Thomas Allen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Allen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Allen |
| SIGNATURE | ALLEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University of Paris |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2972-7911 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Competing institutional logics in public-private hospital arrangements in England
There has been an increase in partnership working between the NHS and the private healthcare sector in recent years, particularly for elective surgical care. The private sector now delivers a increasing share of NHS-funded services and alongside this privately funded healthcare has continued to grow. As consultants increasingly work across the NHS and the private sector, they must deal with complex and sometimes conflicting institutional demands.…
Mind the Gap: A Qualitative Study of Patients’ Experiences of Acute Elective Care Across the NHS and the Private Sector in England
Evidence of eden: Unstable continuum and manifest history in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong
This article considers M. NourbeSe Philip’s 2008 Zong!. I read Philip’s poetry as rearranging the 1783 text of Gregson v. Gilbert – a legal manuscript relating the Zong massacre of 1781 – in a way that necessarily causes one to think a continuum between the late eighteenth century and the present. At the same time, I argue that the poetry makes this continuum appear as historically contingent and therefore mutable. I argue that Zong! achieves thi…
Liberated territory: On the poetry and pedagogy of Tongo Eisen-Martin
This article considers the poetry and pedagogical work of the Bay Area poet, organizer and activist, Tongo Eisen-Martin. I begin from the premise that, for Eisen-Martin, poetry and political praxis share a deep affinity, and I seek to elaborate what this affinity is and how it affects our understanding of poetry and the political. I start by reading Eisen-Martin’s own writing on aesthetics, which suggests that, for him, poetry is essentially para…
Locum doctor working: A qualitative exploration of the implications for learning and professional development
Beyond the gate: Referral style and utilisation of primary sector specialist care
While variation in general practitioners' (GPs') practice style is well documented, little is known about how these differences shape patients' use of specialist care beyond formal gatekeeping regulation. Using population-wide data from Denmark, we exploit residual variation in referral rates measured at the GP practice level to classify practices as restrictive, moderate, or liberal referrers and link these patterns to chronic care among individ…
Social media narratives, diasporic identity and collective memory: A critical synthesis of the literature
This study investigates the evolving relationship between social media narratives, diasporic identity, and collective memory in a context marked by increasing migration and growing digital media engagement. Employing a scoping review as a meta-analysis approach, we analyzed scholarly literature from 2014 to 2024 across Diaspora Studies, Sociology, and Communication Studies to understand how cultural and identity narratives are evolving amid fast-…
What seems to be the problem? Locum doctors, liminality and concerns about performance
Doctors who work in temporary positions (usually termed locums) in healthcare organisations can occupy a liminal space - at the margins of both the organisation and the medical profession, often situated on the periphery of or even outside formal structures for governance and support and informal professional and social networks. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with 88 participants including locums, permanently employed doct…
Healthcare utilisation and associated costs for methadone versus buprenorphine recipients: Examination of interlinked primary and secondary care electronic health records in England
‘None of Them Know Me’: A Qualitative Study of the Implications of Locum Doctor Working for Patient Experience
INTRODUCTION: There have been some concerns about the impact of temporary doctors, otherwise known as locums, on patient safety and the quality of care. Despite these concerns, research has paid little attention to the implications of locum working on patient experience. METHODS: A qualitative semi-structured interview study was conducted with 130 participants including locums, people working with locums and patients with experience of being seen…
Angels, Guests and Sadists: On-Screen Poetry in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini
This article considers how poetry features in Pasolini’s cinema. It argues that the manner in which Pasolini films poetry provides insight into his theory of an affinity between poetry and film, and into more general judgements concerning social reality. The article begins with an analysis of the final sequence of Salò (1975) where I argue that Ezra Pound’s poetry provides a soundtrack for the spectacle of torture in which the film’s libertines e…
The measurement and improvement of maternity service performance through inspection and rating: An observational study of maternity services in acute hospitals in England
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether the prior performance of maternity services, as measured by Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists performance indicators, is associated with ratings by the Care Quality Commission at subsequent inspection, and whether performance changes occur after inspection. METHODS: We used hospital activity data from 176 maternity sites inspected between October 2013 and March 2016 to generate a set of performance…
