R White
Biographic Data
| ID | 3636306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R White |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4026-6439 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Secondary Teachers’ Experiences in International Professional Development for Convergence Research in STEM and Tradition
Convergence education promotes learning experiences that integrate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to address complex real-world problems. However, secondary teachers often report limited access to professional development (PD) and curricular resources that support transdisciplinary instruction. This exploratory case study examines how four secondary teachers (three chemistry; one engineering) made sense of a transdiscipl…
Exploring the application of the capability approach to the health and well-being of Indigenous Peoples
This scoping review synthesizes existing literature on the application of the capability approach (CA) to address the health and well-being of Indigenous Peoples across the globe. Academic and grey literature searches led to the identification of 20 papers for inclusion in the review. Findings reveal a growing interest in applying the CA to Indigenous health and well-being research, highlighting its potential to guide interventions and policies. …
Applied knowledge of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Adapting the comprehensive assessment of acceptance and commitment therapy processes (CompACT) questionnaire for contextual relevance in Uganda
The global utility of acceptance and commitment therapy highlights the need for adapting measures that can effectively capture the richness of psychological flexibility. One such instrument is the Comprehensive Assessment of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Processes (CompACT). We translated the CompACT into Luganda and adapted it for use in Uganda. The original CompACT was translated into the Luganda language and reviewed through a series of ev…
The Dynamic Identity Formation of Sexual Minority Adolescents
Sexual Minority Adolescents (SMAs) are more likely to experience mental health problems than heterosexual adolescents. This has been observed across geographical and socio-political contexts. Within the UK, minimal work has explored SMA's experience of navigating their sexuality and experiences of adversity and resilience. A constructivist grounded theory approach was adopted. Data were gathered in 2021, from 17 semi-structured interviews with a …
The intercultural development and validation of the Indigenous 'Escala de Bienestar Kankuamo' (Kankuamo Well-Being Scale)
This article describes the development and validation of a capability-based well-being scale: 'Escala de Bienestar Kankuamo' (EBK; the Kankuamo Well-Being Scale). The EBK is designed to measure the well-being of the Indigenous Kankuamo community of Colombia from an intercultural perspective. The mixed-methods study was composed of two phases. In phase I, an initial 27 items, which had been generated using qualitative data from a previous study, w…
Culturally Relevant STEM (CReST)
Convergence education, driven by compelling or complex socio-scientific problems, is an approach to bring cultural relevance into secondary STEM education. National trends show the need to increase the STEM workforce by leveraging educational research and innovative practices within the secondary level to increase student interest prior to graduating high school. We introduced CReST (Culturally Relevant STEM) in a US high school pilot study. Stud…
Combining a guided self-help and brief alcohol intervention to improve mental health and reduce substance use among refugee men in Uganda
Evidence on the effectiveness and implementation of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) interventions for men in humanitarian settings is limited. Moreover, engagement and retention of men in such interventions has been challenging. Adaptations may therefore be required to improve the appropriateness and acceptability of these interventions for men. This study conducted formative research and examined the feasibility of combining an MH…
Identifying core global mental health professional competencies
Concerned with sustainably alleviating mental distress and promoting the right to health worldwide, global mental health (GMH) is practised across various contexts spanning the humanitarian-development-peace nexus. The inherently intersectoral and multidisciplinary nature of GMH calls for competency frameworks and training programmes that embody diversity, decolonisation and multiprofessionalism. Existing competency frameworks have failed to capt…
Community-based mental health interventions in low- and middle-income countries
This study provides important insights for how the development, implementation, and evaluation of community-based mental health and well-being interventions in LMICs can be optimised, and can complement general guidance into complex interventions developments
International Expert Statement on Israeli State Crime
The feasibility and acceptability of a single-session Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) intervention to support women self-reporting fear of childbirth in a first pregnancy
