J Woodall
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 30565 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J Woodall |
| PRENOMES | J |
| SOBRENOME | Woodall |
| ASSINATURA | WOODALL J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1989-3999 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Health inequalities tackled through intersectoral collaboration
This study contributes to ongoing reflections and debate on the legacy of the Ottawa Charter by illustrating how contemporary forms of intersectoral collaboration can be mobilized to address persistent health inequalities. Collaborations involving organizations from diverse sectors are often viewed as well-positioned to tackle complex health challenges, yet they frequently encounter political, organizational and cultural barriers that hinder thei…
Zachary Leader, Ellmann’s Joyce
When Zachary Leader’s book was announced, I thought hard about its precedents: books about books—not literary criticism but accounts of the gritty, human production of really famous tomes. A niche genre. But then Boswell’s Life of Johnson came to mind and a quick Google search revealed Richard B. Sher’s 2023 study of precisely that: Making Boswell’s Life of Johnson. I for one would love to read it
Exploring research capacity and capability in a local authority
Data demonstrated variance between research practice, partnerships and culture in departments where space for intellectual curiosity was tempered by service demands. There were exceptions to this, where departmental views of research were positive and leaders valued the research-informed culture
Health-Embodiment of corporeal experiences
Health, a universal human value and a fundamental human right, is a contested and elusive concept. Lay meanings of health are among the different dimensions of the understanding of health, and they have been of great interest to researchers because they help people to understand themselves and their world and influence their health choices and practices. They are subject to change with changing circumstances across the lifespan. The purpose of th…
Gone Missing
This memoir describes an act of biography-making, in this case of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. James Woodall revisits a period in his mid-thirties when he embarked on the first biography of Borges in English, commissioned in London, after the latter had died in 1986. In the context of revising, if not entirely renovating, the book as published in 1996, Woodall – now in his sixties – traces steps back to himself as he was then, and brin…
A qualitative synthesis of practice-based learning from case studies on Covid community champion programmes in England, UK
By focusing on how community champion approaches were applied by local authorities in England during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study contributes to knowledge on volunteer mobilisation as a mechanism to improve public health communication and outreach. Notwithstanding the limitations of experiential evidence, the synthesis of practice-based learning highlights potentially transferable community engagement strategies for health protection and hea…
Obstacles to co-producing evaluation knowledge
Bias in evaluation reporting and academic publication can arise from current knowledge exchange processes, including co-production. Voluntary sector funding is problematic as stakeholders delivering programmes also commission evaluations. Knowledge exchange is influenced by vested interests arising from the political context in which data is gathered. Evaluators can face aggression, challenge and unfair treatment resulting in damaged relationship…
Lived experience of diet-related health education in type 2 diabetes and hypertension comorbidity in The Gambia
The incidence and prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and hypertension (and their comorbidity) have been increasing in sub-Saharan Africa, including The Gambia. Diet is a critical driver of these public health problems, and diet-related health education is a major strategy employed for their prevention and management. The aim of this paper is to explore the lived experiences of diet-related health education among individuals with comorb…
Leaving no one behind – improving uptake of the Covid 19 vaccination in underserved populations
Purpose The paper offers commissioners and practitioners insights into how a gender and culturally sensitive Covid-19 vaccination clinic was set up in a local area that was experiencing lower uptake rates. Design/methodology/approach This paper seeks to examine and share a city-wide approach to improve vaccine uptake in a large metropolitan city in the UK. Findings In mitigating inequalities and ensuring underserved populations have access to the…
Reducing health inequalities through skills training, support and removing barriers to employment
Objective: This paper reports on a programme which sought to engage individuals and groups who are underrepresented in the UK labour market. The programme aimed to improve access to employment opportunities and provide practical support in job applications. The focus was on encouraging people to seek employment in the health and social care sectors and on tackling health inequalities in the region. Design: Qualitative inquiry. Setting: Leeds, UK.…
Reconfiguring the biomedical dominance of pain
Strategies to reduce the burden of persistent pain in society are rooted in a biomedical paradigm. These strategies are located downstream, managing persistent pain once it has become a problem. Upstream activities that create social conditions to promote health and well-being are likely to help, yet health promotion discourse and research are lacking in pain literature. In this article, we argue that the subjective nature of pain has not sat com…
Changing the culture
Research leadership is required in local government to create a culture of evidence-based principles and policy. The embedded research model has high utility in gaining depth of information and recognising contextual and local factors which would support research capacity development
Health-promoting prisons in the female estate
The paper suggests that there is potentially some work before conditions in women's prisons could be described as 'health-promoting', although there are some examples of individual prisons demonstrating good practice. The health promoting prison movement has, implicitly at least, focused on the needs of men in prison and this has been to the exclusion of the female prison population. This does lead to several challenges and the potential for exac…
