Paul Tranter
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 2241501 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Paul Tranter |
| PRENOMES | Paul |
| SOBRENOME | Tranter |
| ASSINATURA | TRANTER P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6282-0491 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 137 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Towards effective stakeholder collaboration in building urban resilience in Phnom Penh
Impacts of shrimp aquaculture on the local communities and conservation of the world’s largest protected mangrove forest
Mangrove forests are highly productive, biodiverse, and carbon-dense ecosystems that support the wellbeing of millions of people. Policies that seek to protect mangroves must, therefore, aim to ensure the socio-economic wellbeing of local communities. A clear example of this challenge is found in the Bangladesh Sundarbans—the world’s largest protected mangrove. The Sundarbans faces several anthropogenic challenges, including overharvesting of non…
Private actors and food safety governance in the Accra City Region
Urban Playground
Book Review: Urban Playground: How Child-Friendly Planning and Design... 151 Urban Playground: How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities Tim Gill (2021) London: RIBA Publishing, 208 pages $47.50 (paperback); ISBN: 978-1859469293 Many urban designers and planners will have come across the idea of child-friendly cities, however few are likely to fully appreciate the enormous potential for childfriendly planning and design to improve ci…
Expectations and Assumptions
Risky play is challenging, exciting play with the possibility of physical, social, or emotional harm. Through risky play, children learn, develop, and experience wellbeing. Children with disabilities have fewer opportunities than their typically developing peers to engage in this beneficial type of play. Our team designed a novel, school-based intervention to address this disparity; however, our intervention yielded unexpected quantitative result…
Parents’ perspectives on managing risk in play for children with developmental disabilities
Parents are often concerned about managing risks for their children, particularly in the context of disability. This paper reports qualitative findings from an intervention study and examines how parents of children with developmental disabilities (mainly autism) manage risks during play. Interviews (n = 17) highlighted parents’ fears about their child’s safety, which were often exacerbated by concerns about the child’s (lack of) cognitive and in…
Lower parent tolerance of risk in play for children with disability than typically developing children
Becoming an autonomous adult includes understanding consequences associated with risks. The aim of this study was to compare parents of children with and without disability to identify any differences in promoting manageable risk-taking. Data were collected from parents of typically developing children and parents of children with developmental disability. Two groups were matched based on parent and child chronological ages for typically developi…
An observation-based instrument to measure what children with disabilities do on the playground
The school playground provides a natural context for play observation for children of all abilities. However, play promoters interested in designing and assessing playground interventions are limited by a lack of quantitative observation tools to measure playground play sophistication for groups of children. We used Rasch analysis to evaluate the psychometric properties of a novel iPad application designed to capture observational data on the pla…
Time for action. Implementing the New Urban Agenda in public spaces for health and wellbeing
Urban Agendas are important guiding tools that frame thinking and point to major directions and changes needed. The dominant planning and city development practices in the 20th century resulted in the proliferation of modern cities that brought numerous problems that urban planners and designers are still dealing with. Do we have the capacity and appropriate tools to change the cities of tomorrow to make them more liveable places?The challenges m…
Girls’ perspectives on the ideal school playground experience
Based on research conducted as part of the Sydney Playground Project, this paper provides an exploratory investigation of the perspectives of girls relating to the ideal school playground experience, and whether their perspectives are influenced by a loose-parts playground intervention. The focus is on the play behaviours of 22 girls aged 8–10 years, from the perspective that school playgrounds are generally designed in ways that are more suited …
Risk, Protection, Provision and Policy
Risk, Protection, Provision and Policy
Uncertainty in the school playground
Recent theoretical debates highlight the competing risk logics and varying rationalities mobilised in response to dangers and approaches to risk management. Yet the concept of uncertainty, and how it informs perceived risks, is relatively less well understood. Debates of this kind are illuminated in contexts where risks are managed as part of everyday practice. The school setting provides an example of a context in which risks are continuously ne…
