Anne Robertson
Biographic Data
| ID | 206058 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Robertson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Robertson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Sunshine Coast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0460-0092 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
University student experiences of feedback
This study contributes to the need for context-specific research into student feedback in higher education by investigating student experiences of receiving feedback in initial teacher education programs. A phenomenological case study methodology was used to investigate students’ satisfaction with assessment-based feedback and their perspectives of its value. Findings show that students value pre-assessment feedback as it has high utility and can…
Dwelling tenderly with our desires for research and the world
How do we dwell tenderly in the ruins of the modern university? This paper engages a hopeful, collaborative, and sensory methodology to imagine possibilities for research and researcher. As academic women navigating the decay of the neoliberal university amid the shadowy spectre of the 'ideal' academic, we explore our lived experiences, identities, and questions. For us, managing modernity's disorientation and dislocation means showing up differe…
Understanding the Rights of Nature
Recognising the rights of nature is seen by many as the paradigm shift needed to truly embed ecology and the environment into nature-based policy and management solutions to address biodiversity loss, climate change, and sustainable development. However, despite its potential, research across and beyond disciplinary boundaries remains very limited, with most located in the humanities and social sciences and often lacking connection with environme…
Intercultural language learning
This study explores the impact of a government-funded program which sought to retrain in-service teachers in regional Queensland as Indonesian language teachers through an Australian university-led program with on-campus and in-country components. The study first examines how the Indonesian for Teachers Initiative (InTI) program’s diverse social learning approach to intercultural language learning cultivated the development of the teacher partici…
Behavioral and technological interventions targeting glycemic control in a racially/ethnically diverse population
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT01221090
Methods of resistance
Priority setting of ICU resources in an influenza pandemic
Our findings underscore the importance of public consultation in pandemic planning for sustaining public trust in a public health emergency. Participants appreciated the empirical and ethical uncertainty of decision-making in an influenza pandemic and demonstrated nuanced ethical reasoning about priority setting of intensive care resources in an influenza pandemic. Policymakers may benefit from a better understanding the public's empirical and et…
The case study approach
The case study approach allows in-depth, multi-faceted explorations of complex issues in their real-life settings. The value of the case study approach is well recognised in the fields of business, law and policy, but somewhat less so in health services research. Based on our experiences of conducting several health-related case studies, we reflect on the different types of case study design, the specific research questions this approach can help…
Seeing and knowing in twenty-first century genetic medicine
This paper explores the clinical pedigree as a risk technique within the context of the predictive genetic testing (PGT) clinic. We situate the PGT clinic as a site of genetic governance in that it is a site both for the production of knowledge about genetic risk and for intervening in the everyday lives of individuals and their families who learn to cultivate their relations with themselves and their biological relatives in relation to genetic r…
Conceptual Framework for Marriage Education Programs for Stepfamily Couples with Considerations for Socioeconomic Context
Stepfamily couples face unique challenges that put them at higher risk for dissolution than non-stepfamily couples. Risks for stepfamily couples are magnified in the context of lower economic resources, making low-income stepfamily couples a key target population for intervention and for community education programs. Existing programs and services for couples often do not address the unique situations of stepfamilies. This article builds on previ…
Effects of a cognitive acceleration programme on Year I pupils
Background.Cognitive Acceleration has shown evidence of long-term far transfer with young adolescents. This paper reports a new application of the principle to 5- and 6-year-olds in a disadvantaged inner city area.Aims.To investigate the effect of a cognitive intervention programme on the cognitive development of children in Year 1 of primary schools.Sample.Approximately 300 children in 14 Year 1 classes in 10 schools for the experimental group a…
Making health data maps
Biotechnology, Political Rationality and Discourses on Health Risk