OBJECTIVE: To assess the feasibility and acceptability of a single-session Acceptance and Commitment Therapy intervention to help women manage fear of childbirth during a first pregnancy. DESIGN: A mixed-methods approach including qualitative feedback and pre/post-intervention self-report measures. Pregnant women (14-37 weeks gestation) were recruited via the UK National Health Service and attended a single-session (<3 hours) Acceptance and Commi…
Culturally adapting a mindfulness and acceptance-based intervention to support the mental health of adolescents on antiretroviral therapy in Uganda
The dual burden of living with HIV and negotiating life stage changes has been identified as a contributing factor to lapsed adherence among adolescents with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. While psychosocial support can promote medication adherence, most interventions in use with adolescents were originally developed for the general population creating a gap in appropriate support. Life-stage-appropriate, evidence-based psychosocial support intervent…
Risk factors for mental disorder development in asylum seekers and refugees resettled in Western Europe and Turkey
Background: In asylum seekers and refugees, the frequency of mental disorders, such as depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder, is higher than the general population, but there is a lack of data on risk factors for the development of mental disorders in this population. Aim: This study investigated the risk factors for mental disorder development in a large group of asylum seekers and refugees resettled in high- and middle-income s…
Acceptability of an adapted mindfulness and acceptance-based intervention to support adolescents with HIV
While the adaptation of evidence-based psychosocial support tailors the intervention components to the targeted context, minimizing the associated costs of developing new interventions for low-income contexts, the acceptability of such adapted interventions is important for augmenting successful implementation and sustainability. Given that psychosocial support to persons living with HIV is mostly rendered by healthcare providers, their acceptanc…
A longitudinal study of capability-based quality of life and mental health in the first 5-months of lockdown restrictions in the UK
The study findings suggest that the capability-limiting impact of public health emergencies and related lockdown restrictions are important for understanding peoples' levels of depression and anxiety. The implications that the findings have for the provision of support in the context of public health emergencies and associated restrictions are discussed
Translating, contextually adapting, and pilot testing of psychosocial and mental health assessment instruments for Congolese refugees in Rwanda and Uganda
The adapted versions of the PHQ-9, CDES, SASCAT and MSPSS are appropriate for use amongst Congolese refugees in Rwanda and Uganda. We recommend further application of the approaches used in the current studies for contextually adapting other assessment instruments in humanitarian settings
Covid-19 and its prevention in internally displaced person (IDP) camps in Somalia
COVID-19 and associated restrictions have negatively impacted Somalia's internally displaced population. Livelihood and mental health support is urgently needed in the recovery phase of the pandemic and should be factored into future pandemic planning
The development and validation of the ‘Good Life in the Community Scale’ (GLiCS)
The GLiCS has demonstrable good internal consistency and construct validity, and it presents a promising wellbeing measure for better understanding the experience of migrant women
The 'good life', personal appearance, and mental health of Congolese refugees in Rwanda and Uganda
Good life is first of all security, not to live in fear
There is growing interest in using Sen’s Capability Approach (CA) as a framework to assess the quality of life and well-being. The aim of the current paper was to use an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach using the CA framework to explore what constitutes a ‘good life’ for female refugees post-resettlement in the UK. Four focus groups with 16 women were conducted in Liverpool. Data was analysed using an IPA. The women’s exper…
Communication about distress and well-being
Communication about well-being and distress involves multiple stakeholders, including experts by experience (EBE), researchers, clinical practitioners, interpreters, and translators. Communication can involve a variety of discourses and languages and each of the stakeholders may employ diverging epistemologies to understand and explain experiences. These epistemologies may link to different sources of authority and be articulated using particular…
Impacts of the Covid-19 lockdown and relevant vulnerabilities on capability well-being, mental health and social support
Our study is the first to assess the capability limiting aspects of lockdown and relevant vulnerabilities alongside their impacts on mental health and social support. The negative capability well-being, mental health and social support impacts of the Covid-19 lockdown were strongest for people with a history of mental health treatment. Future public health policies concerning lockdowns should pay special attention to improve social support levels…
