Rebecca Shaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603510 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Shaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaw |
| SIGNATURE | SHAW R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1190-7244 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Emperor Augustus and Narratives of Legal Origin
Any legislation, whether ancient or modern, is contextualised by constitutional tradition, of which narratives of legal origins are a key part. These stories are an important source of the law’s authority and, as such, warrant particular attention. This paper re-examines the significance of the Emperor Augustus’ decision as legislator to overlook one of Rome’s key legal-aetiological narratives, the Twelve Tables, when introducing his radical pack…
Canada: Assessing the Music Score Collection at the University of Toronto
The University of Toronto Music Library is the largest music research collection in Canada, with over 350,000 books, music scores, and periodicals, and over 250,000 sound recordings in various formats. Thanks to a healthy acquisitions budget and generous in-kind donations we have exceeded our shelving capacity. Further challenges include open stacks with shelves too close together for users to easily navigate through, poor lighting that makes rea…
Marriage plots: A new narratological approach to the Augustan marriage laws
This article seeks to break new ground by adopting an innovative methodology – a legal-narratological approach – in order to take a fresh look at the narrative dynamics and narrative tiers of a two-thousand-year-old piece of marriage legislation – the late first century BCE leges Iuliae. We argue that these Roman laws, which brought hitherto private behaviours into the public jurisdiction and state control, sought to establish its legal authority…
Imagining transformative biodiversity futures
Generating the perception of choice: The Remarkable Malleability of Option-Listing
The normative view that patients should be offered more choice both within and beyond theUK's National Health Service (NHS) has been increasingly endorsed. However, there is very little research on whether - and how - this is enacted in practice. Based on 223 recordings of neurology outpatient consultations and participants' subsequent self-reports, this article shows that 'option-listing' is a key practice for generating the perception of choice…
Outsourcing war: The just war tradition in the age of military privatization
The private military and security industry has shifted and changed in the decades since the end of the Cold War. In view of the developments in the provision of private force, Amy E. Eckert unpicks some of the challenges posed by the industry to understandings of armed conflict. In Outsourcing war, Eckert specifically explores the relevance, or otherwise, of just war principles to the ongoing use of the private military and security industry. Alt…
I Think It's a Communal Thing”: Men's Friendships in Later Life
Men's friendships have traditionally been described as being activity-based but little research has examined older men's friendships. The current study aimed to explore meanings of friendship with older men who belonged to formal men's groups or not. A thematic analysis of focus group data identified three manifest themes ( constructing friendship: friends, mates or acquaintances; the dynamic nature of friendship; and the importance or beneficenc…
Using programme theory to strengthen research protocol and intervention design within an RCT of a walking intervention
This article provides a practical example of how to apply a theory-driven approach to research intervention and protocol design. It illustrates how reflection on both intervention theory and programme theory can inform and refine the: implementation of the intervention; research design; specification of research questions and tools; and, identify the contribution each research stage makes in the accumulation of policy-relevant learning. The artic…
Initiating decision-making in neurology consultations: Recommending' Versus 'Option-Listing' and the Implications for Medical Authority
This article compares two practices for initiating treatment decision-making, evident in audio-recorded consultations between a neurologist and 13 patients in two hospital clinics in the UK. We call these 'recommending' and 'option-listing'. The former entails making a proposal to do something; the latter entails the construction of a list of options. Using conversation analysis (CA), we illustrate each, showing that the distinction between these…
Compliments on a Home Birth Helpline
This article examines the ways in which speakers positively assess recipients—a generic practice of complimenting in talk-in-interaction—in the particular institutional context of a helpline for women seeking a home birth. It analyzes the positive assessments (n = 112) produced by a single call-taker across 80 helpline calls. It considers their design, how they are responded to, and the actions (other than or additional to complimenting) they are…
Referring to Persons Without Using a Full-Form Reference: Locally Initial Indexicals in Action
This article draws on naturally occurring talk-in-interaction to explore the use of unrepaired indexicals—specifically he, she, and they—to refer to third persons when there is no prior full-form reference. We show some of the local resources that participants use to understand the referent but focus predominantly on how locally initial indexicals can be used in the service of the interactional task at hand to: (a) establish continuity of focus (…
