William Boyd
Biographic Data
| ID | 297386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Boyd |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyd |
| SIGNATURE | BOYD W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Cross University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8466-4669 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 92 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 388 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 92 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1912 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Enablers, markers, and aspects of quality innovative placements across distance: Insights from a co-operative inquiry
Internationally, COVID-19 has forced educational reform and disrupted already strained social work field education systems. This inquiry began pre-pandemic, responding to placement scarcity, which was only exacerbated by the pandemic as agencies migrated to online service delivery and universities responded to sudden placement cancellations. Educators found themselves navigating two interlinked global trends: 1) workplace learning that was changi…
Uplifting School Leadership and the Townsend/Adams Seven Powers: A Study of Leadership Growth in a Small Rural Primary School in New South Wales, Australia
This article presents a rich account of school leadership development within the North Coast Initiative for School Improvement program in New South Wales, Australia. The focus is the school leader at a small rural school, whose engagement with generative dialogue and collaborative inquiry results in a growing confidence in engaging her school community. The study demonstrates the power of narrative as a mode of inquiry and leadership development …
Collaborative Inquiry and School Leadership Growth: Introduction to Special Issue
Collaborative Inquiry and School Leadership Growth: An Australian Adaptation of an Albertan Approach
This article introduces an Australian adaptation of an approach to supporting school leadership and improvement pioneered by educationalists David Townsend and Pam Adams, from Alberta, Canada. Referred to as the North Coast Initiative for School Improvement, the adaptation involved school leaders, academics, and government officials who combined to implement the twin processes of collaborative inquiry and generative dialogue at about sixty primar…
Uplifting School Leadership—Enabling Structures and Processes: The Seven Powers of the Townsend/Adams Approach
This article reviews the work of two Albertan educators, David Townsend and Pam Adams, in their application of collaborative inquiry to improving school leadership. Collaborative inquiry is essentially a professional practice that has yet not been comprehensively theorized. This article seeks to lay some foundations for a theorization of the practice by identifying structures and processes that appear to underlie the remarkable success of applica…
Pollution, Politics, and Power: The Struggle for Sustainable Electricity by Tom McGarity
Yarning as protected space: Relational Accountability in Research
In this article, we open up Yarning as a fundamentally relational methodology. We discuss key relationships involved in Indigenous research, including with participants, Country, Ancestors, data, history, and Knowledge. We argue that the principles and protocols associated with the deepest layers of yarning in an Indigenous Australian context create a protected space which supports the researcher to develop and maintain accountability in each of …
Yarning as Protected Space: Principles and protocols
Traditional methods of imparting knowledge are known as yarning to Australian Aboriginal Elders and talking circles to North American First Nations peoples. Yarning is a relational methodology for transferring Indigenous knowledge. This article describes an emerging research methodology with yarning at its core, which provides respect and honour in a culturally safe environment. Yarning is highly structured, with protocols and principles providin…
Sedimentary Landscape of Mun Valley Prehistoric Site: Construction History of Moated Site of Ban Non Wat, Northeast Thailand
This research examines the sedimentological evidence of human occupation on different cultural layers at the prehistoric archaeological sites in northeast Thailand. This study focuses on the sedimentological characters of stratigraphic layers identified at the prehistoric occupation sites of Ban Non Wat and Nong Hua Raet, to demonstrate the capacity of such analyses to elucidate the modification of sediments by past anthropogenic activity, and ev…
Marine Wildlife Experiences and Beliefs: Towards Reciprocal Benefits
The concept of reciprocal healing invites consideration of how experiences in nature and with wildlife encourage mutual benefits via well-being for humans and the earth. This contrasts with using nature as a commodity for human gain without regard to the natural other. To understand human relationships with the earth we first need to consider what humans think, feel, and believe about nature. This study examined how beliefs vary between people of…
Diving under the radar: Divers and submerged aircraft
