F Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 22811 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | F |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7572-3030 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1923 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Student perspectives on ‘critical compassion’ in higher education
Compassion, the desire to take action to help those in need, is a buzzword in higher education. While its champions argue that compassion is a necessity to support student wellbeing and equity of opportunity, there are concerns that not having a critical approach to compassionate policies will increase the burden on staff. To this end, we asked students from two UK universities whether and how they experience compassion on campus, with the aim of…
Fostering cultural humility in perinatal palliative care. An interpretative qualitative study from the United Kingdom
Institutional Compassion in Student Transition to University
Compassionate university practices can increase students’ sense of belonging and lead to higher wellbeing. This study presents qualitative data from a UK university collected as part of the Nurture-U Compassionate Campus project. Experiences of transition to university were gathered from 32 students across five focus groups. Data were analysed using narrative analysis, conducted jointly by an academic researcher and Nurture-U student advisors. Re…
The mental health and wellbeing of Belarusians in exile in Lithuania, Poland and Georgia
Supporting patients experiencing poverty-related mental distress
High numbers of patients in England seek help with poverty-related mental distress • DeStress-II training helps health providers give non-pharmaceutical based support • Patients respond positively when consultations exhibit empathy and listening skills • DeStress-II improved patient engagement, team coordination and patient referral • DeStress-II offers a scalable online resource for primary healthcare practitioners
Child protection and family support
Effective Early Help services are key to halting rising rates of children in care in the UK. Yet despite family support and child welfare interventions being unequally distributed across the country, the role of ‘place’ has received limited attention in the children’s social care arena. This paper examines the connections between coastal challenges, Early Help and child welfare interventions, drawing on embedded research undertaken within a Local…
Housing and children’s social care in England
Sars-CoV-2 incidence among teaching staff in primary and secondary schools—Wales, 2020–2021
The data were consistent with an elevated risk of COVID-19 amongst younger teaching staff in primary schools when compared to the general population, however differences in case ascertainment couldn't be excluded as a possible reason for this. Rate differences by age group in teaching staff mirrored those in the general population. The risk in older teachers (≥ 50 years) in both settings was the same or lower than in the general population. Among…
Poverty, choice and dying in the UK
People living on a low income are less likely to access palliative care in the UK; however, beyond the statistics, little is known about the impact of poverty on attitudes towards death and experiences of dying and bereavement. Covid-19 has disproportionally affected poorer communities and foregrounded issues of social and health inequalities including experiences of loss and grief. Whilst this might suggest an opportune moment for embracing incl…
The role of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector in Early Help
The independent review of children's social care (2022) has proposed a radical reset of England's children's services, shifting a remote, assessment heavy system towards one that works alongside communities to help prevent statutory interventions. However, notions around the harnessing of community resources to deliver Early Help are often underpinned by assumptions regarding the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector and the ea…
The publics of public health
This commentary reflects on what has been learnt from government and public health responses to COVID-19, suggesting a tension between ‘business as usual’ forms of public health in the face of crisis, and the possibilities for a step-change towards a ‘healthy publics’ approach. We set out a range of ways that diverse, multiple publics have been implicated or brought into being during the COVID-19 pandemic, and we argue that these have generally b…
An engaged approach to exploring issues around poverty and mental health
BACKGROUND: Involving patients, service users, carers and members of the public in research has been part of health policy and practice in the UK for the last 15 years. However, low-income communities tend to remain marginalized from the co-design and delivery of mental health research, perpetuating the potential for health inequalities. Greater understanding is therefore needed on how to meaningfully engage low-income communities in mental healt…
Use of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) in Practice
