David Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601968 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West of England |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7258-3485 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 298 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 499 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 298 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Seeing is believing: Societal differences in AI awareness and the link to AI-related beliefs
Today, there is a call for a responsible integration of AI into society. Building transparency and explainability into this integration is key, meaning AI should be understandable to end-users. Given the prevalence of AI in everyday technology, this focus on seeing into the black box misses a more fundamental need, that being an initial awareness of its presence. Using survey data collected from Australian ( $$n=303$$ n = 303 ) and UK ( $$n=301$$…
Secondary school teacher attitudes towards inclusive education and their inclusive pedagogical orientation: A comparative study of Australia and China
Viral Suppression Following Same-day Initiation Antiretroviral Therapy among Persons Aware of their Classification as Recent or Long-term Infected with HIV Per Recent Infection Testing Algorithm, Rwan…
Reflections from an Industry and University Youth Justice Partnership
How Old Are You, Boy?’ An Autobiographical History of Working as a Sexual Health Adviser in 1980s Britain
This is an autobiographical history of working as a sexual health adviser in the mid-1980s, a time of significant change in UK sexual health services. There are very few first-hand accounts of health advising in the literature. Autobiography is an increasingly accepted method that uses the historian's personal experience to understand the past. My work as a health adviser comprised two distinct elements. First, I saw patients with gonorrhoea, syp…
Managing Public Portfolios
Judith Wulf, Le XIX e siècle à la loupe: Hommage à Steve Murphy
Genetics of monozygotic twins reveals the impact of environmental sensitivity on psychiatric and neurodevelopmental phenotypes
Individual sensitivity to environmental exposures may be genetically influenced. This genotype-by-environment interplay implies differences in phenotypic variance across genotypes, but these variants have proven challenging to detect. Genome-wide association studies of monozygotic twin differences are conducted through family-based variance analyses, which are more robust to the systemic biases that impact population-based methods. We combined da…
An Exploration of Lived Experiences of Sexually and Gender Diverse Staff Members in Higher Education: A Case Study
Sexually and gender diverse staff in Higher Education Institutions may experience a sense of belonging and acceptance in inclusive environments, but may also face discrimination and bias, leading to feelings of isolation and exclusion. This paper reports on findings from 40 in-depth interviews and six focus group discussions with LGBTQIA+ self-identified staff members in a HEI and LGBTQIA+ allies who may identify as LGBTQIA+ themselves. Findings …
The Balanced Billion
University pathway teachers’ salient beliefs of inclusive education: An elicitation study of the Theory of Planned Behaviour
The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) has been increasingly used in the field of inclusive education to develop instruments that predict teachers' inclusive behaviour.To ensure the instrument developed to measure the constructs of the TPB is closely aligned to the theory, an elicitation study should be conducted as the first step.However, they are often omitted or rarely reported in the literature, particularly in the literature surrounding inclu…
Harnessing the amber waves: U.S. grain embargoes against the Soviet Union and the politics of insecurity, 1975–1980
Carbon farming diffusion in Australia
Proximity to carbon projects strongly influences landholders’ adoption. • HIR project adoption is concentrated, raising risks for carbon supply efficiency. • HIR diffusion is weakly linked to regions’ economic feasibility. • Designing schemes to reduce spatial dependencies can boost adoption effectiveness. Carbon farming is a set of land management practices that abate carbon emissions through carbon sequestration and emissions avoidance. The Aus…
The Effect of Rural Underserved Opportunities Program Participation on Medical Graduates’ Decision to Work in Rural Areas
A Perturbational Approach for Approximating Heterogeneous Agent Models
How to gain evidence for causation in disease and therapeutic intervention: From Koch’s postulates to counter-counterfactuals
Researchers, clinicians, and patients have good reasons for wanting answers to causal questions of disease and therapeutic intervention. This paper uses microbiologist Robert Koch’s pioneering work and famous postulates to extrapolate a logical sequence of evidence for confirming the causes of disease: association between individuals with and without a disease; isolation of causal agents; and the creation of a counterfactual (demonstrating that a…
Opportunities to engage health system leaders in whole systems approaches to physical activity in England