Recreational scuba diving has grown over the past six decades and interest in wreck diving has increased. This growth demands evidence-based management, and understanding diver behaviour is crucial to effective management. This paper presents the first formal study of diver behaviour on a particular class of underwater cultural heritage, World War II submerged aircraft at Chuuk Lagoon in the Federated States of Micronesia. Chuuk is a world-renown…
Dolphins and Human Flourishing: A Novel Application of the Perma Model
Humans and nonhuman animals belong to a network of living things that have existed and interacted for millennia. The Biophilia hypothesis highlights the innate human need for nature contact and connection to ensure human well-being. Evidence suggests that contact with nature and its components, including animals, can both enhance well-being and encourage human concern for nature. The current study details the human well-being impact of animals, s…
Human-Dolphin Interactions: Relationships, Connections, and the Reinforcement of an Ongoing Nature Relationship
Although interactions between humans and wild animals have been explored in the literature, the mechanism for how such experiences influence wellbeing is an area needing further examination. This research used Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to explore the narratives of wellbeing from eight semi-structured interviews with people who had experienced intense close encounters with dolphins. Despite idiographic differences between narratives…
Multi-element characterization of archaeological floors at the prehistoric archaeological sites at Ban Non Wat and Nong Hua Raet in Northeast Thailand
Right to leisure? Refocusing on the dolphin
Leisure, especially when in nature or involving non-human animals, produces positive benefits for well-being. Understood within the framework of the biophilia hypothesis, nature fulfils inherent human needs and promotes well-being. Assuming leisure is a human right, the link between people’s interactions with nature, leisure activity and biophilia are clear – leisure interaction with animals satisfies fundamental human needs, reinforcing the assu…
Archaeological excavations at Nethermills Farm, Deeside, 1978–81
The Mesolithic site of Nethermills Farm, Crathes, Banchory, was identified from fieldwalking that took place between 1973 and 1977 and it was excavated between 1978 and 1981 under the direction of James Kenworthy. Kenworthy interpreted the site as a ‘hunter-gatherer camp’ with probable evidence for a circular structure, but publication of the excavation was never completed. This paper draws on specialist work undertaken immediately after excavati…
Uplifting leadership for real school improvement—The North Coast Initiative for School Improvement: An Australian telling of a Canadian story
This paper reports on a preliminary Australian adoption and adaptation, in the North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, of the Townsend and Adams’ model of leadership growth for school improvement in Alberta. The Australian adaptation of this Alberta model has been named the North Coast Initiative for School Improvement (NCISI). The participants comprise nine university academics and almost one hundred regional school leaders. Leadership…
On the Themed Collection, “The Formal and Real Subsumption of Nature
The title of our (with Rachel Schurman) original Society & Natural Resources article, “Industrial Dyanamics and the Problem of Nature” (Boyd, Prudham, and Schurman 2001), signaled our overriding in
Implications of phytolith and diatom assemblages in the cultural layers of prehistoric archaeological sites of Ban Non Wat and Nong Hua Raet in Northeast Thailand
Implications of phytolith and diatom assemblages in the cultural layers of prehistoric archaeological sites of Ban Non Wat and Nong Hua Raet in Northeast Thailand
The Mun River valley is an imortant prehistoric archaeological region in Northeast Thailand and represents a rich and long period of occupation spanning two millennia during the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron ages. Extensive archaeological investigation provides a rich picture of the day-to-day life of the inhabitants of the many sites scattered throughout the region
A Spanish Man-o-War in New Zealand? The 1864 wreck of Grafton and its lessons for pre-Cook shipwreck claims: Grafton (1864) and Its Lessons for Pre-Cook Shipwreck Claims
This paper considers the 1864 wreck of Grafton in the Auckland Islands, and its implications for wreck analysis and pre-Cook exploration claims. The captain of Grafton, Thomas Musgrave, stated that the schooner was built from the wreck of a Spanish man-o-war, and archaeological analysis of the wreck found that the timbers are a tropical South American species, and had possibly been reused. The implications of this are clear; it is possible that t…
Improving Conservation Community Group Effectiveness Using Mind Mapping and Action Research
