving use of boundary objects in cross-cultural software teams. Our field study of a Jamaican-Indian team examines the use of software specifications and project management tools as boundary objects in facilitating sharing across knowledge boundaries. We examine how and why the role and use of boundary objects may facilitate collaboration across knowledge boundaries at one time and contribute to conflict at other time…
Climate Change in Northern Quebec
Arctic communities are recently reporting warmer and shorter winters, which have implications for the ice season and, consequently, on the access to local territories and resources by members of these communities. These climatic shifts are resulting in increased risks for travel during the winter season associated with less stable and thinner ice. An integrated community-based monitoring (ICBM) program was developed in Nunavik to generate adaptat…
Wastewater Reclamation for Sustainable Water Use
A scholarly article by authors Thiruvenkatachari Viraraghavan, M.J. Barrett, and Paul Hart published in The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability: Annual Review
Queer Film and Video Festival Forum, Take One
Other| October 01 2005 QUEER FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL FORUM, TAKE ONE: Curators Speak Out Michael Barrett; Michael Barrett Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Charlie Boudreau; Charlie Boudreau Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Suzy Capo; Suzy Capo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Stephen Gutwillig; Stephen Gutwillig Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google…
Verification Strategies for Establishing Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research
The rejection of reliability and validity in qualitative inquiry in the 1980s has resulted in an interesting shift for 'ensuring rigor' from the investigator's actions during the course of the research, to the reader or consumer of qualitative inquiry. The emphasis on strategies that are implemented during the research process has been replaced by strategies for evaluating trustworthiness and utility that are implemented once a study is completed…
Organizational Change as Discourse
Verification Strategies for Establishing Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research
The rejection of reliability and validity in qualitative inquiry in the 1980s has resulted in an interesting shift for 'ensuring rigor' from the investigator's actions during the course of the research, to the reader or consumer of qualitative inquiry. The emphasis on strategies that are implemented during the research process has been replaced by strategies for evaluating trustworthiness and utility that are implemented once a study is completed…
Policy Entrepreneurship in the Development of Public Sector Strategy
The development of health policy is recognized as complex; however, there has been little development of the role of agency in this process. Kingdon developed the concept of policy entrepreneur (PE) within his ‘windows’ model. He argued inter‐related ‘policy streams' must coincide for important issues to become addressed. The conjoining of these streams may be aided by a policy entrepreneur. We contribute by clarifying the role of the policy entr…
Boundary object use in cross-cultural software development teams
This article examines the evolving use of boundary objects in cross-cultural software teams. Our field study of a Jamaican-Indian team examines the use of software specifications and project management tools as boundary objects in facilitating sharing across knowledge boundaries. We examine how and why the role and use of boundary objects may facilitate collaboration across knowledge boundaries at one time and contribute to conflict at other time…
Policy translation through localisation
This paper builds on policy implementation studies, which seek to explain how policies undergo some form of ‘translation’ from general policy guidelines to implementation in practice at the local level. The paper makes two contributions to the policy implementation literature. First, it draws on the concept of ‘local universality’ to suggest that the translation of policy by central actors is not simply transmitted but is iteratively transformed …
Knowledge and expertise in care practices
Our research examines how different forms of knowledge and expertise are increasingly important in caring for people experiencing mental illness. We build on theoretical developments regarding multiple ontologies of knowing about illness. We examine how experiential knowledge of mental health problems, learned by being subject to illness rather than through objective study, is enacted in mental healthcare teams. We focus on Peer Workers (PW), ind…
Information Technology and Social Transformation
In this article, we examine an in-depth case of the introduction of geographical information systems (GIS) in the Indian forestry sector and associated social transformations. Our study is informed by Giddens's recent theoretical developments on globalizing influences at the institutional level and their interconnectedness to new trust systems and self-identity at the individual level. We examine how some elements of our case analysis are illumin…
Platform governance as institutional custodianship
Queer Film and Video Festival Forum, Take One
Other| October 01 2005 QUEER FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL FORUM, TAKE ONE: Curators Speak Out Michael Barrett; Michael Barrett Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Charlie Boudreau; Charlie Boudreau Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Suzy Capo; Suzy Capo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Stephen Gutwillig; Stephen Gutwillig Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google…