Background Physical activity plays an important role in maintaining good health and wellbeing, non-communicable disease prevention and can improve healthcare outcomes. Some progress is being made on incorporating physical activity into routine care, but less on engaging health system leaders in the ‘whole systems’ approaches which are increasingly recognised as important for addressing complex public health challenges such as physical inactivity.…
The online Living Well self-management programme for adults with chronic illness benefits health and wellbeing
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Inclusive education for indigenous students in the Indonesian context
The story of indigenous children and their education from Southeast Asia regions is lacking. This paper is intended to discuss the education of indigenous students in Indonesia, which covers a majority of Indigenous People in the Southeast Asian region. In our paper, we wish to show some examples that will allow us to learn and gain a sense of how indigenous students, with or without disabilities, are educated within the country’s journey towards…
Food geographies 'in', 'of' and 'for' the Anthropocene: Introducing the issue and main themes
The Anthropocene provides a useful way to think through all manner of human-environment processes and challenges. This is especially pronounced in relation to food and farming, which are heavily implicated in changes to the Earth's biophysical and chemical processes. Yet, despite burgeoning interest in the Anthropocene as a concept, it is comparatively absent from recent developments in food geography. This is surprising given the profound impact…
Tasting as a social practice: A Methodological Experiment in Making Taste Public
Based on fieldwork in the UK and Portugal, this paper considers the relationships between cultural analyses of taste and the embodied activity of tasting. As part of a wider project on the multiple ontologies of 'freshness', the paper conceptualises taste as an emergent effect of tasting practices. Drawing on evidence from a series of 'tasting events' (where research participants were recorded shopping, cooking and eating a meal with friends and …
Ethnic differences in Sars-CoV-2 infection and Covid-19-related hospitalisation, intensive care unit admission, and death in 17 million adults in England: An observational cohort study using the OpenS…
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 has disproportionately affected minority ethnic populations in the UK. Our aim was to quantify ethnic differences in SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 outcomes during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in England. METHODS: We conducted an observational cohort study of adults (aged ≥18 years) registered with primary care practices in England for whom electronic health records were available through the OpenSAF…
Introduction: New Dialogues with Breton Literature and Culture
Peer reviewed
Myths of Authenticity and Cultural Performance: Breton Identity in the Poetry Anthology, 1830–2000
This article examines the various constructions of Breton identity in twelve anthologies of poetry revealing three broad conceptual phases: celebration of an essential ethno-cultural otherness which nonetheless belongs within the French Republic (1830–1918), calls for independence which harness pan-Celtic or postcolonial discourses (1919–71), and a playful, performative notion of identity based on cultural affinity, inclusive of incomers (1976–20…
Pipelines to Pathways: Medical School Commitment to Producing a Rural Workforce
PURPOSE: Despite the efforts of numerous medical schools to produce rural physicians, many rural communities in the United States still experience physician shortages. This study describes the current landscape of rural efforts in US undergraduate medical education and catalogs medical school characteristics and activities that evidence has suggested, and that many experts in rural medical education believe, may result in more graduates choosing …
Beyond the Throwaway Society: Ordinary Domestic Practice and a Sociological Approach to Household Food Waste
This article offers a sociological analysis of household food waste and its starting point is a critique of perspectives in which volumes of waste generation are used to infer the presence of a throwaway society. Drawing on broadly ethnographic examples, the analysis illustrates some of the ways in which the passage of 'food' into 'waste' arises as a consequence of the ways in which domestic practices are socially and materially organized. Specif…
Thrifty, green or frugal: Reflections on sustainable consumption in a changing economic climate
Binning, Gifting and Recovery: The Conduits of Disposal in Household Food Consumption
This paper explores the movements and placings that work to configure food as waste. At issue here—following the work of Nicky Gregson, Kevin Hetherington, and Rolland Munro—are the multiple conduits that exist for ‘moving things along’ and the idea that consumption research needs to move beyond the unfortunate conjunction of disposal and waste. I suggest that the disposal of surplus food is enacted via a graduated process in which it first enter…
Challenges and opportunities for re-framing resource use policy with practice theories: The change points approach
