Rory Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rory Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rory |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4287-8981 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 186 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1921 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Cultural learning with 3D objects
This paper explores the viability of 3D imaging in cultural heritage management as a cultural learning resource for Australian Indigenous communities, explored through a case study from the Wiradjuri Nation in the Murrumbidgee Region of New South Wales. A methodology incorporating 3D imaging, yarning, and thematic analysis has provided a proof of concept for a culturally sensitive approach when assessing cultural values and has identified the edu…
Dramatic reduction in size of the lowland Macquarie River in response to Late Quaternary climate-driven hydrologic change
Palaeochannels of lowland rivers provide a means of investigating the sensitivity of river response to climate-driven hydrologic change. About 80 palaeochannels of the lower Macquarie River of southeastern Australia record the evolution of this distributive fluvial system. Six Macquarie palaeochannels were dated by single-grain optically stimulated luminescence. The largest of the palaeochannels (Quombothoo, median age 54 ka) was on average 284 m…
Peatlands in eastern Australia? Sedimentology and age structure of Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone (THPSS) in the Southern Highlands and Blue Mountains of NSW, Australia
Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone (THPSS) are a form of topogenous mire found on the plateau areas of eastern Australia. They are well recognised for their ecological value, but our understanding of their geomorphic structure, function and evolution remains limited. Across 19 sites, the valley fills of THPSS comprise sequences of mineral-rich sand and loam deposits. Basal sand and gravel sediments have low organic content and low carbon…
Is Religion or Culture the Key Feature in Changes in Substance Use after Leaving School? Young Punjabis and a Comparison Group in Glasgow
At age 14-15 abstinence was high in the largely British-born generation of Asians mainly for cultural reasons common to religious groups. Four years later culturally determined abstinence has atrophied, and abstinence reflects the specific influence of ascetic religious traditions, though some cultural influence remains in that women are more affected. Intergenerational changes are similar. The erosion of constraints on smoking presents a threat …
Potential Barriers to Prevention of Cancers and to Early Cancer Detection among Irish People Living in Britain
The Irish frame of reference was firmly embedded in a specific historical, social and economic context which may contribute to cultural constraints on discussions about cancers and to the lack of engagement with preventative behaviours and health care services
Religious discrimination in Scotland
A recent article on sectarianism in Scotland in Ethnic and Racial Studies by Bruce et al. sought to undermine the conclusions of a previous paper of ours, also published in this journal. Bruce et al. contend that sectarianism is a myth, while we have provided new qualitative evidence for personal experience of anti-Catholic discrimination in employment, which clearly contradicts their thesis. To contextualize these papers, we have summarized some…
Catholic Socio-Economic Disadvantage in the West of Scotland
Accounting for Irish Catholic ill health in Scotland
This paper considers the ways in which accounts from Glasgow Catholics diverge from those of Protestants and explores the reasons why people leave jobs, including health grounds. Accounts reveal experiences distinctive to Catholics, of health-threatening stress, obstacles to career progression within (mainly) private-sector organisations, and interactional difficulties which create particular problems for (mainly) middle class men. This narrows t…
Sectarianism at work
This article examines accounts of discrimination in employment against Irish Catholics in Glasgow from both majority and minority ethnic and religious perspectives. It reveals evidence of continuing experience of sectarian discrimination in work. Of particular note is the existence of discriminatory practice affecting Catholic (Irish-descended) attempts to move up the social scale. This evidence disputes the thoroughness of analyses which ignore …
Morbidity and Irish Catholic descent in Britain
Ethnic inequalities in health
Morbidity and Irish Catholic Descent in Britain
This paper finds minimal evidence in favour of either stereotype: behaviours such as smoking and excess drinking were not strongly associated with the poor morbidity status of the Irish in the population we have studied; neither have the Irish been found to be more stoic in illness. Therefore the stereotypes are not an adequate explanation, nor a necessary correlate, of the frequent finding of raised morbidity in communities of Irish Catholic ori…
Regional Mortality and the Irish in Britain
We explore predictions from three sociological models linking excess Irish mortality in England and Wales with urban and regional patterns of settlement and mortality.The analysis is prospective, of urban residents aged 25-74 in a 1 per cent sample of the 1971 Census of England and Wales, linked with death certificates from 1971-1985 (the ONS Longitudinal Study). Analysis is by multilevel modelling of probabilities of death.The association of pas…