Repairing Self- and Recipient Reference
There are dedicated reference terms—in English—for self- and recipient reference (I and its grammatical variants for self; you and its grammatical variants for recipient). These terms are invariant across occasions of reference and, as such, are repaired much less commonly than are references to third persons. In this article, we focus on four types of “trouble” addressed by repair to self- and recipient reference: (a) indexing the wrong referent…
West End Walkers 65: A randomised controlled trial of a primary care-based walking intervention for older adults: Study rationale and design
West End Walkers 65+ will determine the feasibility and pilot the efficacy of delivering a pedometer-based walking intervention through primary care to Scottish adults aged 65 years. The study will also examine the effect of the intervention on the well-being of participants and gain an insight into both participant and research team member experiences of the intervention
Pedometers cost buttons: The feasibility of implementing a pedometer based walking programme within the community
The results suggest that pedometer based walking interventions may be considered cost-effective and suitable for implementation within the wider community. However, several research gaps remain, including the importance and impact of the researcher/participant relationship, the impact of assessment on motivation and effectiveness, and the longer term impact on physical and mental health, resource utilisation and quality of life
The dodo bird verdict and the elephant in the room: A service user-led investigation of crisis resolution and home treatment
Recent years have seen an international move towards home treatment of acute mental health difficulties. This has been based upon trial data which do little to develop understanding of how or why this approach is as effective as it seems to be. In order to explore this question the study interviewed patients who had recently used the services of a crisis resolution home treatment (CRHT) team in the English East Midlands. Triangulated parallel qua…
Overcoming barriers to engaging socio-economically disadvantaged populations in CHD primary prevention: A qualitative study
Socio-economically disadvantaged individuals can be hard-to-reach; engagement requires strategies tailored to the needs of the target population rather than a population-wide approach
The 'Walking for Wellbeing in the West' randomised controlled trial of a pedometer-based walking programme in combination with physical activity consultation with 12 month follow-up: Rationale and stu…
Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN88907382
I. `It's Your Body, Your Baby, Your Birth': Planning and Achieving a Home Birth
No abstract available
V. Problem Presentation and Advice-giving on a Home Birth Helpline: A Feminist Conversation Analytic Study
The rate of home births in the UK is very low (around 2%) and many women who would like to give birth at home find it impossible to get midwifery cover or are advised of medical contraindications. The Home Birth Helpline offers support and expertise for women in this situation. Based on the analysis of 80 recorded calls, this article uses conversation analysis (CA) to explore how callers present their reason for calling the helpline, and what thi…
Memory in Interaction: An Analysis of Repeat Calls to a Home Birth Helpline
Drawing on a corpus of 80 calls to a Home Birth helpline, we use conversation analysis to analyze how callers and call takers display to one another that they are talking for a second or subsequent time. We focus in particular on the role of memory in these interactions. We show how caller and call taker are oriented to remembering at the beginning of calls as displayed in what we call the recognition-solicit pre-sequence, how participants are or…
Qaly maximisation and people's preferences: A methodological review of the literature
In cost‐utility analysis, the numbers of quality‐adjusted life years (QALYs) gained are aggregated according to the sum‐ranking (or QALY maximisation) rule. This requires that the social value from health improvements is a simple product of gains in quality of life, length of life and the number of persons treated. The results from a systematic review of the literature suggest that QALY maximisation is descriptively flawed. Rather than being line…
Calls to a home birth helpline: Empowerment in childbirth
A note on the relative importance that people attach to different factors when setting priorities in health care
Objective To explore whether and to what extent people wish to give differential priority when asked to choose between providing health care treatment for different individuals or groups, on the basis of a range of factors, ranging from health gain to the number of dependants a person has. Design A sample of people resident in York self‐completed a questionnaire. Setting The City of York. Participants Twenty‐three members of the general public an…
Measuring people's preferences regarding ageism in health: Some Methodological Issues and Some Fresh Evidence
Coping Effectiveness in Nursing Home Residents: The Role of Control
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of perceived control in the selection and effectiveness of coping strategies used by nursing home residents. A path analysis of a model of coping effectiveness was conducted using a cluster sample of 100 nursing home residents. Respondents were assisted in completing the Importance, Locus, and Range of Activities Checklist, the Jalowiec Coping Scale, two self-anchoring ladders measuring coping…
