Ray Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ray Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ray |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Plymouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7836-933X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1930 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
How much time do internal medicine residents spend on self-directed learning and on which resources
Increased clinical demands and newer means of self-directed learning (SDL) necessitate an understanding of how medical residents are supporting their learning. To examine the patterns of SDL engagement among internal medicine residents, their attitudes and behaviors with various resources, and evaluate the relationship between the clinical learning environment (CLE) and the time residents allocate to SDL and types of resources. This cross-section…
An Analysis of Workplace-Based Assessments for Core Entrustable Professional Activities for Entering Residency
Competency-Based, Time-Variable Promotion and Tenure
Assistant professor of internal medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon email: [email protected]; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7836-933X First published online Funding/Support: None reported. Other disclosures: Conceptualization and content of this letter originated with the author alone. Initial draft language was created via ChatGPT 4 (OpenAI) and final drafting performed by the auth…
Food Security as Ethics and Social Responsibility
High levels of food insecurity signal the presence of disparities and inequities in local food access that have been shown to negatively impact the health and well-being of individuals and communities. Some argue that the lack of healthy, affordable and culturally relevant food within a community represents a troubling social and ethical concern for any society. The current research conducts an assessment of a specific community utilizing the fra…
Leveraging existing education innovations to establish a community of practice to promote medical education scholar development
We are working on educational interdisciplinary research grant submission and creating collaborations with other institutions. Our focus remains on honing skills in grantsmanship, identification of impactful research questions, application of rigorous methods and instrumentation to address them, and refining process of budget development, timelines, and other planning strategies
Patterns of Demand and Provision in English Adult Social Care Services
This article reports on a quantitative study of the national datasets for adult social care in England. Building on recent analysis of trends in demand and expenditure, the aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between local authority (LA) characteristics, levels of demand for state-funded services and rates of short- and long-term provision. Publicly available data on short- and long-term activity and finances were collected for a…
Children’s Charities in Crisis
This is a sorry story which is well told. It recounts how the contract culture promotes insecurity and inequality, stifles innovation as what is done is only what is within the contract, and it adds costs through the tasks and time of setting, bidding for, letting, and managing contracts and with the wheel turning and repeating every three years or so. The book is based on Alison Body’s PhD research which included interviews with eighty people fr…
De-Professionalism and Austerity
It was fifty years ago in 1970 that the British Association of Social Workers was formed as a unified professional association for social workers across the UK. Whether or not social work should aspire to, and claim to be, a profession was contentious then. Even today only about a fifth of registered social workers in the UK are members of their professional association. Nigel Malin’s book, therefore, has a topicality at this time of a significan…
Social Work with Adolescents
Caring for a sick or injured child during the Covid‐19 pandemic lockdown in 2020 in the UK
BACKGROUND: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the first UK lockdown (March to May 2020) witnessed a dramatic reduction in children presenting to primary/emergency care, creating concern that fear of the virus was resulting in children presenting late. METHODS: An online survey was co-developed with UK parents to understand the impact of the lockdown on parents' help-seeking for, and care of, their sick/injured child(ren). The survey was advertised th…
Measuring Food Insecurity Using the Food Abundance Index
High levels of food insecurity signal the presence of disparities and inequities in local food access, which have been shown to negatively impact the health and well-being of individuals and communities. However, the approaches used to define and measure high food insecurity, also known as a "food desert", vary widely across research study and intervention methodology. This paper describes the development and validation of a measurement tool call…
EHealth technologies and the know-do gap
Background: eHealth technologies are widely believed to contribute to improving health and patients’ experience of care and reducing health system costs. While many studies explore barriers to and facilitators of eHealth innovation, we lack understanding of how this knowledge can be translated into workable, practicable and properly resourced knowledge mobilisation (KM) strategies. Aims and objectives: This paper describes the aims, methods and o…
Strengths-Based Child Protection
Strengths-Based Child Protection: Firm, Fair and Friendly, Carolyn Oliver Strengths-Based Child Protection: Firm, Fair and Friendly, Carolyn Oliver, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2017, pp. x and 249, ISBN 978-1-4875-2123-3, £29.95 (pb) Ray Jones Ray Jones Emeritus Professor of Social Work, Kingston University and St George’s, University of London Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
Protecting Children
Sometimes suddenly, but often over time, there are paradigm shifts where understanding, policy and practice change. If the paradigm shift is gradual it may creep up on us unawares and just become the new common sense. For example, with prompting and promotion from the disability movement, our understanding and acceptance of the social model of disability is now increasingly embedded within social policy and social work practice, albeit undermined…
Responding effectively to adult mental health patient feedback in an online environment
