Alex Hall
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640432 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Hall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Hall |
| SIGNATURE | HALL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-9016-0284 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Limits of Signposting: Financial Capacity and Responsibility in Later Life Social Care
The ability to manage money is crucial for independent living in later life, yet financial capacity often declines with age and cognitive impairment. This study explored how social care practitioners in England understand and enact responsibilities when older people experience difficulties managing money. Data from 28 semi-structured interviews with practitioners across local authorities, housing, homecare and voluntary organizations were analyze…
Experiences and imaginaries of healthy ageing among older asylum seeking and refugee women in England: An oral histories and futures approach
Purpose Greater understanding of older asylum seeking and refugee women’s experiences and perspectives of ageing is critical to supporting and enabling healthy ageing and reducing health inequalities. This study aims to explore the experiences, understandings and future imaginaries of ageing and healthy ageing among older asylum seeking and refugee women living in England. Design/methodology/approach The study applied a novel oral histories and f…
Intimacies of Fire: The Queer, Pyritic Possibilities of Self-Immolation in Saint Maud and Don’t Deliver Us From Evil
In horror cinema, nonhuman presence often turns the corpse into a vibrant spectacle, enlivening new kin-networks and the possibility for theorising the abundant lifeworlds within ‘toxic’ film ecologies. In examining the biodiverse micro-ecologies generated through the emblazoned body, this article considers how female self-immolation in horror can be conceptualised as a resistant force that activates new pyritic possibilities of desire onscreen. …
Frailty: A global health challenge in need of local action
Frailty is a complex, age-related clinical condition that involves multiple contributing factors and raises the risk of adverse outcomes in older people. Given global population ageing trends, the growing prevalence and incidence of frailty pose significant challenges to health and social care systems in both high-income and lower-income countries. In this review, we highlight the disproportionate representation of research on frailty screening a…
Technology integration in higher education and student privacy beyond learning environments—A comparison of the UK and US perspective
Technology integration in higher education (HE) has brought immense innovation. While research is investigating the benefits of leveraging, through learning analytics, the data created by the greater presence of technology in HE, it is also analysing the privacy implications of vast universes of data now at the fingertips of HE administrators. This paper argues that student privacy challenges linked to technology integration occur not only within…
Views of Older Adults on Using Support to Prevent Overload in Informal Caregivers: Results of a Story Completion Study
Older care recipients living at home increasingly rely on support from informal caregivers. As informal caregivers often combine these caregiving tasks with other tasks, such as paid work, they are at risk of becoming overloaded. To decrease informal caregiver burden, different forms of support are available that also affect older care recipients’ lives, such as respite care, technology, or home care. The aim of this qualitative study was to obta…
Reasons for Not Adopting Covid-19 Permitted Changes to Legal Duties: Accounts from English Local Authorities
In England, “easements,” introduced via the Coronavirus Act 2020, were brought in at the start of the pandemic to support English local authority adult social care services. They enabled local authorities to suspend some of their mandatory duties under the Care Act 2014. Easements were only adopted by eight local authorities and for short periods, and the provision was rescinded in late 2021. This article examines why a sample of 16 local authori…
Care Planning for Community-Dwelling People with Dementia: A Systematic Scoping Review
People with dementia and their care partners report a lack of support, treatment, and information, fragmented services, and a lack of inclusion in decisions about their care. Care planning may address these issues; however, there is scarce literature on the process or benefits of care planning for people with dementia. This review describes the literature on care planning for community-dwelling people with dementia and their care partners. A syst…
Application of the RE-AIM Framework for the Pediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Evaluation and Management Intervention: A Study Protocol for Program Evaluation
Background Children who experience a mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) may encounter cognitive and behavioral changes that often negatively impact school performance. Communication linkages between the various healthcare systems and school systems are rarely well-coordinated, placing children with an mTBI at risk for prolonged recovery, adverse impact on learning, and mTBI re-exposure. The objective of this study is to rigorously appraise the pe…
Increasing precipitation whiplash in climate change hotspots