This paper examines a case study where mind mapping is used within an action research project to foster improved community group effectiveness and decision-making. The case study focusses on the social dynamics experienced during the formative stage of a community action group in Byron Bay, New South Wales; one of a network of such groups, formed to ensure that sustainable environmental management practices are followed in proposed coal-seam gas …
Identification of preserved fatty acids in archaeological floor sediments from prehistoric sites at Ban Non Wat and Nong Hua Raet in northeast Thailand using gas chromatography
Unconventional Gas Development: Why a Regional Community Said No
Public concern resulting from unconventional coal seam gas (CSG) exploration and production has become a contentious planning issue in regional Australia, with public concern drawing attention to government planning obligations. To assist Lismore City Council (Northern New South Wales) in its deliberations on the topic, a referendum-style poll on the issue of CSG industry development was held in conjunction with the local government elections of …
Sketching up new geographies: Open sourcing and curriculum development
The functionality of web 2.0 technologies has caused academics to rethink their development of teaching and learning methods and approaches. The editable, open access nature of web 2.0 encourages the innovative collaboration of ideas, the creation of equitable visual and tactile learning environments, and opportunity for academics to develop contemporary assessment tasks. In reviewing an example of a teaching tool based on Google SketchUp 3D Ware…
Industrial Dynamics and the Problem of Nature
Existing literature suggests that food, fiber, and raw material sectors differ from manufacturing in significant ways. However, there is no analytical basis for engaging the particular challenges of nature-centered production, and thus the distinct ways that industrialization proceeds in extractive and cultivation-based industries. This article presents a framework for analyzing the difference that nature makes in these industries. Nature is seen…
Making Meat: Science, Technology, and American Poultry Production
In his 1948 classic, Mechanization Takes Command, Siegfried Giedion posed the following question: "What happens when mechanization encounters organic substance?" 1 Well aware of the application of mass-production techniques to agriculture and of the role of genetics in facilitating "the structural alteration of plants and animals," Giedion nevertheless held to a basic distinction between "living substance" and mechanization. The idea of nature as…
On the Themed Collection, “The Formal and Real Subsumption of Nature
The title of our (with Rachel Schurman) original Society & Natural Resources article, “Industrial Dyanamics and the Problem of Nature” (Boyd, Prudham, and Schurman 2001), signaled our overriding in
A Comparison of Three Methods for the Extraction of Phytoliths from Sediments
Identification of preserved fatty acids in archaeological floor sediments from prehistoric sites at Ban Non Wat and Nong Hua Raet in northeast Thailand using gas chromatography
A Comparative Analysis of Wet and Dry Ashing Techniques for the Extraction of Phytoliths from Plant Material
Yarning as protected space: Relational Accountability in Research
In this article, we open up Yarning as a fundamentally relational methodology. We discuss key relationships involved in Indigenous research, including with participants, Country, Ancestors, data, history, and Knowledge. We argue that the principles and protocols associated with the deepest layers of yarning in an Indigenous Australian context create a protected space which supports the researcher to develop and maintain accountability in each of …
Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
(1993). Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. Economic Geography: Vol. 69, Theme Issue: Environment and Development, Part 2, pp. 432-436
The paleohydrological context of the Iron Age floodplain sites of the Mun River Valley, Northeast Thailand1
Many Iron Age sites on the flood plain of the Mun River in northeast Thailand are encircled by channels commonly known as “moats.” Also, the sites are closely associated with complex paleochannels of the river. A comparison between the seemingly human‐constructed moats and paleochannels provided an opportunity to assess the relationship between prehistoric human settlement and paleohydrological conditions. In this study, the results of physical, …
The chronology of the Iron Age 'moats' of northeast Thailand
This paper reports the first chronometric study of the 'moats' of the abundant mounded Iron Age sites of northeast Thailand. Here AMS14C dates and TL dates are reported which indicate that the moats date from a short period in the Mid to Late Iron Age, before being infilled. The dates also contain preliminary evidence for the chronology of landscape change, which is critical to the understanding of the Iron Age occupation of this region
Hope Farm Windmill: Phytolith Analysis of Cereals in Early Colonial Australia
Methodological problems in the analysis of fossil non-artifactual wood assemblages from archaeological sites
The probable industrial origin of archaeological daub at an Iron Age site in Northeast Thailand
