Rob Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3626321 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rob Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rob |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9657-7570 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 121 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 257 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 115 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1925 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Expanding the Yukon tree ring Blue Intensity network to assess divergence effects and enhance climate reconstructions
The Divergence Problem (DP) – classically defined as a breakdown in the relationship between tree growth and temperature in recent decades – poses a major challenge to developing robust tree-ring based climate reconstructions. This is particularly relevant in northwestern North America (NWNA), a climatically sensitive yet underrepresented region in dendroclimatological networks. To address this gap and the implications of the DP, we developed a n…
A critical commentary of the paradoxical ‘success’ of Making Every Contact Count (Mecc)
Initially implemented within healthcare settings but more recently expanded to the wider public and third sectors, Making Every Contact Count (MECC), an opportunistic approach to health behaviour change, has been widely adopted and implemented across the UK, Ireland, and beyond, despite little evidence to support improved health and wellbeing of service users. Drawing upon the contextual landscape of MECC implementation, this critical commentary …
Enhancing making every contact count (Mecc) training and delivery for the third and social economy (TSE) sector
OBJECTIVE: To enhance Making Every Contact Count (MECC, an opportunistic approach to health promotion), training in the Third and Social Economy (TSE, all groups and organisations primarily working towards social justice, outside of the government or household) by examining the degree to which the behavioural content of MECC training tackled significant factors influencing MECC delivery. METHODS AND MEASURES: = 5) were coded for barriers and faci…
Applying critical systems thinking through phronetic pluralism
Contemporary governance challenges require both systemic leadership and adaptive learning to navigate effectively. Yet systems theory and systems thinking remain on the relative margins of management praxis, subject to accusations of theoretical remoteness or impracticality. In this paper, we explore how concepts central to Critical Systems Theory (CST) can be impactfully carried into practice. We discuss the genesis and operation of Human Learni…
Assessing fidelity of design and training of Making Every Contact Count (Mecc) in a mental health inpatient setting
The implementation of MECC across the mental health inpatient setting and the training package appear to be delivered as intended therefore demonstrating good fidelity and potential benefits to public health. Future research would benefit from assessing cascade training sessions from those who have completed train the trainer to evaluate ongoing fidelity of training across the trust
You Go There and You are Welcomed and People do not Judge”
Brief health and wellbeing conversations within the Third and Social Economy (TSE) sector (groups or organisations operating independently to family and government with social justice as the primary aim) could help to reduce health inequalities through increased access to disadvantaged populations. This study aimed to explore the acceptability of health and wellbeing conversations such as within the TSE, including their existence without specific…
‘I Find it Daunting . . . That I’m Gonna Have to Deal with This until 60’
While operational firefighters in the UK fire and rescue service traditionally retired in their 50s, their working lives are now extending. However, external pressures and the emotional and physical demands of firefighting work, lead to questions about whether operational firefighters will be able to extend their working lives. In this article, we engage with Van der Klink et al.’s sustainable employability model, which focuses on situations that…
The Moderating Effect of Mental Health on the Relationship Between Cardiovascular Disease Awareness and Health Behaviors of Middle-Aged Korean Chinese Workers With Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Korea
Understanding relationships between CVD awareness, socioculturally mediated health behaviors, and mental health issues is critical to CVD prevention among participants; moreover, mental health should be specifically assessed and targeted for improvement
A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Brief Health Behaviour Change Interventions on Service Users Accessing the Third and Social Economy Sector
There are well-established relationships between socioeconomic status (SES) and all aspects of health. Brief interventions offer a cost-effective method to target health behaviours, helping to reduce these health inequalities. Furthermore, the third and social economy (TSE) sector, which encompasses all not-for-profit groups and organisations that operate outside of the family, household, and government, offers access to those of lower SES and a …
You can look, but don’t touch’
