Nancy Torrance
Biographic Data
| ID | 282983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Torrance |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Torrance |
| SIGNATURE | TORRANCE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7856-7408 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Contributing factors, social effects and rehabilitation of the non-medical use of tramadol: A scoping review
Non-medical tramadol use is a global public health issue, yet evidence on its contributing factors, social effects, and rehabilitation remains fragmented. This scoping review synthesised this evidence and identified gaps in the literature. The review followed the JBI methodology for scoping reviews and PRISMA-ScR reporting guidance. Searches across 11 databases identified relevant literature. Included sources involved individuals with a history o…
Unforeseen emotional labour: A collaborative autoethnography exploring researcher experiences of studying Long Covid in health workers during the Covid-19 pandemic
Emotional labour or emotion management describes regulation of feelings to fulfil specific job roles, discussed extensively around commercial and caring professions and more recently qualitative researchers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, this was heightened due to changes in the socio-political context affecting individual circumstances and research practice, yet accounts pertaining to qualitative researchers are lacking. This paper presents a co…
Disrupted Candidacy: A Longitudinal Examination of the Constrained Healthcare‐Access Journeys of National Health Service Workers in Scotland Seeking Supports for Long Covid Illness
INTRODUCTION: Evidence examines how persons experiencing Long COVID (LC) struggle to secure healthcare for symptoms. However, few studies examine healthcare workers experiencing LC, nor the complex and multiple difficulties faced when seeking and receiving healthcare. METHODS: This study is based on two phases of longitudinally conducted qualitative interviews, 6 months apart, with National Health Service (NHS) workers experiencing LC, from diffe…
Cambridge Handbook of Literacy
The Challenge of Academic Language
Increasingly in recent years, educators have related worries about students’ literacy accomplishments to their lack of “academic language skills” (August & Shanahan, 2006; Halliday & Martin, 1993; Pilgreen, 2006; Schleppegrell & Colombi, 2002). Indeed, it seems clear that control over academic language is a requirement for success with challenging literacy tasks, such as reading textbooks or writing research papers and literature reviews. As earl…
The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy
This handbook marks the transformation of the topic of literacy from the narrower concerns with learning to read and write to an interdisciplinary enquiry into the various roles of writing and reading in the full range of social and psychological functions in both modern and developing societies. It does so by exploring the nature and development of writing systems, the relations between speech and writing, the history of the social uses of writi…
Clinical governance and research ethics as barriers to UK low-risk population-based health research
Research ethics committees could be counter-productive, rather than protecting the vulnerable in the research process, they can stifle low-risk population-based health research. Research ethics in health services research is first and foremost the responsibility of the researcher(s), and we need to learn to trust health service researchers again. The burden of current research governance regulation to address the perceived ethical problems is nei…
Primary care staff's views and experiences related to routinely advising patients about physical activity. A questionnaire survey
If primary health care staff are to be fully motivated and effective in encouraging and supporting the general population to become more physically active, policymakers and health professionals need to engage in efforts to: (1) improve knowledge of current physical activity recommendations and population trends amongst frontline primary care staff; and (2) consider the development of tools to support individual assessment and advice giving to sui…
Does breast cancer genetic counselling meet women's expectations? A qualitative study
A high demand exists in the United Kingdom for breast cancer genetic counselling. Due to the disease's high incidence, many women who received such counselling are eventually assessed as not being at high genetic risk. This study elicits the experiences and perceptions of such women, as little research has been conducted. A qualitative interview-based study was conducted in the north-east of Scotland with a sample of women at low to moderate risk…
Young children and the say/mean distinction: Verbatim and paraphrase recognition in narrative and nursery rhyme contexts
Children's ability to distinguish between the text, WHAT WAS SAID , and the intentional structure, WHAT WAS MEANT , was interrogated by means of verbatim and paraphrase questions in two types of discourse, narratives and nursery rhymes. Three- to seven-year-olds participated (n = 119, mean age 5·1). There was an interaction between the type of discourse and the younger children's ability to separate wording from intentional structure. In the narr…