Initiating decision-making in neurology consultations: Recommending' Versus 'Option-Listing' and the Implications for Medical Authority
This article compares two practices for initiating treatment decision-making, evident in audio-recorded consultations between a neurologist and 13 patients in two hospital clinics in the UK. We call these 'recommending' and 'option-listing'. The former entails making a proposal to do something; the latter entails the construction of a list of options. Using conversation analysis (CA), we illustrate each, showing that the distinction between these…
Memory in Interaction: An Analysis of Repeat Calls to a Home Birth Helpline
Drawing on a corpus of 80 calls to a Home Birth helpline, we use conversation analysis to analyze how callers and call takers display to one another that they are talking for a second or subsequent time. We focus in particular on the role of memory in these interactions. We show how caller and call taker are oriented to remembering at the beginning of calls as displayed in what we call the recognition-solicit pre-sequence, how participants are or…
Generating the perception of choice: The Remarkable Malleability of Option-Listing
The normative view that patients should be offered more choice both within and beyond theUK's National Health Service (NHS) has been increasingly endorsed. However, there is very little research on whether - and how - this is enacted in practice. Based on 223 recordings of neurology outpatient consultations and participants' subsequent self-reports, this article shows that 'option-listing' is a key practice for generating the perception of choice…
Imagining transformative biodiversity futures
Compliments on a Home Birth Helpline
This article examines the ways in which speakers positively assess recipients—a generic practice of complimenting in talk-in-interaction—in the particular institutional context of a helpline for women seeking a home birth. It analyzes the positive assessments (n = 112) produced by a single call-taker across 80 helpline calls. It considers their design, how they are responded to, and the actions (other than or additional to complimenting) they are…
Calls to a home birth helpline: Empowerment in childbirth
Measuring people's preferences regarding ageism in health: Some Methodological Issues and Some Fresh Evidence
Repairing Self- and Recipient Reference
There are dedicated reference terms—in English—for self- and recipient reference (I and its grammatical variants for self; you and its grammatical variants for recipient). These terms are invariant across occasions of reference and, as such, are repaired much less commonly than are references to third persons. In this article, we focus on four types of “trouble” addressed by repair to self- and recipient reference: (a) indexing the wrong referent…
Referring to Persons Without Using a Full-Form Reference: Locally Initial Indexicals in Action
This article draws on naturally occurring talk-in-interaction to explore the use of unrepaired indexicals—specifically he, she, and they—to refer to third persons when there is no prior full-form reference. We show some of the local resources that participants use to understand the referent but focus predominantly on how locally initial indexicals can be used in the service of the interactional task at hand to: (a) establish continuity of focus (…
V. Problem Presentation and Advice-giving on a Home Birth Helpline: A Feminist Conversation Analytic Study
The rate of home births in the UK is very low (around 2%) and many women who would like to give birth at home find it impossible to get midwifery cover or are advised of medical contraindications. The Home Birth Helpline offers support and expertise for women in this situation. Based on the analysis of 80 recorded calls, this article uses conversation analysis (CA) to explore how callers present their reason for calling the helpline, and what thi…
I Think It's a Communal Thing”: Men's Friendships in Later Life
Men's friendships have traditionally been described as being activity-based but little research has examined older men's friendships. The current study aimed to explore meanings of friendship with older men who belonged to formal men's groups or not. A thematic analysis of focus group data identified three manifest themes ( constructing friendship: friends, mates or acquaintances; the dynamic nature of friendship; and the importance or beneficenc…
The dodo bird verdict and the elephant in the room: A service user-led investigation of crisis resolution and home treatment
Recent years have seen an international move towards home treatment of acute mental health difficulties. This has been based upon trial data which do little to develop understanding of how or why this approach is as effective as it seems to be. In order to explore this question the study interviewed patients who had recently used the services of a crisis resolution home treatment (CRHT) team in the English East Midlands. Triangulated parallel qua…
Coping Effectiveness in Nursing Home Residents: The Role of Control
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of perceived control in the selection and effectiveness of coping strategies used by nursing home residents. A path analysis of a model of coping effectiveness was conducted using a cluster sample of 100 nursing home residents. Respondents were assisted in completing the Importance, Locus, and Range of Activities Checklist, the Jalowiec Coping Scale, two self-anchoring ladders measuring coping…