Does accreditation affect the job satisfaction of general practitioners? A combined panel data survey and cluster randomised field experiment
A critical question for policy makers in health care is whether external interventions have unintended consequences such as lowering professionals' job satisfaction. We investigate whether a non-monetary incentive, in the form of mandatory accreditation, affects the job satisfaction of Danish GPs. Accreditation of general practice in Denmark was introduced as a cluster randomised stepwise implementation from 2016 to 2018. We measure job satisfact…
Using the Adapted Flemish Sign Language Visual Communication and Sign Language Checklist
This study addresses the topic of visual communication and early sign language acquisition in deaf children with a Flemish Sign Language (Vlaamse Gebarentaal or VGT) input. Results are obtained through a checklist focusing on sign-exposed deaf children’s visual communication and early sign language acquisition: the adapted VGT Visual Communication and Sign Language checklist. The purpose is to obtain the first detailed picture of these children’s…
Jason Phillips. Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future
Jason Phillips has produced an exceptionally creative and original work exploring how Americans envisioned impending sectional conflict in the antebellum period. Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future is about more than the Civil War itself; it is a meditation on the nature of historical imagination, demonstrating brilliantly how historical time extends into the future, or into multiple potential futures that shap…
The Cedar Choppers: Life on the Edge of Nothing . Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life. By Ken Roberts. Foreword by M. Hunter Hayes
The Cedar Choppers: Life on the Edge of Nothing. Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life. By Ken Roberts. Foreword by M. Hunter Hayes The Cedar Choppers: Life on the Edge of Nothing. Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life. By Ken Roberts. Foreword by M. Hunter Hayes. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2018. xiii + 259 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $27.95.) Thomas Allen Thomas Allen The University of Texas at Dalla…
A Delphi Approach to Develop Sustainable Food System Metrics
Assessing consumption-production-resources nexus decisions for rice-focused agricultural households in Sierra Leone
Does the proportion of pay linked to performance affect the job satisfaction of general practitioners
It’s a matter of time: The effect of depletion on communal action in romantic relationships is moderated by relationship length
Researchers have only begun to turn their attention to the role of self-control in communal action (rather than communal restraint) in relationships. Conflicting results from early studies indicate that the association between self-control and communal action may be quite complex, and potentially moderated by many variables. Here we investigate how relationship length may moderate the extent to which communal actions require self-control resource…
Steven Cassedy. Connected: How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Journal Article Steven Cassedy. Connected: How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century. Get access Steven Cassedy. Connected: How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2014. Pp. xx, 319. $35.00. Thomas Allen Thomas Allen University of Ottawa Sear…
Sustainability and Food & Nutrition Security: A Vulnerability Assessment Framework for the Mediterranean Region
Recurrent food crises and climate change, along with habitat loss and micronutrient deficiencies, are global issues of critical importance that have pushed food security and environmental sustainability to the top of the political agenda. Analyses of the dynamic linkages between food consumption patterns and environmental concerns have recently received considerable attention from the international and scientific community. Using the lens of a br…
A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America
The development of the American nation has typically been interpreted in terms of its expansion through space, specifically its growth westward. This book posits time, not space, as the most significant territory of the young nation. It argues that beginning in the nineteenth century, the actual geography of the nation became less important, as Americans imagined the future as their true national territory. The book explores how transformations i…
Clockwork Nation: Modern Time, Moral Perfectionism and American Identity in Catharine Beecher and Henry Thoreau
The economy of time, and our obligation to spend every hour for some useful end, are what few minds properly realize. Catharine Beecher, A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841) There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hands. Henry David Thoreau, Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (1854) In his seminal 1967 essay "Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism," E. P. Thom…
Toeing the Line
A Delphi Approach to Develop Sustainable Food System Metrics
Clockwork Nation: Modern Time, Moral Perfectionism and American Identity in Catharine Beecher and Henry Thoreau
The economy of time, and our obligation to spend every hour for some useful end, are what few minds properly realize. Catharine Beecher, A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841) There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hands. Henry David Thoreau, Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (1854) In his seminal 1967 essay "Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism," E. P. Thom…