Where have we been and where are we going? The state of contemporary health promotion
This paper seeks to critically discuss the current state of health promotion, arguing that ambiguity remains in its conceptual foundation, practice and education, which is contributing to its decline in several parts of the world. Drawing on relevant literature, the paper re-examines the status of health promotion as a specialist discipline in its own right and suggests that the reaffirmation of this status can move health promotion from the marg…
Promoting health and well-being in prisons
There is renewed optimism about the development of policy and practices related to promoting health in prison settings, driven by the epidemiological data which suggests that the health of people in prison remains very poor. In England and Wales, the focus of this paper, independent prison inspections, conducted by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons for England and Wales (HMIP), form a critical element in how prisons are assessed. This include…
Perspectives on implementing smoke-free prison policies in England and Wales
This paper explores prisoner and staff views of the current smoking policy in English and Welsh prisons (a partial ban permitting smoking in prison cells) and gauges perceptions of the implications of the forthcoming policy change which will see a total smoking ban within all parts of the institution. Five focus group discussions in one medium security male prison in England were undertaken. Three focus groups were undertaken with prisoners (both…
Women's perspectives on the value of a father's initiative in shifting gendered practices within families
This paper explores the qualitative perspectives of women about a community embedded fathers’ initiative in Northern England. Projects to improve the well-being of men and their children are less common within the landscape of parent and child support, with mothers more often being the target recipients. Asking women about their perceptions of an initiative for fathers then offers original insights from women who are positioned as ‘related outsid…
Evaluating a community-led project for improving fathers’ and children’s wellbeing in England
Although under-researched and under-theorized compared to other settings, there is potential for the family setting to be harnessed to support the development of healthy children and societies and to reduce health inequalities. Within this setting, the role of fathers as health facilitators has yet to be fully understood and considered within health promotion. This paper draws on a two year evaluation of a community embedded intervention for fath…
A critical examination of the health promoting prison two decades on
Two decades since the WHO Regional Office for Europe outlined and published a report on health promotion in prison, which stimulated further debate on the concept of the ‘health promoting prison’, this paper discusses the extent to which the concept has translated into practice and the extent to which success has been achieved. This paper primarily focuses on why there has been a gap between the strategic philosophy of health promotion in prison …
Health promoting prisons – An impossibility for women prisoners in Africa
The health needs of women in sub-Saharan African prisons are both neglected and poorly understood. Outside South Africa, little research exists on African prison health; what is available tends to be gender-blind and concerned with disease prevention rather than with health promotion. While Vetten (2008 Vetten L (2008) ‘The imprisonment of women in Africa’ in J Sarkin (Ed) (2008) Human Rights in African Prisons, Cape Town: Human Sciences Research…
Control and choice in English prisons
The 'health-promoting prison' has been informed by a broader settings-based philosophy to health promotion which conceptualizes health as the responsibility for all social settings. Though in its relative infancy, the notion of a health-promoting prison has gained political backing from international organizations like the World Health Organization, but the implementation of the policy rhetoric has not translated across all prison environments. T…
It was just like we were a family again
Children can find the process of visiting a prison traumatic and as a result of parental incarceration may experience a range of adverse outcomes. When children stay in contact with their imprisoned parent through prison visiting, however, this seems to be a protective factor. This paper reports on a play visits service based at Her Majesty's Prison Leeds, UK. The service provides supervised play work provision for children visiting their father.…
Prisoners’ perspectives on the transition from the prison to the community
transition from the prison to the community: implications for settings-based health promotion Abstract Through qualitative exploration with soon-to-be-released men in three prisons in England, this paper examines the difficulties that prisoners envisage on returning back to community settings; entering other settings such as workplaces; and the implications the transition may have for their health.Interviews and focus groups were conducted with t…
The significance of 'the visit' in an English category-B prison
A number of claims have been made regarding the importance of prisoners staying in touch with their family through prison visits, firstly from a humanitarian perspective of enabling family members to see each other, but also regarding the impact of maintaining family ties for successful rehabilitation, reintegration into society and reduced re-offending. This growing evidence base has resulted in increased support by the Prison Service for encour…
The significance of 'the visit' in an English category-B prison
A number of claims have been made regarding the importance of prisoners staying in touch with their family through prison visits, firstly from a humanitarian perspective of enabling family members to see each other, but also regarding the impact of maintaining family ties for successful rehabilitation, reintegration into society and reduced re-offending. This growing evidence base has resulted in increased support by the Prison Service for encour…
Health promoting prisons – An impossibility for women prisoners in Africa
The health needs of women in sub-Saharan African prisons are both neglected and poorly understood. Outside South Africa, little research exists on African prison health; what is available tends to be gender-blind and concerned with disease prevention rather than with health promotion. While Vetten (2008 Vetten L (2008) ‘The imprisonment of women in Africa’ in J Sarkin (Ed) (2008) Human Rights in African Prisons, Cape Town: Human Sciences Research…