Between the “ whispers of the Devil ” and “ the revelation of the Word ”
Understanding Christian clergy’s role in providing counseling and spiritual support to Black and minority ethnic (BME) groups offers promise for redressing the ethnicity-related health inequalities in mental health help-seeking and service utilization in the United Kingdom. This qualitative study (N = 10) investigated the pastoral practices, mental health literacy, and referral tendencies of Christian clergy serving BME congregants in Glasgow, Sc…
Exploring the mental health and psychosocial problems of Congolese refugees living in refugee settings in Rwanda and Uganda
Our findings strongly resonate with models of mental health and psychosocial wellbeing that emphasise their socially determined and contextually embedded nature. Specifically, findings foreground the structural conditions of refugees' lives such as the physical organisation of camp spaces or refugee policies that are stigmatising through restricting the right to work or pursue education. This structural environment can lead to disruptions in soci…
The Qatna lion
Using pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, the authors show that amber was imported into Late Bronze Age Syria and used for making the prestige artefacts found in a Royal tomb of c. 1340 BC. The objects included beads and a unique vessel in the form of a lion, likely fashioned in Syria from raw amber imported from the Baltic via the Aegean
The Identity of the Resins From the Late Bronze Age Shipwreck at Ulu Burun (Kaş)
Communication about distress and well-being
Communication about well-being and distress involves multiple stakeholders, including experts by experience (EBE), researchers, clinical practitioners, interpreters, and translators. Communication can involve a variety of discourses and languages and each of the stakeholders may employ diverging epistemologies to understand and explain experiences. These epistemologies may link to different sources of authority and be articulated using particular…
Good life is first of all security, not to live in fear
There is growing interest in using Sen’s Capability Approach (CA) as a framework to assess the quality of life and well-being. The aim of the current paper was to use an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach using the CA framework to explore what constitutes a ‘good life’ for female refugees post-resettlement in the UK. Four focus groups with 16 women were conducted in Liverpool. Data was analysed using an IPA. The women’s exper…
Civitas Humana
Journal Article Civitas Humana: A Humane Order of Society Get access Civitas Humana: a Humane Order of Society. By Wilhelm Ropke. (London : William Hodge, 1948. Pp. xi + 235. 21s.) R. J. White R. J. White Downing College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 60, Issue 239, 1 September 1950, Pages 575–577, https://doi.org/10.2307/2226805 Published: 01 September 1950
The 'good life', personal appearance, and mental health of Congolese refugees in Rwanda and Uganda
Mindfulness and the ethics of intercultural knowledge-work
Mindfulness, or 念 (niàn) in Chinese, is a concept and set of related practices which have both ancient Eastern roots and current popularity (especially in the West). It provides a fascinating example of intercultural knowledge-work involving a complex set of conceptual migrations through time and space, across languages and cultures, and within domains and disciplines. We first review the vitality of the concept as used in Western disciplines (ch…
Uptake and Behavioural and Attitudinal Determinants of Immunization in an Expanded Routine Infant Hepatitis B Vaccination Program in British Columbia
The intercultural development and validation of the Indigenous 'Escala de Bienestar Kankuamo' (Kankuamo Well-Being Scale)
This article describes the development and validation of a capability-based well-being scale: 'Escala de Bienestar Kankuamo' (EBK; the Kankuamo Well-Being Scale). The EBK is designed to measure the well-being of the Indigenous Kankuamo community of Colombia from an intercultural perspective. The mixed-methods study was composed of two phases. In phase I, an initial 27 items, which had been generated using qualitative data from a previous study, w…
International Expert Statement on Israeli State Crime
Mental wellbeing in the Anthropocene
There is growing recognition that "human development" frameworks, such as the Capabilities Approach (CA) with its emphasis on the promotion of justice, offer promise for guiding efforts aimed at enhancing mental wellbeing. This article explores challenges that might arise when there is a need to arbitrate among the competing demands of different parties in their efforts to enhance capabilities. Particular tensions can arise when the efforts of pa…
Civitas Humana
Journal Article Civitas Humana: A Humane Order of Society Get access Civitas Humana: a Humane Order of Society. By Wilhelm Ropke. (London : William Hodge, 1948. Pp. xi + 235. 21s.) R. J. White R. J. White Downing College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 60, Issue 239, 1 September 1950, Pages 575–577, https://doi.org/10.2307/2226805 Published: 01 September 1950
Family planning activities of officil health and welfare agencies, United States, 1966
