Paul Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3580819 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2138-8940 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 103 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 244 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 99 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Selecting force plate tests and metrics to complement physical preparation strategies prior to commencing strenuous military training courses
Background The aim of this study was to seek opinion (via an online survey) and gain consensus of which force plate tests and metrics may be considered by military operating/training staff to better screen physical performance characteristics prior to military personnel attending a physically arduous military training course. Methods Ten responders with known experience and/or expertise in using force plate technology for the measurement of force…
A Critical Examination of the Impact of Big Data Analytics Capability on Container Port Performance
The performance of container ports is increasingly being hampered by port congestion, strict adherence to environmental regulatory frameworks, and inefficiency of border control agencies. Anecdotal evidence indicates that advanced analytics and digitalizing container ports holds much promise to mitigate these challenges. At the same time, a lack of empirical evidence about the effects of big data analytics capability (BDAC) is limiting understand…
Technostress in entrepreneurship: Focus on Entrepreneurs in the Developing World
Purpose This study analyzes technostress in African entrepreneurship. It advances contextualized theoretical explanations of technostress depicting its impact on entrepreneurs who excessively consume digital technology in Africa. The study also describes how research linking transactional benefits to digital technology has created an imbalanced literature that ignores technostress and well-being in African entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/app…
Family Business Ethics: A Literature Review and Research Agenda
Ethical issues in family businesses become increasingly relevant for businesses, societies and, consequently, organization scholars which manifests in a growing number of publications in the field over the years. Considerable knowledge generated in the area needs to be systematically structured and synthesized. This study reviewed 162 articles published over the last three decades (1989–2023) to map the intellectual and conceptual structure, and …
Entrepreneurial activity in the international trade in cultural goods: A fuzzy clustering analysis
This study offers a novel country-level longitudinal investigation of conditions, including, income, urbanity, education, R&D, and entrepreneurial activity, driving international trade, for imports and exports. The configurational (clustering) approach places emphasis on country and year groupings, offering ‘targeted’ understanding on country level variations of international trade in cultural goods. The study explores context sensitive condition…
Digital Entrepreneurship: A review, research synthesis, and development of a framework
The global rise of digital technologies has ushered in a new era of entrepreneurship, fundamentally reshaping traditional business models and driving economic growth and innovation. Digital entrepreneurship is highly relevant today, as advances in technology and infrastructure provide numerous opportunities for entrepreneurs in the modern digital economy. This study maps and synthesizes the field of digital entrepreneurship using two methods: a b…
Entrepreneurship processes: Digital self-efficacy, technostress, and entrepreneurial behaviour in South Africa
Engaging With Lived Experience: Towards a Sociological Biography of a Sociological Category
Although addressing the lives, perceptions, and practices of others, sociological research has an ambivalent association with the category of lived experience. Despite its use not always being accompanied by a precise definition, lived experience appears prominently in much academic research and teaching, descriptively standing in for direct firsthand engagement with a wide range of issues. But we know little about how it is implemented in resear…
Managing Public Sociology and an Academic Career: A workshop
Exploring post-usage behaviour in app-based ride-sourcing services: Evidence from Egypt
Despite numerous studies focusing on ride-sourcing services, most have concentrated on users' pre-usage behaviour. This study explores users' post-usage behaviour, aiming to identify significant factors affecting existing users' intentions to continue using app-based ride-sourcing services in Egypt. Integrating the Expectation-Confirmation Model (ECM), the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), and the Technology Readiness Model (TRM), this research …
Barrier analysis to improve big data analytics capability of the maritime industry: A mixed-method approach