Throughout the world, the hydrologic cycle is projected to become more variable due to climate change, posing challenges in semi-arid regions with high water resource vulnerability. Precipitation whiplash results from hydrologic variability, and refers to interannual shifts between wet (⩾80th historical percentile) and dry (⩽20th historical percentile) years. Using five model large ensembles, we show that whiplash is projected to increase in freq…
Ambiguity and Conflict in Practice: A Conceptual Model for the Equitable Implementation of Title IX
Title IX is often viewed as vague and contentious, causing scholars and practitioners much grief in understanding and enforcing the legislation, particularly regarding the rights and experiences of trans students. This manuscript offers a new conceptual framework to assist scholars and practitioners in recognizing how two factors, ambiguity and conflict, influence implementation of Title IX. Specifically, this manuscript proposes the Ambiguity-Co…
Recent California tree mortality portends future increase in drought-driven forest die-off
Vegetation tolerance to drought depends on an array of site-specific environmental and plant physiological factors. This tolerance is poorly understood for many forest types despite its importance for predicting and managing vegetation stress. We analyzed the relationships between precipitation variability and forest die-off in California’s Sierra Nevada and introduce a new measure of drought tolerance that emphasizes plant access to subsurface m…
Road to Nowhere? A Critical Consideration of the Use of the Metaphor 'Care Pathway' in Health Services Planning, Organisation and Delivery
Metaphors are inescapable in human discourse. Policy researchers have suggested that the use of particular metaphors by those implementing policy changes both influences perceptions of underlying reality and determines what solutions seem possible, and that exploring 'practice languages' is important in understanding how policy is enacted. This paper contributes to the literature exploring the generative nature of metaphors in policy implementati…
L.H.M. (Lily) Ling: In Memoriam
All of us at International Political Sociology are greatly saddened by the news that L.H.M. (Lily) Ling has passed away. Lily was Professor of International Affairs at The New School and one of our valued Associate Editors at the journal. When we assembled our editorial team in 2016, Lily was one of the first people we approached to help us consolidate and strengthen the transdisciplinary ambitions of the journal and, most importantly, to expand …
Investigating the climate impacts of urbanization and the potential for cool roofs to counter future climate change in Southern California
The climate warming effects of accelerated urbanization along with projected global climate change raise an urgent need for sustainable mitigation and adaptation strategies to cool urban climates. Our modeling results show that historical urbanization in the Los Angeles and San Diego metropolitan areas has increased daytime urban air temperature by 1.3 °C, in part due to a weakening of the onshore sea breeze circulation. We find that metropolis-w…
Participants' use of enacted scenes in research interviews: A method for reflexive analysis in health and social care
Identification of two distinct fire regimes in Southern California: Implications for economic impact and future change
The area burned by Southern California wildfires has increased in recent decades, with implications for human health, infrastructure, and ecosystem management. Meteorology and fuel structure are universally recognized controllers of wildfire, but their relative importance, and hence the efficacy of abatement and suppression efforts, remains controversial. Southern California's wildfires can be partitioned by meteorology: fires typically occur eit…
Pike's Portage: Stories of a Distinguised Place, edited by Morten Asfeldt and Bob Henderson
their field data-collection activities, or perhaps even access social media links (Facebook or similar) that follow up on the work of the Census.Those reservations reflect a growing concern about the efficacy of traditional published media more than a criticism of this particular book.This book has taken a great first step in making the initial outcomes of the Census of Marine Life more accessible.But so much more can and should be done with Cens…
The life course anticipated: Gender and chronologisation among young people
The life course anticipated: gender and chronologisation among young people." Journal of Youth Studies, 12(5), p. 597
Occupational Cultures and the Embodiment of Masculinity: Hairdressing, Estate Agency and Firefighting
Drawing on data from an Economic and Social Research Council-funded project, this article explores the implications of different occupational cultures for men's masculine identity. With a focus on embodiment and individual agency, it explores the argument that it is within 'scenes of constraint' that gendered identities are both 'done' and 'undone'. In this article we examine embodied experience in occupational cultures commonly stereotyped as 'm…
Cosmopolitanism and Anthropology: Association of Social Anthropologists Diamond Jubilee Conference, University of Keele, 10-13 April 2006
Scandal, Sensation and Social Democracy. The SPD Press and Wilhelmine Germany 1890-1914
Scandal, Sensation and Social Democracy. The SPD Press and Wilhelmine Germany 1890-1914
1. Social Democracy in Imperial Germany 2. The Law and Social Justice 3. The Conflict with the Establishment 4. The SPD, Scandal and Society.
