Mary Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3582220 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Moana Connect |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-1833-7441 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Digifale a Mobile Health Literacy Programme for Pacific Communities: A Pilot Study
Background: In an increasingly digitalised world, the ability of older adults to effectively utilise digital devices and navigate online health information has become crucial for maintaining their wellbeing and independence. The DIGIFALE programme was developed to improve the mobile literacy skills of Pacific communities in recognition of the digital shift required because of COVID‐19. Objective: To test the acceptability and impact of DIGIFALE—a…
The long-term effects of housing insecurity in young adulthood on subsequent material hardship, physiological and mental health
Economic and material hardship, including housing insecurity - limited or uncertain availability or access to safe, quality, and affordable housing - is strongly linked to negative physical and mental health outcomes among adolescents and adults. However, data limitations and the inherent selectivity of housing insecurity have hindered comprehensive analysis of its long-term effects on physiological and mental health. This study uses data from Th…
Living with dementia in Aotearoa New Zealand: Samoan families' perspectives
There is very little research about dementia in Aotearoa (New Zealand) New Zealand (NZ) Pacific communities, but information available suggests that Pacific people are presenting with dementia at a younger age and with more severe cognitive symptoms than do non-Pacific. The Samoan ethnic group is NZ's largest Pacific population. This study explores experiences and understanding of dementia from family sessions with 25 people from 10 Samoan famili…
Exploring Correlates of Student Preferences for Virtual or In-Class Learning among Neurodiverse Adolescents Using a Single-Case Design Methodology
The purpose of the current study is to explore several correlates of adolescent students’ preferences for at-home virtual or in-class in-person learning in a single case of a school that serves students with learning differences. Correlates of interest were the Big Five personality traits (Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism) and the students’ self-reported learning engagement. Participants were rec…
Navigating digital inclusion and the digital vā among Niue mamatua through the provision of mobile phones during Covid-19
Technology and digital platforms have become essential for people and communities to interact because of COVID-19. Despite its benefits, digital exclusion disproportionately affects Pacific communities living in New Zealand. This article provides insights into how Niue mamatua (older adults) used their gifted mobile phones and mobile data as part of a COVID-19 digital inclusion initiative. It begins with an overview of the digital inclusion needs…
Worlding on the Hudson: Frederic Church and Global Histories of Art
The ‘Persian’ interior of the American landscape painter Frederic Church is a place crowded with paintings, objects and architectural ornament orchestrated as an installation that the artist both accrued and designed over a thirty‐year period. This regional orientalism, with its cosmopolitan claims and internationally networked cultural politics, is located outside Britain's geographic imperium but within its economic networks, unsettling the bou…
Bourdieu: A Critical Introduction
Throughout his career, French philosopher Pierre Bourdieu sought to interrogate what he described as the 'social unconscious', the means by which power is held and transmitted across generations. Bourdieu's work has been hugely influential in disciplines across the social sciences and humanities for decades, yet Schirato and Roberts argue that few scholars are using his work to its full potential.Bourdieu's work is so wide-ranging that commentary…
Changes in Depression and Stress after Release from a Tobacco-Free Prison in the United States
Prior research has found high levels of depression and stress among persons who are incarcerated in the United States (U.S.). However, little is known about changes in depression and stress levels among inmates post-incarceration. The aim of this study was to examine changes in levels of depression and stress during and after incarceration in a tobacco-free facility. Questionnaires that included valid and reliable measures of depression and stres…
The Annals of My Village: Being a Calendar of Nature, for Every Month in the Year
The writer Mary Roberts (1788–1864) developed an interest in natural history while growing up in the Gloucestershire countryside. This work of observations on wildlife, plants and the weather, though written while she was living in the village of Sheepscombe, near Painswick, was not published until 1831, some time after she had moved to London with her widowed mother and was a published author. Each chapter is devoted to a month of the year, and …
Annals of My Village: Being a Calendar of Nature, for Every Month in the Year
Nazlı's photographic games: Said and art history in a contrapuntal mode
Through a focus on photographic portraits commissioned in the late nineteenth century by the Ottoman-Egyptian Princess Nazlı Hanım, Roberts analyses the ways they tested Ottoman and western conventions. An examination of Nazlı's strategic engagement with photography in this period positions her within the often-separated domains of Egyptian nationalism, Ottoman political reform, western Orientalist art and a proto-feminist moment of Egyptian wome…
Prenatal methamphetamine exposure, home environment, and primary caregiver risk factors predict child behavioral problems at 5 years