The maritime industry is facing increasing challenges due to decarbonization requirements, trade disruptions, and geoeconomic fragmentation, such as International Maritime Organization (IMO) sets out clear framework to reach net zero emissions by 2050, Russia-Ukraine war disrupted maritime activities in the Black and Azov seas, and increased trade tensions between the United States and China. To enhance their sustainability, operational efficienc…
A panel fsQCA investigation on European regional innovation
Taking an evolutionary economic geography perspective, we build on literature on innovation modes, the aim of this study being to explain variations in SME innovation performance across European regions over time. Drawing on five waves of data from the EU Regional Innovation Scoreboard between 2011 and 2019, our sample includes 221 regions across 27 EU Member States, as well as Norway, UK, Serbia, and Switzerland. We apply nascent panel fuzzy-set…
Confronting racial inequity in health and education: Supporting students with sickle cell disease
The racialized history of sickle cell disease (SCD) continues to contribute to racial disparities in healthcare and education. In the context of the racialized history of SCD, we begin by outlining subtypes of SCD and explaining that SCD is associated with chronic pain, silent cerebral infarct, overt stroke, and poor overall well‐being—all of which have implications for school functioning. A literature search was conducted to identify significant…
The curious case of atrium urbanism: Voids in and of capitalism
All produced spaces are curious since they could, by definition, be different. Atriums—double height or greater vertical voids typically to be found in skyscrapers’ lobbies—are an interesting illustration of this general contention. An internal feature of super-tall architecture the world over, the atrium flourishes in parts of cities where land value is high and given that atria could be occupied with directly rentable space this is an ostensibl…
Reentry and transition into college life: A study of formerly incarcerated individuals in Southern California
In California, formerly incarcerated individuals face several challenges while pursuing higher education. To combat these challenges, there are several programs in the California higher education system that provide supportive services for formerly incarcerated college students (FICS). Yet, there have been limited scholarly evaluations of the efficacy of these programs for formerly incarcerated individuals. This study uses a mixed-methods design …
Beyond the Informal: Understanding Self-Organized Kampungs in Indonesia
Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy
Transformative artificially intelligent tools, such as ChatGPT, designed to generate sophisticated text indistinguishable from that produced by a human, are applicable across a wide range of contexts. The technology presents opportunities as well as, often ethical and legal, challenges, and has the potential for both positive and negative impacts for organisations, society, and individuals. Offering multi-disciplinary insight into some of these, …
Adaptive leadership during challenging times: Effective strategies for health professions educators: Amee Guide No. 148
Leadership and management are becoming increasingly recognised as vital for high-performing organisations and teams in health professions education. It is often difficult for those embarking on leadership activities (as well as more experienced leaders) to find their way through the volume of literature and generic information on the topic. This guide aims to provide a framework for developing educators' understanding of leadership, management, a…
Technology, innovation and SMEs' export intensity: Evidence from Morocco
This study seeks to understand the scarcely examined relationships between SMEs' foreign technology licensing, R&D expenditure, innovation and export intensity. Espousing an integrated open innovation and self-selection paradigm, observations of 446 Moroccan SMEs are analysed through structural equation modelling . The definitive path analysis showed that foreign technology licensing and R&D expenditure distinctively affect innovation and, in tur…
Best practices and emerging trends in assessment of trauma in students with autism spectrum disorder
Children and adolescents with autism have a higher likelihood of being exposed to bullying, abuse, and sexual assault which, through repeated exposure, has been demonstrated to impede academic, social, and physical functioning among this population. However, the complexity of unpacking the characteristics of autism and trauma can pose a challenge for school psychologists in using the most appropriate clinical method of intervention. This paper su…
Measuring Depression in Young Adults: Preliminary Development of an English Version of the Teate Depression Inventory
Depression is a common and debilitating condition that impacts individuals with various cultural backgrounds, medical conditions, and life circumstances. Thus, assessment tools need to be useful among different cultural groups. The 21-item Teate Depression Inventory (TDI) was developed in Italy, is designed to assess major depression, and focuses on cognitive and affective rather than somatic symptoms. This study aims to examine the factor struct…