Women's perspectives on the value of a father's initiative in shifting gendered practices within families
This paper explores the qualitative perspectives of women about a community embedded fathers’ initiative in Northern England. Projects to improve the well-being of men and their children are less common within the landscape of parent and child support, with mothers more often being the target recipients. Asking women about their perceptions of an initiative for fathers then offers original insights from women who are positioned as ‘related outsid…
It was just like we were a family again
Children can find the process of visiting a prison traumatic and as a result of parental incarceration may experience a range of adverse outcomes. When children stay in contact with their imprisoned parent through prison visiting, however, this seems to be a protective factor. This paper reports on a play visits service based at Her Majesty's Prison Leeds, UK. The service provides supervised play work provision for children visiting their father.…
Prisoners’ perspectives on the transition from the prison to the community
transition from the prison to the community: implications for settings-based health promotion Abstract Through qualitative exploration with soon-to-be-released men in three prisons in England, this paper examines the difficulties that prisoners envisage on returning back to community settings; entering other settings such as workplaces; and the implications the transition may have for their health.Interviews and focus groups were conducted with t…
The significance of 'the visit' in an English category-B prison
A number of claims have been made regarding the importance of prisoners staying in touch with their family through prison visits, firstly from a humanitarian perspective of enabling family members to see each other, but also regarding the impact of maintaining family ties for successful rehabilitation, reintegration into society and reduced re-offending. This growing evidence base has resulted in increased support by the Prison Service for encour…
Control and choice in English prisons
The 'health-promoting prison' has been informed by a broader settings-based philosophy to health promotion which conceptualizes health as the responsibility for all social settings. Though in its relative infancy, the notion of a health-promoting prison has gained political backing from international organizations like the World Health Organization, but the implementation of the policy rhetoric has not translated across all prison environments. T…
It was just like we were a family again
Children can find the process of visiting a prison traumatic and as a result of parental incarceration may experience a range of adverse outcomes. When children stay in contact with their imprisoned parent through prison visiting, however, this seems to be a protective factor. This paper reports on a play visits service based at Her Majesty's Prison Leeds, UK. The service provides supervised play work provision for children visiting their father.…
Health promoting prisons – An impossibility for women prisoners in Africa
The health needs of women in sub-Saharan African prisons are both neglected and poorly understood. Outside South Africa, little research exists on African prison health; what is available tends to be gender-blind and concerned with disease prevention rather than with health promotion. While Vetten (2008 Vetten L (2008) ‘The imprisonment of women in Africa’ in J Sarkin (Ed) (2008) Human Rights in African Prisons, Cape Town: Human Sciences Research…
Evaluating a community-led project for improving fathers’ and children’s wellbeing in England
Although under-researched and under-theorized compared to other settings, there is potential for the family setting to be harnessed to support the development of healthy children and societies and to reduce health inequalities. Within this setting, the role of fathers as health facilitators has yet to be fully understood and considered within health promotion. This paper draws on a two year evaluation of a community embedded intervention for fath…
A critical examination of the health promoting prison two decades on
Two decades since the WHO Regional Office for Europe outlined and published a report on health promotion in prison, which stimulated further debate on the concept of the ‘health promoting prison’, this paper discusses the extent to which the concept has translated into practice and the extent to which success has been achieved. This paper primarily focuses on why there has been a gap between the strategic philosophy of health promotion in prison …
Perspectives on implementing smoke-free prison policies in England and Wales
This paper explores prisoner and staff views of the current smoking policy in English and Welsh prisons (a partial ban permitting smoking in prison cells) and gauges perceptions of the implications of the forthcoming policy change which will see a total smoking ban within all parts of the institution. Five focus group discussions in one medium security male prison in England were undertaken. Three focus groups were undertaken with prisoners (both…
Women's perspectives on the value of a father's initiative in shifting gendered practices within families
This paper explores the qualitative perspectives of women about a community embedded fathers’ initiative in Northern England. Projects to improve the well-being of men and their children are less common within the landscape of parent and child support, with mothers more often being the target recipients. Asking women about their perceptions of an initiative for fathers then offers original insights from women who are positioned as ‘related outsid…
Promoting health and well-being in prisons
There is renewed optimism about the development of policy and practices related to promoting health in prison settings, driven by the epidemiological data which suggests that the health of people in prison remains very poor. In England and Wales, the focus of this paper, independent prison inspections, conducted by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons for England and Wales (HMIP), form a critical element in how prisons are assessed. This include…
Where have we been and where are we going? The state of contemporary health promotion