This paper examines the competitive balance of the Champions League between 1992/93–2019/20 focusing on both the group and knockout stages. The findings show that competitive balance has declined in the Champions League over time and that the competition has begun to be dominated by a select number of clubs. This situation has also worsened in the years following the inception of UEFA Financial Fair Play regulations in 2011. From a sporting econo…
Exploring the Effects of Volunteering on the Social, Mental, and Physical Health and Well-being of Volunteers
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11266-023-00573-z
Torkildsen's Sport and Leisure Management
Looking forward, glancing back; competitive balance and the EPL
The formation of the English Premier League (EPL) in 1992 heralded a digital and financial revolution within the game. Broadcasting fees rose exponentially, clubs became cash rich and English clubs became attractive purchases for foreign investment. Our paper examines the change in competitive balance in the top tier of English football since the inception of the EPL, focusing on 56 seasons between 1964/65 and 2019/20. Our analysis shows that com…
Making every contact count with seldom‐heard groups? A qualitative evaluation of voluntary and community sector (VCS) implementation of a public health behaviour change programme in England
Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is a national, long-term public health strategy in England. It supports public-facing workers to use opportunities during routine contacts to enable healthy lifestyle changes. This paper reports the findings from an external evaluation of voluntary and community sector (VCS) delivery of MECC in the North East of England, which focused on engaging under-represented client groups. The study aimed to (a) Establish i…
Transfiguration as a World-Making Practice
By a transfigurative recoding of selfhood and quasi-biblical analogizing of historical events across space and time, Bob Dylan enacted in his poetic name change from Zimmerman to Dylan (as he would writing across the larger body of his song-poetry) what Norman O. Brown had embraced, in Love's Body and Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis if not throughout his works early and late, as tactics of “figural interpretation, [that] discovered world-historic…
Transfiguration as World-Making Practice of Conversion
By a transfigurative recoding of selfhood and a quasi-Biblical intertextual analogizing of historical events into figures across space and time, Bob Dylan shaped his initial conversion as a poetic name-change from Zimmerman-to-Dylan (as he would later write more broadly across the larger body of his poetry). This theo-poetic transformation of identity into a more poetic and spiritual being is what Norman O. Brown theorized, in Love’s Body and Apo…
We Were Declared Enemies to the Country” Two Letters from Joshua Winslow, A Consignee of the East India Company
“We Were Declared Enemies to the Country” brings to light two previously unpublished letters that describe the experience of Joshua Winslow, one of the consignees of the East India Company tea, as he and his associates were confronted by a violent crown in Boston in November, 1773. The letters afford the perspective of a man recently arrived from years in Canada to the fierce opposition to landing EIC tea in Boston
Seven poetic constellations of Asia/Pacific world-making
This essay offers a personal, quasi-lyrical portrait of Arif Dirlik as an organic world-crossing Marxist intellectual whose mentorship and leadership proved crucial to a cross-disciplinary array of scholars and writers, including the writer. A Benjaminian mode of “constellation” is activated to portray some of the historical contexts, outlets, sites, and works Dirlik was long connected to and helped to provoke into realization across his career
Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production
Skepticism and American Faith
Skepticism and American Faith: From the Revolution to the Civil War Skepticism and American Faith: From the Revolution to the Civil War. By Christopher Grasso. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xii, 649 pp. $36.95.) Robert J Wilson, III Robert J Wilson, III Emeritus Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 107, Is…
Improved dendroclimatic calibration using blue intensity in the southern Yukon
In north-western North America, the so-called divergence problem (DP) is expressed in tree ring width (RW) as an unstable temperature signal in recent decades. Maximum latewood density (MXD), from the same region, shows minimal evidence of DP. While MXD is a superior proxy for summer temperatures, there are very few long MXD records from North America. Latewood blue intensity (LWB) measures similar wood properties as MXD, expresses a similar clim…
The institutional work of creating and implementing Social Impact Bonds
Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) are a new and increasingly popular public policy tool which link payments to outcomes thus, in theory, transferring risk from governments to private investors. This paper draws on the concepts of institutional work and discursive institutionalism to analyse how a SIB influenced the rules, norms and decisions of key actors. It identifies two dominant discourses. One focused on addressing the social determinants of health…
Snowpiercer as Anthropoetics
Crazed with extremity of affect, thriller action, and a cosmopolitical style as befits the Korean-global blockbuster mode of auteur production, Bong Joon-ho’s 2013 film Snowpiercer also prods its audience to confront looming conditions of global warming, ecological disequilibrium, class and resource warfare, trans-species bonding, and the planetary horizon of the Anthropocene
