Jacob C Fisher
Biographic Data
| ID | 248604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob C Fisher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob C |
| FAMILY NAME | Fisher |
| SIGNATURE | FISHER J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1435-9247 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Using participatory video in environmental research
Tackling environmental challenges that face humanity requires us to acknowledge new ways of working and to cross disciplinary boundaries. However, the methodological toolkit used by environmental researchers to explore the human attitudes, knowledge and behaviours that drive global challenges such as biodiversity loss and climate breakdown remains constrained. Here, we describe participatory video, a methodology for capturing and communicating kn…
Nature’s contributions to social determinants of mental health and the role of conservation
Little is known about the impending mental health impacts of the global nature crisis. Existing evidence largely overlooks how nature sustains the economic and material dimensions of people’s lives that support their mental health. Moreover, this evidence poorly represents the context-dependent experiences of billions living in the rural Global South. Here, we offer a framework illustrating how nature’s essential contributions to people underpin …
Stated preferences for the colours, smells, and sounds of biodiversity
Forest creation and restoration are embedded in global policy. Both result in landscape changes that have far-reaching socioeconomic consequences. However, there is limited evidence on public preferences for the biodiversity these forests contain. Here we used a choice experiment to explore the British public’s willingness to pay (WTP) for different forest biodiversity attributes. We began with a multiple-step deliberative participatory process. …
Outdoor health intervention for refugees, migrants, and asylum-seekers: A mixed-methods pilot study
Human well-being responses to species’ traits
People rely on well-functioning ecosystems to provide critical services that underpin human health and well-being. Consequently, biodiversity loss has profound negative implications for humanity. Human–biodiversity interactions can deliver individual-level well-being gains, equating to substantial healthcare cost savings when scaled up across populations. However, critical questions remain about which species and/or traits (for example, colours, …
Nature, smells, and human wellbeing
The link between nature and human wellbeing is well established. However, few studies go beyond considering the visual and auditory underpinnings of this relationship, even though engaging with nature is a multisensory experience. While research linking smell to wellbeing exists, it focuses predominantly on smells as a source of nuisance/offence. Smells clearly have a prominent influence, but a significant knowledge gap remains in the nexus of na…
Exploring how urban nature is associated with human wellbeing in a neotropical city
Human population growth and urbanisation are putting pressure on urban green and blue spaces worldwide. These spaces provide habitat for biodiversity and, as evidence from the Global North shows, can provide health and wellbeing benefits to urban dwellers. Nonetheless, there is a paucity of evidence regarding the wellbeing benefits associated with urban green and blue spaces from the Global South, where the fastest rates of population growth and …
Could Nintendo’s Animal Crossing be a tool for conservation messaging
The current extinction crisis demands worldwide commitment to conservation across all sectors of society. By transcending the traditional disciplinary boundaries, conservationists can reach new audiences to communicate pro‐conservation knowledge, education and awareness messages. There are approximately 2.7 billion video‐gamers worldwide, with millions more joining as a result of global lockdowns. In March 2020, Animal Crossing: New Horizons was …
Using participatory video to share people's experiences of neotropical urban green and blue spaces with decision-makers
Cities are complex, socio-ecological ecosystems providing both opportunity and detriment to human health and well-being. Specifically, urban green (e.g., parks) and blue spaces (e.g., coastline) can restore human psychological well-being. In the Global South, where rapid urbanisation is posing challenges for biodiversity conservation and the mental well-being of urban human populations, there has been little research on understanding the social a…
Social Space Diffusion: Applications of a Latent Space Model to Diffusion with Uncertain Ties
Social networks represent two different facets of social life: (1) stable paths for diffusion, or the spread of something through a connected population, and (2) random draws from an underlying social space, which indicate the relative positions of the people in the network to one another. The dual nature of networks creates a challenge: if the observed network ties are a single random draw, is it realistic to expect that diffusion only follows t…
Data-Specific Functions: A Comment on Kindel et al