Emotional demands and entrepreneurial burnout: The role of autonomy and job satisfaction
Beyond the Informal: Understanding Self-Organized Kampungs in Indonesia
Artisan Entrepreneurship
Introduction to March’s Theme: Time
This month we are publishing a volume of thoughtful and thought-provoking pieces that address the challenges of studying time as it becomes rational in social contexts
Auntie Knows Best? Public Broadcasters and Current Affairs Knowledge
Public service broadcasters (PSBs) are a central part of national news media landscapes, and are often regarded as specialists in the provision of hard news. But does exposure to public versus commercial news influence citizens’ knowledge of current affairs? This question is investigated in this article using cross-national surveys capturing knowledge of current affairs and media consumption. Propensity score analyses test for effects of PSBs on …
Digital Transformation: An Overview of the Current State of the Art of Research
The increasing digitalization of economies has highlighted the importance of digital transformation and how it can help businesses stay competitive in the market. However, disruptive changes not only occur at the company level; they also have environmental, societal, and institutional implications. This is the reason why during the past two decades the research on digital transformation has received growing attention, with a wide range of topics …
Putting Architecture in its Social Place: A Cultural Political Economy of Architecture
As well as being shaped by bureaucratically codified state regulations, architecture is also fundamentally conditioned by the broader political-economic context in which it is commissioned, designed and understood. However, drawing attention to these noncodified regulations can be controversial, as it necessitates questioning the complex social production of architecture, in the process challenging those discourses that position architecture as a…
Reconsidering ‘virtuous circle’ and ‘media malaise’ theories of the media: An 11-nation study
This study, based on a content analysis of television news and survey in eleven nations, explores the split between those who see the media as politically alienating and others who see the media as encouraging greater political involvement. Here, we suggest that both positions are partly right. On the one hand, television news, and in particular public service television news, can be very effective in imparting information about public affairs an…
Rural Development and Labour Supply Challenges in the UK: The Role of Non-UK Migrants
Green A. E., De Hoyos M., Jones P. and Owen D. Rural development and labour supply challenges in the UK: the role of non-UK migrants, Regional Studies. Characteristic features of the demographic structure of rural areas in the UK include net out-migration of young adults and an older than average age profile. These features pose a labour supply challenge for rural areas. However, many rural areas are experiencing in-migration (from other parts of…
Private finance initiative hospital architecture: Towards a political economy of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Sociological analysis has done much to illuminate the architectural contexts in which social life takes place. Research on care environments suggests that the built environment should not be understood as a passive backdrop to healthcare, but rather that care is conditioned by the architecture in which it happens. This article argues for the importance of going beyond the hospital walls to include the politics that underwrite the design and const…
The student experience' and the remaking of contemporary studenthood: A critical intervention
The student experience' is a formulation that will be familiar to many reading this article; increasingly the term has come to stand in for an imprecise set of values and practices around higher education study. Despite the fuzziness that characterises its use, 'student experience talk' has gained traction in education policy and rankings, academic research, and amongst students themselves. After initially drawing from Raymond Williams to situate…
Architecture, Time, and Cultural Politics
Architecture is inextricably entangled with time. Illustrating this point, the article explores two moments of architectural production centred on London in the mid-19th century: the 'Battle of the Styles', a struggle over the social meaning of historicist architectural design and its suitability for state-funded public buildings; and the proto-modernist Crystal Palace, which housed the Great Exhibition of 1851. While ostensibly involving differe…
The planners’ dream goes wrong?’ Questioning citizen-centred planning
The reform of urban and environmental planning in England since the election of the Coalition government in 2010 has resulted in the emergence of Neighbourhood Planning: a situation in which citizens can autonomously assemble, define the spatial extent of their neighbourhood and author a plan for it. In this paper, we argue that this radical policy is part of a wider agenda to de-professionalise planning as a statutory function and has its roots …