Reframing healthy risk taking
This paper reports findings of a qualitative study regarding dilemmas adults experience in balancing protecting children and offering age-appropriate risk taking opportunities. It outlines strategies adults used to manage their own uncertainties as they supported children to become autonomous. Twenty seven parents of typically developing children and 10 parents of children living with social or physical disabilities engaged in a card sort; they i…
Children's Geographies
The Sydney playground project- levelling the playing field
Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registration Number ACTRN12614000549628 (registered 22/5/2014)
Australian children's independent mobility levels
This study investigated changes in Australian children's independent mobility levels between1991 and 2012. Data from five cross-sectional studies conducted in 1991, 1993, 2010, 2011 and 2012 were analysed. Parent and child surveys were used to assess parental licences for independent mobility and actual independent mobility behaviour in children aged 8–13 years. Findings show declines in the proportion of young children (≤10 years of age) being a…
Spatial and socio-demographic determinants of South East Queensland students’ school cycling
Active Travel
In occupational science, occupation refers to the everyday things people need, want and are expected to do. One of these things is the act of travelling from one occupation to another. Conventional wisdom in modern societies suggests that the faster we do this, the better: the faster we travel, the further we move and the more productive we become. In this paper, I question this view, exploring a paradox whereby increasing the speed of travel as …
The sydney playground project
Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registration Number ACTRN12611000089932
Progressing road safety through deep change and transformational leadership
Disney-Pixar to the rescue
Speed Kills
Life in the Fast Lane
The article explores links between sport and health, focusing on a range of health outcomes of staging motorsport megaevents in significant public spaces in Australian cities. The article argues that an oversimplification of the links between sport and health produces a cultural filter that diverts attention from the negative health outcomes of sport. A major contribution of this study is the consideration of economic health and environmental hea…
Escaping Monstropolis
In Monstropolis, the virtual world of monsters in the 2001 Pixar-animated Disney movie Monsters, Inc., the screams of human children are the source of energy. In this paper, the energy shortage (or ‘scream shortage’) depicted in Monsters, Inc. serves as a subtle and engaging allegory, drawing attention to the non-virtual world's concerns with energy supplies, particularly oil. Peak oil, the time at which the global production of oil reaches its m…
Geographies of environmental learning
There has been limited recent geographic research on children's use of school grounds. This study explores the impact of school grounds on the play behaviours of children in primary schools. It examines the way in which some features of school grounds stimulate more of the type of play that is likely to produce environmental learning. The paper reports on research findings from two primary schools in Canberra, Australia. At each school, multiple …
School Grounds as Sites for Learning
Drawing on the findings of an ARC funded project, 'Children's Environments and the Role of School Grounds for Enhancing Environmental Cognition', this paper explores the question: What is the role of school grounds as sites for teaching and learning? Observation and interview data for five Australian primary schools displayed large differences between schools in the types of play that 8- to 10-year-old children engaged in. In particular, play beh…
Children's travel behaviours in Canberra
Life in the Fast Lane
The article explores links between sport and health, focusing on a range of health outcomes of staging motorsport megaevents in significant public spaces in Australian cities. The article argues that an oversimplification of the links between sport and health produces a cultural filter that diverts attention from the negative health outcomes of sport. A major contribution of this study is the consideration of economic health and environmental hea…
Disney-Pixar to the rescue
Girls’ perspectives on the ideal school playground experience
Based on research conducted as part of the Sydney Playground Project, this paper provides an exploratory investigation of the perspectives of girls relating to the ideal school playground experience, and whether their perspectives are influenced by a loose-parts playground intervention. The focus is on the play behaviours of 22 girls aged 8–10 years, from the perspective that school playgrounds are generally designed in ways that are more suited …
Children and Peak Oil
Speed Kills
Progressing road safety through deep change and transformational leadership
Escaping Monstropolis