This paper seeks to critically discuss the current state of health promotion, arguing that ambiguity remains in its conceptual foundation, practice and education, which is contributing to its decline in several parts of the world. Drawing on relevant literature, the paper re-examines the status of health promotion as a specialist discipline in its own right and suggests that the reaffirmation of this status can move health promotion from the marg…
Health-promoting prisons in the female estate
The paper suggests that there is potentially some work before conditions in women's prisons could be described as 'health-promoting', although there are some examples of individual prisons demonstrating good practice. The health promoting prison movement has, implicitly at least, focused on the needs of men in prison and this has been to the exclusion of the female prison population. This does lead to several challenges and the potential for exac…
Reconfiguring the biomedical dominance of pain
Strategies to reduce the burden of persistent pain in society are rooted in a biomedical paradigm. These strategies are located downstream, managing persistent pain once it has become a problem. Upstream activities that create social conditions to promote health and well-being are likely to help, yet health promotion discourse and research are lacking in pain literature. In this article, we argue that the subjective nature of pain has not sat com…
Changing the culture
Research leadership is required in local government to create a culture of evidence-based principles and policy. The embedded research model has high utility in gaining depth of information and recognising contextual and local factors which would support research capacity development
Lived experience of diet-related health education in type 2 diabetes and hypertension comorbidity in The Gambia
The incidence and prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and hypertension (and their comorbidity) have been increasing in sub-Saharan Africa, including The Gambia. Diet is a critical driver of these public health problems, and diet-related health education is a major strategy employed for their prevention and management. The aim of this paper is to explore the lived experiences of diet-related health education among individuals with comorb…
Leaving no one behind – improving uptake of the Covid 19 vaccination in underserved populations
Purpose The paper offers commissioners and practitioners insights into how a gender and culturally sensitive Covid-19 vaccination clinic was set up in a local area that was experiencing lower uptake rates. Design/methodology/approach This paper seeks to examine and share a city-wide approach to improve vaccine uptake in a large metropolitan city in the UK. Findings In mitigating inequalities and ensuring underserved populations have access to the…
Reducing health inequalities through skills training, support and removing barriers to employment
Objective: This paper reports on a programme which sought to engage individuals and groups who are underrepresented in the UK labour market. The programme aimed to improve access to employment opportunities and provide practical support in job applications. The focus was on encouraging people to seek employment in the health and social care sectors and on tackling health inequalities in the region. Design: Qualitative inquiry. Setting: Leeds, UK.…
Gone Missing
This memoir describes an act of biography-making, in this case of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. James Woodall revisits a period in his mid-thirties when he embarked on the first biography of Borges in English, commissioned in London, after the latter had died in 1986. In the context of revising, if not entirely renovating, the book as published in 1996, Woodall – now in his sixties – traces steps back to himself as he was then, and brin…
A qualitative synthesis of practice-based learning from case studies on Covid community champion programmes in England, UK
By focusing on how community champion approaches were applied by local authorities in England during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study contributes to knowledge on volunteer mobilisation as a mechanism to improve public health communication and outreach. Notwithstanding the limitations of experiential evidence, the synthesis of practice-based learning highlights potentially transferable community engagement strategies for health protection and hea…
Obstacles to co-producing evaluation knowledge
Bias in evaluation reporting and academic publication can arise from current knowledge exchange processes, including co-production. Voluntary sector funding is problematic as stakeholders delivering programmes also commission evaluations. Knowledge exchange is influenced by vested interests arising from the political context in which data is gathered. Evaluators can face aggression, challenge and unfair treatment resulting in damaged relationship…
Exploring research capacity and capability in a local authority
Data demonstrated variance between research practice, partnerships and culture in departments where space for intellectual curiosity was tempered by service demands. There were exceptions to this, where departmental views of research were positive and leaders valued the research-informed culture
Health-Embodiment of corporeal experiences
Health, a universal human value and a fundamental human right, is a contested and elusive concept. Lay meanings of health are among the different dimensions of the understanding of health, and they have been of great interest to researchers because they help people to understand themselves and their world and influence their health choices and practices. They are subject to change with changing circumstances across the lifespan. The purpose of th…
Health inequalities tackled through intersectoral collaboration
This study contributes to ongoing reflections and debate on the legacy of the Ottawa Charter by illustrating how contemporary forms of intersectoral collaboration can be mobilized to address persistent health inequalities. Collaborations involving organizations from diverse sectors are often viewed as well-positioned to tackle complex health challenges, yet they frequently encounter political, organizational and cultural barriers that hinder thei…
Zachary Leader, Ellmann’s Joyce
When Zachary Leader’s book was announced, I thought hard about its precedents: books about books—not literary criticism but accounts of the gritty, human production of really famous tomes. A niche genre. But then Boswell’s Life of Johnson came to mind and a quick Google search revealed Richard B. Sher’s 2023 study of precisely that: Making Boswell’s Life of Johnson. I for one would love to read it
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