Megan Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3622778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Providence College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1207-6048 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cultivating Belonging Through Longitudinal Engagement
This qualitative, longitudinal study explores how student members’ sense of belonging changed over time in a Networked Improvement Community (NIC). Co-authored by researchers and student participants, this study uses the “students as partners” framework and four constructs of belonging (motivation, competencies, opportunities, and perceptions) to examine how sense of belonging manifested and developed for five student NIC members across their fir…
Two sides of the same story
Discharge Against Medical Advice (AMA) disproportionately affects individuals experiencing homelessness, who leave hospitals AMA at rates four times higher than housed populations [Choi M, Kim H, Qian H, Palepu A. Readmission Rates of Patients Discharged against Medical Advice: A Matched Cohort Study. PLoS ONE. 2011;6(9):e24459]. Common explanations emphasize patient non-compliance, overlooking systemic, environmental, and clinician-level factors…
Secondary school-university partnerships foster STEMM interest and self-agency in rural students
Introduction Rural STEMM education faces significant challenges, including limited access to high-quality STEMM experiences and resources. University-K12 partnerships can address these challenges by providing opportunities for students and teachers to engage in authentic STEMM activities, build relationships with STEMM professionals, develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and grow professionally. This paper explores the unique asse…
Adapting to changing risk environments
Background The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the US overdose crisis and disproportionately impacted unstably housed people who use drugs. Measures to address the pandemic within the context of crisis produced differential effects, particularly among people who use drugs. Examining how unstably housed people who use drugs adapted to shifting risk environments is imperative to responding to future crises.Methods Rapid ethnographic data was collecte…
‘Everywhere I call, there's nothing available’
Examining the relationships between exposure to homelessness and housing insecurity and perceptions and attitudes toward homelessness among low- and moderate-income people
Prior research finds that individuals with greater exposure to homelessness express more favorable attitudes toward people experiencing homelessness. However, it is unclear whether exposure to more broader forms of housing insecurity (e.g. lack of affordability, poor housing quality, being doubled-up) is linked to perceptions of and attitudes toward homelessness. We thus examined the association between both exposure to homelessness and several b…
An analysis of the UK’s commercial stem cell clinics
Commercial stem cell clinics in the UK are offering therapies of unproven efficacy that have the potential to cause harm. Marketing information used to advertise the therapies is often misleading and prices can be extortionate. Most so-called ‘stem cell’ therapies are currently exempt from regulations. This needs to be addressed urgently to stop patients from being subjected to financial, physical or psychological harm. To address these problems,…
Targeted Sanctions as a Pathway to Accountability
The growth of ‘Magnitsky-style’ targeted sanctions has ushered in a new chapter in the history of sanctions practice that places civil society actors in an increasingly empowered position. The development of new legal and policy frameworks in several jurisdictions, led by the USA, has formalized an active role for civil society in governments’ sanction designation processes. By creating a legal framework for civil society engagement, the US Magni…
Locked Out
Affordable housing is a critical resource with serious ramifications for a range of outcomes for low-income households. However, low-income prospective tenants are often denied subsidized housing through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on the basis of factors directly or indirectly related to their poverty and racialized identities. This study assesses how the admissions policies of public housing authorities and Sectio…
Comprehensive testing and rapid dissemination of local drug supply surveillance data in Rhode Island
Poor self-rated oral health associated with poorer general health among Indigenous Australians
Fair or poor self-rated oral health among Indigenous persons in South Australia was associated with poor general health as measured by EQ-5D-5L disutility. The relationship was especially evident with respect to mobility, self-care and anxiety/depression. The findings emphasise the importance of oral health as predictors of general health among Indigenous Australians
Population-based utility scores for HPV infection and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma among Indigenous Australians
Among a large sample of Indigenous Australians, utility for oral HPV infection and OPSCC decreased with severity of health states. Older participants, as well as males and those residing in non-metropolitan locations, had decreased utility for high-grade cytology and early invasive cancer states. Our findings are an important contribution to cost-utility and disease prevention strategies that seek to inform policies around reducing HPV infection …
“You Don’t See Them on the Streets of Your Town”
Research on policy and programmatic responses to homelessness has focused largely on urban areas, with comparatively little attention paid to the rural context. We conducted qualitative interviews with a nationwide sample of rural-serving agencies receiving grants through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Supportive Services for Veteran Families program to better understand the housing needs, available services, needed resources, and chall…