Does the proportion of pay linked to performance affect the job satisfaction of general practitioners
It’s a matter of time: The effect of depletion on communal action in romantic relationships is moderated by relationship length
Researchers have only begun to turn their attention to the role of self-control in communal action (rather than communal restraint) in relationships. Conflicting results from early studies indicate that the association between self-control and communal action may be quite complex, and potentially moderated by many variables. Here we investigate how relationship length may moderate the extent to which communal actions require self-control resource…
Sustainability and Food & Nutrition Security: A Vulnerability Assessment Framework for the Mediterranean Region
Recurrent food crises and climate change, along with habitat loss and micronutrient deficiencies, are global issues of critical importance that have pushed food security and environmental sustainability to the top of the political agenda. Analyses of the dynamic linkages between food consumption patterns and environmental concerns have recently received considerable attention from the international and scientific community. Using the lens of a br…
Assessing consumption-production-resources nexus decisions for rice-focused agricultural households in Sierra Leone
Commonwealth Constitutions and the Right not to be Deprived of Property
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Commonwealth Constitutions and the Right not to be Deprived of Property
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The exclusion of pupils from school: The need for reform
The impact of an exclusion upon pupils and parents suggests that the law should ensure that their interests are protected adequately. Unfortunately, this is not the case. The Education Act (No. 2) 1986, the chief source of statutory law on exclusions, appears to be primarily concerned with the interests of those who administer schools. In general, it does not provide a satisfactory degree of protection for the interests of pupils and parents. In …
Liability for References: Spring v Guardian Assurance
Bribes and Constructive Trusts: A‐G of Hong Kong v Reid
Toeing the Line
Clockwork Nation: Modern Time, Moral Perfectionism and American Identity in Catharine Beecher and Henry Thoreau
The economy of time, and our obligation to spend every hour for some useful end, are what few minds properly realize. Catharine Beecher, A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841) There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hands. Henry David Thoreau, Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (1854) In his seminal 1967 essay "Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism," E. P. Thom…
A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America
The development of the American nation has typically been interpreted in terms of its expansion through space, specifically its growth westward. This book posits time, not space, as the most significant territory of the young nation. It argues that beginning in the nineteenth century, the actual geography of the nation became less important, as Americans imagined the future as their true national territory. The book explores how transformations i…
Sustainability and Food & Nutrition Security: A Vulnerability Assessment Framework for the Mediterranean Region
Recurrent food crises and climate change, along with habitat loss and micronutrient deficiencies, are global issues of critical importance that have pushed food security and environmental sustainability to the top of the political agenda. Analyses of the dynamic linkages between food consumption patterns and environmental concerns have recently received considerable attention from the international and scientific community. Using the lens of a br…
It’s a matter of time: The effect of depletion on communal action in romantic relationships is moderated by relationship length
Researchers have only begun to turn their attention to the role of self-control in communal action (rather than communal restraint) in relationships. Conflicting results from early studies indicate that the association between self-control and communal action may be quite complex, and potentially moderated by many variables. Here we investigate how relationship length may moderate the extent to which communal actions require self-control resource…
Steven Cassedy. Connected: How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Journal Article Steven Cassedy. Connected: How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century. Get access Steven Cassedy. Connected: How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2014. Pp. xx, 319. $35.00. Thomas Allen Thomas Allen University of Ottawa Sear…
Assessing consumption-production-resources nexus decisions for rice-focused agricultural households in Sierra Leone
Does the proportion of pay linked to performance affect the job satisfaction of general practitioners
The Cedar Choppers: Life on the Edge of Nothing . Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life. By Ken Roberts. Foreword by M. Hunter Hayes
The Cedar Choppers: Life on the Edge of Nothing. Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life. By Ken Roberts. Foreword by M. Hunter Hayes The Cedar Choppers: Life on the Edge of Nothing. Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life. By Ken Roberts. Foreword by M. Hunter Hayes. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2018. xiii + 259 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $27.95.) Thomas Allen Thomas Allen The University of Texas at Dalla…