We analyze the use of nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), an instrument that is widely used in diagnosing and determining the severity of depression. Using conversation analysis, we show how the doctor deploys the PHQ-9 in response to the patient's doubts about whether she is depressed. Rather than relaying the PHQ-9 verbatim, the doctor deviates from the wording so that the response options are selectively offered to upgrade the seve…
The violence of narrative
Narratives of self-responsibility are pervasive in neoliberally oriented contexts, and have been found to engender feelings of shame and failure amongst those affected by poverty. Here, we use findings from research in two low-income communities in south-west England to examine how these narratives become embodied within people's daily lives when they intersect with systems of welfare support and the current political drive to upscale treatment f…
The impact of the Work Capability Assessment on mental health
This paper examines the impact of increased welfare conditionality on people with mental health issues claiming benefits in the UK. Drawing on data from the DeStress study, this paper explores the lived experience of welfare claimants in low-income communities, and the perspectives of GPs seeking to support them. Particular focus is placed on people’s experience of the Work Capability Assessment, the tool used to determine welfare claimants’ enti…
Young people's use of medicines
The role of natural environments within women’s everyday health and wellbeing in Copenhagen, Denmark
Medicine 'misuse
Extended impacts of climate change on health and wellbeing
Social Network Analysis to evaluate organisational networks on sexual health and rights
There are many challenges in evaluating international networks. The use of conventional tools can be difficult and often provides less than useful information. Social Network Analysis offers benefits for network evaluators by allowing for documentation and analysis of inter-relationships between individuals and organisations. This paper describes the use of this approach in the evaluation of a major international project entitled the Global Dialo…
“If I cannot access services, then there is no reason for me to test”
Policy governing entitlement to access government health care for foreign nationals in England is a subject of debate, controversy and confusion. Of particular concern to health providers has been the impact of National Health Service charges on delaying HIV testing and anti-retroviral treatment uptake and adherence amongst certain migrant groups. Data obtained through focus groups with 70 migrants from southern Africa, suggest that confusion ove…
Transnational health and treatment networks
Experts', 'partners' and 'fools
Remarriage after spousal death
Remarriage following the death of a spouse has important implications for individual and household livelihoods in rural areas. Research in the Caprivi Region of Namibia found that while widowers commonly remarry, the ‘traditional’ option open to women through widow inheritance has been outlawed. While forcing widows off the land is now prohibited, socio-cultural pressures, the status of the woman's children, and a lack of basic support from the l…
Indigenous Narratives of HIV/Aids
While it is increasingly recognized that contextually relevant HIV prevention and AIDS mitigation interventions are more likely to succeed than enforced generic strategies, relatively little attention has been given to understanding the manner in which affected individuals and communities themselves perceive and subsequently experience the epidemic. Drawing on research undertaken in the Caprivi region of Namibia, this article challenges dominant …
Stigma, fatigue and social breakdown
Transnational health and treatment networks
Eliciting emotions in HIV/Aids research
Little attention has been given to understanding the emotional well‐being of people living with HIV/AIDS in developing countries, despite the fact that emotions may impact on people's sense of purpose and value, and ultimately their ability and resolve to hold livelihood and familial responsibilities together. Drawing upon research undertaken in the Caprivi Region of Namibia, this paper examines the use of solicited text and photo diaries in enab…
The role of natural environments within women’s everyday health and wellbeing in Copenhagen, Denmark
The violence of narrative
Narratives of self-responsibility are pervasive in neoliberally oriented contexts, and have been found to engender feelings of shame and failure amongst those affected by poverty. Here, we use findings from research in two low-income communities in south-west England to examine how these narratives become embodied within people's daily lives when they intersect with systems of welfare support and the current political drive to upscale treatment f…
Indigenous Narratives of HIV/Aids
While it is increasingly recognized that contextually relevant HIV prevention and AIDS mitigation interventions are more likely to succeed than enforced generic strategies, relatively little attention has been given to understanding the manner in which affected individuals and communities themselves perceive and subsequently experience the epidemic. Drawing on research undertaken in the Caprivi region of Namibia, this article challenges dominant …
Experts', 'partners' and 'fools
Our Families are Killing Us
