David Wilkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Wilkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilkinson |
| SIGNATURE | WILKINSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5934-3540 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
UK junior doctors’ strikes and patients with cancer: A morally questionable association
Doctors’ strikes are legally permissible in the UK, with the situation differing in other countries. But are they morally permissible? Doug McConnell and Darren Mann have systematically attempted to dismiss the arguments for the moral impermissibility of doctors’ strikes and creatively attempted to provide further moral justification for them. Unfortunately for striking doctors, they fail to achieve this. Meanwhile, junior doctors’ strikes have c…
The gender wage gap across life: Effects of genetic predisposition towards higher educational attainment
Using two polygenic scores (PGS) for educational attainment in a biomedical study of all those born in a single week in Great Britain in 1958 we show that the genetic predisposition for educational attainment is associated with labour market participation and wages over the life-course for men and women. Those with a higher PGS spend more time in employment and full-time employment and, when in employment, earn higher hourly wages. The employment…
Living With Spasticity During the Covid‐19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Patient, Carer and Physician Experiences
BACKGROUND: Approximately 4.4 million people in England (8% of the total population) are living with a long-term neurological condition. Within this group of vulnerable individuals, there will be individuals living with severe spasticity that requires regular outpatient treatment with botulinum toxin injection. The closure of outpatient spasticity services during the pandemic impacted individuals who required spasticity treatment and their carers…
Leveraging telehealth platforms to provide immediate access to virtual care for clients testing positive to Covid whilst isolating at home
Introduction/background summary: The Covid Positive Pathways Program (C+PP) Victoria's North-East Metro region, utilised telehealth to provide immediate virtual care to clients infected with COVID while isolating at home. This presentation focuses on the service model delivered across primary, community and hospital care settings, highlighting how the Community Health sector worked collaboratively to ensure timely and integrated care for Victoria…
Co‐creating system‐wide improvement for people with traumatic brain injury across one integrated care system in the United Kingdom to initiate a transformation journey through co‐production
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: There is a need for better integration of services across communities and sectors for people living with traumatic brain injury (TBI) to meet their complex needs. Building on insights gained from earlier pilot work, here we report the outcomes of a participatory workshop that sought to better understand the challenges, barriers and opportunities that currently exist within the care pathway for survivors of TBI. METHODS: …
The Power Configurations of the Central Civilization/World System in the Eighth Century
Mark E. Smith, Brexit Britain and the Aesthetics and Politics of the Working Class Weird
This article develops my existing published work on The Fall, which seeks to examine the consequences of Mark E. Smith’s classed, educational and regional formation on the band’s aesthetics and politics. I think through these latter categories both as they unfolded during The Fall’s post-punk peak and as they signify in the present, bridging this gap through the elaboration of the concept of ‘the working class weird’. Over the past decade, the wo…
The gender gap in wages over the life course: Evidence from a British cohort born in 1958
We trace the gender wage gap (GWG) though a mid‐life peak for a cohort born in Britain in 1958 (National Child Development Study) to quantify their life‐course experience of equal and unequal opportunities. Taking hourly pay of full‐timers and part‐timers together, an initial gap between men and women widened substantially during childrearing years. Much, but not all, of the GWG is attributable to divergent work experience, especially in mid‐life…
Work-Life Imbalance in Extended Working Lives: Domestic Divisions of Labour and Partners’ Perceptions of Job Pressures of Non-Retiring Older Workers
Extending working lives prolongs existing patterns of time spent in work or with family into later life. Analysis of European Social Survey data shows a widening in inequitable domestic divisions of labour in households with post-retirement age workers. We explore partners’ perceptions of older workers’ job pressures when close to or beyond retirement age. Partners’ concerns about job pressures are found not to be immediately associated with ineq…
Does it threaten the status quo?’ Elite responses to British punk, 1976–1978
The emergence of punk in Britain (1976–1978) is recalled and documented as a moment of rebellion, one in which youth culture was seen to challenge accepted values and forms of behaviour, and to set in motion a new kind of cultural politics. In this article we do two things. First, we ask how far punk's challenge extended. Did it penetrate those political, cultural and social elites against which it set itself? And second, we reflect on the proble…
I Wanna See Some History’: Recent Writing on British Punk