Teaching Social Work Students About Homelessness
This article presents the conceptual underpinnings of a homelessness intervention program, accompanied by a social work course, that provide direct services and cause advocacy with and on behalf of people experiencing homelessness. A program goal is to educate students in social work, medicine, law, pharmacy, public health, and nursing about systemic causes and human consequences of homelessness, while teaching students skills for providing traum…
Placement of Outdoor Exercise Equipment and Physical Activity
To reduce the burden of chronic disease, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded the Orange County Partnerships to Improve Health (OC-PICH) project in Orange County, California. One of the strategies included adding outdoor exercise equipment (OEE) in two parks in Garden Grove and Anaheim. Using a quasi-experimental pre-post design, we evaluated park users' physical activity levels before and after OEE installation using the S…
Call Centre Karma, or How Popular Culture Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Outsourcing
Since 2006, numerous movies and TV series have depicted outsourcing to India as a source of both economic and personal opportunity for American, Canadian, British and Indian characters. There has been no sustained assessment, however, of individual screen texts which address call centre work, nor any comparative work that might shed light on the significance of this transnational phenomenon. Using discourse and visual analysis, films including Ou…
Parent participation practices and subjectivities
Parent participation with learning, defined here as parental engagement, has been a particular educational policy focus in many countries in recent decades. Grounded in neoliberal education sector reforms, the relationship between parents, learning, and schools has been reframed over this period. Using a genealogical approach, this article analyses parental engagement policies and practices, and the subjectivities these have engendered, in relati…
Wac'inyeya
This article examines what gives American Indian youth hope. The project included 56 rural tribal youth in focus groups across a Northern Plains reservation. The participants completed a Youth Personal Balance Tool to provide perspective on the balance according to a medicine wheel model of their lives. The focus groups asked questions from a strengths-based perspective about what gives them hope and how they could show others they were hopeful. …
Word-order typology and the acquisition of case marking
This article reports the findings of a study in which we investigated the possible effects of word order on the acquisition of case marking. In linguistic typology (e.g. Greenberg, 1963) a very strong correlation has been shown between dominant SOV (subject object verb) word order and case marking. No such correlation exists for SVO (subject verb object) languages. It is possible then that the mind is more likely to expect case marking when confr…
De-identified genomic data sharing
Self-deception facilitates interpersonal persuasion
Cycling on the verge
Does University Christian Chaplaincy Need a Theology
Chaplaincy is an institutional norm in most universities in the United Kingdom (UK). Individual chaplains can usually recount stories to illustrate their role positively, churches keep providing funding, and the institutions do not seem to mind their presence. But behind this benign status quo the role and function of chaplains faces a challenge: development and availability of professional counselling services, pressures on church budgets, and c…
Not Hiding, Not Shouting, Just Me
This study explored how British gay men make sense of their appearance and clothing practices and the pressures and concerns they attend to in discursively negotiating their visual identities. A convenience sample of 20 mostly young, White, and middle-class self-identified gay men responded to a qualitative survey on dress and appearance. The participants clearly understood the rules of compulsory heterosexuality and the risks of looking "too gay…
Workplace educators’ interpretations of their assessment practices
In this paper, we examine workplace educators’ interpretations of their assessment practices. We draw on a critical practice lens to conceptualise assessment practice as a social, relational and situated practice that becomes critical through critique and emancipation. We conducted semi-structured interviews followed by roundtable discussions with physiotherapy clinical educators in the workplace. Employing a critical hermeneutic approach, data w…
Not Hiding, Not Shouting, Just Me
This study explored how British gay men make sense of their appearance and clothing practices and the pressures and concerns they attend to in discursively negotiating their visual identities. A convenience sample of 20 mostly young, White, and middle-class self-identified gay men responded to a qualitative survey on dress and appearance. The participants clearly understood the rules of compulsory heterosexuality and the risks of looking "too gay…
Do Drone Strikes Degrade Al Qaeda? Evidence From Propaganda Output
The United States has used unmanned, aerial vehicles—drones—to launch attacks on militants associated with Al Qaeda and other violent groups based in Pakistan. The goal is to degrade the target's capacity to undertake political and violent action. We assess the effectiveness of drone strikes in achieving this goal, measuring degradation as the capacity of Al Qaeda to generate and disseminate propaganda. Propaganda is a key output of many terroris…
Self-deception facilitates interpersonal persuasion
Cycling on the verge
Word-order typology and the acquisition of case marking