Family planning activities of officil health and welfare agencies, United States, 1966. J W Eliot, L Corsa, Jr, J McEachern, R White, and S StablefordCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.58.4.700 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Philosophical Remarks
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Philosophical Remarks. By Ludwig Wittgenstein. Translated by R. Hargreaves and R. White (Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1975. Pp. 357. Price £7.50.) Guy Stock Guy Stock Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 103, April 1976, Pages 178–180, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219143 Published: 01 April 1976
In and out of School (The Rosla Community Education Project)
Furor Hortensis
The Identity of the Resins From the Late Bronze Age Shipwreck at Ulu Burun (Kaş)
Back channelling, repair, pausing, and private speech
While negotiating for meaning has become extensively studied, negotiating as a speech event remains a curiously under researched area in applied linguistics Although existing studies have demonstrated norm based macro-level differences, little work has been done on micro-level features and their relationship to the style and outcomes of negotiating The present study, based on a corpus of simulated sales negotiations involving American and Japanes…
Uptake and Behavioural and Attitudinal Determinants of Immunization in an Expanded Routine Infant Hepatitis B Vaccination Program in British Columbia
Pacifism and English Literature
The Qatna lion
Using pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, the authors show that amber was imported into Late Bronze Age Syria and used for making the prestige artefacts found in a Royal tomb of c. 1340 BC. The objects included beads and a unique vessel in the form of a lion, likely fashioned in Syria from raw amber imported from the Baltic via the Aegean
John Keats
Field notes
Health and Illness
Shakespeare and Emotions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for depression following psychosis
The Capabilities Approach
Concerted efforts have been made in recent years to achieve equity and equality in mental health for all people across the globe. This has led to the emergence of Global Mental Health as an area of study and practice. The momentum that this has created has contributed to the development, implementation and evaluation of services for priority mental disorders in many low- and middle-income countries.This paper discusses two related issues that may…
A preliminary evaluation of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) training in Sierra Leone
Mindfulness and the ethics of intercultural knowledge-work
Mindfulness, or 念 (niàn) in Chinese, is a concept and set of related practices which have both ancient Eastern roots and current popularity (especially in the West). It provides a fascinating example of intercultural knowledge-work involving a complex set of conceptual migrations through time and space, across languages and cultures, and within domains and disciplines. We first review the vitality of the concept as used in Western disciplines (ch…
Situating Global Mental Health
This introductory chapter of The Palgrave Handbook of Sociocultural Perspectives on Global Mental Health highlights how understanding about aberrant behaviours has varied across time, geography and culture. Important developments that contributed to the emergence of Global Mental Health are discussed. Rather than a monolithic enterprise, Global Mental Health is presented as a heterogeneous range of practice- and research-based activities concerne…
The Palgrave Handbook of Sociocultural Perspectives on Global Mental Health
This handbook incisively explores challenges and opportunities that exist in efforts aimed at addressing inequities in mental health provision across the globe. Drawing on various disciplines across the humanities, psychology, and social sciences it charts the emergence of Global Mental Health as a field of study. It critically reflects on efforts and interventions being made to globalize mental health policies, and discusses key themes relevant …
Contextual Behavioral Science and Global Mental Health
‘If I didn’t know you what would you want me to see?’
The following article puts to work an affirmative approach to critical theory through poetic mappings of the process of crafting identity boxes with ESOL students from refugee and asylum backgrounds in a Glasgow-based college in Scotland (UK). The article takes as its starting point the work of feminist and neo-materialist thinkers who argue for an ontological re-orientation of our practices of inquiry. This involves the questioning of positivist…
Self Help Plus
ISRCTN50148022; registered 13/03/2017
Translation, adaptation, and pilot of a guided self-help intervention to reduce psychological distress in South Sudanese refugees in Uganda
We found that this potentially scalable, guided self-help intervention could be adapted for and feasibly implemented among female South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda. These findings lay the groundwork for a future rigorous evaluation of SH+ in this context
The development of the ‘Forms of Responding to Self-Critical Thoughts Scale’ (FoReST)
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