Tucked away on the b-side of the Sex Pistols’ third single, ‘Pretty Vacant’ (1977), is a cover version of The Stooges’ ‘No Fun’. The song had long been a staple of the Pistols’ live set; on record, however, Johnny Rotten chose to open the track with a diatribe against those attempting to imbue the punk culture he helped instigate with broader socio-economic, cultural or political implications. ‘Here we go now’, he snarled, ‘a sociology lecture, w…
Hominin home ranges and habitat variability: Exploring modern African analogues using remote sensing
A Re‐examination of the Impact of the UK National Minimum Wage on Employment
Early work on the national minimum wage ( NMW ) suggested that policymakers in the UK had succeeded in raising the pay of low‐paid workers without impairing their employment prospects. This paper shows that when we focus on the most vulnerable workers, part‐time females, the NMW appears to be associated with reductions in employment retention. These negative impacts were evident when the NMW was introduced and also when it was increased faster th…
Uma Visão Poderosa: O Poder afecta o comportamento de busca visual
Estudos preliminares demonstram que a posição de poder que os indivíduos ocupam afecta a sua capacidade de focalizarem a atenção em informação relevante para a tarefa. O presente artigo investiga as componentes da atenção que são afectadas pelo poder, utilizando tarefas de busca visual. Em três estudos, os participantes foram inicialmente primados com o conceito de poder ou de subordinação e efectuaram tarefas de busca visual. Nestas tarefas, a c…
How Quickly Can You Detect it: Power Facilitates Attentional Orienting
This study investigated how power impacts the ability to orient attention across space. Participants were assigned to a high-power or control role and then performed a computerized spatial cueing task that required them to direct their attention to a target preceded by either a valid or invalid location cue. Compared to participants in the control condition, power holders were better at overriding the misinformation provided by invalid cues. This…
Student Perceptions of the Impact of Bursaries and Institutional Aid on their Higher Education Choices and the Implications for the National Scholarship Programme in England
Variable tuition fees and bursaries, funded by higher education institutions, were introduced in England to promote student choice and provider competition, while bursaries would off-set higher fees and safeguard access. Both have been central to government reforms of undergraduate student funding since 2004. This article assesses student perceptions of the impact of bursaries on their higher education decisions and choices, and considers the imp…
Using student-generated questions for student-centred assessment
In small groups, medical students were involved in generating questions to contribute to an online item bank. This study sought to support collaborative question‐writing and enhance students’ metacognitive abilities, in particular, their ability to self‐regulate learning and moderate understanding of subject material. The study focused on supporting students to write questions requiring higher order cognitive processes. End‐of‐year formal examina…
God, Humanity and the Cosmos - 3rd edition: A Textbook in Science and Religion
This work is a fully updated new edition of this best-selling textbook in science and religion. This fully revised and updated edition of "God, Humanity and the Cosmos" includes new chapters by John Hedley Brooke, Paul D. Murray and David Wilkinson. In addition to a systematic exploration of contemporary perspectives in physics, evolutionary biology and psychology as they relate to theological descriptions of the universe, humanity and consciousn…
Christian Eschatology and the Physical Universe
Does matter matter? The scientific picture of the end of the physical Universe has undergone dramatic changes since the turn of the 21st century, with its future characterized by accelerated expansion and futility. Yet Christian theology has been largely silent on this, despite the interest in eschatology in popular culture and in theology itself. What can Christian theology learn from and contribute to the scientific picture of the future of the…
Researching Personal Information on the Public Web: Methods and Ethics
There are many personal and social issues that are rarely discussed in public and hence are difficult to study. Recently, however, the huge uptake of blogs, forums, and social network sites has created spaces in which previously private topics are publicly discussed, giving a new opportunity for researchers investigating such topics. This article describes a range of simple techniques to access personal information relevant to social research que…
Is it consumer or community participation? Examining the links between 'community' and 'participation
In writing about community participation in health, the term ‘community’ is used loosely and ambiguously. On analysis, it appears that there is a conceptual shift in health policy to thinking about involvement of consumers in health planning and programs rather than communities. This shift is consistent with a managerialist approach to planning health service delivery. Participative processes are perceived as being initiated and directed by healt…
The Essential Guide to Postgraduate Study
Why Read this Book? The Target Audience Developments in Postgraduate Study Where to Study and Apply for Funding Developing Proposals Finding your Feet The Culture of Academia Reading and Searching for Information and Seeking Advice Managing your Time, Academic Writing and Presenting your Work Working with your Supervisor Working with other Researchers Career Planning Publishing Opportunities
Working With Other Researchers
Analysis of Power-Structure Fluctuations in the "Longue Durée" of the South Asian World System