Creativity and Academic Activism
Public service accountability
Global Local
This groundbreaking collection focuses on what may be, for cultural studies, the most intriguing aspect of contemporary globalization—the ways in which the postnational restructuring of the world in an era of transnational capitalism has altered how we must think about cultural production. Mapping a world space that is simultaneously more globalized and localized than before, these essays examine the dynamic between the movement of capital, image…
Exploring the Effects of Volunteering on the Social, Mental, and Physical Health and Well-being of Volunteers
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11266-023-00573-z
Representing the family
Over the last decade the family and family-centred policies and practices have received increasing attention within the public service agenda, culminating in the emphatic instruction to ‘think family’ individually, collectively and institutionally. This has occurred at a time when the sociology of the family has increasingly emphasised the difficulties of thinking family in a coherent way. In this article we explore this agenda through an examina…
National electronic health records and the digital disruption of moral orders
The institutional work of creating and implementing Social Impact Bonds
Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) are a new and increasingly popular public policy tool which link payments to outcomes thus, in theory, transferring risk from governments to private investors. This paper draws on the concepts of institutional work and discursive institutionalism to analyse how a SIB influenced the rules, norms and decisions of key actors. It identifies two dominant discourses. One focused on addressing the social determinants of health…
Playing the Game of Outcomes‐based Performance Management. Is Gamesmanship Inevitable? Evidence from Theory and Practice
This article presents the case for the need for a re‐think in the prevailing orthodoxy of measurement approaches in the governance and management of public services. The article explores the simplification of complex reality that outcomes‐based performance management (OBPM) requires in order to function, and the consequences of such simplification. It examines the evidence for and against the effectiveness of OBPM, and argues that both sets of ev…
Surface air temperature variability reconstructed with tree rings for the Gulf of Alaska over the past 1200 years
A 1200-year-long tree-ring width record from living and subfossil mountain hemlock wood is used to reconstruct February through August temperatures for the Gulf of Alaska, providing a record of past climate variability for the Northeast Pacific sector that captures interannual to centennial timescales. The moderate elevation at the tree-ring sites has allowed these trees to retain their temperature signal without evidence of the so-called diverge…
You're Just Treating Us as Informants!’ Roles, Responsibilities and Relationships in the Production of Children's Services Directories
Local authorities in England are required to make directories of services available to practitioners working with children and young people. This is against a background of continuing reforms intended to ensure that services are joined-up around the needs and choices of children, young people and their families. There are high expectations that more of these services will be delivered by organisations from theVoluntary and Community Sector (VCS),…
Seeing the full picture? Technologically enabled multi-agency working in health and social care
The implementation of local e-government in England touched all public services and affected front-line workers across local authorities and partner agencies. Professional ‘cultures’ are invoked rhetorically as barriers to the translation of this policy into practice. We propose that the concept of ‘street-level bureaucrats’ offers a more nuanced and grounded framework to think about local responses to centrally driven change
Killer Capitalism on the Pacific Rim
Research Article| February 01 2007 Killer Capitalism on the Pacific Rim: Theorizing Major and Minor Modes of the Korean Global Rob Wilson Rob Wilson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2007) 34 (1): 115–133. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2006-029 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Rob Wilson; Killer Capitalism on the Pacific Rim: Theorizing Major a…
Producing American Selves
1. James Clifford, 'Hanging Up Looking Glasses at Odd Corners': Ethnobiographical Prospects, in Studies in Biography, ed. Daniel Aaron (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978), 44. Clifford urges Western biographers-such as his father-to use modernist and cross-cultural models that might enact self-doubling, discontinuity, flux, social de-centering. For an ethnographic analysis of the way 'the self' is culturally constituted within arbitrary m…
Facilitating tree-ring dating of historic conifer timbers using Blue Intensity
A noodle, hockey stick, and spaghetti plate
The high‐resolution reconstruction of hemispheric‐scale temperature variation over the past‐millennium benchmarks recent warming against more naturally driven climate episodes, such as the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm Period, thereby allowing assessment of the relative efficacies of natural and anthropogenic forcing factors. Icons of past temperature variability, as featured in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports …
Towards a model for measuring holistic performance of professional Football clubs
This paper introduces an experimental model to measure the holistic performance of professional football clubs. The model utilizes a selection of established financial and sporting indicators, which are weighted in accordance with their perceived relative importance and in relation to components of financial management and governing body regulations. The paper uses data pertaining to clubs competing in the English Premier League to demonstrate th…
Quantifying uncertainty in isotope dendroclimatology
To maximise the potential of the tree-ring isotopic signal for palaeoclimate research it is essential to understand and characterise the natural variability between individual trees. This study explores the nature of inter-tree isotopic variability and evaluates the implications for developing robust palaeoclimate reconstructions. We confirm levels of natural inter-tree variability similar to those reported in previous studies, but demonstrate, u…
Reconstructions of surface ocean conditions from the northeast Atlantic and Nordic seas during the last millennium
We undertake the first comprehensive effort to integrate North Atlantic marine climate records for the last millennium, highlighting some key components common within this system at a range of temporal and spatial scales. In such an approach, careful consideration needs to be given to the complexities inherent to the marine system. Composites therefore need to be hydrographically constrained and sensitive to both surface water mass variability an…
Introduction
Social and caring services are provided in developed economies by statutory bodies, the market, the household and the voluntary sector in combinations that vary across time and place. This themed section is about the enrolment of the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) to achieve government agenda, including improved public services, community empowerment and building social capital. Mainstreaming of the VCS has profound implications for individ…
Dendroclimatic reconstruction of maximum summer temperatures from upper treeline sites in Interior British Columbia, Canada
Two independent reconstructions of maximum May–August temperatures are developed from a new network of Engelmann spruce tree-ring chronologies at treeline sites across Interior British Columbia (IBC). The IBC reconstruction (ad 1600–1997) uses the longest three ring-width (RW) and two maximum latewood density (MXD) chronologies from the region. The shorter (regional) reconstruction (REG, 1845–1997) is based on an independent, more broadly based n…
Imagining 'Asia-Pacific
This essay offers a critical genealogy of US imperial dynamics in the Pacific in the context of examining the discursive tactics of APEC and the emerging hegemony of transnational capital in the region. Moving from Honolulu to Taipei and Canberra in focus, it tracks the dynamics of globalization and localization under which Asia-Pacific is being constructed into postcolonial if not post-political identity as a coherent region of teleological belo…
Snowpiercer as Anthropoetics
Crazed with extremity of affect, thriller action, and a cosmopolitical style as befits the Korean-global blockbuster mode of auteur production, Bong Joon-ho’s 2013 film Snowpiercer also prods its audience to confront looming conditions of global warming, ecological disequilibrium, class and resource warfare, trans-species bonding, and the planetary horizon of the Anthropocene
Economics of sport and recreation
First published in 2000, Economics of Sport and Recreation, by Chris Gratton and Peter Taylor, provides a compelling evaluation of the demand for and supply of sport and recreation. The book was or
Blue Intensity for dendroclimatology
Maximum latewood density (MXD) is a strong proxy of summer temperatures. Despite this, there is a paucity of long MXD chronologies in the Northern Hemisphere, which limits large-scale tree-ring-based reconstructions of past temperature which are dominated by ring-width (RW) data – a weaker temperature proxy at inter-annual time-scales. This paucity likely results from the relative expense of measuring MXD and the lack of laboratories with the fac…
Reconstructing Holocene climate from tree rings
Despite promising research in the 1980s showing the potential of Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestris L.) for the reconstruction of past summer temperatures in the Scottish Highlands, little dendroclimatic work has been attempted in this region since. This reflects, in part, the limited number of sparsely distributed remnant natural/semi-natural pine woodlands in the Scottish Highlands and the lack of old growth forest therein. On average, most of the p…
From the Sublime to the Devious
Research Article| February 01 2001 From the Sublime to the Devious: Writing the Experimental/Local Pacific Rob Wilson Rob Wilson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2001) 28 (1): 121–151. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-28-1-121 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Rob Wilson; From the Sublime to the Devious: Writing the Experimental/Local Pacific. bo…
You can look, but don’t touch’