Determining probable firing temperatures of daub recovered from archaeological sites provides opportunities to interpret the design and/or function of prehistoric structures. This paper critiques some of the methods for determining firing temperatures of daub, and presents a case study using samples from a secure depositional context at the Iron Age archaeological site of Noen U‐Loke, in northeast Thailand. Adopting a multimethod approach, the pa…
Simultaneous Extraction of Phytoliths, Pollen and Spores from Sediments
None of Us Sets Out To Hurt People’: The Ethical Geographer and Geography Curricula in Higher Education
This paper examines ethics in learning and teaching geography in higher education. It proposes a pathway towards curriculum and pedagogy that better incorporates ethics in university geography education. By focusing on the central but problematic relationships between (i) teaching and learning on the one hand and research on the other, and (ii) ethics and geography curricula, the authors' reflections illustrate how ethics may be better recognized…
An Assessment of Techniques for the Deflocculation and Removal of Clays from Sediments Used in Phytolith Analysis
Particle Settling Times for Gravity Sedimentation and Centrifugation: A Practical Guide for Palynologists
Industrial Dynamics and the Problem of Nature
The geoarchaeology of the prehistoric ditched sites of the upper Mae Nam Mun Valley, Northeast Thailand, II: Stratigraphy and morphological sections of the encircling earthworks
Unconventional Gas Development: Why a Regional Community Said No
Public concern resulting from unconventional coal seam gas (CSG) exploration and production has become a contentious planning issue in regional Australia, with public concern drawing attention to government planning obligations. To assist Lismore City Council (Northern New South Wales) in its deliberations on the topic, a referendum-style poll on the issue of CSG industry development was held in conjunction with the local government elections of …
Letting Indigenous People Talk About Their Country: A Case Study of Cross-Cultural (Mis)communication in an Environmental Management Planning Process
This paper presents a case study, based on the experiences of two senior Aboriginal traditional owners who were engaged in negotiations surrounding the establishment of a Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) in southeast Queensland. This case is notable as an illustration of the capacity of natural resource management planning, through negotiation within a formal process, to extinguish native title. Importantly, the personal experiences of two senior …
Human-Dolphin Interactions: Relationships, Connections, and the Reinforcement of an Ongoing Nature Relationship
Although interactions between humans and wild animals have been explored in the literature, the mechanism for how such experiences influence wellbeing is an area needing further examination. This research used Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to explore the narratives of wellbeing from eight semi-structured interviews with people who had experienced intense close encounters with dolphins. Despite idiographic differences between narratives…
Promoting Gondwana: Presentation of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area in tourist brochures
An 800 km stretch of the Eastern coast of Australia contains some of the last remnant fragments of the sub-tropical rainforests that once covered much of the region. This natural resource – declared as World Heritage in 1986 as the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia, but now known as the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia – serves as an important drawcard for tourist visitation to the region. Using a content analysis of 343 tourism b…
Stooking the Peanuts: Historical Agriculture and the Management of a Dying Seasonal Landscape, North-East New South Wales, Australia
Popular interest in seasonal landscapes reflects the importance of ephemera in people's appreciation of landscapes. Landscape management tends to focus on long-term and reasonably permanent qualities, typically at annual and, especially, decadal time scales. However, human interest in shorter-term and ephemeral landscape qualities—such as seasonal qualities—allows people to use scales of direct human experience to identify and define landscapes. …
The 'Grasses' of the Big Scrub District of North-eastern New South Wales: A sedimentary record of late Holocene grasslands in a subtropical forest landscape
This paper records sedimentary data which indicate that at least part of the Wilsons River floodplain, on the margins of the subtropical rainforest known as the 'Big Scrub', has a long and certainly pre-European history of relative treelessness. Despite a general presumption that this lowland subtropical region was completely forested prior to European settlement, recent historical research has indicated that certain areas were naturally open. Wh…
The Educational Theory of Jean Jacques Rousseau
From Locke to Montessori. A Critical Account of the Montessori Point of View
Agreements and Conferences in Their Relation To Ocean Rates