Modelling urban futures: A study of architectural models of Liverpool Waters
Architectural models are representational forms that can be used in such a way as to make visions of capitalist futures more meaningful. This paper explores the additional resonance afforded by the deployment of digital architectural models to the Liverpool Waters project, a planned £5.5 billion development of that city's waterfront. Analysing the models of Liverpool Waters as interpretive representations whose practical use generates context and…
The impact of the business cycle on occupational injuries in the UK
Museum Architecture Matters
Using a series of illustrative examples throughout, we make an argument for the inclusion of sociological studies of museum architecture in museum studies, as well as advocating a series of methodological positions for future research. In short, the aim here is to provide students of both the museum and architecture with a route into the field - as well as a preliminary bibliography - while making the case for the need for increased engagement wi…
Using baseline assessment data to make international comparisons
International studies have concentrated on the achievements of children during or at the end of their schooling. But such data are difficult to interpret without knowing the progress that they have made since they started school. This article argues that the time has come to study the starting points of children as they begin their education. Such a study is doubtless difficult to design and this study reports an analysis of data from a baseline …
Beyond the Semantic 'Big Bang: Cultural Sociology and an Aesthetic Public Sphere
This article argues that cultural sociology should take heed of conceptual and policy ambiguities that developed within British and Australian cultural studies. However, it also proposes that cultural sociology might build on the underdeveloped common ground between Frankfurt critical theory and cultural studies. Habermas's notion of the 'literary public sphere' is taken as a useful point of contact between these fields. This literary public sphe…
Democratic Norms and Means of Communication: Public Sphere, Fourth Estate, Freedom of Communication
This article assesses some major democratic norms commonly invoked in relation to means of communication or ‘media’, especially in the context of ‘media policy’. The paper argues that freedom of communication provides the most appropriate normative discourse in which to re-articulate the case for the European policy practice of ‘regulated pluralism’ outside Europe. Recent developments in Australia provide a brief case-study of this thesis
Between Cultural Studies and Critical Sociology
This essay reviews John Hartley's Popular Reality: Journalism, Modernity, Popular Culture. The significance of this text is that it provides one of the most developed engagements with the public sphere literatures from an author within cultural studies. The article necessarily addresses the considerable weaknesses in Hartley's understanding of the public sphere case. However, the aim is not to dismiss Popular Reality out of hand. Rather, the crit…
What Has Happened to Urban Reform in the Island Pacific? Some Lessons from Kiribati and Samoa
Introduction The importance of towns and cities in the future development of Pacific island states is inescapable. Researchers have underlined many key features of the urbanization process, ranging from the high population growth rates found in Melanesian towns,1 the importance of urbanization as a key driver of national economic growth,2 the effects of high rural-urban migration3 and the increasing urban crime and poverty,4 to problems of urban …
Engaging With Lived Experience: Towards a Sociological Biography of a Sociological Category
Although addressing the lives, perceptions, and practices of others, sociological research has an ambivalent association with the category of lived experience. Despite its use not always being accompanied by a precise definition, lived experience appears prominently in much academic research and teaching, descriptively standing in for direct firsthand engagement with a wide range of issues. But we know little about how it is implemented in resear…
Mediated Political Communication in Australia: Leading issues, new evidence
New 2007 survey data on political communication is used to study the relation between commercial and ABC/SBS television consumption and Australian political and civic culture. The first section outlines the demographic characteristics of viewers who rely, respectively, for their news and current affairs, on commercial as compared with public service television. This is followed by a profile of popular views on the concentration of media ownership…
The best of both worlds? Freedom of communication and `positive' broadcasting regulation
Organic' Intellectuals and the Generation of English Cultural Studies
Digital Entrepreneurship: A review, research synthesis, and development of a framework