A time series of political power configurations of the Indic world system 500 BC - AD 1800 is examined by way of Poisson process analysis, phase transition analysis, Markov process analysis, mathematical modeling and simulation, information theory, analysis of autocorrelation, periodogrammetry, and time-spectral analysis (including epoch superposition). The Indic system displays an unusual propensity toward bipolarity and unipolarity. The behavio…
The Power Configuration Sequence of the Central World System, 1500-700 BC
This article is the fifth in a series in which the political careers of civilizations/world systems receive snapshot codings of their overall power structures at feasible intervals. The narratives are produced by collating histories with large frames of reference. The codings are done using a nominal variable, polarity, with seven available values. Previous articles in the series have examined the Indic system 550 bc ad 1800, the Far Eastern 1025…
Researching Personal Information on the Public Web: Methods and Ethics
There are many personal and social issues that are rarely discussed in public and hence are difficult to study. Recently, however, the huge uptake of blogs, forums, and social network sites has created spaces in which previously private topics are publicly discussed, giving a new opportunity for researchers investigating such topics. This article describes a range of simple techniques to access personal information relevant to social research que…
Unipolarity Without Hegemony
The current power configuration of the world system is unipolarity without hegemony. Nonhegemonic unipolarity is understudied, and deserves study. A few previous instances can be found in the history of the Central world system: they are usually brief, associated with intense warfare, hegemonism, counteralliance, exhaustion, and collapse into multipolarity. In other world systems, however, nonhegemonic unipolarity has been more frequent, more dur…
Deadly Quarrels: Lewis F. Richardson and the Statistical Study of War
Trade Unions and Training Practices in British Workplaces
The authors use British establishment-level data from the 1991 Employers' Manpower and Skills Practices Survey (EMSPS) and individual-level data from the Autumn 1993 Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) to investigate the links between training provision and workplace unionization. Both the probability of receiving training and the amount of training received are found to have been substantially higher in unionized than in nonunion workplaces. Th…
Student Perceptions of the Impact of Bursaries and Institutional Aid on their Higher Education Choices and the Implications for the National Scholarship Programme in England
Variable tuition fees and bursaries, funded by higher education institutions, were introduced in England to promote student choice and provider competition, while bursaries would off-set higher fees and safeguard access. Both have been central to government reforms of undergraduate student funding since 2004. This article assesses student perceptions of the impact of bursaries on their higher education decisions and choices, and considers the imp…
The gender gap in wages over the life course: Evidence from a British cohort born in 1958
We trace the gender wage gap (GWG) though a mid‐life peak for a cohort born in Britain in 1958 (National Child Development Study) to quantify their life‐course experience of equal and unequal opportunities. Taking hourly pay of full‐timers and part‐timers together, an initial gap between men and women widened substantially during childrearing years. Much, but not all, of the GWG is attributable to divergent work experience, especially in mid‐life…
Hominin home ranges and habitat variability: Exploring modern African analogues using remote sensing
How Did They Pass the Union?’: Secret Service Expenditure in Ireland, 1799–1804
Making use of new evidence, this article re‐examines the extent to which corrupt means were employed to secure the Irish union in 1800. It is divided into three sections. The first analyses the failure of the first attempt at union in 1799; the second reveals the details of serious financial irregularities which accompanied the passage of union the following year, and traces the elaborate cover‐up of illegal use of British secret service money in…
A Re‐examination of the Impact of the UK National Minimum Wage on Employment
Early work on the national minimum wage ( NMW ) suggested that policymakers in the UK had succeeded in raising the pay of low‐paid workers without impairing their employment prospects. This paper shows that when we focus on the most vulnerable workers, part‐time females, the NMW appears to be associated with reductions in employment retention. These negative impacts were evident when the NMW was introduced and also when it was increased faster th…
Is it consumer or community participation? Examining the links between 'community' and 'participation
In writing about community participation in health, the term ‘community’ is used loosely and ambiguously. On analysis, it appears that there is a conceptual shift in health policy to thinking about involvement of consumers in health planning and programs rather than communities. This shift is consistent with a managerialist approach to planning health service delivery. Participative processes are perceived as being initiated and directed by healt…
Pregnant women as a reservoir of undetected sexually transmitted diseases in rural South Africa: Implications for disease control
OBJECTIVES: This study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in pregnant women in rural South Africa and to determine the value of using abnormal urogenital symptoms to identify infected women. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study of 327 patients attending prenatal clinics. RESULTS: Of the 271 women with complete data, 141 (52%) had at least 1 STD and 49 (18%) had more than 1. Abnormal symptoms we…
