Julian Williams

Biographic Data

ID3593751
NAMEJulian Williams
GIVEN NAMESJulian
FAMILY NAMEWilliams
SIGNATUREWILLIAMS J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Manchester
ORCID0000-0003-0161-0532
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS49
TOTAL CITATIONS42
AUTHOR COUNT49
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1962
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Land consolidation and rural aging: Challenges and implications in the Red River Delta, Vietnam

    Open AccessQuang Phung, Nga Dao et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2026

    Land fragmentation and rural aging present significant challenges to sustainable agriculture in Vietnam’s Red River Delta (RRD). This study examines how demographic shifts, especially an aging population, interact with land consolidation to shape farming practices and labor dynamics. Using a mixed-methods approach, we surveyed 600 households and conducted 60 in-depth interviews across 13 communes from 2020 to 2022. Using the Kruskal–Wallis test, …

  • Ethical Principles in Legal Context: Vaccine Mandates During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Australia

    Open AccessA Thomasson, Julian Williams et al.ARTICLEJournal of Bioethical Inquiry2026

    Vaccination is both a clinical intervention and a public health tool, creating an inherent tension between individual rights and collective goods in the context of mandatory vaccination policies. There is an additional layer of complexity to this in the context of a significant public health crisis. The law has similarly had to manage the tension between consent and coercion with respect to vaccine mandates. Broadly speaking, “mandatory vaccinati…

  • Assessment of students’ collaborative problem-solving competence with the use of computer-simulated, scenario-based tasks: A systematic literature review

    Open AccessSofia Eleftheriadou, M Pampaka et al.ARTICLEAssessment in Education:…2026

  • Adaptive Learning Partnerships in Action: Insights and Reflections from the MacArthur Foundation’s Big Bet On Nigeria

    Open AccessJulian Williams, Michael MosesARTICLEThe Foundation Review2026

    This article explores the evolution of the authors’ strategic learning partnership during their work together with the MacArthur Foundation’s Big Bet On Nigeria. The authors share practical insights into how foundations can cultivate learning relationships grounded in trust, aligned with priorities of program staff and grantees, and calibrated to generate timely, actionable insights. The authors highlight the key principles that enabled them to h…

  • Beyond the “Child Mental Health Crisis” and Covid-19: An Intersectional, Transgenerational Analysis of Racism and Oppression

    Open AccessArtemis Christinaki, E Burman et al.ARTICLEFeminism & Psychology2025References: 12

    This article engages with issues arising from a 2021–2022 project consulting with Pakistani heritage-identifying adults in an economically deprived British town, Rochdale, to document and communicate their needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. While our original research brief reflected local and national government concerns around the “child mental health crisis,” matters affecting educational practices and other support provisions for children em…

  • Gender Attitudes Within and Between European Countries: Regional Variations Matter

    Open AccessClelia Cascella, M Pampaka et al.ARTICLESAGE Open2024

    The current paper reports systematic variations of people’s attitudes toward gender and gendered roles between countries and regions in Europe, making regional and national comparisons simultaneously visible on the same scale over time. We operationalized the concept of “gender attitudes” by using a fresh combination of items among those administered by the European Values Survey (in 2008 and in 2017) whose sampling strategy is statistically repr…

  • Immunisation coverage and factors associated with incomplete immunisation in children under two during the Covid-19 pandemic in Sierra Leone

    Open AccessMyrte Wassenaar, Augustin E Fombah et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Though full immunisation coverage at district level improved compared with pre-pandemic district estimates from 2019, around one in three surveyed children had missed at least one basic routine vaccination and over half of eligible children had not received the recommended two doses of a measles-containing vaccine. These findings highlight the need to strengthen health systems to improve vaccination uptake in Sierra Leone, and to further explore …

  • Symposium on transactional perspectives and current research in mind, culture, and activity

    A Jornet, Karlyn Adams-Wiggins et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2023References: 8

  • Creative spaces in and beyond education

    Karlyn Adams-Wiggins, Aydin Bal et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2023

    This issue includes a collection of five research articles and a book review that contribute to understanding creativity and equity in contemporary spaces in and beyond education. The issue opens with a paper by Areej Mawasi, William Penuel, and Arturo Cortez, exploring aspects of intergenerational co-design in the context of higher education. The paper, titled “They were learning from us as we were learning from them: perceived experiences in co…

  • Gender differences in mathematics outcomes at different levels of locality to inform policy and practice

    Open AccessClelia Cascella, Julian Williams et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Educational…2022