The War of Words: Anti-socialist Offensives and Counter-propaganda in Wilhelmine Germany 1890-1914
Every government faces the problem of getting its own voice heard clearly and consistently against the siren groups within a particular society. Modern preoccupations with the management of a 'government image' represent a more sophisticated and highly developed aspect of the problem of opinion influencing and public relations, which had occupied the attention of generations of past politicians. In Wilhelmine Germany the need to present governmen…
The Kaiser, the Wilhelmine State and Lèse‐majesté
Occupational Cultures and the Embodiment of Masculinity: Hairdressing, Estate Agency and Firefighting
Drawing on data from an Economic and Social Research Council-funded project, this article explores the implications of different occupational cultures for men's masculine identity. With a focus on embodiment and individual agency, it explores the argument that it is within 'scenes of constraint' that gendered identities are both 'done' and 'undone'. In this article we examine embodied experience in occupational cultures commonly stereotyped as 'm…
Road to Nowhere? A Critical Consideration of the Use of the Metaphor 'Care Pathway' in Health Services Planning, Organisation and Delivery
Metaphors are inescapable in human discourse. Policy researchers have suggested that the use of particular metaphors by those implementing policy changes both influences perceptions of underlying reality and determines what solutions seem possible, and that exploring 'practice languages' is important in understanding how policy is enacted. This paper contributes to the literature exploring the generative nature of metaphors in policy implementati…
Participants' use of enacted scenes in research interviews: A method for reflexive analysis in health and social care
The life course anticipated: Gender and chronologisation among young people
The life course anticipated: gender and chronologisation among young people." Journal of Youth Studies, 12(5), p. 597
The War of Words: Anti-socialist Offensives and Counter-propaganda in Wilhelmine Germany 1890-1914
Every government faces the problem of getting its own voice heard clearly and consistently against the siren groups within a particular society. Modern preoccupations with the management of a 'government image' represent a more sophisticated and highly developed aspect of the problem of opinion influencing and public relations, which had occupied the attention of generations of past politicians. In Wilhelmine Germany the need to present governmen…
By Other Means: The Legal Struggle Against the Spd in Wilhelmine Germany 1890–1900
The anti-socialist legislation enacted in great haste in 1878, following attempts on the life of Kaiser Wilhelm I, lapsed in the autumn of 1890. To an innocent observer, the Wiihelmine State thus appeared to be divesting itself of one of the most hated and socially divisive acts of political legislation. One of Kaiser Wilhelm II's first grand ideas, his suddenly-awakened passion for becoming an ‘Arbeiterkaiser’, which produced in its wake a spate…
The Kaiser, the Wilhelmine State and Lèse‐majesté
By Other Means: The Legal Struggle Against the Spd in Wilhelmine Germany 1890–1900
The anti-socialist legislation enacted in great haste in 1878, following attempts on the life of Kaiser Wilhelm I, lapsed in the autumn of 1890. To an innocent observer, the Wiihelmine State thus appeared to be divesting itself of one of the most hated and socially divisive acts of political legislation. One of Kaiser Wilhelm II's first grand ideas, his suddenly-awakened passion for becoming an ‘Arbeiterkaiser’, which produced in its wake a spate…
The War of Words: Anti-socialist Offensives and Counter-propaganda in Wilhelmine Germany 1890-1914
Every government faces the problem of getting its own voice heard clearly and consistently against the siren groups within a particular society. Modern preoccupations with the management of a 'government image' represent a more sophisticated and highly developed aspect of the problem of opinion influencing and public relations, which had occupied the attention of generations of past politicians. In Wilhelmine Germany the need to present governmen…
Scandal, Sensation and Social Democracy. The SPD Press and Wilhelmine Germany 1890-1914
1. Social Democracy in Imperial Germany 2. The Law and Social Justice 3. The Conflict with the Establishment 4. The SPD, Scandal and Society.