BACKGROUND: Responding to online patient feedback is considered integral to patient safety and quality improvement. However, guidance on how to respond effectively is limited, with limited attention paid to patient perceptions and reactions. OBJECTIVES: To identify factors considered potentially helpful in enhancing response quality; coproduce a best-practice response framework; and quality-appraise existing responses. DESIGN: A four-stage mixed …
Can Nursing Students Gain Person-Centred Skills while Supporting Citizen Contacts to use the Internet for Health
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 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
The effects of improving sleep on mental health (Oasis)
BACKGROUND: Sleep difficulties might be a contributory causal factor in the occurrence of mental health problems. If this is true, improving sleep should benefit psychological health. We aimed to determine whether treating insomnia leads to a reduction in paranoia and hallucinations. METHODS: We did this single-blind, randomised controlled trial (OASIS) at 26 UK universities. University students with insomnia were randomly assigned (1:1) with sim…
A Contemporary History of Social Work
This contemporary history of social work is for its author a lived history. He was there often in the thick of it (as when, as a part of a British Association of Social Workers (BASW) delegation, he met with Mrs Thatcher in the 1980s), watching but also contributing. And, in this book, he uses an essential skill of social workers—an ability to reflect and to make sense and meaning out of what can be confusing and chaotic events and experiences—be…
Exploring Demand and Provision in English Child Protection Services
This paper presents the results of an exploratory study linking the national data-sets for all children in need and child protection services in England. The study was informed by an emerging literature on systems thinking in public services, and aimed to examine variations and patterns of response in local authorities to demand for child welfare services in their area. One hundred and fifty-two local authority census returns and other statistica…
Building an online community to promote communication and collaborative learning between health professionals and young people who self‐harm
BACKGROUND: Online communities are known to break down barriers between supposed experts and non-experts and to promote collaborative learning and 'radical trust' among members. Young people who self-harm report difficulties in communicating with health professionals, and vice versa. AIM: We sought to bring these two groups together online to see how well they could communicate with each other about self-harm and its management, and whether they …
Debates in Personalisation
This book is a compilation of different views, different experiences and different histories of the personalisation journey over the past 25 years. Along with the book’s contributors, I have been a
The end game
There is a long history of voluntary and other organisations, along with the state, providing social services for children in England. But crucial assessments and decision-making about the care and protection of children have been undertaken by local authorities within the context of democratic accountability and transparency. This is changing. The government is opening up children’s social work services, including child protection investigations…
Countryside Connections
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
Social work in the UK has had a torrid time, castigated for not protecting children from risk and cornered as the rationer of scarce resources for adults. Over the past sixty years, it has struggled to create a strong and appropriate professional space and its identity and role have remained contested. This paper recounts the debates and dilemmas which have encompassed and engrossed social work, but also recognises that there is now a stronger pl…
The definition and deployment of differential core professional competencies and characteristics in multiprofessional health and social care teams
There has been an increasing focus on delivering health and social care services through multiprofessional and inter-agency teams. This study, undertaken in 2011, explores how different professionals within multiprofessional teams define their own and other professions' core professional competencies, characteristics and contributions. It then compares these definitions with how different professionals deploy their time and what tasks they undert…
Pretty Versus Powerful in the Sports Pages
To examine how descriptions of the performance of female athletes are likely to reflect dominant beliefs about gender in society, 769 passages from the print media describing gold medal winning contests for four U.S. women’s teams in the 1996 Olympics (basketball, gymnastics, soccer, and softball) and the U.S. women’s hockey team in the 1998 Olympics were subjected to content analysis. The sports analyzed fall under the categories of Matteo’s stu…
Exploring Demand and Provision in English Child Protection Services
This paper presents the results of an exploratory study linking the national data-sets for all children in need and child protection services in England. The study was informed by an emerging literature on systems thinking in public services, and aimed to examine variations and patterns of response in local authorities to demand for child welfare services in their area. One hundred and fifty-two local authority census returns and other statistica…
The end game
There is a long history of voluntary and other organisations, along with the state, providing social services for children in England. But crucial assessments and decision-making about the care and protection of children have been undertaken by local authorities within the context of democratic accountability and transparency. This is changing. The government is opening up children’s social work services, including child protection investigations…
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
Social work in the UK has had a torrid time, castigated for not protecting children from risk and cornered as the rationer of scarce resources for adults. Over the past sixty years, it has struggled to create a strong and appropriate professional space and its identity and role have remained contested. This paper recounts the debates and dilemmas which have encompassed and engrossed social work, but also recognises that there is now a stronger pl…
Problem presentation and responses on an online forum for young people who self-harm
In this article we investigate the nature of problem presentation and responses on an online forum for young people who self-harm. Previous studies have raised concerns about the peer encouragement of self-harming behaviours in online forums, and this analysis considers the nature of peer interaction on a specific forum, ‘ SharpTalk’. This was a research forum which explored the potential of online communities to foster engagement and shared lear…