Using the results of a study to investigate women's accounts of risks for breast cancer as a case study, this article examines the phenomenological, social and political implications of prevailing discourses on risk. The study is situated within the critical social science literature that argues that 'risk' has become one of the defining cultural characteristics of western society. As in other areas of life, the notion of risk has become central …
Embodying risk, embodying political rationality
'Risk' has become one of the defining cultural characteristics of Western society at the end of the twentieth century. As in other areas of life, 'risk' has become central to discourses related to individual health; that is, risk has become a common construct around which health in Western society is described, organised, and practised, both personally and professionally. The purpose of this paper is to explore the notion of a 'phenomenology of r…
I saw the handwriting on the wall”
Health promotion and the common good
The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibilities for health promotion to function as a discourse on the common good. Building on contemporary notions of ‘the common good’, and on an approach to health promotion based on the social determinants of health, this paper discusses some of the empirical evidence for a link between health promotion and the common good. It is suggested that an underlying moral discourse for health promotion and t…
Health Care
Critical reflections on the politics of need
Wealth, equity and health care
A qualitative evaluation of HIV and Aids education to senior school children in Lothian Region, Scotland
In response to the high incidence of HIV and AIDS in Lothian Region, Scotland, the Education Department has funded a development team to work in the schools. The main focus of this team is a conference day aimed at 15–16-year-old school pupils run by external facilitators. The day comprises an educational input, a question-and-answer session, role playing and a plenary session led by an HIV positive individual. This paper evaluates the programme …
Towards a critical social science perspective on health promotion research
As part of our on-going efforts to formulate an alternative paradigm for health promotion research, we discuss an approach that we have called a 'critical social science perspective' (CSSP). This perspective consists of a set of 'reflexive' questions concerning the implicit assumptions and ideology underlying the research process, and the role of power, contradiction and dialectical relationships in theory and research practice. The paper briefly…
New Health Promotion Movement
In the last decade, a revolution has been occurring in the field of health promotion. Guided to a large extent by position papers disseminated by the World Health Organization (WHO) Europe Health Promotion Office, and furthered by the Ottawa Charter, the Epp Report in Canada, the Healthy Cities project, as well as by other efforts, this new health promotion movement has introduced new ideas, new language, and new concepts about what constitutes h…
The Dun Lagaidh Hoard of Short Cross Sterlings
was burned, and its walls partly vitrified, after a relatively short time. At a later date, probably in the first or second centuries a.D., a small round drystone dun was built on the ruins, and in mediaeval times this was rcfortified with mortared masonry to form a primitive castle. At this stage too, radial walls were attached to the re-built dun to form a bailey on the western side. Radiocarbon dates established the dates of the first and thir…
Excavations at the Roman fort of Crawford, Lanarkshire
NS 954214. The primary fort was an Agricolan foundation, built in AD 80 or 81 and abandoned, its timber buildings dismantled, soon after AD 87. A second phase of occupation began around AD 140 when the original ditch system was modified; the end of this first Antonine period was very quickly followed by a second Antonine occupation. This time the fort was enlarged and the defences recast. Final abandonment occurred between 165 and 170 apparently …
Wealth, equity and health care
Towards a critical social science perspective on health promotion research
As part of our on-going efforts to formulate an alternative paradigm for health promotion research, we discuss an approach that we have called a 'critical social science perspective' (CSSP). This perspective consists of a set of 'reflexive' questions concerning the implicit assumptions and ideology underlying the research process, and the role of power, contradiction and dialectical relationships in theory and research practice. The paper briefly…
Biotechnology, Political Rationality and Discourses on Health Risk
Using the results of a study to investigate women's accounts of risks for breast cancer as a case study, this article examines the phenomenological, social and political implications of prevailing discourses on risk. The study is situated within the critical social science literature that argues that 'risk' has become one of the defining cultural characteristics of western society. As in other areas of life, the notion of risk has become central …
Critical reflections on the politics of need
I saw the handwriting on the wall”
Conceptual Framework for Marriage Education Programs for Stepfamily Couples with Considerations for Socioeconomic Context