Social class and health
Family Hospitality and Ethnic Tradition Among South Asian, Italian and General Population Women in the West of Scotland
South Asians have a high risk of heart disease in Britain and Italians low, and there are corresponding differences in total energy and total fat intake. The present paper explores how far obligatory patterns of food intake exist in either group and are reflected in conventions of hospitality. Both groups are from peasant-based economies, where, despite the common pattern of low fat intake, food occupies a high proportion of family income, and is…
Generational Changes in Height and Body Mass Differences Between British Asians and the General Population in Glasgow
A weighted total of 630 pupils aged 14–15 in Glasgow schools, about evenly divided between pupils of South Asian and non-Asian (overwhelmingly British) background, were measured for height and weight and compared with previous results for a similar Glasgow sample aged 30–40. Among 14–15-year-olds, British Asians were not so short compared with non-Asians as among 30–40-year-olds, especially females. Among 30–40-year-old Glasgow Asians only 7% wer…
Has psychological distress among UK South Asians been under‐estimated? A comparison of three measures in the west of Scotland population
Clinical measures may have under-estimated distress in several South Asian groups. The results may be due to a preference for a particular language of emotion in the affected groups or to a higher frequency of stressful situations which provoke distinctive reactions
Morbidity and Irish Catholic descent in Britain
The Health Legacy of the Emigration
Arguing that the life chances of the Irish emigration in different countries of destination are a highly significant topic for sociologists, this article examines aspects of the health of people of Irish descent born in Britain. This is the subject of a research programme in the Medical Sociology Unit in Glasgow, funded by the UK's Medical Research Council. This historical background to this venture lies in the discovery of a health disadvantage …
The Experience of Later Life
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Religion in Ageing and Health
Britain's regional mortality
Medical, economic and population factors in areas of high mortality
Regional inequalities in British mortality, though longstanding, also show important patterns of historical change. The case of Glasgow is particularly striking, since its mortality was converging with England's until the 1820s. It then experienced a surge in the death rate between 1831 and 1871, after which relatively high mortality has persisted to the present day. This patterns is not explain by changes in age structure, particular causes of d…
Can data on Scottish Catholics tell us about descendants of the Irish in Scotland
Vivre une maladie grave
Concepts of Health
There is increasing interest in the concepts through which lay people identify states of health - in their cultural origins and in their connection with preventive or remedial behaviour. A study of the concepts used by elderly Aberdonians is reported, exploiting two data sources: an intensive study of two social networks, and a random sample survey. Concepts of health as the relative absence of disease are distinguished from health as a dimension…
Morbidity and Irish Catholic descent in Britain
A Protestant legacy
Sectarianism at work
This article examines accounts of discrimination in employment against Irish Catholics in Glasgow from both majority and minority ethnic and religious perspectives. It reveals evidence of continuing experience of sectarian discrimination in work. Of particular note is the existence of discriminatory practice affecting Catholic (Irish-descended) attempts to move up the social scale. This evidence disputes the thoroughness of analyses which ignore …
Morbidity and Irish Catholic descent in Britain
Family Hospitality and Ethnic Tradition Among South Asian, Italian and General Population Women in the West of Scotland
South Asians have a high risk of heart disease in Britain and Italians low, and there are corresponding differences in total energy and total fat intake. The present paper explores how far obligatory patterns of food intake exist in either group and are reflected in conventions of hospitality. Both groups are from peasant-based economies, where, despite the common pattern of low fat intake, food occupies a high proportion of family income, and is…
Social class and health
Medical, economic and population factors in areas of high mortality
Regional inequalities in British mortality, though longstanding, also show important patterns of historical change. The case of Glasgow is particularly striking, since its mortality was converging with England's until the 1820s. It then experienced a surge in the death rate between 1831 and 1871, after which relatively high mortality has persisted to the present day. This patterns is not explain by changes in age structure, particular causes of d…
Regional Mortality and the Irish in Britain