In this issue, Kindel et al. describe a new approach to managing survey data in service of the Fragile Families Challenge, which they call 'treating metadata as data.' Although the approach they present is a good first step, a more ambitious proposal could improve survey data analysis even more substantially. The author recommends that data collection efforts distribute an open-source set of tools for working with a particular data set the author…
Different Kinds of Lonely: Dimensions of Isolation and Substance Use in Adolescence
Exit, Cohesion, and Consensus: Social Psychological Moderators of Consensus among Adolescent Peer Groups
Virtually all social diffusion work relies on a common formal basis, which predicts that consensus will develop among a connected population as the result of diffusion. In spite of the popularity of social diffusion models that predict consensus, few empirical studies examine consensus, or a clustering of attitudes, directly. The empirical studies that do examine consensus either focus on the coordinating role of strict hierarchies, or on the res…
New Survey Questions and Estimators for Network Clustering with Respondent-driven Sampling Data
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a popular method for sampling hard-to-survey populations that leverages social network connections through peer recruitment. Although RDS is most frequently applied to estimate the prevalence of infections and risk behaviors of interest to public health, such as HIV/AIDS or condom use, it is rarely used to draw inferences about the structural properties of social networks among such populations because it does …
Dynamic associations of network isolation and smoking behavior
Prevailing social network frameworks examine the association between peer ties and behaviors, such as smoking, but the role of social isolates is poorly understood. Some theories predict isolated adolescents are protected from peer influence that increases smoking, while others suggest isolates are more likely to initiate smoking because they lack the social control provided by peer friendships. Building on a growing literature that seeks to expl…
Young Men’s Social Network Characteristics and Associations with Sexual Partnership Concurrency in Tanzania
Stickiness of respondent-driven sampling recruitment chains
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is an increasingly popular chain-referral sampling method. Although it has proved effective at generating samples of hard to reach populations—meaning populations for which sampling frames are not available because they are hidden or socially stigmatized like sex workers or injecting drug users—quickly and cost-effectively, the ease of collecting the sample comes with a cost: bias or inefficiency in the estimates …
Dynamic associations of network isolation and smoking behavior
Prevailing social network frameworks examine the association between peer ties and behaviors, such as smoking, but the role of social isolates is poorly understood. Some theories predict isolated adolescents are protected from peer influence that increases smoking, while others suggest isolates are more likely to initiate smoking because they lack the social control provided by peer friendships. Building on a growing literature that seeks to expl…
Different Kinds of Lonely: Dimensions of Isolation and Substance Use in Adolescence
New Survey Questions and Estimators for Network Clustering with Respondent-driven Sampling Data
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a popular method for sampling hard-to-survey populations that leverages social network connections through peer recruitment. Although RDS is most frequently applied to estimate the prevalence of infections and risk behaviors of interest to public health, such as HIV/AIDS or condom use, it is rarely used to draw inferences about the structural properties of social networks among such populations because it does …
Human well-being responses to species’ traits
People rely on well-functioning ecosystems to provide critical services that underpin human health and well-being. Consequently, biodiversity loss has profound negative implications for humanity. Human–biodiversity interactions can deliver individual-level well-being gains, equating to substantial healthcare cost savings when scaled up across populations. However, critical questions remain about which species and/or traits (for example, colours, …
Nature, smells, and human wellbeing
The link between nature and human wellbeing is well established. However, few studies go beyond considering the visual and auditory underpinnings of this relationship, even though engaging with nature is a multisensory experience. While research linking smell to wellbeing exists, it focuses predominantly on smells as a source of nuisance/offence. Smells clearly have a prominent influence, but a significant knowledge gap remains in the nexus of na…
Using participatory video to share people's experiences of neotropical urban green and blue spaces with decision-makers
Cities are complex, socio-ecological ecosystems providing both opportunity and detriment to human health and well-being. Specifically, urban green (e.g., parks) and blue spaces (e.g., coastline) can restore human psychological well-being. In the Global South, where rapid urbanisation is posing challenges for biodiversity conservation and the mental well-being of urban human populations, there has been little research on understanding the social a…