Concerns about the climate crisis and the escalating pace of global consumption are accelerating the pressure on governments to moderate public demand for resources like water, food and energy. Notwithstanding their increasing sophistication, standard behavioural change approaches continue to be criticised for a narrow understanding of what shapes behaviour. One alternative theoretical position comes from practice theories, which draw on interpre…
Constructing and mobilizing 'the consumer: Responsibility, consumption and the politics of sustainability
This paper advances critical perspectives on the governance of sustainable consumption by exploring the ways in which 'the consumer' is constructed and mobilized by strategic actors and organizations. Existing approaches draw on theories of practice to emphasize the limitations of governing through behaviour change. Whilst this provides a welcome corrective to the overemphasis on individual responsibility in sustainability research and policy, fu…
Consuming conventions: Sustainable consumption, ecological citizenship and the worlds of worth
Michel Maffesoli's Sociology of Modernity and Postmodernity: An Introduction and Critical Assessment
This article introduces and criticises Michel Maffesoli's attempt to formulate a post-modern sociology for post-modern times. While arguing that Maffesoli's sociology is suggestive and insightful about many aspects and features of late-modern life this article, nonetheless, questions whether Maffesoli's approach should be accepted as a fruitful sociological paradigm which others should take up uncritically. Moreover, it will be argued that Maffes…
Big Road Blues: Tradition and Creativity in the Folk Blues
This book analyzes the process of composition, learning and performance of the Southern folk blues of black America. Never before has this musical form been examined so scrupulously. Evans traces the impact of commercialism, especially the phonograph record, on blues history, as well as the various local traditions that produce a given blues tune and text. The author has done extensive field work in Mississippi and provides here a structure for u…
Dirtying Linen: Re‐evaluating the sustainability of domestic laundry
In tackling and negotiating responsibility for anthropogenic climate change, governments and businesses are increasingly concerned with shaping ‘consumer behaviour’, understood broadly as the ways in which people acquire, appropriate and appreciate goods and services. One intervention considered successful in this respect has been that of encouraging the low‐temperature washing of laundry in the UK in the last decade. This paper draws on data fro…
A Brief Pre-History of Food Waste and the Social Sciences
Food waste is a compelling and yet hugely under-researched area of interest for social scientists. In order to account for this neglect and to situate the fledgling body of social science scholarship that is starting to engage with food waste, the analysis here does a number of things. It explores the theoretical tendencies that have underpinned the invisibility of waste to the sociological gaze alongside the historical transitions in global food…
Urban food sharing: Emerging geographies of production, consumption and exchange
Beyond rhetoric: The Possibilities of and for 'Sustainable Lifestyles
Discourses of ‘sustainable lifestyles’ and ‘lifestyle change’ are becoming ubiquitous in media, comment and environmental policy, but there is ambiguity about what this means and entails. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork exploring ‘sustainable lifestyles’ from the perspective of persons who identify themselves as living, or attempting to live, in more sustainable and/or environmentally friendly ways, the tensions, constraints, rewards and opportu…
The Impact of Participation in Performing Arts on Adolescent Health and Behaviour: A Systematic Review of the Literature
This article reports a systematic review of literature published between 1994 and 2004 on the effects of performing arts for health in young people aged 11-18. The review includes research on music, performance, drama and dance in community settings and non-curricular mainstream education. A total of 17 electronic databases were searched and 3670 papers identified, 104 of which met relevance criteria. Full text scrutiny of 85 papers was undertake…
Tasting as a social practice: A Methodological Experiment in Making Taste Public
Based on fieldwork in the UK and Portugal, this paper considers the relationships between cultural analyses of taste and the embodied activity of tasting. As part of a wider project on the multiple ontologies of 'freshness', the paper conceptualises taste as an emergent effect of tasting practices. Drawing on evidence from a series of 'tasting events' (where research participants were recorded shopping, cooking and eating a meal with friends and …
Profit, reputation and ‘doing the right thing’: Convention theory and the problem of food waste in the UK retail sector
In 2014, Tesco – one of the world’s largest food retailers – revealed that it had generated almost 57,000 tonnes of food waste in its UK operations over the previous twelve-month period. This shocking statistic added to existing evidence of a significant environmental and social problem in the UK and across the world. This paper utilises convention theory to examine the role of major retailers in the context of this global problem and assesses th…