In Monstropolis, the virtual world of monsters in the 2001 Pixar-animated Disney movie Monsters, Inc., the screams of human children are the source of energy. In this paper, the energy shortage (or ‘scream shortage’) depicted in Monsters, Inc. serves as a subtle and engaging allegory, drawing attention to the non-virtual world's concerns with energy supplies, particularly oil. Peak oil, the time at which the global production of oil reaches its m…
Reframing healthy risk taking
This paper reports findings of a qualitative study regarding dilemmas adults experience in balancing protecting children and offering age-appropriate risk taking opportunities. It outlines strategies adults used to manage their own uncertainties as they supported children to become autonomous. Twenty seven parents of typically developing children and 10 parents of children living with social or physical disabilities engaged in a card sort; they i…
Lower parent tolerance of risk in play for children with disability than typically developing children
Becoming an autonomous adult includes understanding consequences associated with risks. The aim of this study was to compare parents of children with and without disability to identify any differences in promoting manageable risk-taking. Data were collected from parents of typically developing children and parents of children with developmental disability. Two groups were matched based on parent and child chronological ages for typically developi…
The place of motorsport in public health
Parents’ perspectives on managing risk in play for children with developmental disabilities
Parents are often concerned about managing risks for their children, particularly in the context of disability. This paper reports qualitative findings from an intervention study and examines how parents of children with developmental disabilities (mainly autism) manage risks during play. Interviews (n = 17) highlighted parents’ fears about their child’s safety, which were often exacerbated by concerns about the child’s (lack of) cognitive and in…
Spatial and socio-demographic determinants of South East Queensland students’ school cycling
Active Travel
In occupational science, occupation refers to the everyday things people need, want and are expected to do. One of these things is the act of travelling from one occupation to another. Conventional wisdom in modern societies suggests that the faster we do this, the better: the faster we travel, the further we move and the more productive we become. In this paper, I question this view, exploring a paradox whereby increasing the speed of travel as …
Towards a holistic framework for road safety in Australia
An observation-based instrument to measure what children with disabilities do on the playground
The school playground provides a natural context for play observation for children of all abilities. However, play promoters interested in designing and assessing playground interventions are limited by a lack of quantitative observation tools to measure playground play sophistication for groups of children. We used Rasch analysis to evaluate the psychometric properties of a novel iPad application designed to capture observational data on the pla…
Australian children's independent mobility levels
This study investigated changes in Australian children's independent mobility levels between1991 and 2012. Data from five cross-sectional studies conducted in 1991, 1993, 2010, 2011 and 2012 were analysed. Parent and child surveys were used to assess parental licences for independent mobility and actual independent mobility behaviour in children aged 8–13 years. Findings show declines in the proportion of young children (≤10 years of age) being a…
Intra-Urban Variability in Rhythms of Pathological Events
Research has clearly identified spatial variability in the incidence rates of pathological events, as well as twenty- four hour rhythms in their occurrence. It is proposed here that intra-urban variability exists in the characteristics of twenty-four hour rhythms in pathological events (pathology rhythms). A conceptual background for this intra-urban variability is de- veloped from a number of existing concepts in time-geography. Reasons for the …
Intra-Urban Variability in Rhythms of Pathological Events
Research has clearly identified spatial variability in the incidence rates of pathological events, as well as twenty- four hour rhythms in their occurrence. It is proposed here that intra-urban variability exists in the characteristics of twenty-four hour rhythms in pathological events (pathology rhythms). A conceptual background for this intra-urban variability is de- veloped from a number of existing concepts in time-geography. Reasons for the …
Rhythms in urban pathological events
Geographical research has demonstrated that there is a marked spatial variability in the ‘incidence’ of many types of pathological events—disruptive events which are unwanted by society. This article extends the scope of this research through the analysis of spatial variability in the characteristics of rhythms in pathological events—‘pathology rhythms’. The approach adopted here is to examine the impact of increasing distance from the Central Bu…
Children's travel behaviours in Canberra
Transportation and Energy
Children's Access to Local Environments