Social Space Diffusion: Applications of a Latent Space Model to Diffusion with Uncertain Ties
Social networks represent two different facets of social life: (1) stable paths for diffusion, or the spread of something through a connected population, and (2) random draws from an underlying social space, which indicate the relative positions of the people in the network to one another. The dual nature of networks creates a challenge: if the observed network ties are a single random draw, is it realistic to expect that diffusion only follows t…
Exit, Cohesion, and Consensus: Social Psychological Moderators of Consensus among Adolescent Peer Groups
Virtually all social diffusion work relies on a common formal basis, which predicts that consensus will develop among a connected population as the result of diffusion. In spite of the popularity of social diffusion models that predict consensus, few empirical studies examine consensus, or a clustering of attitudes, directly. The empirical studies that do examine consensus either focus on the coordinating role of strict hierarchies, or on the res…
Stickiness of respondent-driven sampling recruitment chains
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is an increasingly popular chain-referral sampling method. Although it has proved effective at generating samples of hard to reach populations—meaning populations for which sampling frames are not available because they are hidden or socially stigmatized like sex workers or injecting drug users—quickly and cost-effectively, the ease of collecting the sample comes with a cost: bias or inefficiency in the estimates …
Stated preferences for the colours, smells, and sounds of biodiversity
Forest creation and restoration are embedded in global policy. Both result in landscape changes that have far-reaching socioeconomic consequences. However, there is limited evidence on public preferences for the biodiversity these forests contain. Here we used a choice experiment to explore the British public’s willingness to pay (WTP) for different forest biodiversity attributes. We began with a multiple-step deliberative participatory process. …
Outdoor health intervention for refugees, migrants, and asylum-seekers: A mixed-methods pilot study
Data-Specific Functions: A Comment on Kindel et al
In this issue, Kindel et al. describe a new approach to managing survey data in service of the Fragile Families Challenge, which they call 'treating metadata as data.' Although the approach they present is a good first step, a more ambitious proposal could improve survey data analysis even more substantially. The author recommends that data collection efforts distribute an open-source set of tools for working with a particular data set the author…
Stickiness of respondent-driven sampling recruitment chains
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is an increasingly popular chain-referral sampling method. Although it has proved effective at generating samples of hard to reach populations—meaning populations for which sampling frames are not available because they are hidden or socially stigmatized like sex workers or injecting drug users—quickly and cost-effectively, the ease of collecting the sample comes with a cost: bias or inefficiency in the estimates …
Young Men’s Social Network Characteristics and Associations with Sexual Partnership Concurrency in Tanzania
Exit, Cohesion, and Consensus: Social Psychological Moderators of Consensus among Adolescent Peer Groups
Virtually all social diffusion work relies on a common formal basis, which predicts that consensus will develop among a connected population as the result of diffusion. In spite of the popularity of social diffusion models that predict consensus, few empirical studies examine consensus, or a clustering of attitudes, directly. The empirical studies that do examine consensus either focus on the coordinating role of strict hierarchies, or on the res…
New Survey Questions and Estimators for Network Clustering with Respondent-driven Sampling Data
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a popular method for sampling hard-to-survey populations that leverages social network connections through peer recruitment. Although RDS is most frequently applied to estimate the prevalence of infections and risk behaviors of interest to public health, such as HIV/AIDS or condom use, it is rarely used to draw inferences about the structural properties of social networks among such populations because it does …
Dynamic associations of network isolation and smoking behavior
Prevailing social network frameworks examine the association between peer ties and behaviors, such as smoking, but the role of social isolates is poorly understood. Some theories predict isolated adolescents are protected from peer influence that increases smoking, while others suggest isolates are more likely to initiate smoking because they lack the social control provided by peer friendships. Building on a growing literature that seeks to expl…
Different Kinds of Lonely: Dimensions of Isolation and Substance Use in Adolescence
Social Space Diffusion: Applications of a Latent Space Model to Diffusion with Uncertain Ties