Public Housing on the Periphery: Vulnerable Residents and Depleted Resilience Reserves post-Hurricane Sandy
Measurability, austerity and edibility: Introducing waste into food regime theory
The present and future use of ‘land’ below ground
Acute health effects of the Sea Empress oil spill
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether residents in the vicinity of the Sea Empress tanker spill suffered an increase in self reported physical and psychological symptoms, which might be attributable to exposure to crude oil. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study; postal questionnaire including demographic details, a symptom checklist, beliefs about health effects of oil and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression and SF-36 mental health scales. SETTIN…
Food geographies 'in', 'of' and 'for' the Anthropocene: Introducing the issue and main themes
The Anthropocene provides a useful way to think through all manner of human-environment processes and challenges. This is especially pronounced in relation to food and farming, which are heavily implicated in changes to the Earth's biophysical and chemical processes. Yet, despite burgeoning interest in the Anthropocene as a concept, it is comparatively absent from recent developments in food geography. This is surprising given the profound impact…
Taking public health out of the ghetto: The policy and practice of multi-disciplinary public health in the United Kingdom
Falling angels? - the material construction of children as sexual citizens
Tackling the ‘Hideous Scourge’: The Creation of the Venereal Disease Treatment Centres in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
This paper explores the history of the 1913 Royal Commission on Venereal Disease (VD) and the creation of the VD treatment centres. Prior to the Royal Commission little provision existed in the UK for the treatment of civilians with VD. The Royal Commission was established in response to increasing pressure from doctors, feminists and the wider social hygiene movement. In 1916 the Commission recommended the creation of state funded VD treatment c…
The long-run determinants of North-South terms of trade and some recent empirical evidence
Who’s responsible for food waste? Consumers, retailers and the food waste discourse coalition in the United Kingdom
Drawing on empirical research, including interviews with 38 key informants, this article examines how the challenge of food waste reduction has come to be framed, interpreted and responded to in the United Kingdom, focusing on household food waste and the interface between supermarkets and households. We identify a ‘discourse coalition’ arising from collective actors central to the issue that has achieved discursive hegemony over the framing of f…
The interjection “wel” in Welsh
Evans David Emrys. The interjection “wel” in Welsh. In: Etudes Celtiques, vol. 9, fascicule 1, 1960. pp. 141-154
The Bluesmen
Batten
The Notebook of John Smibert
Afro-American One-Stringed Instruments
God is My Quarterback: Theology and Football in America
“It is thought that the origin of sport lies in religious cults of preparation for life. From that modest beginning, the sport of football has emerged into an institution perhaps more influential in some ways than organized religious institutions. However, much of its power is derived from the assimilation of many religious symbols and rituals into the football complex. Thus, many aspects of American religious life can be observed at any football…
Some Early Elephant Jokes
Black Religious Music
Environmental stress and the underprivileged child: Kwashiorkor in perspective
Clinical examination of 123 ex‐patients who had been admitted to hospital with kwashiorkor ten years earlier revealed that approximately half had reached normal Boston percentiles for weight and height. Those most undersized at the outset remained so thereafter. There was no significant difference between ex‐patients and sibling controls in anthropometric measurements or biochemical findings. Growth attainment correlated with a Multiple Social Sc…
Australia and developing countries: Contradictions of capitalism
"Charlie Musselwhite "Takin' My Time
Johnie Lewis; Alabama Slide Guitar
Lightning Hopkins Early Recordings
"Snooks Eaglin, "Possum up a Simmon Tree
Tommy Johnson
Myth and Law among the Indo-Europeans.Jaan Puhvel
L. C. Good Rockin Robinson; Ups and Downs
The Kachina Sash: A Native Model of the Hopi World
Mississippi Black Folklore: A Research Bibliography and Discography
Afro-American Folklore
Gravel Springs Fife and Drum
Othar Turner, a fife-maker and musician, owns his farm in the Gravel Springs community in northwest Mississippi. The rhythmical music he and his friends play is called fife and drum. A 1971 film by Bill Ferris, Judy Peiser, and David Evans from the Center for Southern Folklore
Robert Pete Williams: Those Prison Blues
Billie and DeDe Pierce: New Orleans Music
Louisiana Honeydrippers; Bayou Bluegrass
Snuffy Jenkins; Carolina Bluegrass
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