This article reports the findings of a study in which we investigated the possible effects of word order on the acquisition of case marking. In linguistic typology (e.g. Greenberg, 1963) a very strong correlation has been shown between dominant SOV (subject object verb) word order and case marking. No such correlation exists for SVO (subject verb object) languages. It is possible then that the mind is more likely to expect case marking when confr…
Wac'inyeya
This article examines what gives American Indian youth hope. The project included 56 rural tribal youth in focus groups across a Northern Plains reservation. The participants completed a Youth Personal Balance Tool to provide perspective on the balance according to a medicine wheel model of their lives. The focus groups asked questions from a strengths-based perspective about what gives them hope and how they could show others they were hopeful. …
Factors influencing military recruitment in South Africa
This research sets out to establish how the youth in South Africa view military service, and what factors affect the ability of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to attract suitable recruits to staff its modern, technologically advanced military. Due to high levels of youth unemployment, South Africa has sufficient persons volunteering for military service. The problem lies with recruiting sufficient quality personnel with the righ…
Cervical cancer screening in Australia
Lengthening the recommended screening interval to 3 years in Australia is not predicted to result in increases in rates of cervical cancer and is predicted to decrease the number of women undergoing diagnostic and treatment procedures. These findings are consistent with a large body of international evidence showing that screening more frequently than every three years with cervical cytology does not result in substantial gains in screening effec…
Tackling health literacy
Involving the target community to identify health issues as well as help to create culturally, language and literacy sensitive health education materials ensures resources are highly acceptable to that community. Minor changes to the materials will be needed prior to formal testing of hypertension knowledge and health decision-making on a larger scale within this at risk community
P2-41 Prevalence of smoking and its association with mortality in China
Background Over the past few decades, there has been a rapid increase in cigarette consumption in China. Large prospective studies are needed to monitor the evolution over the next few decades of the resultant epidemic of tobacco-related deaths in China. Methods During 2004–2008 the Kadoorie Biobank Study recruited 510 000 adults aged 30–79 from 10 geographically defined regions across China. By Oct 2010, 10 000 deaths had been recorded. Cox regr…
Do Drone Strikes Degrade Al Qaeda? Evidence From Propaganda Output
The United States has used unmanned, aerial vehicles—drones—to launch attacks on militants associated with Al Qaeda and other violent groups based in Pakistan. The goal is to degrade the target's capacity to undertake political and violent action. We assess the effectiveness of drone strikes in achieving this goal, measuring degradation as the capacity of Al Qaeda to generate and disseminate propaganda. Propaganda is a key output of many terroris…
Workplace educators’ interpretations of their assessment practices
In this paper, we examine workplace educators’ interpretations of their assessment practices. We draw on a critical practice lens to conceptualise assessment practice as a social, relational and situated practice that becomes critical through critique and emancipation. We conducted semi-structured interviews followed by roundtable discussions with physiotherapy clinical educators in the workplace. Employing a critical hermeneutic approach, data w…
Factors influencing military recruitment in South Africa
This research sets out to establish how the youth in South Africa view military service, and what factors affect the ability of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to attract suitable recruits to staff its modern, technologically advanced military. Due to high levels of youth unemployment, South Africa has sufficient persons volunteering for military service. The problem lies with recruiting sufficient quality personnel with the righ…
Does University Christian Chaplaincy Need a Theology
Chaplaincy is an institutional norm in most universities in the United Kingdom (UK). Individual chaplains can usually recount stories to illustrate their role positively, churches keep providing funding, and the institutions do not seem to mind their presence. But behind this benign status quo the role and function of chaplains faces a challenge: development and availability of professional counselling services, pressures on church budgets, and c…
Not Hiding, Not Shouting, Just Me
This study explored how British gay men make sense of their appearance and clothing practices and the pressures and concerns they attend to in discursively negotiating their visual identities. A convenience sample of 20 mostly young, White, and middle-class self-identified gay men responded to a qualitative survey on dress and appearance. The participants clearly understood the rules of compulsory heterosexuality and the risks of looking "too gay…
Cycling on the verge
De-identified genomic data sharing
Self-deception facilitates interpersonal persuasion
Word-order typology and the acquisition of case marking
This article reports the findings of a study in which we investigated the possible effects of word order on the acquisition of case marking. In linguistic typology (e.g. Greenberg, 1963) a very strong correlation has been shown between dominant SOV (subject object verb) word order and case marking. No such correlation exists for SVO (subject verb object) languages. It is possible then that the mind is more likely to expect case marking when confr…
