Paul Bellaby
Biographic Data
| ID | 260442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Bellaby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Bellaby |
| SIGNATURE | BELLABY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 111 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Deliberation over new hydrogen energy technologies: Evidence from two Citizens’ Panels in the UK
Hydrogen energy and hydrogen energy technologies are still largely at the experimental and demonstration project stages. If the hydrogen is produced sustainably from renewable sources, it may be a potential means of reducing carbon dioxide emissions and achieving other environmental objectives. But hydrogen technologies are still ‘emergent’ – seeking a niche to compete against incumbent technologies in stationary and mobile applications. Hydrogen…
Rapidly diffusing innovation: Whether the history of the Internet points the way for hydrogen energy
This paper identifies conditions for the rapid diffusion of what may be part of the solution for global sustainable energy – hydrogen – by drawing a comparison with the contemporary history of the Internet. The Cold War drove the take-off of the Internet and state regulation ensured that the market on which its rapid diffusion came to depend was not controlled by corporations. To take-off and start to diffuse, hydrogen energy could similarly have…
Substituting ‘H 2 for C’ and reducing global inequalities in health
Life expectancy and health differ greatly between emerging and developed countries and within countries. Global dependence on fossil fuels contributes to health inequalities through air pollution, the geopolitics of scarce resources and probable climate change arising from global warming. Substituting for fossil fuels (C), hydrogen (H2), as vector and store of energy produced from low-carbon and/or renewable sources could reduce health inequaliti…
Ambiguity, complexity and uncertainty surrounding the hazards of hydrogen and public views of emergent risks
New technologies and emergent risks pose special problems for risk governance \nand regulation. This paper outlines some of the uncertainties about the hazards \nof hydrogen energy and examines qualitative evidence from recent deliberative \nCitizens’ Panels in England and Wales about hydrogen energy technologies. It \nis shown that laypeople express ambivalent and contradictory views about, and \ncritical trust in, experts’ views about hydrogen.…
Towards sustainable energy: Are there lessons from the history of the early factory system
Development of sustainable energy has been slow. We compare it with a historical example of rapid innovation – the first factory system. The first factory system in the English Derwent Valley mills in the eighteenth century was based not on new technology like the steam engine, but on the familiar water mill. The locale was less prosperous than others in its agriculture and cottage textile industry, far from the English trade hub London and diffi…
Social Inclusion at Different Scales in the Urban Environment: Locating the Community to Empower
As area-based initiatives emphasise community empowerment and social inclusion programmes focus on place, this article compares participation in two ICT programmes in UK cities which sought to empower communities at different scales. Recruitment was better in a neighbourhood-scale project, a scale that enabled access to settings of public familiarity and helping/coping networks. However, the factors that promoted social inclusion during recruitme…
The ‘Value-Action Gap’ in Public Attitudes towards Sustainable Energy: The Case of Hydrogen Energy
Can Informal e-learning and Peer Support Help Bridge the Digital Divide
The project that we report here provided free home computers and a one-year broadband subscription to a sample of 108 older people diagnosed with coronary heart disease. The sample was divided at random and the experimental group had ‘facilitated learning’, based on access to a dedicated website, while controls did not. The results suggest that many participants needed to overcome their fear of new technology before they could learn how to use it…
Environmental citizenship and public attitudes to hydrogen energy technologies
Some of the principal arguments in the debate about environmental citizenship are examined with reference to the development of hydrogen energy systems. In particular, qualitative evidence is drawn from a study of public attitudes towards hydrogen energy technologies and their perceived risks and benefits. Using data from focus groups in three areas of the UK, it is argued that while there is awareness of the importance of energy issues, opinions…
Enabling healthy choices: Is ICT the highway to health improvement
The White Paper Choosing health acknowledges that there is no lack of information in the system about healthy lifestyles, but the manner of communication of risk and the level of support for lifestyle change need improvement. Action also has to be taken to address inequalities in health and to focus on securing better access to healthier choices for people in disadvantaged groups or areas. Accordingly, this randomized controlled trial examined wh…
Tackling the digital divide: Exploring the impact of ICT on managing heart conditions in a deprived area