The importance of exploring 'indigenous' constructions of illness is vital when explanatory models of ill health differ markedly from dominant biomedical paradigms. In the Caprivi region of Namibia, an upsurge of witchcraft accusations can be seen as a direct reaction to increasing AIDS-related illness and deaths, and to changes in socio-economic attitudes and expectations. The mobilization of witchcraft narratives provides a socially acceptable …
Medicine 'misuse
Use of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) in Practice
We analyze the use of nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), an instrument that is widely used in diagnosing and determining the severity of depression. Using conversation analysis, we show how the doctor deploys the PHQ-9 in response to the patient's doubts about whether she is depressed. Rather than relaying the PHQ-9 verbatim, the doctor deviates from the wording so that the response options are selectively offered to upgrade the seve…
The impact of the Work Capability Assessment on mental health
This paper examines the impact of increased welfare conditionality on people with mental health issues claiming benefits in the UK. Drawing on data from the DeStress study, this paper explores the lived experience of welfare claimants in low-income communities, and the perspectives of GPs seeking to support them. Particular focus is placed on people’s experience of the Work Capability Assessment, the tool used to determine welfare claimants’ enti…
Extended impacts of climate change on health and wellbeing
Remarriage after spousal death
Remarriage following the death of a spouse has important implications for individual and household livelihoods in rural areas. Research in the Caprivi Region of Namibia found that while widowers commonly remarry, the ‘traditional’ option open to women through widow inheritance has been outlawed. While forcing widows off the land is now prohibited, socio-cultural pressures, the status of the woman's children, and a lack of basic support from the l…
Social Network Analysis to evaluate organisational networks on sexual health and rights
There are many challenges in evaluating international networks. The use of conventional tools can be difficult and often provides less than useful information. Social Network Analysis offers benefits for network evaluators by allowing for documentation and analysis of inter-relationships between individuals and organisations. This paper describes the use of this approach in the evaluation of a major international project entitled the Global Dialo…
Child protection and family support
Effective Early Help services are key to halting rising rates of children in care in the UK. Yet despite family support and child welfare interventions being unequally distributed across the country, the role of ‘place’ has received limited attention in the children’s social care arena. This paper examines the connections between coastal challenges, Early Help and child welfare interventions, drawing on embedded research undertaken within a Local…
Reply to Haack
The Identification of the Fall or Rapid Indians
An identification of the “Fall” or “Rapid” Indians of southcentral Saskatchewan as Hidatsa is shown to be unlikely; rather, the Fall Indians of the contact period were Algonkianspeaking bison hunters identified as Atsina
Annonay. Essai de géographie urbaine
Thomas F. Annonay. Essai de géographie urbaine. In: Revue de géographie alpine, tome 11, n°1, 1923. pp. 117-199
Man and Nature
Some Sociological Principles Underlying Child Development
Journal Article Some Sociological Principles Underlying Child Development Get access Franklin Thomas Franklin Thomas Hastings-on-Hudson, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 12, Issue 4, May 1934, Pages 508–514, https://doi.org/10.2307/2569709 Published: 01 May 1934
Connaissance et étude du Maghreb aux États-Unis
Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour La Documentation franaise. Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour La Documentation franaise. La reproduction ou reprsentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorise que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement. Toute autre reproduction ou reprsentation, en tout ou partie, sous qu…
The Identification of the Fall or Rapid Indians
An identification of the “Fall” or “Rapid” Indians of southcentral Saskatchewan as Hidatsa is shown to be unlikely; rather, the Fall Indians of the contact period were Algonkianspeaking bison hunters identified as Atsina
Reply to Haack
Environmental problems and priorities
(1998). Environmental problems and priorities. New Political Economy: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 432-435
Leisure-time and occupational physical activity in relation to cardiovascular risk factors and eating habits in French adults
Objective To investigate the relationships of two main physical activity domains (during leisure and at work) with cardiovascular risk factors and eating habits. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting Preventive medicine centre. Subjects In 5478 adults (32% women, aged 20–80 years) who consecutively underwent a standardised health examination, leisure-time physical activity (LTPA; i.e. non-sport leisure and sport activities), occupational physical…
Stigma, fatigue and social breakdown