This study investigated the prospective association between prenatal methamphetamine (MA) exposure and child behavioral problems at 5 years while also examining the home environment at 30 months and several primary caregiver (PC) risk factors. Participants were 97 MA-exposed and 117 comparison children and their PCs enrolled in the Infant Development, Environment and Lifestyle Study. Hypotheses were that child behaviors would be adversely impacte…
Networked Objects
Over the last decade an approach to 19th-century visual culture that focuses on cross-cultural contact and exchange has begun to supplement an earlier model of Orientalist critique focused primarily on the iconographic analysis of European Orientalist tropes and stereotypes. In this essay I engage with these discussions by analyzing what I will call networked objects. Tracking the mobility of art works and artifacts across cultural boundaries and…
Is the association between optimistic cardiovascular risk perceptions and lower rates of cardiovascular disease mortality explained by biomarkers of systemic inflammation or endothelial function? A ca…
BACKGROUND: More optimistic perceptions of cardiovascular disease risk are associated with substantively lower rates of cardiovascular death among men. It remains unknown whether this association represents causality (i.e. perception leads to actions/conditions that influence cardiovascular disease occurrence) or residual confounding by unmeasured factors that associate with risk perceptions and with physiological processes that promote cardiovas…
Edges of Empire: Orientalism and Visual Culture
Orientalism's Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography
Orientalism’s Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography
Until now, Orientalist art—exemplified by paintings of harems, slave markets, or bazaars—has predominantly been understood to reflect Western interpretations and to perpetuate reductive, often demeaning stereotypes of the exotic East. Orientalism's Interlocutors contests the idea that Orientalist art simply expresses the politics of Western domination and argues instead that it was often produced through cross-cultural interactions. Focusing on p…
Social Control Theory and Delinquency
Power and dependence in fiction written by women
Dimensions of Rosenburg's Self-Esteem Scale
The dimensions of Rosenburg's scale of self-esteem (1965) were investigated via principal components and oblique factor analysis. Data from 479 students in a basic speech course yielded a two-factor solution. As the two factors appeared to identify only a response set, it was concluded the scale was unidimensional
Social Control Theory and Delinquency
Orientalism’s Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography
Until now, Orientalist art—exemplified by paintings of harems, slave markets, or bazaars—has predominantly been understood to reflect Western interpretations and to perpetuate reductive, often demeaning stereotypes of the exotic East. Orientalism's Interlocutors contests the idea that Orientalist art simply expresses the politics of Western domination and argues instead that it was often produced through cross-cultural interactions. Focusing on p…
The long-term effects of housing insecurity in young adulthood on subsequent material hardship, physiological and mental health
Economic and material hardship, including housing insecurity - limited or uncertain availability or access to safe, quality, and affordable housing - is strongly linked to negative physical and mental health outcomes among adolescents and adults. However, data limitations and the inherent selectivity of housing insecurity have hindered comprehensive analysis of its long-term effects on physiological and mental health. This study uses data from Th…
Orientalism's Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography
Dimensions of Rosenburg's Self-Esteem Scale
The dimensions of Rosenburg's scale of self-esteem (1965) were investigated via principal components and oblique factor analysis. Data from 479 students in a basic speech course yielded a two-factor solution. As the two factors appeared to identify only a response set, it was concluded the scale was unidimensional
Power and dependence in fiction written by women
Social Control Theory and Delinquency
Orientalism’s Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography
Until now, Orientalist art—exemplified by paintings of harems, slave markets, or bazaars—has predominantly been understood to reflect Western interpretations and to perpetuate reductive, often demeaning stereotypes of the exotic East. Orientalism's Interlocutors contests the idea that Orientalist art simply expresses the politics of Western domination and argues instead that it was often produced through cross-cultural interactions. Focusing on p…
Orientalism's Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography
Edges of Empire: Orientalism and Visual Culture
Is the association between optimistic cardiovascular risk perceptions and lower rates of cardiovascular disease mortality explained by biomarkers of systemic inflammation or endothelial function? A ca…
BACKGROUND: More optimistic perceptions of cardiovascular disease risk are associated with substantively lower rates of cardiovascular death among men. It remains unknown whether this association represents causality (i.e. perception leads to actions/conditions that influence cardiovascular disease occurrence) or residual confounding by unmeasured factors that associate with risk perceptions and with physiological processes that promote cardiovas…
Prenatal methamphetamine exposure, home environment, and primary caregiver risk factors predict child behavioral problems at 5 years
This study investigated the prospective association between prenatal methamphetamine (MA) exposure and child behavioral problems at 5 years while also examining the home environment at 30 months and several primary caregiver (PC) risk factors. Participants were 97 MA-exposed and 117 comparison children and their PCs enrolled in the Infant Development, Environment and Lifestyle Study. Hypotheses were that child behaviors would be adversely impacte…
Networked Objects