The Internet is increasingly used to communicate health knowledge and there is growing belief that it can help transform both personal and public health. There is no lack of information on healthy lifestyles, but the manner of communication of risk and the level of support for lifestyle change need improvement, especially among deprived populations. Assisting vulnerable persons to increase their health knowledge could help them to be more respons…
Risk and the Public Acceptance of New Technologies
This edited volume brings together leading social scientists who address recent evidence and debates about public engagement and trust in experts. The chapters consider different methods of public con
Approaches to the Risk of Riding Motorcycles: Reflections on the Problem of Reconciling Statistical Risk Assessment and Motorcyclists' Own Reasons for Riding
The manners in which motorcyclists and road safety experts assess motorcycling diverge widely. Experts view it as an extremely risky venture and imply that only the foolhardy would engage in it. Our own survey research appears to support this view. And yet, motorcyclists disagree with this assessment and construct their own theory of risk. One in which blame is laid at the door of the car culture and accidents something that can be overcome by ro…
Spatiality, embodiment and hazards encountered in the making of pots
Unemployment and Ill Health: Local Labour Markets and Ill Health in Britain 1984-1991
This paper investigates the relationship between local unemployment rates and individual ill health. It is a case study of Britain in 1984–1991 based on secondary data analysis of the two sweeps of the Health and Lifestyle Survey (1993). High levels of unemployment are distinguished from increasing rates of unemployment and the effects of each on health in different employment statuses are compared, as are the outcomes for contrasting measures of…
To Risk or Not to Risk? Uses and Limitations of Mary Douglas on Risk-Acceptability for Understanding Health and Safety at Work and Road Accidents
The recent Greening of politics in the West has encouraged rapid development of research into both environmental hazards and risk perceptions among the public. There are also longstanding traditions of research into behaviour under risk in such disparate fields as superpower relations (Allison 1971), inter-country commercial transactions, the economics of uncertainty, and the study of natural disasters (Torry 1979). Relatively few sociologists or…
What is genuine sickness? The relation between work-discipline and the sick role in a pottery factory
From material gathered in the author's study of sickness and absence in a pottery factory, it is shown that genuine sickness is routinely problematic, and must be negotiated between the claimant and others in the work-group, sometimes also management and medical practitioners. Resolutions of the problem are practical and contingent, rarely based on medical proof, actual or imagined. It transpires that gender, age and class relations in the workpl…
Histories of Sickness: Making Use of Multiple Accounts of the Same Process
Below the Magic Mountain: A Social History of Tuberculosis in Twentieth Century Britain (Book)
The Perpetuation of a Folk Model of the Life Cycle and Kinship in a Pottery Factory
‘Life cycle’ is a metaphor drawn from biology. In Western culture, not only the life course but also the variant paths through it of males and females, are viewed as biological: gender is typically construed as sexuality. This is also the construction that pottery workers and their managers place on the growth and ageing of men and women in the workplace
The Peculiarities of the English Revisited: The Historical Formation of State, Class and Culture in England
Stress and Coping Discourse
Explanation of sickness, injury and absence at work frequently turns on “stress” and the individual's ability to “cope” with stress. A critique of the underlying ideology and science of stress and coping discourse (SCD) is presented. An alternative sociological model is put forward in which sickness is reconceptualised as an element in social relations. An intensive study of a medium‐sized pottery firm over two and a half years is presented to su…
The Ignorance of Social Intervention (Book)
The Socialization of Teachers, 1977
The Reasons for Hierarchy in Social Services Departments: A Critique of Elliott Jaques and His Associates
The ‘Value-Action Gap’ in Public Attitudes towards Sustainable Energy: The Case of Hydrogen Energy
To Risk or Not to Risk? Uses and Limitations of Mary Douglas on Risk-Acceptability for Understanding Health and Safety at Work and Road Accidents
The recent Greening of politics in the West has encouraged rapid development of research into both environmental hazards and risk perceptions among the public. There are also longstanding traditions of research into behaviour under risk in such disparate fields as superpower relations (Allison 1971), inter-country commercial transactions, the economics of uncertainty, and the study of natural disasters (Torry 1979). Relatively few sociologists or…
What is genuine sickness? The relation between work-discipline and the sick role in a pottery factory