Policy of free GP care for children under 6 years
Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to improve child health. Ireland, the only country in the European Union without universal access to primary care, introduced general practitioner (GP) care at no charge for children aged under six in 2015. This paper aims to evaluate the impact of this policy on attendance at the emergency department (ED). A difference-in-difference (DiD) analysis was applied to visit records of 367,000 paediatric patients at…
Significance of Increasing Poverty Levels for Determining Late-Stage Breast Cancer Diagnosis in 1990 and 2000
The Future of the Ordnance Survey
Relative validity of a food frequency questionnaire among tin miners in China
Objective Diet validation research was conducted to compare the respondents' reporting of dietary intake in a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) with intake reported in food recalls. Because the population received annual salary increments that could modify food intake, diet validation studies (DVSs) were conducted during two time intervals. Design A 99-item FFQ was administered by an interviewer twice in a 1-year interval, and responses to each …
Organizational Change as Discourse
Information Technology and Social Transformation
In this article, we examine an in-depth case of the introduction of geographical information systems (GIS) in the Indian forestry sector and associated social transformations. Our study is informed by Giddens's recent theoretical developments on globalizing influences at the institutional level and their interconnectedness to new trust systems and self-identity at the individual level. We examine how some elements of our case analysis are illumin…
Verification Strategies for Establishing Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research
The rejection of reliability and validity in qualitative inquiry in the 1980s has resulted in an interesting shift for 'ensuring rigor' from the investigator's actions during the course of the research, to the reader or consumer of qualitative inquiry. The emphasis on strategies that are implemented during the research process has been replaced by strategies for evaluating trustworthiness and utility that are implemented once a study is completed…
Queer Film and Video Festival Forum, Take One
Other| October 01 2005 QUEER FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL FORUM, TAKE ONE: Curators Speak Out Michael Barrett; Michael Barrett Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Charlie Boudreau; Charlie Boudreau Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Suzy Capo; Suzy Capo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Stephen Gutwillig; Stephen Gutwillig Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google…
Wastewater Reclamation for Sustainable Water Use
A scholarly article by authors Thiruvenkatachari Viraraghavan, M.J. Barrett, and Paul Hart published in The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability: Annual Review
Climate Change in Northern Quebec
Arctic communities are recently reporting warmer and shorter winters, which have implications for the ice season and, consequently, on the access to local territories and resources by members of these communities. These climatic shifts are resulting in increased risks for travel during the winter season associated with less stable and thinner ice. An integrated community-based monitoring (ICBM) program was developed in Nunavik to generate adaptat…
Boundary object use in cross-cultural software development teams
This article examines the evolving use of boundary objects in cross-cultural software teams. Our field study of a Jamaican-Indian team examines the use of software specifications and project management tools as boundary objects in facilitating sharing across knowledge boundaries. We examine how and why the role and use of boundary objects may facilitate collaboration across knowledge boundaries at one time and contribute to conflict at other time…
Policy Entrepreneurship in the Development of Public Sector Strategy
The development of health policy is recognized as complex; however, there has been little development of the role of agency in this process. Kingdon developed the concept of policy entrepreneur (PE) within his ‘windows’ model. He argued inter‐related ‘policy streams' must coincide for important issues to become addressed. The conjoining of these streams may be aided by a policy entrepreneur. We contribute by clarifying the role of the policy entr…
Significance of Increasing Poverty Levels for Determining Late-Stage Breast Cancer Diagnosis in 1990 and 2000
‘Walking Home Majestically’
In the 1950s, Isha-Kashweka heeded the call of the recruitment agencies and left for chipalo , labour migration, in the gold mines of Johannesburg. This chapter engages with the material aspects of labour migration and examines how new consumer goods were part of the transformation of local expectations of life, work, family relations and material standards and how they were instrumental in the creation of new tastes and beliefs in rural Central …
Service Innovation in the Digital Age
Over the last decade, there has been an increasing focus on service across socioeconomic sectors coupled with transformational developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs). Together these developments are engendering dramatic new opportunities for service innovation, the study of which is both timely and important. Fully understanding these opportunities challenges us to question conventional approaches that construe service …