Embedding Accountability and Improvement Into Large-Scale Assessment: What Difference Does It Make
Assessment-led reform has become one of the most widely favored strategies to promote more credible forms of public accountability (Black, 1998). Unlike the assessment agenda of the 1960s andl970s, assessment programs in the 1990s and beyond are part of a broader scheme for changing education. Large-scale assessment has become the vehicle of choice for accountability purposes around the world, and testing has become the lever for holding schools …
Chinese children's understanding of false beliefs: The role of language
The present study investigated the universality of the early development of young children's understanding and representation of false beliefs, and specifically, the effect of language on Chinese-speaking children's performance in false belief tasks under three between-subjects conditions. The three conditions differed only in the belief verb that was used in probe questions regarding one's own or another person's beliefs, namely the Chinese verb…
The State of Research on Literacy
Literacy, Language and Learning. The Nature and Consequences of Reading and Writing
Language, literacy, and mental states
There is a parallelism between children's mastery of the language of mind and their thinking about the world. Children work out distinctions appropriate to language at the same time that they are working out concepts for thinking. These assumptions were tested by measuring children's mastery of verbs of saying and meaning. In one study, 72 children from grades 1 through 4 were subjects. Although knowledge of cognitive verbs did not relate directl…
Reading, Writing, and Revisonism
Literacy, Language and Learning. The Nature and Consequences of Reading and Writing
Literacy, language, and learning: The Nature and Consequences of Reading and Writing
Literacy, language, and learning: The Nature and Consequences of Reading and Writing
Embedding Accountability and Improvement Into Large-Scale Assessment: What Difference Does It Make
Assessment-led reform has become one of the most widely favored strategies to promote more credible forms of public accountability (Black, 1998). Unlike the assessment agenda of the 1960s andl970s, assessment programs in the 1990s and beyond are part of a broader scheme for changing education. Large-scale assessment has become the vehicle of choice for accountability purposes around the world, and testing has become the lever for holding schools …
Language, literacy, and mental states
There is a parallelism between children's mastery of the language of mind and their thinking about the world. Children work out distinctions appropriate to language at the same time that they are working out concepts for thinking. These assumptions were tested by measuring children's mastery of verbs of saying and meaning. In one study, 72 children from grades 1 through 4 were subjects. Although knowledge of cognitive verbs did not relate directl…
Reading, Writing, and Revisonism
Literacy, language, and learning: The Nature and Consequences of Reading and Writing
Literacy, Language and Learning. The Nature and Consequences of Reading and Writing
Language, literacy, and mental states
There is a parallelism between children's mastery of the language of mind and their thinking about the world. Children work out distinctions appropriate to language at the same time that they are working out concepts for thinking. These assumptions were tested by measuring children's mastery of verbs of saying and meaning. In one study, 72 children from grades 1 through 4 were subjects. Although knowledge of cognitive verbs did not relate directl…
Reading, Writing, and Revisonism
Literacy, Language and Learning. The Nature and Consequences of Reading and Writing
The State of Research on Literacy
Chinese children's understanding of false beliefs: The role of language
The present study investigated the universality of the early development of young children's understanding and representation of false beliefs, and specifically, the effect of language on Chinese-speaking children's performance in false belief tasks under three between-subjects conditions. The three conditions differed only in the belief verb that was used in probe questions regarding one's own or another person's beliefs, namely the Chinese verb…
Embedding Accountability and Improvement Into Large-Scale Assessment: What Difference Does It Make
Assessment-led reform has become one of the most widely favored strategies to promote more credible forms of public accountability (Black, 1998). Unlike the assessment agenda of the 1960s andl970s, assessment programs in the 1990s and beyond are part of a broader scheme for changing education. Large-scale assessment has become the vehicle of choice for accountability purposes around the world, and testing has become the lever for holding schools …
Young children and the say/mean distinction: Verbatim and paraphrase recognition in narrative and nursery rhyme contexts