Membership and Boundary Maintenance on an Online Self-Harm Forum
In this article we explore how young adults became members and sustained membership in an online self-harm support forum, SharpTalk. We take a discursive approach to consider resources young people used to establish themselves, how others responded to their attempts, and how membership categories were developed and applied. Participants displayed expectations about appropriate ways of discussing self-harm, and about responses and advice. New post…
Patterns of Demand and Provision in English Adult Social Care Services
This article reports on a quantitative study of the national datasets for adult social care in England. Building on recent analysis of trends in demand and expenditure, the aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between local authority (LA) characteristics, levels of demand for state-funded services and rates of short- and long-term provision. Publicly available data on short- and long-term activity and finances were collected for a…
The definition and deployment of differential core professional competencies and characteristics in multiprofessional health and social care teams
There has been an increasing focus on delivering health and social care services through multiprofessional and inter-agency teams. This study, undertaken in 2011, explores how different professionals within multiprofessional teams define their own and other professions' core professional competencies, characteristics and contributions. It then compares these definitions with how different professionals deploy their time and what tasks they undert…
General practitioners, primary care and support for carers in England
As a part of the national carers' strategy, the Department of Health commissioned six pilot workshops spread across England for General Practitioners (GPs) and other primary healthcare workers. The six workshops were held during September and October 2009, arranged by the Royal College of General Practitioners and planned in consultation with the Princess Royal Trust for Carers. The workshops were delivered by one of two GPs and by a carer. The D…
Children Acts 1948‐2008
The article explores the drivers for legislative and policy change in children's social care in England over the past 60 years. It describes the factors that led to the major children's social care legislation and explores how these ‘drivers for change’ varied in their importance over time. Particular attention is given to the impact of research evidence as a driver for change among, for example tragedy and media scandal, political developments a…
EHealth technologies and the know-do gap
Background: eHealth technologies are widely believed to contribute to improving health and patients’ experience of care and reducing health system costs. While many studies explore barriers to and facilitators of eHealth innovation, we lack understanding of how this knowledge can be translated into workable, practicable and properly resourced knowledge mobilisation (KM) strategies. Aims and objectives: This paper describes the aims, methods and o…
Reproductive empowerment
The aim of this Grounded Theory study was to assess the motivation and outcomes of carrier testing. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants who had undergone carrier testing for autosomal recessive, X-linked conditions and chromosome translocations. Reproductive empowerment emerged as the central phenomenon. A desire to manage risk was the main motivator for carrier testing, and information gathering the main facil…
Assessing Affirmative Action
A fundamental goal of affirmative action is to eliminate both the consequences of past discrimination and likelihood of future discrimination. Thus, any assessment of the impact of affirmative action must examine two basic questions: (1) Have the consequences of discrimination been eliminated? (2) Are measures in place to prevent discrimination from occurring in the future? The basic conclusion that will be offered in this assessment is that whil…
Ensayo de Psicologia de la Adolescencia. Ezequiel A. Chavez
The Idea of Welfare
The China Consuls
Assessing Affirmative Action
A fundamental goal of affirmative action is to eliminate both the consequences of past discrimination and likelihood of future discrimination. Thus, any assessment of the impact of affirmative action must examine two basic questions: (1) Have the consequences of discrimination been eliminated? (2) Are measures in place to prevent discrimination from occurring in the future? The basic conclusion that will be offered in this assessment is that whil…
The Economic Puzzle of Oskar Schindler
The popular film Schindler's List is a cinematic portrayal of Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who rescued more than a thousand of his Jewish workers during the Holocaust. While the film has generated much debate over the character's motivations, the historical Oskar Schindler can be viewed as an economic actor who made several choices. Examined together, these various choices make an excellent case for amenity potential, a concept from …
Obituaries
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Pretty Versus Powerful in the Sports Pages
To examine how descriptions of the performance of female athletes are likely to reflect dominant beliefs about gender in society, 769 passages from the print media describing gold medal winning contests for four U.S. women’s teams in the 1996 Olympics (basketball, gymnastics, soccer, and softball) and the U.S. women’s hockey team in the 1998 Olympics were subjected to content analysis. The sports analyzed fall under the categories of Matteo’s stu…
Web 3D for Public, Environmental and Occupational Health
Over the past three years (2006-2008), the medical/health and public health communities have shown a growing interest in using online 3D virtual worlds like Second Life(R) (http://secondlife.com/) for health education, community outreach, training and simulations purposes. 3D virtual worlds are seen as the precursors of 'Web 3D' , the next major iteration of the Internet that will follow in the coming years. This paper provides a tour of several …
The perceived impact of location privacy
The clash between PID requirements - including granular geography - and limitations imposed by privacy and its associated bureaucracy require immediate attention and solutions, particularly given the increasing utilisation of GIS in public health. Solutions include harmonization of privacy legislation with public health requirements, bureaucratic simplification, increased multidisciplinary discourse, education, and development of toolsets, algori…