Policy translation through localisation
This paper builds on policy implementation studies, which seek to explain how policies undergo some form of ‘translation’ from general policy guidelines to implementation in practice at the local level. The paper makes two contributions to the policy implementation literature. First, it draws on the concept of ‘local universality’ to suggest that the translation of policy by central actors is not simply transmitted but is iteratively transformed …
Creating a National Provider Identifier (NPI) to Unique Physician Identification Number (Upin) Crosswalk for Medicare Data
INTRODUCTION: Many health services researchers are interested in assessing long term, individual physician treatment patterns, particularly for cancer care. In 2007, Medicare changed the physician identifier used on billed services from the Unique Physician Identification Number (UPIN) to the National Provider Identifier (NPI), precluding the ability to use Medicare claims data to evaluate individual physician treatment patterns across this trans…
Reflection/Commentary on a Past Article
New Opportunities for Cancer Health Services Research
BACKGROUND: The Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)-Medicare data combine clinical information from population-based cancer registries with Medicare claims. These data have been used in many studies to understand cancer screening, treatment, outcomes, and costs. However, until recently, these data included limited information related to the characteristics and outcomes of cancer patients residing in or admitted to nursing homes. OBJ…
Drop Everything and Sing the Music
This case study explored the perceptions of choristers singing in a multicultural university choir in South Africa and the personal value they associate with their choir participation. Data were collected through semi-structured individual interviews, focus groups, and a four-month period of observations of choir rehearsals and performances. This research highlights the multidimensional experiences of choral singing which can be fulfilling, abund…
Knowledge and expertise in care practices
Our research examines how different forms of knowledge and expertise are increasingly important in caring for people experiencing mental illness. We build on theoretical developments regarding multiple ontologies of knowing about illness. We examine how experiential knowledge of mental health problems, learned by being subject to illness rather than through objective study, is enacted in mental healthcare teams. We focus on Peer Workers (PW), ind…
Assessing the Impact of Covid-19 Public Health Stages on Paediatric Emergency Attendance
This study outlines the impact of COVID-19 on paediatric emergency department (ED) utilisation and assesses the extent of healthcare avoidance during each stage of the public health response strategy. Records from five EDs and one urgent care centre in Ireland, representing approximately 48% of national annual public paediatric ED attendances, are analysed to determine changes in characteristics of attendance during the three month period followi…
Parental Hesitancy and Concerns around Accessing Paediatric Unscheduled Healthcare during Covid-19
A decrease in attendance at emergency departments among paediatric populations has been reported during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The present study sought to understand parents' hesitancy and concerns around accessing healthcare during the pandemic using a cross-sectional survey of parents of children under the age of 16 ( N = 1044) in Ireland. Multinomial and logistic regression analyses were used to determine the factors…
Inpatient Telemedicine and New Models of Care during Covid-19
The challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic have led to the development of new hospital design strategies and models of care. To enhance staff safety while preserving patient safety and quality of care, hospitals have created a new model of remote inpatient care using telemedicine technologies. The design of the COVID-19 units divided the space into contaminated and clean zones and integrated a control room with audio-visual technologies to remotely …
Policy of free GP care for children under 6 years
Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to improve child health. Ireland, the only country in the European Union without universal access to primary care, introduced general practitioner (GP) care at no charge for children aged under six in 2015. This paper aims to evaluate the impact of this policy on attendance at the emergency department (ED). A difference-in-difference (DiD) analysis was applied to visit records of 367,000 paediatric patients at…
Orchestral Conductors as Transformational Leaders
This article explores the preferences of professional South African instrumentalists concerning the transformational leadership behaviours displayed by orchestral conductors. Quantitative and qualitative data (explanatory sequential mixed method design) were collected by means of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ-5X) and semi-structured interviews. Forty-seven professional South African orchestral players completed the questionnaire, …
The International Education Index
Before the COVID‐19 pandemic, the world struggled to address growing educational inequalities and fulfil the commitment to Sustainable Development Goal 4, which seeks to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. The pandemic has exacerbated these inequalities and changed how education functions, moving to online and hybrid methods. The challenges in global education highlighted and worse…
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