We explore predictions from three sociological models linking excess Irish mortality in England and Wales with urban and regional patterns of settlement and mortality.The analysis is prospective, of urban residents aged 25-74 in a 1 per cent sample of the 1971 Census of England and Wales, linked with death certificates from 1971-1985 (the ONS Longitudinal Study). Analysis is by multilevel modelling of probabilities of death.The association of pas…
Amoral Familism and the Image of Limited Good
Foster's analysis of the image oflim ited good (which also seeks to subsume the concept of amoral familism) is still frequently referred to in studies of the European peasantry, although it has also been criticised in various ways as a predictive model of behaviour. Without entering the issue of prediction, the present study considers whether the image of limited good does in fact accurately reflect the thinking of a classic peasant village in Gr…
Religious discrimination in Scotland
A recent article on sectarianism in Scotland in Ethnic and Racial Studies by Bruce et al. sought to undermine the conclusions of a previous paper of ours, also published in this journal. Bruce et al. contend that sectarianism is a myth, while we have provided new qualitative evidence for personal experience of anti-Catholic discrimination in employment, which clearly contradicts their thesis. To contextualize these papers, we have summarized some…
Britain's regional mortality
Is Religion or Culture the Key Feature in Changes in Substance Use after Leaving School? Young Punjabis and a Comparison Group in Glasgow
At age 14-15 abstinence was high in the largely British-born generation of Asians mainly for cultural reasons common to religious groups. Four years later culturally determined abstinence has atrophied, and abstinence reflects the specific influence of ascetic religious traditions, though some cultural influence remains in that women are more affected. Intergenerational changes are similar. The erosion of constraints on smoking presents a threat …
Has psychological distress among UK South Asians been under‐estimated? A comparison of three measures in the west of Scotland population
Clinical measures may have under-estimated distress in several South Asian groups. The results may be due to a preference for a particular language of emotion in the affected groups or to a higher frequency of stressful situations which provoke distinctive reactions
Can data on Scottish Catholics tell us about descendants of the Irish in Scotland
Peatlands in eastern Australia? Sedimentology and age structure of Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone (THPSS) in the Southern Highlands and Blue Mountains of NSW, Australia
Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone (THPSS) are a form of topogenous mire found on the plateau areas of eastern Australia. They are well recognised for their ecological value, but our understanding of their geomorphic structure, function and evolution remains limited. Across 19 sites, the valley fills of THPSS comprise sequences of mineral-rich sand and loam deposits. Basal sand and gravel sediments have low organic content and low carbon…
Morbidity and Irish Catholic Descent in Britain
This paper finds minimal evidence in favour of either stereotype: behaviours such as smoking and excess drinking were not strongly associated with the poor morbidity status of the Irish in the population we have studied; neither have the Irish been found to be more stoic in illness. Therefore the stereotypes are not an adequate explanation, nor a necessary correlate, of the frequent finding of raised morbidity in communities of Irish Catholic ori…
Potential Barriers to Prevention of Cancers and to Early Cancer Detection among Irish People Living in Britain
The Irish frame of reference was firmly embedded in a specific historical, social and economic context which may contribute to cultural constraints on discussions about cancers and to the lack of engagement with preventative behaviours and health care services
Catholic Socio-Economic Disadvantage in the West of Scotland
Discretion in Welfare Provision
While discretion has been studied in systems of distribution which are governed by rules, or in those where there is a crucial gatekeeper, there remain many informal and diffuse systems where little is known about the discretion used. An example is the allocation of community services. In such cases, a useful strategy is to analyze the informal rationing system along lines which are discussed, and by this means to identify as discretionary the ca…
Some Reflections on Anonymous Iconoclasm
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Concepts of Health
There is increasing interest in the concepts through which lay people identify states of health - in their cultural origins and in their connection with preventive or remedial behaviour. A study of the concepts used by elderly Aberdonians is reported, exploiting two data sources: an intensive study of two social networks, and a random sample survey. Concepts of health as the relative absence of disease are distinguished from health as a dimension…
Shorter Notices
Discretion in Welfare Provision
While discretion has been studied in systems of distribution which are governed by rules, or in those where there is a crucial gatekeeper, there remain many informal and diffuse systems where little is known about the discretion used. An example is the allocation of community services. In such cases, a useful strategy is to analyze the informal rationing system along lines which are discussed, and by this means to identify as discretionary the ca…