Scandal, Sensation and Social Democracy. The SPD Press and Wilhelmine Germany 1890-1914
Cosmopolitanism and Anthropology: Association of Social Anthropologists Diamond Jubilee Conference, University of Keele, 10-13 April 2006
Occupational Cultures and the Embodiment of Masculinity: Hairdressing, Estate Agency and Firefighting
Drawing on data from an Economic and Social Research Council-funded project, this article explores the implications of different occupational cultures for men's masculine identity. With a focus on embodiment and individual agency, it explores the argument that it is within 'scenes of constraint' that gendered identities are both 'done' and 'undone'. In this article we examine embodied experience in occupational cultures commonly stereotyped as 'm…
The life course anticipated: Gender and chronologisation among young people
The life course anticipated: gender and chronologisation among young people." Journal of Youth Studies, 12(5), p. 597
Pike's Portage: Stories of a Distinguised Place, edited by Morten Asfeldt and Bob Henderson
their field data-collection activities, or perhaps even access social media links (Facebook or similar) that follow up on the work of the Census.Those reservations reflect a growing concern about the efficacy of traditional published media more than a criticism of this particular book.This book has taken a great first step in making the initial outcomes of the Census of Marine Life more accessible.But so much more can and should be done with Cens…
Identification of two distinct fire regimes in Southern California: Implications for economic impact and future change
The area burned by Southern California wildfires has increased in recent decades, with implications for human health, infrastructure, and ecosystem management. Meteorology and fuel structure are universally recognized controllers of wildfire, but their relative importance, and hence the efficacy of abatement and suppression efforts, remains controversial. Southern California's wildfires can be partitioned by meteorology: fires typically occur eit…
Investigating the climate impacts of urbanization and the potential for cool roofs to counter future climate change in Southern California
The climate warming effects of accelerated urbanization along with projected global climate change raise an urgent need for sustainable mitigation and adaptation strategies to cool urban climates. Our modeling results show that historical urbanization in the Los Angeles and San Diego metropolitan areas has increased daytime urban air temperature by 1.3 °C, in part due to a weakening of the onshore sea breeze circulation. We find that metropolis-w…
Participants' use of enacted scenes in research interviews: A method for reflexive analysis in health and social care
L.H.M. (Lily) Ling: In Memoriam
All of us at International Political Sociology are greatly saddened by the news that L.H.M. (Lily) Ling has passed away. Lily was Professor of International Affairs at The New School and one of our valued Associate Editors at the journal. When we assembled our editorial team in 2016, Lily was one of the first people we approached to help us consolidate and strengthen the transdisciplinary ambitions of the journal and, most importantly, to expand …
Recent California tree mortality portends future increase in drought-driven forest die-off
Vegetation tolerance to drought depends on an array of site-specific environmental and plant physiological factors. This tolerance is poorly understood for many forest types despite its importance for predicting and managing vegetation stress. We analyzed the relationships between precipitation variability and forest die-off in California’s Sierra Nevada and introduce a new measure of drought tolerance that emphasizes plant access to subsurface m…
Road to Nowhere? A Critical Consideration of the Use of the Metaphor 'Care Pathway' in Health Services Planning, Organisation and Delivery
Metaphors are inescapable in human discourse. Policy researchers have suggested that the use of particular metaphors by those implementing policy changes both influences perceptions of underlying reality and determines what solutions seem possible, and that exploring 'practice languages' is important in understanding how policy is enacted. This paper contributes to the literature exploring the generative nature of metaphors in policy implementati…
Application of the RE-AIM Framework for the Pediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Evaluation and Management Intervention: A Study Protocol for Program Evaluation
Background Children who experience a mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) may encounter cognitive and behavioral changes that often negatively impact school performance. Communication linkages between the various healthcare systems and school systems are rarely well-coordinated, placing children with an mTBI at risk for prolonged recovery, adverse impact on learning, and mTBI re-exposure. The objective of this study is to rigorously appraise the pe…
