Rachel Parker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Parker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Parker |
| SIGNATURE | PARKER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0809-3518 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Longitudinal Association between Gendered Racism and Disease Activity among Black Women Living with Lupus
Gendered racism, rooted in the interlocking injustices of racism and sexism, is a contributor to poor mental health; its association with physical health outcomes, however, is not well understood. This study investigates whether gendered racism is associated with disease activity among Black women living with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Data are from the Vascular Aging, Inflammation, and Stress in African American Women’s Health Research …
Measuring Racial and Ethnic Socialization: Adaptation of the Aress for Black Women
Despite the importance of racial and ethnic socialization (RES) processes for Black women, RES assessment has largely been limited to youth. We expand on the literature by examining the factor structure and convergent validity of the Adolescent Racial and Ethnic Socialization Scale (ARESS). As part of a cross-sectional psychometric validation study, Black women ( n = 422) completed a modified ARESS (ERES-AR) and measures assessing race-related be…
Superwoman schema and arterial stiffness in Black American women: Assessing the Role of Environmental Mastery
BACKGROUND: Emerging evidence suggests that the Superwoman Schema (SWS)-the sociocultural representation of Black women as naturally strong, independent, and nurturing-may play an important role in Black women's cardiovascular health; but findings have been relatively mixed. One interesting possibility is that environmental mastery, a sense of control over one's environment, may mitigate negative aspects of SWS. PURPOSE: We investigated whether m…
Friend or foe? Learning through play and education reform in Ukraine
Does stress from incarceration of family and friends contribute to signs of early vascular ageing in African American women
BACKGROUND: Early vascular ageing (EVA) contributes to elevated risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), which disproportionately affects African American women. Incarceration, an event disproportionately impacting African Americans, may be a stressor contributing to EVA in African American women. Further, the subjective perspective, commonly referred to as appraisal, of incarceration may also be important for health. We hypothesised that having fam…
Financial responsibility, financial context, and ambulatory blood pressure in early middle-aged African-American women
Use of “Strengthening Our Vows” Video Intervention to Encourage Negotiated Explicit Sexual Agreements in Zambian Heterosexual HIV Seroconcordant-Negative Couples
Learning Through Play at School – A Framework for Policy and Practice
Learning through play has emerged as an important strategy to promote student engagement, inclusion, and holistic skills development beyond the preschool years. Policy makers, researchers and educators have promoted the notion that learning though play is developmentally appropriate—as it leverages school-age children’s innate curiosity while easing the often difficult transition from preschool to school. However, there is a dearth of evidence an…
An actor-oriented perspective on innovation systems: Functional analysis of drivers and barriers to innovation and technology adoption in the mining sector
Public health communication in Canada during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study suggests that increased federal guidance with wider jurisdictional collaboration backed by transparent evidence could improve the effectiveness of communication practices by instilling public trust and adherence with public health measures. Effective communication should be transparent, supported by reliable evidence, prompt, clear, consistent, and sensitive to diverse values. Improved communication training, established engagement inf…
Extreme racism-related events and poor sleep in African-American women
Coordination and legitimacy in the Australian biofuels innovation system 1979 - 2017
Evolution of Condom Use Among a 5-Year Cohort of Female Sex Workers in Zambia
Loss to follow-up among female sex workers in Zambia: Findings from a five-year HIV-incidence cohort
HIV-incidence studies are used to identify at-risk populations for HIV-prevention trials and interventions, but loss to follow-up (LTFU) can bias results if participants who remain differ from those who drop out. We investigated the incidence of and factors associated with LTFU among Zambian female sex workers (FSWs) in an HIV-incidence cohort from 2012 to 2017. Enrolled participants returned at month one, month three and quarterly thereafter. FS…
The state and the extractive industries in Australia: Growth for whose benefit
Financialization and Value-based Control: Lessons from the Australian Mining Supply Chain
Lead firms operate on multiple scales, and although their corporate functions may be globally organized, they are anchored in various territories through the formation of relations with local suppliers, some of whom have specialized knowledge, capabilities, or technologies that are essential to the lead firms’ business activities. Global value chain and global production network analyses have recognized that financialization is increasingly drivi…
Interrogating Creative Theory and Creative Work: Inside the Games Studio
The expansion of creative and cultural industries has provided a rich source for theoretical claims and commentary. Much of this reproduces and extends the idea that autonomy is the defining feature of both enterprises and workers. Drawing on evidence from research into Australian development studios in the global digital games industry, the article interrogates claims concerning autonomy and related issues of insecurity and intensity, skill and …
The dynamics of global visual effects and games development industries: Lessons for Australia’s creative industries development policy