Social networks represent two different facets of social life: (1) stable paths for diffusion, or the spread of something through a connected population, and (2) random draws from an underlying social space, which indicate the relative positions of the people in the network to one another. The dual nature of networks creates a challenge: if the observed network ties are a single random draw, is it realistic to expect that diffusion only follows t…
Data-Specific Functions: A Comment on Kindel et al
In this issue, Kindel et al. describe a new approach to managing survey data in service of the Fragile Families Challenge, which they call 'treating metadata as data.' Although the approach they present is a good first step, a more ambitious proposal could improve survey data analysis even more substantially. The author recommends that data collection efforts distribute an open-source set of tools for working with a particular data set the author…
Exploring how urban nature is associated with human wellbeing in a neotropical city
Human population growth and urbanisation are putting pressure on urban green and blue spaces worldwide. These spaces provide habitat for biodiversity and, as evidence from the Global North shows, can provide health and wellbeing benefits to urban dwellers. Nonetheless, there is a paucity of evidence regarding the wellbeing benefits associated with urban green and blue spaces from the Global South, where the fastest rates of population growth and …
Could Nintendo’s Animal Crossing be a tool for conservation messaging
The current extinction crisis demands worldwide commitment to conservation across all sectors of society. By transcending the traditional disciplinary boundaries, conservationists can reach new audiences to communicate pro‐conservation knowledge, education and awareness messages. There are approximately 2.7 billion video‐gamers worldwide, with millions more joining as a result of global lockdowns. In March 2020, Animal Crossing: New Horizons was …
Using participatory video to share people's experiences of neotropical urban green and blue spaces with decision-makers
Cities are complex, socio-ecological ecosystems providing both opportunity and detriment to human health and well-being. Specifically, urban green (e.g., parks) and blue spaces (e.g., coastline) can restore human psychological well-being. In the Global South, where rapid urbanisation is posing challenges for biodiversity conservation and the mental well-being of urban human populations, there has been little research on understanding the social a…
Human well-being responses to species’ traits
People rely on well-functioning ecosystems to provide critical services that underpin human health and well-being. Consequently, biodiversity loss has profound negative implications for humanity. Human–biodiversity interactions can deliver individual-level well-being gains, equating to substantial healthcare cost savings when scaled up across populations. However, critical questions remain about which species and/or traits (for example, colours, …
Nature, smells, and human wellbeing
The link between nature and human wellbeing is well established. However, few studies go beyond considering the visual and auditory underpinnings of this relationship, even though engaging with nature is a multisensory experience. While research linking smell to wellbeing exists, it focuses predominantly on smells as a source of nuisance/offence. Smells clearly have a prominent influence, but a significant knowledge gap remains in the nexus of na…
Using participatory video in environmental research
Tackling environmental challenges that face humanity requires us to acknowledge new ways of working and to cross disciplinary boundaries. However, the methodological toolkit used by environmental researchers to explore the human attitudes, knowledge and behaviours that drive global challenges such as biodiversity loss and climate breakdown remains constrained. Here, we describe participatory video, a methodology for capturing and communicating kn…
Nature’s contributions to social determinants of mental health and the role of conservation
Little is known about the impending mental health impacts of the global nature crisis. Existing evidence largely overlooks how nature sustains the economic and material dimensions of people’s lives that support their mental health. Moreover, this evidence poorly represents the context-dependent experiences of billions living in the rural Global South. Here, we offer a framework illustrating how nature’s essential contributions to people underpin …
Stated preferences for the colours, smells, and sounds of biodiversity
Forest creation and restoration are embedded in global policy. Both result in landscape changes that have far-reaching socioeconomic consequences. However, there is limited evidence on public preferences for the biodiversity these forests contain. Here we used a choice experiment to explore the British public’s willingness to pay (WTP) for different forest biodiversity attributes. We began with a multiple-step deliberative participatory process. …
Outdoor health intervention for refugees, migrants, and asylum-seekers: A mixed-methods pilot study
Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Urban Green Space and Health (7 works) · Animal and Plant Science Education (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works)