From material gathered in the author's study of sickness and absence in a pottery factory, it is shown that genuine sickness is routinely problematic, and must be negotiated between the claimant and others in the work-group, sometimes also management and medical practitioners. Resolutions of the problem are practical and contingent, rarely based on medical proof, actual or imagined. It transpires that gender, age and class relations in the workpl…
Unemployment and Ill Health: Local Labour Markets and Ill Health in Britain 1984-1991
This paper investigates the relationship between local unemployment rates and individual ill health. It is a case study of Britain in 1984–1991 based on secondary data analysis of the two sweeps of the Health and Lifestyle Survey (1993). High levels of unemployment are distinguished from increasing rates of unemployment and the effects of each on health in different employment statuses are compared, as are the outcomes for contrasting measures of…
Environmental citizenship and public attitudes to hydrogen energy technologies
Some of the principal arguments in the debate about environmental citizenship are examined with reference to the development of hydrogen energy systems. In particular, qualitative evidence is drawn from a study of public attitudes towards hydrogen energy technologies and their perceived risks and benefits. Using data from focus groups in three areas of the UK, it is argued that while there is awareness of the importance of energy issues, opinions…
Approaches to the Risk of Riding Motorcycles: Reflections on the Problem of Reconciling Statistical Risk Assessment and Motorcyclists' Own Reasons for Riding
The manners in which motorcyclists and road safety experts assess motorcycling diverge widely. Experts view it as an extremely risky venture and imply that only the foolhardy would engage in it. Our own survey research appears to support this view. And yet, motorcyclists disagree with this assessment and construct their own theory of risk. One in which blame is laid at the door of the car culture and accidents something that can be overcome by ro…
The Reasons for Hierarchy in Social Services Departments: A Critique of Elliott Jaques and His Associates
Spatiality, embodiment and hazards encountered in the making of pots
Stress and Coping Discourse
Explanation of sickness, injury and absence at work frequently turns on “stress” and the individual's ability to “cope” with stress. A critique of the underlying ideology and science of stress and coping discourse (SCD) is presented. An alternative sociological model is put forward in which sickness is reconceptualised as an element in social relations. An intensive study of a medium‐sized pottery firm over two and a half years is presented to su…
The Growth of Trade Union Consciousness among General Hospital Nurses Viewed as a Response to ‘Proletarianisation’
A comparison is made of implementations of consistent tangent operators that arise in implicit integration of Von Mises and Drucker-Prager yield criteria. When computing the consistent tangent operator a matrix inversion has to be performed at integration point level. The consequences of different formulations of the consistent tangent operator on the numerical accuracy are assessed
Deliberation over new hydrogen energy technologies: Evidence from two Citizens’ Panels in the UK
Hydrogen energy and hydrogen energy technologies are still largely at the experimental and demonstration project stages. If the hydrogen is produced sustainably from renewable sources, it may be a potential means of reducing carbon dioxide emissions and achieving other environmental objectives. But hydrogen technologies are still ‘emergent’ – seeking a niche to compete against incumbent technologies in stationary and mobile applications. Hydrogen…
Ambiguity, complexity and uncertainty surrounding the hazards of hydrogen and public views of emergent risks
New technologies and emergent risks pose special problems for risk governance \nand regulation. This paper outlines some of the uncertainties about the hazards \nof hydrogen energy and examines qualitative evidence from recent deliberative \nCitizens’ Panels in England and Wales about hydrogen energy technologies. It \nis shown that laypeople express ambivalent and contradictory views about, and \ncritical trust in, experts’ views about hydrogen.…
Social Inclusion at Different Scales in the Urban Environment: Locating the Community to Empower
As area-based initiatives emphasise community empowerment and social inclusion programmes focus on place, this article compares participation in two ICT programmes in UK cities which sought to empower communities at different scales. Recruitment was better in a neighbourhood-scale project, a scale that enabled access to settings of public familiarity and helping/coping networks. However, the factors that promoted social inclusion during recruitme…
Rapidly diffusing innovation: Whether the history of the Internet points the way for hydrogen energy
This paper identifies conditions for the rapid diffusion of what may be part of the solution for global sustainable energy – hydrogen – by drawing a comparison with the contemporary history of the Internet. The Cold War drove the take-off of the Internet and state regulation ensured that the market on which its rapid diffusion came to depend was not controlled by corporations. To take-off and start to diffuse, hydrogen energy could similarly have…