The paper critiques the focus of creative industries policy on capability development of small and medium sized firms and the provision of regional incentives. It analyses factors affecting the competitiveness and sustainability of the games development industry and visual effects suppliers to feature films. Interviews with participants in these industries highlight the need for policy instruments to take into consideration the structure and orga…
Enterprise Policy and the Metagovernance of Firm Capabilities
The underlying logic of enterprise policy is that there are impediments to change in economic systems that can be traced to the path-dependent behaviors of economic actors that prevent them from exploring new knowledge and new ways of doing things. Enterprise policy involves firm-level interventions delivered by distributed networks of business advisors coordinated by knowledge intermediaries. These metagovernance arrangements are able to disrupt…
Nanotechnology in Mexico: Key Findings Based on OECD Criteria
How Technological Change Affects Power Relations in Global Markets: Remote Developers in the Console and Mobile Games Industry
This paper focuses on Australian development firms in the console and mobile games industry in order to understand how small firms in a geographically remote and marginal position in the global industry are able to relate to global firms and capture revenue share. This paper shows that, while technological change in the games industry has resulted in the emergence of new industry segments based on transactional rather than relational forms of eco…
Support for International Collaboration in Research: The Role of the Overseas Offices of Basic Science Funders
The internationalization of science has prompted major science funding agencies to seek to further international cooperation in basic research through the use of outposts based outside of the agency's home country. While these offices are all international in scope, the strategies and utilization of these offices vary. This paper begins by outlining the motivations and theoretical framework for international offices, drawing specifically from a p…
Learning in and beyond small business advisory programmes
The purpose of this paper is to analyse how participants learn in small business advisory programmes and to explore the impact of these learning programmes on the development of reflective learning dispositions in participants. The research involves two case studies of small business advisory programmes in Queensland, a state of Australia. One involves training in the use of GPS/GIS technology amongst rural SMEs and the other seeks to develop imp…
The National Nanotechnology Initiative: Federal support for science and technology, or hidden industrial policy
Power Relations and Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Strategies for Capturing Value in Global Production Networks: Visual Effects (VFX) Service Firms in the Hollywood Film Industry
Power relations and small and medium-sized enterprise strategies for capturing value in global production networks: visual effects (VFX) service firms in the Hollywood film industry, Regional Studies. This paper provides insights into the way in which non-lead firms manoeuvre in global value chains in the pursuit of a larger share of revenue and how power relations affect these manoeuvres. It examines the nature of value capture and power relatio…
Interrogating Creative Theory and Creative Work: Inside the Games Studio
The expansion of creative and cultural industries has provided a rich source for theoretical claims and commentary. Much of this reproduces and extends the idea that autonomy is the defining feature of both enterprises and workers. Drawing on evidence from research into Australian development studios in the global digital games industry, the article interrogates claims concerning autonomy and related issues of insecurity and intensity, skill and …
Networked Governance or Just Networks? Local Governance of the Knowledge Economy in Limerick (Ireland) and Karlskrona (Sweden)
The emergence of networked governance of knowledge activities is portrayed as one component of a more general shift from government to governance. This article suggests that a distinction can be drawn between networks and networked governance and provides some insights into the indicators that might help distinguish networked governance from networks. The distinction is applied empirically to emerging forms of local networks in ICT in Limerick an…
The Myth of the Entrepreneurial Economy: Employment and Innovation in Small Firms
Over the last three decades, modern capitalist economies have experienced significant changes in the structure of industry, the nature of production and the organisation of work. There has been a decline in traditional industries such as manufacturing, construction and mining and a growth in social, personal, financial and commercial services, as well as a stabilisation or decline in public employment (Ebbinghaus and Visser 1999:141–2). Technolog…
Developmental state and innovation: Nanotechnology in China
In this article we examine the role of the Chinese government in fostering advances in nanotechnology, while looking at the promises and pitfalls of state-led development in the world's fastest-growing major economy. China, like many countries involved in catch-up development, is convinced that manufacturing prowess alone is not enough to make it a leading economic power in the twenty-first century. Our concern here is how, within the context of …
Extreme racism-related events and poor sleep in African-American women
How Technological Change Affects Power Relations in Global Markets: Remote Developers in the Console and Mobile Games Industry
This paper focuses on Australian development firms in the console and mobile games industry in order to understand how small firms in a geographically remote and marginal position in the global industry are able to relate to global firms and capture revenue share. This paper shows that, while technological change in the games industry has resulted in the emergence of new industry segments based on transactional rather than relational forms of eco…