Increasing precipitation whiplash in climate change hotspots
Throughout the world, the hydrologic cycle is projected to become more variable due to climate change, posing challenges in semi-arid regions with high water resource vulnerability. Precipitation whiplash results from hydrologic variability, and refers to interannual shifts between wet (⩾80th historical percentile) and dry (⩽20th historical percentile) years. Using five model large ensembles, we show that whiplash is projected to increase in freq…
Ambiguity and Conflict in Practice: A Conceptual Model for the Equitable Implementation of Title IX
Title IX is often viewed as vague and contentious, causing scholars and practitioners much grief in understanding and enforcing the legislation, particularly regarding the rights and experiences of trans students. This manuscript offers a new conceptual framework to assist scholars and practitioners in recognizing how two factors, ambiguity and conflict, influence implementation of Title IX. Specifically, this manuscript proposes the Ambiguity-Co…
Technology integration in higher education and student privacy beyond learning environments—A comparison of the UK and US perspective
Technology integration in higher education (HE) has brought immense innovation. While research is investigating the benefits of leveraging, through learning analytics, the data created by the greater presence of technology in HE, it is also analysing the privacy implications of vast universes of data now at the fingertips of HE administrators. This paper argues that student privacy challenges linked to technology integration occur not only within…
Views of Older Adults on Using Support to Prevent Overload in Informal Caregivers: Results of a Story Completion Study
Older care recipients living at home increasingly rely on support from informal caregivers. As informal caregivers often combine these caregiving tasks with other tasks, such as paid work, they are at risk of becoming overloaded. To decrease informal caregiver burden, different forms of support are available that also affect older care recipients’ lives, such as respite care, technology, or home care. The aim of this qualitative study was to obta…
Reasons for Not Adopting Covid-19 Permitted Changes to Legal Duties: Accounts from English Local Authorities
In England, “easements,” introduced via the Coronavirus Act 2020, were brought in at the start of the pandemic to support English local authority adult social care services. They enabled local authorities to suspend some of their mandatory duties under the Care Act 2014. Easements were only adopted by eight local authorities and for short periods, and the provision was rescinded in late 2021. This article examines why a sample of 16 local authori…
Care Planning for Community-Dwelling People with Dementia: A Systematic Scoping Review
People with dementia and their care partners report a lack of support, treatment, and information, fragmented services, and a lack of inclusion in decisions about their care. Care planning may address these issues; however, there is scarce literature on the process or benefits of care planning for people with dementia. This review describes the literature on care planning for community-dwelling people with dementia and their care partners. A syst…
Frailty: A global health challenge in need of local action
Frailty is a complex, age-related clinical condition that involves multiple contributing factors and raises the risk of adverse outcomes in older people. Given global population ageing trends, the growing prevalence and incidence of frailty pose significant challenges to health and social care systems in both high-income and lower-income countries. In this review, we highlight the disproportionate representation of research on frailty screening a…
The Limits of Signposting: Financial Capacity and Responsibility in Later Life Social Care
The ability to manage money is crucial for independent living in later life, yet financial capacity often declines with age and cognitive impairment. This study explored how social care practitioners in England understand and enact responsibilities when older people experience difficulties managing money. Data from 28 semi-structured interviews with practitioners across local authorities, housing, homecare and voluntary organizations were analyze…
Experiences and imaginaries of healthy ageing among older asylum seeking and refugee women in England: An oral histories and futures approach
Purpose Greater understanding of older asylum seeking and refugee women’s experiences and perspectives of ageing is critical to supporting and enabling healthy ageing and reducing health inequalities. This study aims to explore the experiences, understandings and future imaginaries of ageing and healthy ageing among older asylum seeking and refugee women living in England. Design/methodology/approach The study applied a novel oral histories and f…
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