The global rise of digital technologies has ushered in a new era of entrepreneurship, fundamentally reshaping traditional business models and driving economic growth and innovation. Digital entrepreneurship is highly relevant today, as advances in technology and infrastructure provide numerous opportunities for entrepreneurs in the modern digital economy. This study maps and synthesizes the field of digital entrepreneurship using two methods: a b…
Reentry and transition into college life: A study of formerly incarcerated individuals in Southern California
In California, formerly incarcerated individuals face several challenges while pursuing higher education. To combat these challenges, there are several programs in the California higher education system that provide supportive services for formerly incarcerated college students (FICS). Yet, there have been limited scholarly evaluations of the efficacy of these programs for formerly incarcerated individuals. This study uses a mixed-methods design …
Reflections on a Decade of Changes in Homeschooling and the Homeschooled Into Higher Education
This article reviews selected research on successes of homeschooled students over the past decade. The article raises several methods issues, especially related to sampling issues and recent changes in some state laws. In addition the article reviews research collected from college admission's officers’ on their perceptions and attitudes relate to homeschooled students. The comparative results of the studies reported in this review, combined with…
Picturing Urban Regeneration: A Study of Photographers in Liverpool, UK
This paper interrogates the practices of professional photographers working on commissions associated with urban regeneration. As distinct from analysis of the images that are an outcome of their labour, little is currently known about the knowledges of photographers working in such contexts. Drawing on research with one firm of photographers in Liverpool, UK, the article focuses on the ways in which these cultural producers describe and make sen…
Does Cost Information Availability Reduce Physician Test Usage: A Randomized Clinical Trial With Unexpected Findings
Four similar teams of physicians associated with similar inpatient units and randomly assigned patients were used to study the effect of providing physicians with cost information about their use of lab tests and x-rays. Two teams received information about lab test costs, and two teams received x-ray test costs. Test usage fell during the experimental conditions and continued to fall after the experimental period ended in teams in which there wa…
Organic' Intellectuals and the Generation of English Cultural Studies
American Doctors and German Universities: A Chapter in International Intellectual Relations, 1870-1914. Thomas Neville Bonner
The myth of ‘Raymond Hoggart’: On ‘Founding fathers’ and cultural policy
At the time when Richard Hoggart and I were inseparable, we had not yet met. it still seems reasonable that so many people put his Uses of Literacy and my Culture and Society together. One newspaper went so far as to refer, seriously, to a book called the Uses of Culture by Raymond Hoggart. But as I say we did not then know each other, and as writers we were pretty clear about our differences as well as our obvious common ground. (Raymond William…
Williams and `quality: A response to John Corner
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Changing Face of the Islands: Urban management and planning in the Pacific
The Technology is not the Cultural Form: Raymond Williams's Sociological Critique of Marshall McLuhan
This article's prime aim is to provide an exegesis of Raymond Williams's neglected "mature'' theorization of means of communication. Much of this aspect of his cultural materialism is articulated as a critique of Marshall McLuhan. Williams attempts to recover and develop what he saw as the lost early promise of McLuhan's work. The article thus takes the form of an account of the complex relationship between the two authors' projects from their co…
Information Warfare
Between Cultural Studies and Critical Sociology
This essay reviews John Hartley's Popular Reality: Journalism, Modernity, Popular Culture. The significance of this text is that it provides one of the most developed engagements with the public sphere literatures from an author within cultural studies. The article necessarily addresses the considerable weaknesses in Hartley's understanding of the public sphere case. However, the aim is not to dismiss Popular Reality out of hand. Rather, the crit…
Democratic Norms and Means of Communication: Public Sphere, Fourth Estate, Freedom of Communication
This article assesses some major democratic norms commonly invoked in relation to means of communication or ‘media’, especially in the context of ‘media policy’. The paper argues that freedom of communication provides the most appropriate normative discourse in which to re-articulate the case for the European policy practice of ‘regulated pluralism’ outside Europe. Recent developments in Australia provide a brief case-study of this thesis
Paradigmatic tensions in the sociology of news
Books
