Andrew Smith

Biographic Data

ID3604011
NAMEAndrew Smith
GIVEN NAMESAndrew
FAMILY NAMESmith
SIGNATURESMITH A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Westminster
ORCID0000-0001-6541-6187
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS268
TOTAL CITATIONS677
AUTHOR COUNT256
EDITOR COUNT10
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1936
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX15

  • Process vs protection: Evaluating devolved child National Referral Mechanism decision-making pilots

    Open AccessAndrew Smith, A Hardy Smith et al.ARTICLEProbation Journal2026

    The Home Office has funded certain local authorities across the United Kingdom to pilot devolved National Referral Mechanism (NRM) decision-making for child victims of modern slavery. Drawing on first-hand interviews with practitioners and supported by freedom of information data and existing literature, this article examines whether devolving decision-making powers to local authorities has improved responses to child exploitation. The findings h…

  • Type and developmental timing of childhood adversity predicts psychopathology symptoms in a South African birth cohort

    Open AccessSherief Y Eldeeb, Brooke G McKenna et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2026

    Background Childhood adversity is widespread globally and is one of the strongest predictors of later psychopathology. However, the differential effects of type and timing of childhood adversities on childhood psychopathology remain unclear, highlighting the need to explore which life-course hypotheses (sensitive periods, accumulation of exposure, and/or recency of exposure) best explain these associations. Of particular importance, there is a la…

  • The Price of Everything and the Cost of Nothing: Evaluating London’s Underground Transport Infrastructure Projects 1900–2000

    Open AccessJames Fowler, Kevin Tennent et al.ARTICLEEnterprise & Society2026

    This paper explores the historical development of management thought around the cost of public infrastructure. We argue that swings between ex post pricing and ex ante discounting as temporal frameworks within which the public, managers, politicians, and the media appraised major transport infrastructure projects constitute a dominant but unrecognized narrative. We use London in the twentieth century as a case study, identifying major changes in …

  • Enclosing urban green spaces. The fences of Finsbury Park

    Open AccessA G R Smith, Andrew Smith et al.ARTICLELandscape Research2026Cited by: 1References: 21

    Fences are one of the defining features of public parks, particularly in England. In other parts of the world, fences have been removed or lowered to make parks more open and accessible. But many park authorities in England have retained perimeter fencing, as they feel it protects people and environments. In this paper, we evaluate justifications for, and attitudes towards, fences; and evaluate how they affect park users, park activities and park…

  • We are the backbone of the community’: Precarious multiple employment and the complex dynamics of dignity in, out and between work

    Open AccessJo Mcbride, A G R Smith et al.ARTICLEHuman Relations2026References: 31

    This article critically examines the complex dynamics related to dignity at work (DAW) in contemporary precarious employment in the United Kingdom. It argues that current DAW frameworks are typically focused on workers with one job, but what about the experiences of those who need to work in multiple jobs to make ends meet? To consider this, the article focuses on the complex experiences related to dignity when navigating between and participatin…

  • Optimizing resources in genomic surveillance: South Carolina’s QC-plus approach

    Open AccessRachel Cox, Gregory Goodwin et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is the gold standard for identifying emerging variants during epidemics but is resource intensive. Traditionally, a low RT-qPCR cycle threshold (Ct) is used to select samples with presumed high viral loads but whether better alternatives exist is unclear. This study introduces and evaluates a Ct-independent method, SCQC-Plus (SCQC+) approach, combining enhanced library preparation and agarose gel-based quality contro…

  • Estimating the costs and quality of life impact of vision loss in the population aged 50-80 years in Malta: Evidence from The Malta Eye Study

    Open AccessDavid Agius, JULIAN MAMO et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background: Visual impairment and related ocular conditions impose substantial direct, indirect, and intangible costs, encompassing healthcare expenses, productivity losses, and reduced quality of life. Despite the global relevance of visual impairment, no comprehensive cost analysis has yet been conducted in an older adult Maltese population aged 50-80 years. Methods: Prevalence estimates from the population-based Malta Eye Study were used to ca…