Coping Effectiveness in Nursing Home Residents: The Role of Control
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of perceived control in the selection and effectiveness of coping strategies used by nursing home residents. A path analysis of a model of coping effectiveness was conducted using a cluster sample of 100 nursing home residents. Respondents were assisted in completing the Importance, Locus, and Range of Activities Checklist, the Jalowiec Coping Scale, two self-anchoring ladders measuring coping…
A note on the relative importance that people attach to different factors when setting priorities in health care
Objective To explore whether and to what extent people wish to give differential priority when asked to choose between providing health care treatment for different individuals or groups, on the basis of a range of factors, ranging from health gain to the number of dependants a person has. Design A sample of people resident in York self‐completed a questionnaire. Setting The City of York. Participants Twenty‐three members of the general public an…
Measuring people's preferences regarding ageism in health: Some Methodological Issues and Some Fresh Evidence
Qaly maximisation and people's preferences: A methodological review of the literature
In cost‐utility analysis, the numbers of quality‐adjusted life years (QALYs) gained are aggregated according to the sum‐ranking (or QALY maximisation) rule. This requires that the social value from health improvements is a simple product of gains in quality of life, length of life and the number of persons treated. The results from a systematic review of the literature suggest that QALY maximisation is descriptively flawed. Rather than being line…
Calls to a home birth helpline: Empowerment in childbirth
I. `It's Your Body, Your Baby, Your Birth': Planning and Achieving a Home Birth
No abstract available
V. Problem Presentation and Advice-giving on a Home Birth Helpline: A Feminist Conversation Analytic Study
The rate of home births in the UK is very low (around 2%) and many women who would like to give birth at home find it impossible to get midwifery cover or are advised of medical contraindications. The Home Birth Helpline offers support and expertise for women in this situation. Based on the analysis of 80 recorded calls, this article uses conversation analysis (CA) to explore how callers present their reason for calling the helpline, and what thi…
Memory in Interaction: An Analysis of Repeat Calls to a Home Birth Helpline
Drawing on a corpus of 80 calls to a Home Birth helpline, we use conversation analysis to analyze how callers and call takers display to one another that they are talking for a second or subsequent time. We focus in particular on the role of memory in these interactions. We show how caller and call taker are oriented to remembering at the beginning of calls as displayed in what we call the recognition-solicit pre-sequence, how participants are or…
The 'Walking for Wellbeing in the West' randomised controlled trial of a pedometer-based walking programme in combination with physical activity consultation with 12 month follow-up: Rationale and stu…
Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN88907382
Overcoming barriers to engaging socio-economically disadvantaged populations in CHD primary prevention: A qualitative study
Socio-economically disadvantaged individuals can be hard-to-reach; engagement requires strategies tailored to the needs of the target population rather than a population-wide approach
West End Walkers 65: A randomised controlled trial of a primary care-based walking intervention for older adults: Study rationale and design
West End Walkers 65+ will determine the feasibility and pilot the efficacy of delivering a pedometer-based walking intervention through primary care to Scottish adults aged 65 years. The study will also examine the effect of the intervention on the well-being of participants and gain an insight into both participant and research team member experiences of the intervention
Pedometers cost buttons: The feasibility of implementing a pedometer based walking programme within the community
The results suggest that pedometer based walking interventions may be considered cost-effective and suitable for implementation within the wider community. However, several research gaps remain, including the importance and impact of the researcher/participant relationship, the impact of assessment on motivation and effectiveness, and the longer term impact on physical and mental health, resource utilisation and quality of life
The dodo bird verdict and the elephant in the room: A service user-led investigation of crisis resolution and home treatment
Recent years have seen an international move towards home treatment of acute mental health difficulties. This has been based upon trial data which do little to develop understanding of how or why this approach is as effective as it seems to be. In order to explore this question the study interviewed patients who had recently used the services of a crisis resolution home treatment (CRHT) team in the English East Midlands. Triangulated parallel qua…
Compliments on a Home Birth Helpline
This article examines the ways in which speakers positively assess recipients—a generic practice of complimenting in talk-in-interaction—in the particular institutional context of a helpline for women seeking a home birth. It analyzes the positive assessments (n = 112) produced by a single call-taker across 80 helpline calls. It considers their design, how they are responded to, and the actions (other than or additional to complimenting) they are…