Global rights, local realities
Gender inequalities are frequently cited as a major reason for high HIV-prevalence rates in southern Africa. While steps have been taken to promote and pass legislation that upholds equal rights for women, this paper examines the ways in which discourses of gender equality and ensuing sexual rights can have complex, contradictory and even adverse implications when they are mobilised, resisted and reinterpreted at local level. Drawing upon researc…
Eliciting emotions in HIV/Aids research
Little attention has been given to understanding the emotional well‐being of people living with HIV/AIDS in developing countries, despite the fact that emotions may impact on people's sense of purpose and value, and ultimately their ability and resolve to hold livelihood and familial responsibilities together. Drawing upon research undertaken in the Caprivi Region of Namibia, this paper examines the use of solicited text and photo diaries in enab…
Our Families are Killing Us
The importance of exploring 'indigenous' constructions of illness is vital when explanatory models of ill health differ markedly from dominant biomedical paradigms. In the Caprivi region of Namibia, an upsurge of witchcraft accusations can be seen as a direct reaction to increasing AIDS-related illness and deaths, and to changes in socio-economic attitudes and expectations. The mobilization of witchcraft narratives provides a socially acceptable …
Remarriage after spousal death
Remarriage following the death of a spouse has important implications for individual and household livelihoods in rural areas. Research in the Caprivi Region of Namibia found that while widowers commonly remarry, the ‘traditional’ option open to women through widow inheritance has been outlawed. While forcing widows off the land is now prohibited, socio-cultural pressures, the status of the woman's children, and a lack of basic support from the l…
Indigenous Narratives of HIV/Aids
While it is increasingly recognized that contextually relevant HIV prevention and AIDS mitigation interventions are more likely to succeed than enforced generic strategies, relatively little attention has been given to understanding the manner in which affected individuals and communities themselves perceive and subsequently experience the epidemic. Drawing on research undertaken in the Caprivi region of Namibia, this article challenges dominant …
“If I cannot access services, then there is no reason for me to test”
Policy governing entitlement to access government health care for foreign nationals in England is a subject of debate, controversy and confusion. Of particular concern to health providers has been the impact of National Health Service charges on delaying HIV testing and anti-retroviral treatment uptake and adherence amongst certain migrant groups. Data obtained through focus groups with 70 migrants from southern Africa, suggest that confusion ove…
Transnational health and treatment networks
Experts', 'partners' and 'fools
Social Network Analysis to evaluate organisational networks on sexual health and rights
There are many challenges in evaluating international networks. The use of conventional tools can be difficult and often provides less than useful information. Social Network Analysis offers benefits for network evaluators by allowing for documentation and analysis of inter-relationships between individuals and organisations. This paper describes the use of this approach in the evaluation of a major international project entitled the Global Dialo…
Extended impacts of climate change on health and wellbeing
The role of natural environments within women’s everyday health and wellbeing in Copenhagen, Denmark
Medicine 'misuse
Young people's use of medicines
The impact of the Work Capability Assessment on mental health
This paper examines the impact of increased welfare conditionality on people with mental health issues claiming benefits in the UK. Drawing on data from the DeStress study, this paper explores the lived experience of welfare claimants in low-income communities, and the perspectives of GPs seeking to support them. Particular focus is placed on people’s experience of the Work Capability Assessment, the tool used to determine welfare claimants’ enti…
Use of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) in Practice
We analyze the use of nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), an instrument that is widely used in diagnosing and determining the severity of depression. Using conversation analysis, we show how the doctor deploys the PHQ-9 in response to the patient's doubts about whether she is depressed. Rather than relaying the PHQ-9 verbatim, the doctor deviates from the wording so that the response options are selectively offered to upgrade the seve…
The violence of narrative
Narratives of self-responsibility are pervasive in neoliberally oriented contexts, and have been found to engender feelings of shame and failure amongst those affected by poverty. Here, we use findings from research in two low-income communities in south-west England to examine how these narratives become embodied within people's daily lives when they intersect with systems of welfare support and the current political drive to upscale treatment f…
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