    This paper reports research into the relationship between personal and contextual variables and gendered differences in students’ attainment in mathematics that take account of ‘place’ at different levels of intra-national locality (i.e. regional and macro-geographical levels, within the same country). A multilevel analysis performed on secondary data collected in Italy, where on average boys outperform girls in mathematics, showed that gender di…

  • No to war

    Sophina Choudry, Arturo Cortez et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2022

  • A breadth of approaches to mind, culture and activity

    Karlyn Adams-Wiggins, Sophina Choudry et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2022

  • Special Issue: “Advancing Funds of Identity Theory”

    Arturo Cortez, Sophina Choudry et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2021

    This special issue on Funds of Identity, guest edited by Moises Esteban-Guitart, is comprised of six research papers and Esteban-Guitart’s response, with collective support from Julian Williams and

  • Scholarship and research in crisis contexts

    Choudy Sophina, Arturo Cortez et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2021

  • Realigning Funds of Identity with struggle against capital: The contradictory unity of use and exchange value in cultural fields

    Open AccessLaura W Black, Laura Black et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2021

    The Funds of Knowledge (FOK) and Funds of Identity (FOI) approaches have demonstrated potential in engaging school curricula with the lived experiences of disadvantaged communities. However, both approaches are not without critique. Our own previous work (drawing on Bourdieu) highlights how FOK/FOI methodologies can result in surfacing exchange value (capital) in the home in ways that re-position some students’ access to the school curriculum, wh…

  • Our commitment at this time of continuing struggle against oppression and structural inequalities

    Beth Ferholt, Ivana Guarrasi et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2021

    To “the fierce urgency of now”(Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘I Have a Dream’ speech at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963)As we continue to confront crises, turmoil, and struggles for justi

  • An Extended Regional Gender Gaps Index (eRGGI): Comparative Measurement of Gender Equality at Different Levels of Regionality

    Open AccessClelia Cascella, Julian Williams et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2021Cited by: 2References: 10

    Gender equality has been widely explored, but there is limited research investigating its variability at regional level. This paper aims to fill this gap by developing and validating a new, regional gender gaps index, compatible with previous indices used to compare gender equality across nations but now fit for the purpose of measuring gender equality across regions, within nations. To this end, we (i) reviewed existing indicators of gender equa…

  • Hegel for social movements

    Antti Rajala, Julian WilliamsARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2020

    “Anyone who is interested in social movements should study Hegel.” This is the opening statement in Andy Blunden’s book Hegel for Social Movements (2019). The book is written for oppressed people f

  • Humanity’s leading activity: Survival, of the humanity of our species

    Beth Ferholt, Ivana Guarrasi et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2020

    In the midst of ongoing and unprecedented global crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, we open the present issue with an editorial call to scholars worldwide about learning in and from th

  • On the compatibility of dialogism and dialectics: The case of mathematics education and professional development

    Julian Williams, Julie RyanARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2020

    We argue that the distinction between dialogue (after Bakhtin) and dialectics (after Hegel, Marx, Vygotsky), is of key importance to learning-teaching and to mathematics education. Some followers of Bakhtin have argued that these concepts are irreconcilable, or incompatible, since dialectics implies and dialogism implicitly denies the requirement of telos (i.e., a targeted endpoint). On the contrary, we argue for compatibility; dialogism can allo…

  • Long-term and current concerns in CHAT scholarship, and a dedication to Gordon Wells

    Beth Ferholt, Ivana Guarrasi et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2020

    In support of social movements that fight for freedom and liberation, and against racial and ecological injustices, we take the opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to scholarship that cares abou

  • Closing a challenging year, strengthening relevant scholarship in cultural studies of mind and activity

    Beth Ferholt, Ivana Guarrasi et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2020

    We end a year marked by a global pandemic that has taken the lives of more than a million people globally, and has exacerbated and made more visible social and economic inequities that disproportio

  • Genetic analyses in sociocultural research across disciplines and practices

    Beth Ferholt, Ivana Guarrasi et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2020

  • Acknowledging changes and the challenges ahead

    Michael S Cole, Michael Cole et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2019

    We live in challenging times. Ongoing problems of social and ecological injustice – exacerbated by the climate crisis, unabashed neoliberalist greed, and the rise of racism and nationalisms across

  • Scholarly work and/as passion

    A Jornet, Angela Booker et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2019

    With regret, we open this issue of Mind, Culture, and Activity acknowledging the loss of Fernando Gonzalez Rey, a deeply human scholar whose work has been central to past and recent developments in