A Delphi Approach to Develop Sustainable Food System Metrics
The measurement and improvement of maternity service performance through inspection and rating: An observational study of maternity services in acute hospitals in England
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether the prior performance of maternity services, as measured by Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists performance indicators, is associated with ratings by the Care Quality Commission at subsequent inspection, and whether performance changes occur after inspection. METHODS: We used hospital activity data from 176 maternity sites inspected between October 2013 and March 2016 to generate a set of performance…
Does accreditation affect the job satisfaction of general practitioners? A combined panel data survey and cluster randomised field experiment
A critical question for policy makers in health care is whether external interventions have unintended consequences such as lowering professionals' job satisfaction. We investigate whether a non-monetary incentive, in the form of mandatory accreditation, affects the job satisfaction of Danish GPs. Accreditation of general practice in Denmark was introduced as a cluster randomised stepwise implementation from 2016 to 2018. We measure job satisfact…
Using the Adapted Flemish Sign Language Visual Communication and Sign Language Checklist
This study addresses the topic of visual communication and early sign language acquisition in deaf children with a Flemish Sign Language (Vlaamse Gebarentaal or VGT) input. Results are obtained through a checklist focusing on sign-exposed deaf children’s visual communication and early sign language acquisition: the adapted VGT Visual Communication and Sign Language checklist. The purpose is to obtain the first detailed picture of these children’s…
Jason Phillips. Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future
Jason Phillips has produced an exceptionally creative and original work exploring how Americans envisioned impending sectional conflict in the antebellum period. Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future is about more than the Civil War itself; it is a meditation on the nature of historical imagination, demonstrating brilliantly how historical time extends into the future, or into multiple potential futures that shap…
Angels, Guests and Sadists: On-Screen Poetry in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini
This article considers how poetry features in Pasolini’s cinema. It argues that the manner in which Pasolini films poetry provides insight into his theory of an affinity between poetry and film, and into more general judgements concerning social reality. The article begins with an analysis of the final sequence of Salò (1975) where I argue that Ezra Pound’s poetry provides a soundtrack for the spectacle of torture in which the film’s libertines e…
Healthcare utilisation and associated costs for methadone versus buprenorphine recipients: Examination of interlinked primary and secondary care electronic health records in England
‘None of Them Know Me’: A Qualitative Study of the Implications of Locum Doctor Working for Patient Experience
INTRODUCTION: There have been some concerns about the impact of temporary doctors, otherwise known as locums, on patient safety and the quality of care. Despite these concerns, research has paid little attention to the implications of locum working on patient experience. METHODS: A qualitative semi-structured interview study was conducted with 130 participants including locums, people working with locums and patients with experience of being seen…
Social media narratives, diasporic identity and collective memory: A critical synthesis of the literature
This study investigates the evolving relationship between social media narratives, diasporic identity, and collective memory in a context marked by increasing migration and growing digital media engagement. Employing a scoping review as a meta-analysis approach, we analyzed scholarly literature from 2014 to 2024 across Diaspora Studies, Sociology, and Communication Studies to understand how cultural and identity narratives are evolving amid fast-…
What seems to be the problem? Locum doctors, liminality and concerns about performance
Doctors who work in temporary positions (usually termed locums) in healthcare organisations can occupy a liminal space - at the margins of both the organisation and the medical profession, often situated on the periphery of or even outside formal structures for governance and support and informal professional and social networks. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with 88 participants including locums, permanently employed doct…
Competing institutional logics in public-private hospital arrangements in England
There has been an increase in partnership working between the NHS and the private healthcare sector in recent years, particularly for elective surgical care. The private sector now delivers a increasing share of NHS-funded services and alongside this privately funded healthcare has continued to grow. As consultants increasingly work across the NHS and the private sector, they must deal with complex and sometimes conflicting institutional demands.…
Mind the Gap: A Qualitative Study of Patients’ Experiences of Acute Elective Care Across the NHS and the Private Sector in England
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