Can Informal e-learning and Peer Support Help Bridge the Digital Divide
The project that we report here provided free home computers and a one-year broadband subscription to a sample of 108 older people diagnosed with coronary heart disease. The sample was divided at random and the experimental group had ‘facilitated learning’, based on access to a dedicated website, while controls did not. The results suggest that many participants needed to overcome their fear of new technology before they could learn how to use it…
Enabling healthy choices: Is ICT the highway to health improvement
The White Paper Choosing health acknowledges that there is no lack of information in the system about healthy lifestyles, but the manner of communication of risk and the level of support for lifestyle change need improvement. Action also has to be taken to address inequalities in health and to focus on securing better access to healthier choices for people in disadvantaged groups or areas. Accordingly, this randomized controlled trial examined wh…
Histories of Sickness: Making Use of Multiple Accounts of the Same Process
The Growth of Trade Union Consciousness among General Hospital Nurses Viewed as a Response to ‘Proletarianisation’
A comparison is made of implementations of consistent tangent operators that arise in implicit integration of Von Mises and Drucker-Prager yield criteria. When computing the consistent tangent operator a matrix inversion has to be performed at integration point level. The consequences of different formulations of the consistent tangent operator on the numerical accuracy are assessed
The Socialization of Teachers, 1977
The Reasons for Hierarchy in Social Services Departments: A Critique of Elliott Jaques and His Associates
The Ignorance of Social Intervention (Book)
Stress and Coping Discourse
Explanation of sickness, injury and absence at work frequently turns on “stress” and the individual's ability to “cope” with stress. A critique of the underlying ideology and science of stress and coping discourse (SCD) is presented. An alternative sociological model is put forward in which sickness is reconceptualised as an element in social relations. An intensive study of a medium‐sized pottery firm over two and a half years is presented to su…
The Perpetuation of a Folk Model of the Life Cycle and Kinship in a Pottery Factory
‘Life cycle’ is a metaphor drawn from biology. In Western culture, not only the life course but also the variant paths through it of males and females, are viewed as biological: gender is typically construed as sexuality. This is also the construction that pottery workers and their managers place on the growth and ageing of men and women in the workplace
The Peculiarities of the English Revisited: The Historical Formation of State, Class and Culture in England
Below the Magic Mountain: A Social History of Tuberculosis in Twentieth Century Britain (Book)
Histories of Sickness: Making Use of Multiple Accounts of the Same Process
To Risk or Not to Risk? Uses and Limitations of Mary Douglas on Risk-Acceptability for Understanding Health and Safety at Work and Road Accidents
The recent Greening of politics in the West has encouraged rapid development of research into both environmental hazards and risk perceptions among the public. There are also longstanding traditions of research into behaviour under risk in such disparate fields as superpower relations (Allison 1971), inter-country commercial transactions, the economics of uncertainty, and the study of natural disasters (Torry 1979). Relatively few sociologists or…
What is genuine sickness? The relation between work-discipline and the sick role in a pottery factory
From material gathered in the author's study of sickness and absence in a pottery factory, it is shown that genuine sickness is routinely problematic, and must be negotiated between the claimant and others in the work-group, sometimes also management and medical practitioners. Resolutions of the problem are practical and contingent, rarely based on medical proof, actual or imagined. It transpires that gender, age and class relations in the workpl…
Spatiality, embodiment and hazards encountered in the making of pots
Unemployment and Ill Health: Local Labour Markets and Ill Health in Britain 1984-1991
This paper investigates the relationship between local unemployment rates and individual ill health. It is a case study of Britain in 1984–1991 based on secondary data analysis of the two sweeps of the Health and Lifestyle Survey (1993). High levels of unemployment are distinguished from increasing rates of unemployment and the effects of each on health in different employment statuses are compared, as are the outcomes for contrasting measures of…
Approaches to the Risk of Riding Motorcycles: Reflections on the Problem of Reconciling Statistical Risk Assessment and Motorcyclists' Own Reasons for Riding
The manners in which motorcyclists and road safety experts assess motorcycling diverge widely. Experts view it as an extremely risky venture and imply that only the foolhardy would engage in it. Our own survey research appears to support this view. And yet, motorcyclists disagree with this assessment and construct their own theory of risk. One in which blame is laid at the door of the car culture and accidents something that can be overcome by ro…