Stepfamily couples face unique challenges that put them at higher risk for dissolution than non-stepfamily couples. Risks for stepfamily couples are magnified in the context of lower economic resources, making low-income stepfamily couples a key target population for intervention and for community education programs. Existing programs and services for couples often do not address the unique situations of stepfamilies. This article builds on previ…
Making health data maps
Methods of resistance
Effects of a cognitive acceleration programme on Year I pupils
Background.Cognitive Acceleration has shown evidence of long-term far transfer with young adolescents. This paper reports a new application of the principle to 5- and 6-year-olds in a disadvantaged inner city area.Aims.To investigate the effect of a cognitive intervention programme on the cognitive development of children in Year 1 of primary schools.Sample.Approximately 300 children in 14 Year 1 classes in 10 schools for the experimental group a…
Dwelling tenderly with our desires for research and the world
How do we dwell tenderly in the ruins of the modern university? This paper engages a hopeful, collaborative, and sensory methodology to imagine possibilities for research and researcher. As academic women navigating the decay of the neoliberal university amid the shadowy spectre of the 'ideal' academic, we explore our lived experiences, identities, and questions. For us, managing modernity's disorientation and dislocation means showing up differe…
The Dun Lagaidh Hoard of Short Cross Sterlings
was burned, and its walls partly vitrified, after a relatively short time. At a later date, probably in the first or second centuries a.D., a small round drystone dun was built on the ruins, and in mediaeval times this was rcfortified with mortared masonry to form a primitive castle. At this stage too, radial walls were attached to the re-built dun to form a bailey on the western side. Radiocarbon dates established the dates of the first and thir…
Excavations at the Roman fort of Crawford, Lanarkshire
NS 954214. The primary fort was an Agricolan foundation, built in AD 80 or 81 and abandoned, its timber buildings dismantled, soon after AD 87. A second phase of occupation began around AD 140 when the original ditch system was modified; the end of this first Antonine period was very quickly followed by a second Antonine occupation. This time the fort was enlarged and the defences recast. Final abandonment occurred between 165 and 170 apparently …
New Health Promotion Movement
In the last decade, a revolution has been occurring in the field of health promotion. Guided to a large extent by position papers disseminated by the World Health Organization (WHO) Europe Health Promotion Office, and furthered by the Ottawa Charter, the Epp Report in Canada, the Healthy Cities project, as well as by other efforts, this new health promotion movement has introduced new ideas, new language, and new concepts about what constitutes h…
A qualitative evaluation of HIV and Aids education to senior school children in Lothian Region, Scotland
In response to the high incidence of HIV and AIDS in Lothian Region, Scotland, the Education Department has funded a development team to work in the schools. The main focus of this team is a conference day aimed at 15–16-year-old school pupils run by external facilitators. The day comprises an educational input, a question-and-answer session, role playing and a plenary session led by an HIV positive individual. This paper evaluates the programme …
Towards a critical social science perspective on health promotion research
As part of our on-going efforts to formulate an alternative paradigm for health promotion research, we discuss an approach that we have called a 'critical social science perspective' (CSSP). This perspective consists of a set of 'reflexive' questions concerning the implicit assumptions and ideology underlying the research process, and the role of power, contradiction and dialectical relationships in theory and research practice. The paper briefly…
Health Care
Critical reflections on the politics of need
Wealth, equity and health care
Health promotion and the common good
The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibilities for health promotion to function as a discourse on the common good. Building on contemporary notions of ‘the common good’, and on an approach to health promotion based on the social determinants of health, this paper discusses some of the empirical evidence for a link between health promotion and the common good. It is suggested that an underlying moral discourse for health promotion and t…
Embodying risk, embodying political rationality
'Risk' has become one of the defining cultural characteristics of Western society at the end of the twentieth century. As in other areas of life, 'risk' has become central to discourses related to individual health; that is, risk has become a common construct around which health in Western society is described, organised, and practised, both personally and professionally. The purpose of this paper is to explore the notion of a 'phenomenology of r…
I saw the handwriting on the wall”
Biotechnology, Political Rationality and Discourses on Health Risk