Amoral Familism and the Image of Limited Good
Foster's analysis of the image oflim ited good (which also seeks to subsume the concept of amoral familism) is still frequently referred to in studies of the European peasantry, although it has also been criticised in various ways as a predictive model of behaviour. Without entering the issue of prediction, the present study considers whether the image of limited good does in fact accurately reflect the thinking of a classic peasant village in Gr…
Race and Health Policy/Health Action and Ethnic Minorities (Book)
A Protestant legacy
Endings
Vivre une maladie grave
Can data on Scottish Catholics tell us about descendants of the Irish in Scotland
Britain's regional mortality
Medical, economic and population factors in areas of high mortality
Regional inequalities in British mortality, though longstanding, also show important patterns of historical change. The case of Glasgow is particularly striking, since its mortality was converging with England's until the 1820s. It then experienced a surge in the death rate between 1831 and 1871, after which relatively high mortality has persisted to the present day. This patterns is not explain by changes in age structure, particular causes of d…
Religion in Ageing and Health
The Health Legacy of the Emigration
Arguing that the life chances of the Irish emigration in different countries of destination are a highly significant topic for sociologists, this article examines aspects of the health of people of Irish descent born in Britain. This is the subject of a research programme in the Medical Sociology Unit in Glasgow, funded by the UK's Medical Research Council. This historical background to this venture lies in the discovery of a health disadvantage …
The Experience of Later Life
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Generational Changes in Height and Body Mass Differences Between British Asians and the General Population in Glasgow
A weighted total of 630 pupils aged 14–15 in Glasgow schools, about evenly divided between pupils of South Asian and non-Asian (overwhelmingly British) background, were measured for height and weight and compared with previous results for a similar Glasgow sample aged 30–40. Among 14–15-year-olds, British Asians were not so short compared with non-Asians as among 30–40-year-olds, especially females. Among 30–40-year-old Glasgow Asians only 7% wer…
Has psychological distress among UK South Asians been under‐estimated? A comparison of three measures in the west of Scotland population
Clinical measures may have under-estimated distress in several South Asian groups. The results may be due to a preference for a particular language of emotion in the affected groups or to a higher frequency of stressful situations which provoke distinctive reactions
Morbidity and Irish Catholic descent in Britain
Social class and health
Family Hospitality and Ethnic Tradition Among South Asian, Italian and General Population Women in the West of Scotland
South Asians have a high risk of heart disease in Britain and Italians low, and there are corresponding differences in total energy and total fat intake. The present paper explores how far obligatory patterns of food intake exist in either group and are reflected in conventions of hospitality. Both groups are from peasant-based economies, where, despite the common pattern of low fat intake, food occupies a high proportion of family income, and is…
Morbidity and Irish Catholic Descent in Britain
This paper finds minimal evidence in favour of either stereotype: behaviours such as smoking and excess drinking were not strongly associated with the poor morbidity status of the Irish in the population we have studied; neither have the Irish been found to be more stoic in illness. Therefore the stereotypes are not an adequate explanation, nor a necessary correlate, of the frequent finding of raised morbidity in communities of Irish Catholic ori…
Regional Mortality and the Irish in Britain
We explore predictions from three sociological models linking excess Irish mortality in England and Wales with urban and regional patterns of settlement and mortality.The analysis is prospective, of urban residents aged 25-74 in a 1 per cent sample of the 1971 Census of England and Wales, linked with death certificates from 1971-1985 (the ONS Longitudinal Study). Analysis is by multilevel modelling of probabilities of death.The association of pas…
Ethnic inequalities in health
Morbidity and Irish Catholic descent in Britain
Sectarianism at work
This article examines accounts of discrimination in employment against Irish Catholics in Glasgow from both majority and minority ethnic and religious perspectives. It reveals evidence of continuing experience of sectarian discrimination in work. Of particular note is the existence of discriminatory practice affecting Catholic (Irish-descended) attempts to move up the social scale. This evidence disputes the thoroughness of analyses which ignore …
Sociology (24 works) · Demography (12 works) · Geography (12 works) · Demography (11 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (11 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Irish (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Population (10 works) · Ethnic group (9 works)