Financialization and Value-based Control: Lessons from the Australian Mining Supply Chain
Lead firms operate on multiple scales, and although their corporate functions may be globally organized, they are anchored in various territories through the formation of relations with local suppliers, some of whom have specialized knowledge, capabilities, or technologies that are essential to the lead firms’ business activities. Global value chain and global production network analyses have recognized that financialization is increasingly drivi…
Power Relations and Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Strategies for Capturing Value in Global Production Networks: Visual Effects (VFX) Service Firms in the Hollywood Film Industry
Power relations and small and medium-sized enterprise strategies for capturing value in global production networks: visual effects (VFX) service firms in the Hollywood film industry, Regional Studies. This paper provides insights into the way in which non-lead firms manoeuvre in global value chains in the pursuit of a larger share of revenue and how power relations affect these manoeuvres. It examines the nature of value capture and power relatio…
Public health communication in Canada during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study suggests that increased federal guidance with wider jurisdictional collaboration backed by transparent evidence could improve the effectiveness of communication practices by instilling public trust and adherence with public health measures. Effective communication should be transparent, supported by reliable evidence, prompt, clear, consistent, and sensitive to diverse values. Improved communication training, established engagement inf…
Explaining contradictions in film and television industry policy: Ideas and incremental policy change through layering and drift
Cultural policy debates have intensified in recent years as the dual pressures of globalization and technological change have challenged traditional concerns with romantic notions of culture. The article shows that ideas play a role in film and television industry policy in Australia, not just as disruptive forces at moments of crisis, but in the process of incremental policy change through the mechanisms of layering and drift. The article draws …
An actor-oriented perspective on innovation systems: Functional analysis of drivers and barriers to innovation and technology adoption in the mining sector
The state and the extractive industries in Australia: Growth for whose benefit
Support for International Collaboration in Research: The Role of the Overseas Offices of Basic Science Funders
The internationalization of science has prompted major science funding agencies to seek to further international cooperation in basic research through the use of outposts based outside of the agency's home country. While these offices are all international in scope, the strategies and utilization of these offices vary. This paper begins by outlining the motivations and theoretical framework for international offices, drawing specifically from a p…
Evolution and change in industrial clusters: An analysis of Hsinchu and Sophia Antipolis
The aim of this paper is to advance understandings of the processes of cluster-building and evolution, or transformative and adaptive change, through the conscious design and reflective activities of private and public actors. A model of transformation is developed which illustrates the importance of actors becoming exposed to new ideas and visions for industrial change by political entrepreneurs and external networks. Further, actors must be gui…
The National Nanotechnology Initiative: Federal support for science and technology, or hidden industrial policy
Small is not Necessarily Beautiful: An Evaluation of Policy Support for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Australia
One of the key strategies of the current Commonwealth government in Australia is to promote a dynamic entrepreneurial culture by improving the business environment for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This paper evaluates the contribution of SMEs to innovation and employment in Australia and reviews the international evidence on the value of SMEs. It concludes that a very small percentage of SMEs are responsible for most of the employme…
Industry Policy Is Not a Riddle: A Comment on Jenny Stewart
(1997). Industry Policy Is Not a Riddle: A Comment on Jenny Stewart. Australian Journal of Political Science: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 111-120
Financial responsibility, financial context, and ambulatory blood pressure in early middle-aged African-American women
Enterprise Policy and the Metagovernance of Firm Capabilities
The underlying logic of enterprise policy is that there are impediments to change in economic systems that can be traced to the path-dependent behaviors of economic actors that prevent them from exploring new knowledge and new ways of doing things. Enterprise policy involves firm-level interventions delivered by distributed networks of business advisors coordinated by knowledge intermediaries. These metagovernance arrangements are able to disrupt…
Multi‐level order, friction and contradiction: The evolution of Australian film industry policy
Cultural policy studies have previously highlighted the importance of multiple logics, friction and contradiction in cultural policy. Recent developments in institutional theory provide a framework for analysing change in cultural policy which explores movement between these multiple and sometimes contradictory logics. This paper analyses the role of friction in the evolution of Australian film industry policy and in particular the tension betwee…
Do Australian public sector employees have the type of culture they want in the era of new public management
New public management theory proposes that public sector organisations should be managed more like private sector organisations. It is therefore expected that public sector managers will have preferences for an organisational culture that will reflect the culture of private sector organisations, with an external rather than internal orientation. The current research investigated the idea that managers' perceptions of ideal organisational culture …