Children's ability to distinguish between the text, WHAT WAS SAID , and the intentional structure, WHAT WAS MEANT , was interrogated by means of verbatim and paraphrase questions in two types of discourse, narratives and nursery rhymes. Three- to seven-year-olds participated (n = 119, mean age 5·1). There was an interaction between the type of discourse and the younger children's ability to separate wording from intentional structure. In the narr…
Primary care staff's views and experiences related to routinely advising patients about physical activity. A questionnaire survey
If primary health care staff are to be fully motivated and effective in encouraging and supporting the general population to become more physically active, policymakers and health professionals need to engage in efforts to: (1) improve knowledge of current physical activity recommendations and population trends amongst frontline primary care staff; and (2) consider the development of tools to support individual assessment and advice giving to sui…
Does breast cancer genetic counselling meet women's expectations? A qualitative study
A high demand exists in the United Kingdom for breast cancer genetic counselling. Due to the disease's high incidence, many women who received such counselling are eventually assessed as not being at high genetic risk. This study elicits the experiences and perceptions of such women, as little research has been conducted. A qualitative interview-based study was conducted in the north-east of Scotland with a sample of women at low to moderate risk…
Clinical governance and research ethics as barriers to UK low-risk population-based health research
Research ethics committees could be counter-productive, rather than protecting the vulnerable in the research process, they can stifle low-risk population-based health research. Research ethics in health services research is first and foremost the responsibility of the researcher(s), and we need to learn to trust health service researchers again. The burden of current research governance regulation to address the perceived ethical problems is nei…
The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy
This handbook marks the transformation of the topic of literacy from the narrower concerns with learning to read and write to an interdisciplinary enquiry into the various roles of writing and reading in the full range of social and psychological functions in both modern and developing societies. It does so by exploring the nature and development of writing systems, the relations between speech and writing, the history of the social uses of writi…
The Challenge of Academic Language
Increasingly in recent years, educators have related worries about students’ literacy accomplishments to their lack of “academic language skills” (August & Shanahan, 2006; Halliday & Martin, 1993; Pilgreen, 2006; Schleppegrell & Colombi, 2002). Indeed, it seems clear that control over academic language is a requirement for success with challenging literacy tasks, such as reading textbooks or writing research papers and literature reviews. As earl…
Cambridge Handbook of Literacy
Unforeseen emotional labour: A collaborative autoethnography exploring researcher experiences of studying Long Covid in health workers during the Covid-19 pandemic
Emotional labour or emotion management describes regulation of feelings to fulfil specific job roles, discussed extensively around commercial and caring professions and more recently qualitative researchers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, this was heightened due to changes in the socio-political context affecting individual circumstances and research practice, yet accounts pertaining to qualitative researchers are lacking. This paper presents a co…
Disrupted Candidacy: A Longitudinal Examination of the Constrained Healthcare‐Access Journeys of National Health Service Workers in Scotland Seeking Supports for Long Covid Illness
INTRODUCTION: Evidence examines how persons experiencing Long COVID (LC) struggle to secure healthcare for symptoms. However, few studies examine healthcare workers experiencing LC, nor the complex and multiple difficulties faced when seeking and receiving healthcare. METHODS: This study is based on two phases of longitudinally conducted qualitative interviews, 6 months apart, with National Health Service (NHS) workers experiencing LC, from diffe…
Contributing factors, social effects and rehabilitation of the non-medical use of tramadol: A scoping review
Non-medical tramadol use is a global public health issue, yet evidence on its contributing factors, social effects, and rehabilitation remains fragmented. This scoping review synthesised this evidence and identified gaps in the literature. The review followed the JBI methodology for scoping reviews and PRISMA-ScR reporting guidance. Searches across 11 databases identified relevant literature. Included sources involved individuals with a history o…
Psychology (13 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Literacy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Mathematics education (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Public relations (4 works)