Australian Feminism: A Companion. Edited by Barbara Caine, Moira Gatens, Emma Grahame, Jan Larbalestier, Sophie Watson and Elizabeth Webby. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xxix + 607. $87.50 cloth. The Imaginary Australian: Anglo‐Celts and Identity, 1788 to the Present By Miriam Dixson. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1999. Pp. viii + 216. $27.95 paper. Getting Equal: The History of Australian Feminism. By Marilyn Lake.…
McLuhanist' Societal Projections and Social Theory: Some Reflections
This article seeks to develop systematically several themes alluded to in my recent account of Raymond Williams' sociological critique of Marshall McLuhan. It considers some initiatives within social theory which might meet Williams' criteria for an adequate social theory of 'the media'. The chief target is the illegitimate projection of 'new social orders' from limited and often asocial analyses of 'new' social phenomena, including those related…
The best of both worlds? Freedom of communication and `positive' broadcasting regulation
Young Deaf Children and the Prediction of Reading and Mathematics
Nearly 1000 deaf children were assessed upon entry to school, aged four and five years, using a broad baseline assessment, and then again one year later in reading and maths. Comparative data were also available for hearing children. These data were used to look at the prediction of the academic achievement of children with varying degrees of hearing loss. Despite past failures at establishing good predictors and despite the apparently very compl…
An Historical Survey of the Subject of Beauty and the Literature on the Subject
1Edinburgh An Historical Survey of the Subject of Beauty and the Literature on the Subject FrantišekPalacký Palacký UniversityOlomouc 200180‐244‐0371‐4
Capitalising Culture: Liverpool 2008
This article analyses the political, economic and social contexts of Liverpool's successful bid to become European Capital of Culture, 2008. It highlights the juxtaposition in the Liverpool 2008 process of discourses of urban entrepreneurialism and a strong emphasis on community involvement. While the bid is part of a wider shift in governance in the city that has helped reverse local economic decline, it is argued that the increasingly ‘boosteri…
Raymond Williams’s Sociology of Culture: A Critical Reconstruction
This detailed study of Williams unlocks his late sociology of culture. It covers previously overlooked aspects, such as his critique of Birmingham cultural studies, his use of an Adorno-like approach
Using baseline assessment data to make international comparisons
International studies have concentrated on the achievements of children during or at the end of their schooling. But such data are difficult to interpret without knowing the progress that they have made since they started school. This article argues that the time has come to study the starting points of children as they begin their education. Such a study is doubtless difficult to design and this study reports an analysis of data from a baseline …
Repeatability of a Rasch Model of the AQ20 over Five Assessments
Thirty Years of Keywords
Imagined Communities
Imagined communities is a term coined by Benedict Anderson (1983) in an influential book on the emergence and persistence of the nation. Anderson addresses a number of central sociological issues associated with belonging and cultural communities. A paradox of the modern age is that although many feel that the nation is our natural community, we do not know the vast majority of the other people who constitute this group. Indeed, Anderson famously…
Xenophobia
Derived from the Greek words xeno , meaning “foreigner,” “stranger,” or “guest,” and phobia , meaning fear, xenophobia literally refers to a phobic attitude toward foreigners. However, “phobia” in this context is not meant in the clinical sense but rather refers to a part of the network of racist ideologies predicated on discriminatory discourse and practice. Xenophobia is thus a term that describes fear or prejudice with respect to something or …
What Has Happened to Urban Reform in the Island Pacific? Some Lessons from Kiribati and Samoa
Introduction The importance of towns and cities in the future development of Pacific island states is inescapable. Researchers have underlined many key features of the urbanization process, ranging from the high population growth rates found in Melanesian towns,1 the importance of urbanization as a key driver of national economic growth,2 the effects of high rural-urban migration3 and the increasing urban crime and poverty,4 to problems of urban …
Beyond the Semantic 'Big Bang: Cultural Sociology and an Aesthetic Public Sphere
This article argues that cultural sociology should take heed of conceptual and policy ambiguities that developed within British and Australian cultural studies. However, it also proposes that cultural sociology might build on the underdeveloped common ground between Frankfurt critical theory and cultural studies. Habermas's notion of the 'literary public sphere' is taken as a useful point of contact between these fields. This literary public sphe…
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