Towards sustainability in the European Union? Steps within the European commission towards integrating the environment into other European Union policy sectors
The principal vehicle employed by the European Union to implement Agenda 21 is the Fifth Environmental Action Programme, Towards Sustainability, which was published by the European Commission in March 1992. A key theme running through the Action programme is the need to integrate the needs of the environment into the development and implementation of other policies, particularly in five key sectors ‐agriculture, energy, industry, transport and to…
World-Economic Theories and Problems: Quigley vs. Wallerstein vs Central Civilization
This is one in a series of papers on civilizational issues. Its predecessors have argued for the existence of a world system/civilization, "Central Civilization," born regionally in the Middle East about 1500 B.C. in the collision of two smaller, expanding local civilizations, expanded throughout the globe, engulfing all competing civilizations to become the unique global social system in the last 100-150 years. If continuing social struggles bot…
Human sociogeophysics — Phase I: Explaining the macroscopic patterns of man on earth
How Quickly Can You Detect it: Power Facilitates Attentional Orienting
This study investigated how power impacts the ability to orient attention across space. Participants were assigned to a high-power or control role and then performed a computerized spatial cueing task that required them to direct their attention to a target preceded by either a valid or invalid location cue. Compared to participants in the control condition, power holders were better at overriding the misinformation provided by invalid cues. This…
The Power Configuration Sequence of the Central World System, 1500-700 BC
This article is the fifth in a series in which the political careers of civilizations/world systems receive snapshot codings of their overall power structures at feasible intervals. The narratives are produced by collating histories with large frames of reference. The codings are done using a nominal variable, polarity, with seven available values. Previous articles in the series have examined the Indic system 550 bc ad 1800, the Far Eastern 1025…
Exploiting Hyperlinks to Study Academic Web Use
Hyperlinks have attracted a lot of attention over the past 7 years, from computer scientists, information scientists, physicists, and sociologists, all using them for different purposes. In this article, the authors review recent progress from the information science approach and summarize current techniques for extracting usable information from web links. The description is particularly aimed at those unfamiliar with the literature but who neve…
The Status of the Far Eastern Civilization/World System: Evidence from City Data
T. Chandler s city data are used to inquire whether, and when, East Asia was a world system in itself, or part of a larger Old World world-system; and whether, and when, the east end of the Old World oikumene was more advanced than the west end. On the available data, (1) A.G. Frank s thesis of a single Old World world-system is less well supported than the thesis of a long coexistence of a plurality of world systems, including a separate Far Eas…
World-Economic Theories and Problems: Quigley vs. Wallerstein vs Central Civilization
This is one in a series of papers on civilizational issues. Its predecessors have argued for the existence of a world system/civilization, "Central Civilization," born regionally in the Middle East about 1500 B.C. in the collision of two smaller, expanding local civilizations, expanded throughout the globe, engulfing all competing civilizations to become the unique global social system in the last 100-150 years. If continuing social struggles bot…
The discovery of an early 18th-century boat in Lough Neagh
Improving vasectomy services in Kenya: Lessons from a mystery client study
Much has been done to improve quality of care for women seeking family planning services,1 but less is known about quality of care for men in those services. With this in mind, researchers in Kenya designed a mystery clientstudy, in which men posed as potential vasectomy clients at clinics in different parts of the country. There was wide variation in how men were treated. Positive experiences included a courteous reception, full information on v…
Cambridge Water Company v Eastern Counties Leather plc. Diluting Liability for Continuing Escapes
World Order Models Project: First Fruits
Individuality, a basic concept in educational theory and practice
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Changing Currents in Anglo‐Saxon Studies. An Inaugural Lecture by DOROTHY WHITELOCK, Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo‐Saxon in the University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1958. 32 pp. Price 3s. 6d. net. The English Syntactical Type One the Best Man and its Occurrence in other Germanic Languages. By TAUNO F. MUS‐TANOJA. (Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki, XX, 5, 1958.) 55 pp. THOMAS DEKKER, Le Jour de Fête de…
Malraux, Revolutionist and Minister
For seven years now Andre Malraux has been Minister of State for Cultural Affairs in the Fifth Republic. In this capacity he has played a bureaucratic role, and a dramatic one: he administers culture to the French people; he is also a high priest of their history. To explain the existence of these posts to 'Anglo-Saxons' would be the task of the commentator on this particular ministry; to explain why Malraux fills them and to what end, the task o…