The Effects of Evacuation on the Children
An Inadequate Interpretation: Plato and Modern Education
An Inadequate Interpretation: Plato and Modern Education." The Journal of Higher Education, 17(5), pp. 276–277
An Inadequate Interpretation
A Work of Competent Scholarship
A Work of Competent Scholarship: Man and Society: The Scottish Inquiry of the Eighteenth Century
A Work of Competent Scholarship: Man and Society: The Scottish Inquiry of the Eighteenth Century." The Journal of Higher Education, 18(3), pp. 166–167
Ayrshire: The Third Statistical Account of Scotland
Ayrshire
The Emile of Jean Jacques Rousseau
The Story of the New Education
Reinforcement Strategies for Token Economies in a Special Classroom Setting
Both academic and disruptive behavior in a classroom for children with behavioral problems were monitored under two different pro-cedures for administering token reinforcement. Behavioral control was dem-onstrated when children were reinforced on a variable interval schedule for “in-seat” behavior and also when they were reinforced for correct performance on daily tests. Academic performance was enhanced in the latter but not the former condition…
Law of the Poor
The Price of Glittering
Archaeological implications of a new palaeoenvironmental model for part of the Ayrshire coast
New evidence suggests that in part of Ayrshire the old shore-line of the post-glacial high sea level was nearer the present coast than was previously supposed. Some finds of Mesolithic flints from near Shewalton are now seen to be the debris of coast dwellers during the high sea period rather than, as they used to be, interpreted as anomalously late
Environmental change and Iron Age land management in the area of the Antonine Wall, central Scotland: A summary
Palaeoenvironmental evidence from two Roman sites in central Scotland indicates that by the time of the Agricolan and Antonine Roman presence in this area, much of the landscape was already open. Forest clearance appears to have been pre-Roman in origin, and was principally associated with pastoral agricultural practices. By the time the Antonine Wall was being constructed, this agricultural landscape was in decay, with evidence for a decline in …
Methodological problems in the analysis of fossil non-artifactual wood assemblages from archaeological sites
Some Prospects for Archaeological Palaeobotany in Australia: An Example from South Australia
The scope of archaeological palaeobotany is being continually expanded, and the techniques employed are constantly being refined. As much of this development is taking place abroad, primarily in Europe and North America, the substantive data have limited applications to Australian archaeological contexts. However, some fields look very promising, and the discussion presented here, based upon preliminary palaeobotanical investigations at the archa…
The Use of Wood as a Natural Resource at a Scottish Mesolithic Site
The excavation of the archaeological site at Nethermills Farm yielded Mesolithic material, including large quantities of carbonised wood and nut fragments, discussed in this paper. Their analysis indicates a pronounced domination of Quercus (oak). This probably means that wood was collected from local woodland in which oak was dominant. A similar pattern – in which wood use reflects local availability – has been seen at other Mesolithic sites and…
The Blind Leading the Blind? Teaching Geography to Students with Vision Impairment
Geography frequently uses graphics to express the spatial concepts that are the hallmark of the discipline. Students with a vision impairment may find access to this medium limited, and consequently teachers of geography may find themselves in the position of imposing discriminatory educational conditions upon such students. This paper arises from the absence of any coordinated statement of policies or methodology for teaching in this area in Aus…
Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
(1993). Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. Economic Geography: Vol. 69, Theme Issue: Environment and Development, Part 2, pp. 432-436
The Suffolk Park shipwreck, Northern N.S.W: Pre‐Cook explorers or 19th century trader
The age of a shipwreck at Suffolk Park, northern New South Wales is reassessed. Using evidence from elemental analysis of metal artefacts, the construction style of the rudder, the age of an Aboriginal story possibly associated with the wreck, and local reports from the early 20th century, it is detemined that the vessel probably dates from the mid to late 19th century. This conclusion is in contrast with previous estimates of the vessel's antiqu…
Quaternary Pollen Analysis in the Arid Zone of Australia: Further Results from Dalhousie Springs, Central Australia
Firewater, that Lovers Pour for Prophets: Three African American Poets
Geography (44 works) · Archaeology (36 works) · Sociology (29 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (27 works) · Political science (27 works) · Geology (25 works) · Ecology (21 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (20 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Computer Science (18 works)