This article provides a case-study of variability in children's independent access to their local environments in the New Zealand city of Christchurch. It is based on research with children in middle childhood, parents and teachers in four schools in Christchurch, each selected on the basis of variables hypothesised to impact on children's access to their local areas. The paper outlines why such independent access is of value, not only for childr…
School Grounds as Sites for Learning
Drawing on the findings of an ARC funded project, 'Children's Environments and the Role of School Grounds for Enhancing Environmental Cognition', this paper explores the question: What is the role of school grounds as sites for teaching and learning? Observation and interview data for five Australian primary schools displayed large differences between schools in the types of play that 8- to 10-year-old children engaged in. In particular, play beh…
Geographies of environmental learning
There has been limited recent geographic research on children's use of school grounds. This study explores the impact of school grounds on the play behaviours of children in primary schools. It examines the way in which some features of school grounds stimulate more of the type of play that is likely to produce environmental learning. The paper reports on research findings from two primary schools in Canberra, Australia. At each school, multiple …
The place of motorsport in public health
Children and Peak Oil
Escaping Monstropolis
In Monstropolis, the virtual world of monsters in the 2001 Pixar-animated Disney movie Monsters, Inc., the screams of human children are the source of energy. In this paper, the energy shortage (or ‘scream shortage’) depicted in Monsters, Inc. serves as a subtle and engaging allegory, drawing attention to the non-virtual world's concerns with energy supplies, particularly oil. Peak oil, the time at which the global production of oil reaches its m…
Towards a holistic framework for road safety in Australia
Life in the Fast Lane
The article explores links between sport and health, focusing on a range of health outcomes of staging motorsport megaevents in significant public spaces in Australian cities. The article argues that an oversimplification of the links between sport and health produces a cultural filter that diverts attention from the negative health outcomes of sport. A major contribution of this study is the consideration of economic health and environmental hea…
Speed Kills
The sydney playground project
Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registration Number ACTRN12611000089932
Progressing road safety through deep change and transformational leadership
Disney-Pixar to the rescue
Active Travel
In occupational science, occupation refers to the everyday things people need, want and are expected to do. One of these things is the act of travelling from one occupation to another. Conventional wisdom in modern societies suggests that the faster we do this, the better: the faster we travel, the further we move and the more productive we become. In this paper, I question this view, exploring a paradox whereby increasing the speed of travel as …
Children's Geographies
The Sydney playground project- levelling the playing field
Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registration Number ACTRN12614000549628 (registered 22/5/2014)
Australian children's independent mobility levels
This study investigated changes in Australian children's independent mobility levels between1991 and 2012. Data from five cross-sectional studies conducted in 1991, 1993, 2010, 2011 and 2012 were analysed. Parent and child surveys were used to assess parental licences for independent mobility and actual independent mobility behaviour in children aged 8–13 years. Findings show declines in the proportion of young children (≤10 years of age) being a…
Spatial and socio-demographic determinants of South East Queensland students’ school cycling
Risk, Protection, Provision and Policy
Uncertainty in the school playground
Recent theoretical debates highlight the competing risk logics and varying rationalities mobilised in response to dangers and approaches to risk management. Yet the concept of uncertainty, and how it informs perceived risks, is relatively less well understood. Debates of this kind are illuminated in contexts where risks are managed as part of everyday practice. The school setting provides an example of a context in which risks are continuously ne…
Reframing healthy risk taking
This paper reports findings of a qualitative study regarding dilemmas adults experience in balancing protecting children and offering age-appropriate risk taking opportunities. It outlines strategies adults used to manage their own uncertainties as they supported children to become autonomous. Twenty seven parents of typically developing children and 10 parents of children living with social or physical disabilities engaged in a card sort; they i…
Risk, Protection, Provision and Policy
Sociology (18 obras) · Psychology (16 obras) · Medicine (13 obras) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (12 obras) · Business (11 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Geography (10 obras) · Engineering (8 obras) · Children's Rights and Participation (7 obras) · Developmental psychology (7 obras)