This paper examines the competitive balance of the Champions League between 1992/93–2019/20 focusing on both the group and knockout stages. The findings show that competitive balance has declined in the Champions League over time and that the competition has begun to be dominated by a select number of clubs. This situation has also worsened in the years following the inception of UEFA Financial Fair Play regulations in 2011. From a sporting econo…
Somewhere Farther North
The Short Stories of Judith Wright
Since Tchekhov, the affinities between the short story and poetry, especially lyric poetry, have been remarked often enough for one's interest to be aroused in stories by poets. David Rowbotham's sketches in his Town and Citj, notably 'The Fiver's Inn' and 'Chiming Doorbell', have the trimness and evocativeness of his best verse; Ray Mathew, whose fiction perhaps owes more to his discipline as a dramatist, shows in much of A Bohemian Affair the s…
Recent Research in Tesol
Sociology of Law
Bolesław Leśmian
Edison
Henry James's Ultimate Narrative
King Lear
Hamletmachine
The Will to Transcendence in Contemporary American Poet, Ai
I came not to astonish But to destroy you. Your Jug of cool water? Your Hanker after wings? Your Lech for transcendence? — Galway Kinnell, "The Supper After the Last" There is a famous dialectical analysis of the American "lech for transcendence" by Kenneth Burke called "I, Eye, Ay—Concerning Emerson's Early Essay on 'Nature' and the Machinery of Transcendence." Burke's impacted pun of a title suggests the way sublime-hungry Emerson's ego, his fi…
Man Sei
Journal Article MAN SEI!: The Making of a Korean American. Peter Hyun. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986. 186 pages. $17.50. Get access MAN SEI!: The Making of a Korean American. Peter HyunHonolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986. 186 pages. $17.50. Rob Wilson Rob Wilson University of Hawaii Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 14, Issue 1, March 1987, Pages 99–103, https://doi.org/10.2…
Alcestis
Lexical Scapegoating
Sculling to the Over-Soul
THOMAS EAKINS'S UNCANNY PORTRAIT OF HIS SCULLING FRIEND FROM BOYHOOD, Max Schmitt in a Single Scull (1871), has long been considered one of those exacting naturalistic representations in the painter's sports genre which includes boxers, wrestlers, baseball players, hunters, and myriad rowers.2 Given the escalating interest by art historians such as Barbara Novak and John Wilmerding in God-drenched landscapes expressive of American Luminism, moreo…
Towards the Nuclear Sublime
When Brigadier General Thomas Farrell groped to describe (in an official government report) the subjective effect of the first atomic explosion at Alamogordo, New Mexico, at 5:29:50 A.M. on July 16, 1945, he found himself, like many a would-be writer of the sublime before him, at a loss for adequate terms and tropes – stupefied, dwarfed, reaching for hyperbolic endterms like “doomsday” and “blasphemous” and resorting to spaced-out adjectives such…
Literary Vocation as Occupational Idealism
he Emersonian strategy of the American literary intellectual may be so ingrained, so deeply organic to his or her sense of social self-positioning, that Ross Posnock, in Assessing the Oppositional: Contemporary Intellectual Strategies, can now accuse Jim Merod of an Emersonianism so unacknowledged that the latter need not even mention the Concord idealist in refiguring more responsible forms and affiliations of radical dissent. For whatever the i…
Theory's Imaginal Other
Negotiating the postmodern terrain of the 1990s, it may now be the case that Korea, like Japan, must be warily inflected in quotation marks. Haunted by the American political imaginary, that is to say, Korea gets produced and projected as a cultural sign and occidental distortion from within some redemptive master narrative of global modernization. Or, worse yet, as Edward Said contends in a critique of the most textually selfscrupulous or postpa…
Mind of Winter
Producing American Selves
1. James Clifford, 'Hanging Up Looking Glasses at Odd Corners': Ethnobiographical Prospects, in Studies in Biography, ed. Daniel Aaron (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978), 44. Clifford urges Western biographers-such as his father-to use modernist and cross-cultural models that might enact self-doubling, discontinuity, flux, social de-centering. For an ethnographic analysis of the way 'the self' is culturally constituted within arbitrary m…
Techno-Euphoria and the Discourse of the American Sublime
American Sublime
Tracing ideas of the sublime in American literature from Puritan writings to the postmodern epoch, the author demonstrates that the North American landscape has been the ground for political as well as aesthetic transport. He adopts an historical approach to the subject
A Conversation with Oe Kenzaburo
Oe: Rob Wilson, you're an inveterate Japan and Korea watcher teaching English literature at the University of Hawaii. Your book, American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre, was published fairly recently by the University of Wisconsin Press. A couple of years ago, during a talk you gave at a conference at the University of California, Irvine, I heard you read passages from your book while it was still in manuscript. I was quite impressed by…
Danton's Death
Introduction
The Common Mind
Pettit argues for an original way of marking off thinking subjects, in particular human beings, from other intentional systems, natural and artificial
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