  • Cannabis harm reduction: Perspectives of women who use and allied social and health-care providers

    Joseph Janes, J E Janes et al.ARTICLEDrugs Education Prevention and…2025

    Background Despite the legalization of cannabis use in Canada in 2018, there remains little research on cannabis harm reduction, particularly for women. Scholarship and public health guidelines tend to focus on the risks of use, emphasizing abstinence rather than harm reduction. Additionally, harm-reduction research and guidelines often lack the perspectives of women who use cannabis and allied social and health-care professionals.Methods This co…

  • Semantic extension in a novel communication system is facilitated by salient shared associations

    Open AccessKenny Smith, Josephine Bowerman et al.ARTICLECognition2025

    Creative processes of semantic extension play a key role in language change, grammaticalisation, and (by hypothesis) the early origins and evolution of language. In this paper we report two dyadic interaction experiments studying the semantic extension of novel labels in controlled circumstances. We find that participants can use salient and shared associations in their perceptual environment (between colours and shapes) to bootstrap a communicat…

  • The effect of a School Street intervention on children’s active travel, satisfaction with their street, and perception of road safety: A natural experimental evaluation

    Open AccessLisa Dowling, Sophia Arthurs-Hartnett et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    We saw very limited evidence that School Streets affected children's perceptions of feeling safe, liking their school road, identifying themselves as frequent active travellers; there was some evidence for reductions in self-reported active travel. A novel finding is the sense of solidarity and community cohesion that School Streets elicits. A greater understanding of the theory of change and how the intervention works in different areas and affe…

  • Nutritional implications of alternative proteins: A commentary

    Open AccessUrsula Davis, Jack Bobo et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2025

  • Sex, Campaign Contributions, and State Courts of Last Resort

    Open AccessAndrew Smith, Andrew Hewitt Smith et al.ARTICLEPolitical Research Quarterly2025References: 38

    Women have struggled to be elected at the federal, state, or local levels—with the notable exception of State Courts of Last Resort (SCLR), where women have experienced (comparative) electoral success. While scholars have sought to explain this relative success, one factor often overlooked is the role of campaign contributions and whether women are outraising their male counterparts. Using an original database of campaign contributions from 1989 …

  • Introduction to the Organisational Misbehaviour Debate

    Open AccessAndrew Smith, Miguel Martinez LucioARTICLENew Technology Work and Employment2025

    The first edition of ‘Organisational Misbehaviour’ by Stephen Ackroyd and Paul Thompson, published in 1999, is a landmark book as it engages with debates around managerial control, the labour process and how workers find the space to misbehave via humour, satire, recalcitrance and more. The second edition has recently been published (2022), which is fully revised and updated, with new chapters on managerial regimes, social media, developments in …

  • Exhibitionary urbanism: International Expos and city planning, 1851–2025

    Open AccessAndrew Smith, J R Gold et al.ARTICLEPlanning Perspectives2025References: 27

    International Expositions, World Expos or World’s Fairs – hereafter referred to simply as Expos – have helped to invent, develop and disseminate the modernity that has reshaped our world since the midnineteenth century, and have contributed to the globalization of economies, cultures, societies and environments. These events are inextricably associated with pioneering inventions and technological progress, but also with empire building and coloni…

  • Aspects of Zoroastrian Traditions in Nabataean Petra

    Jennifer Ramsay, Andrew Smith et al.ARTICLEJournal of Eastern Mediterranean…2025References: 1

    It is well-known that empires leave behind cultural footprints that linger for millennia. Influences in language, religion, art, and architecture are strongest. This being the case, it is surprising that there is little mention of Persian influences in southern Jordan because the Achaemenid Persians held sway over the region from the early fifth to the mid-fourth century BCE, and Artaxerxes II himself promoted the Zoroastrian cult of Anahita thro…

  • How do firms manage ethically-contested organisational paradoxes? Insights from two historical case studies of modern slavery

    Open AccessNicholas D Wong, Andrew Smith et al.ARTICLEBusiness History2025Cited by: 2References: 93