Referring to Persons Without Using a Full-Form Reference: Locally Initial Indexicals in Action
This article draws on naturally occurring talk-in-interaction to explore the use of unrepaired indexicals—specifically he, she, and they—to refer to third persons when there is no prior full-form reference. We show some of the local resources that participants use to understand the referent but focus predominantly on how locally initial indexicals can be used in the service of the interactional task at hand to: (a) establish continuity of focus (…
Repairing Self- and Recipient Reference
There are dedicated reference terms—in English—for self- and recipient reference (I and its grammatical variants for self; you and its grammatical variants for recipient). These terms are invariant across occasions of reference and, as such, are repaired much less commonly than are references to third persons. In this article, we focus on four types of “trouble” addressed by repair to self- and recipient reference: (a) indexing the wrong referent…
Using programme theory to strengthen research protocol and intervention design within an RCT of a walking intervention
This article provides a practical example of how to apply a theory-driven approach to research intervention and protocol design. It illustrates how reflection on both intervention theory and programme theory can inform and refine the: implementation of the intervention; research design; specification of research questions and tools; and, identify the contribution each research stage makes in the accumulation of policy-relevant learning. The artic…
Initiating decision-making in neurology consultations: Recommending' Versus 'Option-Listing' and the Implications for Medical Authority
This article compares two practices for initiating treatment decision-making, evident in audio-recorded consultations between a neurologist and 13 patients in two hospital clinics in the UK. We call these 'recommending' and 'option-listing'. The former entails making a proposal to do something; the latter entails the construction of a list of options. Using conversation analysis (CA), we illustrate each, showing that the distinction between these…
I Think It's a Communal Thing”: Men's Friendships in Later Life
Men's friendships have traditionally been described as being activity-based but little research has examined older men's friendships. The current study aimed to explore meanings of friendship with older men who belonged to formal men's groups or not. A thematic analysis of focus group data identified three manifest themes ( constructing friendship: friends, mates or acquaintances; the dynamic nature of friendship; and the importance or beneficenc…
Outsourcing war: The just war tradition in the age of military privatization
The private military and security industry has shifted and changed in the decades since the end of the Cold War. In view of the developments in the provision of private force, Amy E. Eckert unpicks some of the challenges posed by the industry to understandings of armed conflict. In Outsourcing war, Eckert specifically explores the relevance, or otherwise, of just war principles to the ongoing use of the private military and security industry. Alt…
Generating the perception of choice: The Remarkable Malleability of Option-Listing
The normative view that patients should be offered more choice both within and beyond theUK's National Health Service (NHS) has been increasingly endorsed. However, there is very little research on whether - and how - this is enacted in practice. Based on 223 recordings of neurology outpatient consultations and participants' subsequent self-reports, this article shows that 'option-listing' is a key practice for generating the perception of choice…
Marriage plots: A new narratological approach to the Augustan marriage laws
This article seeks to break new ground by adopting an innovative methodology – a legal-narratological approach – in order to take a fresh look at the narrative dynamics and narrative tiers of a two-thousand-year-old piece of marriage legislation – the late first century BCE leges Iuliae. We argue that these Roman laws, which brought hitherto private behaviours into the public jurisdiction and state control, sought to establish its legal authority…
Imagining transformative biodiversity futures
Canada: Assessing the Music Score Collection at the University of Toronto
The University of Toronto Music Library is the largest music research collection in Canada, with over 350,000 books, music scores, and periodicals, and over 250,000 sound recordings in various formats. Thanks to a healthy acquisitions budget and generous in-kind donations we have exceeded our shelving capacity. Further challenges include open stacks with shelves too close together for users to easily navigate through, poor lighting that makes rea…
The Emperor Augustus and Narratives of Legal Origin
Any legislation, whether ancient or modern, is contextualised by constitutional tradition, of which narratives of legal origins are a key part. These stories are an important source of the law’s authority and, as such, warrant particular attention. This paper re-examines the significance of the Emperor Augustus’ decision as legislator to overlook one of Rome’s key legal-aetiological narratives, the Twelve Tables, when introducing his radical pack…
Psychology (18 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Nursing (10 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Public health (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)