Using the results of a study to investigate women's accounts of risks for breast cancer as a case study, this article examines the phenomenological, social and political implications of prevailing discourses on risk. The study is situated within the critical social science literature that argues that 'risk' has become one of the defining cultural characteristics of western society. As in other areas of life, the notion of risk has become central …
Effects of a cognitive acceleration programme on Year I pupils
Background.Cognitive Acceleration has shown evidence of long-term far transfer with young adolescents. This paper reports a new application of the principle to 5- and 6-year-olds in a disadvantaged inner city area.Aims.To investigate the effect of a cognitive intervention programme on the cognitive development of children in Year 1 of primary schools.Sample.Approximately 300 children in 14 Year 1 classes in 10 schools for the experimental group a…
Making health data maps
Seeing and knowing in twenty-first century genetic medicine
This paper explores the clinical pedigree as a risk technique within the context of the predictive genetic testing (PGT) clinic. We situate the PGT clinic as a site of genetic governance in that it is a site both for the production of knowledge about genetic risk and for intervening in the everyday lives of individuals and their families who learn to cultivate their relations with themselves and their biological relatives in relation to genetic r…
Conceptual Framework for Marriage Education Programs for Stepfamily Couples with Considerations for Socioeconomic Context
Stepfamily couples face unique challenges that put them at higher risk for dissolution than non-stepfamily couples. Risks for stepfamily couples are magnified in the context of lower economic resources, making low-income stepfamily couples a key target population for intervention and for community education programs. Existing programs and services for couples often do not address the unique situations of stepfamilies. This article builds on previ…
The case study approach
The case study approach allows in-depth, multi-faceted explorations of complex issues in their real-life settings. The value of the case study approach is well recognised in the fields of business, law and policy, but somewhat less so in health services research. Based on our experiences of conducting several health-related case studies, we reflect on the different types of case study design, the specific research questions this approach can help…
Priority setting of ICU resources in an influenza pandemic
Our findings underscore the importance of public consultation in pandemic planning for sustaining public trust in a public health emergency. Participants appreciated the empirical and ethical uncertainty of decision-making in an influenza pandemic and demonstrated nuanced ethical reasoning about priority setting of intensive care resources in an influenza pandemic. Policymakers may benefit from a better understanding the public's empirical and et…
Behavioral and technological interventions targeting glycemic control in a racially/ethnically diverse population
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT01221090
Methods of resistance
Intercultural language learning
This study explores the impact of a government-funded program which sought to retrain in-service teachers in regional Queensland as Indonesian language teachers through an Australian university-led program with on-campus and in-country components. The study first examines how the Indonesian for Teachers Initiative (InTI) program’s diverse social learning approach to intercultural language learning cultivated the development of the teacher partici…
Understanding the Rights of Nature
Recognising the rights of nature is seen by many as the paradigm shift needed to truly embed ecology and the environment into nature-based policy and management solutions to address biodiversity loss, climate change, and sustainable development. However, despite its potential, research across and beyond disciplinary boundaries remains very limited, with most located in the humanities and social sciences and often lacking connection with environme…
Dwelling tenderly with our desires for research and the world
How do we dwell tenderly in the ruins of the modern university? This paper engages a hopeful, collaborative, and sensory methodology to imagine possibilities for research and researcher. As academic women navigating the decay of the neoliberal university amid the shadowy spectre of the 'ideal' academic, we explore our lived experiences, identities, and questions. For us, managing modernity's disorientation and dislocation means showing up differe…
University student experiences of feedback
This study contributes to the need for context-specific research into student feedback in higher education by investigating student experiences of receiving feedback in initial teacher education programs. A phenomenological case study methodology was used to investigate students’ satisfaction with assessment-based feedback and their perspectives of its value. Findings show that students value pre-assessment feedback as it has high utility and can…
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