Tackling the digital divide: Exploring the impact of ICT on managing heart conditions in a deprived area
The Internet is increasingly used to communicate health knowledge and there is growing belief that it can help transform both personal and public health. There is no lack of information on healthy lifestyles, but the manner of communication of risk and the level of support for lifestyle change need improvement, especially among deprived populations. Assisting vulnerable persons to increase their health knowledge could help them to be more respons…
Risk and the Public Acceptance of New Technologies
This edited volume brings together leading social scientists who address recent evidence and debates about public engagement and trust in experts. The chapters consider different methods of public con
Can Informal e-learning and Peer Support Help Bridge the Digital Divide
The project that we report here provided free home computers and a one-year broadband subscription to a sample of 108 older people diagnosed with coronary heart disease. The sample was divided at random and the experimental group had ‘facilitated learning’, based on access to a dedicated website, while controls did not. The results suggest that many participants needed to overcome their fear of new technology before they could learn how to use it…
Environmental citizenship and public attitudes to hydrogen energy technologies
Some of the principal arguments in the debate about environmental citizenship are examined with reference to the development of hydrogen energy systems. In particular, qualitative evidence is drawn from a study of public attitudes towards hydrogen energy technologies and their perceived risks and benefits. Using data from focus groups in three areas of the UK, it is argued that while there is awareness of the importance of energy issues, opinions…
Enabling healthy choices: Is ICT the highway to health improvement
The White Paper Choosing health acknowledges that there is no lack of information in the system about healthy lifestyles, but the manner of communication of risk and the level of support for lifestyle change need improvement. Action also has to be taken to address inequalities in health and to focus on securing better access to healthier choices for people in disadvantaged groups or areas. Accordingly, this randomized controlled trial examined wh…
The ‘Value-Action Gap’ in Public Attitudes towards Sustainable Energy: The Case of Hydrogen Energy
Towards sustainable energy: Are there lessons from the history of the early factory system
Development of sustainable energy has been slow. We compare it with a historical example of rapid innovation – the first factory system. The first factory system in the English Derwent Valley mills in the eighteenth century was based not on new technology like the steam engine, but on the familiar water mill. The locale was less prosperous than others in its agriculture and cottage textile industry, far from the English trade hub London and diffi…
Social Inclusion at Different Scales in the Urban Environment: Locating the Community to Empower
As area-based initiatives emphasise community empowerment and social inclusion programmes focus on place, this article compares participation in two ICT programmes in UK cities which sought to empower communities at different scales. Recruitment was better in a neighbourhood-scale project, a scale that enabled access to settings of public familiarity and helping/coping networks. However, the factors that promoted social inclusion during recruitme…
Substituting ‘H 2 for C’ and reducing global inequalities in health
Life expectancy and health differ greatly between emerging and developed countries and within countries. Global dependence on fossil fuels contributes to health inequalities through air pollution, the geopolitics of scarce resources and probable climate change arising from global warming. Substituting for fossil fuels (C), hydrogen (H2), as vector and store of energy produced from low-carbon and/or renewable sources could reduce health inequaliti…
Ambiguity, complexity and uncertainty surrounding the hazards of hydrogen and public views of emergent risks
New technologies and emergent risks pose special problems for risk governance \nand regulation. This paper outlines some of the uncertainties about the hazards \nof hydrogen energy and examines qualitative evidence from recent deliberative \nCitizens’ Panels in England and Wales about hydrogen energy technologies. It \nis shown that laypeople express ambivalent and contradictory views about, and \ncritical trust in, experts’ views about hydrogen.…
Rapidly diffusing innovation: Whether the history of the Internet points the way for hydrogen energy
This paper identifies conditions for the rapid diffusion of what may be part of the solution for global sustainable energy – hydrogen – by drawing a comparison with the contemporary history of the Internet. The Cold War drove the take-off of the Internet and state regulation ensured that the market on which its rapid diffusion came to depend was not controlled by corporations. To take-off and start to diffuse, hydrogen energy could similarly have…
Sociology (18 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Business (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works)