Industry Policy Is Not a Riddle: A Comment on Jenny Stewart
(1997). Industry Policy Is Not a Riddle: A Comment on Jenny Stewart. Australian Journal of Political Science: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 111-120
Energy and the Environment: The Limits of Australian Public Policy
An analysis of recent policy developments that seek to address the ecological impact of energy reveals a major short-fall in Australian public policy. Notwithstanding some important recent initiatives Australia's general environmental policy performance continues to lag significantly behind that of the international community. This short-fall is explained, in large part due to the dominance of neo-liberalism over much of Australia's policy regime…
Small is not Necessarily Beautiful: An Evaluation of Policy Support for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Australia
One of the key strategies of the current Commonwealth government in Australia is to promote a dynamic entrepreneurial culture by improving the business environment for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This paper evaluates the contribution of SMEs to innovation and employment in Australia and reviews the international evidence on the value of SMEs. It concludes that a very small percentage of SMEs are responsible for most of the employme…
The Myth of the Entrepreneurial Economy: Employment and Innovation in Small Firms
Over the last three decades, modern capitalist economies have experienced significant changes in the structure of industry, the nature of production and the organisation of work. There has been a decline in traditional industries such as manufacturing, construction and mining and a growth in social, personal, financial and commercial services, as well as a stabilisation or decline in public employment (Ebbinghaus and Visser 1999:141–2). Technolog…
Foundations of technology development, innovation and competitiveness in the globalised knowledge economy
With the growth of high‐technology industries and knowledge intensive services, the pursuit of industrial competitiveness has progressed from a broad concern with the processes of industrialisation to a more focused analysis of the factors explaining cross‐national variation in the level of participation in knowledge industries. From an examination of cross‐national data, the paper develops the proposition that particular elements of the domestic…
Explaining Regional Departures from National Patterns of Industry Specialization: Regional Institutions, Policies and State Coordination
The aim of the paper is to identify the basis of regional competence in industry sectors that are not key performers at the national level. The paper examines the ICT sector in two regions: Dresden (Germany) and Adelaide (Australia). The performance of Australia and Germany in ICT is not high by OECD standards. However, both Dresden and Adelaide have some competence in parts of the ICT sector that departs from national patterns. In Dresden the de…
Do Australian public sector employees have the type of culture they want in the era of new public management
New public management theory proposes that public sector organisations should be managed more like private sector organisations. It is therefore expected that public sector managers will have preferences for an organisational culture that will reflect the culture of private sector organisations, with an external rather than internal orientation. The current research investigated the idea that managers' perceptions of ideal organisational culture …
New Technology @ Work
New computer and communications technologies have acted as the catalyst for a revolution in the way goods are produced and services delivered, leading to profound changes in the way work is organized and the way jobs are designed. This important book examines the nature, setting and impact of new technologies on work, organization and management. Conventional debates about new technology often invoke optimistic visions of enhanced democracy, risi…
Networked Governance or Just Networks? Local Governance of the Knowledge Economy in Limerick (Ireland) and Karlskrona (Sweden)
The emergence of networked governance of knowledge activities is portrayed as one component of a more general shift from government to governance. This article suggests that a distinction can be drawn between networks and networked governance and provides some insights into the indicators that might help distinguish networked governance from networks. The distinction is applied empirically to emerging forms of local networks in ICT in Limerick an…
Explaining contradictions in film and television industry policy: Ideas and incremental policy change through layering and drift
Cultural policy debates have intensified in recent years as the dual pressures of globalization and technological change have challenged traditional concerns with romantic notions of culture. The article shows that ideas play a role in film and television industry policy in Australia, not just as disruptive forces at moments of crisis, but in the process of incremental policy change through the mechanisms of layering and drift. The article draws …
Multi‐level order, friction and contradiction: The evolution of Australian film industry policy
Cultural policy studies have previously highlighted the importance of multiple logics, friction and contradiction in cultural policy. Recent developments in institutional theory provide a framework for analysing change in cultural policy which explores movement between these multiple and sometimes contradictory logics. This paper analyses the role of friction in the evolution of Australian film industry policy and in particular the tension betwee…
Evolution and change in industrial clusters: An analysis of Hsinchu and Sophia Antipolis