Wac'inyeya
This article examines what gives American Indian youth hope. The project included 56 rural tribal youth in focus groups across a Northern Plains reservation. The participants completed a Youth Personal Balance Tool to provide perspective on the balance according to a medicine wheel model of their lives. The focus groups asked questions from a strengths-based perspective about what gives them hope and how they could show others they were hopeful. …
“You Don’t See Them on the Streets of Your Town”
Research on policy and programmatic responses to homelessness has focused largely on urban areas, with comparatively little attention paid to the rural context. We conducted qualitative interviews with a nationwide sample of rural-serving agencies receiving grants through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Supportive Services for Veteran Families program to better understand the housing needs, available services, needed resources, and chall…
Teaching Social Work Students About Homelessness
This article presents the conceptual underpinnings of a homelessness intervention program, accompanied by a social work course, that provide direct services and cause advocacy with and on behalf of people experiencing homelessness. A program goal is to educate students in social work, medicine, law, pharmacy, public health, and nursing about systemic causes and human consequences of homelessness, while teaching students skills for providing traum…
Placement of Outdoor Exercise Equipment and Physical Activity
To reduce the burden of chronic disease, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded the Orange County Partnerships to Improve Health (OC-PICH) project in Orange County, California. One of the strategies included adding outdoor exercise equipment (OEE) in two parks in Garden Grove and Anaheim. Using a quasi-experimental pre-post design, we evaluated park users' physical activity levels before and after OEE installation using the S…
Call Centre Karma, or How Popular Culture Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Outsourcing
Since 2006, numerous movies and TV series have depicted outsourcing to India as a source of both economic and personal opportunity for American, Canadian, British and Indian characters. There has been no sustained assessment, however, of individual screen texts which address call centre work, nor any comparative work that might shed light on the significance of this transnational phenomenon. Using discourse and visual analysis, films including Ou…
Parent participation practices and subjectivities
Parent participation with learning, defined here as parental engagement, has been a particular educational policy focus in many countries in recent decades. Grounded in neoliberal education sector reforms, the relationship between parents, learning, and schools has been reframed over this period. Using a genealogical approach, this article analyses parental engagement policies and practices, and the subjectivities these have engendered, in relati…
Poor self-rated oral health associated with poorer general health among Indigenous Australians
Fair or poor self-rated oral health among Indigenous persons in South Australia was associated with poor general health as measured by EQ-5D-5L disutility. The relationship was especially evident with respect to mobility, self-care and anxiety/depression. The findings emphasise the importance of oral health as predictors of general health among Indigenous Australians
Population-based utility scores for HPV infection and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma among Indigenous Australians
Among a large sample of Indigenous Australians, utility for oral HPV infection and OPSCC decreased with severity of health states. Older participants, as well as males and those residing in non-metropolitan locations, had decreased utility for high-grade cytology and early invasive cancer states. Our findings are an important contribution to cost-utility and disease prevention strategies that seek to inform policies around reducing HPV infection …
Locked Out
Affordable housing is a critical resource with serious ramifications for a range of outcomes for low-income households. However, low-income prospective tenants are often denied subsidized housing through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on the basis of factors directly or indirectly related to their poverty and racialized identities. This study assesses how the admissions policies of public housing authorities and Sectio…
Comprehensive testing and rapid dissemination of local drug supply surveillance data in Rhode Island
‘Everywhere I call, there's nothing available’
Examining the relationships between exposure to homelessness and housing insecurity and perceptions and attitudes toward homelessness among low- and moderate-income people
Prior research finds that individuals with greater exposure to homelessness express more favorable attitudes toward people experiencing homelessness. However, it is unclear whether exposure to more broader forms of housing insecurity (e.g. lack of affordability, poor housing quality, being doubled-up) is linked to perceptions of and attitudes toward homelessness. We thus examined the association between both exposure to homelessness and several b…
An analysis of the UK’s commercial stem cell clinics
Commercial stem cell clinics in the UK are offering therapies of unproven efficacy that have the potential to cause harm. Marketing information used to advertise the therapies is often misleading and prices can be extortionate. Most so-called ‘stem cell’ therapies are currently exempt from regulations. This needs to be addressed urgently to stop patients from being subjected to financial, physical or psychological harm. To address these problems,…
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