    Management researchers, particularly those focused on socially important issues such as worker exploitation, are increasingly interested in what this study terms ethically-contested organisational paradoxes. Such paradoxes occur when there is an incongruity between the ethical dimensions of a firm’s action in one area, geographical or functional, and another. To understand how firms manage ethically-contested organisational paradoxes, this study …

  • De-municipalisation? Legacies of austerity for England's urban parks

    Open AccessAndrew Smith, Meredith Whitten et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal2025Cited by: 6References: 30

    Parks are important urban infrastructures that contribute a broad range of health, environmental, social, and economic benefits. Despite this, UK parks' status as non-statutory services makes them particularly vulnerable to local authority budget cuts. This paper focuses on parks in English cities as these were particularly affected by severe cuts to local government budgets 2010-2019. This period of austerity affected parks provision in various …

  • Plotinus, Porphyry and Iamblichus: Philosophy and Religion in Neoplatonism

    Andrew SmithBOOKPlotinus, Porphyry and Iamblichus2024

  • The Significance of Practical Ethics for Plotinus

    Andrew SmithCHAPTERPlotinus, Porphyry and Iamblichus2024

  • Doing Sociology Today: A book launch for Revisiting Culture and Society

    Open AccessB Fowler, L Back et al.ARTICLEThe Sociological Review Magazine2024

  • Saul Bellow’s Gothic Ontology: The Victim and More Die of Heartbreak

    Andrew SmithARTICLEPartial Answers Journal of…2024

    Saul Bellow’s “Gothic Ontology: The Victim and More Die of Heartbreak ” examines the different types of Gothic employed by Saul Bellow in The Victim (1947) and More Die of Heartbreak (1987). The article argues that in The Victim Gothic doubling becomes erased by an idea of hospitality which challenges the status of the Gothic “other.” This is contrasted with More Die of Heartbreak where the Gothic is used in order to critically read the psycholog…

  • As low as reasonably practicable (Alarp): A moral model for clinical risk management in the setting of technology dependence

    Open AccessHelen Lynne Turnham, Sarah-Jane Bowen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2024

    Children dependent on life-prolonging medical technology are often subject to a constant background risk of sudden death or catastrophic complications. Such children can be cared for in hospital, in an intensive care environment with highly trained nurses and doctors able to deliver specialised, life-saving care immediately. However, remaining in hospital, when life expectancy is limited, can considered to be a harm in of itself. Discharge home o…

  • Olympic urbanism: Past, present and future

    Open AccessAndrew Smith, J R Gold et al.ARTICLEPlanning Perspectives2024

    City planning and urban change have become closely associated with the Olympic Games. Early editions of the revived Games had relatively limited effects on their host cities but, over the past century, hosting the Olympic Games has become an urban project rather than merely a sporting or geopolitical one.Footnote1 This is demonstrated by the ways in which key terms such as ‘legacy’ and ‘spectacle’ are now commonly used. Rather than memories, beha…

  • The relationship between type, timing and duration of exposure to adverse childhood experiences and adolescent self‐harm and depression: Findings from three UK prospective population‐based cohorts

    Open AccessBushra Farooq, Abigail Emma Russell et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2024

    BACKGROUND: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are well-established risk factors for self-harm and depression. However, despite their high comorbidity, there has been little focus on the impact of developmental timing and the duration of exposure to ACEs on co-occurring self-harm and depression. METHODS: Data were utilised from over 22,000 children and adolescents participating in three UK cohorts, followed up longitudinally for 14-18 years: th…

  • How do speaker characteristics influence use of rhetorical history? Insights from text mining analysis of discourse about Brexit

    Open AccessAndrew Smith, Michael Cole et al.ARTICLEManagement & Organizational History2024References: 29

    Management researchers interested in rhetorical history have hitherto paid little attention to how the personal characteristics of managers influence how individuals use the tool of rhetorical history to persuade others. We use advanced text mining tools to explore the impact of gender, education, and political ideology on how speakers use rhetorical history. We derived hypotheses from the management literature on rhetorical history and from mora…