Virtual Worlds, Collective Responses and Responsibilities in Health
Virtual worlds are an exciting area offering opportunities in clinical teaching and interventions. Clinicians and academics alike may approach these emerging opportunities with enthusiasm or scepticism. Attitudes towards applying virtual worlds in clinical practice may arise from a number of sources, facilitating a more or less positive view towards this media. Virtual worlds have the potential to provide a considerable amount of control to the e…
Children Acts 1948‐2008
The article explores the drivers for legislative and policy change in children's social care in England over the past 60 years. It describes the factors that led to the major children's social care legislation and explores how these ‘drivers for change’ varied in their importance over time. Particular attention is given to the impact of research evidence as a driver for change among, for example tragedy and media scandal, political developments a…
Referrals to a regional allergy clinic - an eleven year audit
This study shows marked geographical differences in allergy referrals which are likely to reflect a combination of environmental factors and GP referral patterns. The data suggest that GPs may benefit from education and ongoing decision support and be supported by public education on the nature of allergy. It suggests further research into what happens to patients with allergy where there has been low use of tertiary services and further research…
General practitioners, primary care and support for carers in England
As a part of the national carers' strategy, the Department of Health commissioned six pilot workshops spread across England for General Practitioners (GPs) and other primary healthcare workers. The six workshops were held during September and October 2009, arranged by the Royal College of General Practitioners and planned in consultation with the Princess Royal Trust for Carers. The workshops were delivered by one of two GPs and by a carer. The D…
Social Care Management, Strategy and Business Planning
Problem presentation and responses on an online forum for young people who self-harm
In this article we investigate the nature of problem presentation and responses on an online forum for young people who self-harm. Previous studies have raised concerns about the peer encouragement of self-harming behaviours in online forums, and this analysis considers the nature of peer interaction on a specific forum, ‘ SharpTalk’. This was a research forum which explored the potential of online communities to foster engagement and shared lear…
Membership and Boundary Maintenance on an Online Self-Harm Forum
In this article we explore how young adults became members and sustained membership in an online self-harm support forum, SharpTalk. We take a discursive approach to consider resources young people used to establish themselves, how others responded to their attempts, and how membership categories were developed and applied. Participants displayed expectations about appropriate ways of discussing self-harm, and about responses and advice. New post…
The definition and deployment of differential core professional competencies and characteristics in multiprofessional health and social care teams
There has been an increasing focus on delivering health and social care services through multiprofessional and inter-agency teams. This study, undertaken in 2011, explores how different professionals within multiprofessional teams define their own and other professions' core professional competencies, characteristics and contributions. It then compares these definitions with how different professionals deploy their time and what tasks they undert…
Commissioning for Health and Well-Being
There were, possibly amongst others, two difficulties faced by this book. First, it had to strike a balance between a readership who may have a primary interest in health care and those whose interests might mainly be social care. This is a challenge it has successfully met. Second, as a book of separately authored papers, albeit with all the authors associated with the University of Birmingham, it was likely to be variable in style and structure…
Understanding Health and Social Care, 2nd edn
Understanding Health and Social Care, 2nd edn Jon Glasby (ed.) Bristol, The Policy Press, 2012, ISBN 978 1 84742 624 6 (hbk), 978 1 84742 623 9 (pbk) For anyone living in England life is about to g
Reproductive empowerment
The aim of this Grounded Theory study was to assess the motivation and outcomes of carrier testing. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants who had undergone carrier testing for autosomal recessive, X-linked conditions and chromosome translocations. Reproductive empowerment emerged as the central phenomenon. A desire to manage risk was the main motivator for carrier testing, and information gathering the main facil…
Countryside Connections
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
Social work in the UK has had a torrid time, castigated for not protecting children from risk and cornered as the rationer of scarce resources for adults. Over the past sixty years, it has struggled to create a strong and appropriate professional space and its identity and role have remained contested. This paper recounts the debates and dilemmas which have encompassed and engrossed social work, but also recognises that there is now a stronger pl…
Building an online community to promote communication and collaborative learning between health professionals and young people who self‐harm
BACKGROUND: Online communities are known to break down barriers between supposed experts and non-experts and to promote collaborative learning and 'radical trust' among members. Young people who self-harm report difficulties in communicating with health professionals, and vice versa. AIM: We sought to bring these two groups together online to see how well they could communicate with each other about self-harm and its management, and whether they …
Debates in Personalisation
This book is a compilation of different views, different experiences and different histories of the personalisation journey over the past 25 years. Along with the book’s contributors, I have been a
The end game
There is a long history of voluntary and other organisations, along with the state, providing social services for children in England. But crucial assessments and decision-making about the care and protection of children have been undertaken by local authorities within the context of democratic accountability and transparency. This is changing. The government is opening up children’s social work services, including child protection investigations…
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