Over the last decade an approach to 19th-century visual culture that focuses on cross-cultural contact and exchange has begun to supplement an earlier model of Orientalist critique focused primarily on the iconographic analysis of European Orientalist tropes and stereotypes. In this essay I engage with these discussions by analyzing what I will call networked objects. Tracking the mobility of art works and artifacts across cultural boundaries and…
Nazlı's photographic games: Said and art history in a contrapuntal mode
Through a focus on photographic portraits commissioned in the late nineteenth century by the Ottoman-Egyptian Princess Nazlı Hanım, Roberts analyses the ways they tested Ottoman and western conventions. An examination of Nazlı's strategic engagement with photography in this period positions her within the often-separated domains of Egyptian nationalism, Ottoman political reform, western Orientalist art and a proto-feminist moment of Egyptian wome…
The Annals of My Village: Being a Calendar of Nature, for Every Month in the Year
The writer Mary Roberts (1788–1864) developed an interest in natural history while growing up in the Gloucestershire countryside. This work of observations on wildlife, plants and the weather, though written while she was living in the village of Sheepscombe, near Painswick, was not published until 1831, some time after she had moved to London with her widowed mother and was a published author. Each chapter is devoted to a month of the year, and …
Annals of My Village: Being a Calendar of Nature, for Every Month in the Year
Changes in Depression and Stress after Release from a Tobacco-Free Prison in the United States
Prior research has found high levels of depression and stress among persons who are incarcerated in the United States (U.S.). However, little is known about changes in depression and stress levels among inmates post-incarceration. The aim of this study was to examine changes in levels of depression and stress during and after incarceration in a tobacco-free facility. Questionnaires that included valid and reliable measures of depression and stres…
Bourdieu: A Critical Introduction
Throughout his career, French philosopher Pierre Bourdieu sought to interrogate what he described as the 'social unconscious', the means by which power is held and transmitted across generations. Bourdieu's work has been hugely influential in disciplines across the social sciences and humanities for decades, yet Schirato and Roberts argue that few scholars are using his work to its full potential.Bourdieu's work is so wide-ranging that commentary…
Worlding on the Hudson: Frederic Church and Global Histories of Art
The ‘Persian’ interior of the American landscape painter Frederic Church is a place crowded with paintings, objects and architectural ornament orchestrated as an installation that the artist both accrued and designed over a thirty‐year period. This regional orientalism, with its cosmopolitan claims and internationally networked cultural politics, is located outside Britain's geographic imperium but within its economic networks, unsettling the bou…
Exploring Correlates of Student Preferences for Virtual or In-Class Learning among Neurodiverse Adolescents Using a Single-Case Design Methodology
The purpose of the current study is to explore several correlates of adolescent students’ preferences for at-home virtual or in-class in-person learning in a single case of a school that serves students with learning differences. Correlates of interest were the Big Five personality traits (Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism) and the students’ self-reported learning engagement. Participants were rec…
Navigating digital inclusion and the digital vā among Niue mamatua through the provision of mobile phones during Covid-19
Technology and digital platforms have become essential for people and communities to interact because of COVID-19. Despite its benefits, digital exclusion disproportionately affects Pacific communities living in New Zealand. This article provides insights into how Niue mamatua (older adults) used their gifted mobile phones and mobile data as part of a COVID-19 digital inclusion initiative. It begins with an overview of the digital inclusion needs…
Living with dementia in Aotearoa New Zealand: Samoan families' perspectives
There is very little research about dementia in Aotearoa (New Zealand) New Zealand (NZ) Pacific communities, but information available suggests that Pacific people are presenting with dementia at a younger age and with more severe cognitive symptoms than do non-Pacific. The Samoan ethnic group is NZ's largest Pacific population. This study explores experiences and understanding of dementia from family sessions with 25 people from 10 Samoan famili…
The long-term effects of housing insecurity in young adulthood on subsequent material hardship, physiological and mental health
Economic and material hardship, including housing insecurity - limited or uncertain availability or access to safe, quality, and affordable housing - is strongly linked to negative physical and mental health outcomes among adolescents and adults. However, data limitations and the inherent selectivity of housing insecurity have hindered comprehensive analysis of its long-term effects on physiological and mental health. This study uses data from Th…
Digifale a Mobile Health Literacy Programme for Pacific Communities: A Pilot Study
Background: In an increasingly digitalised world, the ability of older adults to effectively utilise digital devices and navigate online health information has become crucial for maintaining their wellbeing and independence. The DIGIFALE programme was developed to improve the mobile literacy skills of Pacific communities in recognition of the digital shift required because of COVID‐19. Objective: To test the acceptability and impact of DIGIFALE—a…
Art (7 works) · History (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Orientalism (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works)