The aim of this paper is to advance understandings of the processes of cluster-building and evolution, or transformative and adaptive change, through the conscious design and reflective activities of private and public actors. A model of transformation is developed which illustrates the importance of actors becoming exposed to new ideas and visions for industrial change by political entrepreneurs and external networks. Further, actors must be gui…
The National Nanotechnology Initiative: Federal support for science and technology, or hidden industrial policy
Power Relations and Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Strategies for Capturing Value in Global Production Networks: Visual Effects (VFX) Service Firms in the Hollywood Film Industry
Power relations and small and medium-sized enterprise strategies for capturing value in global production networks: visual effects (VFX) service firms in the Hollywood film industry, Regional Studies. This paper provides insights into the way in which non-lead firms manoeuvre in global value chains in the pursuit of a larger share of revenue and how power relations affect these manoeuvres. It examines the nature of value capture and power relatio…
Developmental state and innovation: Nanotechnology in China
In this article we examine the role of the Chinese government in fostering advances in nanotechnology, while looking at the promises and pitfalls of state-led development in the world's fastest-growing major economy. China, like many countries involved in catch-up development, is convinced that manufacturing prowess alone is not enough to make it a leading economic power in the twenty-first century. Our concern here is how, within the context of …
Learning in and beyond small business advisory programmes
The purpose of this paper is to analyse how participants learn in small business advisory programmes and to explore the impact of these learning programmes on the development of reflective learning dispositions in participants. The research involves two case studies of small business advisory programmes in Queensland, a state of Australia. One involves training in the use of GPS/GIS technology amongst rural SMEs and the other seeks to develop imp…
How Technological Change Affects Power Relations in Global Markets: Remote Developers in the Console and Mobile Games Industry
This paper focuses on Australian development firms in the console and mobile games industry in order to understand how small firms in a geographically remote and marginal position in the global industry are able to relate to global firms and capture revenue share. This paper shows that, while technological change in the games industry has resulted in the emergence of new industry segments based on transactional rather than relational forms of eco…
Support for International Collaboration in Research: The Role of the Overseas Offices of Basic Science Funders
The internationalization of science has prompted major science funding agencies to seek to further international cooperation in basic research through the use of outposts based outside of the agency's home country. While these offices are all international in scope, the strategies and utilization of these offices vary. This paper begins by outlining the motivations and theoretical framework for international offices, drawing specifically from a p…
The dynamics of global visual effects and games development industries: Lessons for Australia’s creative industries development policy
The paper critiques the focus of creative industries policy on capability development of small and medium sized firms and the provision of regional incentives. It analyses factors affecting the competitiveness and sustainability of the games development industry and visual effects suppliers to feature films. Interviews with participants in these industries highlight the need for policy instruments to take into consideration the structure and orga…
Enterprise Policy and the Metagovernance of Firm Capabilities
The underlying logic of enterprise policy is that there are impediments to change in economic systems that can be traced to the path-dependent behaviors of economic actors that prevent them from exploring new knowledge and new ways of doing things. Enterprise policy involves firm-level interventions delivered by distributed networks of business advisors coordinated by knowledge intermediaries. These metagovernance arrangements are able to disrupt…
Nanotechnology in Mexico: Key Findings Based on OECD Criteria
Interrogating Creative Theory and Creative Work: Inside the Games Studio
The expansion of creative and cultural industries has provided a rich source for theoretical claims and commentary. Much of this reproduces and extends the idea that autonomy is the defining feature of both enterprises and workers. Drawing on evidence from research into Australian development studios in the global digital games industry, the article interrogates claims concerning autonomy and related issues of insecurity and intensity, skill and …
Financialization and Value-based Control: Lessons from the Australian Mining Supply Chain
Lead firms operate on multiple scales, and although their corporate functions may be globally organized, they are anchored in various territories through the formation of relations with local suppliers, some of whom have specialized knowledge, capabilities, or technologies that are essential to the lead firms’ business activities. Global value chain and global production network analyses have recognized that financialization is increasingly drivi…
Loss to follow-up among female sex workers in Zambia: Findings from a five-year HIV-incidence cohort
HIV-incidence studies are used to identify at-risk populations for HIV-prevention trials and interventions, but loss to follow-up (LTFU) can bias results if participants who remain differ from those who drop out. We investigated the incidence of and factors associated with LTFU among Zambian female sex workers (FSWs) in an HIV-incidence cohort from 2012 to 2017. Enrolled participants returned at month one, month three and quarterly thereafter. FS…
The state and the extractive industries in Australia: Growth for whose benefit
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