Malraux: An Essay in Political Criticism
New Approaches to Chinese Foreign Policy
World Order Models Project: First Fruits
Deadly Quarrels: Lewis F. Richardson and the Statistical Study of War
Human sociogeophysics — Phase I: Explaining the macroscopic patterns of man on earth
Spykman and Geopolitics
Human sociogeophysics ? Phase II (continued): Criticality in the diffusion of ethnicity produces civil society
Blake's ‘Songs’: Taking stock, 1984
Etherege and a restoration pattern of Wit
Approaches from an International Relations Tradition
Approaches from an International Relations Tradition Get access George Modelski, George Modelski University of Washington, United States Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Wilkinson David Wilkinson University of California-Los Angeles, United States Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mershon International Studies Review, Volume 38, Issue Supplement_2, October 1994, …
Cambridge Water Company v Eastern Counties Leather plc. Diluting Liability for Continuing Escapes
From Mesopotamia through Carroll Quigley to Bill Clinton: World Historical Systems, the Civilizationist, and the President
The noted comparative civilizationist and world-historical systems analyst Carroll Quigley, whose theorizing rested on the whole historical span from Mesopotamia to the 1960's, was a teacher well-remembered by his student Bill Clinton. Quigley, by an intensive process of reduction, or rather idealization, of masses of historical data, derived a procedure for the diagnosis and therapy of ailing civilizations/world-systems, especially the one which…
The Fitzwilliam episode, 1795: A reinterpretation of the role of the duke of Portland
This doggerel vindication of Fitzwilliam’s Irish viceroyalty of 1795 gave one contemporary interpretation of this controversial episode. Such a favourable verdict was far from universal at the time and subsequently has been seriously questioned by historians. In one respect, however, this verse succinctly highlighted one of the most striking features of the Fitzwilliam episode. It appeared that the lord lieutenant had been recalled before ‘he sca…
World-Economic Theories and Problems: Quigley vs. Wallerstein vs Central Civilization
This is one in a series of papers on civilizational issues. Its predecessors have argued for the existence of a world system/civilization, "Central Civilization," born regionally in the Middle East about 1500 B.C. in the collision of two smaller, expanding local civilizations, expanded throughout the globe, engulfing all competing civilizations to become the unique global social system in the last 100-150 years. If continuing social struggles bot…
The discovery of an early 18th-century boat in Lough Neagh
Fieldwork grants: Survey and excavation at Insula I.iv, Ostia
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World-Economic Theories and Problems: Quigley vs. Wallerstein vs Central Civilization
This is one in a series of papers on civilizational issues. Its predecessors have argued for the existence of a world system/civilization, "Central Civilization," born regionally in the Middle East about 1500 B.C. in the collision of two smaller, expanding local civilizations, expanded throughout the globe, engulfing all competing civilizations to become the unique global social system in the last 100-150 years. If continuing social struggles bot…
Improving vasectomy services in Kenya: Lessons from a mystery client study
Much has been done to improve quality of care for women seeking family planning services,1 but less is known about quality of care for men in those services. With this in mind, researchers in Kenya designed a mystery clientstudy, in which men posed as potential vasectomy clients at clinics in different parts of the country. There was wide variation in how men were treated. Positive experiences included a courteous reception, full information on v…
Reducing Perinatal Mortality in Developing Countries
The perinatal mortality rate (PNMR) is a key health status indicator. It is multifactorial in aetiology and is significantly influenced by the quality of health care. While there is an ethical imperative to act to improve quality of care when deficiencies are apparent, the lack of controls--when an interventions is applied to an entire service--makes it difficult to infer a causal relationship between the intervention and any subsequent change in…
Fieldwork Grants: Excavation and building survey in Insula I.iv, Ostia
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On-site HIV Testing in Resource-poor Settings: Is One Rapid Test Enough
Objective: To determine the feasibility, accuracy and cost-effectiveness of a rapid, on-site, HIV testing strategy in a rural hospital, and to assess its impact on test turnaround time and the proportion of patients post-test counselled. Design: Prospective comparison of two testing strategies |double rapid test on-site versus central enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)-based testing|, and an economic evaluation. Setting: Hlabisa Hospital, …
How Did They Pass the Union?’: Secret Service Expenditure in Ireland, 1799–1804
Making use of new evidence, this article re‐examines the extent to which corrupt means were employed to secure the Irish union in 1800. It is divided into three sections. The first analyses the failure of the first attempt at union in 1799; the second reveals the details of serious financial irregularities which accompanied the passage of union the following year, and traces the elaborate cover‐up of illegal use of British secret service money in…
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